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Robots & Gears- a perfect combination!

Dear Reader: As you may or may not know, I have 2 boys and for as long as I can remember, it has been a struggle for me to make masculine cards. Well, I think I have broken through that fear barrier because I really enjoy making boy cards now.  I found this great free digital robot stamp  here  and went to work colouring them in using my Kaiser Fusion markers.  And because I love to, I fussy cut them out giving me 12 images for robot cards...woohoo!! Now, what better embellishment to use with robots than gears.  I thought I would give  Kaisercraft's  Cogs  die-set a try. So I usually begin making a card by picking out patterned paper for a background and adhere it to my white card leaving about a quarter of an inch border. Next, I cut the gears out of black card stock and place them where I would like them on the background. Next, I matted my chosen robot image to black card stock, which I then adhered to ...