Cruise Ship Birthday Card

Cruise Ship Birthday Card

Another nautical card to get my morning going...

I was trying to show a rendition of the side of a Cruise Ship, if you blink really fast and shake your head at the same time, you'll see what I meant to do.

The top part on the blue sky is what is called  "Stanchion and Rope", one is never too old to learn new words.

Still using my Cricut Life's a Beach cartridge...

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Lighthouse Birthday Card

Lighthouse Birthday Card

I felt nautical this morning, maybe because of the nice tribute Debra did to me on facebook. She purchased a nautical card for her dad father's day and she posted a picture of him holding it with the most beautiful smile....

I love to see the effect my cards have on people...

So here is my new card... still using the Cricut Life's a Beach cartridge, a lighthouse this time and some flying seagulls...

The sentiment is made with a die cut on grey card stock.

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All Star Dad

All Star Dad

A Converse sneaker card, dirty on the sole because you know they never stay clean more than 2 minutes... I found this wonderful idea on the scrapbook snippets blog (http://scrapbooksnippets.blogspot.com/), and adapted it to  a father's day card.

I just loved that idea...

The grommets for the shoe laces are made in paper, and I added some 3D crystal Lacquer to make them look metallic. I had some problems finding a way of writing in circle with my apple page program... after a frustrating long time spent in front of my computer, I decided to use sticky letters, and that was that.

I then thought I own a wonderful Silhouette Cameo, with a load of tutorial on line, and I used it to write a circular "all star" message. it works beautifully.

I use my Faber-Castell PITT artist white pen to draw the  stitchings.

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Father's Day Submarine

Father's Day Submarine

For the lucky ladies who have a ex-subamriner as the dad of their children...

And when I say lucky, I am thinking of the way those husbands are good at making their bed, boot camp style. My, I have to say it doesn't compare... 

How about the way they pack suitcases? I would never had known that rolling t-shirts save room and allow them to arrive wrinkle free.

And for those deserving husbands, I thought of making a father's day card they not only would appreciate but that will bring back those fond memories of service. Because you do know that those happy memories are the only ones left when they think of those 6 wonderful years...

I adapted a card I made last year for mine, post 304, "Father's Day Card for a Diver:

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Here is this year's card, pretty much the same...

the blue card stock is run through my cuttlebug in a Provocraft bubble embossing folder, I tore some vellum, and added two clouds punched with my Fiskars favorite punches.

The submarine is made with my cricut, "Life's a Beach" cartridge and I added some white behind the windows... oops, I am in trouble, don't let my husband know I am calling those "windows"... Crime de Lese Majeste, as we French say....

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Thank You Rosemarie

Thank You Rosemarie

I am hoping our piano teacher will not visit my blog until I have a chance to give her the card I just made... she has been coming to our house for 17 years and yesterday, it was the last lesson.

 Very, very sad.

This is how I cope with it:

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Here is the birthday card version, using the same pattern. 

I just can't get enough of those stair cards.

If you need a template to make easel card, refer to my previous post, it really take 2 seconds....

Until next time...

Fly fishing... and Tennis!

Fly fishing... and Tennis!

I had a peculiar request from a client (actually it was a wonderful request since it makes me work my neurons...)

She needed a retirement card for a person who likes fly fishing and tennis...

I tried to incorporate both of those in the stair step card below....

(By the way those easel card are easy to make.. I am adding a template below...)

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The racket and tennis ball are from clipart, and I just cut up a fly from an image on the web. Now, for the net... that was tricky but I had a potatoes bag net laying around and I pulled it between two bands of card stock, horizontally first and them vertically.

The sign is printed and them cut with my cuttlebug.

I used 3 D foam thoroughly.

Since we are so close to Father's day, I  used the same element to make a tennis father's day card, and will post later a fly fishing father's day card...

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Here is the easel card template: for a A2 card; dark line is a cut line, dotted line a scored line....You can move the 2 inch folding line to 2 !/4: it will give you a bigger flap in the front...

Until next time...

Butterflies

Butterflies

A quick one for the road...

A 4bar card with some butterflies you can find on vintageprintable. com....

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More Ideas of Father's Day Cards

Here are a few more ideas of father's day cards...

The first one is for my husband, because he complains he doesn't have access to the remote control, ever... really? How come we are watching all those manly shows, then? 

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Next one is a variation on a shirt.. I made a few of those, to change from the tuxedo one...

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Here comes a nautical one:

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And another shirt, clean and simple card.

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Father's Day with a Hammer

Father's Day with a Hammer

As father's day card go, I think this one is perfect for those daddy with a long list of honeydos...

I owe the idea of this card to Linda Aarhus:

(polkadotsandpaper.typepad.com)

Here is my version of it: I run the top panel in an embossing folder, and added a sentiment on top of  the belt. Now this picture doesn't show the tag I added on the side of the pocket... I'll try to upload a better picture later.

The hammer is cut with my silhouette. I found a cutting file on Scrapyourstory.com

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