Yesterday I ran across a cute, quick Father's Day card over at Amy Celona's ustamp4fun blog. She has a PDF of the directions, if you need a masculine card that won't take too long. I browsed through my new DSP binder and found Outlaw and Western Sky that I thought would work well for this card. I ended up making four - one for the girls to give my dear hubby, one for my father-in-law, one for my dad, and one for my brother. I put the brads on the small collar pieces before putting them on the card (in Amy's directions, that's the last thing you do, after they're already on the card). One word of wisdom, however - make sure you get the brads on the correct corner! I speak from experience on this - I made all of the collar pieces, paper pierced them, added the brads, and THEN realized I had the pieces upside down and the brad was in the wrong place. YIKES! So, a quick do-over, then I was back on track. Thanks for stopping by today!
Happy almost Father's Day! We celebrated with my dad tonight by having dinner out and then getting together afterwards at my brother's house. It was a nice get-together. Tomorrow, on Father's Day, we'll spend time with my dear husband's dad with a BBQ at his house. Before heading out to dinner, I finished making my hubby's Father's Day card. I hadn't used my Pocket Fun set, so last night I mounted the stamps. I used my Just Jeans background stamp and Blue Bayou ink on Whisper White to create the denim background, stamping the pocket from Pocket Fun on another piece, then cutting it out. I stamped the tools in VersaMark and then embossed with detail silver embossing powder. I stamped the tools again, and since I couldn't find my detail black EP (I really need to clean up my stamping room), I stamped in craft black and embossed with crystal clear EP. I then cut and pasted the pieces together to give a two-tone look for the tools. I adhered the pocket onto the denim background, leaving the top edge open to add the tools. The silver behind the denim was created by stamping with my VersaMark pad around the edges of a piece of Whisper White then embossing with detail silver EP. I topped it off with the screw top brads I got through Paper Wishes. I hope he likes it!
I needed to make a few Father's Day cards, so I decided to use some of the extra Chocolate Chip envelopes I have from my Carousel Notes Purse class last month. I've always admired Silke's beautiful card that used images from the Simple Delights Simply Sent card kit, and decided to finally put some ink on my set. I found the cute pearl brads in the wedding aisle at Michaels a few months ago, and they fit perfectly! I used Brocade Backgrounds designer series paper to compliment the stamp set. It was great to be able to take some time to stamp - it's been too long! Thanks for visiting, and have a great weekend!
