Father's Day Cards

I made these cards for my dad and my father-in-law for Father's Day. I want them to arrive early and since they have to go out of state I figured that today was a good day to mail them. The truck card is made with the the CTMH Beary Busy My Acrylix stamp set and the Beary Best stamp set. I used Chocolate cardstock and the Creative Basics Cherry-O collection plaid paper. I also used Sorbet Exclusive Inks stamp pad and Chocolate Exclusive Inks for coloring. I used my sewing machine to stitch around the borders of everything. I used Sorbet ink and Colonial White Exclusive Inks stamp pad to ink the edges. I used some linen thread on the fold to tie a bow. I don't know where I got that. But I'm sure that you could also use some floss if you wanted to.

The Dad card also used the Creative Basics Cherry-O collection plaid paper. My card base was made using Sweet Leaf cardstock and Crystal Blue cardstock. I used the Beary Best My Acrylix stamp set for that super cute fisherbear on the lower corner. My dad LOVES to fish so this set was a must have! I stitched borders with a deep tan color. I got the arrows and brads from the Mini-Medleys Antiqued Copper Collection. I used the paper piercer to make my hole before putting the brad through. I stamped dad with the Chocolate Alphabet Large in Sweet Leaf ink and tied each letter with a strand of Chocolate Floss. And I used the Blender Pen to color the fisherbear.

I really enjoyed doing a couple of masculine cards for a change. Now I am off to create a surprise one for my husband for Father's Day! Have fun making a Father's Day card for the men in your life! Show them you care with a handmade card or gift. They will love it!

Army Strong

We are so very proud of our son, Travis, who is serving in the United States Army. He has finished basic training and is now in AIT, advanced training for the job he will have. I wanted to preserve these memories. I included the letters he has sent in a pocket behind the picture on the left page of the layout. The title was done with some Making Memories foam stamps in the Jersey font. There are some official U.S. Army stickers by K & Company. The dirt paper is by an unknown source, as well as the Bazzill paper, I don't know the color names...sorry, I was scrapping at a local store and used what I could find there. I did use Colonial White cardstock by Close To My Heart. The pewter brads are also CTMH. Oh, and the camo paper is also from an unknown source. I really love how this layout turned out and most importantly, I hope that my son loves it!

Seize the Day

A few weeks ago I really needed something to get my creative mojo going. I went to spend the day with my friend, Debbie and we did a bit of "tandem scrapping". What that is, is that we had the same pics and same paper, etc, so we both worked on the layout together. It had been a long time since we had done that but we had these pictures and just had to preserve our memories of our fun in March when we took the opportunity to seize the day! We used the Cherry-O Workshops On The Go, which included the Tulip Mini Medleys, Chocolate Waxy Flax and a guide to give you layout ideas. We didn't use the idea but just kind of went our own direction. The background is Cocoa. I used the Chocolate Large stamp set. I LOVE that set! It is so pretty and can go with so many layouts! To finish it off I printed my journaling on a clear transparency and adhered it with spray adhesive. I felt charged up and can say that I'm finally scrapping again!!

The Big 75!

Today is my dad's 75th birthday! And in honor of that I am posting a picture of the card that I made for him. I will try and see if I can add some detail pictures too, but for now here it is. I used the March Stamp of the Month set, called A Little Everything. And the Remember This stamp set also from Close to my Heart. The colors I used are Vineyard Berry, Indian Corn Blue and Garden Green. Oh, and also Colonial White for the top and also the color of the brads. I used some Liquid Glass to accent the month and day. I used the Martha Stewart scoring board for the Indian Corn Blue pattern. It was easy to do using the envelope piece on the board. Nice angle for the lattice effect. I used some metallic embroidery floss by DMC. Neat stuff to work with. Even with the hand stitching.