Create and Share: Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I am sharing the cards I made for my dad and my father-in-law. I used my Counterfeit Kit and some sketches.

For this card, I used last week's sketch at Sketch Saturday. I rotated the sketch 90 degrees to make it work with the image I wanted to stamp. I distressed the background A LOT. First I ran it through my Texture Boutique using my "Heavy Duty" embossing folder. Then I rubbed Versamark ink over the card. After that, I poured gold embossing powder over it and shook off the excess. I heated the embossing powder and then decided I wanted to see how spray ink reacted with the heat embossing. I sprayed white ink on the card, but I felt it was too bold and covered up the embossing too much so I patted it with a tissue to mute it. Finally I distressed all the edges and rubbed white distress stain on the edges of the cardstock.

Materials:

Cardstock- Bazzill

Patterned Paper- Autumn Leaves, Robin's Nest

Embossing Folder- Couture Creations

Ink- Tsukineko, Studio Calico

Embossing Powder- JoAnn Crafts

Stamp- Stampin Up

Brads- Michaels

For my next card, I used last week's Card Pattern. I used another embossing folder on this one, giving the yellow paper some texture. I liked the black strip down the center of the card and decided I wanted to try doing it with washi tape. I like how that turned out, but I'm not a fan of the embellishment cluster on top... oh well. I also did this for Mini Challenge #1 as part of the My Scraps and More Got Talent II contest. The challenge was to make a card using something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. The old item was the chipboard, new was the tape, borrowed was the sketch and blue is the paper.