Happy Father’s Day to the wonderful dads out there…….the dads of our own kids and our own fathers and grandfathers!

If you need some last minute Father’s Day card ideas today, you might want to check out my blog post from a year or two ago with some of my past ideas HERE.

If you are in a big hurry, if you have a stamp with a tree (like Lovely As a Tree or Sheltering Tree) you can make a nice Father’s Day card.  Or some stars or hearts or an old alphabet stamp set to spell Dad……lots of ideas you can make in a hurry.

Enjoy your Father’s Day Sunday!

If you need a Father’s Day card on Sunday and you have the Tailored Tag Punch, you can make a fun card like this Tailored Tag Punch Father’s Day Wood Tile Card.  I don’t know who thought of this idea of using the Tailored Tag Punch like this, but it is perfect for a Father’s Day card or any masculine card.

The card base is Early Espresso but the pieces are also layered on a piece of Early Espresso. I used the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack for the paper punched with the Tailored Tag Punch to make the “wood tiles”.  You can start anywhere placing the punched pieces.  Just leave a little bit of space in between each of them to form your pattern.  For the very small spaces around the edges, you can just punch an end in the punch and glue onto the Early Espresso piece.  It’s easiest if you let the pieces hang off the edge and trim them later when placing them so you don’t have to cut smaller pieces.

Choose the pieces so they contrast or whatever effect you are going for.  I just chose different shades of the wood colored paper and kind of balanced them out.

For the greeting, I stamped the banner from Thoughtful Banners and then added the words, slightly curved, onto the block.  Luckily, they just fit!  When I punched the banner, stamped on Whisper White, it left a fair amount of white space, so I trimmed that off, which narrowed the banner, then I could punch out an Early Espresso banner on which to layer the stamped banner. It still needed something, so I grabbed a piece of 5/8″ Burlap Ribbon which I loosened up a bit by pulling off the two outer large threads.  It just adds a little texture to the card.

With the Tailored Tag Punch you could make a card with a bowtie like this one!

You could use other cardstock or other papers for the tiling. Let your imagination go! And change the greeting for whatever occasion.  But if you need a Father’s Day card idea, try this Tailored Tag Punch Father’s Day Wood Tile Card.

Did you make a card for Father’s Day yet?  Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17th!  Although masculine cards seem to be a bit more difficult to make, I think there are actually lots of ideas to use with the products in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog now.  I had several different ideas I planned to try for a Father’s Day card, but once I looked in our inspiration book – the Stampin’ Up! Catalog – I found two ideas that I decided to combine!  Look on page 56 at the top.

I was thinking of using the Bubble Over Photopolymer Stamp Set for my husband’s card and making the bottle look like a beer bottle since he likes to try different kinds/flavors of beer.  When I looked in the catalog at the page with that stamp set,  I saw the sample on page 56 plus the actual Father’s Day card made by using stamps from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set.  This sample actually shows that you don’t need a “Father’s Day stamp set” to make a Father’s Day card!  I thought it was clever how they stamped a lot of words on the piece of cardstock from that stamp set.  You could choose the words that describe the man you are making the card for or you could even just stamp “Father’s Day” all up and down the paper.

To make my card, I chose Soft Suede for the card base and used a piece of the Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper for the layer.  The bottle is stamped with the new Mango Melody ink on Whisper White and die cut with the Bottles & Bubbles Framelits Dies. I stamped the bottle a second time in Crumb Cake Ink, just the middle, so I could cut out that center section and adhere it to the bottle. For a decoration for the bottle (rather than a label) I stamped in Cajun Craze ink and punched with the 3/4″ circle punch the star stamp.

The Crumb Cake cardstock is stamped with a whole bunch of stamps on the acrylic block! I just chose words from the Thoughtful Banners Stamp Set that would be appropriate for a Father’s Day card. I tied a piece of the 1/4″ Copper Trim ribbon around the stamped piece, tied on another piece in a knot, and frayed the ends a little.

For the greeting I stamped the banner with the Thoughtful Banners stamp set and punched out with the Duet Banner Punch. Since I was using the sample in the catalog as an example, I punched out the Crumb Cake cardstock with the Tailored Tag Punch and stamped the extra words on it above and below the banner.

The greeting and the bottle are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals and the Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.  Don’t forget about these minis because they are very handy on small pieces.

Here’s another idea for a card, one that I made my husband last year using the ever-classic Lovely As a Tree Stamp Set.

If you start early on a Father’s Day card, you can come up with more than one idea and choose which one will be best! Sunday will be here before we know it!  Time to make a Father’s Day Card!

Here’s my idea for a Father’s Day card using stamps that you may already have, a Father’s Day Card with an oval window using Lovely As a Tree.  Since Lovely As a Tree has been around “forever” in Stampin’ Up! and I hope it never retires, I thought it could be one stamp set lots of you have and could use to make a Father’s Day card since Father’s Day is sneaking up so fast! Father’s Day is next Sunday, June 18th! I thought we just started June!

On this card, one new product I used was the Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack. It is layered on the front on top of Chocolate Chip Cardstock.  If you don’t have this paper, you can leave it plain or use an embossing folder or whatever you like.

Before I die cut the oval with the largest oval in the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies, I stamped the inside and watercolored the trees with my Aqua Painter and ink inside the lids of my ink pads (several greens and a touch of yellow).  I adhered this piece inside my card, then die cut an oval out of scrap paper, laid it over the trees on the inside, put a small piece of Snail Adhesive on the top of the scrap and closed the card so that the scrap oval would be attached to the inside front of the card.  In this way, I could place the oval die exactly where I wanted the window to be on the front of the card to showcase the trees on the inside of the card, and then I die cut that oval.

The greeting is from one of my favorite sets, Teeny Tiny Wishes. It’s just stamped on a scrap strip of Very Vanilla and I cut the little banner ends with my Paper Snips.

Here is the inside of the card.  Don’t worry about perfect watercoloring and don’t fuss too much or the paper will pill or the brown ink on the trees might smear.  Just apply some color as if you were an artist!  Just blob some down here and there, not totally solid, not too much.  And I used some Soft Sky for a bit of sky color.

Now as I was uploading my photos for this blog post, I realized I had already made a very similar card!  Check it out in THIS BLOG POST!  They say “Great minds think alike.”  Maybe the same mind thinks alike!  The cards are basically the same but have some differences, so choose whichever one you like!

Don’t delay in making a Father’s Day card for the father (or husband) or special man in your life! Lovely As a Tree has always been a classic stamp set to use for masculine cards or really any kind of card!  If you don’t already own it, you might want to add it to your order of brand new products!

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Did you watch Game 7 of the World Series last night with the Cleveland Indians playing the Chicago Cubs?  Wow!  What a game! Isn’t it fun that with stamping you can make a card that has something to do with current events like my World Series 2016 Cubs Win Celebration Card.  I’m sure some relatives of mine, lots of them from Chicago, who I remember being Cubs fans, like my grandpa’s brother, were celebrating in heaven last night! I couldn’t help but root for the Cubs because of their history and being from St. Louis (which isn’t too far from Chicago!), even though my son-in-law was mad they beat his Dodgers! He enjoyed the game itself anyway!

I very quickly made this card celebrating baseball, the World Series, and the Cubs victory. For the baseball I just punched a 2″ circle and drew on the baseball stitching lines with a Real Red marker. The word Celebrate is from the Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set from Stampin’ Up! called My Hero . (A worthy cause while you add to your stamping collection!!) The little stars I just punched with a small retired punch from Gold Foil Sheets.

Whichever team you were rooting for,  I hope you enjoyed the World Series this year!

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