A couple Masculine birthday cards

Hi everyone - TGIF!! I have a couple masculine birthday cards today, made for April birthdays. Both my brother and a former coworker have birthdays early in the month. First up, one that may seem more for a kid but my brother, the big kid, loved it:

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio Pastels A2 card;

Neenah white; various scraps;

My Favorite Things Sand, Surf, & Sky

Dies - Poppystamps Whittle Racing Giraffe Kit 

Whittle Lizard & Whittle Panda Pickup Kit;

Hero Arts Thorn Tree and Grasses;

Spellbinders Gnome Drive Holiday

Memory Box Wishing You (exclusive for Simple Pleasures)

Other - Copic Markers; foam tape; 

printed sentiment strip (probably SSS)

I made a card with the whittle pandas (see it here if you missed it) but I didn't use the pickup part of the set. My brother drives a white pickup so I thought it would be fun to do a card with the pickup and add some giraffes. A test cut of the whittle lizard die (enabled by Lisa of My Paper Tales to buy) decided to ride along in the bed. I added grass and a tree from a Hero Arts set that read more African than the tree included in the giraffe set. The sweet whittle clouds came with the giraffes. I fashioned a headlight by cutting one of my gnome car lights in half; the tail light was colored in with a Copic. 

While my brother loved his card, I think my sister-in-law loved it more!! She makes cards too and was fascinated by all the details. I'll add this card to Darnell's April NBUS Challenge since the giraffes got first play here. And my card works for the Anything Goes section of Seize the Birthday.

Next up, a quick and easy card:

Supplies: Paper - Paper Studio Uncharted & A2 card;

Neenah white; Betterpress Porcelain, striped scrap (unk)

Stamps - Hero Arts Past Times (retired)

Betterpress - Spellbinders Swirl Birthday Frame

Dies - A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

Other - Foam tape; Cosmic Sky Betterpress & Memento Rich Cocoa inks

I layered some map papers, plus a scrap of striped, and adhered to an A2 card. Stamped & fussy cut a plane & used a pressed sentiment (cut with a stitched rectangle, rather than the die in the Betterpress set).

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping & I hope you're having a great start to the weekend!!