Happy Father's Day

 I have a simple masculine card to share with you today, made with an unbranded stitched frame and some snippets of paper and cardstock. The woodgrain paper is from a very old Tim Holtz paper pad, and the white panel (cut with a Lil Inker Stitched rectangle) was cut from a snippet of white. The gold embossed sentiment is from SU!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes and was placed on 2 panels done with retired SU! punches. I finished this with 3 copper brads and placed it on a dark brown card base.

Today I fondly remember my father, two grandfathers and my husband on this day we set aside to honor fathers. I hope they are all enjoying a heavenly father's day along with all the other great fathers in this world today.

I'm sharing this with the Allsorts Challenge #785 which is Masculine or the option of A/G

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/week-785.html

Some of you have mentioned you're able to link again with blogger but it hasn't happened for me yet unfortunately, so I'll just have to copy and paste the link underneath the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. Happy Father's day to all of the dads in the world today as well.

Carol

Father's Day Gift Envelope

 With Father's day being celebrated this coming Sunday, I made this gift envelope that holds a lottery ticket I'm giving to a great neighbor and friend. He helps me with many things around the house that I can no longer do and won't let me pay him, so I got him a lottery ticket that he can't refuse. There's no sugar in it to jeopardize his health and no cash in it to offend him, so I'm thinking it's the perfect way to wish him a great Father's day.

I pulled out 2 different green striped designer papers along with some mirror gold. The sentiment panels were die-cut with a Gina Marie Designs Venetian label die set and I added 2 golden dollar sign brads I've had for eons. The stamp is a very old wooden stamp I've had since I began making cards. This was quick and easy and hopefully brings him some extra cash after he does a little scratching.

For the time being I think my computer problems are resolved but time will tell. I couldn't figure out why I suddenly had no sound, but after I went into all the settings and systems controls, and still had no answer, a friend of mine came to have a look and pretty much did the same thing. As a last resort, she pulled the speaker plug out of the computer and plugged it back in again and the sound came back. I lost the sound again the next day, but pulling the plug and pushing it back in did the trick once again. She said with digital this happens sometimes. It made me chuckle because it took me back to the day when computers first came out and whenever you called for help, the advice they always gave was to unplug everything, let it rest, and plug it back in again, remember? History definitely repeats itself 😉 Hopefully the sound issues have been resolved.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Thursday.

Carol

Father's Day

 I pulled out some blue and green coordinating strips of leftover papers and cardstock to create the herringbone background for this father's day card. I die-cut all 3 panels with Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies and added a stamped, heat-embossed white sentiment with 2 brads and called this one done.

I'll share this with these challenges:

Word Power #5 challenge - make the sentiment the focus of your card

The Sisterhood of Crafters May 22nd challenge - All About the Men

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Carol

Father's Day Card

I made this father's day card for a neighbor of mine who loves the outdoors and hunting. I printed the digital camouflage paper as well as the digital ticket sentiment. I added a bit of green coloring to the sentiment panel to go along with the background. I die cut the card base and background with Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies, and then die cut a stag head with a Frantic Stamper die and some gold mirror card. The embellishments are from SU!

Here's a 2nd photo that adds a bit more light to the finished card.

Here's a 3rd photo showing the inside. This too was a printed digital sentiment

I'm sharing this with the Allsorts Challenge week # 733 - A/G with an option of Blooms, Bees, and/or Butterflies

also sharing with the Critter Crazy Challenge #75 - A/G featuring a critter

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol

Father's Day Card

 I made this card for a friend's hubby who loves to play golf. I feel pretty certain that he'll be on the golf course this coming Sunday when we celebrate Father's day, so I just went with that thought in creating this card. The Father's day sentiment is inside the card.

I created the skies with T.E. stencils and some Tumbled Glass ink, and then added 3 tiny birds done with a SNSS stamp. The green hillsides were done with Lawn Fawn dies, and the golf bag was done with a Tutti designs die, colored with Copics.  His golf bag is red, white, and blue which is why I chose those colors. The sentiment is also from SNSS.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Guyz #324 - Father's Day UK & USA

June Stencil Fun Challenge -A/G using a stencil *option, use layered stencils

Craft Rocket Challenge #104 - Use Dies

Happy Little Stampers June A/G with Dies challenge

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do! 

