Father’s Day cards for my son (bottom) and son-in-law (top) for this year. Getting my inspiration from Johanna and her lovely nautical themed cards.

Happy Father’s Day to all our Dads.

The challenge at the ModSquad Challenge this week is to include fruit on your card. Hands down strawberries are my favorite fruit. My grandmother had a strawberry patch that I raided on every visit to her. Yum! For today’s card, I used my GKD Enjoy The Sunshine stamp set as well as the Berries & Vines patterned paper pack. The background die is a Spellbinder’s Majestic Circles set and GKD Single Stitch large circle die for the image. Sentiment was also Spellbinders.

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The As You See It Challenge #228 is a recipe challenge by Amy.

So for my slimline card, my repeat image is the flower stamp from SU’s Touch of Nature, paper scraps are the punched butterflies (not the time to clean up my desk), the layered cardstock for the focal image is GKD’s Bubblegum pink, my bow was made with ribbon from Denami Stamps and my one word sentiment is also a SU sentiment from the Peace, Love & Cupcakes stamp set. That’s 5 ingredients for this recipe card.

The recipe is as follows:

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This card was created for the Double D Challenges theme of Wedding. I created my gate fold card using the Crafter’s Companion Die’sire edge’able Victorian metal die. My next step was to use a piece of DCVW Wedding patterned paper pack with a vintage print which was cut 4-1/4 x 11 and scored at 5-1/2. This center panel lifts up for the inside message. I really wanted more of a silver look but settled for some sparkle by using Brutus Monroe Alabaster Glitter Glaze over a SSS Peony Bouquet stencil. The sentiment is GKD’s Always and Forever stamp set. The silver ribbon was from my stash.

The Paper Players current challenge is a Color Challenge from Laurie using Real Red,Tranquil Tide and Basic Grey. Pretty color combination — I decided to get my my close to those colors in my GKD cardstock and cut 1/4″ strips of paper, glued them onto a base and die cut a square using Spellbinders large classic square for center point of this card. I also included a dry embossed grey using a Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder by Sizzix and stamped the GKD image and sentiment from the Dino-Mite red rubber stamp set. Originally intended this card for our grandson but when I saw the sentiment decided on a friend’s “Medicare” birthday in July. I now need one of Stamp Buddy Gerry’s snarky verses for inside the card.

I finally received my curbside order from Joann’s after a four week wait and I was anxious to play with the Hero Arts Color Layering Waves stamp set and Beach Frame Fancy Die. The three ocean stamps are pretty easy to line up and stamp in my Misti. I did think that the stamps would have been a little longer in size. So I inked up in Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass for the base wave, then GKD’s Powder Blue for the next wave and finally my darkest blue of Navy for the final wave. My sand was created by painting on some white Gesso, then used a gold metallic rub on and finally kraft ink to fill in the spots. The sky was GKD’s coral reef, tumbled glass and salty ocean. I added some sea birds from GKD’s By The Sea, flip flops from Hello Sunshine and lightly sponged coral reef onto Sunshine stencil and mounted on Coral Sea cardbase.

This card will be entered into Sunday Stamps color challenge to use a minimum of 3 colors from their graphic below and any neutral.

Pretty colors for this challenge and hoping for a day visit to the Jersey shore soon.

The challenge with The Sisterhood of Crafters is “Here Comes the Bride” wedding card. I have no weddings in the near future but believe if I did this card would be acceptable. I was hoping to keep the card simple so using a GKD stencil I dry embossed it on ivory cardstock. The flourish is a Momenta die that I cut three times on kraft cardstock added a little Wink of Stella for shine. My sentiment is from GKD’s Scripty Sayings 2. The card base is also kraft. Inside I lightly sponged the same stencil in kraft ink on ivory cardstock.

I do believe I can use this “wedding card” for a variety of occasions.

The clean and simple challenge at AAA Cards is a One Layer + optional twist Inspired by the graphic:

For my card, I wanted to focus on the colors of the image so using Distress Oxide Mustard Seed and GKD’s Coral Reef and ink sponged a portion of the one layer card. The stamped sentiment and butterfly is from Stampendous’s Daisy Thanks. Sprinkled the sponged colors with a water. Thanks to AAA cards for a fun challenge and practice on making CAS cards.

My card today started off using acrylic block stamping for the MIUCB #38 – Anything Goes + Acrylic Block Stamping challenge. I inked up an acrylic block with Distress Oxide Salty Ocean spritzed it with water and stamped, then repeated using Twisted Citron and decided I needed a third color so turned the block and inked with Mustard Seed. I then pulled out a Stampin Up oldie “Garden Silhouettes” and stamped that a few times in Versafine black ink.

Since it looked a little too uninspiring, I decided to combine this challenge with the Just Us Girls #540 Trend Week Frame It challenge. So frame it is exactly what I did using an Impression Obsession frame which cuts out all of the different shapes on one background die. Still not satisfied, I decided the frames need dimension so cut the background frame die out 5 more times to layer the individual pieces. So my frames are built up and then back down again. This was a test of patience to assemble and I believe I may have passed.

Here’s a side view of my card which shows a little bit for of the telescoping effect.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek. It’s a beautiful day in Pennsylvania. Thankfully not too hot the upcoming week for a local company to come in and replace our central air conditioning.