Father's Day is almost here...

 ...so I have been working on cards for the occasion.

I still had some pieces left from a partial kit that had been given to me last year.  Sometimes it's hard to use up all the kit bits.

The background paper featuring all the gears and the "Best Dad Ever" punch-out were from the kit.

I adhered a strip of beige cardstock and then a narrower strip of blue across the center of the card.

I popped up the punch-out, but glued the sentiment strip directly to the blue CS.

I added a white panel to the inside with "Happy Father's Day" stamped on it.

I also added two more gear punch-outs as a little embellishment.

Also among those kit bits were a few of the large gear punch-out shapes. A couple of them said "Best Dad Ever," so I layered one of them on top of an even larger shape for this card. I used some wood-grained DSP for the background and put a screwhead sticker in each corner.

In this pic, you can see that the top gear is popped up with foam squares.

I stamped two sentiments on the inside of this card. When that was done, I felt it needed a little something to separate the two, since they were totally different fonts. I would have liked to use a couple more screwhead stickers, but I was out of them. Then I found a stamp for this little rope image and thought it would do the trick.

We are nearly ready for our contractor to come in and refinish some of our wood floors, replace the stair treads, install a runner on them and do some painting. I will be so glad when that is all done!

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

Cheryl