Father’s Day card – Northwest Stamper

World’s Greatest Father Card with Guy Greetings

I can’t believe Father’s Day is coming up quick! This year I’m bound and determined to make a gift early… I’m not sure what the gift will be yet, but at least I have a card ready!

I aimed for the balance of fancy but not fussy, and I think it makes it there.

Tips for making this card:

Mix and match the images from the Guy Greetings stamp set to make this for that special guy in your life.
The stamp set not only says “Father” but you also get the choice of Grandpa, Dad, Uncle, Husband and Brother!
Stamp the hats image multiple times to make a background for your card. To help blend in the fact that you are using the same stamp a bunch, stamp the first time and then offset the second stamped image – ie stamp so the last row of the hats in the first image are lined up under the middle row of hats in the second image.
Spotlight them by using the Circles Framelits and cutting out a large circle from a 4”x4” piece of the Gold Foil paper – which is awesome stuff, btw!
Stamp and cut out the “Worlds Greatest” and the car image to give extra POP on the card.
Make it a little more polished by heat embossing the “World’s Greatest” and the “Father” sentiments.
I also added a bit of the retired gold Watercolor Wonder washi tape and the used my Essentials piercing template to pierce a row of holes from the left edge to the “Father” sentiment. Sometimes the little details are just what it needs!

A few of the steps take a little bit of work, but for the awesome men in our lives, it is worth it, right?

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Project Supplies Used:

Guy Greetings Wood-Mount Stamp Set

Price: $51.95

Guy Greetings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Price: $38.95

Guy Greetings Photopolymer Stamp Set

Price: $25.95

Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock

Price: $8.50

Big Shot

Price: $99.95

Magnetic Platform

Price: $39.95

Circles Collection Framelits Dies

Price: $27.00

Watercolor Wonder Designer Washi Tape

Price: $4.95

Paper-Piercing Tool

Price: $4.00

Stampin’ Pierce Mat

Price: $5.00

Updated Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack

Price: $8.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Price: $5.95

Versamark Pad

Price: $7.50

Black Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Price: $4.95

Embossing Buddy

Price: $5.95

Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad

Price: $5.95

Blender Pens

Price: $9.95

Soft Suede Classic Stampin’ Pad

Price: $5.95

Stampin’ Dimensionals

Price: $4.00

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June 9, 2015

All About Guys – Card Class by Mail featuring Guy Greetings and Adventure Bound

I’ve been planning on this class for a while and I’m finally running it here locally on Friday (if you are in the Seattle area and want to join me, today is the last day to RSVP for Friday’s class!) But I’m also offering this as a class by mail and just love how the cards turned out! Check them out:

All the cards feature the Guy Greetings Stamp Set & Adventure Bound designer paper stack from the Occasions Catalog and you can fill in the inside to make them work for Father’s Day, Birthday, Congrats and more for those guys in your life!

Details for joining me for this class in person or as a class by mail (including Instructions Only option) are below. I’d love to have you play along!

I thought I’d share one of my favorite cards from the set… this red classic car card. Lots of fun layers without being too fussy or overdone don’t you think?

Tips for making this card:

I love mixing and matching from the Adventure Bound designer paper stack. Each paper gives you photo realistic prints on one side and guy friendly prints on the other. Here I mixed a red plaid and a red pin stripe pattern, giving you cool subtle striping on the card front.
Note – this paper stack is only available until June 2nd, so if you love it, make sure you grab it soon!
tip – When adhering your burlap ribbon to your paper, I find it is often easier to run my tape runner onto the back of the *paper* instead of directly onto the ribbon. The burlap texture sometimes has a hard time holding the adhesive right off the runner.
Layer your sentiment over the bottom edge of your paper with the car image to get a bit of dimension but also keep everything focused in one place.
Oh and sponging, seriously, I can’t live without sponging my edges it seems! For all my cards in this set, we sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink using a sponge dauber for just the right touch of vintage.
And this card would work great for a birthday card, thank you card, father’s day card, anything you need. Just add your custom sentiment to the inside and you are done!

Want to make all of these cards?

You can join me in person if you are in the Seattle area

All About Guys Masculine Card Class
Friday 5/22 at Panera in Redmond starting at 7pm
RSVP here or email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com – RSVP’s are due TODAY!

Or sign up for my class by mail! Included in the class kits are:

20 notecards & envelopes (so you have spares as you are working & can come up with your own creations!)
a pack of the Adventure Bound designer paper pack(the needed pieces for these cards will be precut for you)
all extra papers and embellishments precut
pdf instructions for all 7 cards
shipping anywhere in the US
Optional Add on – SAVE 15% when you order with the class! – Guy Greetings Stamp set

Have the supplies but just want the instructions? I’ll be emailing those out starting Thursday so get your name on the list today!

