Father's Day Squared

I think I'm in a pretty small camp of stampers who actually enjoy the challenge of making a masculine card.  A simple background of punched squares, a bold sentiment and an accent of silver brads presents a crisp geometry, perfect for my husband this Father's Day! 

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• The cool block sentiment is from All Holidays, a versatile occasions stamp set.  I inked it with Jet Black Stazon and stamped on Very Vanilla.  
• TIP:  Want your ink to really grab on solid stamps?  I use one of Stampin' Up!'s Sanding Blocks to gently "rough up" the solid area of the rubber.  Clean off any residue and be ready experience a nice improvement when you stamp.
• The sentiment is adhered with Stampin' Dimensionals to Basic Gray card stock (one of my faves) and followed by Basic Black.
•  Using a Stampin' Up! 1 1/4" Square Punch, I zipped out a modern mosaic in Basic Gray and Very Vanilla.  
• TIP:  My inspiration often comes from fashion catalogs.  A Garnet Hill catalog arrived today and I was immediately inspired by the colors and floor pattern of one of the ads (photo below).
• Each square was adhered to a 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" card base in Basic Black.
• Three Silver Brads jazz up the corner.  TIP:  I like to keep embellishments to a minimum on masculine cards.

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Stamp Set:  All Holidays (114916)
Paper:  Basic Black (102851), Basic Gray (108692), Very Vanilla (101650)
Ink:  Jet Black Stazon (101406)
Cool Tools:  1 1/4" Square Punch (104400), Sanding Blocks (103301)
The Perfect Touch:  Silver Brads (109109), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430)