Keep smiling 😊

Carol

Father's Day Card

 With Father's day approaching very soon, I decided to start working on those cards and here's the first one I came up with. I used snippets of grey and white cardstock to make the panels along with some die-cut blue water and a notched border. Since I don't have many options for Father's Day sentiments, I printed this digital ticket sentiment and colored it in with matching markers. The lower embossed panel was a snippet of grey, done with a Spellbinders M-bossabilities folder that I've had for a long time. I sponged on some Pumice Stone ink to darken the shoe prints a wee bit. The upper panel was a snippet of white cardstock that I covered with a piece of aluminum foil and embossed with a Cuttlebug diamond plate ef. The blue notched border was done with a MFT die, while the watery waves were done with a SNSS die. The person this is intended for loves the water and still works, so I thought all the elements would work.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground Challenge #455 -must use snippets

Can You Handle the Pressure? - A/G with embossing *optional twist - birds

the Allsorts Challenge #730 - Use a stencil or alternative A/G

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - add a sentiment

On May 29th we celebrate Memorial day not only as summer begins, but mainly to remember our fallen heroes who gave their lives for our freedom. We should never forget that all gave some; while some gave all. Freedom comes with a cost. Heartfelt thanks to those who served and to those who continue to serve. May God bless you all.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your weekend!

Carol

For Dad

Happy Father's day to all the dads out there, and also to our dads up in heaven along with so many others.

I made several cards like this to send to friends of ours, using MFT stitched strip dies and some snippets of dsp. I used a punch to make the silver star, and used SU! mini punches to make the smaller ones, and then used negatives from a SSS star border die for the tiny stars. The sentiment is an old wooden stamp I've had for years and there is no name on it, so I don't know who made it. The blue cardstock is from SSS.

Sharing this with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - add a sentiment

Dies R Us challenge #195 - Dad's Day/Make it Masculine

Have a wonderful day and to all the dads and grandfathers out there - enjoy your special day set aside to honor you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Father's Day

I pulled out a piece of teal colored designer paper and embossed it with a Spellbinder's Kickin' Rubber embossing folder, then sanded it for a rustic look. I stamped the boots from SU!'s Country Living (r) stamp set, then colored them with Copics and fussy cut them to place on the stitched square die. I dug into my stash to find this SU! hodgepodge hardware ribbon piece, and attached it to the side; adding a snippet of tan checked ribbon. The sentiment is from SU!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes, heat-embossed with gold, and placed on a die-cut Lil Inker stitched banner.

This card is for my husband who had a pony as a kid, and horses as an adult (many years ago) but he still has a love for horses, so I stamped this horse image on the inside...

 That's a very old but favorite horse image stamp by Serendipity, stamped in Smoky Slate ink on a Soft Stone card base.

I'll enter this card into the following challenges:

Let's Squash It! #21 - Make it Manly

Cardz4Guyz Challenge #298 - Father's Day

The Alphabet Challenge Blog - E is for Embossing wet or dry

Allsorts Challenge week #680 - any stamped image

Thanks for the visit and I wish you all a great week ahead!

Carol

Father's Day Card

 Yesterday was father's day and this card has been received, so I'm sharing it now. The background was done with a GMD water stencil and some distress ink. If you click the photo to enlarge, you can see the fishnet stamped image along the bottom that was done with some light, sandy colored ink. The image was stamped with Versamark ink on some brown cardstock and heat-embossed with white ep. I colored in some of the elements with glaze pens and added some clear Nuvo drops to represent water bubbles. The starfish was a die-cut from Marianne and I colored in the embossed dots with a white gel pen.

I'm sharing this with:

The Male Room Challenge#151 - Dads and Grandads

The Double D Challenge - Signs of Summer

I hope all the dads out there had a great father's day yesterday!

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a pleasant week ahead!

Carol

Father's Day Fishing

Several of our friends love to go fishing, so I recently bought this Newton's Nook stamp to make some father's day cards. I started with a panel of white and sponged assorted blue Distress inks all over, spritzing with water to create the water. After it dried, I stamped a Kaisercraft fishnet image over it with Versamark ink, then heat embossed it with white ep. The image panel was stamped with Versamark ink, then heat-embossed in white and colored with gel pens. I added a few clear Nuvo drops for water bubbles. The anchor was made from gold mirror cardstock and a Marianne die, and laced with some neutral twine for the finishing touch. I used Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies to cut all 3 panels.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

the Paper Players PP544 challenge - summer; with the following mood board:

the Happy Little Stampers June watercolor challenge - a/g

NBUS #27 challenge - Newton's Nook stamp (Never Before Used Schtuff)

Thanks again as always for checking in with me and I wish you the best day possible!

