Fathers Day Card... last one for this year!!

Good morning!!

Today I am sharing the last of the Father's Day Cards - yes I know it was last Sunday, but I didn't post it then, and I am quite pleased with this one, so I'm sharing it now... better late than never :-D

Just a quick update before I share my card... last night I started making big son's costume for his Spanish Day tomorrow... yep, Spanish day.  I mean seriously, what 9 year old has a Spanish costume hanging in his wardrobe ready to wear (OK, maybe if we lived in Spain, but we don't... dressing up here follows the standard themes of Doctor, Knight, Fireman, Cowboy, Pirate kinda things... national dress has not featured so far...) 

Anyway... his class has learnt some sort of dance, I think it is a 9-year old friendly take on a Paso Doble... so far he's wearing black trousers, tucked into white socks with a red velvet trim (sewn on), black shoes, and a white grandad collar shirt.  I am sewing my way through a cummerbund, and SIL has donated a moustache.  That sounds all wrong!!! It's one of those ones that grips to your nose... I didn't like to ask why she had a moustache tucked away in her kitchen drawer!!!  I'll try and get him to try it all on tonight and take a picture in full matador pose... If I can bribe him enough I'll post the pic later :-)

LOL, enough of my chit chat... onto the card!!  (well in a kinda roundabout fashion!!)

OK, so you need to know a few things... ever since I can remember my parents have had a VW camper of one sort or the other... I remember a blue one with a split screen, but when I was little they got a new one with a pop up roof and bunks up the top.  It's bright (as in 1970's bright) yellow!!

We used to pack the van up at the beginning of the summer holidays and just go.  Somethings's we'd have a return crossing booked, sometimes not, and we would pootle all over Europe in this bus, one year it took us to 10 different countries by the time we had to come home because school was starting two days later!!

Now my Dad used to race motorbikes and as such likes a tinker (thus the climbing ladders aged 81, two weeks after getting out of hospital...), and decided at some point that the standard engine was a bit boring... so dumped it in favour of a big Porsche engine with twin Webber Carbs, and all sorts of other bits and bobs...  There is indeed a wolf hiding behind the original 1970's patterned curtains but these day's he's in need of a bit of TLC (the bus,Dad's OK now, LOL!!) , but hey, he's 33 and I'm older and there are days where my paint is wearing thin too... but I don't think Dad'll ever sell him.  And after driving the thing I can assure you that there is nothing more satisfying than beating a boy racer off the lights. 

When you are middle aged. 

A Woman. 

And driving a bright yellow brick/bus.

With curtains.

And the added bonus, that when you get bored you can pull over and make a nice cuppa :-D

So to cut a long story short, when I saw my DT buddy Lisa's daughter had set up her very own Digi store, Squidgi Digi and had a pretty much spot on Camper Van for sale (female version also available!!) and some retro sentiments too, I was sorted for Dad's card!!

Here's my card

Papers are by Bo Bunny and Echo Park; Bazzill CS; Paula Pascal sentiment; Squidgi Digi image and Sentiment, buttons from stash; Nesties; Cuttlebug Embossing folder

I did a double spodge of Glossy Accents on his indicators and headlights to make them a bit more domed, and coloured the bumper in again and 3D'd it, and stamped the numberplate and 3D'd that too...

And the inside

And back to the front...

Needless to say, he thought it was brilliant (and not just cos I made it!!), so thanks Lisa and Beth for the images - just brilliant :-D

Right that's my lot for today

I'd like to enter these challenges please

My Mum's Craft Shop - For a Male

Ooh La La - Father's Day

2 Sisters Challenge - For A Guy 

Catch The Bug - It's A Man's World

Little Claire's  - Card's for Men

Paper Creator's Crafts - For The Men

Glitter Geeks - Male/Fathers Day

I Did It Creations - Retro 1970's

I also used the sketch from the Stamp Fairy, but don't hink I can enter as this isn't one of their image, but thanks for the inspirational sketch!!

Sue xx

Totally Ladybug Tuesday - Challenge 31 - Male theme

Good Morning!!!

This week over at Ladybug Crafts Ink Challenge it is the turn of the lovely Pam to set the challenge.  Well I say lovely, but seeing as she has asked us to make

Male Themed

cards and projects, I'm not so sure :-D

Luckily with Fathers Day just around the corner I had no excuse to procrastinate (ooh, look at me and the big words!!) as I have got about 8 to make, and before you think I've got some really odd family set up, no it's just the total needed from my kids to HB, and to their Granddads, and from us to our respective parents... so 8 it is!!  Oh my word, that is quite a lot isn't it, I'd best get cracking on them!!

You don't have to make a fathers day card, any male themed card is just fine!

