Today is the big day for Dads! Have you made your card for your father, husband, uncle, grandfather, step-father, and/or son? Whoever you want to celebrate today? Here are some past ideas you can try (not to mention the stock photo at the top here that you could turn into a creative card!). Just click on the title below the card to go to the blog post for details.
Tomorrow is Father’s Day and if you are still looking for a card idea, I have one more for you! This Colorful Card For Father’s Day is made with the Friends For Life Dies. I watched a video probably on Instagram of someone just watercoloring stripes of different colors across the card front and then just writing the greeting on the card front on the colored stripes or in between the stripes. Such an easy idea and so creative! I remembered that we have this one die in the Friends For Life Dies that kind of looks like a painted stripe!
To make this card after I had the idea, I chose some colors of cardstock in the Neutrals Family. It would have been fine, but I wanted something a little more colorful yet still be a masculine card. I decided on Mossy Meadow, Misty Moonlight, Pecan Pie and then for a pop of color, Crazy Cajun and Crushed Curry. I die cut a strip in each of those colors.
A regular size card seemed too large, so I decided on a 4 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ square card. The Pecan Pie card base is 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ folded in half. The card layer is the new color Basic Beige. Then I just adhered each colored stripe on the Basic Beige. Because that heart outline die existed in the set, I decided a heart on a Father’s Day card would be fine. I cut it out of Cherry Cobbler because I didn’t want a bright Real Red. I remembered to use an Adhesive Sheet on the back of the cardstock before I cut out the heart so I wouldn’t have to try to add glue to the back of this very thin heart.
For a greeting, I liked the “Love You” in the Friends For Life Stamp Set. It was risky, but I stamped it on the Crushed Curry stripe in Memento Ink even though I had already glued down that piece. Luckily, I didn’t mess it up! I adhered the heart and couldn’t resist added a few little diecut hearts that also had the Adhesive Sheet on the back of them so they were like stickers also.
To keep it easy, I just used a Moonlight Mist Stampin’ Write Marker, the brush tip, to write “Dad” in the space at the bottom. If you had a small alphabet set or small alphabet dies, you could easily do something with those on your card, especially if you made a regular size card with more space.
Lots of possible ways to make a card similar to this just by changing the colors, running the stripes vertically, writing a different greeting, adding more embellishments. Of course you can put on any kind of greeting to make a card for another occasion.
Remember, the Bundle Sale is going on this month at Stampin’ Up! so if you would like the Friends For Life Stamp Set and the Friends For Life Dies, this month is a good time to buy the Friends For Life Bundle and save an extra 10%! Check out all the other Bundles HERE, too!
This Trusty Toolbox Designer Series Paper is going to be a fun one to use and great for masculine cards, like Father’s Day! This Trusty Toolbox Thank You Card was a good one to make. We all probably have times when we need a handyman, maybe just a friend or relative who can help us out at the last minute, or when we don’t know how to fix something. You can make an easy thank you card to give or send that person for helping you out!
When I see a workbench and tools, even represented on paper and a card, it makes me think about my dad, my grandpa, and my brother. I remember the workbench my grandpa had built for himself in his basement. I loved getting the thing of chalked string and taking it outside on the sidewalk to make a hopscotch. He helped my dad build a workbench in our basement and I remember how the glass jars of screws, bolts, and all the things all hung somehow from the lid. My grandpa also built a small workbench for my brother in our basement, complete with tools of all kinds, maybe some child-size. I liked to play with him at his workbench. Sometimes we would try to make something. I think he had a toy saw that would cut through styrofoam. It was all fun. I can still see that workbench near my dad’s and my brother used it for years. It paid off well because my brother can fix and make anything after learning from our dad.
To make this card, I made a card base of Gray Granite with a layer of Poppy Parade. On the left side of the card, I used the paper that looks like a pegboard and cut it at 3 1/4″ x 3 3/4″. On the right side is a piece of Basic White measuring 1 5/8″ x 3 3/4″. On this paper, I stamped a greeting from the Circle Sayings Stamp Set in Gray Granite ink. I think this would be perfect for someone you wanted to thank who fixed something for you! For the tools hung up on the pegboard, I cut them out by hand from the designer paper with ALL the tools on it! It was fun deciding which tools to use and what would look good on this card.
