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[6.18.2017] Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day
We celebrated yesterday, so no chance of spoiling the card this year! 

I threw this card together super fast. Necessity is the mother of invention. Haha. I grabbed two fabulous sets from Unity Stamp Company – A Joyous Season (for the deer) and All About Dad (for the sentiment). I love that you can use a Christmas set for Father’s day. So cool. Unity is so versatile.

For the background, I used a woodgrain stencil, dabbed on some Distress Oxide Vintage Photo. I removed the stencil and then blended on some Distress Oxide Fossilized Amber. Last, I picked up some of the Vintage Photo with my aqua brush and threw some splatters at the card. Then, I just embossed the deer and sentiment, popped them up and because it was missing something, added a few enamel dots to balance everything out.

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads. Especially mine. Love you.

 

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[6.11.2015] unity thursday

Video Day for Unity Thursday

Time for some more THURSDAY fun with the Unity design team.  If you haven’t been hopping along, all the action starts on the Unity blog.  There’s always fun stuff going on.
We start a brand new {Be Inspired} Challenge today and it is a beauty.

smile it’s your day

dahlhouse designs | 6.2015 smile its your day

I used the brand new Smile It’s Your Day stamp kit with the colors from the challenge.  I stamped on watercolor paper and then colored with Distress Inks.  It was super easy using a waterbrush.  I added some glitter glue to the flowers, but the camera didn’t quite pick up the shine.

I also have some videos and cards to share from the past.  Trying to catch up.

dahlhousedesigns | 6.2015 fathers day

This is my dad’s Father’s Day card.  We celebrated it early, so I am safe to share.   🙂  Here is a quickie video showing how this all came together.

 

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dahlhouse designs | 6.2015 awesome giftcard

When I designed Frankly Said, I had this idea in mind.  I’m always giving gift cards… always.  There are thousands of ways to dress up a gift card holder and now I have the prefect stamp to help me out.

I have a quickie video for this as well.  I love how water interacts with Distress Inks.  So pretty.

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Here are all the girls hopping today…  just click on the next pretty girl in line.

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Awesome Gift Card


{5.24.2013} new stamp of the week for dads

DAD – don’t look.

{Unless you don’t want the surprise.  Mom, don’t let him look.  Heehee.}
I’m bloggin’ on the Unity blog today and wanted to share it here as well.

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I’m using this week’s stamp of the week.  This is such a fun program.  For just $5.79, you get a brand new stamp delivered every week.  I just love getting that little envelope every week.

 

Lots of great father related stamps, right?  It is a great basic sentiment set that can be combined with almost any image.  LIKE…

what the buck

Don’t they go together like peas and carrots?
My dad is a hunter, fisher, camper and backpacker.
These WILD images are so perfect for him.

I needed a gift card holder so I used my Petaloo flowers to decorate one.

 I’m not a big technique freak, so this was super fun for me.  I brought out my spray inks and went to town.

First, I used some spray ink to cover the leaves.  Then, I unscrewed the top off the yellow spray ink and used the plastic part to dab on yellow ink.

After that dried, I used my favorite background stamp giving it all meaning to stamp over it in black.  Last, I added a black belly band around a kraft bag, cut a little tag and stamped the sentiment from the April 2013 KOM – you make my heart puffy.

Feeling pretty good to be this far ahead for Father’s Day!  Woo hoo, go me!
Have a great day!