Product Wednesday - Father's Day Card

Father's Day is just around the corner so I was trying to come up with an idea for a card for my father for Father's Day. He always gets excited about receiving a homemade card from me each year. I saw this idea on origami, so I thought I would try it and share with you what I did. You may have seen this before, but for me origami has always been an issue, so I wanted to tackle the challenge.

First I took a piece of MemoryWorks cardstock and cut it to 4"x 6".

I folded the cardstock in half on the longer side.

Then I took the paper and made folds into the center of each side.

I flipped the folds over so the seam was on top and

I turned the top of the paper down about 1/2 in.

I turned the paper back over and brought the corners in to create the collar.

Then I brought the end up from the center and created a crease and tucked the paper into the collar.

I opened the "paper-shirt" back up and folded back the edges (this will create the sleeves).

I tucked the fold back into the collar and there you go. You could finish there, however, I wanted to ink it up. So I took it apart and did just that using the Tim Holtz Distress Ink (I just love that stuff!

Then I took yellow paper and cut it to 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 and created the card. I cut a 4 x 4 piece of MemoryWorks cardstock and layered another 3 x 3 piece on it and placed it on the card. Then I assembled the card together with embellishments (A die-cut tie and Pebbles Red Candy Dots). I tried something out of my "creative box", and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and hope that my dad will too!

Happy Father's Day to all the father's out there!

I encourage you to try something new and see what great results you get. Its always fun to try to new things.

Happy Scrappin!