Stampin Up Whiskey Business Father's Day cards

Greetings.  I am posting some recent cards I created for the holiday. I have had this set for a while and this year I was determined to make Father's Day cards with it.  I got my motivation when I recently participated in Justine Hovey's Fearless Card Making challenge.  Although using premade pieces was not an actual part of the challenge I was inspired to do so by the challenge.  Essentially, Justine gave us "deep thoughts on card making".  One of the these questions to think about was what is holding you up?  And I have piles of ideas/half made cards that have stalled because of my indecisiveness.  I was motivated to grab some pieces, stamp and die cut more to create these cards.

The first card began with the idea of using the Whiskey Business set and the embossed and inked wood grain background.  It ripped on the edge and I just added it to my embossed background pile.  Every time I picked it up, I was like ugh...I can't use this.  However, this go round I was inspired to die cut the piece and get rid of the ripped area.  I experimented with Distress inking on this panel.  I wasn't that happy with it but I was encouraged by the challenge to push on through and make a card.  

The inside of the card is where I stamped the Father's Day sentiment.

Here is a second card I made with same stamp set.  I colored the pieces the same but here I used a different sentiment.  I sent this one to my friend's father who turned 101 this month.  this one began with the premade card base.  I went with one layer die cut panel.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Whiskey Business stamps and dies

Copic Markers:  B00, Y32, YR18, E35

Spectrum Noir: Bright Orange

Prismacolor: Cool Grey 10% and 20%

I would like to enter these in the following challenges:

https://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/227-b-is-for.html until 6.16 B is for Bourbon.

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/Challenge-168.html until 6.16

https://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/fathers-dayspecial-man.html until 6.21

https://cardz4guyz.blogspot.com/2024/06/349-fathers-day-uk-us.html until 6.24

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-674-make-it-masculine.html until 6.27

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/06/welcome-to-elizabeth-craft-designs-for.html until 7.1(rectangles are my favorite shape)

https://alohafridaychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/aloha-friday-challenge-11-masculine.html until 7.2

Thank you for stopping by

Alicia