Good morning! Today, Colorado Craft Company is celebrating their newest Anita Jeram release with a huge blog hop. You should have arrived here from Donna Hitz, and your next stop is Erin Thompson. The Anita Jeram line is so very adorable… it’s great for someone like me whose likes critter stamps but finds it hard to work with the individual critter stamps. These little scenes in the storybook style are so adorable and so easy to work with, all with a touch of elegance that I associate with a style like vintage Winnie the Pooh books. I have two Father’s Day projects for you today using the new For Dad and Dad’s Cooking stamps, so let’s get started with the details!
For masculine cards, I like to keep it fairly simple, with bold colors and simple layouts, a bit of a departure from my normal colorful, feminine, flowery cards, ha! I kept both cards very clean, with lots of white space and crisp black lines, allowing the gorgeously drawn stamps to be the stars of the show. The images in both the For Dad and Dad’s Cooking stamp sets reminded me so much of my husband; he’s such an incredible father to our four kiddos, and he makes so many wonderful memories with them that I think he definitely deserves two cards for Father’s Day.
I absolutely couldn’t resist the little guy bouncing on his dad’s belly in the For Dad stamp set. My kids crawl all over my husband, bouncing on his stomach and generally using him as a trampoline, and I think it’s an unwritten rule that the best dads make the best jungle gyms. I stamped the image from For Dad on some white, Copic-friendly cardstock, then used Copic markers in shades of auburn (like my husband’s hair… not sure if mice are actually that color, but I’m claiming artistic license with this one). I die cut the finished colored image with the coordinating dies.
I trimmed down a white A2 card base to be slightly smaller than A2 size, then matted it on a full size black A2 card base, leaving a fairly chunky black mat around the edges to help make the black outline of the mouse image pop. I stamped the greeting “You are rocking fatherhood.” from For Dad on the white panel using Intens-ified Black ink, then used foam tape to pop up the Copic-colored die cut for a clean, simple, but effective Father’s Day card.
For my second card, I used the darling kitty images from Dad’s Cooking to create a larger scale slimline card. My husband likes to make a big breakfast on the weekends, and my two biggest kiddos love to help him make the pancake batter and flip the pancakes. This image reminded me so much of the adoration on their faces while he makes their pancakes that I couldn’t resist. It’s amazing how much emotion can come from a single image of kitties, isn’t it?
I stamped the main image from Dad’s Cooking, again on white Copic-friendly cardstock and colored it with Copic markers, this time making some gray striped kitties by taking some of the color away for white stripes with my Copic Colorless Blender. I die cut the finished images (including the pancake!) using the coordinating Dad’s Cooking dies.
The greetings included in the Anita Jeram stamp sets are absolutely wonderful, so heartfelt and poignant. This sentiment that I’ve used here from Dad’s Cooking just pulls at the heartstrings, doesn’t it? So true for my kiddos, especially. I stamped it on a rectangular block of white cardstock, then matted it with a slightly larger piece of black cardstock. I popped all of the images and sentiment up on a slimline card base using foam adhesive. The simplicity of the color scheme and the clean white base are made a bit more involved looking with the addition of the dimension from the foam tape, in my opinion.
Each stop on the blog hop will be giving away a $25 gift certificate to the Colorado Craft Company store. All you need to do to enter is leave a comment on each blog in order to be entered to win. The giveaway will end on April 13th at midnight. Winners will be announced on April 14, 2021.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!
Adrienne Kennedy (CCC)
Amber Rain Davis
Angelica Conrad
Bibi Cameron
Caly Person
Cathy Zielske
Chari Moss
Chris Dayton
Daniel West
Donna Hitz
Emily Midgett<— you are here
Erin Thompson
Jennifer Gross
Jennifer Kotas
Jennifer McGuire
Jennifer Shurkus
Joe Sysavath
Kassi Hulet
Kathy Racoosin
Kelly Griglione
Koren Wiskman
Kristina Werner
Laura Volpes
Mansi Bhatia
Marci Snee
Nichol Spohr
Sandy Allnock
Sara Torzullo
Traci Jenkins
Yana Smakula
I think a lot of us can relate to the Dad trampoline. It makes for the cutest card.
