This Father's Day card is for my Jim, a wonderful Dad to 5, Papa to 12 and Greatgrand Papa to 3. I creased my denim paper for a little dimension, pierced a double seam then faux stitched with white gel pen and distressed by sanding the fold for that worn look. I used an origami shirt with some tiny brads for buttons. I believe you can Google this and find several tutorials. I printed the sentiment with Word using a free font called appropriately ‘Rope’. Some Jewelry hemp for a lariat to finish.
This card was made for my friend George’s birthday. The sentiment in the pocket says Celebrate. I pierced the ‘seams’ and faux stitched with a fine tip brown marker. I didn’t have a single button in my stash that would work with this paper so I colored some white buttons with my Sharpie markers. I rather like the tortoise shell effect.
'Cheap Trick' for the day is to look for alternative paper sources. Gift wrap is inexpensive and comes in a large array of colors and patterns. When giving a gift I like to use the same gift wrap on my card as I do to wrap my gift. There are many sources of paper, most of it ends up in the recycle bin but you could give it a longer life by using it on your cards. I find paper in magazines, junk mail, the insides of envelops, calendars and more.
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Have an Amazing Day
Blessings
Bernie
Love it! I bought a origami book on my honemoon in hawaii and the first project was an "aloha Shirt" I made tons of those..unfortunatly the projects got progressivly harder and that was the only one I could do LOL! I love the 2nd card too, I think i might CASE that idea!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous love the background papers and the image done to perfection......:) Sandra H
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ReplyDeleteHi Bernie! Somehow I missed this posting :( It's just great and I do have the instructions here, think I bought a kit in Gibraltar about 6 years ago and, although I made some, the finished results weren't anything like as good as your cards - love the denim one especially! And the faux stitching is just perfect - I couldn't do as well with a sewing machine, you little perfectionist :) Hugs, Di xxx
ReplyDeleteThis is too cute! I love the shirt concept. That's amazing! You did a fantastic job with that! Thanks for your visit today too and sweet comments! Hugs!
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