Father's Day Box Card

My husband loves the beach. Unfortunately, since he is still recovering from a heart attack, it will probably be a long time before we can even think about a beach trip. This card is as close as he is going to get.

I used the Heartfelt Creations Sea Breeze collection. Their paper pads often include colored images of the same design as their rubber stamps that can be cut out with their dies. 

The box card is my own design, cut with my Cameo and sized to fit the HC images of the Sea Breeze paper pad.

Birthday T-shirt for My Sister

My sister loves this quote. Someone said it was by Helen Keller, but I can't find a reliable source. My sister had a birthday recently, and she wanted this saying put on a t-shirt. She likes purple, and I happened to have a new, solid purple t-shirt of the right size in my craft closet. 

The design work took awhile, since finding fonts that looked good together proved a bit more time consuming than I expected. Yes, by now I should know that it always takes more time than I expect, but I'm an optimist. I also had some issues with the heat pressing. One letter got skewed, but thankfully I managed to fix the mistake, and it's hard to spot, even knowing where it is and what I am looking for.

Baby Box Card Exclusively with Queen & Co. Dies

I have made a lot of box cards over the years. When I first found out about them, everyone made them with a personal trimmer and a scoring tool. I started creating box card designs with my electronic cutter (I bought my first electronic cutter in 2005), because it was easier, but it's not required.

A lot of companies sell box card dies, and I took a look at them lately. I like dies. I like them a lot, but the price of box card dies was way beyond my budget right now. DH is on disability, and we're still getting medical bills, and probably will for awhile.

I have a lot of the Queen & Co. Foundation dies, so I decided to see if I could adapt a few of them to make a box card. I had to do a little trimming and scoring, but not much. It worked. I embellished the box card with baby dies, also from Queen & Co.

My electronic cutter is easier, but it was an interesting exercise, and I used what I had on hand.

Here is the result:

My only complaint is that the box card is a bit small. That is the advantage of an electronic cutter. You can adjust the size to your liking.

My Favorite Things Camping Box Card

I used stamps from a variety of My Favorite Things stamp sets, but the main set that I used for most of it is their BB Adorable Adventures set. I cut out the stamped images with my Scan N Cut, and colored them with Copic markers.

I created the box card cutting file on my Silhouette Cameo, then cut the back piece with a curved, stitched border die from a Queen & Co. Foundation border die set. The tag is also another one of their Foundation dies, from set 6.

The brown plaid patterned paper is from a pack that I got at Tuesday Morning years ago. I have no idea who made it. There is no identification on the paper, and I have had it in my stash for a very long time.