Guest Designer and Mr Fix It Father's Day

I'm soooo excited! Yay! I'm a guest designer for the month of June at Daisy's Doodles! I absolutely love Jules' images so I was thrilled at the opportunity to work with them and be part of the team for a whole month! Thank you, Daisy's Doodles for giving me this awesome opportunity!

Today is my first project as a guest designer for Daisy's Doodles and I have to admit, it is one of my favorites! I'm using the For Dad set, available here in the Daisy Doodles Store. As soon as I seen this set, I knew it would be perfect for my dad's father's day card! My dad is retired now, but he owned and operated a hardware store for years, so this is the perfect card for him. I've used a fun striped paper with a great mix of colors, from my stash. The images are colored with Promarkers. I used a silver adhesive pearl on the wrench and the pliers. I've punched the Happy Father's Day with oval punches by Stampin Up. The sentiment and tools are all attached with foam mounting tape for 3D effect and dimension. The tape measure ribbon is from my stash and gave my card the finishing touch.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


No! No! No Embossing at Stamping Vacation
Challenge #41 Male Card or Father's Day at Lexi's Creations
Challenge #41 Inspired By A Song (Daddy's Girl) at Lollipop Crafts
Challenge #29 Card For A Male at Aud Sentiments
Challenge #21 Special Man at Craft your Days Away
Challenge # Father's Day at Here Come The Boys
Challenge #36 Wrap It Up With Ribbon at Top Tip Tuesday
Father's Day/For A Male at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #38 Man's World at Scrapbook Sisters
Challenge #16 Glad for Dad at The Paper Shelter
Challenge #11 It's All About The Boys at Do It With Digi's
Challenge #11 Anything Goes at Paper Crafting Journey
Challenge #39 For Dad at Easy Craft Projects
Challenge #45 It's All About You, Dad at Simply Create
Manly at Some Odd Girl
CHallenge #42 More Than One Image at Crafty Ann's
June Digi Day at Stamp Something
Anything Goes at Catch The Bug
Card For A Man Or Boy at Fussy and Fancy
Challenge #23 Father's Day or Wedding at Pattie's Creations
Challenge #16 Bright Colors at Karber Cute Monday
Challenge #61 Father's Day or Card For Dad at Creative Inspirations
Challenge #124 Stripes at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #70 Father's Day at The Crazy Challenge
Masculine at Magical Monday
Challenge #30 Masculine Cards at Woodware USA
Challenge #7 Masculine at Bows and Berries

Relax, Dad

It's time for another DT card for Stamping Dragon Designs. This time, another male/Father's Day Card. I seen this cute little image and, though it may seem quirky for a Father's Day card, it seemed perfect for reflecting a nice relaxing day. (Well, as long as the poor kitty doesn't fall off the fence!) My dad has been through so much over the last few months, and then with the loss of my mom at the end of April.... I think he just needs to take some time to just relax.

This cute new sleeping kitty image called Cat On Fence and is from Stamping Dragon Designs. (Reminds me of the song,"Dreaming" from one of the top selling albums of all time-By Fleetwood Mac)

If you haven't checked out, Stamping Dragon, you need to! They have some great images and many are on sale right now in their shop, here. Stop by and check out what they have to offer and pick up some of these cute digis for yourself. While you're there, take a look at some of the cute kits and digi papers they have as well.

This time, I decided to try a couple of new things. It's my first time making a gate fold card, and my first attempt at coloring an image with chalks. I like how it turned out, and feel like the chalks give a nice softness to the image.

I also used a recipe from Cowgirl Up stamps to create the card: 1 image, 2 papers, 3 emellishments (3 buttons). The inside of the card has two coordinating patterned papers, but is left blank so I can add a personal message for dad, once I decide what I want to write inside it.

One piece of cardstock used. The background papers are all scraps from my stash. (Gotta love when you can use those up!) Ribbon is from my stash. Well actually, its from Steph's stash, since we were card making at her house last night, and I made this card there. The Father's Day sentiment is from Studio G, stamped with Stampin Up! Chocolate Chip. The buttons are from my stash.

My dad sometimes will sit and watch me make cards, lately, though he doesn't really seem to be the card type. This will be the first year that I'm giving him a Father's Day card I made myself.