Class instructions PDF – $4.95

Project Supplies Used:

Guy Greetings Photopolymer Stamp Set

Price: $25.95

Guy Greetings Clear Stamp Set

Price: $38.95

Guy Greetings Wood Stamp Set

Price: $51.95

Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack

Price: $6.95

Crumb Cake Note Cards & Envelopes

Price: $5.95

Very Vanilla 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

Price: $8.50

Early Espresso 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

Price: $6.95

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

Price: $5.95

Punch Corner Project Life

Price: $7.95

1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon

Price: $7.95

Snail Permanent Adhesive

Price: $6.95

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad

Price: $5.95

Sponge Daubers

Price: $4.95

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May 19, 2015

Father’s Day Card using Look Up to Father

Look up to Father is one of those stamps that when I saw it in the Occasions Catalog, I knew I just HAD-TO-HAVE it! I loved the sentiment (“A Father is someone to look up to no matter how tall you’ve grown”) and knew I wanted to make a card for my Dad with it. So, I got it in one of my very first orders, and promptly mounted it and put it on my shelf…

where it sat for a long time. So, now is my first time inking it up and I LOVE it!

I created this card for my Stamp Club to (1) give them a masculine card and (2) remind us all to use our designer papers! Because I KNOW I’m not the only one who loves their paper and then tries to only use the teensiest tiniest piece on your projects to conserve.

I colored the Look Up To Father stamp using my markers before stamping… I used Gumball Green for the leaves and grass, Soft Suede for the trunk, and Early Espresso for the sentiment.

It was also another chance to use the Hardwood stamp set… so glad it will be sticking around for a while. Sadly that is about the only part of this card (aside from the cardstock) that will be sticking around after the 1st of June!

Retiring Items used in this card:

Look Up To Father

$10.95

In Color Dahlias

$7.95 $4.77

7/16″ Natural Trim Ribbon

$6.95

Soho Subway Designer Series Paper

$10.95 $5.48

2012-2014 In Color Markers

$14.95

And if you missed it, Stampin’ Up has dropped the price of many of the retiring items by up to 50% So, check out the deals and what is left here.

So, check out your stamp stash and see what images you loved and had to have; but haven’t seemed to get inky yet! Now is the perfect time to pull them out and have a fun weekend playing!

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May 23, 2014

Getting Ready for a Card Bonanza!

I stayed up last night to start sorting out my card kits for my upcoming Card Bonanza this weekend. On Saturday, I’m hosting the event at my house and it is an All-You-Can-Stamp crafting event!

I was shocked to discover that I have over 130 card kits ready to go based on over 50 card designs! See, this event is what I do to use up all my extra card kits left over from my technique nights, card classes, swaps, and events. I deeply discount the kits and invite everyone over to make as many cards as they want.

Here is the scoop:

Come and stamp for only $1.50/card
Come and stamp as many cards as you want for $10 (you just have to let me know when you get started)
Pick up a premade card with envelope from my big stash for only $2

Can’t attend in person?

Get a set of 5 card kits for $11 mailed to you to make at home
(note – due to Stampin’ Up policy, kits will not include stamped images, but they will include all paper and accessories precut and portioned)

Either way, that is WAY LESS than Hallmark for some really fun and cute cards!

Here is a small sample of some of the cards available to make:

Fun, right?!

So, check your calendar and if you are free this Saturday (2/22) between 1pm- 5pm, let me know and plan on coming over for this fun event! RSVP here

Can’t attend in person but would love some kits? Email me at jennifer@nwstamper.com or order here and I’ll get you hooked up with some cute card kits!

Card Kit Grab Bag – 5 card kits shipped w/in the US for ONLY $11!

Now I’m off to finish pulling all the supplies needed for all the different cards – that is going to take me a while! But it will be fun and I can’t wait to see everyone creating on Saturday.

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February 20, 2014

Dress Shirt Card for Dad

You would think that for all the stamping classes I run and projects I make for swapping and my blog, I would always be prepared for holidays. Ha! They sneak up on me like my 3 yr old when I think he is taking a nap and jump out at me at the last minute. Thankfully, I got a head start this year and have a card all ready for Dad when I see him on Sunday.

I’ve been dying to try out those cool dress shirt cards and thought this would be a perfect excuse to try one out. My first attempt left me with a shirt that covered the entire front of the card, but I wasn’t feeling it. So, I adjusted my measurements until I came up with this:

The shirt was super simple to make… you just take a rectangle out of cardstock and cut two slits in from each side and fold down the flaps to make the collar. Here are the dimensions I used for this card:

I wanted a little bit of texture and so I grabbed some of my Pool Party Core’dintations cardstock for the shirt. Normally I sand down this paper but I liked it for that subtle texture it provided.

For the rest of the shirt, I hand drew and cut the tie. I didn’t realize that most people when they create these cards, have a template they have created for themselves for the tie! So, I made myself a template and hoped it didn’t look too lopsided. Smile

Add a few silver mini brads and ta-da! The shirt is done!

Card supplies used:
Stamps – Delightful Dozen
Ink – Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango marker
Paper – Whisper White cardstock, Island Indigo cardstock, Pool Party Core’dinations cardstock, Quatrefancy specialty designer series paper
Accessories – Big Shot, Stripes embossing folder, Piercing tool, Silver mini brads, Paper snips

So if you need a quick Father’s Day card idea, try this one out. It is fast and easy, and quickly customizable to any colors or patterns you want!

