Tool Time card for Father's Day

My design team card for The Cutting Cafe features two awesome files.

Happy Father's Day Word Shaped Card Template...Cutting File

and

Tool Time Set - Template and Cutting File

At my daughter's request I created a card with special meaning for her dad. When she was a teenager she asked her dad to make a platform bed with a headboard and an upright bookshelf for her room. He did and it turned out amazing! Then the summer before she started college she asked him once again to make a platform bed but this one had a twist. She wanted the mattress in an enclosed box with legs and wanted to incorporate my vintage headboard as her new headboard. Again, the project turned out amazing but he officially declared himself out of the furniture making business. Not so fast, summer of 2015 she asked him to add something to her bedroom ensemble. She showed him this photo of Hazel Grace's bedroom from the movie The Fault in Our Stars. 

Image credit: Pinterest 

It took a while but she convinced him to come out of furniture making retirement. :) When the temps cooled last fall he started building his biggest project yet. I say biggest because in real life it's huge and had to be assembled in pieces. It will house her large library of books plus mementos from our travels. She loves it and it looks amazing!

Her custom built nightstands with bookshelves.

They worked on the measurements and design for weeks and this is the finished project. She's been arranging and re-arranging each shelf and hopefully she'll have it finished soon. She's going to hang the landscape canvas in the middle above her bed and then we'll have to add some twinkle lights. :)

Here's what the inside of the card looks like.

It uses another layer in the Father's Day Word Shaped Card Template and Cutting File that is one piece. For the front I cut out the individual letters then glued in place and used a black gel pen to add micro dots to the letters. I added the tools from the Tool Time Set to the inside as well as the outside. 

This is a free design team post meaning Regina gave us the freedom to create whatever we wanted. You can see the DT inspiration post tomorrow, the 7th, here on TCC's blog. If you'd like to be entered into a drawing to win 3 FREE SETS simply leave a comment on the post. Regina will announce the winner on the 21st of June. 

Have a great week, wherever you are!

Hugs,

Lisa 

I'm So Glad You're My...

This card is for my sweetie and I truly am glad he's my husband and the father of our two children. When I saw the colors for the new CR84FN56 Color Challenge I instantly thought of Authentique's Blissful Collection. The challenge colors of yellow, gray and a neutral work perfectly with these dp's and I gravitate toward geometric patterns for some reason. It's certainly not from a love of mathematics I can tell you! I've been branching out with new challenges lately and the challenge at Our Creative Corner  caught my attention. The challenge is to use our favorite T!m Holtz technique and I've been wanting to make his tissue tape flower for a while, so I did, and you can view his video here {last one}. Since my DH is an engineer I placed a sprocket gear from T!m's idea-ology line in the center and a black Kaisercraft pearl to finish it off. I did not use a sketch but formulated my own design and any reference to a sketch 'out there' is purely coincidental. The third challenge I'm participating in is the Make It Monday #93 Challenge where all creations are welcome. Here's the yummy beautiful inspiration photo from the CR84FN56 Color Challenge and there's plenty of time to play along with all three challenges.

Thanks for spending some of your day with me and I hope you have a fantastic week!

~Lisa

Supplies:
Stamps: Father Figure, Tag Time & Swirling Hearts (Verve)
Ink: Memento's Tuxedo Black & London Fog, ColorBox Petal Point Chalk Ink-Yellow Citrus
Paper: Authentique's Blissful Collection, Choice Snow White (TE), black cs (Bazzill Basics)
Accessories: Classic Squares Lg. (Spellbinders); Tissue Tape-Sketchbook & sprocket gears (T!m Holtz/idea-ology); 1" circle punch (Fiskars); black pearl (Kaisercraft); Arch Lattice Edger Punch (MS); Tiny Sweet Scallop Die Set (Verve); brads (PS); yellow trim (Hobby Lobby); Inkssentials blending tool & Silver Pearl Liquid Pearls (Ranger)