A Day Just for You

Here is a quick masculine card I made this afternoon. I have decided if I am going to use it for a Father’s Day card or a Birthday Card so I went with a bit more generic sentiment on the front.
My card base is white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4” X 4 1/4” square card. I cut a mat of dark grey 4” X 4” and then the wood grain paper is from My Minds Eye and is cut a 3 7/8” X 3 7/8”.

My image is from the Celebrate With Flourish Cricut Lite cartridge and was cut at 3 1/2”. I used my Imagine to color and cut the layers out. I added some white dots to the fish’s head, tail and the handle of the fishing rod. I also used my clear shimmer pen to add a bit of sparkle to the flourish at the end of the fish, the one on its body and in the handle of the rod. I popped the fish up off the card with some foam tape.

I am going to enter this card into the Cardz TV Design Team challenge which is to make a card or other project for a guy.

Father's Day Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Fathers Day Blog Hop! If you just came from Lori's Blog, you are in the right place! If you just happened upon my blog today and you want to hop from the beginning, and play for the Grand Prize you can start from the Cutters Creek Design Team Blog and check out Chris' great project! The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to inspire you to create something beautiful for all of the "Fathers" in your life! We have a bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas to layouts about our fathers!

I have two projects for you today. My first project is a Father's Day card. I started with a piece of white card stock cut and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a black mat cut at 4" X5 1/4" and then my patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My card is based on this patterned paper which is from the Echo Park Happy Days 6" X 6" paper pack and are pop bottle lids. I then added a black mat cut at 2" X 3 3/4". For my sentiment I cut the word Pop using the font from the Birthday Bash cartridge out of Chipboard at 1 3/4". I then painted the edges with my Sunshine Yellow Paint Dabber. To cover the top of my letters I cut the word pop again this time from a piece of blue card stock from the Mod Squad paper pack. To give  my letters even more dimension and shine and covered them with some Glossy Accents. I also adhered the letters down with some Glossy Accents as well.

My second project is for a Father's Day give my my hubby. I used my Imagine and the Snapshot Texture Patterned cartridge to fill the toolbox cut from the Sweet Tooth boxes project cartridge. I cut the box at 9".

Doesn't the pattern on the box look great? I overfilled it with the little snickers so it wasn't closing correctly, sorry about that. I used scor tape to adhere my box together. On the inside I cut the sentiment from the Celebrate with Flourish lite cartridge at 2 1/4" and attached it to the inside of the lid. My hubby is going to love this.

And what is a blog hop without blog candy???? Of course Cutter's Creek is giving away a super prize but for stopping by and leaving me a comment I have a little something for someone. You don't have to be a follower but I would love it if would like to follow me. I have for you a 6" X 6" Hello Summer Paper pad from Echo Park. For a chance to win this paper pad just leave me a comment at the end of this post. You will have until 6:00m PDT, Monday, June 4th to leave your comment. I will choose a winner using Random.org. and announce the winner by 9:00 PDT on June 4th. Please be sure to leave me a way to get in touch with you so I can contact you if you win. I apologize but can only ship to the United States.

Now for the details about the Grand Prize I mentioned at the beginning of my post. To qualify you must leave a comment at every stop along the way. COmments should be made by Midnight, June 3rd. We will use Random.org to select a winner so be sure to check back with us on Monday to find out if you have won!

Don't forget to leave a comment here before you hop along to Laura's Blog! Thanks for hopping by!

Masculine Birthday Card

My father-in-law's birthday is in a week and I have to get the card in the mail in the next couple of days. So I whipped up a card for him this afternoon. I started with a pre-scored white 5" x 7" card base. I added a black mat cut to 6 3/4" X 4 3/4".  I then used my Imagine and the Bubblegum Striped pattern cartridge and the stock 5:7 rectangle to print out my patterned paper, and cut it to 6 1/2" X 4 1/2". I then used the Celebrate with Flourish Cricut Lite cartridge to cut the Happy Birthday at 3.1" For my shadow I chose to use white for the shadow. I used colors and patterns from the Bubblegum Striped Imagine cartridge for the other layers. I adhered it to the card with some foam tape and added some white buttons with glue dots to finish off the card. Hope he likes it. Thanks for visiting.