Manly Monday Desert Card

This was my Craft Roulette 296 card last week. I love how it turned out. The background was in the bin that I like to call, the
"I don’t know what to do with this background" . 

It almost got cut up into sentiment. But I’m glad it didn’t.

The background stamp is by Hero Arts and is heat embossed in silver. It was inked with two different colors of distress ink, which you can see how the top is one color is different from the bottom.

The image was made on a blank business card. The stamps are by Stampendous. I stamped the image a while back to see how it looks. 

The parameters for Craft Roulette were 

Project-A2

Colors-Fresh and Clean

Element-From the Desert

Random-Distressed edge

The one that is a head scratcher is thecolor parameter and how my card works with it. I followed Donna Shelcucky .

Thanks for stopping by.

Floral Friday pink and white congrats card

The card base is iridescent paper by Sizzix. The patterned paper of the die cut is by Papertrey Ink. The floral framed die cut is by Crafter’s Companion. The rectangle die cut is by Lawn Fawn. I colored in the flowers and leaves with colored pencils. The edges were rounded with a corner rounder by Creative Memories. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

The Wed Simon says stamp Challenge is Sparkle and shine.

Glitter Pink n Purple B-day card

The 

The pink patterned papers are by DCWV. The sentiment stamp is by Just Rite stamps. I stamped it with Colorbox pink pigment ink onto mulberry paper to create tt

Challenges: Sparkle and Shine

Floral Friday single flower birthday card

 The white background has a small shaded area of red in the center. l sprayed that white background with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. The green cardstock is by Sunborn. The red layer of cardstock I inked direct to paper with my dying Aged Mahogany distress ink pad. 

The frame is out of an old package that I will have to find.

The flower stamp is from Close to my Heart. I colored it in with Copic markers and then fussy cut it out. The sentiment is my new favorite by Memory box. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms challenge -include a flower

Sweet Stampin Birthday challenge -Birthday 

Girls Rebel- Begins with B (birthday)

Matching cards using a 6x6 patterned paper

I used a 6x6 piece of patterned paper 4” on one side and 2” on the other card. I also used the orange-ish scalloped ribbon from Stampin Up. The white zig zag is a border die by Spellbinders. I used an old Sizzix chunky die on the right and a Scrapbooking Made Simple die on the left.

I’m entering this matching set of cards into:

Simon Says Stamp matching set challenge

Manly Monday multiple steps background

The background doesn’t really look like much, but it took a couple of steps to get there. I don’t love it but somebody will love getting this card. What I see and what the recipient sees are very different.

The card base is cherry red and I was going to work that background into an orange red like the sentiment card. Stand back! LoL! 

I took a background stamp from Stamping Up, inked it with black distress oxide ink and placed the card on top of it. I sprayed the background with water and hit it with the heat tool. I heavily inked the background with two oxides and the one I know was Rusty Hinge. I went direct to paper and it wasn’t changing the color like I thought it would. While the ink was still wet I heat embossed it with clear powder. The embossing didn’t cover it completely but that’s okay

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-Thank you card.

Extra Glue made into Unique background

I was gluing some die cuts on top of this front panel and after it dried I started thinking. How would this look as a background? I applied red and orange distress ink to the paper to find out. TADA!! I created a design. 

I cut out the letters using my Cricut and then added them to the background using a roll of blue painter’s tape.

Simon Says Stamp challenge Thank you 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Thank you 😊 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Tree silhouette die cut

The tree background die is by Dreamweaver Stencils. The yellow background was made using distress oxide. The bottom edge is made up of border punches just 2 layers to make it look fuller. After I added the tree die to the background I dry embossed it with an embossing folder by The Paper studio at Hobby Lobby. I added distress oxide over the whole thing before added a upcycled thank you tag. 

I’m entering this card into the thank you challenge at Simon Says Stamp. And Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Thank you 😊 

 This card was made with a piece of basic gray patterned paper and a piece of copper metallic paper that has texture. The sentiment is by Bo Bunny, and the brad is by Creative Imagination.

The background paper is by Accord Publishing. This time I colored the die cut with a Copic Markers. I cut the edge thin so that it would sit inside the frame of the patterned paper. 

The background inside the frame was made with distress ink. I tried to make it look like a the shadows of the tree trunks. I ripped a piece of paper on the bottom edge of the tree and made it look like dirt. Hopefully it did. 

Thanks for looking and reading my long post. 

Manly Monday Kayak card

I made this card for a friend's husband's birthday. This old cling stamp set is by TPC Studio. I heat embossed the kayak with Salty Ocean embossing glaze by Ranger. Then I used distress oxides to palette paint the kayak in. The paddle is heat embossed with Stampendous silver embossing powder and colored in the same way. 
The background...I made a bunch of these that day while experimenting with different-sized paintbrushes.  I took a chance and painted close to the kayak with a large wet brush and this is what it looked like. I love it. I have to thank Simon Says Stamp for challenging me to roll my sleeves up and play.  It feels great to use some of the fun products I've collected throughout the years. Thank you.
I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday-Masculine

Manly Monday Black Background Music card

I made this background using thin patterned paper and an old Fiskars texture plate. From there I tested different red Copic markers on it to see if they needed to be refilled. Then I thought it was a good idea to go direct to paper with Black Soot distress oxide. That is a juicy ink pad and it saturated the paper all the way through. 

The image was cut out, and not very well from a patterned paper by Feature Art in Australia. I had to go around the edges with a dark grey Couture Creations alcohol marker to make them look even. 

The sentiment is an old rubber cling stamp by Fiskars. I stamped it out with Versa Fine black ink. The stars are from a birthday present die that I found with no packaging.

These cards are going out for donation.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges- Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge masculine 

I’ve been using this challenge to make and use products in different ways that I haven’t before. Idk if my projects are exactly right for this challenge but it’s helping my creative block.

Simon Says Stamp Wed challenge-Anything goes 

Addicted to Stamps-any occasion

Glitz and the heart of letters-M for masculine

BOO! Glow in the Dark card

The patterned paper around the edges is an old calendar by Accord Publishing. I can’t remember what the sentiment die was. The stencil is by… The glow n the dark paste is by Ranger Tim Holtz. 

Happy Halloween.

Challenges : Simon says stamp Monday add texture 

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Best Wishes stenciling technique

I used a Momenta stencil and a Scrapbooking Made Simple leaf stencil with Distress Oxide inks. I inked the stencils in the normal way. Then I sprayed the leftover ink on the stencil with water and squished it over the top. 
I reused a floral image, except I added Perfect Pearls on the pedals. I found the sentiment in Cricut Design Space, and instead of cutting it out, I used my markers to write it out. Then I punched it out with a circle punch.

Thanks for looking.
Simon says Stamp. Use more than one stencil

Double stenciled backgrounds

This is a Tim Holtz tag that I did a stencil on a stencil technique. The twisted square stencil is by Momenta, and the dot stencil is by Gina Marie. I used Distress Oxides. The sentiment is by Sizzix. I stamped it with purple ink and clear heat embossed.

Then I created a small tag using a different stencil with the square stencil, but I didn't know how to finish it off, so maybe next time.

This last one uses two stencils and the same sentiment stamp.

Simon says Stamp Use more than one stencil

Floral Friday Just for You card

The floral die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. I cut it out of yellow cardstock. I made a background using red and olive distress ink on a white piece of cardstock. I was hoping that adding the ink would make the flower look better. Not so much. The sentiment is from my stash. I sprayed the entire card with water mixed in with perfect pearls. Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Simon Says Stamp  clean and simple

Fall Ephemera cards

I made this trio of cards using ephemera from a crafty friend.

The Fall card: The strip of paper in the center was stamped with a Stampin Up background stamp. It’s the same color for a tone on tone look. The checkered paper is by Provo Craft and the paper on top of that is a wood patterned paper by The Paper Studio. The jute is by Tim Holtz and the brad is by Creative Imagination. The sentiment was cut out with my Cricut.

The pumpkin card: This card has many of the same papers as above. The main thing that is different is I cut the wood patterned paper and gave each corner a fold up. Look closely and you can see how I did it.

The Bunny card: I stamped different leaf stamps with red ink onto a piece of striped patterned paper  by Provo Craft.  The brads are unknown. The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous and the orange oval die cut is by Sizzix.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Itty Bitty Glow in the Dark

I applied glow in the dark texture paste into a stencil onto white cardstock. The word Happy is a die by Gina Marie.  That’s all I have today. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cat staring out of a window card

The stamp is by Inkadinkado and it’s colored in with Copic markers. The orange die cut is by Gina Marie and the black and white frame die cut is by Cricut. Thank you for stopping by to check out my blog.

