Showing posts with label father's day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label father's day. Show all posts

Monday, 20 June 2011

For Pops…..

Evening All. I completely forgot to post this yesterday – fortunately the same can’t be said about the cards! I made 2 cards for my dad this year – one from me and one from my little brother. The first features the motorcycle stamp – perfect for my dad who is mad about all things mechanical and used to have a red Triumph Bonneville when I was little. you’ll have to excuse the quality of the photo – the crystal effects was still drying when i took the piccie (lastminute.com as usual!) and it bubbled just as i pressed the button, but I didn't realise until I was post processing the picture just now. I’ve also used the square lattice embossing folder on the Riding Hood Red cardstock, newsprint DSP, some twill tape and the star punch. motorcycle

The second card was a case of Darren’s birthday card from April – I was in a hurry and needed a quick card, and this fitted the bill.

star_father

A Marina Mist cardstock base, with the ‘classic stars’ wheel on the base in marina mist ink. the paper is a piece of pacific point DSP from the brights collection stack, some choc chip stars and marina mist wide striped grosgrain complete the card and the sentiment is from the level 2 hostess set ‘something to celebrate’.

I’ll be back tomorrow with some birthday mentions…..

Friday, 17 June 2011

It’s the weekend!

Happy Friday folks. apologies for the silence here in blog land, and no I didn’t get lost and trapped in the pigsty that was the conservatory. It’s been a hectic one at work and i haven’t had any inky time all week, hence nothing to photograph and therefore no posts Sad smile. However, I’ve got my occasional greetings class tomorrow, so i thought I'd pop by and share the projects for that. We’ll be making a set of 3 cards and a card storage tote using the Occasional Greetings stamp set (plus a few others) and the gorgeous ‘Elegant Soiree’ papers, here’s a piccie of the ensemble. The kit list for class attendees is here.

occasions_group

well, that’s all for tonight. I need to get in the craft room now and make a card for my dad for Father’s Day (so much for getting ahead this month!).

Have a fab weekend.

Wednesday, 8 June 2011

A week into June…

Happy Wednesday folks! It’s past the middle of the week already, which means it’ll soon be the weekend Smile I’m actually wondering what I’ve forgotten to do this month, as I’m feeling scarily ahead. I finished my class samples on Monday and have been catching up with various bits of admin all week – still have a tax return to fill in, but other than that I’m all up to date. So, somewhat earlier than usual, here are the sneak peeks for this month’s class which features the ‘Occasional Greetings’ stamp set and Elegant Soiree papers.
Occasional Greetings Peeks
If you’d like to join us and haven’t booked your place, then email me. Class kit details will be here by the end of next week. Right, following on in the spirit of getting ahead with things, I’ve got a couple of Birthday cards to make for later this week, so I’m going to head into the craft room for some inky time! I’ll pop back later in the week to show you some of what I’ve been up to.

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Sail Away for Father’s Day

Morning All! It’s Wednesday already, we’re in June and another week’s simply flying by – I'll be onto Christmas prep before I know it (at least I should be now that we’re in June and I have an all day Christmas class in August!).

However, before I start unwrapping the baubles and playing the Christmas CDs, there is Father’s Day on the calendar. Some of the ladies at a recent workshop asked me to demonstrate ‘male’ cards. The new mini catalogue has provided us with a number of new masculine images, so I dug out ‘Sail Away’ and had a play with a nautical colour theme of Not Quite Navy, Riding Hood Red and Crumb Cake.

sail_away

The ‘waves’ were created with the curly label punch, the background textured using the square lattice embossing folder and the sentiment is taken from the level 2 hostess set ‘something to celebrate’. I added some gold brads and some bakers twine from my stash. Masculine cards are normally something I struggle with, but I quite enjoyed playing with this one, so I might dig out the motorcycle stamp this week and have a play with that too.