Father’s Day was Sunday. My cards were done on time, but this is the first time I’ve had time to edit photos and get a blog post written. Some unexpected commitments have kept me busy in the craft room, but it will be awhile before I can share them.
In addition to the Father’s Day cards, I needed a masculine birthday card. I thought the Ellen Hutson Abstract Mountain die would be great for both. I tried a new technique which didn’t work all that well, so went back to ink blending and using cardstock to piece together the scenes. It makes sense to make multiples with this die since you have make die cuts of six different colors of cardstock. I ended up with four inkblended skies that I liked so had two Father’s Day cards (one for Matt and one for Tracy) and two birthday cards. My son-in-law in Wisconsin got a gift certificate with the Father’s Day message.
While I was looking for something else, I came upon this Reverse Confetti Stitched Window Cover Panel. It works really well with the Abstract Mountain die, but only three of the mountains show. All the rest of the cards were die cut with an Ellen Hutson Essential Arches die and in the end I prefer them. (All four of the photos were taken at the same time, in the same place. Why this one has a blue cast to it is anyone’s guess. I thought I’d be able to color correct it, but neither my phone’ editing progam or Photoshop Elements wanted to cooperate tonight.)
The sentiments for both of these cards are from Pink & Main’s Special Day stamp set.
The birthday sentiments are from Memory Box, Black Gold Foiled Happy Birthday Tabs.
The AAA Birthday Challenge: For the Boys is still open so I’ll send a second entry off to them. This is a very old die set so I’m sending one off to The Neglected Stuff Challenge as well.
All four cards are stunning. Such rich deep colours & the mountain dies really take advantage of those bold rich colours. I think the design could also work for graduation cards … climb every mountain message.
Gorgeous set of cards! Love the designs and the rich colours. Thank you for sharing and playing along with us at AAA birthday, hope you’ll join us in future challenges too. Take care, keep crafting and have fun!
Very unique and intriguing cards, cleverly created too!
Thanks so much for joining our The Neglected Stuff challenge!
Diane TNS Co-Owner
Absolutely stunning – all of them. The colours are so striking and the design so contemporary. Thanks for playing at AAA Birthday, hope to see you join with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!