Father's Day 2020

Today I have a couple of cards I made for Father's Day.   

Card #1: This first card was adapted from a free download from CraftsUPrint. It was designed as a paper tole or decopage style card with multiple layers separated by foam tape (see next picture).  Originally it had a flowered pattern on the left-hand side border which felt too feminine for what I wanted, so I used a strip of of an old HOTP pattern from my stash.  Then, the boxes along the left had the slippers at the top - just seemed a bit strange to me, so I moved them to the bottom & added several layers of matting to the top one to give me a greeting large enough to cover the original slippers.  

Layers:

There are multiple layers of the dog & man.  There is also a layers of the boxes on the left side - all added with foam tape - and an additional layer of slippers.

Inside:

I saved one layer of the man & dog to go on the inside of my card.  I cut some papers from my stash to give me a background & border that matched the card front, but realized I needed something to anchor the focal.  I happened to have a Christmas Artful Card Kit called Wonderland sitting out on my desks and the colors were right.  SO, I took one of the labels from that kit, cut it in half, drew a black margin where I cut it (using a Sharpie) and had a great little rug for my chair to sit on!!!  The upper block is actually a computer created message to my Dad, (but it was a private message, so I removed the words for posting).

Card #2:

This card started with materials from Hunkydory's Perfect Planet card kit - the set called "On Safari".  My card base is a craft color - which I embossed with a 3D embossing folder from Spellbinders called Cane Weave.  I then inked the raised areas (with Vintage Photo Distress Ink) so the pattern stood out well.  The focal is multiple layers with foam tape (see next picture).  I have two sentiments - the one on the left is from a Hunkydory Little Book of Essential Greetings, and the one on the right is cut, embossed, and stenciled with a Spellbinder's die (Romantic Rectangles Two).  I added gold ink around the edges & hand wrote the greeting since I didn't have a stamp the right size.  Because I wanted to make an easel card, I scored down the center of the card width-wise before gluing just the bottom half of the focal to the card front.

Layers:

As Easel:

The inside of the card has a cream colored paper that is matted a couple of times.  This will be for me to write my message.  But the easel stop & border are more elements from the kit - raised on foam tape so they'll hold the easel properly.