Carol

 

the Happiest Day

 I made this card that will work for either father's day or a masculine birthday! I dug out my old Memory Box deer trio die and cut it from a piece of kraft cardstock. I took a piece of turquoise and embossed it with a retired SU! embossing folder and placed the deer on top, then framed it with a stitched die-cut frame and some dark espresso cardstock. The sentiment is a pre-printed one from SSS. I kept this one simple and chose not to add any embellishments.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - masculine

the Little Red Wagon #604 - make it masculine

The Male Room Challenge #151- Dads and Grandads

R.I. the House that Stamps built Challenge #J221 - all about the boys

the Color Hues Challenge #19 - blue & brown

Wishing you all a great day! Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Wood and Metal Father's Day Card

Many years ago, I won 2 packs of metal sheet papers from a company who closed, along with 3 strips of thin, real wood panels, and I've used both on this card. The wood panel was embossed with a SU! ef and sponged with 2 different distress inks. I used a MFT notched border die to make the blue and green panels, just to add some bright colors. Beneath the wood panel is a piece of that mustard-colored metal paper that was embossed with a TH woodgrain ef. I kept it small because the edges are sharp and I don't want anyone cutting their fingers. I placed it all on a piece of SSS woodgrain cardstock and added 3 brads from my stash that I'd forgotten I had. The sentiment panel was done with a SNSS ticket die set and the SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment was silver heat-embossed on black and cut into a banner with a hexagon punch. The little silver bird was die cut with an IO set of bird dies. The recipient of this card has his own woodshop and makes many beautiful projects from wood, so I think he's going to enjoy this. It's on the way to him right now in time for Father's day.

I'm sharing this with the NBUS challenge #15, since I finally used one of those wood panels and a piece of the metallic paper I've had for eons.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a beautiful day and a great weekend as well.

Carol

Father's Day Card

The puzzle is done, the bookmarks are completed and today I made a card! Actually I made 2 of them, and it felt good to dig into my snippets box and make one out of those unfinished projects, or bits and pieces left over from previous projects. I found the embossed panel with men's shoe/boot prints and the card began from there. The black frame was tossed into the snippet box after cutting the center from it a long time ago. The father's day sentiment was on a father's day card made years ago that I didn't like, so I used a note tag punch  to make it the sentiment for this card. I found a silver anchor eyelet along with 3 silver brads in my stash, so I added them too. The blue panel was embossed with a SU! seaside ef and sponged with salty ocean distress ink and I added a teal colored border of waves between the two panels done with a SNSS die, and placed it all on a teal card base. 

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - " something metallic"

the Double D challenge - Use Your Scraps with this photo inspiration

the Craft Rocket Challenge #71 - Embossing dry or wet

Shopping Our Stash Challenge #422 - UFO's (unfinished objects)

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great Thursday followed by a wonderful weekend as well!

Carol

Masculine Card

Today's card was made for my husband for father's day. He once owned a red and white truck like this so I thought he'd get a kick out of it. The background panel was a piece of light blue cardstock that I stamped with a SNSS woodgrain clear stamp in a dark blue colored ink, then die cut it, (along with the sentiment panel) with a set of GMD dies. I layered it on black, white, and finally a black card base. The truck die was a gift from a friend and has no name on it. I colored it with Copics. The sentiment is by Taylored Expressions and I added a little red flag banner to balance things out.

I will enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - masculine

Dies R Us challenge #146 - It's Dad's Day 

Cardz 4 Guyz #246 - Father's Day

As for this new blogger format, I keep trying to use it, but each time I post, the old format appears when I post a card, while the comment and reading list sections remain the new format. Twice now I've tried reverting back to the old format, then clicked the new blogger again; used the new format again to post a card, but when I went back to post the next time, the old format for posting appeared again; while the reading list and comment sections remained the new format. My inlinx photos only show occasionally - most times it's just a little grey box and now when I visit blogs, there are no cards visible until I hit the refresh button for each and every one. For a relatively new computer, these issues are frustrating and make me wonder how much longer I want to continue doing this. I've been reading and trying to find a fix, but so far nothing.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and have a great day! May your troubles be fewer than mine :)

Carol

Fords Rule

This is what my husband would say as he bought Ford vehicles mostly all his life. I made an early father's day card that will either go to my husband or my neighbor - they are both Ford fanatics when it comes to vehicles. The inside has a large "Happy Father's Day" sentiment stamped in matching colors.

I found these great snippets of retired SU! card stock/designer paper in my stash that I've hoarded way too long, so I found an old sketch that seemed perfect to use them up. It's very sturdy and heavy, unlike regular dsp, but I do love the colors, so I colored the image to coordinate with them. I used a Clear Art Stamps "Car Classics" stamp set to create the early 50's Ford image (I'd guess either a 1950 or 1951 model) and colored it with Copics, glaze pens, and silver colored pencils, adding a little glossy accents here and there. The enamel dots are by SU! and have long been retired, and this is all on a PTI Soft Stone card base.

I'm sharing this with the Cardz4Guyz challenge #240 - which is to use something beginning with "F" {Ford of course}

That's one father's day card finished and way ahead of schedule for a change. Thanks for stopping by and I hope life isn't too crazy for anyone reading this right now. I must admit I'm shocked with the frenzied shopping going on - especially with toilet paper? I just don't get it? I try to keep the tv turned off to ignore all the panic going on in the world. Hopefully this will soon be behind us and life can get back to a more civilized, normal state again! I hope you are all able to stay well!

