Happy 70th Birthday Dad!

Life has been very busy lately and my crafting time has been limited to necessities only, like the cards I made for my Dad's 70th Birthday (one from me & Rich and one from Phoebe).

I knew I wanted to put a funny Lion on my card as my Dad loves silly animals and is a Leo. Looking at my stamps, I realised I could use the leaf in the 'French Foliage' stamp set to make the Lion's mane. I set about stamping lots and lots of leaves in Cajun Craze onto Daffodil Delight cardstock. I cut each leaf out and assembled the Lion. The face is made using the scallop circle punch and the extra large oval punch. His body and legs are made using the decorative label punch and modern label punch. I've added his features and claws with the Basic Black marker and given him a shiny wet nose using Crystal Effects.

The main card is made using Riding Hood Red, Early Espresso and Pumpkin Pie cardstock. The sentiment is from 'Perfect Punches' and fits the XL Oval punch perfectly. I love that stamp set, it has sentiments that cover so many occasions and they all co-ordinate with Stampin' Up! punches too.

My Daughter, Phoebe, was keen to make her own card for Grandad and so we set about the very messy task. Phoebe is what you might call a 'hands on' crafter...

She made a great job of creating lots of different coloured papers for me to work with and a super handprint to use as a main image. I think I have a future Demo on my hands ;) Needless to say 'Grandad' absolutely loved the card and was in stitches at the photos and video of Phoebe creating it.

Boys Toys class update

I had a lot of fun at this week's Papercraft Session, despite a kettle malfunction leaving us all slightly parched. As well as the 'Rock Star' card I showed you in a previous post, we also made a punch art BBQ card for those Dads who like to do the cooking as long as it's outdoors ;D

Every part of the barbecue is made from Stampin' Up! punches and even the beer bottles are made using the Word Window punch. The clouds are made using the 'faux clouds technique', where I've punched out a shape using the scallop circle and used the negative image as a template to apply Craft ink in Whisper White using a sponge dauber.

The sentiment is from the Sale-a-Bration set 'So happy for you' and the 'dad' is stamped using the Just Perfect alphabet stamp set and that all important Stamp-a-ma-jig for perfect alignment.

I nearly forgot to say - see the embers flickering from the barbecue? That's actually the stems from one of the stamps in the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set! I used a Real Red marker to just ink up the parts I wanted to stamp. It's good to take a step back and look at your stamps sometimes in order to see what else they could be used for.

The MP3 gift card holder uses one of the sentiments from the Just Believe stamp set, which is one of my favourite sets from the current catalogue.

Here's a pic of the completed projects from the class.