Showing posts with label Father's day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Father's day. Show all posts

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Card Patterns Sketch 169




Time for another challenge. Card Patterns Sketch 169  Knowing next Sunday is Father's day I decided to create a card using this pattern. Remembering a trophy svg I made and spying a medallion I thought of using silver paper to cut them, then add some red white and blue.


This card came together very quickly. I wasn't sure about adding the red circle behind the medallion so I took a picture with and without it. Now seeing them together I prefer the card without the red circle. What's your opinion?


I'm sure I've had the football button and the medal letters for many years. Time to let them go. The navy blue and white paper are both embossed using a star folder.

I'm offering the trophy svg file for free. Leave a comment and contact information and I'll email it to you.
                 



Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a dad.  ~Author Unknown
 

 That's all for now. Be well and thanks for visiting.Carole

                 

Monday, May 14, 2012

Some quick and simple cards

Greetings my friends. 
I hope you had a Happy Mother's Day. Today I posting 4 cards all pretty simple and easy to make once you choose your papers.

 I love this Graphic 45 Romantique paper so feminine, so easy to create a simply stunning card. I will use every little scrap of this paper. The SB oval die is embossed with a SU folder. It's not the same size but I made it work.
One of my most used tools is the MS score board - used here to create the vertical embossed lines.


Next up is a recreated card I first saw on Pinterest. Damask Love is the blog for this amazing talented Dr. and artist. Be sure to check her site for inspiring ideas. Like Dr. Amber I used 18 gauge wire to make the hanger but I attached mine to a brad. The hardest part was picking the papers for the ties. I must have cut 15 different ties, but this is the combination I liked best. I used a quilter's wheel to create the stitch like line then went back and marked each dot. I like details.




The third card is using the scraps from the Romantique paper. Again I was recreating a card I pinned. This one is from ikki'c cuttlebug cupboard.
That's another blog worth looking at, offering tips and techniques for the cuttlebug. Her card was posted in January 2011. Dramatically simple.


I love Pinterest, and once your card is pinned it could continue to show up for years. Here again I used MS score board to outline the squares and for the vertical embossed lines. The ivory card stock compliments the soft colors.

The fourth card is poster like image that I enhanced with gold metallic gel pen and Glossy Accents on the flowers and butterfly. I added the lace and ribbon for added dimension and interest then mounted that layer over a card I started and messed up the stamped image. So I had to recycle it, right?


Well that's it for today. I will visit the blogs that inspired these cards and let them know I linked there posts for acknowledgment. Thanks to all the creative bloggers that share their art.