Father's Day Pocket Cards

Today marks the start of another Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge!!

This week the theme is

Man Card

My two sons and I chose to make some Father's Day cards!

  Here are the cards by  seven and nine year old sons made with me today:

We made these pocket BBQ cards. I'll be including a full tutorial, so please forgive me for the tons of pictures on this post. So, here we go...

You'll need the following cuts from From my Kitchen:

BBQ and it's shadow - 4" - red / black

Spatula - 2" - metallic silver

Handle from the hand mixer - 1" - metallic silver

oval sized to 1" x 4" (for under the grill top) in silver

Cuts from Robotz:

half circle (red lid for BBQ) - 4" W x 2" H - red

half circle (black for lid shadow) - 4 1/4" W x 2 1/4" H - black

Extras:

Background paper cut to 4" x 5 1/4"

card base 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

4 1/4" x 3" piece of cardstock for the insert.

First, attach the silver oval under the grill top. We used Scotch Quick Dry Glue.

Glue all the shadows to their pieces.  My kids do pretty good lining up the pieces, but younger kids might need some more help. The glue the BBQ to the card base after attaching the background paper.

THIS IS A PARENT ONLY STEP:

Open up the card base and put it on a self healing mat. Use an Exacto or similar knife to cut open the BBQ at the base of the grill top (see photo for help). Cut all the way through the card front.  

Glue the card base together to make a pocket.  I marked the inside of my card to show you where we put the tape runner (we use my ATG gun). Glue the four sides of the card front along with a couple more strips of glue along the top of the card above the cut only (see picture).

My nine year old added all the "Happy Father's Day" stamps. This one is from Studio G. My seven year old added the silver metallic spatula with some more quick dry glue.

Slip your insert into the pocket as far as it can go.  Add some pop-dots along the top of the insert. 

Place the lid onto the pop dots. Try to line up the lines of the BBQ and completely cover the grill top. My kids both love this step! :)

See how the BBQ lid pulls the insert?? Love it! :)  

We added just a little scrap slip of the bg paper to the bottom of the insert. It looks cute and there is no waste. We made six of these cards and needed one sheet of the 12x12 DCWV paper (called Juniper stars on Cream), two sheets of red card stock, two sheets of black and only scraps of the silver and metallic silver paper. For our card bases we used pre-made white cards, but it would only take three sheets of white card stock if you are making your own card bases.

We'd love for you to come on over and play along with us at Die Cuttin' Divas!

The theme this week is 

Man Card

The sponsor for the Challenge prize is

Circle B Enterprises

Father's Day BBQ Card

Hi Everybody! Today is Thankful Thursday over at CrazyAboutCricut, and I am a very proud member of the Design Team. The challenge this week was to make something for Father's Day.  Here are the cards by  six and eight years old sons made with me today:

We made these pocket BBQ cards. I'll be including a full tutorial, so please forgive me for the tons of pictures on this post. So, here we go...

You'll need the following cuts from From my Kitchen:

BBQ and it's shadow - 4" - red / black

Spatula - 2" - metallic silver

Handle from the hand mixer - 1" - metallic silver

oval sized to 1" x 4" (for under the grill top) in silver

Cuts from Robotz:

half circle (red lid for BBQ) - 4" W x 2" H - red

half circle (black for lid shadow) - 4 1/4" W x 2 1/4" H - black

Extras:

Background paper cut to 4" x 5 1/4"

card base 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

4 1/4" x 3" piece of cardstock for the insert.

First, attach the silver oval under the grill top. We used Scotch Quick Dry Glue.

Glue all the shadows to their pieces.  My kids do pretty good lining up the pieces, but younger kids might need some more help. The glue the BBQ to the card base after attaching the background paper.

THIS IS A PARENT ONLY STEP:

Open up the card base and put it on a self healing mat. Use an Exacto or similar knife to cut open the BBQ at the base of the grill top (see photo for help). Cut all the way through the card front.  

Glue the card base together to make a pocket.  I marked the inside of my card to show you where we put the tape runner (we use my ATG gun). Glue the four sides of the card front along with a couple more strips of glue along the top of the card above the cut only (see picture).

My eight year old added all the "Happy Father's Day" stamps. This one is from Studio G. My six year old added the silver metallic spatula with some more quick dry glue.

