Fathers

A day late I know as it was Father's Day yesterday but I couldn't share my cards until now as I'd submitted them to the recent call from Paper Crafts magazine - these two were rejected so I'm free to share them now but I do have one that will be appearing in their special masculine issue in November so watch this space :-)

I made these cards for a friend to give to her kids for their daddy - one teeny-tiny girl (just 3 months old) got the pink hand print and the slightly bigger girl (8) got the hero card.

For this one I cut the hand print on my cameo, and used the negative to ensure the fingers were fixed in the right place, before stamping one of the fabulous sentiments from Waltzingmouse stamps "Man of the Hour" set - which I had to buy even though I don't have my Dad to make cards for anymore as I just loved all the fabulous sentiments.

For the second card I think I was influenced by my hubbies comics and superman in particular with the red and yellow.  I die cut yellow stars using a MFT die and placed them behind a red and black mounted panel onto which I stamped another one of the great sentiments.  I filled the "HERO" bit in with yellow liquid pearls.  A black dotted line around the edge brings it all together.

I'd like to enter the following challenges with these cards:

http://micassucas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-20-jongenskaart-mannenkaart.html

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/challenge-12-we-love-you-dad.html

Dad's mustache

The sketch at this week's Less is More was a gift this morning as it let me use my new Waltzingmouse stamps which I'd been playing with last night so were still on my desk http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/week-117-sketch.html

I used the same frame from last night from My Kind of Guy as it's the perfect shape for the main element in Jen's sketch - stamped on kraft with soft granite HA shadow ink and then cut with the matching cut file on my cameo.  Whilst I had the cameo on, I cut a big fat moustache from black card to replace the sentiment strip and then I stamped one of the smaller sentiments from the new Man of the Hour stamp set.  My Dad is sadly no longer with us, but I couldn't resist this set as the sentiments are just gorgeous - I'm sure I'll find some friends who need father's day cards!