Be Merry Zoe Christmas card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #279

The parameters are PROJECT; kid’s cards . COLORS: theater  ELEMENT: picture RANDOM: half and half 

The patterned papers are by Ciao Bella's Ziggy and Zoe. Frame stamp by Newton’s Nook. Sentiment die is unknown but I covered it with Stickles.

Challenges: Simon says Stamp-Christmas 

Manly Monday Chalk Markers Hello card

I stamped The sunrise and car with chalk markers. The car is a second generation stamp image. I added yellow, blue and green, distress ink to create the sunny scene. The car is from Tim Holtz and the sunrise and sentiment is unknown. 

I put that front panel onto a black card stock card base. 

This card was made for Craft Roulette #287. The parameters were: project – card with a hello. Colors – crisp. Element – Sunny. Random – pennant.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-bright and colorful

Diagonal Sunflower card

The patterned paper is by: yellow by Sizzix, green by Best Creations, and wallpaper sample. Border dies by Spellbinders. The flower and Kraft die cuts are unknown. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Spider-Man card

The background was made by my niece. The spider-man stickers are by ek Success. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Roses Slimline cards

On this first card, I inked the stencil with pigment inks by Colorbox onto vellum with white stripes. Then I heat set it with clear embossing powder by Hero Arts. From there, I just cut it down, added mats behind it, added some rhinestones and then added a sentiment onto a red die cut.

This second card has the same background just on Sizzix gold opulent paper. 

You can see the heat embossing on this picture. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-add pink

Poppystamps Butterfly

This card was a simply card to put together. I die cut the Poppystamps butterfly out of a messed up heat embossed background. The sentiment is also by Poppystamps. The die cut was a premade and then some brads in the body-they were on my desk. 

Keep it simple challenge

Offset Stencil background card

This is a recollection stencil. I inked it with red pigment ink then moved it and inked it with a greenish color ink by Colorbox. Then I clear heat embossed it. I used a border punch. Then I added a circle brad in the center which is what I needed for the Simon Says Stamp

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Hello with Metal Squares

A day early. 

The patterned paper is by Bazzill. The sentiment is by Fiskars. The squares are my metal for the Simon  Says Stamp challenge. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Framed Square Sunflower card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #282. 

Project-card for a teacher. (My hubby). 

Colors-classroom colors (whiteboard and blue jeans on kids.). 

Element-from the country (sunflowers are in the country). 

Random– Frame. ( You can see the multiple frames of yellow and brown cut out with my Cricut)

The sunflower image is Stampendous. I color copied the packaging of the die set and then colored some areas with my Copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used a white gel pen bought on Amazon. The sentiment sticker is by Cloud 9.

Thanks for looking and HAGD! 

Autumn Birthday wishes

So I didn’t like the patterned paper on this card base. So I heavily inked it with distress oxide, and when I had it covered, I then took a background stamp a Chevron background stamp and sprayed it with water. I then put the card on top of the background and let it sit for a couple of seconds I pulled it up and was able to get the image of the background stamp.

The background stamp is by Hero Arts. The border die is by Tim Holtz. The birthday die is by Clearly Besotted. I just realized that the tiddle is missing from the I. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Paper Pieced Sunflower Sympathy Card

The sunflower background die is from Scrapbooking Made Simple. I used a host of old patterned papers by Provo Craft to paper piece the petals back into the die. The center of the flower is brown flock by Inkadinkado. 

Then, sigh, I matted the flower die panel onto another piece of patterned paper from that same paper pad. Well…it was crooked and for some reason I thought that I could straighten it out making the same marginal frame around the edges using pinking shears. It didn’t. SMH! I decided to make the whole thing look uneven by trimming the edges in different areas and ways. I made it look like it was supposed to be distressed.

The card base is from Current. I inked the edges so it wouldn’t stick out and compete with the white sentiment label. The sentiment is by Stampendous and it’s cut out with a Spellbinders die.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

However Long the Night the Dawn Will Break

This is a tribute card to 911. The patterned paper is from my stash. I applied Astro Paste by Simon Hurley onto a sunrise stencil by Tim Holtz directly onto of the patterned paper at the top of the card. The bottom of the card is white cardstock that I used to wipe up the remaining paste on the stencil. The unknown sentiment is on a Spellbinders scallop circle die.  Thanks for looking. HAGD!