Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Father’s
Day! Today I’m going to share with you the card that I gave my Dad for Father’s
Day. It’s also the second card that I made for the Friday Mashup challenge last
week.
- Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Something to Celebrate, Woodgrain
- Card Stock: Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso Core’Dinations
- Ink: Sahara Sand, Black Stazon, Baked Brown Sugar
- Re-Inker: Soft Suede, Gumball Green
- Accessories: Aqua Painter, Early Espresso Marker, Champagne Glimmer Paper, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Sanding Block, 2-Way Glue Pen, Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, Woodgrain embossing folder
I started off by cutting a piece of Baked Brown Sugar
card stock 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” and scored it at 4-1/4”. I stamped one half of the
card front with the Woodgrain Background stamp in Baked Brown Sugar ink. Next I
cut a piece of Early Espresso Core’dinations card stock 4” x 3". I ran this
through the Big Shot in the Woodgrain embossing folder then used the sanding
block to sand off the top of the texture revealing the Crumb Cake inside of the
card stock. I adhered this onto the left side of the card front.
Next up I cut a piece of Very Vanilla card stock 2-1/2" x 4-1/4".
This is the fun part! I placed my card stock on a piece of grid paper and used
a ruler and the fine point end of my Early Espresso markers to draw on the
horizontal lines, then the vertical lines to look like bricks.
I filled up my
large Aqua Painter with rubbing alcohol the dropped a single drop of Soft Suede
and Gumball Green re-inker in two separate places on a piece of plastic (or
whatever you want to use for your paint pallet). Then I squeezed my Aqua
Painter over each spot until a drop of rubbing alcohol drips over the ink. Ta
Daaa!!!! You now have alcohol ink!
I picked up a little bit of the diluted Soft Suede ink
and brushed it over each of the marker lines. It looks kind of messy, but
that’s okay. Don’t freak out. It will be alright.
I stamped the long line of trees in the background with Sahara Sand ink. Then I stamped the tree in the
front with Black Stazon ink. I colored in the trunk of the tree with more Soft
Suede alcohol ink and added some green to the leafy part of the tree with the
Gumball Green alcohol ink. I heated this with my heat tool on the 1st
setting just to completely dry my artwork.
Hint: Heat from both the front and the back alternating
sides so your paper doesn’t curl up a whole bunch. It will still be a little
wavy, but won’t be one round curl.
Next I used my Embossing Buddy on the card stock and
stamped the greeting from Something to Celebrate in Versamark ink. I covered
the stamped image with Gold embossing powder, tapped off the excess, and heated
it with my heat tool. Ohhh…shiny!
I cut a piece of Early Espresso card stock 2-5/8" x 4-1/2" and
adhered my beautiful stamped panel onto the card stock. Now you may notice that
one end of the mat is a little bit wider than the other three sides. This is
intentional… I happened to have a scrap of Champagne Glimmer Paper that was
about 1/16” wide sitting on my table, so I snipped off a section of that and
adhered it onto the mat to the left of the tree panel. Then I just slapped this
onto the card front with a few Stampin’ Dimensionals. Well….really I was nicer
than that. I carefully placed it onto the card front trying to make sure it was
centered without getting out my ruler and doing more math.
Anyway… that is it! A fun “faux” tiled scene for Father’s
Day! If you haven’t yet, head on over to the Friday Mashup to see what the rest
of the design team has created and to load up your project!