If you need to make some masculine cards or have a handyman in your life, you might want to choose this Trusty Toolbox Designer Series Paper as your free gift with a $50 purchase. There are lots of great choices and no limit to how many products you can earn with every $50 purchase.
If you are looking for a whimsical card for Father’s Day, this Zoo Crew Father’s Day Card might do! If you don’t have “official” masculine stamp sets, look through your stash because you will find something you can use! Maybe just change the colors to make a card look more masculine if that’s what you want.
I thought it would be fun to try to make a Father’s Day card using the Zoo Crew Designer Series Paper with all its cute, whimsical characters. Depending on who you are giving the card to, the page with the celebratory animals, like for a birthday, might work the best. But if you have a hiker, camper, or outdoorsman, the page with those images would be perfect.
This elephant holding a colorful banner seemed like it would work for a Father’s Day card. I diecut the elephant with a die in the Something Fancy Dies. Then I layered it on two Deckled Rectangle die cuts, one in Pumpkin Pie cardstock and one in Pool Party cardstock.
Once I decided on this scalloped wavy line pattern for the card background, I decided to color each line with a color in the elephant’s banner. I used Stampin’ Blends in Lemon Lolly, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Lemon Lime Twist, and Pumpkin Pie. I really like the look of the colored lines. The elephant is colored with the Gray Granite Stampin’ Blends.
After layering the elephant and the two rectangle layers together, I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. For the greeting, I used one in the Zany Zoo Stamp Set and then die cut with the hexagon shape die in the Something Fancy Dies. I stamped it a little off-center by accident, but since “there are no mistakes in stamping” I just added a few black Classic Matte Dots.
If you need a Father’s Day card for Sunday, you don’t need everything to be masculine and specific for Father’s Day. See what you have and just choose something you can use. It’s the thought that counts!
Nothing like making a card at the last minute, but if you are too, I offer you this idea for a New Horizons Father’s Day Card! Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19 so better get busy if you haven’t made a Father’s Day card yet! This one will be for my husband. It also was a good opportunity to use this New Horizons Bundle before it retires on June 30 and the New Horizons Designer Series Paper (retired).
The card base is Garden Green cardstock. I used one of the prettiest pieces of the New Horizons Designer Paper as the layer, if you still have some from the Spring Mini Catalog. I die cut two pieces of fence from the Horizon Dies. I absolutely love these little fences! I cut them from Crumb Cake cardstock and then I shaded them a bit with the Light and Dark Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blends markers. It just gave them a little aging and I just did it very sloppily, not trying to achieve perfection at all. I just kind of scribbled along the edges of the fence posts. Try it!
The “sign” for the greeting is actually a die cut piece of the wood sheets we had not long ago. I shaded it a tiny bit with the same Blends around the edges and made a few lines across to look like wood grain using the fine tip of the marker.
The greeting is stamped two different ways! I stamped the word “Relax” and then cut around it with Paper Snips. The second part is stamped by inking up only that second line of words with the Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker. Then I die cut with a narrow die in the Sending Dies. On the back of the wood sheet piece I just kind of twirled around some Linen Thread and then popped it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Be sure to keep your eye on the Last Chance Products these last couple of weeks. Some are on sale and some are not so do the math before you buy a Bundle which might be more expensive than buying the pieces separately if they are discounted. This New Horizons Bundle is not discounted individually so you are better off buying the Bundle which is 10% less than the individual prices. Also remember to check out the Clearance Rack and see if you need any of those bargains!
If you haven’t made a Father’s Day card for your dad, your husband, your grandfather…it’s time to do it today! Maybe this New Horizons Father’s Day Card will get you inspired!
Here’s something for baseball fans everywhere, the Hey Sports Fan Suite, in the Stampin’ Up! January – June 2022 Spring Mini Catalog. Baseball season is beginning, whether for professional teams or Little League and everything in between! I wish this Suite had been around many years ago when my boys were little and every Saturday (and more) was a baseball game! Maybe you just know someone who is a big baseball fan. How they would enjoy receiving a baseball card or project made just for them with the contents of this Suite!
