Fishing Father's Day

I hope that all of you had a fabulous weekend like I did.  Saturday morning I ran my last mud run for a while (doctor recommended), but I was blessed to finish like I started - running with one of my children.  Sunday started as a very wet and rainy day with thunderstorms so I spent most of the day crafting and catching up on housework......when I wasn't painting in my new craft room.  Now I know what you're thinking, why would I paint when it's raining because it'll take longer to dry.  Well, my painting was really more of a sponging.  You see I'm changing the accent wall in the room into a faux brick wall.  After 2 1/2 hours layer one is complete.

 

So while I was working on that I was painting another floating book shelf for my room which I'll share later along with some other goodies.  Today though I have a Father's Day card to share with you.

 

This is a card that I made for my dad who loves to fish.  I made this one using the Fishing With Dad file from Marjorie Ann Designs.  I had some fun with this file last year too when I made a shaker card that you can find here.  If you have a fisherman in your life this is a must have file.

 

The stamped sentiment on my card is from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled You're the Man.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenge:

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Masculine - Ends May 27th

Dad - You're my Hero

I thought I'd try something a little bit different today.  Cricut Design Space has several of their cut and go style cards free for the making right now so I figured why not make one.  After all they're quick and easy and who doesn't like to have one or two of those in their stash?  And since Father's Day is this weekend I chose this "Dad" card from the Simple Holiday Cards collection.

 

After cutting out the card I cut a piece of light grey cardstock to use as my backing.  But then I decided I wanted to a little color to the card as well.  Then the idea to turn dad's tie into a shaker hit me.  Using pieces from the Shine Bright pack of sequins from Craftin Desert Divas I accomplished my goal.

 

I also decided to add a stamped sentiment on the outside of my card.  This one is from the Calling All Superheroes stamp set, also from Craftin Desert Divas.

 

And now I'm off to enter this card in to the following challenges:

 

Craftin Desert Divas - Father's Day - Ends June 21st

 

Die Cuttin Divas - Masculine Theme - Ends June 22nd

 

DL Art - For a Man or Boy - Ends June 24th

 

Perfect Day Fishing

 

It's been a crazy busy weekend for my family.  This weekend we took a trip to Billingsley Alabama so I could participate in the Almighty Mud Run yesterday.  Talk about a lot of fun.  Met more of my fellow GORMR (Georgia Obstacle Racing and Mud Runners) team mates, ran with several of the ladies and just had a blast.  Here in the next couple of weeks I'll put together the shadow box for my medal and probably scrap some pics, but for now......

 

I have another Fishing with Dad card to share with you.  Marjorie Ann Designs did a really good job designing this file and as you've probably noticed this is my third card using these adorably cute characters.

 

This time though I wanted to do something a little different.  Especially since I got these cute Splish Splash sequins from over at Craftin Desert Divas.  I thought these little dolphins would be perfect to use with this file in creating a shaker card.  I've never done one like this so it took me a bit to figure it all out.  And while there are some little oopsies I think the overall card turned out pretty good.

 

I also found the perfect sentiment from one of my Craftin Desert Diva stamp sets - Picture That.  To finish off the card (and hide one of my oopsies  :) ) I used a couple of skittles in the color Stream from DoubleClick Connections.

 

And now I'm going to enter this into a couple of challenges - something I haven't done in a while.  The challenges are:

 

Hiding in my Craft Room - Freestyle - Ends Junes 6th

Craftin Desert Divas - Summer - Ends June 7th

 

DoubleClick Connections - Father's Day or Man's Card - Ends June 9th

 

DL Art - Father's Day Thankful Thursday - Ends June 9th

Cardz TV Cards Blog Hop - Tomorrow

Happy Friday everyone.  As we get ready for tomorrow's Cardz TV Cards design team blog hop I thought I'd take a moment today to re-share with you one of my favorite card I've created this past term.

 

This is one that I made back in January for one of our anything goes challenges.  My husband had just surprised me with a Silhouette Cameo for Christmas and I found this card in the store and fell in love with it.  I'm still hanging on to this one too because I'll be giving it to my dad for Father's Day next month.  He's an avid fisher so this is just perfect for him.

 

The sentiment that I used on this card is from the  Cardz TV Stamps Summer Fun stamp set.

 

And if you like this card be sure you come back tomorrow to join us for our blog hop.  There will be lots of great projects from the design team as well as some blog candy along the way.

 

 

Chillin'

First off I owe everyone a huge apology as I forgot to post this card yesterday for the Cardz TV any occasion challenge.  I've been sick all week and yesterday was my first day back to work and man I'm just way off track.  But without further delay, I give you my card for this week's challenge.

 

For this card I used the Father's Day Fishing Vest card from the Silhouette store, ID # 61021.  And the little fish in the pocket is from the Cricut cartridge Wild Card 2. 

 

I had this great scrap of fishing paper in my stash and thought it was perfect to use as the shirt for the card.  Then I just chose shades of browns to compliment it for the vest.  Then I tied it all together (literally) using some twine.

