Happy Fathers Day!

Happy Fathers Day!  I hope you are all having a nice day!

Today I wanted to share with you the Fathers Day cards I made for my dad and father-in-law.

It was a pretty simple card...kraft cardstock base with rounded corners, with layers of patterned paper (that was from deep in my stash of scraps!)

I cut apart a Hero Arts "Happy Day" stamp so I could stamp it in a straight line with a gap in the middle.

Then I filled in the gap with small white Basic Grey chipboard letters that I colored blue with my copics.

The finished product!

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Basic Grey Cards

Last May I went to the Scrapbook Expo, and took a class where we made three layouts using paper from the Basic Grey Sugar Rush line.  I saved the leftovers, and finally put them to good use last weekend, making a bunch of cards. I kept things pretty simple...scraps of kraft cardstock for the base, a few pieces of patterned paper, outlined with a white gel pen. For most cards, I added a Hero Arts "Thanks" stamped in black or embossed in white plus a diecut or hand-cut accent, and called it done!

 

Added a Hero Arts flower stamp colored with Copics on this one.

Went crazy and handwrote the greeting on this one!

Broke out the BG chipboard letters for this one.

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Fun with Hero Arts and Copics

When I was at the Scrapbook Expo a few months ago, I picked up several Copic Markers, and I have been having fun playing with them...so much so that every time I go to my local scrapbook store (Papercraft Clubhouse) I pick up a few more! I don't really know all that I can do with them yet (although I signed up for a class at the end of the month) but I've been enjoying coloring stamped images with one color, and then using the colorless blending marker to soften it up a bit.

For the first three cards I used a Hero Arts stamp inked up with Memento black ink and stamped onto white cardstock, then colored in with Copics.  I also added some stickles & bling when necessary! :) 

These last cards are blatant lifts of a Jennifer McGuire design (click here to see it!).

 I ended up making seven of these in assembly line fashion, using a Tim Holtz embossing folder from sizzix.

Thanks for looking!