Celebrate

Today is an exciting day for me...all the men in my life are off celebrating their day and I am left to play in my Craft-room with my newest paper.  Just in from Arizona, is the new Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells and I tell you it is absolutely gorgeous!  Its a mix of Halloween meets steampunk and I don't want to cut it just yet so I decided to create using some old paper I have stored in my stash.

My goal is to use what I have and resist the temptation to buy everything as soon as I see it or hear of it.  I did create a few cards to give to the men in my family and I think I've posted two of them (my other half and my son) but I had two more men I need to create for and now I want to share them with you.

The first one is for my youngest brother, who is the best brother ever and an awesome DAD!

I used old Graphic 45 paper and plain card-stock that I inked and stamped to add a masculine look and grungy feel.

The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts and then the background stamp is from Stampers Anonymous.

This card represents a song written by Luther Vandross (deceased) titled "Dance With My Father".

I loved that song and every Father's Day I play that song, so of course I had to create this card when I saw the photo of the couple.

I think this card classifies as a CAS style card.  Not very many embellishments and yet I think it is very telling.  For me there is a lot of meaning to it and I think the recipient will share the sentiment as well when he gets it.

On the inside, on the left I plan to include the words to the song Dance With My Father, because this young man's father died before he was 6 years old but he says he can remember his father telling him how to hold a lady when he danced with her.

I used all scraps from the Graphic 45 Proper Gentleman and Ladies Diary paper collections.  Cool way to use up scraps.


I want to enter this card in the following challenges:

Joanna Sheen Challenges - Father's Day or Male Card (6/26)

Hobby Cutz Challenges - Challenge #8 Father's Day (6/22)

Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #22 Anything Goes (6/20)


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Hugz

~Lesia~