Card for dad

The most beloved and dearest person after mom is dad. For many, dad is not just a parent, but he is also the closest friend with whom you can share your most secret things, who will listen, give advice, and support in difficult times. Other children, on the contrary, are somehow embarrassed and shy away from telling dad about their secrets, fearing that he will scold and not support your point of view. But whatever dad he was, he is still a dad, he deserves respect and honor. Even when children grow up, they still come to visit their parents and prepare surprises for them, present. And what is the most pleasant thing for a dad, so that the child is happy, healthy and does not forget to sometimes call his father and say: “Hi dad, I’m fine, how are you? “, and believe me, this is the most important thing for dad. Well, you need to pay special attention to your father on holidays that are significant to him, for example, his birthday. This is the most important holiday in the life of any person. What to give your father on his name day, how to surprise him with this? The best gift for any dad would be the presence of his child at his own birthday.This is certainly all very touching and pleasant, but you still need to prepare something extraordinary to surprise and please your dad. But any birthday is simply not a holiday without congratulatory speeches that we write on cards. Even dad will be so pleased to read a couple of congratulatory lines from you that will warm his soul. And a postcard that you make yourself will be considered even more special and dear.
In order to make it beautiful and original, you need to familiarize yourself with this master class and dream a little and everything will come to mind by itself. The technique is well suited for this creation. scrapbooking. For this we need:
• Brown landscape sheet of pastel paper;
• Scrappaper in brown tones in several different shades;
• Round pictures with a clock, a rectangular picture with a typewriter;
• Gears made of beer cardboard;
• Brown acrylic paint and brush;
• Watercolor paper for inscription;
• Wooden chipboard “Papule”;
• Oval epoxy sticker;
• Metal blank for sticker;
• Brown suede cord;
• Twine cord;
• Wooden buttons;
• Brown half beads;
• Men's die cutting;
• Metal key;
• White lace;
• Brown and white checkered ribbon 20 mm wide;
• Openwork hole punch;
• PVA glue, double-sided tape, pencil with ruler, glue gun, scissors.

First of all, cut out the folded base of the card so that it is 15*15 cm.

Immediately cut out a 14.5*14.5 cm square from the watercolor for the inscription. Paint the gear using a brush with brown paint.

Now we will design the postcard.

We cut out two squares from different paper 14.5 * 14.5 cm and one rectangle 6 * 11.5 cm. Using a hole punch we make openwork stripes from the remaining pastel paper.

Glue scrap paper and watercolor paper to the back of the base.

We begin to decorate the front blank. We glue the rectangle and sew it together with the stripes with a machine, then we glue the pictures and the circle and sew each detail separately.

Below the pictures we sew lace and a folded ribbon.

We also glue the front part to the base. Machine sew the front part. Inside, we glue a strip of openwork cardboard with PVA glue.

We glue the cabochon epoxy sticker into metal fittings, and tie bows from twine and cord. Now we glue all the decoration elements according to the photo below.