Stamps & Stretchy Pants

Hi friends! I wanted to share a really adorable Father’s Day project that I designed for a recent kids class! We had so much fun putting everything together and I know the lucky dad’s will be truly touched by this gift!

Of course you need to make things a ‘gift set’ right? We have our fun project, a coordinating card and tag for our gift bag! I do love matchy matchy stuff and its always so easy with Stampin’ Up!

I started with an inexpensive canvas that I got at our local ‘dollar’ store.

I did a bit of ink blending with Boho Blue and a Blending Brush on the canvas around the top left and bottom right of where my photo was going to be placed.

I used a cute 4x6 picture of my youngest son and his dad on a Night of Navy base. I love the combination of Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy and Pebbled Path! It worked so well on this project!

I added a little strip of Misty Moonlight DSP along the left side of the picture and used a Pebbled Path piece to create the rosette. I am loving the Round We Go bundle! The rosettes are pretty easy to assemble and make this project come to life!

The sentiment ‘So Glad You are My Dad’ is from the Gone Fishing stamp set and ‘You’re Awesome’ is from the retired Circle Saying Stamp set. I also used the Encircled in Nature Dies as well to layer ‘So Glad’ in Boho Blue.

I think this project turned out so adorable and you could modify it for any occasion like a birthday or celebration (think Grad or even a wedding shower!).

And of course we have a coordinating card and I used our new Brayer for the first time on the bottom section! I inked it up in Night of Navy and brushed it over Basic White card stock, leaving a section at the top to run through an embossing folder. I used a strip of Night of Navy card stock to hide where it was uneven and to create separation between the two section.

I used our Water Painter to flick water over the inked section so the water droplets would ‘remove’ some of the ink. It basically happens on contact and is pretty cool technique.

The Trusty Tools stamp set was perfect for the front and inside of the card. ‘Dad’ is stamped in Pebbled Path ink on another shape from the Encircled in Nature Dies and ‘Happy Father’s Day’ is on Boho Blue in Night of Navy ink.

I decorated the inside of the card as well with a little strip of DSP and ‘You’re the most Awesome’ from Trusty Tools. The frame around the sentiment is from the Labeled with Love Bundle.

I think this is such a fun gift to give Dad and I loved how all the kids had their own creative spin on how to assemble the project! As you can see from the smiles below I think they really did enjoy putting things together!

Please feel free to shop my store or DM to place an order if you are inspired by this project! All of your support allows me to continue to ‘love what I do’!

Hello friends! This is a card share featuring a technique I have used quite a bit lately—the Floating Strip Technique! It is such a good way to use up those strips of paper we all seem to have in our scrap bins!

After I designed this card and shared it with my card making group I realized that the floating strip section looks rather like a baseball! It wasn’t what I was intending but it works with Your Biggest Fan Bundle as a bit of a happy accident!

The base of the card is Sahara Sand and I layered Basic White with a panel of DSP from the Hey Sports Fan collection. It almost looks like this DSP has been run through an embossing folder but it hasn’t, it really is that amazing.

For the Floating Strip component, I ran my strips of Sahara Sand cardstock through the Timber 3D folder to mimic the DSP. The window sheet and strips are die cut with the largest circle from the Layering Circle Dies. Once you have the shape die cut, add it to your card base using the Foam Adhesive strips on the backside of the circle. I like to use the strips because they do have a little more height than a regular Dimensional.

I used a few of the ticket dies from the Sports Event Dies to accentuate the sentiment which is die cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies (a craft room must have, hit #addtocart ). I also used the twine and Resin Stars embellishments to complete this card!

The inside of the card is stamped with some Crumb Cake stars from the Your Biggest Fan stamp set and a cute die cut ticket with “Happy Father’s Day” is added over top as a little extra happiness on the inside!

Sometimes its an unexpected surprise to have something on the inside!

I hope you enjoy this Father’s Day themed card and if you have not purchased this bundle, you definitely need to before it is gone for good at the end of June. It is a keeper for me as I find it is unique and has a lot of potential.