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Grandpa

Today's card was designed in Cricut Design Space by combining a couple of free images.  Its simplistic design uses only three colors of cardstock and a small amount of foam tape.  
In Design Space, I saw a Father's Day card that I wanted to recreate for my Dad, however, I wanted it to say Grandpa instead of Dad so I searched through Cricut Access to find images that could be used to redesign the card to suit my needs.  Here are the free images I used to design this card (Cricut Access image references can be found in the supply list).

            

I took the Grandpa font from the free Grandpa card, sized it down, and repeated it several times across the blue card front.  I replaced the profile of the man on the Dad card by a Cricut Access face of a Grandpa from a free Grandparent's Day image.  I used a couple of ovals to create the neck and shoulders.  I grouped these together with the face and sliced them out of the blue card front.  


Since my Dad is retired and no longer wears a tie to work, I took the hat, glasses, and mustache from the Design Space Grandpa card and sized them to fit the face on the card front.  I typed Happy Father's Day using Cricut Sans font and curved the text to fit within the shoulders of the Grandpa image.

I adhered the blue card front to a white card base then added the words and glasses.  I popped up the hat and the mustache using foam tape.  As a final touch, I added a thin blue line to the bottom of the card base.

The process took a couple of hours since it involved a lot of slicing, welding, grouping, and attaching, but overall I am pleased with how it turned out. 

Grandpa
Supplies:
  • Cricut Design Space
    • Simple Holiday Cards - Dad (#M365C8) and Grandpa (M36A18)
    • Autumn Celebrations - Grandparent's Day (#M37710)
  • Foam Tape
  • Blue, Brown, and White Cardstock
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