 

The stamped sentiment on the pocket of my vest is from the Cardz TV Stamps set Summer Fun. 

 

There's more to the sentiment but I only wanted this one word so I masked the rest of the stamp.  Then I used another sentiment (Have a SUN-sational day!) from the set for the inside of my card.  I just love how Mary's stamps are so versatile for all sorts of occasions.

 

And now that you have seen my take on this week's challenge, be sure to create your own card, link up and play along with us for your chance to win.  Happy crafting and I can't wait to see what you create.

Dad's Day Card & Blog Candy

I'm not really sure why it is but I seem to find it easier to create cards for Father's Day than I do Mother's Day.  To make that statement even more ironic I find it difficult to make masculine cards in general.  Confused yet?  I know I am.

 

With Father's Day one week away I wanted to share another card with you and I also thought it would be fun to have a blog candy giveaway at the same time.  But more about that in a minute.

This was an easy to put together card.  I used the following cartridges:

 

Christmas Noel for the bear

Designer's Calendar for the tie and "Dad's Day"

 

The paper is from my scrap stash and I hate that I have no more of it because it's just soooo perfect!

 

Now about that giveaway.  I thought it would be fun to give away a set of Father's Day stamps from Fresh Squeezed Stamps. 

 

 

 

To win all you have to do is leave a comment telling me about your fondest dad memory.  Comment by next Friday, June 14th and I will choose a winner on Saturday, June 15th.  All I ask is that you live in the US for postal reasons - sorry.

 

My fondest memory is from when my dad was stationed over in Iceland (I was about 12 or 13) and we used to exchange cassette tape messages back and forth in the mail.  One of those times included a small hand-written note from my daddy telling me he loved and missed me.  Needless to say I still have that note and it is forever in one of my photo albums.

Happy Father's Day

Father's Day is just around the corner and the Cardz TV Stamps Design Team has created a variety of projects for this special occassion.

 

For my card there was no Cricut involved.  It was all paper pieced using this wonderful template I found at Holiday Crafts and Creations.

 

The sentiment on the shirt pocket is from the You're The Man stamp set. 

 

 

 

You can find this set and many more at Cardz TV Stamps.

 

And now that you've seen my creation for this week's challenge, be sure to check out the other wonderful designs our team created for you.  Then make your own project, link up and play along with us.  I can't wait to see what you make.

First Father's Day

It's time for another Cricut Cardz Challenge and with Father's Day just a couple days away prepare to be inspired by all the great cards our Design Team created this week.  But first I'd like to share my quick and easy card for a First Father's Day.

For my card I used:

Father's Day for the recliner
Baby Steps for the baby - of course you can interchange the baby from a boy to a girl (probably need to do that myself)

That's it, two simple cuts and you have a great card to give daddy on his special day.  Now that you've seen my card be sure to stop by and check out all the other great cards from our team.  Then after you've been amply inspired create your own, link up and play along with us.

Vested Dad

I have another Father's Day card that I'd like to share with you today.  This was an easy one to create - three cuts and you're done.  How easy is that?

I used the Billionaire cartridge yet again.  So far this has been a great cartridge for me when it comes to making masculine cards.

Taking it one step further I wanted to dress up the vest so I went through my button stash until I found three matching and coordinating buttons.  I also used some ribbon from my stash to make a mock hankerchief for the pocket.

Add a moustache on top just for the heck of it and viola.

Easy Peasy.

Dressed up Dad

Happy Wednesday everyone.  Today I have another Father's Day card to share with you, and once again this card was inspired by one in the pages of the May/June issue of Paper Crafts magazine.  Only this time the inspiration was in the form of a digital card.  I wish I could show you the original card, but you'll have to check out the magazine instead.....

For my card though I used:

Pooh Font Set for the font
Billionaire for the moustaches and tie
Everyday Paper Dolls for the hat (cut twice so I could have a different colored hat band)

Quick, easy and I do believe one of my favorite cards yet.

Father's Day Pocket Card

With Father's Day only 12 days away I figured I best get a move on and start making my cards.  So far I have two of the three I need done and this is the first one I'd like to share with you. 

My inspiration for this card was found in the pages of the May/June edition of Paper Crafts Magazine. (Check out their blog.)  The original version used dies from papertrey  ink and quickutz but I used my trusty 'ol Cricut:

Old West was used for the pocket.  I hid the little design on the pocket and I also cut a small rectangle to adhere to the top edge of the pocket as my 'flap'.

Graphically Speaking was used for the paper which I also embossed using the argyle cuttlebug folder.

Life's a Party was used for the glasses.  After cutting out the pieces I ran the face piece through my Xyron and adhered a frosted type acrylic to the die cut.

You're Da Man

Here's another quick and easy masculine card that I've put together using Block Party.  The best part is that this card can be used for several "manly" occasions:  birthday, thank you, Father's Day, etc.

