One Hundred and Eighty!

Today I started to make my Father's Day orders... one of the requests is for a Dad who loves darts.

The digi is the wonderful Alf from the Digistamp Boutique - he is so easy to paper piece. I used some burgundy plaid patterned paper from my stash and the tiny dart board is from a Kanban die cut sheet.

The rosette is also from the Digistamp Boutique and I made the greeting on the computer using Tempus Sans font.

I've entered Alf into the challenges at:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges - paper-piecing
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - one for the boys
The Paper Shelter Challenge - one for the boys
The Digistamp Boutique April  2014 Competition

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Relax on Father's Day.

I always get lots of orders for Father's Day so I'm on making a batch to take into work. As I'm trying to use up my crate (yes, one of those stacking crates full of 'bits') I added a couple of tiny bits of patterned paper which is something I wouldn't normally do with a CAS card but I think I get away with it here! Actually, the pattern reminds me of the socks that dads wear! 

I can't remember where the image is from - probably a freebie vintage site.

I've entered this into the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays - red, white and blue
CAS on Sunday - make it masculine


Sharon
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Father's Day Football

Continuing with yesterday's technique for the CASE challenge at Less Is More, I made a second card, this time with a masculine theme. My inspiration came from this week's Dynamic Duos colour challenge:

I knew I had a digi of a football with the coloured sections fading from black to gray which was perfect for these colours. This time I was a lot more careful when I die cut the letters from the second image so I should be able to do another card from the negative.

I've also entered this as a second entry in this week's challenge at Casology:

Thanks for visiting

Sharon
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Dad...

Today's cue word challenge at CASology is:

which prompted me to make a Father's Day card for my card box using one of my favourite techniques - giant letters cut from patterned paper.

Clean, simple and made in no time while I was watching the news.

My thoughts go out to the city and people of Boston and the friends and families of those injured and killed in yesterday's tragedy - insane senseless actions,

Take care

Sharon
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Happy Father's Day

I thought I'd share a last minute Father's Day card requested by a work colleague whose dad is always helping her doing jobs around the house. Digistamp Boutique's DIY Jim seemed the ideal character to use for a specialcard for him. I found some very masculine looking striped paper in my stash and coloured Jim in using matching promarkers.

I've entered this card into the following challenges...

Fab n Funky challenges - Father's Day

Papercraft Star - Father's Day

Crafting For All Seasons - For a Man

Card Makin' Mammas - Father's Day

A Card For Dad

With Father's Day looming I have been very busy with card orders - gave me a chance to get some more usage out of my favourite male digi - Jim from the Digistamp Boutique.

The paper is from my scraps box which I have to empty before I am allowed to buy any more patterned paper. I've decoupaged him and coloured him with matching promarkers. I've entered this card into the following challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles - All Manly Men

Di's DigiDesigns Challenges - Male Inspired

The Stamp Man - Make It For A Man

Fathers Day...

Making cards for blokes always fills me with dread though the products now available is starting to make the task easier


I used a cup template that came free with Papercraft Inspirations and just enlarged it on the photocopier to make this. I'm pleased with the look that the peel-offs give to the trophy - I knew I would find a use for them one day!


I think 'tie' cards for men are the equivelant of handbag cards for women! This was made with lovely Dovecraft 'male' papers and I just added buttens to the 'shirt'. I've made this card on a number of occasions in different colourways and I'm always pleased with the result.



I got this grandad decoupage from my local craft shop in Sunderland - I think the range is 'Old Codgers'. The patterned paper is from a sports scrapbooking kit and I couldn't resist adding a little Sunderland badge to it.

To Dad With Love..

Today I am mostly making Father's Day Cards. Like most people I have trouble with cards for men - they just don't fill me with inspiration at all. But as I have orders for about twenty of them I thought I'd better make a start... A nice basic one to begin with - just the word 'Dad' printed in Word Art and traced onto the lovely stripey paper from Papermania's For Him pack.