Today is Father's Day in the United States and I'm happy to honor three absolutely fabulous dads. I had a lot of fun making these three cards. Tracy's card was inspired by one I saw on the Minted website. It wasn't possible to link to the specific card, but it was a lot less colorful than the one Tracy gets today. It did incorporate the retro feel and an arrow that I knew was part of an older Papertrey Ink set. In the end, I didn't use the arrow at all, but used both Retro sets: "Retro Style: Graduation," and "Retro Style: Birthday."
In fact, I ended up using more than my usual number of products: The background was created with My Favorite Things "Radiating Rays" stencil, and the cityscape from MFT's "You're Super."
The sentiment came from the"Retro Style: Birthday" set as well as W+9's "Super Star" set. After trimming down the focal image panel, I adhered it to a Hawaiian Shore card base, and die cut a narrow black frame with Simon Says "A2 Thin Frames."
Both Matt and Adam's cards are very similar and use the same products.
I used Distress Oxide inks to ink blend a background, and then added some water drops to simulate stars and objects in the sky. I also applied a heavy coat of glitter with the Spectrum Noir clear glitter pen. I tried several angles, but couldn't get a good photo of the glittery effects. After die cutting circles from the top panel, I adhered a slightly larger circle cut from the ink blended paper behind it. The top layer of letters is also die cut from that paper with Papertrey Ink's Block Alphabet dies, and layered on two more die cuts from dark blue paper.
The images, colored with Copic markers and fussy cut, and the sentiment are from My Favorite Things "Out of This World" stamp set.
I hope these three guys have a great day---they all devote a LOT of time and give a LOT of love to their families!
