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Do you ever get stumped trying to come up with an idea on how to make a masculine card for the man in your life?  Have you thought of making him a Criss Cross Card? A  Criss… what???

Well, here’s a Criss Cross Card tutorial to make for that special man in your life embellished with a Haberdashery carved wood button.

Criss Cross Father’s Day Card

Most of us females would choose pretty flowers, glitter and anything cutesy before a brown and boring card.   But brown, especially brown wood can be fun!

I actually like brown.  I totally heart Kraft paper and when I received my Buttons Galore design team goodies, these Haberdashery wooden buttons totally caught my eye.

 Supplies needed to make Criss Cross Card

• Score Board
• Paper Trimmer
• Kraft Paper
• Masculine Patterned Paper
• Haberdashery Button
• Glue Dots ®
• Colorbox Ink
• Masculine Die Cut

How to make a Criss Cross Card

• Cut a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of card stock in half, lengthwise.
• Score each piece at 5 1/2 inches.

• Over lap the two pieces of card stock.
• Adhere together with Glue Dots®.
• Your card will now be 16 1/2 inches long.

• Using your paper trimmer, trim off the top corner of each end diagonally.

• Now, you have a naked Criss Cross card all ready to get manly.

<insert a manly grunt here>

• To keep your card close, cut a 1 x 12 inch Belly Band to wrap around card.

<insert “belly size” pun here>

• Measure and trim out paper to embellish your card with.
• Ink the edges of the paper with  Colorbox ink.

Inside of Criss Cross Father’s Day Card

Even without flowers and glitter, a masculine card can still be fun to decorate.  I chose to go for an “Old World” feel.

To embellish this Criss Cross card, I used paper from DCWV Industrial Chic  line, added some zig zag stitching inside and a Father’s Day die cut from a Loni Harris cut file.  Then, I embossed the belly band with a burlap folder and completed the masculine Criss Cross card with a Haberdashery wood button.

See, brown can be fun!

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