Bonus Dad

Here is the card that I made for my Dad for Father's Day using a stamp from Unity called Bonus Dad.  I inked it with Tim Holtz Distress inks and then blotted several inks around the image and smeared some water on the green and blue.
My Dad has been helping me with projects around my home, but he hasn't been around for awhile due to somethings that he has needed to do at his area.  Now, this past week we have had it in the 90s and I went to turn my air conditioning on and it would run, but I didn't have any cold air.  So I finally had someone come out today.  Just to find out that the 220 volt electricity had been turned off which I'm sure happened when the guys were doing some work for me since my Dad put new light fixtures to my garage and office.  So oops after the cats and I have been suffering for days and it cost me a visit today, argh.  I still love DADDY!

Patterned Paper:  Simple Stories:  Basic Grey

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Unity - Bonus Dad

Ink:  Distress - Tim Holtz - Walnut Stain, Chipped Sapphire, Evergreen Bough

Spellbinder:  Large Circle

My Favorite Things:  Die-Namics - Double stitched circle

Divine Twine

Bling:  Recollection

Challenges

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - Sketch 114

Dream Valley - Ch. 158 Square Cards Only

International Art & Soul - Ch. 10 For Men

QKR - Ch. 247 For the Guys

Fab 'n Funky - Ch. 354 Marvelous Men

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 481 Boys/Men

Crafty Calendar - June Boys will be Boys

First Friend Best Friend Forever

My Mother's Birthday is in the beginning of May and I made this birthday card for her using a stamp that I got from Unity.  I had several of there stamps from years ago, but when the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop came out and when a fellow blogger and a past DT member that I worked with Cynthia had a Unity posting I saw some of the newer stamps and fell in love with them.  I picked up this set called, First Friend, Best Friend Forever which is not listed on the site and they recently had it as a freebie if you ordered a certain amount of stamps so I'm not sure if it is still available.  I just love the sentiment, which I put on the inside of the card.  My Mom doesn't come on my blog so she won't see it.  I added some white butterflies and pearly accents to the card besides I used Derwent Watercolor pencils instead of Copics.  I put green bling on the card since her birthday is in May and the birthstone is Emerald and to match the leaves.

inside of card

Cardstock:  Recollections; Bazzil

Watercolor Paper:  Artist's Loft

Stamp:  Unity - First Friend, Best Friend, Forever

Sentiment:  Verve - Simply Amazing

Ink:  Distress - Black Soot; Seedless preserves

Embossing Folder:  We Are Memory Keepers

Ribbon:  Michael's

Bling:  Paper Studio

Punch:  Martha Stewart

Dermont Watercolor Pencils

Tim Holtz Water color brush

Pearly Accents

Challenges

Allsorts - Wk 412 I spy something with "B" (Birthday, Bouquet, butterflies, bling, bow, blue, buds)

RRR - Ch. 162 Put a bow on it

Aud sentiment - Ch. 178 Use a stamp for your sentiment

4CC - Ch. 347 Butterflies

DDD - Birthday (Happy 50th to Lisa)

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 474 Birthdays

Creatalicious - Ch. 113 Birthday

The Card Concept - Ch. 71 Fresh Flutters (Clean and Layered)