Friday, August 16, 2024

Floral Friday Scalloped circle card

I made this simple anniversary card using a scalloped circle pre-made card base by Recollections. I used my Cricut to cut out the green die cut and then put yellow cardstock behind it. The sentiment stamp and dual colored heart sticker are unknown. The gold heart is a Sizzix die with gold Sizzix paper. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Best Fishes in squares card



I made this card for Craft Roulette #225
Parameters
Project: A2
Colors: tea party
Element: house pet
Random: stripes 
And I thought the random was the packaging. 
No silly. That was last week.    
Anyway…this is the tea cup color inspiration 


And when you look at the two sided by side it looks weird but when you look at just the picture above it makes more sense.


The first thing is I used this teacup as my color palette. It’s hard to tell but I really did take the colors as my inspiration from the tea cut 
The stamps I’m using are by Lawn Fawn I colored them with Copic markers. 
Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

 


Monday, August 12, 2024

Manly Monday Surfboards with a Big Wave




I made this card for Craft Roulette #227 

Project: 4x8

 Colors: Mountain  

Element: Float(s) or floating. 

Random: Water 

I made the background when I added water to leftover distress oxide on my mat. I smooched the paper onto the mat and tada. I followed up by adding yellow distress ink in the upper right corner. For the sand, I ripped paper and inked it with distress oxide.

The wave is a Cricut cut. It’s messed up. I think the pieces got lost on my desk. I had cut out a few different waves and then got distracted by something else. Then as a try to make the wave look better I got out an old Fiskars textile plate and a stylus to put waves onto the waves. It was a fail. LoL! So to try and make the wave better I pounced on powdered chalk. Meh. 

The chair die cuts are by Gina Marie. The surfboards are stamps by A Stampers Journey. I added the arrow like pattern with a colored pencil. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Friday, August 09, 2024

Floral Friday a Negative and Positive card

I love to Upcycle> Recycle> Reuse> Repurpose> and Reduce the trash.
For my two cards today I extracted the sentiment out of Aunt Gail's store-bought card and I was able to make these two cards. Can you see where the cards were one and became two?



I started with a lavender card base and then layered patterned paper by Basic Grey that was 1/8" smaller around the edges. The rhinestones and enamel stickers are from my stash. 
The sentiment is from a store-bought card and I cut it out with a die from Kaisercrafts. So instead of throwing away the yellow cardstock, it came from...tada! 

Look, it's the yellow cardstock from above. Isn't that cool? Why haven't I done this before? Anyway, I added polka dot patterned paper by Studio G behind the yellow cardstock.
I stamped the large sentiment with Hero Arts ink and it never evenly dispersed into the cardstock. I stamped it multiple times with the MISTI. I decided to color in the bare spots with my Stampin' Up watercolor pencils to fill in the bare spots.
The fun arrow and banner combo come from the Scrapbook Expo. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD 

Monday, August 05, 2024

Manly Monday Shark Bite card


This Deep Red Stamp sentiment makes me giggle. The seaweed stamps and mulberry paper are unknown. 
Let me ask you a question. Have you ever noticed the designs on Kleenex boxes? Some of them have better designs than patterned paper.
Well, I cut a part of a design on a Kleenex box to look like waves. I popped one up with foam squares so I had a place for my seaweed stamps. 
I made this card for Craft Roulette #226 and the parameters were:
Project-see thru (you can see through the mulberry paper.
Colors-Jungle (there’s green in the leaves)
Element-Teach(es)or teacher (sentiment says “I’ve learned…)
Random-Tangle (the waves are tangled)
Thanks for looking. HAGD!