Father's Day cards

These are the cards I made for my two sons to give to their dad. It's taken ages again to upload photos ... after my recent problems with Mr. Blogger I decided that he perhaps didn't do late nights ... he doesn't seem to like Sundays either.

For this first card, which is 6"x6", I used a Papermania stamp of a man asleep in his chair, hubby does this a lot, surrounded by his newspaper, tv remote and cup of tea. I liked the idea of using some distressed newsprint for the background after watching a demo on the web, so I looked through the sports pages for a suitable piece of the correct size. Unfortunately I couldn't find what I was looking for as I wanted all words without pictures and didn't like the blank spaces between the columns. Then I had the idea of cutting out the column strips and pasting them randomly to create the background (I used Ranger Distress Inks first) and I'm really happy with the result. The image was coloured with Promarkers and the word strips created on the pc.





My second card is A5 size and I have used a free download called 'Soccer Nut' which was a Friday Freebie from Bugaboo Stamps. I printed the image twice, once onto craft card from which I cut out the 'nut' and created texture using a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The rosette was created with scalloped nesties and another free image but I can't remember where I got this from. I love Soccer Nut, he's so cute.



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Hugs, Lynn x