Dear Dad

Mr L and I are both fortunate to still have our Dad around and in good health so this weekend, I’m sharing the cards I made for them for Father’s Day.  They each have completely different interests so rather than my usual two same-but-different cards, I opted for completely different cards this year.

For my F-i-L, I used Visible Image’s 99% Chance of Wine stamps and dies.  I started with the background, using Versamark ink and clear embossing powder to give a tone-on-tone look and repeat stamped the wine bottle.

Next, I stamped the bottle and wine glass separately, colouring the bottle with markers and adding the wine stamp from the set.

As you can see from the finished card, I had to redo the glass as when I added clear Nuvo Drops, the water-based ink spread and was really blurred so I restamped and coloured with alcohol markers instead.  The sentiment is from the Time To Par-tee stamp set.

For my Dad’s card, I used the Fisherman Boating stamp set by Inkylicous.  All of my life, Dad has gone fishing although he unfortunately hasn’t been able to go recently owing to being Mum’s full-time carer.  I saw this and the sentiment made me laugh!   For the background, I blended a few blue Distress Inks, adding some green into the water area and fading to the sky.  The images were then simply stamped over in black.

Have a lovely day, whether with your Dad in person or remembering special times with them.