Thanks Dad, another birdie card

 Another birdie card today!  Still working on Father's Day and hoping to finish all 100 cards for tomorrow!
I had seen this new sketch challenge over at 
Dawn's Stamp Away with Me (WPlus9) and really wanted to give it a go!  The sketch is from the uber talented Joni Andaya.
I love my WPlus9 Folk Art Floral dies and reach for them quite often, so this sketch provided another opportunity :)  I want to send this over to 
Addicted to CAS as my second cup.
The patterned paper is from SU and the platinum embossed sentiments are Avery Elle.

Thanks for stopping in and taking a peek!

Chriss

Thanks Dad

Hi there,
Continuing with my Father's Day cards here and thought I would share this one with Addicted to CAS as the current challenge is calling for birds!  I used a Technique Tuesday brach stamped in SU brown sugar and two of the birds from PTI Feather Finery stamped in Canyon clay and Lost Lagoon (second generations)
The speech bubble die is MFT Die namics "Say What" and the sentiment is from Taylored Expressions from the set "My Favorite Dad".  I added some blue Atyou Spica dots to Dad's chest and then hi-lighted the breast and wing areas with clear WOS.  CAS EZPZ!
Thanks for stopping in and have a great day!
Chriss

Father's Day dragonfly

 Happy middle of the week!  I created a card with inspiration from Michele, this week's Muse. See her beautiful card to the left for Muse #117.
As I am making lots of Father's Day cards for the CoOp, I took inspiration from Michele's sketch, but used it sideways.  I made my own template for the rectangular windows as I do not have a fancy multiple window die and I think it worked out pretty ok.  I used the dragonfly stamp from PTI Masculine Motifs and stamped in colours to match my vintage Basic Grey strip of stripes.  I only had one 6 X 6 sheet of this but I was able to make eight cards.  I also applied clear WOS to the wings, but it does not show on screen.  The sentiment is from the same set and fit just right in between the windows :)
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!
Chriss

Father's Day chef

Good morning!  It's been a little quiet on the blog front here, but I finally got a little time to make a couple of masculine cards.  I used a Flourishes stamp from the Mix n Match set (perfect for the chef Dad) and some papers from the Pyrus collection by Basic Grey.  I stamped the chef tools onto Papertrey Ink's vintage cream cs and coloured with Copic markers and a Zig silver pen, cut out.  The mug was stamped onto a PTI coaster board and coloured with Copics, stamped with the #1 Dad and cut out with my tonic scissors...I love these and use them for all of my "fussy cutting".  I used dimensional foam behind the cup and adhered to a Labels Eighteen cut from the BG paper.  I had some embroidery floss and tied around the front of the card before placing the image on the card front.

For the next masculine birthday card, I used Papertrey Ink's Through the Trees stamp and used the rock and roll technique on the trunk with two inks and also on the leafy top  but adding some dabs of the darker ink.  The ribbon is Stampin' Up's seam binding and the button is from PTI.  The green border die is a new one from MemoryBox.  Thanks for taking a peek, I hope to get some more cards loaded this afternoon ... :)

Chriss

Easy Peasy ~ Best Dad CPS 61

Good afternoon everyone! Hope you all had a good week-end and the sun is shining wherever you are!

I made a very simple card this morning for the Card Positioning sketch seen here.

The card base is SU Old Olive layered with kraft from PTI and a panel of Memory Box 6 X 6 patterned paper from the Frond pack.

I stamped the PTI tree image (from Through the Trees) in PTI Spring Moss and with a couple of sponge daubers, added some SU Always Artichoke and Old Olive to the leaves. The tree trunk was inked with Tim Holtz tea dye and I touched the edges of the branches and trunk with basic brown from SU. I cut out and popped up with dimensional foam pieces and overlapped the trunk onto this organic twine-y ribbon border. The "BEST" is from PTI Giga Guide Lines and the dad is made with some sparkly stickers that I had in my stash. I also added the frond punched in Old Olive. Easy Peasy!

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss