Another Moon Lake Father's Day card

I just love this stamp set, and now that I'm actually making some cards with it, I can't seem to stop.  However, I need to as I have class to prepare for this week.

This card was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest, and cased some elements but put my own twist on things.

The base card is Soft Suede card stock, layered with Very Vanilla upon which the background stamp "Hardwood" was stamped with Soft Suede ink.

The corners were rounded on the bottom of a rectangle of Soft Suede.  The top was punched with the spiral punch.  After the edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink, a piece of Baker's twine was wrapped around the top and the ends inserted into a Bronze button and tied in a knot on the top.  A glue dot under the button holds it in place.  This piece was placed at an angle on the hardwood background using dimensionals.

The image was stamped on a rectangular piece of Very Vanilla cardstock and all the corners rounded and the edges sponged.  The image was initially coloured using markers, and then highlighed with the actual markers after stamping.  This art piece was adhered to the lower Soft Suede rectangle parallel to the bottom of the card.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny wishes, punched with the Word Window punch, and matted with Soft Suede modern label punch.

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Double Fold Moon Lake Father's Day Card

This card is different, in that it really is two cards in one.
The stamp set used is Moon Lake, the image of the bird on the branch.

The Old Olive is 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 scored at 4 1/4 to form an A2 card.  In the front I die cut an oval using the Oval framelits, and then texturized it using the Decorative Dots folder.  Some Baker's Twine was wrapped around it and tied in a knot.

The Whisper White piece is 5 1/4 by 8 scored at 4".  As you can see from the second picture, the image was stamped on a piece of Whisper White, die cut using the Ovals framelits, and an Oval frame in Old Olive was adhered around it.  This was adhered to the front of the Whisper White piece, so that when the card was closed the image showed through the oval cut out.

The image was coloured using markers and an Aqua painter, and the sky was coloured using a finger dauber and Soft Sky ink.

An easy card to make and leaves lots of room for writing.

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Happy Father's Day - Pals Paper Arts #248

Hasn't the weather been gorgeous?  I am so looking forward to working in the garden.  My son raked all the leaves and dead growth, and now I'm waiting for some evidence of life emerging from the dirt.  I usually hold a plant sale every May, but the late Spring may derail my plans for then.

Today, for the challenge with Pals Paper Arts  sketch challenge, I used the stamp set "Moon Lake" on a background I had made with Blendabilities before they were "pulled" by Stampin' Up.  I still have some, so I am still using them.

I took the privilege of turning the sketch on its side.

The following blendabilities were used to create this background on photo paper:  Old Olive, Soft Suede (medium), Daffodil Delight.

The image was stamped using Black Memento ink, and coloured with blendabilities.  The art panel was matted with Soft Suede cardstock, followed by Old Olive.  All edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink. A piece of Baker's twine was wrapped around the left end, a small gold button attached and the twine knotted over the button.

The basic cardstock is Soft Suede layered with Very Vanilla and then Park Lane DSP.

The image panel was adhered  to the DSP using dimensionals.

The sentiment is from "Guy's Greetings" and was stamped with Basic Black ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock.  Again the edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink.  It was attached to the right corner using dimensionals.

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Happy Birthday Moon Lake

I again use the blendabilities background to stamp an image from Moon Lake.  I just love doing this technique, but alas there is another technque that I want to try - but not for this card.

Colours used for this background:  Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake

The image, from "Moon Lake" was stamped with Black Stazon ink directly onto the background paper, and then the image was die cut using the Windows collection framelit die.  This was adhered to a piece of Crumb Cake that had been die cut using the Apothecary accents framelit.  This in turn was added to a Bermuda Bay die cut using the other shape of the Apothecary accents framelit.  Both Apothecary Accent dies were paper pierced using the paper piercing pack and paper piercer.  Also, all edges were sponged with Early Espresso ink.  The sentiment, from "Petite Pairs", was punched with the small oval punch and adhered just below the image.

The base card is Bermuda Bay cardstock, layered with Very Vanilla cardstock embossed with the Decorative Dots embossing folder.  The edges of these were sponged with the Early Espresso ink as well.


Horizontally, in the middle, is a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock matted with Bermuda Bay.  I trimmed the long end of a piece of 1 1/4" striped Bermuda bay ribbon and frayed it, and then attached it to the horizontal band.

The image piece was attached to the middle of the card over this band.

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