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Full Of Life Father’s Day Card

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Full Of Life Father's Day Card

Did you realize Father’s Day is sneaking up on us? Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 16th! It’s time to make a card for the dad in your life! This Full Of Life Father’s Day Card is very quick and easy to make! I didn’t have any good ideas for a card, but thought I would start by looking through my designer paper. I pulled out a couple of possibilities, but when I came to the Full of Life 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper I wondered if I could use something in there! Maybe for the more artistic type of dad. But actually, I think this paper could be used for any dad!

First I pulled out the pattern with the larger squares of colors. But then I came upon this paper with greens and blues. When I figured out I could write “Happy Father’s Day” in the color swatches and it would still fit on a card base, I decided to use this paper. The size of the paper is just slightly different than the exact size we would normally cut a piece of designer paper to be the card’s front layer, but I was trying to cut in between the swatches without cutting any of them off. It worked out great.

The card base is Shady Spruce. I used a Shady Spruce Stampin’ Write Marker to print the words “Happy Father’s Day” on the card. I used the brush end, which was the perfect size. I had thought I would use the bullet end but it wasn’t strong enough to show up on the swatches. I don’t have the newest alphabet but if you had something the right size, you could die cut the letters to spell the greeting and adhere them onto the swatches. But the marker worked perfectly and I didn’t mess up the printing!

Not one to leave well enough alone, even on a Father’s Day card, I couldn’t resist using a few of the gems in the Tinsel Gems 3-Pack. I used the Misty Moonlight and Lost Lagoon gems.

On the inside of the card, I added a Basic White layer decorated with two strips of scraps that matched the paper. Normally I would only add one strip to the bottom of the Basic White, but in this case, I added a top strip also. There is still room to stamp or write a personal message.

If you don’t have this paper, you could make your own by coloring some light color swatches with any of your markers or do a little watercoloring with your ink reinkers!

Have fun making a Father’s Day card for someone special!

New Horizons Father’s Day Card

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New Horizons Father's Day Card

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!

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A Birthday Card For the Golfer

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A Birthday Card For the Golfer

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!

A Birthday Card For the Golfer Inside Greeting

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Father’s Day Masculine Card With Rooted In Nature

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Father's Day Masculine Card With Rooted In Nature

Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 16th, so it is time to make a Father’s Day card for your father or husband or whoever you want to celebrate on this day. This card, Father’s Day Masculine Card With Rooted In Nature, I will probably give my husband, but as you can see, it could be for anyone anytime! You can say it’s a “masculine” card but really it could be for anybody. We just often feel challenged to make a card for men for some reason.

You can barely see in the photo, but the card base is Whisper White with a little extra margin before I added another layer of Whisper White stamped with the Buffalo Check stamp for a checked background. This was then layered on a piece of Crumb Cake with a narrow margin showing.

After I stamped the Buffalo Check design, I used a ruler and an Old Olive Stampin’ Write Marker to draw lines in between the checks for a little extra color and interest.

The greeting and the tree are from the Rooted in Nature Stamp Set. I don’t think I have a “Happy Father’s Day” stamp in my current stamp sets (and I didn’t want to dig in my retired stuff!) so this sentiment will be fine (and truthful!). It is stamped in Crumb Cake ink on a Whisper White strip, then layered on a piece of Garden Green Cardstock that was embossed with the Subtle Embossing Folder. I tied around a piece of Linen Thread (or a scrap of something I found that I think is Linen Thread!) and then popped up the tree on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

About the tree…..I inked up the tree not with ink pads but with a marker and Sponge Daubers! I chose several green ink pads, from light to dark, and used individual Sponge Daubers to tap on the tree leaves. It’s difficult to see where you have “daubed” on the ink and it looks like I mostly covered the lighter ink with the darker. But I like the tree anyway. Then I colored in the trunk with the Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker and tried to find a few branches inside the leaves to ink up. I think it turned out fine!

As I said, I have most likely made this card for my husband for Father’s Day on Sunday, unless I make another one I like better. He opens the card, looks at it, then puts it down (and I get a hug and kiss!). Then a few days later, I pick it up off his table and put it with my other sample cards I have made! But I think you can see that while this card will work for Father’s Day or a birthday card for a man in your world, this card could be for anyone anytime. I wanted to use a stamp set from the old catalog in case you don’t have your new stamp sets yet. Maybe you have this one!

And if you need another idea with this Rooted in Nature Stamp Set, here is another “masculine” card I made for a birthday, but again, just put on a Father’s Day greeting (or something similar) and you have a great Father’s Day card! And if you have Lovely As a Tree (retired), that’s another great stamp set for making a Father’s Day card!