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. 

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

Yoga Frogs Pop Up card

I love this card. When you open it the frog pops up. That embossing folder is by Cuttlebug fits the frog theme so well. The frogs are by Stampendous and I colored them in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Large Baseball Glove card

The frame is by Accord Publishing. The glove is a Cricut cut, and I crumpled it up. Then I added distress ink. The sentiment is by Jilliban Soup. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Baseball Cards

The bat stamp is by Stampin Up. The arrow die cut is by Clearly Besotted. It reminds me of the stitching on a baseball. 

The arrow die is by Clearly Besotted. The ball in the above card is a sticker on foam adhesive. The sticker border at the bottom is by Creative Memories. 

The borders and ball corner, as well as the bat, are by Accord Publishing. The Play stamp set is by Colorbok.. I colored in the “Play” sentiment.    

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Floral Friday Sunflower card

This same sunflower stamp will also be on the card for Floral Friday next week. I have four of the sunflowers colored in, and I want to make them into cards.

The stamp is by Stampendous and was colored in with Copic markers. I used a Spellbinders die cut to cut out the image. I inked the paper with distress ink while the paper was still on the inside of the die. I taped the image onto a piece of brown cardstock, but the image was lost. So, I went around the edges with a white gel pen. The patterned paper is by Accord Publishing.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Sunflower stamp card

The sunflower stamp is by Stampendous and I've colored it in with Copic markers. I die cut it out with one of my new dies and can't remember which one. I inked the die cut with distress Oxide. 
The frame background paper is by Accord Publishing. The sunflower patterned paper is fabric. I adhered it to the framed paper and ran it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder resembling a basket. I inked the fabric with the same Distress Oxide (the last gray ink color that was released). The black border is lace. 

This is a larger card, 5x6.5 and it's a little roughed up, on purpose. 

This is the first of three cards with this same sunflower image. See you next week. Thanks for looking.
PS. I made THIS card with the same fabric.

Fall birthday card for my Aunt

The background patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. The orange die cut patterned paper is by Recollections (the die cut is by Dreamweaver Stencils.) The cream cardstock die cut behind the orange die cut was cut out with my Cricut. The sentiment is heat embossed in white. The yellow is distress ink. The large leaf punch is by EK Success, the next smallest leaf is a punch by Creative Memories, and the smallest leaf is a Brad by Creative Imaginations. I inked the largest leaf with chalk ink. I hope she likes it. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Just for You Fall Leaves and Colors Card

The patterned paper is from Accord Publishing. The die cut is by SMS Scrapbooking made Simple. The gems are from Couture Creations. The sentiment is from a magazine stamp set. Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Manly Monday Baseball Card

This card came together as I cleaned up my desk. The baseball is an image from an Accord Publishing calendar (circa 2011). The gingham and the red are corners from Creative Memories. The star patterned paper is from DCWV. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD.

Cinco De Mayo Card

This is another Craft Roulette card for #207

A2 card: yup.

Color palette- Ice Cream Shop: I did lime and orange sherbet.

Element: Tasty or Taste. I did Margaritas. This is a piece of patterned paper from a desk calendar from 2004 by Accord Publishing.

Random: Banner. Celebrate sentiment is on a banner. I  individually stamped Lawn Fawn Harold alphas on a Sizzix die cut (Cricut yellow adhesive paper.)

The background is a Stampin Up stamp stamped with SU ink and sprayed with Couture Creations pinky/peachy colored spritz.

I didn’t know what I was going to do with those parameters other than it was a card and then it just came together. Check out Craft Roulette. It really gets your mind thinking in different directions about how to put a card together other than what I would normally do. I look at my products and think what could go together and then ask myself, does this go together? 

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Confetti Birthday Card

This is a square card and the confetti patterned paper by Accord Publishing was a 5 x 7. Therefore, I had to cut it down and make it mesh together to fit seamlessly. And I can honestly say that when I look at this picture, I can’t tell where that seam is.

