For today's Ways To Use It challenge---masculine cards.
I made this for my dad for Father's Day. There's nothing special about this card, it's simple and unadorned, but this image looks so much like my childhood that it could be a snapshot of me and my brothers.
My dad (and my mom too) was always taking us fishing. I can still remember my dad hauling my brothers and me to Douthat State Park every spring break for the opening day of trout season. We used to have competitions---who caught the first fish, who caught their limit first, who caught the biggest...stuff like that. And I would just like to say that even though the little girl in the stamp isn't fishing, I LOVED fishing and most often I would catch my trout limit first on opening day ;o) Made my brothers so mad! Such nice memories. I hope my dad likes it.
Thanks for looking and listening to my ramblings
ETA: This was published in CardMaker Magazine, Spring/Summer 2013
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012 GMT Views: 2332
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Registered: May 9, 2007 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 8700
Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 4:57 PM
I love everything about this card, from the plaid dsp to the brads and colored image. Very very nice!
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Georgia Posts: 3232
Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 5:33 PM
Beautiful card - that image looks so serene. Don't know if you created the background colors or managed to have some fabulous paper to stamp on, but it looks great. Nice to have such fond memories.
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Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 5:46 PM
Your card is gorgeous!! I love the way you applied the blue and green color. That is such a sweet story of you and your family fishing. Our dad's are special and it's nice to get the memories while making their cards.
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Thu, Jun 14, 2012 @ 6:28 PM
WOW, this is just a gorgeous card. I love the beautiful colours, the silhouette stamp and bg dp! Having just read your terrific story of your childhood memories your dad is sure to absolutely love this card and the memories it evokes. My dad used to take us kids fishing when we went on our annual holidays but I think I was more interested in collecting the seashells!!
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