Horrid Heat and Father's Day Cards!

Hi Everyone I'm posting today to talk about the HEAT and my fathers day cards that I made!


So, how are you all doing? I'm doing ok, just trying to stay home as much as possible because this heat is HORRID!! I don't really like the heat all that much, when I moved to Kentucky from Lost Wages, uhm, I mean Las Vegas, I thought that we had escaped the heat, but we found differently. LOL It gets REALLY hot here, and on top of the heat is humidity. I really dislike it!

Well, while I was hunkered down yesterday, I worked on father's day cards for my daddy and my grandpa. I still have to make one for hubby from our furbabies, and I also need to work on hubby's bday card. He will be 41 on June 16th, and I'll be 33 on the 24th of June. I can't believe how quickly this last year has passed!! I'm definitely NOT looking forward to being a year older, my gray hairs are starting to show wayyyyy too much!

Well anyhow, here are the father's day cards I made!


This first one is for my daddy. I was a little torn on what image to use, I've had this digi stamp for quite some time now. It is called "I love you daddy" and you can get it for $0.99 at Squigglefly.com
I didn't like that the lines were so "light", they aren't really black, they are a light gray, so I just went over them with my black pen.

It was difficult for me to find the right papers to put this card together. I only have "girly" type paper, and some other deco paper, nothing that was really for a guy. So, I got some from a pif from my friend Annette. I basically told her the colors I was looking for and she sent me this stuff. She has some really nice paper!

I did a lot of layering. All together, this card has 7 layers on top of the base folded cardstock. Then, adding the image and the 2 circles for the sentiments, there are 10 layers all together! that is a lot! haha.
You can't imagine how many times I fiddled with this cards layers before I finally adhered them all together, lol.

The brown and orange base paper are all bazzil, and I am not sure what brand the deco paper is. I didn't ask Annette.
The flowers are prima (the yellow, blue and white one) and recollections (just the brown one). I used a regular brad and then used glossy accents to adhere a blue gem to it.
There are 2 ribbons, I just layered the blue one on top of the orange one. Yes, this card is ORANGE, NOT yellow!! my lighting really is horrible. I had ran out of daylight by the time I was finished with this card, so couldn't snap the pic outside.
I used prima fiber to hand the "love" charm from. and then prima self adhesive pearls. Though, I have to say, the pearls don't stick very well, so I ended using some glossy accents to keep it on there good!
The sentiment is a digi stamp as well from squigglefly.

To get the "Dad!" in the middle, I used the stamp from CTMH D1342 "world's best dad" set, and I just used some tape to mask the top part of the stamp so that I'd just be left with the dad part! I used SU! Brilliant Blue ink to stamp it.

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Here is the card for my Grandpa. He is an old goofy guy, most people say he is very immature. Well, that's why we get along so well! LOL
I know he'll love this card!

I do not know what brand the deco paper is, I got it in a paper swap quite some time ago! I used an A2 card base embossed with swiss dots (I don't have this embossing folder, but I want it!!) from a swap that I got. The little alien was originally a digital stamp from squigglefly. His name is Spike and you can buy him for $1.50. Instead of using him as a digital stamp and coloring him in, I used him as a paper piecing. I cut all the different shapes out of different deco paper and then pieced him together. I used those fun and cute real googly eyes, one in an extra large size and one in a medium size. The card is SO cute with that added little touch! It's so funny to hold the card and shake it and watch his eyes go all wacky! haha

I used a prima button with some black embroidery floss to give the card a bow. I don't know what brand the star clip is, I got it from my bff sis Leslie. I used blue skittles (home colored) in 3 of the corners.
For the sentiment, I printed it out in word, I used the font called "Space Patrol" that I downloaded for free from Dafont.com. You can see more of the font HERE. I used recollections blue star eyelets on each end of the sentiment strips and then just attached them to the card with glue dots.

I really am happy with the way this card turned out, and I can definitely see myself using this exact layout again. I will probably even make another card exactly like this one for someone in the future. :)

Well, those are my 2 cards for this weekend. I'll be posting more later this week when I finish the card for my hubby and his bday card too.

Have a great week everyone.
Keep on scrappin' and please, be kind to one another.
~Melisa Marie