Slip your insert into the pocket as far as it can go.  Add some pop-dots along the top of the insert. 

Place the lid onto the pop dots. Try to line up the lines of the BBQ and completely cover the grill top. My kids both love this step! :)

See how the BBQ lid pulls the insert?? Love it! :)  

We added just a little scrap slip of the bg paper to the bottom of the insert. It looks cute and there is no waste. We made six of these cards and needed one sheet of the 12x12 DCWV paper (called Juniper stars on Cream), two sheets of red card stock, two sheets of black and only scraps of the silver and metallic silver paper. For our card bases we used pre-made white cards, but it would only take three sheets of white card stock if you are making your own card bases.

Now that we have all our Father's Day cards done, it's time to get them in the mail! These would also make AWESOME invitations for a BBQ or party too... in fact that's what I'll be working on next! 

Don't forget to head over to Crazy About Cricut, and enter your family project and to see the awesome inspiration projects from the other DT members!

Challenges:

Party Time Tuesdays : Father's Day

Cricut Cardz Challenge : Father's Day - any cart and colors

 Paper Cutz Challenge : Father's Day - use a tag

Father's Day Recliner Card

I received a special request for a "take it easy on Father's Day" card. The first thing that popped into my head was a recliner! :)  So here is the custom card I made today.

I am including the file so you can download this project and make your own, but the puppy is not included in the file.  This adorable little doggy is from Paper Pups (cut at 1 3/4" x 3/4").

After I cut all the pieces of the recliner, I inked all the edges with a light brown ink. I assembled it in the following order: chair base, seat glue directly to the base, arms attached with thin pop dots, and then the foot rest attached with thicker pop dots. I added the brads to the arms and them attached the chair to the shaped card base. 

I used a clear Glaze Gel pen to add the stitching on the chair.  I cut all the pieces using a tan cardstock that has a wonderful linen texture! :)  The doggie's nose is accented with Glossy Accents and I used a black Glaze pen to add the eyes (with the size of the dog, the eyes were too tiny to piece).

I printed the sentiment directly on the chair base on the front and on the inside of the card.

Here is a shot of the cut file.  I cut a second card base so I would have it separate from the card.

Sure Cuts a Lot file via 4 Shared

Recliner Card : shaped card base plus layers

Challenges:

My Craft Spot : We Love you Dad!

Sentimental Sundays : Father's Day or Masculine Card
Scrappin with Cricut : Father's Day Linking Party

Darth Vader Shaped Card

So sorry, but I have yet another shaped card to share with you today. This one is using Sure Cuts a Lot with the Cricut.  I'll include the files for you to download and make your own Darth Vader cards too:

 Download files via 4 Shared:

Darth Vader card SCAL file

Darth Vader card - SVG only

I've included both files so you can create this card using whatever cutter or software you have. We made these cards for the Star Wars loving Dad's in our lives!! What a perfect Father's Day card... you can even include a "Luke, I am your Father." quote. :)

Here is the inside of our cards. We used the quote:

"What is thy bidding, my master?" 

 I found this quote online and printed it using Star Jedi Font (18 points) we downloaded a while ago. Here is the link if you'd like to download that too: http://www.dafont.com/star-jedi.font 

Here is a close up of our sentiment.  I punched it using my Photo Labels punch from EK Success and matted it with some black and red paper. This is actually a pretty simple card to put together. The file has the card body and the layers on one page. I've included a screen shot from SCAL so you can see how it works.

We cut our cards at nearly 6" (they fit in a 6" square envelope), but you can size them to what ever size works best for you or your project.

Download files via 4 Shared:

Darth Vader card SCAL file

Darth Vader card - SVG only
Font:
http://www.dafont.com/star-jedi.font

Challenges:

 Paper Play Challenge : Man / Father's Day Card

Alphabet Challenge : F is for Father's Day

The Paper Variety : For the Guys

Whale Father's Day Card

I love Create a Critter but haven't used it in a while. Today I had to pull it out and whip of this adorable card... at least I think it's adorable! :) 

I've been on a roll with the tall/long cards.  The card bodies measure 9" x 8" scored in half to a card measuring 9" x 4" and fit perfectly in a business size envelope.  What's great about that?? These envelopes are super cheep and easy to find... plus they don't require ANY extra postage!! 

