Fathers day card in a plain waterfall style

OK - I'm happy with my mojo again now and just hope that you feel the same.

I wanted to have a go at something a little special for a Father's Day card but still wanted to keep the colours and embellishments fairly understated. I figured that an "engineered" card might appeal to the men and so chose to make a waterfall card with a plain, repeated, sentiment as decoration.

Recipe:

Stamp set: Occasional Greetings

Cardstock: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Rose Red, Whisper White, Basic Black

Stampin' Write Markers: Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Rose Red, Basic Black

Ribbon: Bashful Blue Taffeta

Other: Metallic Eyelets 

Non SU: Cuttlebug embossing folder

The details for the waterfall card were taken from Splitcoaststampers. Instead of cutting the squares and the central strip to their dimensions, I cut close to the sentiment and matted with a very narrow frame all around. The width of the central strip was cut to match my matted sentiments. Other cutting and scoring measurements are as the original instructions. I stamped the sentiment four times using markers direct to stamp and picking out each line in a different colour each time until the fourth one where I used all the colours (hopefully you'll see what I mean from the photos).

After trimming close to the sentiment I matted each on the corresponding colour (with all the colours matted onto black). Ribbon was threaded through the central eyelet to provide an easy pulling mechanism for the waterfall effect.

I also made an insert both to make any writing more visible and to add a little weight to the back of the card to counterbalance the front. The DSP used inside also gave me my colour scheme for the front of the card.

Recipe (inside)

Stamp set: Loads of Love

Cardstock: Whisper White

Ink: Basic Black

DSP: Junior Varsity

Punch: Corner Rounder

Thanks for stopping by.

Sara xx