Father's Day Card

 

I won a contest on NSD at Pumpkin Spice and got to choose a prize!  How fun is that!  I chose the Happiest Moments stamp set by My Pink Stamper from their store here.  I love it and can I say that they had SUPER fast shipping!  Wow.  Love that!  They had some wonderful items in their store, but because I don't have many stamps, I chose this set because it covers the basic holidays.  I have to start somewhere!  LOL.   I'm picturing Valentine's Day cards, Easter goody bags, Halloween treats etc. with this stamp set! The asked me to create a project with the prize I won, so I decided to make a Father's Day Card since it is fast approaching.  Masculine cards are the hardest for me but....I like how this one turned out.  I had such fun doing easel cards for Mother's Day that I decided to do another one for Father's Day.  I still need to make my Father-in-Law a card but at least I have one ready to go and it's not last minute!  Hope you like it!  The pocket cut is from a freebie file from Designs on Cloud 9 that she shared a while ago.  I think it works great for a manly card!

http://4craftychicks.blogspot.com/2012/05/4-ccc91-color-challenge.html Color challenge
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2012/05/himcr-47-fathers-day.html Father's Day
 http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuesday-throwdown-100.html masculine
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/2012/05/ptt70-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
http://amusestudiochallengeblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/lets-get-sentimental.html sentiment as focus
http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-17-add-sentiment.html add a sentiment
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/pile-it-on-22-two-or-more-folds.html 2 or more folds
http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-20-no-flowers-allowed.html no flowers
http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/simon-says-fathers-dayspecial-male.html Father's Day
http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-93-bring-on-boys.html boys

Flower and Mouse Easel Card

I loved the color combo and cards that I made for Mother's Day that I decided to use the last of the paper and make another one.  This one I added the cute little mouse to.  I think it's adorable!  The little mouse is from Treasure Box Designs shared as a weekly freebie once upon a time and for more info on the flower, go down my blog and the link is included for this pretty flower.   Anyway, just thought I'd use up all my scraps especially when I liked the end results so well.  Everyone I have given one of these cards too really liked it so....if it ain't broke....don't fix it!  LOL.

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2012/05/shopping-our-stash-challenge-53-may.html Floral
http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/68-anniversaries.html Anniversary
http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-64-anything-goes.html Anything goes
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-67-anything-goes.html Anything goes
http://www.southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-45-dying-to-diecut-or-punch.html die cut
http://creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-11-dimension.html dimension
http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/challenge-20.html easel

Memorial Day Arrangment

 

We lost my Dad  a little over a year ago and as I was trying to figure out what type of flowers to buy to put on his grave, nothing looked right.  My dad wasn't a flowery type of a guy and so I started to ponder "what" I could put out at his grave other than flowers to honor his memory.  This is what I came up with.  I think it's fitting. At Christmas I did an evergreen spray.  I sure miss him and of course making a project like this is emotionally draining, but....it turned out well and I think he would have liked it.  Miss you Dad!!!

http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/2012/05/hi-everyone-welcome-back-for-yet.html Memorial
http://www.fridaymashup.com/2012/05/fm60-boys-will-be-boys.html Special Man
http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-24-2012thursday-dlart-thankful.html Anything goes
http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/2012/05/inspire-me-fridays-60-anything-goes.html Anything Goes
http://www.mymemoriesblog.com/2012/05/its-in-word-challenge.html In a word - Dad

Lemonade Cards

 

Ok....while my friend was here the other day, she came up with this cute idea of making mason jar lemonade cards.  I think they turned out cute and were a lot of fun.  This is actually the first time that I have cut vellum and it turned out super easy.  No different than paper really.  Cute huh!

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-131-stitch-it-up.html Use stitching
http://paperlovingals.blogspot.com/2012/05/plg-32-tree-for-all-seasons.html Colors
http://scrappymoms-stamps.blogspot.com/2012/05/terrific-tuesday-challenge-summer.html Summer theme

FIL Father's Day Card

This is a card that I made scraplifting an idea from Lisa.  Here card is shown below.
 

Here is Lisa's Card that I scraplifted the pocket idea from.  Cute huh!

Since Father's Day is just around the corner, I decided to make my FIL a card and followed a sketch from a challenge at Scrapping Bug Designs.   I scraplifted the idea of the pocket on the card from Lisa Juracek.  Unfortunately, I can't find her "blog" or where I got this so....here is the picture of her card  anyway.  My FIL loves to garden so I took the little tools from the Home Grown with Love set from Scrapping Bug Designs and made this easel Father's Day card.  I hope he likes it.  I have a hard time with masculine cards but I don't think it looks girly so I should be ok!  :-)

I'm entering it into these challenge:
http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.ca/2012/05/shopping-our-stash-challenge-52-bingo.html patterened paper, blue, sentiment, ribbon (I used twine) and a tag
http://www.kraftygirls.com/2012/05/kopy-kat-challenge-8.html Kopy Kat sketch and Lisa Juracek
http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/2012/05/tuesday-throwdown-99.html 3D Easel Card
http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/2012/05/inspire-me-fridays-59-anything-goes.html Anything goes
http://useittuesday.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-32-use-two.html
2 horded supplies I have had 2 of these patterend papers for over 5 years! 
http://sarahhurleychallenges.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-66-sponsored-by-sarah-hurley.html tag or ticket
http://www.southerngirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2012/05/challenge-44-about-boys.html boys

 

Double Scoop Ice Cream Birthday Cards

Over at Pumpkin Spice, they are having a birthday challenge.  My friend came over and we decided to make a couple of birthday cards to have on hand.  This is what we came up with!  Aren't they fun.  Who doesn't like ice cream?  LOL.  We put a white insert inside to make writing in them easier and stamped Happy Birthday inside.  We also decide to try some of our new twine.  I like how cute it makes the little tag look.  Fun fun!  It's nice to have a couple of cards on hand for those last minute gifts!

http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/pumpkinspice-special-may-blog-hop.html

Lunch Bag Dino

 

My son had a rendezvous this week and he has been so excited.  One of the requirements is to take a cold lunch in a 100% throw awayable container.  So ... I pulled out the old brown bags and thought I'd add a little something to the front so that he would know which one was his quickly.  So here is his lunch bag for the day.  :-)