The papa whale is cut at 3 1/2", the larger son whale is 2 3/4" and the smaller son whale is 2 1/2". They were all cut using scraps, so I can't remember for sure which paper came from where.

The large waves in the background are from Plantin Schoolbook and PDDU, both sized to 9" wide.  I added a little strip of craft paper for the sand.  I inked all layers with royal blue ink, except for the sand layer which got brown ink.

I love the little details all the whales got.  Each are decorated with two flat back pearls for eyes and white gel pen accents. All the blow spouts were finished off with Glossy Accents.

I made the little "Happy Father's Day Dad!" banner using Photoshop and 24 point Freestyle Script. I just used a square punch to cut the little points on the ends of the banner. Again I matted it with blue paper and inked it with royal blue ink.

I finished the black card layer with white gel pen stitches and added three more flat black pearls to the top left of the card base. I think the card turned out adorable.  I hope you like it too!! :)

Challenges:

Easy Craft Projects Challenge : For Dad

Wacky Wednesday (More Than Favors) : Man Cards

The Craft Spot : Cute Critters
Pink by Design : Who's Your Daddy
Creative Cutter Room : Father's Day
Fantabulous Cricut : Father's Day

Nicolette's Birthday Bash Blog Hop: Day 2

If you are looking for my TTDT post, please scroll down or click here.


Hi! Thanks for hoping with us along Nicolette's Birthday Bash Blog Hop for day 2!! 

If you came from Nicolette's blog, you are in the right place.  If you just came across this hop and would like to start from the beginning, please go back to Nicolette's blog.

With a theme of birthday and Disney, I just had to break out my Disney/Pixar Cars Cartridge.  I only have two Disney Cricut cartridges, Tinkerbell and Cars and since I made a Tinkerbell card yesterday, I pulled out Cars  for today's project! :)

Here is my shaped card.  Like yesterday, I used my Gypsy to weld the shaped together to form the card base.  If you've ever assembled a Disney Cricut cut, you'll know that there are A MILLION small parts to put together.  I thought that the shape of this card, paired with the Petty Blue base layer was just perfect even without all the tiny pieces. :)

I think this would be a wonderful birthday card for "The King" in your life, but it could also make a terrific Father's Day card too. The card base was cut at 4" and will fit a standard business envelope. The sentiment layer was cut at 2", the racing flags were also cut at 2".

After I assembled the layers I added some gel pen doodling.  Gelly Roll white gel pen was added to the black layers and a black Glaze Gelly Roll added the shine you can see in this picture.

More doodling here.  You can see how I mixed long stitches with some doodle dots. I love doing rougher details on boy cards! :)

I added pop dots under the blue base layer (on to the shadow layer) and under the sentiment layer.

Here you can see how I welded the shapes to form a card base.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Please take a minute to comment here for your chance to win my blog candy.  Don't forget to leave me a way to get a hold of you if you win! :)

Now, please hop on over to  Tammy's blog @ http://tammyjennings.blogs

pot.com/ .... I'm sure she has something wonderful to share!

Paper Playtime Challenge and The Fantabulous Cricut Challenge

I found this challenge over at Paper Playtime. The theme is BBQ!!

The challenge can be found on the Paper Playtime blog at:

http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/2010/07/challenge-9-bbqing.html

Today I found the same challenge over on The Fantabulous Cricut Blog!!!!!

How great is that... I love when I can enter one card into two challenges!

The Fantabulous Blog Challenge can be found at:

http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-me-monday-21.html

My hubby really loves BBQ, so this challenge is just made for his cards. I've made a few, but this is my favorite one! This card is an easel card (actually my first one).

The important info:

Cricut Cartridge used:

Everyday Paper Dolls

Other materials:

Red sheer ribbon

silver embossing powder

Studio G Stamps

Gel pens

Obviously, I made this card for Father's Day so it's a little over a month old, but I still love it! This card was also the inspiration for quite a few easel cards in that time! :)

A second card I've made with a BBQ theme was actually a "thank you" for a co-worker of my husband. She gifted him a BBQ tool that allows you to cook a chicken with a can of beer inside. Know what I'm talking about??? Here is a picture of that one!

Thanks for looking... please become a follower if you aren't already. I'd love to share my crafting journey with you!

- Cheryl aka Cards by CG