My Dad's 87th birthday was last week! He jokes that he has no idea how he got that old...and you'd never know he is by looking at him.
I always make my cards for family, and I had lots of new toys to play with. So this is what I created:
I loved the stamp set,
Big News, when I first saw it. Such fun phrases for all those special occasions. So I used "it's your birthday" as a starting point, along with the wonderful
Maritime Designer Series Paper (love!). I carefully stamped the phrase in
Versamark on
Night of Navy cardstock, and embossed it using
White Embossing Powder and my trusty
heat tool. This was layered on a slightly larger piece of
Whisper White cardstock.
Next I made a banner using Whisper White and Real Red (run through the
Stylish Stripes embossing folder), and added that to a piece of Real Red that was embossed with the
Chevron folder.
In order to distress this piece, I lightly dragged a
Whisper White craft pad over it, then cut out "D-A-D" using my new
Little Letters framelits. Punching out another piece of Maritime using the
Banner punch, I added these with a bow of
White Bakers Twine to create a mini banner.
The base of the card is Whisper White with the "sailors knot" DSP in Navy; all layers were added with Dimensionals. Finally a little arrow was cut twice in White and Red, using the arrow from the
Label Card Framelit.
Inside--more toys!
"enjoy the fuss" and the little candle are from Big News, while the Happy Birthday is from
Occasions 4 You. I used the
Simply Scored board to score lines around the edge--I think embossed edges make such a nice addition.
And finally--an envelope.
The
Envelope Punch Board makes it so easy to create envelopes for unusual-sized cards. Maritime DSP made matching the card easy peasy!
Happy Birthday, Dad! I love you!
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And let's get creating!
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Thanks, Nathanael; I hope you'll visit again soon!
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