This is the cutest stamp set ever. My Grandson is a new dad and this is perfect. You colored them so cute
Great new products…your cards are delightful. I especially enjoyed the bouncing belly characters. tfs-stay well.
The For Dad is my favorite set. My son will enjoy this. He is a new parent.
I just love the yummy jumping mouse! Beautiful cards!
Love your work and these stamps
Tummy jumping mouse! 😄
I love the simplicity of your cards. I think the For Dad set is my favorite because of the “blessing” saying.
cute cards!
These are darling! I LOVE your CAS designs!
I think your cats look blue. I love that, so whimsical! I know they’re gray, but this sparked my creativity to make these fun critters in color! The mouse jumping on dad’s tummy is my favorite here! Great work.
Love this release! Your cards are beautiful!
I love these!
Love the kitties (and that the adoration on their faces reminds you of your kids)! Too cute!! Proud of You is my favorite set in the new release.
Cute cards!
I loved your unusual colors for all the critters! Very cute ideas for Father’s Day cards, thank you!
Such sweet Father’s Day cards!
Emily, your cards are very cute and I like the CAS-ness of it all — I’m thinking the “rocking fatherhood” one is perfect for my son’s second Father’s Day! 🙂
Love the clean simplicity of your cards. It’s nice with these sweet CCC sets. i especially like the Love Art set!
This is a great series..Love Art is my favourite… your blue grey cats are amazing
Cats are cute, but I love the mice🥰Your cards are great
I love the “You are rocking fatherhood” card that you made, because it can be sent to someone like my stepson!
“flipping” cute cards. The stamps are
darling. thanks for sharing
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These critters just make my day! The Father’s Day stamp is great! I love all your designs.
My favorite is the LOVE ART set.
I like how graphic these seem. I would normally put a background scene into cute character type cards but this works really well. Thank for you the inspiration, I will be trying this.
Love all these
Love the color twist from the expected!
Great ideas!
Cute cards. I really like your CAS card.
Your cards are just darling!! I’m glad to see Fathers Day stamp sets as cute as these. Especially the kitty making the pancakes, adorable!!
Delightful! Your cards are fabulous! Nicely done! Thank you.
Love your cards, especially the slimline card flipping pancakes
I am enjoying seeing all the creativity for this release. Your cards are great.
I enjoyed your crisp clean card designs! Basic black with white does speak for itself. Thank you for sharing 😊
Love the littly guy bouncing on Dad’s tummy! It is true, Dads do make the best jungle gyms!
Your coloring is amazing and the pants on the chef, adorable!
Your cards are sooo cute, love how high that pancake goes! Love the stamps you used, but my favorite stamp set is the Amazing Mom Mother’s Day one with the kids and stroller. Reminds me of days gone by!
OHhhhhhhhh so CUTE!!!!
Such thoughtful cards. I love the blue kitties! Oh, I use an IPad, and find it a bit hard to read. Your wonderful story. Could the text be a little darker?
I love both of your cards! Those stamps are so whimsically funny 😀
I loved how you out the shadows behind the raised images. Your cards are adorable
I love this release! Your cards are beautiful 😍
Loved these images and sentiments, thanks for sharing.
I especially like the baby rat hopping on dad 🙂 My favorite new stamp set is AMAZING MOM
So-so cute for Father’s day. Don’t you just love Anita Jeram’s desings?
Certainly captured the fun & frolic in your artistic renditions!
aww these cards are just gorgeous – super work
So many opportunities with these sets and you made the most of your Father’s Day cards. I love the belly jumping card the best.
Blue kitties and bouncing mice baby, what more could you want? LOVE
Such cute cards and images! My favorite set of this release is Proud of You.
A very fun spin on colorful critters! Need not be afraid to do that! Loved the cards.
Oh. Em. Gee! These images are just so darned ca-uuute!
And your cards are fabulous!! I really love your blue kitties – so fun.
My favorite set is Love Art… but, that little mouse jumping on the Dad’s belly is hilarious! Wonderful job, TFS
So clean & simple. Love that!
