Isn’t this adorable?
My husband doesn’t really like nature scenes (deer, wolves, etc.) for Father’s Day cards… he refers to them as ‘road-kill’ cards (niiiiiice… he’s so lucky he still gets one with that attitude!).
Since he dresses up for work (well, he doesn’t wear vests, but he does wear a tie), I think that this is more appropriate.
Accessories:
Close to Cocoa cardstock
To the Nines Designer Series Paper
Mini silver brads
Close to Cocoa ink, sponge daubers
Vanilla taffeta ribbon, ¾ inch square punch
1 1/16th inch hole punch, ¾ inch hole punch,
Dimentionals™
In advance to the requests, I have included the PDF template (left). Have fun with it! I really love the Designer Series Paper ‘To The Nines’ and the ‘Wanted’ set paisley stamp *just* coordinated!
*NEW* I have created a shortcut key in my sidebar to pull up all of the current and past Father’s day ideas that I have done, they only show four per page, so be sure to go back in the history (previous page) to see them all! CLICK HERE to see current & past Father’s Day Ideas… in the future use the button in my sidebar!
This combination of the "Wanted" set and the greeting from "Dad’s Day" makes an excellent Father’s Day card.
ere is my Vanilla pad??!!!(grrrr…). The green is Always Artichoke and while I used Basic Brown ink, I used Chocolate Chip cardstock. Of course my perennial favorite ‘Lovely as a Tree’ is the main set. Anyhow, I made do with white crafter’s ink which is more ‘snowy’ looking, so I added the tiny ‘crescents’ of white on the branches of the tree with the edge of the sponge dauber (okay, okay… so I dropped the dauber the first time and it looked like snow on a branch LOL!). So, while Thomas Kinkade (the artist "painter of light") won’t be getting nervous about competition, I was pleased with the result. I added light glitter after photographing (as glitter doesn’t photograph well–well, for me anyway). The side fold is one of my favorite ways to do a card and you can see that I used the Weathered background stamp and sponged more brown on the edges of the card to add to the ‘weathered’ wooden appearance. I haven’t decided on the greeting and while it is winter, it is such a peaceful card, it can be really used for any occasion and is definately appropriate as a masculine card… So, how did I do? **Remember my customer challenge for feedback on my blog–win free product!**
This is the Accordion card that I made my husband last year for Father’s Day. The papers used are called “
What I did for the one I made for my husband (top) is have each panel feature one child, three photos total each child… the two on the front of the panel are of them at approx. 2 years old and then 5 years old and then current age on the pull out bookmark. They each wrote a message to their dad on the back of the bookmark.
Okay, this definately lacks a WOW factor, but it is a quick use of the Designer Series papers “Au Chocolat” for my Grads & Dads themed Stamp a Stack of Stuff class this month.
