Happy Father's Day...

I hope all the dads out there have a wonderful day and know how much they are loved by their families. I also want to honor all those men who play an important role in a young person's life, whether or not they are a father.

Here are a couple of cards I made for my uncles. They are both very special men, and I hope they have a spectacular day.

A few years ago my husband gave me a very masculine paper pad. It contained pages with all these old-fashioned ads and embellishments (even the buttons!), along with a lot of beautiful papers. Because my uncles are now in their 80s, I decided these would work well for their cards since they probably remember when similar ads were in use.

This is the inside of the card. This mat is actually just a portion of one of the 12" X 12" pages. All I did was use my computer to print "Happy Father's Day" on it and added a red star to mimic the one on the front.

Because the bottom of the mat is a dark brown, it had to be signed with a white pen.

Here's the second card, done in the same style, just a few different embellishments.

For the inside of this one, I cut a scroll with my Cricut using the Heritage cartridge. Then I used my computer to print "Happy Father's Day" on it. You can see that the mat behind the scroll is another part of the same paper that was used on the inside of the first card.

It was fun to cut out and add all these old-fashioned embellishments. It took quite a while though, because I actually enjoyed reading each of them before I decided which ones to use.

I think Father's Day will be pretty quiet around here. I'm sure my husband will spend a portion of the day on the phone talking to our kids, but we don't have any big plans.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.
Cheryl