Super sweet and fun use of colors! Hop on Pop and Green Eggs and Ham in Anita Jeram’s style. LOL I have to say these sets are my favorite after seeing how you presented them!
These are great. I’m loving the Anita Jeram- For Mom set, but the whole release is fabulous.
Great cards love the coloring. My favorite set is the proud of you.
This is really cute!
Darling cards. Love Dad flipping the
pancakes. Brings back memories
of breakfasts my husband cooked.
thanks for sharing
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These sets are all wonderful and the ones I like the best are (2) Masterpiece in the making and From all of us!
Thanks ccc!
Awesome images and colouring!
Awesome images. Great for fathers day. Love them.
Oh My Gosh! This whole release is so uplifting, and what do we need more than anything right now…but the Love Art set really captures the feeling of fellowship and community we share as artists and papercrafters, so if I have to choose, this one is my fave. (I’ll be getting all of them, though). Love your color choices and the clean simplicity of your technique!
What wonderful CAS designs – I love these bolder colorations as well!
These are just adorable! I love the Dad kitty cooking the pancakes! Awesome coloring on these cute images!
My favorite set of the release is For Mom!
These Dad card stamps are amazing. Love them!! So very sweet and simple!
Love your cards and the colors you used! This is an amazing release from CCC and Anita Jeram! I love it all, but Love Art is my favorite! Thanks for sharing!
Such nice cards. And love the stamps!
Love your take on the chef stamp set! Super cute 😍
Love the dad cooking card! Such a cute stamp set!
These are amazing. I love the stamp sets!!
I just love Anita Jeram’s stamps and have ALL of them from the 1st release on! Your coloring has inspired me to break out the very pastel coloring I have been doing! Thanks!!!
Your hubby & kids sound SO much like my hubby & our kids, except now it’s my hubby (now Papa) & our grandkids! That’s why “For Dad” is my favorite set in the new release!! The cards you’ve made are just adorable! You made these cute critters come to life! Thanks so much for sharing! 😊❤️
Hi, Emily – Love your work and these cards in particular.
This is a tough choice. I think the Love Art set is my favorite. I love the quotes around the edge. I also like “Amazing Mom” a lot. I also love the little tiny “The Artist” stamp.
A virtual hug –
Lori S in PA
That bouncing mouse baby is so fun.
The mouse bouncing on his Daddy’s belly remains my favorite! It evokes such a Daddy memory, I love it!
Amazing colors on the dad cooking card!
Love the dad cooking set and your colors are the best yet! So inspiring and fun!
You said it best… I think this is what makes these stamps do exceptional in that they are our memories and how it is our every day. For Dad is my 2nd fav…. I love the kitty in the bed. Wonderful coloring!
What beautiful cards!
Your cards are adorable…..thanks so much for the inspiration. 🙂
Its wonderful how we can relate with these illustrations , childhood memories , I loved how you linked them to your kids and hubby.Though different from your usual style but still Amazing .
I really like the Black background with the White.
Thanks for sharing the story of your kiddos making pancakes with their Dad, that will be a special memory for them always.
It’s an adorable set and card, thanks for the inspiration.
Love these cards!
Such cute cards! I really love how your coloring makes these images pop! My favorite of the new sets is Proud of You.
Very cute cards. Definitely say “Dad.”
Just fabulous, loving ‘For Dad’ just perfect, stay safe love Jane x
These are so cute!
Adorable cards and another wonderful release. Who doesn’t fall in love with these cute critters!?!
Great cards!
Love art is the bomb.
Love the simplicity of these cards. Beautiful.
Such cute cards and the coloring is gorgeous. Love the Fathers Day release used. Thank you for sharing.
My favorite stamp set is Best Chef Ever.
Total sweetness!! These cards are so heartwarming! I love the Love Art set so much but this one with the dad is really pulling my heart strings – your coloring is AH-MAY-ZING!!
I agree – there’s an unwritten rule about dads and trampolines! 🙂 I love how the black frame on that card makes it stand out so. My favorite of this release is For Mom or Amazing Mom.
