1st Fathers Day Card

This will be Ott, E's first Fathers Day so MacchiOTTo and I wanted to make him something special. I saw this on Pinterest and decided to put my own spin on it and make it into a card. Here's how I did it and some tricks I figured out along the way. 

The first thing I found out is that it is much easier to get a baby's footprint while they are asleep than awake.  The second thing I found out is that they make a washable ink pad which is much easier to use and get off than paint.

I placed her little foot on the ink pad and then stamped it onto a blank card.  I choose a red ink pad because that's the color of tractor I prefer, but you could easily use blue or green.  Come to think of it we have a saying around these parts about the color of a tractor. 

"If it isn't red... it stays in the shed." 

Then I just used a damp paper towel to wipe the ink off her foot.

Next I used a compass to draw two circles to be my tractor tires.  I then used a black magic marker and colored in the circles.  Then I added a smoke stack and drew in the cab of the tractor.

On the inside of the card I wrote a little saying; "I'm as lucky as can be; the best dad in the world belongs to me."  And then signed it from MacchiOTTo.

This post was linked to I'm Lovin' it on Tidy Mom.