Paper Garden Projects

Here is the Father’s Day card I made for DH. 

Making cards for guys is challenging for me – I sometimes have a hard time choosing an image. 

For this Father’s Day, I chose this lighthouse from the Impression Obsession Lighthouse Cling Set.  Life here has been so hectic – I thought this might look peaceful.

I stamped the image in Memento Rich Cocoa and colored it with Copics.  Here are the colors I used. (oops… E-31 is upside down!)

I wanted to add a “sky”, so I masked the image with Eclipse Tape (love that stuff!).   The Eclipse tape can be used over and over.  So when I make a mask, I store it in the case with the stamps so I don’t have to cut it out again next time.

I used a duster brush with Distress Inkto color the background.  Very easy – just ink the brush, tap off excess and sweep from outside the image, over the cardstock edge towards the center.   I added a little green at the bottom and I also added some Vintage photo around the edges to age it.

 The sentiment was made with a Spellbinders Double Ended Tag die .  I just inked the die with Colorbox fluid chalk ink before I cut and embossed so I could get the red edge.  The embossed edge on the card was made with the Cuttlebug Just My Type embossing border set.

I hope everyone had a great Father’s Day and is having a wonderful summer.  We are busy here running vacation bible school.  The girls also have daily swimming lessons (and…ooohhh boy… that water is cold!  You know its bad when a 6 year old admits it!).  Last Friday we also had a WONDERFUL trip to Longwood Gardens.  It was so beautiful and the weather was just perfect!

So I hope to get back to a regular blog schedule soon….