Skip links

Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

father's day

New Anita Jeram Stamps from Colorado Craft Company!

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

Man Card Monday, a day late!

Hi there! This month’s Man Card Monday comes on a Tuesday, sorry about that. I didn’t want to distract from the Pinkfresh Studios release yesterday! (You can check out that blog post and enter to win the entire new release here.) Today’s Man Card Monday is an ocean-themed Father’s Day card using some fabulous supplies from Hero Arts, so let’s get started with the details!

This Man Card Monday was inspired by this fabulous seahorse die set from the My Monthly Hero Add-Ons from a few months ago. Male seahorses actually carry and give birth to the baby seahorses, so I thought they would be a perfect focal point for a Father’s Day card! I began by die cutting some of the Paper Layering Seahorses from some Adriatic card stock. My husband and I have twins (though he most certainly didn’t carry and birth them haha!), so I die cut an extra little baby seahorse to give the daddy seahorse his own set of twins!

For the background, I created a swirling alcohol ink panel using teals and gold, then added some gold glitter paste using the Starry Night stencil. While that was drying, I die cut the “happy” 4x from the Happy Stamp and Cut using gold vellum, then adhered them all together to make a dimensional die cut. I also heat embossed the “father’s day” onto a strip of white card stock using gold embossing powder.

Once the glitter paste was dry, I used foam tape to adhere the die cuts and greeting to the card front in a cluster. I know, it’s a little more glitter than you would normally think of for a “man card,” but I couldn’t resist adding that extra bit of texture to the alcohol ink background! Texture paste, to me, is a bit messy, and so of course that works on a guy card. (ha!)

Well, that’s all for April’s Man Card Monday. I hope you’re enjoying the series and finding some inspiration for those forever-difficult “man cards.” Thanks so much for dropping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Spellbinders Guest Designer, Part 2!

Hi there! I’m back again today with another Spellbinders guest post featuring the Lene Lok Folk Art Collection. (For my first post, click here.) Today, I’ve decided to showcase how perfectly these dies work for masculine or gender-neutral cards. Combining a simple stamping trick with some ink blending creates that perfectly simple, no frills card that’s great to give that guy in your life. Let’s get started!


For my first project, I wanted to emphasize how beautifully the details of these intricate dies die cut from masking paper. I started by die cutting the Rosemal Flowers Etched Dies from the Folk Art collection using masking paper. I carefully peeled the backing off and adhered it to approximately the center of my white, A2 card front, burnishing it with my bone folder to ensure that my mask remained in place while I did some ink blending. I then blended Peacock Feathers and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks on the card front. I peeled the mask away… and it was like magic. Masking is such a simple, but supremely effective, technique to utilize with these gorgeous intricate dies!

Next, I wanted to add a little extra “something” to the card front, so I decided to press my Versamark pad onto the entire card front and cover it with clear embossing powder. I heated it, then repeated the process again until I had a nice thick, glossy layer of embossing powder. You do run the risk of cracking when trying to maneuver your card front onto a card base, but you can always heat it up again to remove the crack! Such a neat glassy effect, and the lack of sparkles and flowers make this perfectly gender neutral.

For my second project, I wanted to make a decidedly masculine card. I think that the Nordic Tree die looks quite sturdy and masculine, with very few flourishes or hearts, so I wanted to make that the focal point of my masculine project. I essentially repeated the process from the previous card, die cutting the Nordic Tree die from masking paper and adhering it to the card front, then using Hickory Smoke and Black Soot Distress Oxide inks to blend a nice, gray-to-black ombre down the front. Lifting that masking paper off is so much fun. It makes me giddy to see that crisp white pattern revealed!

Next, I added a greeting. I thought this would be perfect for Father’s Day, so I added a crisp white embossed sentiment at the bottom of the blended panel. I trimmed some of the edges off and mounted it on a white card base to add some contrast to the edges of the project.

Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed this foray into the world of masculine cards today! I am all about flowers and pinks and purples, so it was definitely a fun challenge to create something a bit simpler and less frilly (and decidedly less sparkly haha!). Thanks for visiting! I will be back again soon with another guest post featuring the beautiful Lene Lok Folk Art Collection!