Father's Day for the Car Guy

Hello again!  Here is the last of my 3 Father's Day cards - this for my hubby, who is sooooo into cars!! 

Challenges:

• Freshly Made Sketches 
  
• Color Hues - Aqua & Black
• The Male Room - Dads & Grads
  
• Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies
  

 

Supplies:

• Stamps: Stampin Up (car); Hero Arts (sentiment)
• Dies: Stampin Up (car); Technique Tuesday (gears)

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Enjoy your weekend.  Enjoy celebrating any Fathers in your family.  My hubby is already planning on spending his morning at a car show. 😆

Into the Sunset

For my husband for our anniversary - 36 years next week.  We are off from work next week -- he's pulling out and swapping an engine on his car, and I'm crafting in my room.  We'll both be happy doing our hobbies -- but we will certainly take some time for a nice ride (not with the top down yet . . . too cold) and go out for dinner.  And of course see our kids too.

Virginia's View - Layers and Dimensions - I colored the image (from Deep Red) with watercolors, and then partially die cut it.  Then cut the scalloped oval from pattern paper (DCWV) and sponged it with some more orangey colors.  These are layered and popped.

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches - I flipped this upside down -- I'm not sure if this still qualifies  . . .

Always Playing with Paper - it's their Anniversary too -- Anything Goes

And  for Cardz 4 Guyz  - Something Beginning with S -- Sunset and Steve (that's my husband)

I created the rest of the Sunset with 2 stencils.  I sponged the rays with a Tim Holtz stencil, then shifted it a bit.  Then put a Simon Says Stamp falling hearts over the white space and sponged in the blue hearts.  They look more like flying birds  . . . oh well - up close they are hearts.  

Thanks for looking and commenting.  For those of you celebrating Easter or Passover, I hope you are having a good holiday.

Father's Day Journey

So after a great morning taking a class with Tim Holtz today and lunch with good friends, I realized I needed a card for the best man in the world -- my husband.  So I decide to put some of my new purchases to use :)

The stamps are from Tim Holtz (I've had these a while, but they are NBUS).  The flames are a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop.  The dot fade stencil is Tim Holtz.  And I used the new marker spritz tool on the bottom portion of the card.  I think you will be seeing more from this too!  It it sooooo easy to use!

CAS Colours and Sketches 

CASE(E) this Sketch 

Iron Craft Challenge - Inspiration #1 - which is the sketch and I used the color selection in the top left corner

Father's day is next Sunday.  I am glad to get this done today.  Starting tomorrow we will be dog-sitting for my son and girlfriend's dog for a week.  So between work and dog-walking, there will be no time for crafting.  Guiness is a terrific and such a cuddle-loving dog.  It should be a fun week.

I am entering this card in these other challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - Father's Day

Splendiferous Challenge-for-Boys

Moving Along with the Times - Father's Day

The Crafter's Cafe  - create a masculine card

Cards for Guyz - Father's Day

Edited to add this to Words to Live By - Oh the Places You'll Go - challenge.

A great cardmaker and blogger, Darnell is the guest designer here.  And after checking this out, I think this card fits the requirements of the challenge. Here is a (poor quality - sorry) photo of the inside sentiment.   I hope you can read it.  It is appropriate for many things.

Thanks for stopping by to look.  I hope you'll join and become a follower!

Smokin Hot

 

Monday is my and hubby's 35th anniversary.  He is very into cars -- he has a hot rod in the garage, that is his pride and joy (second to me :) It is a very dark blue (hence the coloring on this card).

 

The car stamp is from Clear Art Stamps.  The "road" is from Stampin Up.  I'm not sure about the sentiment.  The flames is a mask from The Crafter's workshop - sponged with distress inks, and then spritzed with a glossy mist (which doe not show up in the photo, but looks really cool)

 

Here is a photo of the inside:

 

 

I am placing this in the following challenges:

1. Feeling Sketchy - which I rotated - so many pretty cards!

 

2. One Layer Simplicity - Road Trip - I love the work these folks create --

3. Addicted to Clean And Simple - Wheels -  another great site for lots of talented inspiration

4. Little Red Wagon - Make it Masculine - a new site for me -- one I plan to visit more often

5. Crafty Creations Challenge - a color : Blue and Yellow - gorgeous cards, in all styles

 

thanks so much for looking!  I am looking forward to a small get-away this weekend to the East End of Long Island, NY.  Can you say "shopping, wineries, and dinner with a view of the sun setting over LI Sound"  Woo Hoo!

Vintage Car Birthday

This is for my hubby's birthday.  He has a 1937 Ford Cabriolet -- which is his hobby. 

I got this stamp from a vendor at a car show.  It is his car!   He loves it, when I use his car on his cards. I stamped the car on clear plastic, then on blue glitter paper from DCWV.  And then cut that out, and pieced it on top of the plastic.  His car is this great dark blue color.
The balloon is a die from Penny Black.

I used the sketch from  CAS(E) This Sketch and the colors from   Colour Q .  The papers are from a mix of companies - the colors are from My Mind's Eye, and the "road-like" blue may be from DCWV, with some more stamping on top, and Goosebumps texture spray.

Over at Seize the Birthday - add texture.  I used "Goosebumps" spray, for the first time.  And it won't be the last!  Like its name implies, it leaves raised bumps, with a hint of sparkle.  The paper almost feels like leather after it dries.  Really cool -- I will definitely be using this again. 

Thanks for looking.