Hopefully since this is a new image to me, this card counts for challenges with the theme "New."

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Father's Day/Manly Challenge at Daisy Doodles
SMC#16 Father's Day (No Blue) at Sew Many Challenges
Digi Day Challenge at Stamp Something
Challange #1 Masculine with ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
Challenge #19 More Than One Fold at Totally Paper Crafts
Buttons Challenge at Frosted Designs
Challenge #37 Down On The Farm (Most farms have a usually have a cat around) at If The Shoe Fits
SD#19 Just 4 you Dad at Simple Doodles
Save A Tree at Humble Pie Stamps/Town Scrapper
Challenge #1 "New" at Craftalicious
HFOS#30 Hats Off To You/Father's Day at Hand Full of Stamps
Chapter 16: What's Your Muchness at Oh! Alice
Challenge #29 Boys & Thier Toys at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #22 Quirky at Pile It On
Challenge #16 Boys To Men at Stitchy Bear Stamps
Challenge #3 Recipe 1,2,3 at Cowgirl Up Stamps
Challange #6 New Or Neglected Stash at Sentimental Sundays
Week #38 My Favorite Stamp at Crafty Angels
SHC3 Top Selling Albums Of All Time at Studio 313
Challenge #12 Father's Day at Cards For Men
Week #13 Just For Dad at The Shabby Tea Room
Challenge #62 Coloring With Chalks
Challenge #95 Xtra Special at My Time To Craft
Challenge #42 Anything But Square at A Crafty Little Place
Challenge #18 Buttons at Your Next Stamp
CWC007 Buttons at CAS-tastic
Father's Day at Tellen's Place
Challenge #116 Anything But A Square at Cute Card Thursday
One For The Males at CCEE Stampers
Challenge #54 Father's Day at C.R.A.F.T
BBCS#5 Anything Goes at Busy Beauties
Challenge #40 Summer at Stampin For The Weekend
Challenge #5 Relish To Embellish at Sundays With Crissy

My Dad, My Hero

I just got this new digital image from Whiff of Joy. Isn't he cute?! I just had to make a card with it! It is called Spider Henry. To me, Retro means something from my past, or some kind of funky color combo like from the 60's. LOL. I love this little guy! He reminds me of the old TV cartoon (and movie) Spiderman! I loved to watch that red & blue web slinger when I was a kid!

Little Spider Henry seems to have caught something in his web! This card is done in the trendy red, white & blue color combo.

The newsprint background paper and blue ribbon are from my stash. If you look closely you can see that he is slinging a web. The web is made with the net covering from a package of Honeysuckle White turkey breast, and adhered with glue dots. The image of the legs inside the net is a rubber stamp. I'm not sure which company, since the name is rubbed off the side of the wood. The oval and circle are punched with punches by Stampin Up!. The white white strips for the sentiments are punched with the word window punch by Stampin Up! Both sentiments are pop dotted for dimension.

Be sure and check out the Tuesday Taggers challenge blog, this week! They are giving away a great prize from Tanda Stamps!


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Challenge #73 Male card at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #15 Use Something New at One Stitch At A Time
Challange #20 Use Punches at Crafty Sentiments
Challenge #4 Layers at Sundays With Crissy
Challange #1 Masculine with ribbon at Really Reasonable Ribbon
TV Show Inspiration at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #61 Let's Get Trendy at Digital Tuesday
Retro at Doodle Palace
Touchy Feely Texture at Tuesday Taggers
Male Card at Simon Says Stamp
Another Challenge-Texture at Delightful Sketches
Challenge #13 Father's Day at Creative Cottage
Male card at For Fun Challenges
Challenge #8 For Dad at I Love Digi
Challenge #39 Red, White & Blue at Dare You To Digi Stamp
Challenge #106 Faces at Rainbow Lady's
Challenge #53 Newsprint at C.R.A.F.T
Digi Day Challenge at Stamp Something
HFOS #30 Hats Off To You/Father's Day at Hand Full of Stamps
Anything Goes at Daisy Doodles
Challenge #29 Boys and thier Toys at Sweet Stampin
Challenge #25 Punch It Out at Pixie Dust Studios
Challenge #37 Anything Goes at AI Factory
Challenge #5 Anything Goes at Busy Beauties
Challenge #1 New at Craftalicious