Dapper Father's Day Card

When my hubby and I each retired we found ourselves still working hard, just without the usual salary and doing other work than before. The sentiments on this paper caught my attention for a fun Father's Day card for my busy, hard-working husband. Summer is his busiest time on the farm where we live, even though he doesn't farm the land like his father.

I used this sketch from Sketch Saturday Challenge #516:

 My hubby should like the additional sentiment: "Handsome and hardworking. Yes, that sounds about right." The paper is from Authentique's  "Dapper" and Basic Grey and the Father's Day Stamp is retired from CTMH.

I used leftover pieces to make the inside more interesting!

Thank you for visiting! May you also find ways to bless the guys in your life as we celebrate Father's Day this month.

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs - for the boys

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper June Challenge - anything goes

Pile It On Challenge #143 - All sorts of holidays
Simply Create Too #139 - for a male
Sketch Saturday Challenge #516 - sketch above

Isaiah 55:10-11 (WEB)

10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; 11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

365 Promises of God - Promise #154: My Word will not return to me until it accomplishes what I intended.

Retiring Stamp "Brushstrokes" Father's Day Card

I needed one more Father's Day card for tomorrow and I'm still of the mindset to play with my retiring stamp sets. This one using the stamp set "Brushstrokes" was really quite easy and fun! It has the look that it was painted with wide brushes and  watercolors. The word "happy" is from "Happy to Be Friends," also retiring. (Father's Day was a very old, long retired  stamp).

 

The side papers are from "No Worries" and the inks I used were Lagoon, Pacifica, Willow, Black, and Versamark for the white embossing.

Thanks for visiting!

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Cardz 4 Guys #171 - Something blue for Father's Day
Connie Can Crop #59 - It's a Guy Thing
Crafty Girlz June Challenge - anything goes / masculine option
Love to Scrap Challenge #98 - Boyz Rule

Father's Day Cards with Jack WYW

For two weeks hubby and I have been doing spring cleaning for remodeling which included lots of organizing and purging before remodeling. I told him I needed one afternoon off to make Father's Day cards, so to maximize my creative time, I chose two of my CTMH workshop kits to make a stack of cards fast.  I cut the Jack Workshop Your Way kit into three layouts and six cards. (You can see the pdf of the layouts here.) The cards has sentiments and images from the Jack-cardmaking stamp set and thincuts dies that match the stamps. Here are samples of the first six. I changed mine up a little by adding some embossing.

I loved the die cut and stamped bears for this set! Since I used the tutorial pdf for this first set, I'm linking it to the Cut It Up challenge to use a tutorial.

All of the cards are 5.5" x 4.25" except this one that is embossed with a 5" x 7" Wood Slats embossing folder and attached to a 6.5" x 5" card base.

I also made cards using the Workshop Your Way Father's Day Cardmaking Kit which used Jack papers plus some Lagoon cardstock and embellishments. 

I'm glad my brother and son-in-laws don't read my blog. Deer antlers are the perfect stamp I added for two of them since they enjoy deer hunting. Now they won't know what their cards look like!

I hope this gives you some ideas for Father's Day cards. Thanks for visiting!

Perfect Sentiments Father's Day Card

This week the challenge at Perfect Sentiments is to make a card with a sentiment for Father's Day. The twist is to use this color story as inspiration for your card.

My husband loves car shows and vintage cars, so this card is definitely for him. I used this sketch from Sketch Saturday Challenge #211 for the design of this card.

I embossed both the red background and the grey strip using Clockworks. It reminded me of the gears in a car. I carefully lined up the gray strip across the middle of the embossing folder so that I could match it to the embossed design on the red background. The main image was stamped three times with different colors of ink and pieced back together so that each part showed up more. There was a title on top that said, "Enjoy your special day," but I covered it with the Father's Day sentiment that came with the stamp set. I retraced the words with a darker marker so they would stand out and pop dotted it on the black background. The three pewter brads on the bottom are all different and show up better in this photo:

Our wonderful sponsor is Shelley's Images. Please join us in making your own card with the perfect sentiment for Father's Day!

Challenges for this card:

Sketch Saturday Challenge #211 - sketch

Celebrate the Occasion #66 - Fathers Day

Cooking It Up with Katie #97 - Texture, Metal, and Masculine

Crafting for All Seasons #29 - for a man

One Stop Craft Challenge #186 - Father's Day

 

5" x 6.5" Father's Day Card Recipe:

Paper - My Mind's Eye "Kraft Funday - Everyday Fun;" Close To My Heart Cranberry, Gray Flannel, Colonial Whte, and Black cardstock

Stamps - CTMH "Vintage Father's Day" (retired)

Inks - CTMH Black, Brown Bag, Gray Wool

Accents and Tools - CTMH Black Hemp, Pewter Designer Brads; Cuttlebug "Clockworks" Embossing folder

Father's Day Smooth Sailing Card

I'm looking forward to taking my daughter, son-in-law, his mother, and four grandkids to the ocean for our vacation this summer. Living in the center of the U.S., my grandkids have never seen the ocean. With that in mind, I made this Father's Day card for their dad, my son-in-law.

The image and the designer paper are both from Clear Dollar Stamps in their set called Smooth Sailing.

I tried a new way of using my favorite embellishment - embossing folders. I folded the kraft cardstock so I could fit the top part in one embossing folder and the second time the bottom was embossed with a different folder. By covering the fold with a ribbon, you can use different folders creatively. I wanted swirls on the bottom like ocean waves. I also added a textured banner to hold my handwritten sentiment. When I colored the sky and water with my Copic markers, I used two shades of blue on the top and two shades of bluegreen on the bottom. Then I removed color with the Colorless blender to resemble clouds and white caps on the waves.

Challenges for this card:
Here Come the Boys - Challenge #28, Anything Goes
Lexi's Creations - Challenge #66 For the Man/Boy in our Lives
Love to Create - Challenge #18, Father's Day or Special Guy in your life
Shopping Our Stash Weekly - Challenge #54, Father's Day or Masculine
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Sugar Creek Hollow - Challenge #14 Father's Day

6.5" x 5" Father's Day Card Recipe:
Paper - Clear Dollar Stamps "Smooth Sailing;" Close To My Heart "Victory" (chocolate swirl), Chocolate, Kraft, White Daisy cardstock
Image - Clear Dollar Stamps "Smooth Sailing"
Accents - CTMH "Milepost Shapes" (banner), Baker's Twine Paradise Assortment; Cuttlebug Musical Flourish (bottom) and Scrollwork (top) embossing folders; white twill old and unknown;Copic Markers- B00, B02, BG10, BG13, N0, N2, N4, E33, E35, E15, E18, 0 Colorless Blender