Thank You Card for Guys

 

What kind of a card do you make for the men in your life? Or even the men that are only acquaintances? That’s often a tough one. Here’s a card I made for a friend of my husband who surprised us the other night by paying for our family’s meal when we saw him briefly at a restaurant.

My husband loves the phrase “tacti-cool” to describe the things he loves about tactical gear. This is for one of those friends (a K-9 policeman). Some day I’ll share the amazing things my husband does with custom-sewn tactical gear. He told me this card is “tacti-cool,” which is probably the highest compliment he could give.

I decided that a nice striped background design with words on top was all that was necessary for this card, but I used Silhouette’s corrugated paper to add the extra dimension and texture it needed. The “thank you” sentiment is cut from the font LW Skinny Type in black adhesive cardstock. Since the corrugated paper has an adhesive back as well, this card required absolutely no adhesive to be separately applied. Love that.

The card base is brown cardstock, trimmed to 8.5″ x 4.25″ and folded in half. I cut the stripes tile design out of corrugated paper with my Silhouette CAMEO as a 4.25″ square. The sentiment is about 104 pt, or about 2.5″ tall.

If you ever have to whip up a fast card for a man, keep this one in mind.

Designs/fonts used:
LW Skinny Type (font)
Stripes Tile