Father's Day card

This is the card I made for my Dad. The hummingbird is a Michael Strong stamp and the sentiment is from Quiet Fire Designs.

Happy Father's Day!

Stars and Stamps Sketch #8

Here is this week's sketch from the Stars and Stamps blog. Shirley gave us this clean and simple sketch which I love. Thank you Shirley! It is super easy to make doubles of each card which I did. I just didn't photograph them all.

One of my favorite font designers is Kevin King of Kingsthings.
http://www.kingthingsfonts.co.uk/ I used his font Willow for the sentiment on the King of the Grill card. I used dies and punches as well.

I played with text art on this one too. Text in the round is something I love to use. The canoe paper and the center compass embellishment are from Debbie Mum. The other colored paper is made using Distress inks. The smooth circle and the spikey one are die cuts using Nestabilities dies.

All the cards I made with this sketch are going to OWH for the Father's Day card mailings.

Stars and Stamps sketch #7

Erika kindly shared her sketch with us at the Stars and Stamps blog. I confess I took liberties with it. I've been working on Father's Day cards for OWH and this sketch plus the sentiment stamp felt like a good match.

I pulled out some earth tone scraps to see if I could use some on these cards. I also added some sections of color from printed ads. The stamp was from Michaels dollar bin last year. It came out too late for OWH cards so I got to use it fresh this week.

The border punch from EK Success echoed the pattern on the sentiment stamp. Had to use them together don't you know! There is dry embossing on the center section which I didn't manage to catch with the photo. More cards finished for our troops to send home. I love that.

Father's Day cards

This goes with a favorite Father's Day sentiment; "A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way".

I love the challenge of creating masculine cards. With Father's day coming up I thought I would share some of my past cards for this occasion. This card also indulges my love of recycling. The papers behind the images are liners of bills which I stamped on and colored. The DAD seal is cut and embossed from a washed yogurt liner.