Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Father's Day cards

Since Father's Day is just around the corner, I thought I would show off a couple cards I created with a masculine/Dad theme to them.
I have a couple brand new stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms and while they have an astronomy theme to them, how could they fit any better for the guy in your life? I used a Stamp Block to create my background piece. The paper that I stamped it on is by BasicGrey and it is a mix of blues and greens. It was just subtle enough so that when I stamped on it, the design showed up really well.
Notice a couple Core'dinations techniques on this card. I used a piece of cardstock from The Chocolate Box collection. That means it is a shade of brown on the top side and this one is a yellow color on the bottom side. When I tore this piece of cardstock, the yellow core was exposed. The card base is a piece from the Vintage collection. It almost looks like it was sanded and then I did sand the edges of the entire card to show off the core.
I used a couple patterns from BasicGrey for this card.
I used a lettering template to cut out two of each of the letters for DAD and then I tore across the middle of one of each of the letters so that the core of this Black Magic cardstock was exposed. I also sanded the letters and sanded the entire outside edge of the brown colored card.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

YOU ARE MY UNIVERSE card
Materials:
Cardstock –Vintage and The Chocolate Box/Core’dinations
Rubber stamps – Astronomy Stamp Block and Reach 4 The Stars set/Cornish Heritage Farms
Patterned papers – Stella Ruby/BasicGrey
Black Versamark stamp pad
Heart brad
Machine Sewing
Sandpaper

DAD card
Materials:
Cardstock –Vintage and Black Magic/Core’dinations
Lettering template
Patterned paper – Crunchy and Wholesome/Granola Collection/BasicGrey
Brads – Creative Impressions
Sandpaper

8 comments:

  1. These are both adorable! Love the map work on the first one.

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  2. um...yeah...i think i'm going to need one of those!

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  3. Thanks for the ideas. I do struggle sometimes making masculine cards. I recently bought some leaf stamps, which work quite well for a man, but I really like the astronomy or map idea.

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  4. Wonderful cards Linda! I ♥adore♥ the first one, my anniversary is coming up and something like this would be perfect!

    (-: Heidi

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  5. Really cool cards Linda!! I love the DAD on the dad one! Sooo cool with all the sanding tearing techs...

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  6. This is gorgeous, and my dad would love it! He's not much into hunting and fishing, so this is perfect!!

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  7. Linda, those are just awesome father day cards

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