Well today is not only Fathers Day here in the UK, but also the Waltzingmouse Blog Party. For the first time that I'm aware of we haven't had a theme as such, but an inspirational photo to use.
As soon as I saw this I knew I would use it for my Fathers day card, as the colours really work for a masculine card.
Following last months challenge to use felt I've had my bag of felt out and around, so I went straight to it and decided to do something a little different, a felt background. I used my cuttlebug and my Spellbinders scalloped edge dies to cut out a number of felt strips which would sit together in this lovely wave pattern. I decided that to echo the scalloped edges I would use my Waltzingmouse Teeny trees concentric circle stamps for the main image. I stamped in a variety of sizes and colours, and finished with stamping the word Dad, which are individual alphabet stamps from my Anna Griffin Monogram set and sponged the edges before layering onto a final piece of felt.
If you want to see what other people were inspired to create from the image above then head over to the Waltzingmouse blog at 6.30pm.
Love that fabulous tag...
ReplyDeleteTeeny Trees!!
And all that felt...
so beautiful just lined up in a row! :)
Wow! This felt background is just gorgeous! Love it1 Your main image is beautiful too!
ReplyDeleteI love the texture with the pretty felt background - looks super. And I love the way you've used the teeny trees stamps on the sentiment label. Fab card!
ReplyDeleteLove your felt background--it looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteFABULOUS design!!! LOVE how you used the teeny trees to create that beautiful pattern on the label (isn't ist just the best set???)
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful day, hugs, Karin
So stunning...love all your rows of scalloped cut felt, so clever. Your stamped circles are just too cute and with just a touch of orange, so perfect.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding...love all your scalloped rows - how smart to cut them from felt.
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome card! The all felt background was a fantastic idea and I love your sentiment label with the Teeny Trees images!
ReplyDeleteVery clever to use a felt background. It looks great - the waves of blues and grey! Your background behind the sentiment is so cool - great way to use the teeny tree stamps!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great masculine design! love the layers of scallop edged felt - and the circles stampings look super - especially with some off the edges!
ReplyDeleteI love all the scallops and how you used orange exclusively on the sentiment panel. Awesome card, Bee!
ReplyDeleteLove those felt scallops. Hope your Dad loved the card x
ReplyDeleteI want to be able to touch this card. All that felt would be so tactile and different. I bet the recipient smiles every time he looks at it!
ReplyDeleteThe felt background is Awesome, what a great job piecing it together so perfectly. The sentiment piece is so lovely. I'm sure your Dad's going to LOVE this card!!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! I love that the felt gives it a warm feel. You made perfect use of the inspiration photo!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment about the Octonauts! It only started showing here in Canada a couple months ago and I'm so glad the network picked it up 'cause the U.K. shows are the best! We already bought some of the books and Gups all the way from the U.K.!
So pretty! Teeny trees is so versitile!
ReplyDeleteSuper pretty ~ love all the scallops and I see we were on the same wave path with the Teeny Trees LOL
ReplyDeleteSuch a soft pretty idea to use the felt. At first I thought the picture was fuzzy, then I read it was felt :) you did a beautiful job layering all the felt.
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