Father's Day Cards

Hello there! Today I'd like to share the Father's Day cards that I sent to our fathers.

When making these cards, I was inspired by Tiffany's "Piggy Tail Doll" Card to use a doll and kraft cardstock together. I also saw these great Paper Ice Cream Cones by Tiffany, and knew I wanted to use my new Modern Lines stamp, too.

One of the Father's Day cards:
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To make these cards, I started by stamping the Dots and Flowers pattern using VersaMark watermark ink onto some small bits of burnt orange and green cardstock. Then I covered the ink with clear embossing powder, shook off the excess, and heat embossed it. These embossed scraps will become the "pattern" on the dolls' tunics.

Next I stamped the Asian doll image using black ink onto white cardstock twice and set it aside. I also stamped the doll in black over top of the orange and green cardstock that I just embossed. I also stamped just the head of the doll onto additional scraps of green and orange cardstock, so that I could make matching hats. I set all these pieces aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I took some blue and burnt orange cardstock and stamped the Modern Lines background using watermark ink. I sprinkled clear embossing powder over each one, shook off the excess, and heat embossed them. Then I trimmed them to fit on the card base and leave a small margin all the way around.

I prepared white A2 sized card bases (4.25" x 5.5"). Then I stamped the letters for the word "dad" onto kraft cardstock using watermark ink. I heat embossed these using white embossing powder. Then I carefully cut them out and set them aside.

The other Father's Day card:

I selected some dark brown cardstock for contrast and die cut two Curved Rectangles shapes using Nesties in my Cuttlebug. Then I adhered the word "dad" to each one.

Now that the ink was dry, I used an embossing pen to trace the design and top knot of the dolls' hats on the orange and green cardstock and embossed with clear embossing powder. The embossing pen is watermark ink in a pen form, so that you can emboss your own handwriting or trace designs. Then I coated the black part of each hat using Glossy Accents for dimension and shine.

I cut out the white dolls to use as a base. Then I cut out the dolls' tunics and adhered them to the white doll bases. Once the glossy accents dried thoroughly, I cut out the dolls' hats and adhered them to the doll bases.

I adhered the Modern Lines background pieces to the card bases. Then I attached the "dad plaques". Finally, I adhered the dolls to the cards using pop dots for dimension. The overall look has simplicity in design, but it took a lot of steps to make these cards.

Materials used:

• cardstock: white, green, burnt orange, blue, kraft, dark brown


• EK Success Cutter Bee Scissors


• EK Success 3D-Dots: 1/8" squares


• Hero Arts S5213 Dots and Flowers


• Hero Arts S5218 Modern Lines


• Hero Arts LP146 Special Edition: Asian Dolls


• Ranger Archival Ink (waterproof): jet black


• Ranger Embossing Pen


• Ranger Embossing Powder: Seafoam White and Clear


• Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents


• Ranger Inkssentials Heat-It Craft Tool (heat gun)


• ProvoCraft Cuttlebug


• Spellbinders Nestabilities: Curved Rectangles and embossing pad


• Technique Tuesday Boulder Skyline lowercase alphabet


• Tsukineko VersaMark watermark ink

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