Part of the Hey Sports Fan Suite is a Bundle – the Your Biggest Fan Stamp Set and the coordinating dies, Sports Events Dies. You save 10% by buying the Your Biggest Fan Bundle rather than the stamp set and dies separately. You receive the same discount purchasing the Suite, as far as the Bundle goes, entering the product number for the Hey Sports Fan Suite (157896) just saves you the time of entering each product in the whole Suite separately (assuming you want everything!).
The Suite comes with the Bundle, the Fan Baker’s Twine, Resin Stars, and the Hey Sports Fan 12″ x 12″ Designer Series Paper. The designer paper will be good for cardmaking but also scrapbooking. Perhaps if your kids played ball a few years back but you never got to those scrapbook pages, get the paper now and you’ll be inspired to make some of those scrapbook pages. Or use the paper as a background to frame some baseball photos or act as a mat. The Resin Stars can be used for other projects, not related to baseball, as can be the twine, so you might want to pick those up even if you are not into baseball. You might even find uses for the stamps and dies not related to baseball. Just the shapes can be used for many other sports or activities. Just think outside the box.
With spring and summer comes baseball. The sound of a baseball game on the radio or TV always takes me back to my childhood, maybe a lazy Sunday afternoon listening to or watching the baseball game. Growing up in St. Louis my family was Cardinal fans. I remember going to my first baseball game with my Girl Scout troop and in junior high, we could earn free baseball tickets if we got good grades! I can see my grandpa listening to the game on his big transistor radio. One time, as his eyesight was failing, he asked a family friend, who was a really big baseball fan, if he would take him to a Cardinal game along with that man’s kids and my brother and me. My grandpa paid for good seats for all of us so he could see better. When my husband and I and our baby got transferred to Houston, one of the first fun things we wanted to do was go to an Astros game at the Astrodome! I remember even dressing up a little bit, to sit in the bleachers, because “it was the Astrodome!” I remember being on a tour of the Astrodome when it was new when my family made a trip to Houston to visit friends who had moved here. It was impressive! And when the Astros played in the World Series several years ago, I got to go to a game with a friend, the only time in my life I’ve had “connections”! It was the thrill of a lifetime to walk into that stadium knowing I was at the World Series!
Be sure to check out the Hey Sports Fan Suite or the individual products in the Spring Mini on pages 68-69.
The plaid paper on this Masculine Plaid Tidings Birthday Card is coming soon in the August-December 2020 Mini Catalog on August 4th. Now when I first saw it in the holiday catalog, I wasn’t too thrilled and might have passed it up. I did notice it could be used for Christmas, fall, or Halloween and probably other things but I wasn’t that excited about it. But I did order it and when I opened the package, I just loved the paper!!
The Plaid Tidings 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper package has all kinds of plaids in it. There is a long list of coordinating colors! Although we might think of it as holiday paper, whether for Christmas or the oranges for Halloween, Fall, or Thanksgiving, I decided to use a sheet for a birthday card. While it could be for anyone, the plaid gives it a masculine look in this case and we’re always looking for things that work well for masculine cards for the men in our lives. The red on this paper is Cherry Cobbler and the green might be Shaded Spruce or Mossy Meadow. I wasn’t sure!
The card base is Cherry Cobbler and the red and green plaid paper is adhered to that. The greeting is from the Many Mates Stamp Set. It is stamped in black Memento Ink. It’s an outline stamp and you can leave it as is or in this case I colored in the letters. I used my Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow Stampin’ Blends markers.
I stamped the greeting on Whisper White and die cut it with the Stitched Nested Labels Dies. Then I made layers with the same dies out of Cherry Cobbler and Mossy Meadow.
Due to not having the right colors of ribbon, I decided to just use some 1/4″ strips of cardstock scraps for tails hanging from the bottom of the greeting panel. I even cut the little bitty flagged ends with my Paper Snips. You could use more or less strips. I started thinking three would be good and ended up with five! After adhering the strips on the back of the layers with our new Stampin’ Seal Adhesive, I popped the whole thing up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. Even then I wanted another little something, so I used two gold Metallic Pearls.
