Nope, nothing sports related, just the 3 cards my DH received for Father’s Day today – a collaborative effort between Nadya and I – just for him. 
It’s been a long-standing tradition to share both a “fun” card and a serious/ sentimental card, hence the double cards from me plus one from the entire reason he gets to celebrate Father’s Day! I’ll start with Nadya’s as hers is the star of the show: 
One of her favorite characters (if not her most favorite) is Lightning McQueen from the Disney/Pixar Cars movie. So, naturally, one of the few Cricut cartridges I own is Cars. After much discussion, Nadya settled on a Lightning McQueen card for Daddy – so I went to work in Design Studio (my first attempt with the Cricut software and using an actual Cricut cart – I’m a SCAL girl myself). I used the shadow feature to create the card base and then cut the detail layer for Nadya to color. Yes, she know Lightning McQueen is red, but she informed me that since Daddy’s Mustang is yellow, McQueen needed to be yellow on Daddy’s card. So, she colored him yellow, and attached him to the card base. When I asked her what she wanted it to say on the inside she said “I love Lightning McQueen. I love Daddy even more than Lightning McQueen.” So there you have it – Daddy is more loved and popular than Lightning McQueen. 
For my “sentimental” card, I started with a sketch I found on Moe Joe’s blog and some fabulous digital papers from Designs By Kristine’s new Kit Spring Fling (on sale for 35% off right now). I created and layered everything in Photoshop – using clipping masks to digitally “paper-piece” my card layers. I chose the adorable lemon ant image from Doodle Pantry’s Lemon Ants digital stamp set (which is free right now) and pieced it as well – though my lemon looks more like a lime! Here’s a close-up from Photoshop: 
After I printed everything out, I added sparkle to the ants with my clear glitter Spica marker, and colored the pebbles with Sand and the ants’ mouths with Red Spica markers. I coated the lemon/lime with Glossy Accents for shine. I used my white gel pen to add the stitching around the circles and my moonlight smooch to add the dots on the scallop mat.
Challenges I Played In (Ant Card):
For my “fun” card, I started with the Classic Car card from Cliff’s Clubhouse Cards set at SVGCuts.com. Instead of cutting the car layers, I added the 66 for Route 66. I cut the card base from textured black CS and the accents in GP white. I added some black pearlescent baubles from my friend Suzanne at Crafting Connection. I really had fun on the inside: 
The mustang is a coloring page I found on the net – though it’s not the exact year my DH has, it’s close enough! The “lady” is Lady Luck, a digital stamp I was lucky enough to win from Holly over at Squigglefly. I started out by layering the images in Photoshop so that I could get the scaling right, but then printed them out individually on white CS and colored them with my Copic and Spica markers. I added the chrome accents with a silver Zebra gel pen.
Again, I don’t have all of the details 100% accurate as compared to his Mustang, but definitely close enough to get the point across. 
That’s all from me! I hope everyone has a relaxing Sunday – I know we plan to!
Challenges I Played In – Mustang/Route 66 Card:
My image is “colored” in Photoshop using my favorite Chalkies styles (Jodiann) and then added to digital designer paper and elements from Designs By Kristine (Daisy Mae kit). I printed everything out and added some sparkle and bling with my Spica (Lemon, Clear & Olive) markers and Glossy Accents, and Stickles. 
I trimmed my base layer and added it to my card base (whisper Whiter prefolded by SU) – for fun and interest I scalloped the edge with one of my EK Success punches.
Disney DVD