Father’s Day Inspiration Week- Day 5

Good morning! It’s Lindsey here, and I’m so happy to be able to share a card for Father’s Day Theme week.  I love theme weeks (don’t you?!) and it was no secret growing up that I was a daddy’s girl, so I’m especially fond of this week’s theme.  It’s also no secret that I’m a huge fan of Pretty Pink Posh cover plates, so I just had to use the Tool Background Die. 

This die looks great no matter how you use it, but it is especially fun when you do some paper piecing with different colors and textures.  I die cut the coverplate seven times using black, white, green, light grey, dark grey, silver foil, and balsa wood.  Then, the puzzle lover in me kicked in and I started placing in the pieces, making sure to balance the colors as I went. 

The Tool Background Die has the option to cut “you nailed it” out on the banner or you can easily remove the phrase and leave the banner blank.  I really appreciate the versatility of this as it allows me to put whatever sentiment I want on the banner.  For this card, I stamped the woodgrain “DAD” letters from the Dad stamp set and then cut them out with the coordinating dies.  I cut a second set of letters in green and layered them together to add a little shadow and a little more color to the card.  Finally I popped them up with foam tape. And voila!  Card done.

The irony in all of this is that my dad is anything but handy with tools.  But he does have a great sense of humor, so I’m still trying to decide if I’ll give him this card because I know it will make him laugh, or if I should let my kiddos give it to my husband who really enjoys working with tools and has been using them quite a lot lately for projects around the house. Either way, I’m pretty sure it will bring a smile. 

Thanks for much for joining me today.