Inlaid & Inked Father's Day

I really enjoy playing at Taylored Expressions' Share Joy challenge, and, lucky me, I won a gift certificate to their store!  This card features their "Transportation" Little Bits dies.

The cars & treeline are die cut directly from the textured cardstock base and the pieces set back together. The cars were inked with the same 3 blue inks that I used for the sentiments. The "roads" are inked with Memento inks that I also purchased from TE, using a Recollections stamp. I used the same stamp for the blue sections. The "Father's Day" sentiment piece was fussy cut and popped with foam tape. The base is a slate blue cardstock.

Inspiration/Challenges:
AAA Cards #64: Inlaid Die Cutting + CAS/Modern/Nearly Clean
Sunday Stamps #126: Create a Scene using Sketch

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Mustache Knows Best

Here's a shaker card using a set of Mustache stamps by husband picked out for me:

I stamped the 'stache in rows, using different colors and various amounts of blue inks to create a "wavy" pattern. I've got to do this again! I used the same stamp to create a border on the inside. I cut out another and covered it with blue Sparkly Fluff (top right corner). I hand-cut the frame from a Pebbles DP, cut the bottom with the Die-namics Notebook Edge die by MFT, and heat-embossed the sentiment (Fiskars) in shiny blue (Stampendous).

I couldn't resist making this a shaker card. I enclosed it with some scrap plastic (from old packaging), and mounted it with a double layer of 3M foam tape onto a DP by Little Yellow Bicycle. It's filled with glass microbeads (Martha Stewart). I finished the card with some Denim baker's twine from The Twinery (bought at CYDI?).

It certainly has character, like the best dads I know!

Inspiration/Challenges:
Can You Digi It #34: Sketch
Lollipop Ladies #67: Mustaches/Facial Hair



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