I hope your Father’s Day was a good one! There always seems to be a ‘rush’ around Father’s Day…I think it has something to do with coming just after kids are out of school and their summer activities getting cranked up, but maybe that’s just me.
Anyway, I completed this great little piece for my darling hubby just in time for Monday night’s dinner. (We were out-of-town for Sunday so had planned ahead of time to have our Father’s Day celebratory dinner on Monday.)
The piece is from the Triology folks and is called Happy Dad Dad Day, I’ve worked it on a 40 count Abecedarian Blend Linen with one floss over two threads using Gentle Art and Weeks Dye Works Over Dyed fibers. I was grateful that I not only got it finished in time but also was able to mount and frame it. WHEW! You should have been around on Monday afternoon! Stuff was flying…
Of course there were the cards that needed to be completed. Once you’ve created hand made cards and such, there’s just no going to the store and buying anything along that line…so of course the guys wanted one of my cards for dad as well…and there you go! Yes, stuff was indeed F-L-Y-I-N-G!!!
The Tree Trio card uses the Trendy Trees Stamp Set with Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Yo Yo Yellow and Old Olive Classic Ink, The center of the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware is a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock with ‘father’ stamped from the Wonderful Favorites Stamp Set using White Craft Ink. A Chocolate Chip 5/8″ Grosgrain knot is alongside. (A design element to take note of is the use of a strong accent color, Chocolate Chip in three places on the card…ribbon, tree trunks, and medallion.)
The Dad Sawed card uses the great Totally Tool Stamp Set, in Chocolate Chip classic ink. The Large Star Punch is accented with one of the small circle brads to repeat the dots in the upper portion of card. I dyed a piece of the Very Vanilla 5/8″ Grosgrain ribbon with a few drops of Only Orange re-inker and topped it off with a knot in the Chocolate Chip 1/4″ Grosgrain.
Both cards use scrap pieces of Designer Series Paper leftover from other projects.
Dad’s are vitally important in the lives of their families and many times are the unsung heroes behind the scenes. It’s hard to know what to get dad for father’s day, most of them don’t really ‘want’ or actually need anything of a material nature. Rather, they generally speaking, just enjoy the opportunity to spend some time with their family.
I hope you got the chance to give your Dad, or your kid’s dad that time this Father’s Day.
Have a great week!
Katherine
(Oh Yeah…I’ll tell you about where we were last week in the next post, it was AWESOME!)