Give it a try and then stop by my facebook page and let me know how yours turned out! And let me know if you come up with a better way to do the tie other than freestyle!

June 15, 2013

Happy Father’s Day Card

In case you haven’t heard, today is Father’s Day. 🙂 I’m lucky enough to have my dad a short 90 minute drive away so this weekend the kids and I are headed to Bellingham to spend some time with him. So, hopefully you are able to spend some quality time (or quality phone time) with some of the wonderful guys in your life.

At a recent card class, I was able to get my Father’s Day cards done early by holding a Dads and Grads class. This was one of the cards we created for it:

I was inspired by a non-Stampin’ Up! card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers that had a cool vintage look. So, I grabbed some of the new World’s Greatest designer series paper and a sponge wedge and got to work creating a vintage card for Dad.

See, this just proves that you can use the Quint-Essential flower for a guy card too. I used more “manly” colors – Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, and Midnight Muse for the flower and sponged the edges of the card and the Very Vanilla cardstock with Soft Suede. And of course, gave it dimension by popping up the different layers with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

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Quint-Essential Birthday Card Recipe
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes, Quint-Essential Flower
Ink: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Bravo Burgundy, So Saffron, Midnight Muse
Paper: Crumb Cake cs, Very Vanilla cs, Soft Suede cs, World’s Greatest dsp
Accessories: 2 3/8” Scallop Circle punch, 1 3/4” Scallop Circle punch, 1” circle punch, sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals

June 17, 2012

Plane and Simple Father’s Day Card

I’m on a yahoo group called Late Night Stampers and each week they post a challenge for you to complete that week. This week the challenge was to create a masculine card. Well, I often fall back on Lovely as a Tree as a “masculine” set since I don’t have many stamps that are explicitly for the guys. But then I thought of the Plane and Simple stamp set that just came out in the Occasions Mini.

Plane & Simple Stamp Set - by Stampin' Up!

The style of this set is this cool mix of aged and masculine without the need for overt testosterone (like many of the grilling or motercycle stamps – which are not bad images, just less of my style). Plus add in that my hubby and I are both pilots and I come from a family of pilots going back to my grandparents – and so you know I’m going to be a sucker for stamp sets that have airplanes in them. 🙂

Anyway, enough about me…. how about a card?

I think my favorite thing about this card is the popped up airplane on the Whisper White cardstock that has been sponged with Baja Breeze ink so that it looks like it is in the clouds. It was totally worth the cutting it in my opinion. :) And the cutting wasn’t really as bad as you might think either. You just want to make sure you have a pair of scissors with smaller blades so it is easy to manuever (some kind of paper snips like this).

Check out this stamp set and the rest of the great sets from the Occasion Mini online here.

Plane and Simple Father’s Day Card Recipe:
Stamps: Plane and Simple
Ink: Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Soft Suede
Paper: Baja Breeze CS, Whisper White CS, Soft Suede CS, Night of Navy CS
Accessories: Sponge, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Paper Snips

February 20, 2011

A couple cards for my new Meetup group

Since I’m pretty new to the Bay area, I recently decided to start up a Meetup group as a way to meet new folks and find some other like-minded crafty people. Today was our first meetup, and so I planned a couple cards for us to work on over pie at Marie Callendars. Between work and vacation, I hadn’t had much of a chance this month to do much card making so it was a lot of fun to create some cards and get everything ready to share with folks today. It also gave me a chance to use some of my retiring items so I can start making room for the new goodies coming out in a few weeks.

Here are the cards and if you happen to be in the Bay area, we’d love to have you come be a part of our group!

Father’s Day Card Recipe:
Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Chocolate Chip Classic
Paper: Bermuda Bay CS*, Crushed Curry CS*, Whisper White CS
Accessories: Chocolate Chip stitched ribbon*, Large Star punch, Small Star punch*, 1/16″ circle punch, gold brad, Snail

Best Wishes Recipe:
Stamps: Kind and Caring Thoughts*
Ink: Basic Grey Classic
Paper: Basic Grey CS, Whisper White CS, Pink Flamingo DSP*
Accessories: Cameo Coral Marker*, Old Olive Marker

* indicates a retiring item

June 19, 2010

Sneak Peek – Father’s day card

Here is another in my series of cards I made with limited supplies.

Coming this Saturday, the new Summer Mini catalog starts up and in there is some great new stamps, accessories, and designer paper. One of the great papers is this new Travel Journal paper. It is perfect for making cards and scrapbook pages for your trips, or just for some masculine layouts. Both patterns you see here are actually the same paper, just front and back. Add a couple courderoy buttons and a touch of color with ribbon, and VOILA! A Father’s Day card, all ready to go.

Supplies:
Stamps – Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink – Chocolate Chip Classic
Paper – Travel Journal DSP, Kraft CS, Chocolate Chip CS, Whisper White CS
Accessories – Chocolate Chip courderoy buttons, Pumpkin Pie 1/4″ ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, Glue Dots

April 29, 2010

Tag: Father’s Day card

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