Monday, May 6, 2013

Measure of a Dad

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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

9 comments:

  1. This is so fun! What a great way to use Laurie's Muse as inspiration - thanks for playing along!

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  2. Great Father's Day card, Brenda!

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  3. Wonderful take on the Muse card! Great job Brenda! And excellent description.

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  4. I am in aww of that tape measure you made yourself! I love your take on Laurie's card, with this wonderful one. Wow again on the amazing tape measure.

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  5. Dang, Brenda, you are too much! This is fun and timely and beyond clever! Your innovation and artistic ability with that tape measure made my jaw drop open in astonishment! Such a winning card!

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  6. This is so awesome, Brenda! I love how you turned it into a masculine card! Well done! I just voted for you! Good luck on this challenge!

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  7. Love your card. It is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

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