Papertrey Ink April Blog Hop

Good morning!!  Welcome to my April Papertrey Ink blog post!  This month we’re celebrating the Boys and Men in our lives.   If you’ve been following the latest Papertrey Ink Release, you will remember Nichole’s amazing Mother’s Day card using an old picture.  I just had to replicate it for Father’s Day.  Yep, that’s yours truly at about age 2!  I even have bells on my shoes! LOL  This photo was actually a colour photo but I photo edited it with a “sepia” look.  I had to change up the elements from Nichole’s card so they would be a bit more masculine…the cork star, and dotted background and the leaf and berry circle image.  Notice the date?  I don’t have the addition set of dates for the Library Ledger Series (and I don’t think the new one goes back to this date! LOL) so I thought I’d just add this year’s date…now here’s how I got “2011…”  I carefully cut up the year 2001.  I cut off the “01” at the end and stamped the “1” twice at the end! EEK!! I had to!!  I love using old photos…here’s my Father’s Day card from last year…

The next card is inspired by the latest Wild Card Colour Challenge.  They were “masculine” colours so I thought they’d be perfect for another Father’s Day card…the dotted label frame and bit of ribbon under the star are actually Forest Foliage/Pinefeather respectively…just difficult to photograph as they are a deep deep green.  The star is made out of chipboard using 2 of the PTI star dies and then inked with SU chocolate chip ink.




Thanks so much for stopping by and for all the wonderful comments…I really appreciate them!  I look forward to checking out all the other wonderful ideas!

what’s in them?

{Happy Father’s Day – June 2011}

 

stamps: pti mini scrapbook series – library ledger, round and round, verve happy phrases

ink: versafine onyx, versamark, su close to cocoa, kiwi kiss

paper: pti kraft, cream, springmoss,

accessories: digital picture, cork, pti star and library card die, pti button and  twine, corner chomper, wooden clothespeg

 

{Happy Father’s Day}

 

stamps: pti turning and new leaf, verve father’s day plain jane, waltzingmouse labels 5

ink: versafine onyx, su sahara sand, forest foliage, chocolate chip

paper: pti cream, bitty dot and bitty box basics

accessories: labels 5 die, pti star dies, brads, burlap, chipboard coaster, pti ribibon, button and twine, stitching