Great Father’s Day cards. Thanks for sharing!
Cute cards! I think every dad deserves more than one card for Father’s Day and I’m sure your husband will love these. The one with the mouse jumping on his dad’s stomach is my favorite because it brings back memories of my childhood. Thanks for sharing!
So bold and I love the coloring on the cats!
Great card. Love your color choices.
Love these stamps…Favorite is the cute mouse coloring the leaves, etc.
Beautiful work, my favorite is the art image.
Love the slimline card designs.
Flip those pancakes! Love your blue critters! Such cute cards!
sweet cards!
Adorable!
oh my goodness — so cute!!
You are rocking fatherhood…I love it!!
Such cute cards. Fabulous release! My favorite is the Love Art set.
Whimsical cards that just can’t help but bring a grin to my face.
Simply awesome cards, Lovin’ the new release sets!!
These cards are so simple and cute-the design works well. My favorite stamp set is Dad’s Cooking. The new release from Anita Jeram and Colorado Craft Company is great!
Love this new release and the way you used the Dad stamps. Your AL (Artistic License) served you well! I love your mice and the Fox family. They are very appealing in your clean crisp style. My favorite set is Love Art but I think the cutest image is the one of the little mouse jumping on his Dad’s tummy from the For Dad set. Thanks for doing this blog hop. I like your style!
The Amazing Mom is my favourite stamp. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I love Proud of You–so sweet and I think can be used for many occasions. Thanks for the opportunity to win such a wonderful prize!
Thanks for sharing your adorable Father’s Day cards! I was impressed by the height on that pancake! My favorite is the Proud of You set, but that little mouse bouncing on dad’s belly is so very cute.
Thank you so very much for sharing these wonderful father’s day cards.
The For Dad card is my favorite. Dad’s are so much fun!
Sooooo cute! Love all the cards and stamps with the adorable mice. I have to with a nickname of “Mouse”. 🙂
Such cute critters and cute cards. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Those baby kitties helping chef (kitty) dad, make me so happy.
Terrific coloring! Love your cards!
My youngest Brandon’s three little boys LOVE to roughhouse with their daddy so I’m really drawn to this one!
I don’t know how this changed “grandson’s” to Brandon’s”….but oh well😁
Cute blue cats. I like the So Proud of you set too.
Emily, your cards are so cute. Always a fan of your work! After seeing your Father’s Day cooking card I am a big fan of that stamp set.
These cards are great and so is this release. So nice to see Father’s Day stamp sets!!!
Love your sweet cards. Such wonderful images.
Love your fabulous CAS designs ! The “For dad” set is also my favourite, may be for the same reasons as you, my husband used to play a lot with the kids. Gorgeous release and wonderful showcase. Thanks for sharing.
Cute cards! The Dad cooking totally reminds me of my husband making his famous pancakes!!
i love the For Dad stamp
dad’s cooking stamp is cute
Such sweet, adorable cards! Love the critters…
Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love your Dads Cooking card!. My Dad loves to cook on the barbeque and this card would be perfect to give him!. Super cute release as always.
I like all the new release stamp sets but I think my favorite is Dad’s cooking. The two kittens remind me of my twin boys. Thank you for sharing your beautiful cards.
This stamp set is so cute. Thanks for sharing what you have done with them.
Your cards are adorable, blue kitties and all! My favorite set is the Love Art set.
wow, so sweet!
The Love Art set is my favorite.
Your cards are so adorable! I love your brilliant and bright coloring so much.
Simply wonderful! Loving these stamps!
Fun cards, coloring, images, and sentiments. Wonderful release and blog hoppin’!!!!
Cute Father cards. Love Art is my favorite set.
You used great colors! My favorite new release is bravo!
Your cards are delightful. My favorite set is proud of you.
Love your cards. I’m so jealous of the great coloring.
Fun cards and a terrific hop to showcase this new release. TFS the inspiration!
very adorable cards and really like your style.
Love love love the colour choices you’ve made on these designs, so cool that these stamps can remind you of your family.
Your father’s day cards are adorable. The baby jumping on dad’s belly is so cute. My favorite set from the release is proud of you.