Tropical Father's Day...

Hi all! Hope you are enjoying your weekend!  Well I got all my projects for the week finished! Hurray! And will start on the ones for next week tomorrow, one day ahead of schedule.. LOL  Yay! Little things make me happy.  I like being ahead of the game, even if it is only a day...8-)

                  
For my last project of the week, I decided to play along with the fabulous ladies of Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #121, to make a Father's Day card.  This one is for my Darling Hubby.  It's One of his favorite wishes to one day be able to just relax in a hammock on his own little tropical island.  So I figured, since getting him his own tropical island was a bit out of my budget this year, lol, this card would be just perfect for him...

I wanted to get a bit creative with this card, So I used regular old brown kraft CS from my stash to start with for both my image panel and my BG panel too.  For my BG I started off by stamping my brown kraft first with Hero Arts Envelope Pattern and Tea Dye Distress ink and then with Flourishes Antique Map and Memento Rich Coco and used my Pealed Paint and Tumbled Glass Distress inks to add some color and shading.  For my image panel I started off by stamping my brown kraft with Hero Arts Envelope pattern and Hero Arts La Lettre on top of it using Tea Dye Distress ink for both. Then I stamped my Flourishes Beach Life images with Memento Rich Coco and colored it up with my trusty Copics and the help of a white Prismacolor pencil. I inked all my edges with Tea Dye Distress ink and matted everything up with some forest green and teal blue CS from my stash and popped both panels up with dimensionals.  To finish it all up, I stamped my Flourishes sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black directly on to my BG panel and added a bit of hemp twine and a fabulous shell button.  I sure hope he likes it. 8-)

Hope you all are enjoying  your weekend & thanks so much for dropping by!