Handmade Fathers Day Card 2015

I made this Fathers Day card with a rubber stamp and paper piecing.

These are the supplies I used:
Blank 5" by 7" kraft cardstock card
Blonde wood grain patterned paper
Green patterned paper (My Mind's Eye Paper Pad).
A vintage Scafa-Tornabene litho print (1982)
"Dad's Truck" rubber stamp (PrintWorks Collection)
Aluminum foil
Red Stickles glitter glue
A barbeque grill sticker (Jolees)
Tim Holtz sentiment ("Small Talk")

This is how I made the card:
I attached the wood-grain patterned paper to the blank kraft card. I rounded the corners with a corner rounder.

I took the rubber stamp "Dad's Truck" and used a VersaMark Watermark stamp pad to stamp the truck image on a piece of wood-grain paper two times. The first time I stamped with the wood-grain vertical and the second time I stamped with the wood-grain horizontal.

I heat embossed both images with black embossing powder. I cut out the truck and cut out the window. I glued a piece of cellophane behind the window to look like glass.

I used light-weight foil to cover the bumper and the side mirrors of the truck.

I used red Stickles glitter glue for the tail lights.

I cut the tailgate out from the second image that I heat embossed (the wood-grain is horizontal). I used glue dots along the bottom edge to attach it to the truck and then foam squares at the top to make it look three-dimensional.

I put a barbeque pit sticker in the back of the truck.

I mounted the truck on the litho print that features a pretty country scene. I framed the print with the green print paper from My Mind's Eye and attached it to the card.

I chose the sentiment "hold tight, and pretend it's a plan" .

Thank you for taking a look at my card. Please share your thoughts in the Comments section below.

Handmade Fathers Day Card For A Golfer

Happy Fathers Day!
I hope you are all having a blessed day. It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in SE Texas. I think it is perfect weather for outdoor activities and family fun.


I made this Fathers Day card for my husband. He is a wonderful husband, father and grandfather. He is also an avid golfer and loves to get out on the golf course.

I am entering this card in Mo's Challenge #139 - "At the Park w/Mo Image".  This is how I made the card;

(1.) I started with an Avery blank white textured greeting card that measures 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".

(2.) The background cardstock is from Recollections "Stitch in Time" Paper Pad. This is a lovely park-like scene that combines the beauty of nature and hand stitching.

(3.) I used the digital stamp "Big Guy Golfing" from Mo's Digital Pencil Shop. I colored the image with Copic sketch markers. I cut it out and attached it to the background cardstock.

(4.) I used the Cuttlebug Embossed Tags embossing folder to make the tag from kraft cardstock. I used a rubber stamp for the sentiment. I embellished the top of the tag with a small button sticker.

(5.) I stamped and punched the butterflies from kraft cardstock with a Martha Stewart punch.

Thank you for taking a look at this card. Please share your thoughts in the Comments Section below.

Fathers Day ~ Life Lessons Learned From Dad

Wayne and Dean Fuller

I would like to share a beautiful tribute that my husband wrote to honor his father, Emmett Wayne Fuller. My husband grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma and he learned the following life lessons from his dad. This tribute was read by the pastor to commemorate my father-in-law on September 6, 2008, after he lost his battle with cancer.

When we were growing up in the mid 1970's, we usually prayed for rain on the weekends, especially during the winter, because if it wasn't raining Dad would get us up early to go work outside...even if a blue northern was blowing in. Our house had a fireplace which meant we had to cut wood on the weekends to last through the coming week.

I have two memories from our early wood cutting days that had unexpected life lessons tied to them. The first was when we went into the woods with the pickup truck to get a load of wood. Dad had cut down a large tree and asked us to back the truck as close to the tree as possible so we could start loading the wood. After we filled the pickup bed to over-flowing with firewood, we got in the cab to head for the house. We traveled about six inches and the truck came to a sudden stop. We had backed the truck over the stump of the tree and with the bed loaded with wood, the back bumper was catching on the stump.

LIFE LESSON ~ Plan ahead, see the big picture, think things through before starting and cut stumps closer to the ground.

The second memory was when we went to cut wood on one of the coldest days I can remember, we had on several layers of clothes because it was so cold! It was well below freezing, the ground was frozen so we could drive across the pasture in the pickup. We worked on clearing brush and cutting fire wood until well past noon. It was getting warmer because we were removing all the extra layers of clothes we had put on earlier. When we finally cut an over-flowing load of firewood, it was time to head for the house...or so we thought. The ground was no longer frozen and we ended up getting stuck. We had to walk to the house and get the tractor to pull the pickup all the way back to the house.

LIFE LESSON ~ Expect the unexpected and don't take the easy way out. We should have taken the tractor out in the first place, but we wanted to drive the pickup because it was warmer.

There are many more life lessons like these that we learned from Dad that have helped us over the years. Most were not verbal, but if you knew Dad he lead by example and/or actions.

LIFE LESSONS ~ If you break it, you fix it. If you make a mistake, acknowledge it and learn from it. Do it right the first time and be done with it. Don't ask anyone to work harder than you do. The easy road is not always the best road.

When we were growing up we thought Dad was too rough on us at times by making us work so hard; but he was using it to instill his work ethics and values in us. These values have benefited us in our personal lives and careers many times over.

It wasn't difficult to see the last life lesson Dad wanted to teach us...it was his faith. During the most trying times he would continue to pray asking for God's will to be done, even though it would have been easier to give up hope. At the end of his life, we all knew he was ready for God to call him home.

[This is a reprint of a post that appeared on JanetteFuller.Com on June 20, 2011.]

What life lessons did you learn from your father? Please share your thoughts in the Comments Section below.