So I've been looking at this cartridge since it came out but never could justify buying it at full price.  However, now that Walmart has clearanced everything it was easy to do.  We were concerned as we went through the clearance aisle though because there was so much craft stuff on clearance.  I mean everything scrapbook related was there as well as some of the new fabrics they just brought in.  So when we saw an employee we asked about it.  She assured us that all was well with the craft section and that they were just getting ready for a revamp because they are bringing back the bolts of fabric along with the cutting table.  Seems that they had received a lot of complaints since they did away with it all.

Dad's Tool Belt - Take Two

I decided to make another one of these wonderful tool belts only this time I wanted to make the tools using my Handyman cart so I figured out the sizes I needed and went to work. 

The tool belt was made using the cut file from Ruelysi that I mentioned in the original post.  The tools were cut again from Handyman at the following sizes:

Hammer at 5"
Wrench at 4 1/2"
Screwdriver at 3 3/4"
Tape measure at 2 1/2"

I used a gray metallic paper for the main layer and this enbled my tools to look more realistic.

The Best Dad Ever badge is from the Father's Day cartridge and was cut at 2".

Best Step-Dad Father's Day Card

This is a quick put together card I did for my children to give my husband for Father's Day.  All the cuts are from the new Father's Day cartridge cut at 1 and 1 1/2".

I wanted to create a card in a Venn diagram style but my brain wasn't doing so hot at formulating the layout using cuts from this cart.  So I opted for more of a Spider diagram style without all the little feet or whatever you want to call them.  lol

Father's Day Tool Belt

A year or two ago these tool belts were running around the Cricut MB thanks to the creative genius of Ruelysi.  Well I just rediscovered this great project and decided to create one for my own dad this year.  With that said this tool belt and tools were created using the cut file created by Ruelysi using George and Basic Shapes.  (If you download this file from her please make a donation as a lot of work went into creating this great file.)

I also added the Super Dad badge using the new Father's Day cartridge.  The screw brads I found at Michael's yesterday and are the perfect touch for this manly belt.

Father's Day

I just got in my new Father's Day cartridge a couple days ago and had some time to sit down and play with it a tiny bit this weekend.  Looking over the cuts I had to use the remote control first - after all we know that those silly things are near and dear to the hearts of our men.  LOL

So for this card I used:

Father's Day for the remote control and the Happy Father's Day badge

A Child's Year for the hand

Mickey and Friends for the TV

The hand has a pop dotted thumb as it was brought around to push a button.  The TV "springs" away from the inside of the card using a folded paper spring.

Now stayed tuned because Wednesday morning I'll be sharing a Mother's Day card for our Cricut Cardz Challenge this week.

Father's Day Fishing T-Shirt

I was so excited that cutting fabric with my Cricut actually worked!  I had tried it a while back with no success but then I found a post on the Cricut MB that gave wonderful directions.  So I gave it another try last night.

My dad, who is now retired, is an avid fisher of both fresh and salt water.  Needless to say with all the fishing he does I never need to go to a seafood restaurant.  Besides I know that my seafood is really fresh when he's bringing it in.  Kinda like the red snapper that is in my fridge for dinner tonight.  Yum!

For this project I used Ultra Heat 'n Bond (my mom tells me there's a better product on the market that she uses now - guess I'll have to give it a try) along with my fabrics and Cricut.  The sun and fish were cut using Create a Critter and the water and fisherman were cut using Going Places.

Father's Day Silhouette

This week's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a Father's Day card using cartridge of our chosing.  This week I chose to use A Child's Year.

Back in March I made a St. Patrick's Card using a new technique presented on Splitcoaststampers called the folded paper frame .   The first one I made wasn't the right size for my card but I didn't want to waste it so I left it sitting by my computer monitor.  Finally this week, after much staring, I had a new vision for its use and this card was created.....

The silhouette was cut at 2" to fit perfectly inside the frame.  The frame itself was adhered using 3-D zots to give it some depth and the edges inked and slightly curled.  An eyelet was strategically placed from which to hang the dad charm which was found on clearance at Hobby Lobby.

Hey Human

I saw a picture in a magazine that was of an alien standing on the moon (I think) saying 'hey human".  Since I don't have the new Monsters cartridge yet I decided to make my rendition using Robotz.  The beauty of this one is that it's so versatile.  Seriously, on the inside you could have a sentiment related to most anything - Father's Day, Birthday, Get Well so on and so forth.  For this one though I made it into a Father's Day card from my husband's step-dad.

The scalloped squares on my card were cut from Accent Essentials. The strip at the bottom was simply cut on the paper trimmer and the edges rounded off using my corner punch.

Father's Day Car

Today's Cricut Cardz Challenge was to create a card using the color red as the primary focus in conjunction with any cartridge/s we choose. 

I saw this as a perfect opportunity to also incorporate one of the assignments given to me during my last blog candy challenge as well.  The assignment in question was to create a masculine card using Graphically Speaking.

So merging both "challenges" into one card yielded this creation for Father's Day. 

For this card I cut the car at 3 1/2" and the trophy, from Graphically Speaking, was cut at 2" and designed as a pop-up on the inside of the card.