First let me take a moment to say Happy Father’s Day to all the Dad’s out there. You are such an important part in your child’s life. Thanks for all you do.
To my Dad, thanks for all the memories, love and support. The softball, ice cream, goals, late nights helping me get a paper printed back in the dark ages of computers/printers (remember doing that at your office with the Compaq computer?!). Now in modern times lunch at In-N-Out and playing Foursquare with you while living across the country. I love you!
Now, if you are my Husband, Dad, or Father-in-Law, put down the computer! Walk away! Your card is on it’s way to you and I don’t want to ruin the surprise.
That should have put enough space at the top of this post, right?
Here is the card I made for all the Father’s in my immediate family:
You can see above, the supplies you will need in order to complete this card. You will also need a corner rounder and some form of adhesive. I have found that the Scotch ATG Advanced Tape Glider with 2 Rolls of Tape/Kit works really well and is a good value for the money when making cards. The initial price for the adhesive ‘gun’ kind of stinks,(although the link above is to Amazon, which is the best price I have found. It is even better than a 50% off coupon) but you get so much adhesive on one roll that it is worth it in the end and the adhesive works really well.
works really well and is a good value for the money when making cards. The initial price for the adhesive ‘gun’ kind of stinks,(although the link above is to Amazon, which is the best price I have found. It is even better than a 50% off coupon) but you get so much adhesive on one roll that it is worth it in the end and the adhesive works really well.
First use your corner rounder to round the corners of your card base. I just use pre-made card bases I bought on sale at Michael’s. They are a nice thickness and come with envelopes, which works well and is easy for me.
- Round the corners of you base print paper.
- Round 1 corner on each of your narrow pieces of solid paper.
- Adhere the narrow pieces to the print paper and the whole thing to your card base.
Use your Cricut and the Wrap it up Cartridge to cut out the tie and coordinating pieces. Use the Wild Card Cartridge to cut out the box, decorative border for your box and ‘Happy Father’s Day’ title.
and the Wrap it up Cartridge
to cut out the tie and coordinating pieces. Use the Wild Card Cartridge
to cut out the box, decorative border for your box and ‘Happy Father’s Day’ title.
1. After your Cricut cuts out the stripes for the tie, try to keep them together as you peel the paper from the sticky mat. I was lucky and was able to get all but 1 stripe to come off together.
cuts out the stripes for the tie, try to keep them together as you peel the paper from the sticky mat. I was lucky and was able to get all but 1 stripe to come off together.2. Put your adhesive on the back of your tie stripes.
on the back of your tie stripes. 3. Remove the stripe with the adhesive and place it on the tie.
and place it on the tie.4. Add foam adhesive squares to the back of your tie to make it ‘pop.’
to the back of your tie to make it ‘pop.’
It is really easy to make the decorative square I used on the inside of the card. Just thought since I had pictures of everything, I would include these as well.
ANOTHER HANDY TIP!!
1. To adhere the wording, I could have used a liquid adhesive. I wasn’t feeling particularly patient, so I decided to just run my adhesive across the back in 4 places.
2. This is what it will look like with the adhesive.
3. Place the wording on the card where you want it to go.
4. Use your finger to rub off the excess adhesive. Can you see the little adhesive blobs?
5. Close up of the adhesive blobs. It comes right off if you gently rub it.
6. Looks great! Sort of took less patience, but patience was required to gently rub off all the extra adhesive. I am not sure it was really any better, but it was better to me that day. I think it will be more permanently adhered to the card than the liquid glue.
Outside and inside of the card.
Happy Father’s Day!
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@Sarah Hamer Thank you!
@Darby Hawley Thank you so much! It is so easy and I agree it looks impressive. Win, win, right?!
Such an adorable Father’s Day card! 🙂 Great tutorial too!
This is so very impressive! What a great card!
Stopping by from the It’s Overflowing Party 🙂
Thank you! Thanks for featuring it on your fb page!
Thanks so much! Thanks for the feature as well!
fabulous card and tutorial! Thank you for sharing at Uncommon! featuring this on our FB page tonight! 🙂
Awesome idea! Featuring it tomorrow on my blog… Thank youso much for sharing it!
Thank you!
You did a great job. I love it.
If I had an extra one already done…I totally would do that for you. But alas I don’t and the non-stop last month has caught up to me….I’m exhausted. Maybe next week there will actually be time for a break. Here’s hoping. You had any chance to relax after your super long trip? Or do you not really need that?
Thank you so much! I don’t have time to link up more tonight, but I will try to remember to link up tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder and invite! 😉
Thanks so much! I enjoyed looking at your Father’s Day Card as well. Have a great night!
What a great card and tutorial! I came over from Tip Junkie where I linked up a Father’s Day Card right after you 🙂
Thank you so much! I hope my Dad didn’t peak…I told him not to. Oh well, even if he did peak, it will still be fun to get it in the mail. Thanks for your sweet comments.
What a gorgeous card, and a great tutorial, it looks wonderful… thank you for sharing, it is really inspiring and Dad will be very surprised.
Cute! Want to craft me one and mail it to my Dad? 🙂 Hehe… just kidding!
WOW!!! This is a wonderful card!! Such a great tutorial!!!
Oh and you better be planning on sharing this at The DIY Dreamer… From Dream To Reality!!! Please 🙂
Great card. I am past the time of complicated cards. I am 78 years of age and still love to make cards. I have to make a male card and love this one, I will be keeping in touch and looking forward to your next card and especially your tutorials.
Bye for now,
Marion.
Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria
Thanks so much! Glad you like what I made.