If you have time why not pay the other Ladybugs a visit, as this week we are welcoming the lovely Julie as a GDT member while Hayley takes a little break.

OK, so enough of the blah blah blah and onto my card

I decided to use Football Jack, just love his little cheeks!!  I have to say my youngest son is starting to look like Jack... I think it's that cheeky boy look!! 

I used some of the new My Mind's Eye - Lime Twist "Out of The Blue", some Dotty Bazzill, and some Blue Ric-Rac.  The sentiment on the front is one of the ones that comes with the Olivia set from the BFF collection, although it's probably best not to let Jack know that they are from a girls set, as I don't think he'd appreciate it, LOL!  I was going to use some of the football die cuts that I cut a few weeks ago, but as I'd done this card as an A6 size, they looked a bit too big, and I found these footballs lurking at the bottom of my embellishment drawer which were a better size

After breaking my Martha Stewart stars punch a while ago I was border less but decided to give welding some stars up in the Cricut design programme thingy a go, and I think it works quite well!!

I went all simple for the inside, leaving enough room for Sam to try and sign it!!

Thanks for popping in, hope you like today's card :-)

Sue xx

P.S.  Please can I enter my card into these challenges

The Stamp Man - Boys and Men

Simon Say's Stamp - Father's Day / Male card

The Paper Shelter - Glad for Dad

Craft Your Day's Away - Fathers Day / Special Man

Creative Inspirations - Father's Day / Card for Dad

Here Come the Boys - Fathers Day

Fussy and Fancy - Card for a Man or Boy

Pattie's Creations - Wedding or Fathers Day

Simply Create - Fathers Day

Come and Get It Challenges - Happy Father's Day

Crafting for All Seasons - Father's Day

Sparkles Forum Challenge - Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day!

Hi!  Hope you are having a good day!

It's fathers day in the UK today - my eldest son had made his dad a card at school, but I wanted to do one from them both for my HB too...

This is what I came up with

I love how this turned out!! (and HB and the kids liked it too, which was a bonus :-) )

The images are from the Jungle Pals set by Woodware and I have stamped another pair of the monkeys paws and 3D'd them.  I've added glossy accents to some areas on the leaves, monkey's nose and on the bananas.  I kicked myself after this was all done and sealed in the envelope as I wrote "from" and "your" to complete the sentiment I wanted and for not thinking to use my white rub on alphabet!  Duh!! 

I've attached the bananas to the back of the green card only, and the leaves to the front so they wobble about a bit!  The green card and the brown triangles are on foam pads, and the main image is on yet more foam pads to give a bit of lift.  I think this is a perfect image for Fathers Day from my boys as they are both being a bit of a handful, although for different reasons, at the moment

I am entering this card into several challenges:

Cupcake Craft Challenge 95 - One for the Boys

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Ice Cream Flavours - This is Mint Choc Chip!

One Stop Craft Challenge week 85 - One for boys

Supplies: White and Green Cardstock; Brown Buttons from Stash: Stamps - Woodware Jungle Pals (the "Cheeky Monkey!" is from this set too), "Love to you" from Janes Script sentiment set also by Woodware; Papers -  Little Boy Blue"That's My Boy" Daring Dots and "Little Man" Zig Zag and Growing Up all from My Minds Eye, Quite Contrary range;  Inks - Tuxedo Black Momento and Timber Brown Stazon; Copics; White pen

That one was actually card number 6 yesterday - I think I must have got warmed up by then as it really flowed, no sketch (not even by me), no nothing, just went for it!!  I quite surprised myself LOL!

So cards 4 and 5??  Well Fathers Day cards for my Dad and FIL.  As ever with these things they are both pretty similar and both use Bo Bunny's Anna Sophia "Worn Dots" and "Shabby Plaid" papers and stamps from the Bubbly set of Stamps by Penny Black.  I kept them quite plain - I think I'd lost the will to live at this point and my little one was driving me insane... mojo returned just in time for HB's card!

First up, my Dad who likes cats:

I'm gonna be honest and say that I found this image tricky to colour, maybe because I was trying to get it to look too much like my parents cat! I used the blender pen quite a bit and it came together eventually!  A touch of white pen on the ballons followed then I cut round part of the ballons laid them over the top of the Nestability die while I cut the rest of the image out.  I've been wanting to try this for a while - I haven't explained it very well, but this tutorial out of the frame tutorial by Rach is really helpful :-), I then used Faded Jeans distress ink to make it look like he was up high.

Next, FIL - he prefers dogs to cats

All in all quite a successful weekends work - just umpteen birthday and anniversary cards to make now!

Thanks for stopping by

Sue xx