Happy Father's Day!

Time for a Masculine Card!

I am truly blessed to have an amazing father.  Words really can't express how thankful I am to have such an amazing Dad.  We had an early Father's Day with the fam a week ago and my husband showed off his cooking prowess.  Today we'll do Father's Day #2 with our 'adopted' grandfather.

Saturday, though, was a trip to Indy.  Now that school's out, I took a day to hang with my sister and try to get her corrupted and started with card making.  This, of course, included a shopping trip to pick up "needed" supplies.  😂 After getting her rolling, I got started on a Father's Day Card.

Happy Father's Day Card

I dug out one of my 4x6 Paper Mat Packs from Hobby Lobby to make it.  I found this awesome pack on clearance and knew it would be perfect for making a few masculine cards.

I love the designs in this pack.  I'm a huge fan of mixing in designs with things such as wood texture, and this pack had some interesting patterns that I had not seen before including a drawer design and some stitched fabric.  I chose a few sheets that had a lot of texture including a basket-like one, a stitched background and a fun geometric design.  I started with this sketch from Sketch Saturday.

I pulled out my fav cardstock for bases, 110 lb and chose a few sheets from the Recollections Storm Clouds pack.  I used three different sheets of cardstock as either the card base or for matting.  A while back I found this fun pack of gears at a Jo-ann's that was having a liquidation sale.  (Love shopping sales!)   I've been dying to use them so I added in a few of these gears from the Steampunk Multi Gear pack.

To finish things off I pulled out a new stamp set I purchased last month at my stamp club meeting.  I was super excited to get the Well Said stamp set from Stampin' Up.  I was wishing I had grabbed the matching framelits and my Cuttlebug before I left for my sister's, but I was trying to pack light so I only had the stamp set on hand.  I used  Memento London Fog to stamp "Happy Father's Day" on the outside and to put "The best thing about today is you" on the inside.  

That finished things off!  I can't wait to tear into this paper pad some more and make more cards this week.  I still have the Mechanics 3-D Texture Fade folder from Tim Holtz that I have been waiting to try and I think I will use some of this paper pack and give it a whirl sometime this week.

I hope all Fathers have an amazing, blessed Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day Card

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Supplies:
Designer Cardstock:  The Paper Studio - The Home Collection Cardstock:  Recollections - Storm Clouds
Park Lane - White
Stamps: Stampin' Up - Well Said
Ink: Memento - London Fog
Embellishments: Steampunk Multi Gear Pack

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