<\/a>Ok, I know, we haven’t even passed Mother’s Day and I am sharing Father’s Day cards. \ud83d\ude00 \u00a0I just received my design team package from Diemond Dies<\/a><\/span><\/span> yesterday and I couldn’t wait to play with some of their new dies!<\/p>\n

These cards are made using the new Skeleton Leaf Die<\/a><\/span><\/span> along with some of their most versatile\/useful nesting dies: the Nesting Tag Die Set<\/a><\/span><\/span> and the Labels 2 Top Note Die Set<\/a><\/span><\/span>. \u00a0I went for a kind of “Rustic Resort” feeling for these cards and thought they would be great to have ready for my hubby (yes, he’s the father of our fur babies-bwah ha ha ha), father and father-in-law for Father’s Day.<\/p>\n

My readers can get 10% off their Diemond Dies order and free worldwide shipping on all orders of $35 or more by using the coupon code thankskristina<\/strong> at check out!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>I used Recollections corrugated card bases to start, and I loosely painted them with watered down white acrylic paint. I further distressed the base just by rubbing the half wet paint with tissue. Then I started layering some frayed burlap, some tulle netting, some twine on one card and crocheted trim on the other card.<\/p>\n

For the cards with the twine, I also stamped out a Happy Father’s Day sentiment from the C.C. Designs “My Guy” stamp set with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Photo, which I also used to ink the edges of the tag I die cut around the sentiment.<\/p>\n

For the card with the twine without the tulle, I also added a handful of wooden dots from Teresa Collins as well as a little soft seam binding triple loop bow. I think adding more hard and soft items\u00a0like this helped make this monochromatic card more luxe and not boring.<\/p>\n

For the card with the crocheted trim, I tied a pretty double loop bow using my Craft-Dee BowZ tool<\/a><\/span><\/span> and hot glued that down over top of the tulle trim. With that pretty (but still masculine given the neutral colors) addition, there was no room for the sentiment so I used my computer to print out the same sentiment on card stock and die cut out a label for the inside message.<\/p>\n

The following is a video tutorial of how to make this card start-to-finish:<\/p>\n