SU Father’s Day Card

May 10, 2016

I love creating masculine cards! When I saw the SU In the Meadow stamp set- I knew I had to have it! I am sure you all peruse Pinterest as I do when I get a new stamp. I came across this card and liked how Lisa used circles to highlight the images and used the Work of Art stamp set to “color” the images of the trees and deer.

I modified my card by creating a mountainous background, adding an Early Espresso border on the deer image, embellishing it with Burlap and a candy dot, and using the SU Guy Greetings on the bottom of the card. My stamping classes chose between the Happy Father’s Day greeting or the Happy Birthday Greeting. We even conserved paper by cutting our circles (2″ and 2 1/2″) out of the Very Vanilla border on the front that is covered by the Crumb Cake card stock the mountains and greeting are stamped on:) Thankfully, both stamp sets are sticking around!

I used Soft Suede ink for the mountains, trees, deer, and greeting on the card. I stamped off once and then stamped the colors Tip Top Taupe and Wild Wasabi on the stamped images on the circles. The second stamp on the images was stamped again with that same “stamped off” ink so it was essentially stamped off twice.

Product List

In The Meadow Clear-Mount Stamp Set [140754]	Guy Greetings Clear Stamp Set [138828]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ Pad [126978]	Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin’ Pad [138325]
Wild Wasabi Classic Stampin’ Pad [126959]	Early Espresso 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [119686]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [101650]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [120953]
Wild Wasabi 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [108641]	Neutrals Candy Dots [130934]	1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon [132140]

Happy Friday, friends. You should definitely play along this week with us at the Friday Mashup #164.

Lynda asked us to:

1. Create a project for “Father’s Day or that special guy in your life.”
2. Create a project with “Stamping on anything other than Card Stock.”
or
3. Mash it Up! and create a “Father’s Day project with Stamping on anything but Card Stock.”

I am sorry I did not mash it up this week but I did get the Father’s Day card done and ready for my dad! (By the way, my mom did get her Mother’s Day card after all- she just forgot she put it away to save it!- Silly girl)

I used the SU In the Wild stamp set- I had my eye on it for quite some time and finally got it. It is a lovely sketchy lined stamp but needs something to go with it. I saw a few people watercoloring around it and thought the new SU Work of Art stamp set could do the job for me! So I inked it up with Wild Wasabi, then Crumb Cake, and finally Soft Sky to mimic the ground, the animal, and the sky. Then I stamped the moose in Chocolate Chip ink.

I finished it off with some matching banners stamped from the SAB 2014 Banner Blast set. I am so happy there are two other sets set called Banner Banter and Itty Bitty Baby in the new catalog that coordinate with the cute little banner punch. I also embellished the banners with some random metal brads.

The photopolymer sentiment came from the May Paper Pumpkin- another stamp that came with it has Happy Birthday on it. We made this card in class and both sentiments were used by my gals.

I really hope you find time to play along with the Friday Mashup this week! Make sure to check out what the Design Team has created for inspiration.