This is actually a pretty easy card to make! If you didn’t have the particular dies, you could use rectangles or ovals or circles or even just cut rectangle layers. Just stamp a greeting and choose your favorite plaid paper for the occasion!
You’ll find the Plaid Tidings Designer Paper in the Holiday Catalog, now known as the August-December 2020 Mini Catalog on page 57. I think you will be surprised how much you like this paper and how often you can use it for your projects, like this Masculine Plaid Tidings Birthday Card.
Yes, today is Father’s Day so if you are in need of a last-minute card, here are some ideas for “masculine cards”. These aren’t cards with brand new products so you might have them in your stash! Just change the greeting, but maybe these card ideas will spark ideas for you to make a quick card at the last minute!
I chose a stamp set that you may already have in case you are wanting to make a good Father’s Day card for Sunday or a masculine card for any other occasion. Not that it has to be for a man. This is the Rooted In Nature Stamp Set, I suppose the substitute for Lovely As a Tree, not that there will ever be a substitute for Lovely As a Tree!
This card just uses a card base of Soft Suede Cardstock with a layer of Old Olive. After playing around with the card design a little, I stamped a few leaves from Rooted In Nature randomly on the Old Olive. I actually used Mint Macaron Ink stamped off to get a light color. Usually, I would use the same color of ink but today I tried something different.
The tree is inked up with Stampin’ Write Markers! I just chose several colors of green markers plus Delightful Daffodil yellow. I usually like to put a little yellow in with the green when making leaves or trees. I just kind of scribbled on all of the colors starting with the yellow and then light to darker green colors. I added some Early Espresso marker for the branches. Be sure to “huff” (breathe) on the stamp when you color with markers to moisten the ink before stamping. I think my tree turned out pretty well! It’s always a bit of a surprise because you can’t entirely tell what you are going to get as you are putting down the marker colors!
The greeting is stamped from the Rooted In Nature Stamp Set in Soft Suede Ink on Whisper White Cardstock and layered on Soft Suede Cardstock. If you wanted to make the card even easier, you could just stamp the tree on Whisper White and cut it into a rectangle one way or another and layer it on another piece. No die-cutting involved!
This is a good card to make and have on hand in your stash. Leave off the greeting and add one when you are ready to send the card. Maybe you have a Happy Father’s Day greeting for Sunday! But this greeting would work great for a Father’s Day card as well! And you could even use some of the other greetings in the stamp set.
Be sure you get a Father’s Day card made today to give to Dad tomorrow!
Father’s Day is coming up on Sunday, June 21, 2020, and this In Good Taste Masculine Father’s Day Card might be one you would want to make. Or just keep it in mind for any masculine card occasion. I actually used a sample in the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog on page 124 to copy. You can use the samples in the catalog for ideas and inspiration whether you copy exactly or change it up to something slightly different or a lot different!
We often think we don’t have enough ideas or the right stamps or supplies for masculine cards. I think if you take a good look at the In Good Taste Designer Series Paper you will find many of the patterns that would be perfect for a masculine card, not to mention any other cards! For this card, I looked through the pack of papers several times before settling on this particular paper. It’s a brown and gray (I think!) tweed, maybe like you would find on a carpet or rug or of course a piece of fabric. Every sheet of this In Good Taste DSP looks real! You will probably at least once touch the piece of paper to make sure it’s not really 3D! The paper is designed from great photographic images!
Once I had my designer paper pattern chosen, I chose Basic Gray Cardstock for the card base with a layer of Crumb Cake with just a thin margin before adhering the designer paper.
To decorate the card, I used the Tasteful Touches Stamp Set. I stamped the little squares on the one stamp on the card front in just a couple places with White Craft Ink, but it didn’t turn out very well! Then I stamped the greeting on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock and die cut with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. I thought it looked a little plain so I stamped those same squares on it with Crumb Cake Ink (I think stamped off first.). And in copying the catalog sample (except I turned the card sideways) I added a piece of Crumb Cake, just a scrap, partially behind the greeting.
Since I liked the stamp with the sprig of leaves, I stamped that on several different browns. I actually thought there was a die to cut them out, but I had to cut them out by hand! I wasn’t even sure what I would do with them, but ended up, as you can see, sticking them to the sides of the greeting.
The right side of the card looked a little bare so I tied some retired twine around the card. I thought it was Linen Thread at first but it is thicker so it is some un-named twine! And since I can’t resist, I added a few of the In Color Enamel Dots in the Bumblebee color.
And that’s it! A card you can use for Father’s Day for one of the men in your life. It has lots of different textures to make it interesting. You could keep the card the same and change the greeting. Use a “Happy Father’s Day” stamp or something for a birthday or graduation for a boy. Lots of masculine card ideas just because of the paper. And of course the paper can be used on cards and projects for anyone!
If you don’t own this In Good Taste DSP yet but want to make something like this card, use an embossing folder to give the front of the card some texture or do some random stamping on the card. Then just continue on and make something with the look and feel of this In Good Taste Masculine Father’s Day Card!
Today is Valentine’s Day and you might be needing a card for, of all people, your husband! I’ve made other valentines, but now at the last minute, it’s time for a valentine for a husband! This one could certainly be for other people as well, but this one is going to my husband!
I’ve seen some valentines using black and white or red and black checks and really like the look, so that’s where I started with this card. I love the Buffalo Check Stamp so I used that with Memento Black Ink on Real Red Cardstock. I also used my Stamparatus because this is actually a large background stamp and sometimes difficult to get it to stamp thoroughly. I was glad I did because I didn’t get full coverage the first time! The Stamparatus saves you in cases when this happens so you can just stamp again in the exact stamp spot!
I added a very narrow margin of Whisper White under the Buffalo Check layer just to help it stand out a little from the Real Red card base since I knew I’d be using Whisper White on the front of the card.
After playing around with some different hearts, labels and designs, I settled on these die-cut hearts from the Stitched Be Mine Dies. The greeting is from the Heartfelt Stamp Set in the Occasions Catalog.
And when I went to stamp something on the inside of the card, this idea “popped” into my head! I don’t know why! It could probably be fancier or better or whatever, but my husband is only going to look at it once and put the card down on his table so it really doesn’t have to be fantastic!
I already had a stamped and punched “Happy Valentine’s Day” heart from the Heartfelt Stamp Set, so I just glued that on top of the accordion-folded strip of Whisper White.
I didn’t measure or do anything, just pulled out a strip of Whisper White scrap I saw laying on the table! Hopefully after being trapped in an envelope all day, it will pop up when my husband opens his card!
Now get off your computer and go make a Valentine for your husband…or boyfriend…or whomever! Here’s another Valentine made with the Be Mine Dies I used on this card if you’d like some more ideas!
Here is a great birthday card for a golfer, quick and easy to make and you can easily vary the card design. While we are often looking for a masculine card, this one is for any golfer, women golfers, children golfers, anyone who enjoys the game! The golf balls and tees on the green just make for a perfect golfing card with other possibilities for the greeting.
The paper is new in the Occasions Mini Catalog. It’s the Country Club Designer Series Paper. Now not every golfer, probably most, are not Country Club members but this paper is for everyone! Besides golfing images, there are nice plaids you can use on golfing cards or other kinds of cards. So it is a good paper collection to have on hand.
My card has a Garden Green base with a layer of Crushed Curry, both coordinating colors with the designer paper. I just wrapped a piece of the Crushed Curry 3/8″ Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon around the designer paper before adhering to the card. Then I just added a knot to the left side of the greeting.
The greeting is stamped on a strip of Whisper White and layered on the Tailored Tag Punch. The greeting is popped up on Dimensionals but the tag is adhered flat on the card. Then I added a couple of embellishments to the tag. A quick and easy card for the golfer!
Here is the inside. It is fun to add a strip of designer paper to the inside. I wish I would have used the other side, the plaid design. That would have been cute but I was too fast with the glue!
This Nature’s Beauty Monochromatic Deer Card shows an easy way to make a card using this beautiful stamp set. Enjoy using this Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set while knowing that a portion of every stamp set sold goes to mental health organizations. Enjoy your hobby while helping other people!
