I like the way this one came out, but it came to me in spurts. I knew I wanted structural elements, and I wanted to incorporate some, “working with what you have,” in the background, because Dad spent his career as a civil engineer. He’s always appreciated design elements that include letting the surrounding area work in your favor. However, it was the color palette that came first.
I found a page in Prima’s French Riviera collection that I really liked. The color was a little dark, and it had some oceanic elements (imagine that!) which didn’t really work for a Father’s Day dinner at a Tex-Mex restaurant in Austin. So, I coated it with white gesso, which allowed the bits of text that I liked to show through, while covering-up the seashells and toning down the red-brown color.
I crushed some gelatos from the 50’s Diner collection into a few dabs of joint compound (the stuff that you put in the seams of drywall). I’ve got a bit of screen that DH had leftover from a yard project, and I just pressed the (now colorful) compound through the screen like a stencil. Then I flipped it over and pressed the remnants onto the page, as well. I tried adding some grey gelato and water, but it didn’t quite work out the way I wanted it to, so I went with adding a bit of Dylusions black marble sprays and water, just to bring out the texture of the joint compound and screen.
I followed that up with stamping a bit of the Seamstress stamp (it’s all lines and angles and measurements, so it doubles well for an engineer or architect), but it needed more color.
So, I sprayed a bit of Dylusions turquoise, Distress Spray Stain abandoned coral, and Prima Colorbloom sunshine onto my craft mat. I took the cap from one of the spray bottles and dabbed it in a color, then stamped it twice onto the page, and just kept stamping and changing colors until I was happy.
While that was drying, I powered-up the Cricut and started on the diecuts. Every diecut piece is cut out of an old cereal box using the regular blade on the light cardstock setting, then coated in white gesso (three times for the margaritas), and followed-up with colors and embossing. My original idea was to cut both, “Daddy’s,” and, “Girl,” but when I went to peel the second word off the mat, it fell apart. I ended-up adding, “Girl,” to the photo via Photoshop layers.
If you look at the photo, at Dad, the reason for the mustaches should be obvious. His is epic. He’s been known to wax the ends and twirl them. I embossed them with the black first, then added the silver, to simulate the salt and pepper (more of the former than the latter) in his mustache. If I’d used a photo taken fifteen years ago, I’d emboss the silver, then the black, because you tend to get more of what you add last.
The little margarita glasses – I really like how those turned out, but they required a lot of thought. After the gesso dried, I grabbed a paint brush and dabbed some Tattered Angels Limelite mist in the glass where the drink would be. I chose that color because it had the right combination of green and yellow. Before the paint dried, I poured clear embossing powder over it and hit it with the heat gun. Then, while it was still tacky, I dipped it in the embossing powder again, and heated it. I did this until I was satisfied with the smoothness/glossiness of the margarita (3 times). For the lemon (mine’s a lemon, don’t judge!), I dabbed the brush in Distress Ink Squeezed Lemonade spray stain, and did the same thing – clear embossed it three times until I had a nice, smooth lemon wedge.
When the whole thing was cool, I added Glossy Accents to the unembossed areas, and let that dry for several hours. When it was dry, I spritzed it with Perfect Pearls in perfect pearl, to simulate the frost on a frozen margarita, then added some glitter glue along the rim of the glass.
About the photo I’ve been finishing college for several years, and Mother’s Day always fell on finals weekend. Since I was an online student, I was always taking finals on Mother’s Day. It’s hardly fair to visit one parent on their day, if you didn’t visit the other parent on their day, so I’ve not spent a Father’s Day with my Dad in several years.
I got to spend Mother’s Day weekend with my Mom because that was graduation, and she came to my graduation. So, this year, for the first time in about half a decade, I spent Father’s Day with Dad. Mom, Dad and I went to a Tex-Mex restaurant near their home for dinner, and Mom snapped this photo for Facebook.
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