Happy Father's Day

Good Morning!.  Today I'm the Designer at the Card A Day Blog and the theme is Father's Day. 

I pulled out a couple my favorite old car stamps and stamped them then inked the edges.  I used a pieces of green card stock to make the banner and a backdrop for my cars. 

I stamped the World's Best Dad, cut around the circle and cut the banner part off.  I replaced that with a blue and white ribbon. I added a bit of blue embroidery yarn around the card base and then added the World's Best dad on top.

Thanks for stopping by.  Tomorrow Debie Barber is the Designer at the Card A Day Blog so stop by and see what she has to inspire you.

Recipe:
Card stock: DCWV - The Guy Stack (plaid paper); Recollections- rust and white; Sunburn Collection - green
Stamps: Unity Kit of the Month - February 2012 {lucky to have you}; Hero Arts - Clear Designs "June"
Ink: Inkadinkadoo - burgundy, navy blue; Stazon - Jet black; Close to My Heart - Barn Red
Misc.: Adhesive, button, ribbon, embroidery yarn.

Masculine Cards

I'm continuing today with the cards for guys and the same color combinations.  For the first card I used the Natures Silhouettes stamp set.  I stamped the tree and grass in Pear Pizzazz, the deer in Soft Suede. I used the circle dies to cut it out and the larger circle for the brown.  I have a piece of green ribbon behind the circles.

For the inside I used the pine cone and branch stamp from the Autumn Days set.  Then punched it out.

I used three of the circle dies to cut my circles out of.  I have two different colors of black for my cogs around the circle. 

I cut a couple of the cogs and used them as a border along the bottom of the mat on the inside.

Thanks for stopping by.
2 cards for OWH

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with any of the products mentioned.
Recipe:
Paper: DCWV Cardstock - Green; American Crafts Pattern Paper - metropolitan; unknown scraps of white, blue and brown
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Autumn Days, Natures Silhouettes, Extreme Dirt Bike
Ink: Stampin' Up - Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede and Basic Gray
Punch: Stampin' Up Cogs Extra Large Double Punch, 1 " circle punch, Designer Label punch
Die: Nestabilities - Standard Circles Large
Misc: Adhesive, pop up dots, ribbon

Super Bowl Sunday Blog Hop - Day 2

It's BLOG HOP TIME!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a blog hop this weekend! The theme is Masculine cards! Let's not let the guys have all the fun on Super Bowl Sunday....let's get a little of our own fun in!
To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize give aways...so make sure you pop in! Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, because at the end of the weekend, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog, and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog!
So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

Thanks for joining us for Day 2 of the Blog Hop! Wasn't there some fabulous cards on Day 1 of the Hop?  I'm sure glad I don't have to pick a favorite.

For Day 2 I'm keeping with the same color scheme except I'm changing out the gray and black for shades of brown and adding a blue. 

For the pheasant I first measured my stamp block, then cut the white paper that size which is 3" x 2", then stamped using Soft Suede. I stamped the leaves with the Pear Pizzazz and punched them out with a 3/4" punch. Out of my brown card stock I cut a 1" square to mount the leaf on and have them on pop up dots.  All of this is mounted onto blue cardstock then onto brown. 

For the inside I have layered green, brown then the pattern paper onto the mat.  I had originally stamped a couple of the leaves along the bottom of the mat but didn't like the way that turned out so I just covered them up with the layers. 


Once again here is my Blog Candy and I will choose a winner on Monday. 

Blog Candy Contents:
Studio G Brag Book Photo Album
Studio G Flowers
Studio G Epoxy Stickers
Studio G Chipboard Words
Spool of Ribbon
Studio G Glitter Glue


Thanks for stopping by, but don't forget to leave a comment for the blog candy and to stop by the other blogs who are participating.

 Recipe:
Paper: DCWV Cardstock - Green; American Crafts Pattern Paper - metropolitan; unknown scraps of white, blue and brown
Stamp: Stampin' Up - Autumn Days
Ink: Stampin' Up - Pear Pizzazz and Soft Suede
Punch: 3/4" Square
Misc: Adhesive, pop up dots

Super Bowl Blog Hop - Day 1

It's BLOG HOP TIME!
The designers at Card a Day Blog are joining together to do a blog hop this weekend! The theme is Masculine cards! Let's not let the guys have all the fun on Super Bowl Sunday....let's get a little of our own fun in!
To join in....visit all the participating designers by visiting their sites, some are having prize give aways...so make sure you pop in! Make sure you comment on all the blogs too, because at the end of the weekend, they are going to send a list of all who commented on their blog, and we are going to do a grand prize drawing of all comments on each blog!
So JOIN IN TODAY....comment on the main blog page, and visit the other hop pages and comment there too!

