This was a Father's Day card for my step-dad, who my son calls Grampa. The fish image was printed from the computer, and the rest was inked and sandpapered. The tag was cut from my Cuttlebug, and the letters are rub-ons. Really like this card, and the distressed look of the brown paper. It was crinkled, inked with dark brown and then sandpapered.

This is a card I made for my little brothers 10th birthday. I got the idea from a card design saved on my computer (the whole, "Dude, that is so cool", came from that card) but I'm not sure who the maker was. The Letters in Dude are rub-ons. Sandpaper was my friend for this card. :)

This card is for my Grandfather, and it's actually cased from a couple of different cards. I used a combination of a card seen in the tvweekly.com archives by Bethany, and also a card I saw made by Cindy Lyles’ (aka Starlit Studio), which was actually cased from a Papyrus brand card!! lol Neither card was exactly like this one, the former was not a clothesline affect, and the latter was not either, this was actually on a hanger. In any case, I will give credit where credit is due!

Happy Fathers Day!

Gosh, Father's Day cards are the hardest to make! I find it quite difficult to make a masculine card. This one worked out pretty good after about 2 hrs!! lol I am in a 'sanding' phase now...all the edges are getting sanded to give an old, weathered look. The hockey stamp is from Michaels ($1.50 bin), and the crossed hockey sticks, not sure where they're from, as I borrowed this stamp from my moms never ending collection of stamps! lol The circle was cut from a Cuttlebug die, which cuts the circles (love this die) and the lettering is made of rub-on letters. The ribbon was stapled on, (another look that I'm only now starting to play with!). I think it came together pretty well.

Another example of the thank you cards (explained below) up close. This one features a stamp-like piece that came from a Cuttlebug alphabet set as well as the circle seen in the post below (been a while since I blogged, and I did it all in the wrong order! lol) Anyways, Love this, think it gives it a different look, a very artsy spin on the flower-pot-card look.

Here is one of the thank you cards up close so you can see the flowers. The round circle with the dots in it came from a Cuttlebug alphabet die template, and I just love it, I use it a lot.

It's been a while since I blogged anything, so I'll show you why. I was in a bit of a dry spell craft-wise, because those books wore me out a little bit! lol So anyways, now I have two baby showers coming up that I had to have Thank you Cards for. So here's what I put together. They are bright coloured, because I had an abundance of bright colours that I needed to use! lol Most of the material used was from scraps, actually. Each card is stamped with a flower pattern in versa mark, stamps by Studio G (of course). The pots were my own design, and stamped with a Thank You! Stamp that my DH bought me at Walmart. The stems of the flowers were drawn on to the card with a black felt pen and made to look messy. Each flower was made by hand....all are different, most of it was made with the Cuttlebug and then designed on different papers and attached different ways...I'm going to add some more pics so you can get a better idea of what I mean. I think they turned out pretty well, although they were a little time consuming, I would do a LOAD of flowers, and then make 5-10 cards at a time.