Friday, June 15, 2012

Vintage Father's Day

Good Morning everyone and Happy Friday! It's Alphabet Challenge time and today's
letter is... J for Journey!  
For my DT project I made a couple of Father's Day cards.  My first card features a fabulous image from Free Vintage Digital Stamps... 
and my second card features another awesome free digital image from Create with TLC.

I decided to challenge myself and create some Vintage style cards.   I find it very difficult to create something that looks aged and distressed... but I have to say I am very pleased with the way they turned out!! 
After printing the images on cream cs I ran them through my Cuttlebug with a piece of burlap between the plates... it adds a little bit of texture and I love it!  I saw this wonderful tutorial over at Dora's blog so I gave it a try!   The dp and die cuts are from the World Traveler collection by Teresa Collins, the tag was cut with a Cuttlebug die and the letters are cut out with the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Typeset die. 
I hope you can join us and be sure to stop by the challenge blog and check out the fabulous inspiration from the DT!
Have a wonderful weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

Challenges I would like to enter:
Anything Goes- Around the World (Travel)
C.R.A.F.T.- Father's Day
Delicious DoodlesFor the Fellas
Do You Stack Up- Boys/Men
Dream ValleyFor that Special Guy
Flourishes- Father's Day
Gingerloft- Vintage
Papercraft Star- Father's Day
Party Time Tuesdays- All Things Mechanical/Father's Day
Penny's Paper-Crafty- Father's Day 
Simply Create TooFathers Day/Male
The Stamp Man- Time or Travel

26 comments:

Vanessa (aka V'ness, Nessa, oldschool) said...

This looks awesome!!!

Unknown said...

Hi Tammy your card is stunning, love the style and texture :D ... so really happy you tried my tip on adding texture :D and thank you so much for letting me know you tried it :D Hugs xxx

cotnob said...

Great vintage Father's Day cards Tammy, fab papers and embellishments.
Pauline
x

cotnob said...

Me again, I forgot to say - Thank you for joining us at Crafting for all Seasons.
Pauline
x

Sylvia said...

Both cards are lovely with all the vintage looking elements you used, Tammy! Thanks for joining us this week for the Papercraft Star, "Father's Day" challenge, hope you have a lovely Father's Day!

jimlynn said...

Thanks for the tip about the burlap in the bug...it really does give it a wonderful feel.
LOVE these cards Tammy!!! WOW! Both are just fantastic! Great images too.
LOVE!!!
Lynn

Shannon White said...

WOW!! These are Both Just Fabulous Miss Tammy! LOVE the vintage feel and Wonderful masculine details and dp's too! These are going straight to my Great Masculine Cards Pinterest Board! 8-) Thanks for the inspiration! 8-)

Hope you have a Super Weekend my friend!

Hugs
Shannon

Elizabeth Hart said...

Love these vintage card - especially love the airplane and the burlap idea was just fantastic. Have never tried that but now I will. Thanks for sharing these two fabulous cards with us at the Gingerloft Challenge.

Davi said...

Wow Wow Tammy you did one fab job on the vintage man cards! A totally different style and you totally aced it my friend! Love the burlap texture :)

Deanna said...

Wow this is awesome! love the details and images on your card!

DianeMoneyGoolsby said...

Tammy: These are wonderful for our Challenge #15 - "Happy Father's Day [or for a Male]" Challenge. A big thank you for joining in at Simply Create Too.

Diane
Simply CreateTooDesign Team Member
http://DianesDigitalDesigns.blogspot.com/

Shelly said...

I love your cards, Tammy! You did a fabulous job on both of them.

Blessings,
Shelly xx

Blankina said...

Great cards!! I love the free vintage digi's blog...they have such great digi's...You have made a beautiful card ..

Ciao Blankina

ddazzled71 said...

I am loving the wonderful vintage feel and colors of your two fabulous male inspired cards. Thanks so much for joining us at Party Time Tuesdays this week for our All Mechanical Challenge. xx
Danie - PTT DT

Unknown said...

Wonderful vintage look

kitten - DYSU team

Evelina Wikberg said...

Oh I just love the vintage feel. So perfect for a man card.Thanks for joining us at Dream Valley challenges. Hugs Eva.

WencheP said...

Fabulous card. Thanks for joining us at Do You Stack Up.

-Wenche

mags said...

Super male card and very vintage. Thanks for sharing with us at Penny's Paper-Crafty challenges and good luck.
Mags
x

Sleepy Stamper said...

Beautiful cards Tammy! You have really achieved the "vintage" look! Love all the little embellishments. Thank you for joining us this week over at the Papercraft Star.

Anitra

Claudia N. said...

Thank you for stopping by at my blog and leaving such nice lines, Tammy!

As I see, you have a helper too. ;)
Im a sure Quinn does his job really well. And the green raincoat suits him adorably!

Greetings from Vienna,

die amelie

Mona Pendleton said...

Awesome Father's Day cards! Thanks for joining along with FTTC :)

Annette said...

Two beautiful cards with a lovely vintage feeling!
Thanks for joining us at Anything Goes Challenge!
Hugs Annette

Diane Louise J said...

Lovely cards. Thanks for joining us at Penny's Paper-Crafty 'Fathers Day' Challenge. Good luck and hope to see you again for our next challenge.
Diane x

Trimgym said...

Great project, thank you for joining us at CRAFT Challenge this week and good luck! Don't forget to check back with us again on Thursday for our new challenge and to check if you have won or made our Top3.
Don't miss out on the regular freebies at Trimgym's Digistamps and Images and the current challenge there. Hope to see you there as well!

Jo and Tigerlover.

Melanie said...

Such a fantastic card!
Thank you soo much for taking part in our "I love you dad" challenge…

Melanie
(DT Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenges)

Joanne said...

Great cards! I love the vintage look, so much fun to create, and yours are fab! I really like the little letters on the plane card, so clever. And that button on the car card is very cool! Hugs, J:)