Celebrating Father's Day

When it comes to paper crafting I think my dad gets the rough end of the deal, I love creating girly things for my mum, but my dad? not so much. He's a simple kinda guy so I need to make sure the card is special but not at all 'frilly'. Here's what I have come up with this year;

Card base - Papermania. Patterned paper - October Afternoon. Font - Ostrich 

Sans. Sketch Pens - Silhouette America. Heart - K&Co.

I had seen the quote on pinterest and loved it and decided to use it as the focal point of the card. I am not a fan of my own handwriting so I used the ostrich sans font and my sketch pens and had my silhouette do all the work. I then overlaid this with vellum and added the die cut gold 'Dad' and finished it off with a little puffy heart sticker. 

I'm an only child and was/am very much a daddy's girl (well, I'm also mummy's girl too!) and I hope this conveys to him just how much I love him.

 I also show my Father-In-Law the love and made him this card;

Cardstock - Bazzill. Patterned paper - Mint Julep, Basic Grey. Vellum - 

Dear Lizzie. Glitter Paper - American Crafts. Dies - Wplus9. Lawn Fawn and My 

Favourite Things. Stamps - Milos ABC's, Lawn Fawn. Sequins - Doodlebug.

I have had the shaped sequins since I started crafting in 2006 and was happy to find a use for them, I stitched them within the vellum pocket, I just adore shaker elements! The flags were made from scraps and the sentiment was stamped with staz-on, I now realise I should have embossed it in blue to make it stand out a little bit more.

The card below was made as I had been wanting to make a card using my new lawn fawn journaling card die with gold mirror card stock, it has such a luxury look to it.

Patterned paper - DIY Shop, Crate Paper. Leaves cut file #9075 Silhouette

America. Card stock - Bazzill Cardshoppe, Papertrey Ink. Stamp - Papermania.

Dies - Lawn Fawn. Washi tape - Freckled Fawn. Glitter paper and embossing

powder - American Crafts. 

I'm really pleased with how this came out, I wish I would have used a brighter green for the leaves and I think I should have introduced a pop of colour such as red to add some interest. It will be nice to have this stashed away for giving later this year ;)

Thanks for reading!

How Time Flies.....

My goodness, I didn't realise that I hadn't written a blog post in a while, I had better correct that tout suite!

Here are a couple of cards that were rejected for a recent submission call, fortunately I also had a couple picked up :)

 The pinwheels are made from vintage music paper and were sprinkled with perfect pearls and topped with gilded wooden stars.

Rosettes were made from vintage music paper using my silhouette, topped with vellum and glitter circles, gems and a handmade button.

I hope I can start to blog more regularly :)

Ang