Today's card is a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" card base. I used some pattern paper from American Crafts Metropolitan paper pad for my background.

 

My card today uses the Stampin' Up Extreme Snowboard stamp as the main image. After stamping my image I used a circle die to cut it out.  The large cog behind my stamped image is from the Cricut Accent Essentials cartridge.

I use the Stampin' Up Extra Large Double punch to punch the cogs up and I have a couple of them mounted on pop up dots for some dimension.  For the inside I added a piece of the pattern paper and another cog.  To make my cogs solid in the center I punched a circle and mounted the cog on top of the circle.

Here is my blog candy and the winner will be chosen on Monday.  

Blog Candy Contents:
Studio G Brag Book Photo Album
Studio G Flowers
Studio G Epoxy Stickers
Studio G Chipboard Words
Spool of Ribbon
Studio G Glitter Glue


Thanks for stopping by, but don't forget to leave a comment for the blog candy and to stop by the other blogs who are participating.


Recipe:
Paper: DCWV Cardstock - Green; American Crafts Pattern Paper - metropolitan; unknown scraps of white and black
Stamp: Stampin' Up Extreme Snowboard
Ink: Stampin' Up Basic Gray
Punch: Stampin' UP - Cogs Extra Large Double Punch, 1 " circle punch
Die: Nestabilities - Standard Circles Large
Cricut: Accent Essentials

OWH Sketch #70

I used Sunday's Sketch Challenge from OWH for today's card. This was a hard one for me. I had already picked out my stamps before I decided to use a sketch to make a couple of cards.

Here is Sketch # 70 from Operation Write Home.

I wanted to use Nature's Silhouettes but the background stamp with the trees didn't look right with the circle. I then pulled out Autumn Days and the pheasant was to large and to small for the circle. To large length wise and to small height wise. I then used the pine cone and branch stamp from the set as a background for the deer.

Here is the inside of the card. I just added a strip of the DP to the top of the card.

Thanks for stopping by.
4 cards made for OWH

Recipe: DP - DCWV The Stack 6; Cardstock: DCWV white and green.
Ink: Stampin' Up - Old Olive and Soft Suede
Stamps: Stampin' Up - Natures Silhouettes and Autumn Days

OWH Sketch #69

I used the Sunday Sketch #69 from OWH for my cards today.

I used two different pattern papers for the backgrounds of the cards. The brown card stock I pulled out of my scrap pile . I didn't use a sentiment on these so they can be used for anything.

Thanks for stopping by.

8 cards made for OWH

Recipe:

Paper: Pattern Paper - DCWV The Stack 6; Cardstock- DCWV - blue, scrap of brown and white, Archivers - teal blue

Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede

Stamp: Stampin' Up - Motorcycle

Misc: Embrodiery floss, adhesive

Deer

Here is my March card for the Swap Group. This month was Masculine which is an easy card for me to do. I used the same card I made for my brother for his birthday. I'm out numbered with men in my life. I think I actually have more guy stamps than I do flowers or stamps for women.

I used a Close to my Heart Stamp set - just love it with the wildlife on it and the mountain stamp is one of my favorites. I used a ticket corner Punch to punch two of the three layers and added a couple of black rhinestones.

For the inside of the card I stamped my mountains along the bottom of the card and added a strip of the gold cardstock on the left hand side of the fold. I left the inside blank for the ladies so that they can stamp what ever sentiment they need it for.

Here is the inside of the card I stamped for my brother.

I also stamped the mountain on the front of my envelope to add interest.

Recipe:

Paper: DCWV cardstock - black and white; Stampin' Up - Brushed Gold

Stamps: Close to my Heart - Racoon and Friends

Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede

Misc: Bazillbasics Blackbird rhinestones, Clear embossing powder, heat gun, ticket corner punch, adhesive.