Big Foot-You're a Legend for Father's Day

 I made some big foot cards!!! I don't have a preview image so you'll have to click below to see...

Sail Away...Father's Day (2 cards)

 I made some sailboat cards for Father's Day for a card order I have received. I don't have pic previews, so click below to see the cards...

Lighthouse cards for Father's Day

I made 2 lovely cards with lighthouses for Father's day cards. I don't have a preview so click below...

You're a Classic (car)-Father's Day (2 cards)

 Another new stamp I recently got from my Ma, a large stamp set of classic cars. So, I made 2 classic car cards, different layouts. I don't have any preview pics so, click below...

Cheers with beers for Fathers!

 I made 7 Father's day cards with 3 different beer stamps. No preview pics so...

Father's, Men of the moment

 I made 2 more bear cards, different than the last 2 that I made. No preview, so...

A beary special Father's Day (2 cards)

 My Ma had sent me 2 new stamp sets off Amazon and one of them has a bear in it, I thought it'd be cute to make these 2 cards. No preview, so...

Classic Father's Day (2 cards)

 A friend had sent me a SU! Paper Pumpkin kit that had a full set of card making supplies for 8 cards and also a partial set for 4 cards. I used some of the pieces from the set to make these 2 cards. I don't have a preview so you know what to do...

Furbabies Father's Day

Hubby and I don't have children, (well, just one grown one we've adopted by word) but we do have furbabies. This June I made him a father's day card from our 2 kitties and our doggy. I love how it came out, it is so cute! When I put it on my FB page, everyone loved it!

I received the sentiment from a friend in a batch of images she sent me. I crossed out the "me" and wrote "us". He really is a good daddy to our babies, he does everything to take care of them. Especially cleaning the kitty box which I can't do because of the dust and my extremely severe allergies.
I also received the paw print cut out, but it was on a bigger sheet, so I just cut down to size what I needed to mat the sentiment on. I added some red string to match the babies hearts and the "us" from the sentiment. Yep, those are red sequin, too!
I had this studio G cat and dog (separate sets) so I knew I had to come up with something to use.
I inked the cat once and then stamped it on the piece of clear plastic that comes with the stamp-a-ma-jig and I carefully pressed it down onto cardstock. It stamped quite well, I only needed to fill in 2 tiny parts. I fussy cut them out and then stamped the doggy and fussy cut it out as well. I colored all 3 with my prismacolor pencils and blended them with gamsol.

There is a LOT of dimension to this card.

On the inside I punched out little paws with my paw punch. I punched them in the color of our furbabies paws. the top 2 are for our kitties and the bottom is for our doggy. On the top one I had to color in little black spots cause one of our kitties jelly beans are grey with black dots (jelly beans = paw pads), I think it came out cute.

Hubby really liked his card, I'm so glad he did (I knew he would). I hope you liked the card, too. Please check back often as I have more to post.

Keep on Craftin'
~Melisa Marie

You Rock, Dad!

So, I know this post is a little late, LOL... but here's the father's day card I made for my daddy this year! I figured I better post this before the year is done. :-/
I actually didn't realize that I had missed posting this, until I was creating back-up discs of all my posts. WHOOPSIE!!!!!!!!!!    FYI, he loved it!

here's a sneak peek, click below to see the rest...

Surgery, Stitches, 2 cards and my card Featured on SPS blog!

EDITED TO ADD: I was just made aware that my "with sympathy" card that I blogged about in May, has been featured on the Sweet Pea Stamps blog! It was customer submission week and I decided to go ahead and send it to them. I didn't think they would pick me, but they did!! WOOT WOOT!! I wish they would have included a link back to my blog though!! but oh well! at least they featured my card! :) I made a comment and gave my blog link. hehe

I have 2 cards to share with you today that I made last night, after fighting myself to get out of bed to make them! Last week I went in for surgery to have my gallbladder out. Healing was going quite well until yesterday, I REALLY wasn't feeling well, and then I realized somehow, I ripped 2 stitches. Hubby ended up taking me to the hospital and they said I did in fact rip 2 stitches, but after going over my daily activities (which were just laying in bed watching movies, and showering) they came to the conclusion that the stitches just dissolved, but  way too early, because I still have a huge hole in my side! To top that off, I have a pretty bad staph infection, so that explains why I've been feeling so sick the last few days. Infections are nothing new to me, having Lupus (sle) it's pretty much a guarantee that I will end up with some sort of infection after any surgery that I have because my body isn't able to fight off all the bad stuff on it's own. I took the antibiotics they gave me for the 7 days, but I guess they just weren't strong enough.

Anyhow, here are the 2 cards! Today is my dear hubby's b-day! I was so sore sitting up in my chair last night I was just rushing to make the card. I also made him this adorable father's day card from our "furbabies". :)
Here are 2 sneak peeks, click the link below for full pics!
B-day card sneak peek:

 Father's day card sneak peek:

Father's Day Cards

With Father's Day just around the corner, I had to get really busy earlier this week and get the 4 cards done that I needed to make. I went in for surgery on wednesday the 6th to have my gallbladder out, and knew I wouldn't feel up to doing much this weekend or the coming week. and boyyyyy was I right! I feel like crap! my stomach and right side is really swollen and very bruised up. I feel like someone beat me in the tummy and side with a baseball bat.

Anyhow, I was able to get the cards done that I needed to make. I will try to update this the best I can, I'm on a lot of meds right now and I will do my best and keep it short and to the point... the cards are for my daddy and our friend Mike (he is like mine and hubby's surrogate dad) I just "up-cycled" 2 cards that I had previously made. I took the inside part out and added a new inside. the one card I did that for, for my daddy was already a card for him, that I had forgot to send him a while back. So, it was still his card, haha. the card for Mike was just a spare birthday card that I made, so I took the inside out and replaced it with a new inside for father's day that I made.

I only had to make 2 "fresh" cards that weren't previously completed. One for my granddad and one for Mike from his daughter (for her to give to him).
Here is a sneak peek of one of the cards...

Click the link below to see the rest of the cards

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!