My third Father's Day card needed is for my husband! Guess what! It will be Alternative #3 card using the May 2021 Paper Pumpkin - Batter Up! As you have all probably realized by now, an Alternative card using any kit is one that you make your own design using either all kit elements or part kit elements and part other elements. It is not a reproduction of the card designs provided in the kit itself, although it could possibly be a you CASE one of the original kit designs. I see a lot of cardmakers like myself who are obviously challenged to make their own designs rather than use those provided.
My Batter Up! cards have all used additional cardstocks and patterned papers, because we live fairly close to Seattle, Washington where the Seattle Mariners play, and their team colors are not at all similar to the colors provided in the kit, except luckily the die-cut sentiments are in a sponged gray background with blue-inked sentiments. Both of these colors are part of the Mariners colors, but the reds, yellow-golds, and kraft colors also in the kit do not fit so well.
One die-cut was a replica of a trading card with yellow-gold framing and the word League in red. I wanted to use this for my husband's card, so I used a black Sharpie to very carefully re-color League. Success! I did NOT color outside the lines! I fussy-cut off the yellow-gold frame and re-mounted it onto a two-layered panel set in navy blue and a Mariners green patterned paper. I stamped "DAD" from the Hats Off stamp set in the current SU annual catalog and popped it on my newly framed trading card, The baseball hat was stamped with the kit stamp set onto navy blue cardstock and outlined in a Black Journal pen. I was able to use one of the patterned card front panels provide in the kit...a blue and light gray mottled white pin stripes., plus added some cardstock layers below. Take a peek at my finished card...inside and out!
Ingredients: Stampin' Up products: Cardstock--Night of Navy, Tranquil Tide, Smokey Slate (inside). Patterned Paper--Regals 6x6 dsp-Shaded Spruce (2019-20). Stamps--Hats Off (stamp-DAD). Ink--Tranquil Tide, Balmy Blue (hat stamping). Paper Pumpkin/June 2021--Batter Up! Kit--pin-striped paper, stamps (hat), Baseball Card die-cut (modified). Gems--Glitter Enamel Dots (Copic colored Dk. Blue). Journal Pen-Black (hat markings). Other: Papertrey die--To Die for Sentiments/-Happy Father's Day (inside). EK Punch--Victorian Corners. Colorbox Ink--Charcoal (ink distressing). Wink of Stella--Clear. Size--4-3/4x6 inches.