 The star punch is by Creative Memories and the paper is a glitter paper, but it’s almost waxy and it is by The Paper Studio

The wavy rectangle dies are by Stampendous. The sentiment die is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The wonky shaped die, red cardstock die in the center, it is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. 

Thanks for looking.

Cheers Stenciled Christmas card

I got a stencil with stamp set from. Michael’s and it came with a stencil. The white background was inked with that stencil in red and green. The background paper is by Accord Publishing. Then the red cardstock has zigzag rub-ons on the edges.The rest of the card is layers of up-cycled cards.

It’s not my favorite card but I made it so I’ll post it. Thanks for looking.

Any Occasion Cards Purple and Red donation cards

I think this is the end of the cards that I made to donate to a friend in California. The patterned paper is from Accord Publishing the cardstock is by Recollections. The butterfly and flower are die cuts from Crafter’s Companion.

This last one uses bees I cut out of a patterned paper from the Accord Publishing The patterned papers on the outsides are by Basic Grey. The sentiment stamp by Stampabilities. It is stamped on a K and Co. label
Thanks for looking. 

Lately, I haven't been thrilled with my blog. It feels like a mess. There aren't enough hours in the day to fix 3971 blog posts. I was hoping that the background change would get the fonts the same size. Nope!  It didn't work.  So, there are two options
1.) Continue pondering over it and wasting time re-doing every post since 2009.
2.)Stop worrying about it. Each day 15 people come to my blog.
I blog so my projects are all in one place. I like to look back at the cards and layouts I did in 2011. In fact, I started with didn't make cards at first. It was mostly scrapbooking and I have a lot of scrapbooking things to post. Off of my computer onto my blog.  I will finish up with one of my quotes...

It doesn't have to be perfect, It just has to be done- Cindy Groh 

Floral Friday yellow and purple spring cards to donate to a senior living facility.

This is another set of spring cards I made to donate  to a senior center. The patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. The black cardstock is from Michael’s and the purple paper is from Studio G. The chipboard arrows were painted with Mr. Huey's paint. I can’t remember who makes the paint. To finish that landscape card I did something different and that I put patterned paper underneath each arrow. Before I shipped them out I saw this sticker and it was that something that this card needed. Thank you for stopping by.

Floral Friday Easter flowers in yellow and green cards

The patterned paper is by Accord publishing (from 2012) The stamped image was colored in with Copic markers. (Image from a previous DT around 2013) The background paper was stamped with some flourish stamps. I stamped them with mint green ink from scrapbook.com. and a second-generation stamping with a yellow Archival ink by Ranger. Thanks for looking

Examples using the same stamp
Example from 2013

I’m entering the challenge Sweet Stamps challenge to use old products.

Sweet stamps challenge

Floral Friday Wild Patterned Paper Thank You Card

The ugly patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. If you look below closely you can see the second die under the sentiment is patterned paper is by We R Memory Keepers. The top layer of the sentiment is an old wallpaper sample. I thought the rustic look went with the flowers. Idk about the Thank you die cut. The strips of paper in the center, underneath the sentiment, I found them on the floor. I liked the way it brought your eyes to the sentiment and made the sentiment placed and not just floating. Those dies are by Spellbinders. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday purple and red cards

Here’s the next tier of cards from these donation cards. The images are by Accord Publishing. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Red flower Cards for Donation

I’m still very frustrated with the quality of my pictures. Did bladder change because I didn’t change the way I take pictures. Anyway these are for a donation to a friend of mine bring cards for the elderly at a senior center. Use the flowers are cut outs by an old calendar by Accord Publishing. The red polkadot pattern paper is by My Mind’s Eye. Rest of the pattern paper are scraps from my stash. thanks for looking.

January Calendar Home 2021

The patterned papers are from Accord Publishing and The Paper Studio-green. Cricut-Winter Frolic 3". CM shape for the photo. Thanks for looking.