You can make cards for many occasions with this Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set. That bunny is perfect for baby cards or Easter. Everyone loves deer so you have that covered for many cards. Even just the little trees will be fun to use.
To make this card, I used Crumb Cake for everything. The card base is Crumb Cake Cardstock with some stamping of Crumb Cake Ink. You could also use Versamark Ink for that same color or watermark look. The deer and trees are stamped on Whisper White Cardstock with Crumb Cake Ink. The greeting is stamped in Crumb Cake Ink with a little sponging around the edges.
The greeting is stamped and then die cut with one of the Ornate Frames Dies. The greeting itself is from the Gather Together Stamp Set. Just for a tiny bit of bling, I added two gold dots (that I think are retired!).
To stamp the deer with the trees behind him, stamp the deer on the Whisper White Cardstock, then stamp him preferably on a piece of sticky note and cut out. The “sticky” will help hold the “mask” on the cardstock in place. Place the mask over the deer then stamp the trees, even overlapping onto the sticky note because that is protecting the deer. Remove the mask and see how the masking technique worked! Save the mask in your stamp set so you can reuse it, no matter how messy it looks!
If you are looking for masculine cards or for someone who likes nature, this stamp set is perfect, not to mention making any kinds of cards you like with it. I think it is a nice change from all the florals and more “common” type of stamp sets. My son became fascinated with foxes after going to some national parks or other similar places were he saw foxes. One place was even some kind of preserve for foxes and people gather at a distance to take photos. So sometime I will make him a fox card!
If you don’t have time for coloring and all that, for any card that you are making, remember the monochromatic way of stamping…..just one color, no coloring!
Shop for the Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set on the back inside cover of the Holiday Catalog and in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store!
Sometimes you feel a little bit pleased with yourself when you make a card that turns out better than you expected and this card is one of those! I wasn’t really exactly sure what I was going to do with this stamp and probably expected to make a less colorful card. When I saw this paper I decided it would be a card for fall with the autumn colors.
This stamp is from the Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set, found on the inside of the last page of the Holiday Catalog. You might not have even noticed it way back there, but there is something important about this stamp set! Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 of every sale to mental health organizations. So while you can have fun stamping and using this set, you will know you are making a difference in the lives of others.
I stamped the deer in Memento Black Ink because I knew I would color him in with my Stampin’ Blends markers. That led to coloring in the sky a little bit with about three different colors. When you do this, when you start out it looks like you are making a scribbly mess! But just keep going and as the colors blend together it will likely turn out fine. I started with just kind of scribbling in with Balmy Blue Light, then some Pumpkin Pie Light, and some Gray Granite Light. As I said, it looks like the sky is going to not turn out, but then it does. I really like the way it looks now! You can experiment with whatever colors you have or you like.
The deer is colored with the Crumb Cake markers and maybe I added a bit of Soft Suede. After I stamped the deer on the Whisper White piece of cardstock, I stamped again on a piece of scrap paper, then cut it out just inside the stamped lines. This gave me a “mask” to place directly over the deer to I could stamp the trees on each side of him without stamping over the deer. To stamp the trees, I used my Stampin’ Write Markers, two colors of green on the leaves and then a dark brown for the trunk and a few branches. I colored directly on the stamp so I could have the greens on the leaves and the brown on the tree trunk. The grass I colored the same way as the sky with just a couple of green shades.
The designer paper is from the Come To Gather Designer Series Paper. When I saw this orangish paper with the colored and outlined leaves I knew it would be perfect with the deer. The greeting is stamped in Early Espresso Ink on Whisper White that is sponged a little bit around the edges with Crumb Cake Ink and layered on a piece of Crumb Cake Cardstock. Both the die-cut shapes are from the Ornate Frames Dies. The greeting is in the Gather Together Stamp Set.
The card base is Crumb Cake with layers of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock. Even though Pumpkin Pie is not one of the coordinating colors with this designer paper, I thought it looked good on the card and brought out some of the lighter orange colors.
You could send this card to someone any time from now on through Thanksgiving. It would make a great masculine birthday card or just a card with a note inside, also.
Consider putting this stamp set, Nature’s Beauty, on your order and know that you and your stamping may be a part of helping someone.
