Happy Father's Day

My post is a little late...we've been busy today!! We had a fairly leisurely morning, but I did have to bake a strawberry-rhubarb pie, and we left shortly after noon to go to my in-laws' house for lunch. My father-in-law loves strawberry-rhubarb pie, so my mother-in-law asked me to make it. I had a devil of a time finding rhubarb yesterday, but my hubby finally found some!! Yay!! Anyway, this is the card that I made for my father and my father-in-law. I always seem to make them the same card...hopefully they don't start comparing notes!! That would be a hoot!

Last night, (yes, we waited until the last minute) Meredith and I sequestered ourselves in the craft room to make a card for Daddy! We craft a lot together (or rather in tandem), but we had neglected to make this card. So, we picked Daddy's favorite color, green, and we went with it! I cut the paper, but she assembled and stuck everything down. She cut out the sentiment, and I actually let her use my copic markers to color the image. Oh my goodness, she was so excited and felt very grown up. She did a great job!! Not a bad card for a 4 year old!!

This is the inside of the card...I have to tell her what letter to write and generally where to put it, but this is all her (except the comma) doing. I don't have any other children to compare to, so I'm quite proud of her abilities!! She was so excited to give this to Daddy, and he loved it!

Card Details (Tie card):

Stamps: More Great Greetings (sentiment) by SU

Paper: Bashful Blue and Riding Hood Red DSP, Night of Navy and Riding Hood Red CS by Stampin' Up

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Accessories: sewing machine for stitching along outsides of card; buttons; CM oval cutting system

Card Details (Meredith's card):

Stamps: Great Impressions; More Great Greetings (sentiment) by SU

Paper: Glorious Green, yoyo yellow, Rainbow Sherbet DSP by stampin up

Ink: memento tuxedo black; Real Red

Accessories: Copic markers; Basic Grey ribbon; Cuttlebug embossing folder

Twinkling Tuesday...a little late! MTTSC21

This really was a challenge for me this week! The sketch (MTTSC21) was tricky...ah, the minds of children! They are way smarter than we give them credit for!! I'm not 100% happy with the picture because the card is better in person, but here goes! The Butterfly stamp is from Great Impressions, and it is colored with Faber Castell pencils and Gamsol...I thought that it looked softer than using Copics. I do love that I was able to use a long forgotten embellishment...the ribbon slide letters! They are difficult to see, but it says "Fly." I also used one of the skinny Cuttlebug embossing folders on the edge because it just needed something there!

I'm going to blabber on for a minute because today would've been my grandmother's birthday. May has always been both a special and busy month in my family. My birthday is tomorrow, and there was almost exactly 60 years to the day age difference between us...she would've been 97. WOW...I really miss her. She used to make us all special cakes for our birthdays. My favorites were always slush cakes. Today is also my nephew's 19th birthday, so it just shows me that life ends and begins, there's just no stopping it. I hope you all had a great Mother's Day!

Card details:

Stamps: Butterfly Squares (April 2009 stamps of the month) by Great Impressions

Paper: Pixie Pink and Lovely Lilac by Stampin' Up; Euphoria by Basic Grey

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Faber Castell pencils; Gamsol; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; Slide letters by Paper Studio; ribbon