Did you make a card for Father’s Day yet?  Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17th!  Although masculine cards seem to be a bit more difficult to make, I think there are actually lots of ideas to use with the products in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog now.  I had several different ideas I planned to try for a Father’s Day card, but once I looked in our inspiration book – the Stampin’ Up! Catalog – I found two ideas that I decided to combine!  Look on page 56 at the top.

I was thinking of using the Bubble Over Photopolymer Stamp Set for my husband’s card and making the bottle look like a beer bottle since he likes to try different kinds/flavors of beer.  When I looked in the catalog at the page with that stamp set,  I saw the sample on page 56 plus the actual Father’s Day card made by using stamps from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set.  This sample actually shows that you don’t need a “Father’s Day stamp set” to make a Father’s Day card!  I thought it was clever how they stamped a lot of words on the piece of cardstock from that stamp set.  You could choose the words that describe the man you are making the card for or you could even just stamp “Father’s Day” all up and down the paper.

To make my card, I chose Soft Suede for the card base and used a piece of the Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper for the layer.  The bottle is stamped with the new Mango Melody ink on Whisper White and die cut with the Bottles & Bubbles Framelits Dies. I stamped the bottle a second time in Crumb Cake Ink, just the middle, so I could cut out that center section and adhere it to the bottle. For a decoration for the bottle (rather than a label) I stamped in Cajun Craze ink and punched with the 3/4″ circle punch the star stamp.

The Crumb Cake cardstock is stamped with a whole bunch of stamps on the acrylic block! I just chose words from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set that would be appropriate for a Father’s Day card. I tied a piece of the 1/4″ Copper Trim ribbon around the stamped piece, tied on another piece in a knot, and frayed the ends a little.

For the greeting I stamped the banner with the Thoughtful Banners stamp set and punched out with the Duet Banner Punch. Since I was using the sample in the catalog as an example, I punched out the Crumb Cake cardstock with the Tailored Tag Punch and stamped the extra words on it above and below the banner.

The greeting and the bottle are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Don’t forget about these minis because they are very handy on small pieces.

Here’s another idea for a card, one that I made my husband last year using the ever-classic Lovely As a Tree Stamp Set.

If you start early on a Father’s Day card, you can come up with more than one idea and choose which one will be best! Sunday will be here before we know it!  Time to make a Father’s Day Card!