Model T Father's Day Card for Stampin' Sisterhood

My wonderful hubby is a chemist who wishes he was an automotive engineer instead. He loves to build cars-especially from scratch. It has taken him quite a few years to make a 1933 Ford. This summer he plans to start on a T-Bucket which resembles a Model T but is made from a pickup truck body. I recently got this stamp from Rubbernecker Stamps in honor of his project.

This month the challenge at Stampin' Sisterhood is to use the following sketch. I thought it would be perfect for a Father's Day card using "checkered flag" type paper, gears, and the Model T stamp. This card definitely fits the challenge this week at Our Creative Corner - Our Boys and Their Toys. 

I used the colors black and cream with a touch of "Barn Red," so I'm entering this card in Lisa Somerville's Blogger's Challenge to use black and white or cream with a touch of one more color. I had some acrylic squares that matched the Barn Red to use in place of brads.

I embossed the front of the card using a Cuttlebug "Clockworks" embossing folder. It's one of the larger ones for 5 x 7 cards. I also embossed the cream colored 3" circle. The embossing was lightly sponged with ink for a shabby look and to bring out the embossed details a little more. (Looks like Bill handled it after spending the day working on a car--dirty, dirty!) Instead of framing that circle with another black circle, I used one of the Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels. The sentiment is the shabbiest element. I simply stamped it the way it was and cut it out. It was from an older Father's Day stamp set that also had an old car - one I've stamped and given hubby several other times.

This card is 5.5" square, so I'm not entering it in the following challenges, but I wanted you to have the information. I've been encouraging people to visit Send a Smile for Kids to send Mother's Day cards. This week their challeng also includes Father's Day Cards. In addition, Operation Write Home both the mid-week challenge and the Muscle Card challenge are to make cards to send to our service men and women that they can send home to dads/husbands. Both challenges need these cards by April 30th. If you're interested, please visit their websites for more information.

Here's a photo of his car just before it was finished. The body was made by using an actual old car body, making a mold of it, and pouring a new fiberglass body in the mold. He also made the rest with lots of welding over several years - DEFINITELY HIS TOY.

 

New Every Morning

"Yet this I call to mind and Therefore I have hope: because of the Lord's Great Love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; Great is your faithfulness!"
Lamentations 3:21-23

Our Daily Bread Designs Shining the Light Challenge #103 is to show New Life. I live on a farm and have a small orchard. The fruit trees just finished blooming in shades of white and pink with flowers that look like the paper I chose. I also represented new life with a butterfly, but wanted to emphasize the part of the verses that talk about God's compassions being new every morning. I combined the card with Lisa Somerville's Blogger's Challenge - To Die For - using a Spellbinder's die and my Cricut. I cut the card, flowered paper and green mats using Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. I restamped the part of the verse I was emphasizing using black ink, cut it out and pop dotted it over the green verse.

Tonight I saw my daughter and her three sons at the Christian school in their town. The boys have had baseball practice from 5 - 8:30 four nights a week - before they even get home for supper. They have church the other nights. My daughter's company was putting on a computer training conference for 300 people today and she had been so stressed yesterday trying to fit everything in, fighting a cold, and being woke up by noisy neighbors socializing outside. Yesterday, she asked for prayer because the prospect of today seemed overwhelming.

I chose this verse because it is so very true. We learn in life that each day is a new day, even if it seemed the day before that it might be too hard to face the challenges. My daughter said the conference was great, the boys sang nicely at school tonight and were excited to show off their artwork, books and classrooms. And "Grandma" was amazed at the character so many young people showed as they sang spiritual songs for a large audience. I learned the truths of these verses when I was caring for a sick child in the ER in the middle of the night but still had to teach the next day, or some similar situation. I found that there's a calmness when you let your thoughts rest in His mercies for the next day instead of worrying that you'll never make it.

May God bless you as you face the challenges of each new day.

Paper - Graphic45 Once Upon a Springtime, CTMH Vanilla Cream and New ENgland Ivy cardstock
Stamp - Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 1
Ink - New England Ivy, Blush, Black, Chocolate
Other - Prima flower, CTMH Just Blooms Flutter (butterfly), Licorice Opaques, Buttercup organdy, Cricut Art Philosophy

He Is Risen for Blogger's Challenge and Paper Sundaes

I'm adding more Easter cards to the ones I need to give this weekend. Easter was always a time we'd go to church then have a large dinner with family. My grandma made us Easter dresses and we had Easter hats to match. Even though my dad was a pastor when I was little, we'd have an Easter basket of "goodies" waiting for us when we'd wake up. My favorite basket included a live duck when I was six years old. And from the time I was a baby, my parents made sure there were Easter pictures taken of us outside before or after church. When I was eight my father pastored a small country church where they let me sing "He Arose" with the choir. Those Easter service hymns remained a big part of the enjoyable experience.

I will give several cards with a cross, but they will all be empty crosses. Over 500 witnesses saw Christ after he arose from the grave. His resurrection is His promise that we can also have life after death if we trust that He died to take our place so that we wouldn't have to take the punishment for our own sins. That's what really makes me happy at Easter!

This card also has a dove. Sometimes in Scripture a dove represents the Holy Spirit. In our culture it is also a symbol of peace. I made this Easter card for two challenges. Lisa Somerville's Blogger's Challenge is For the Birds. Paper Sundaes Challenge #114 is Easter. I used a waterbrush to lightly paint the dove blush on it's underside and heavenly blue around the rest of the outline. The cross was also colored with a waterbrush using a chocolate stamp pad. I press the middle of the closed inkpad lid, then open it. A small amount of ink is on the lid which lightly blends with the waterbrush. That way I don't have to dilute the ink on the inkpad.

The pink and chocolate papers are really the front and back of the same piece. I think they have an old fashioned appearance.

All materials used to make this card are from Close To My Heart, although some are retired.

6.5" x 5" Easter Card Recipe:
Paper - That's Amore, colonial White, Buttercup, Chocolate, Blush cardstock
Stamp - Beloved
Ink - Blush, Chocolate, Heavenly Blue (used with waterbrush on dove)
Other - Colonial White and Buttercup ribbon collections, wooden button, Baker's twine, waterbrush