Dad’s can be a bit tricky to make cards for, but I have some regular themes that I use. One my themes that I often use for my dad is boats and this year I mixed it up a bit by doing a lighthouse card (and sneaked a boat in there too.)
It was a bit of a photo finish, but my Christmas cards are done! After a bunch of ideas I came up with winter bunnies!
To get into the Christmas spirit here is a cute card I made a few years ago! (Originally posted 11/28/18)
To get into the holiday spirit here is last year’s Christmas card! I wanted to use these ornament files that I had got from the Silhouette store and paper I had bought from the Paper Source, so I came up with this card. I look back on this card and it seems so simple!
I love pears, they are my favorite fall fruit and I love images of them! This year I also picked up an L Letterpress platform with a leaf plate and I put the two things together this year for my Thanksgiving card.
Here is a Thanksgiving card that I made a couple years ago, someday I hope to make a batch of the bonus card I made at the end of the post! (Originally posted on 11/20/2018)
It’s the Holidays! I love fall and I have this weird habit of collecting acorns. I just love them! I put them in jars to display and I have even added glitter to them. This year for my Thanksgiving cards I decided to feature, acorns!
My Halloween card for 2020! It all started with a windmill…and the windmill made me think of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. And this is the card I made!
This card was actually made several years ago for Halloween and I was able to snap some pics of it because my awesome friends save my cards! Loosely based on Frankenstein, it is a mad scientist’s cabinet…
(Originally posted on March 13, 2018)
I finally caved and got a cutting machine. I was familiar with the Cricut cutters for many years but found them to be too limiting. One summer I did a bunch of research and decided to get the Silhouette Portrait. I have been very happy with it and began making cards with it right away! This was a Halloween pop-up card that I made with one of my favorite vintage images.
(Originally posted on March 13th, 2018)
When I got my Silhouette Portrait, one of the cards I really wanted to make was a card that looked like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. First I had to find the right colored blue paper and I found this cardstock that had a nice texture to it. Then I designed the entire card using the software that came with the Silhouette: and I had a TARDIS card!
(Originally posted on June 6, 2018)
This book was the result of a trade. My friend made me a finishing press and I made him a book! He is really into D&D so I tried to theme it to his character, but a ranger isn’t as much fun as an elf or an ogre (I told him even a gnome gave me more to work with!) But I made do. I was able to use some stuff left over from the Harry Potter books, like the decal I used on the spine.
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