Carol

Happy Father's Day

For all the dads out there, Happy Father's Day!

I made this card some time ago but never posted it, so I thought it was perfect for this day set aside to honor all the great fathers in the world. My friend brought this die to my house a while ago and I die-cut it with Bermuda Bay, white and navy card stock, adding a tiny sliver or 2 of daffodil delight for the space between the sails. The background was done with a SU! Seaside ef, which I dotted with aqua stickles and a toothpick on the raised portions.

I'm pretty sure this is a Unity sentiment, but not 100% certain, but it just fits the image and it's what's inside of the card.

I'm sharing this with the Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #193 - You're the Man!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to tell your dad how much he means to you today! I wish my dad was still with us so I could tell him again how much I loved him and how thankful I am for the good life he gave me.

Carol

Father's Day Remake

You may recall this father's day card I posted recently for our neighbor.

Sadly, they lost their precious dachshund Maddy last week so I just don't have the heart to give him that card now. Perhaps in the future I'll share it with him, but the feelings are too raw right now to even consider it. We're all heartbroken that she's no longer with us :( 

I made another father's day card to give him instead.

   I went through my "doo-dad" box of snippets and everything used on this card came from that box except for the SU! woodgrain dsp used for the background. The CB Clockworks embossed panel was covered with Versamark, then clear-embossed, and has a shine to it. The fishtail banner was embossed with a SU! basketweave ef and sponged with some brown ink. The cogs were done with SB sprocket dies in foiled gold, black, and red glitter card stock and the father's day sentiment panel was already made with a white heat-embossed SU! sentiment in white. I don't have a die like that with stitching, so someone must have shared that with me and I don't know who makes the die.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

The Snippets Playground #354 - use snippets

Happy Little Stampers - June anything goes with dies

Thanks for taking time from your busy day to stop by, it's always appreciated. Have a great day!

Carol

Happy Father's Day

With Father's Day being less than a week away, I knew it was time to get busy and make my husband his father's day card. Every year I've used a horse image because horses were a big part of his life since he was a child, but this year I wanted to do something different, so I went with a rustic wood look instead. I pulled out some leftover strips of wooden dsp by SU! and adhered them randomly to a piece of card stock, then embossed it all with a TH wooden ef. I die cut both the wooden panel along with the GinaK blue raspberry card base with Lil Inker stitched rectangles. The "happy" from SSS "oh happy day" dies was cut twice and stacked for dimension, while the father's day was stamped with Versamark, and heat embossed with white ep. The finishing touches were 3 brads and I think he'll like this one.

I'm sharing with these challenges:

Cardz4Guyz challenge #221 - for father's day

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - masculine

Crafty Gals Corner #193 - You're the Man!

Thanks for stopping by and as always, I wish you a fantastic day!

Carol

Father's Day

I started looking through some old stamps, dies, and snippets to put this card together for father's day. I stamped a piece of blue dsp with a Kaisercraft fishnet stamp in versamark, then heat-embossed it with white ep and fussy cut it. I stamped the card base with a Market Street Stamp (now closed) called "Here Comes the Sun", using distress inks of Squeezed Lemonade and More Mustard to give the illusion of a sunny day, then stamped some tiny bird images across the sky. The upper panel was cut with a Nestabilities Labels 2 die, and I used a MFT fishtail banners set of dies to make the sentiment panel along with a SU! greeting that was heat-embossed in white. The anchor was made with a Marianne die from silver glitter card stock, and tied to the sentiment panel with some twine. The finishing touch was 3 small black stickers.

I'm sharing this with the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge

(You now have to create an account and log-in to see the sketch)

Also sharing this with the Cardz4Guyz challenge #220 - "Beside the Seaside"

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend kick-off to summer is off to a great start!

Carol

An Early Father's Day Card

I waited too long to work on mother's day cards, so I decided there's no better time than now to start on father's day cards. This is going to a cherished neighbor who comes to visit often and he brings along his sweet little dachshund Maddy when he comes. The background was sponged with Distress Tumbled Glass ink through a Tim Holtz stone stencil. I took some snippets of GinaK blue raspberry card stock and die-cut 3 banners with a SU! Hearts a Flutter die set, then embossed them with a SB M-Bossabilities Kickin' Rubber embossing folder to show portions of the footprints. I  darkened the footprints with a Copic C3 marker to make them more visible. The dachshund was die cut with an I.O. set of dog dies and I added snippets of red to make the harness along with some twine for her leash. The sentiment is from SU!'s teeny tiny wishes embossed with white on black. I know my neighbor is going to get a kick out of this card because he walks his dog all the time in the neighborhood. 

I designed my card using this sketch:

Therefore; this is going over to the Freshly Made Sketch challenge #387

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day!

Carol