Cheers to You, Dad

Greetings, hope everyone is managing well in the summer heat.

I finished my Honey's Father's Day card, except for the inside sentiment. Still working on that. But I thought I'd get it posted here now, as I hope to have another same-themed art journal project to share on Sunday.

I see Honey every day in his man cave pretty much in this position, in his red recliner and black reading glasses, lol. Although he hasn't read a real newspaper in a while, he usually has his iPad instead. 

So, when I was looking through my stamp files, I saw this old Polkadoodles Winston Snoozy Bear digi and printed it up to color with my colored pencils. I'd originally bought it for Honey, so no better time than now. I can't link to this specific image because it's apparently retired, but Winston was quite a popular Polkadoodles character in his day. They do sell a Winston Bear collection that this image is in HERE. 

 

I used Cheerful Sketches current sketch for my 6x6 layout design.

The card base is a brown textured Bazzill card and the patterned papers are all DCWV. I've inked all edges with a blue Spectrum Noir alcohol marker. The 3 little heart shapes are Altenew enamel dots. The DAD die cuts are Quickutz Squeeze Blossom Alphas, cut out of some brown SU scrap card. I used the brown card to die cut the MFT sentiment strips that I've stamped and heat-embossed the MFT sentiments on. Winston's glasses were colored using a Sakura black gelly roll glaze pen, as was his nose. Everything else was colored with Polychromos colored pencils. 

I matted the inside with more of the DCWV paper and will add my sentiment to it before Sunday. Something like "Happy Father's Day to the BEARY BEST DAD."

The back has more of the DCWV and the siggie I usually use.

Close-up of the image coloring and hopefully you can see the sentiment heat embossing with Ranger Seafoam White powder.

Close-up to try to show the shine coming off his glasses and nose, the enamel dots and heat-embossed sentiment.

And final view.

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Do you have your makes done for Father's Day? I'm relieved I do. No last-minute creating in secret this year for me! Yay! 

Thanks for dropping in and have a great day!

XXO

CHALLENGE LINKS:

Cheerful Sketches Challenge #121

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 22

Digi Choosday Challenge Week 22

Gem of a Challenge Week 12

CD Sunday Plus Challenge #112, Hosted by Carol

The Paper Shelter Challenge #557: For That Special Man

Creative Moments Challenge #246: Boys and Men

Allsorts Challenge Week 732: AG Option

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge 324: Father's Day

As You Like It Challenge: Pastels or Brights and Why

I like both, but when I make a guy card I usually prefer to go with brights.

Creative Fingers Challenge #256

QKR Stampede Challenge #466

Inspiration Station Challenge Prompt #50

I used the orange/red/gold colors in the photo

Critter Crazy Challenge #75

Simply Create Too Challenge #191

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #85: Make It Masculine

Crafty Animals Challenge #73

613 Avenue Create June Challenge: AG

Let's Craft and Create Challenge #196: Hip to be Square

Classic Design Challenge June #6

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #224: Men / Boys

Die Cut Divas June Challenge: Die + Use Critters

Dies Used: Quickutz Squeeze Blossom Alphas, MFT Little Notes Sentiment Strips

 

Inkspirational Challenge #291: Seasonal

Father's Day 6/18 is a holiday of the Spring season, as Summer does not begin until 6/21