Measure of a Dad

Created by LAURIE WILLISON
 for MUSE challenge

Have you seen the latest inspiration over at the MUSE Card Club? There is a fabulous card by Laurie Willison. She created a thank you card for a teacher. I wanted my card to have a "RULER" embellishment too. I immediately thought about Father's Day and my tape measure Washi tape. I figured this would be perfect to represent the ruler in Laurie's card.  I began by adhering two strips of the Washi strips of black cardstock. I then attached the strips to a piece of green cardstock that I embossed with a chevron pattern. I rounded the corners and then located a piece of patterned paper to represent the "check-out card" that Laurie used.  I used my notebook edge punch to give it that notebook feel and then used a word document to print a series of words that describe my husband. I inserted the phrase "NO ONE MEASURES UP TO YOU" at a slight angle and then printed the list onto the patterned paper. I adhered the list to a piece of black cardstock then attached it to the green cardstock at an angle, like Laurie did.  Next I used some metallic "stainless steel" sticky back paper to create a tape measure. I looked at one of my husband's tape measures and then hand cut my version of it. I used a piece of recycled #6 plastic to represent the tape coming out of the tape measure. I layered this over the "NO ONE MEASURES UP TO YOU" sentiment and added a piece of the metallic paper to represent the pull tab on the tape measure. I attached the green panel to a cream colored cardbase with rounded corners.

Supplies:
Cardbase: Recollections, Green Cardstock: Bazzill, Patterned Cardstock: Echo Park: For the Record, MS Word, Metallic Paper (from my scrap stash), #6 Clear recycled plastic, Washi Tape: Darice, Adhesive: Scotch ATG, Elmer's Glue Spots