Sunday 19 May 2013

Happy Father's Day!!

First it was a chance to make your mum  feel special and now its a turn to make dad feel special. Well....i don't really subscribe to the idea that you need a special day to tell your parents how much they mean to you. But....that said......its always nice to celebrate an occassion....isn't it!! :-) So after trying my hand at a flower pot for the first time to make a mother's day card, I'm trying my hand at masculine cards. Last time i tried a CAS masculine card but this time i decided to try harder. You know, its kinda difficult to think of masculine card layouts and embellishments. I must've gone through a gazillion blogs and videos on youtube to get a hang of how to make and embellish guy cards!! Finally this is the outcome...it isn't even close to what a lot of crafters out there have made.....but its my first and so special to me.....just like how dad is the first guy i knew in my life and so very special to me!


I tried a few new things/techniques while making this card - distressing the edges of my card stock, making the rosette (is that what they're called??!), using those massive buttons and making those windows with patterned paper stuck to the back where i put in the alphabets for the word "dad" (is that a technique....don't know....have seen some crafters try it and so i tried it too! :-)).

In the pic below I've tried to capture the distressing i did on the paper edge. So basically I used cream card stock as the base and then layered it with another piece of cream card stock. The edges of the top layer were distressed using an exacto tool. And then also distressed with some distress ink.




Then I cut out those three windows (not sure if you can see that in the following pic) and adhered patterned paper to the back.I wanted it to have a pop up effect, but that didn't work out. I know what to do for that the next time. :-) And then of course I used those alphabet stickers for 'dad'.




The rosette was made with a nice patterned handmade paper that's been lying with me for atleast 5 years!!! I hoard!! I confess. The words "World's Greatest" are traced and written over with a black pen. I used vintage photo distress ink to distress the orange circle on the rosette. Distressing is really fun and gives such an amazing effect to paper. Need to buy more distress inks!




The buttons that you see are from my granddad's old coat. My granddad passed away a few years ago but I have very very fond memories of him. He was probably the best a grand dad could ever be and I know that his son, my dad, will be the same for my daughter!! :-) The best part is that my grand dad saw his great granddaughter (my daughter that is) and spent some time with her before he left us. Using those coat buttons was my way of remembering him and also putting them on this card to dad will definitely make my dad feel nice too. The three chevron strips that you see were cut out from a larger piece of patterned paper and adhered to the base patterned paper.




Another picture of the whole card.    




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21 comments:

  1. so nice reading all the details, so very nice,i guess guess you will be the winner :)

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    1. Thanks Kavitha for ur encouragement....makes me wanna do better! :-)

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  2. Wow what a lovely read. You're quite the writer. Your card is fab too... Really like the rosette and the buttons are so smart.
    Crafting Till The Crack of Dawn
    ItsyBitsy - The Blog Place

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    1. Ha ha...thanks Sunehra.....and to think that when i started this blog i was clueless about what to write!!

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  3. Wow I learned soo much abt masculine cards reading ur post. Ma fav was de checks u hav drawn on de pp. Am really gonna try it. N u match ur pp well wid every project. Way to go, like kavi said u r gonna crack de challenge dis time too

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    1. Thanks Sujana....you wont believe the amount of time i spend trying to match my pps.....but if u say they look good then i must be doing something rt! :-)

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  4. That's a perfect card for Dad. Lovely colors and nice execution.
    Thanks for joining us at Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad

    Cheers,
    Indira Tanwar
    DT - Lulupu Blog

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  5. Cool card, love the details to the card. Thanks for playing along with au at Cars A Day Blog and Creative Cutting Challenge

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  6. I love your card...beautifully done. Thank you for sharing with us at Creative Cutting Challenges.

    Carolyn
    CCC DT

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  7. Perfect card !! gorgeous colors. Too gooood :)
    Thanks for playing with us at Lulupu's challenge #12
    all the best

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  8. Wonderful read and equally beautiful card.Loved the way you wrote about how you compiled it step by step with so much of love and all your heart.believe me it shows.Thanks for playing along Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad.

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    1. Thanks so much for ur warm words Snehal!

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  9. This is a great card. love the way you have made the medallion and those buttons on the edges are gorgeous :)
    Thanks for joining us at Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad

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  10. What gorgeous card and all the lovely writing. Enjoyed all the detailed pics!

    Thanks for joining us at Lulupu's Challenge #12 - My First Love, My Dad

    Karuna
    www.craftingqueen.in
    Lulupu DT

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  12. Congrats Divya for winning at Lulupu. Lovely card, indeed :)

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