Hello friends! Elaine here today to share another Father’s Day project which is super simple but so effective!

The first step for this card is to select some neutral coloured card stock.  I chose a dark grey, light grey, black and khaki.  I used the Pretty Pink Posh Simple Strips Dies to cut lots of strips of the colored card stock. I adhered all the strips at an angle on to a piece of copy paper measuring 5.5” x 4.5”.  Once all the strips were adhered to the copy paper, I trimmed the edges with scissors and used a guillotine trimmer to cut the panel in half.  Using the Dad coordinating Die I die cut the word DAD and set aside for later.  Taking a top folding white A2 card base I secured the left over strip panel directly along the bottom with liquid adhesive.  

Next, I cut a piece of heavyweight white cardstock to 5.5” x 2.75” and added some interest along one edge using the zigzag die from the Stitched Borders I Dies.  For added dimension a panel of fun foam was secured to the back of the zigzag panel and the whole thing was adhered to the cardbase.  The DAD letters were then secured on top with liquid adhesive with the help of a T-Square ruler to ensure the letter were straight.

For a simple sentiment I used the Happy Father’s Day stamp from Dad stamp set and white heat embossed on to black cardstock.  To help the sentiment stand I mounted it on to a piece of white card leaving a small border. 

With some of the leftover colored strips I used the Square Scallop Tags Die to create a quick tag with another sentiment from the Dad stamp set.  For a little extra interest I couldn’t resist adding a few White Clay Stars which were taken from the Sugar & Spice Clay Confetti mix.

I hope you enjoyed this card and tag project, thank you so much for spending your time with me!

Hugs, Elaine

Hello crafty friends, it’s Yoonsun here to share a fun Father’s Day card with the Tool Background Die along with other goodies. The Tool Background Die is a perfect for the Father’s Day card!

I started by die cutting the Tool Background from kraft woodgrain & coloured cardstock. I then inlaid all the elements in place as shown in the picture using fine tip glue pen – I chose dark grey & blue colours for dad. For these cute critters, I stamped and Copic coloured them in the Jungle Friends set.

For the sentiments, I used the word “Dad” from the Dad/ Father Scripts dies and the “You nailed it” from the Tool Background Dies. I decorated under the sentiment banner with leaves in the Stitched Leafy Borders Dies. With the Tool Background, we can easily make a cool & fun Father’s Day card!

Hugs,
Yoonsun

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. 

Hello Friends! Elaine here today to share a Father’s Day project featuring products from the May release.

To start my card, I stamped the small stamps in the Dad stamp set directly on to marker friendly cardstock.  The panel measured 4”x5.25”.  I used a small acrylic block to stamp the spanner, hammer, and screwdriver repeatedly all over the panel, making sure some images hang over the edge.

I coloured the images with copic markers in the following colours:

• Hammer: E49, E47, E44 (handle), C5, C7, C3 (hammer head)
• Screwdriver: C10, C7, C5 (handle), C5, C3 (screwdriver head)
• Spanner: W6, W4, W3

To fill in some of the blank space on the card I used some confetti stamps from Let’s Party and stamped them randomly in the gaps in black and grey colored dye inks.  

On the same copic friendly cardstock, I stamped the large DAD image and coloured with E29, E27, E25.  Using the Dad coordinating die, I cut the letters out. I secured the large DAD letters to a piece of vellum along with a sentiment which was white heat embossed on black cardstock and trimmed into a strip.  

I placed some foam tape behind the sentiment and DAD letters and secured it to the middle of the patterned tool card panel.

The whole piece was then adhered to a dark grey A2 card base.  With some of the left over images and card stock I created a quick tag using the smallest tag in the Scallop Square Tag die set.

I hope you like this card, I always struggle to make masculine style cards, but this stamp set makes it so easy because of those perfectly themed images.

Happy crafting! Hugs, Elaine