Spellbinders Father's Day Card

    

Happy day to you!

As another Father's Day has arrived and left us, 
I can't help but be thankful that my father was here to live another, at the ripe young age of 83!

Of course he is not the same whipper snapper as he was in his younger days, but he sure gets around pretty darn good. 
He loves to galavant and shoot the breeze.
Tom and I went for a drive the other evening to our local homemade ice cream stand and who comes pulling in... Dad ...you just never know where you'll run into him!

Everyone says I am my father's daughter. 
We can be feisty, and hard headed as ever. 
He is always right and so am I.

We have butt heads way to many times to count. 
Neither is willing to give in. 
I am sure we both, at one time or another, were responsible for a grey hair or two on my dear departed mother's head!

Rebels are we and I have come by it rightly!  :-)

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I had the opportunity to attend Northern Ohio's rubber stamp and scrapbooking convention ~ Adventures in Stamping this past April. 

My friend Sharon told me she would lend me her Big Shot till I can get one of my own, so if I wanted to purchase some dies while there, go for it!
And that's just what I did!

Thank You So Much, Sharon! (hug)
Your kindness brings warmth to my heart and oh my... the joy I am having! 


Needless to say I had to create a card with those newly purchased dies...

I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Romantic Rectangles Two dies. 
The leaves are Impression Obsession dies and I applied Glossy Accents for added dimension. 
The argyle patterned paper is from Authentique Blissful collection.

Inside of card   

The Spellbinders die cut was embossed with Tim Holt-Mustard Seed-Distress Embossing Powder
The photo doesn't do justice... I love the weather-worn texture of it!  



Thanks for stopping by and hope everyone's week is an awesome one!

Till next time...Happy Crafting!

                                                                                                                        
aka The Rebel Blogger                                   

The Tap Dancer

Hello and Happy Mojo Monday! 

While I was making this, the thought came to mind.... I have never done a layout of myself! You may ask yourself why?!  

The answer is.....there are not very many pics of me to be had. I have always, absolutely, positively detested getting my picture taken! 
Any of my family members will attest to it. 
The profile picture for my blog and Google+ is about as good as it gets!!

I started with Bazzill card stock and sprayed it with Mister Huey's color mist in Sunshine and Inky Black. 
Layered with Graphic 45 French Country-Montage and some of Authentique-Blissful  paper pack. 
Used an EK Success punch on the corners then adhered tiny pieces of black glitter cardstock behind them. 
The Prima flowers and a delicate see through leaf were attached to a chipboard ring adorned with black satin ribbon. 
The chipboard ring circling my face (UGH!) is adorned with gold satin ribbon and the hatpin is made by Christina Griffiths at card-making-magic.com. 
The title was cut from the Cricut Ashlyn's Alphabet. 
To finish this layout I added some metal art pieces from K&Company.

Click on photo to enlarge

This picture of me and fellow tap dancer's was in my mother's box of keepsakes. 
She had it tucked nicely in my baby album. 
You can tell by the look on my face, even way back then, I was not happy getting my picture taken!

I can remember my mother bragging about this picture. 
If she was here today, she would of been so proud of this scrapbook layout!

If you feel like giving my blog some love, it would make my Mojo Monday even more mojo!!

  
                            

As always....Happy Crafting!

TTFN!

aka The Rebel Blogger