The Dad Book

Good morning.  Quite a while ago I bought this chipboard album from an SU! mini catalogue, it totally screamed dad to me because it is in the shape of a briefcase.  At the same time I also bought the cogs album, come back tomorrow to see what I've done with that one.  It was supposed to be a Father's Day gift for my husband, I think it was when I started working and didn't have time for crafting.  He didn't receive it for Father's day that year, or the year after (ok, I know I suck).  I did one Saturday (this year) finish it off and gave it to him though and he was even more surprised because he wasn't expecting anything (so now I suck less, right?).  I used the Travel Journey DSP on this project, the colours are Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Sahara Sand, Bashful Blue and Night of Navy.  There is so many elements on this book to mention them all, especially since each double page spread has a different theme.  What I will mention is the front cover which I think turned out great.  I fussy cut one of the sheets of DSP so that the car was on the front of the cover, I used Crystal Effects over the windows and headlights of the car to give them a sheen.  Now on to the title of the book.  The words "the" and "book" were done with drafting letters that rub on, easy to use and cheap!  The chipboard letters that spell out dad are a mish mash of different fonts, love that look!  So how did I get the polka dots onto the chipboard do you ask?  Well first I ran them through my Big Shot in the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder making sure that the positive side (bumpy side) of the folder is meeting with the top of the letters to create an indent in them.  And then, I used my Night of Navy classic ink pad and dabbed them with ink all over.  Because the letters have been embossed the holes that were created do not get inked up.  Neato mosquito!  Haha, I started a sentence with "And" and "Because"!  Well that's that, a pretty quick project.  The most difficult part was cutting out the handles of the briefcases in the cardstock and DSP.  Have a super day, only 5 left until Christmas!  Yikes!  E