Manly Monday You’re Turtley amazing

I made this card for Craft Roulette #292

Project-encouragement card. Color-sophisticated. Element-house pet. Random-thread

The green patterned paper is by Provo Craft and the blue background is by Basic Grey. The rectangle die and word stamps are by Lawn Fawn. The turtle is a stamp by Waffle Flower and colored in with Copic markers. The word Turtley is heat embossed in white on a Cricut die cut. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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 

Floral Friday Happy Spring Cards

Patterned paper by Making Memories and PiggyTales.com. The vellum is from my stash. The word “Spring “, was cut out using my Cricut. I did use some brads by Making Memories, a flower die cut by Sizzix, and a flower stamp by…maybe Hero Arts.

The Happy Stamp is by The Stamps of Life. I stamped off with the Happy stamp. I used Basic Grey on the card in the center. I cut a flower out of the patterned paper and it was a perfect swoop as the “spring” die cut. 

Manly Monday Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Green with Stars Card

Merry Christmas. This is a fatter slimline card with Basic Grey patterned paper and DCWV green opulent cardstock. I stamped this old sentiment stamp from my stash onto a Dreamweaver Stencils die cut. The jute is by Tim Holtz. The stars are the bits that fell out of a Marvy corner punch. 

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Coral Floral Card

The patterned papers are by My Mind’s Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Gray. The sentiment by Hero Arts is stamped onto a Martha Stewart label sticker. The flowers are by Prima and brads probably from Making Memories.

Papers are same as above. The sentiment stamp by Hero Arts is stamped with Versa Fine black ink on a scrap of paper that has powdered chalk on it. It punched out beautifully using an oval punch by Marvy. The sentiment stands out from the white flowers most of which are by Prima. Thanks for looking.

The above photo is the rough draft of the 2nd card. I like what I went with. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Houndstooth Tags

The tags are upcycled from a bank that my mom swooped up from being trash when the bank went computerized and no longer needed them 

My mom worked at a bank for 35 years. In that time she experienced many changes; a name change, staffing changes, location changes, and a change to become computerized. They no longer needed paper tags or plastic bags for checks or these shaped boxes that held specific papers. She helped those things to be recycled and not just thrown away. My Mom swooped up those tags before they made it into the trash bin and rerouted them to my house.

Anyway, I stamped the tags with a houndstooth stamp by Deep Red stamps. The small round circle at the top is a tag by Basic Grey. The background paper is ancient by Provo Crafts . The brad is from my stash. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Buck die cut with a tag and some upcycling

Simon says Stamp. Birthday 

The background paper is a wood pattern from the The Paper Studio Dendrology paper pad. The tag is by Basic Grey and the brad is from my stash. The birthday sentiment is by Stampin Up. I ripped the edges because they were uneven and it wasn’t worth my time to clean them up. 

So, I had die cut a different buck die cut out of the tag. I thought that the buck would look good in the tag’s patterned paper. Well, it didn’t. 

 I could not let the tag go into the trash/recycle bin so I needed to cover up the mess. I die cut the Spellbinders Label 4 out of a wallpaper sample. I die cut a buck head that was different and smaller than the original and then I adhered them together with Ranger Medium Matte. 

The label die didn’t cover the hole in the tag so I used the previous mistake/flaw to my advantage. I positioned the bottom of  the label die cut into the bottom of the tag which was the antlers of the original buck die cut.

In hindsight, I should have taken a picture of the tag before putting everything together because in 5 years I won’t understand what all of this means. Maybe. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Pretty in Pink Flowers and Crown card

Today my cards are just easy and 

The card below uses small stamps by Close to my Heart in Creative Memories decorative square punch. The top and bottom are turned and the middle one is a frame made with a large and small punch and white laid into that frame. Striped patterned paper is by Echo Park (Sweet Girl by Lori Whitlock) and polka dot paper is by Making Memories (Flower Patch)

The next card uses patterned paper by Basic Grey (Konnichiwa). The frame is by My Mind's Eye, Doily by Martha Stewart, and the crown is by Three Bugs in a Rug (I always thought that it was a strange name but there are others out there that make me wonder where such names came from for a stamp company.) I digress.

I had the opportunity to use this card for a 16th birthday card. The flowers on the side are from my stash. The sentiment went perfectly for the occasion.

As you can see with these two photos side by side my ongoing photography problem continues. You can see where the picture has a brown background and how the pink's warmth is more apparent. I think the background gives the pink background patterned paper more of an orange hue to it. The picture taken above was taken outside but on an overcast day and not on a sunny day. again where the true color of my cards are

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Green and Blue Chipboard flower card

The green chipboard flowers are by Colorbok. The center chipboard flower was painted blue and then I brushed it with an emery board. The patterned papers are by Basic Grey and ??.  I put green rhinestones all down the center. Thanks for looking.

Floral Flower Pink Flower with a Chipboard Ribbon Card

The background patterned paper is by Basic Grey. I inked the edges with distress ink. The pink flower paper was made with Copic markers spritzed water.

For the flower, another new die by Simply Defined. The chipboard buckle in the center is by Colorbok. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Train card

The train die cut is by Three Bugs in a Rug. The ribbon is from my stash. The black and white patterned paper is by Colorbok. The white wood paper is by Basic Grey. The border punch is by Fiskars. The card base paper is by Die Cuts with a View. Thanks for looking. 
I'm entering this card into the transportation challenge at The Male Room

Floral Friday Pink n Green up cycled ATC

The patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye and Basic Grey. I used a Fiskars border punch on the side. I inked the edges. Thanks for looking.

Pink hello with lady in Foil

A friend of mine sent me the lady die cut. The Hello die cut is by Simply Defined and then the background patterned paper is by Basic Grey. Thanks for looking.

October Calendar Layout Brrrr Mom it's Cold Outside

Today is my Mom's birthday. She would have been 76. After she died in July 2019 from complications of dementia and failure to thrive we held a memorial at the funeral home. Then we did a burial of her ashes on her birthday, October 12, 2019. It was so cold that day that I couldn't use normal colors for an October calendar page.  The patterned paper on the left is by Recollections and by Basic Gray in the Cricut title. Snowflakes by Maya Road and Jolee's. The border punch is by Fiskars. Thanks for looking.

Thinking of you Basic Grey Tag Card

The patterned paper is by Making Memories. The tag is Basic Grey. The sentiment is a rubber stamp. Thanks for looking.

Two Lawn Fawn cards with Coffee and Tea

The patterned paper on the first card is by forever and time and the writing on the paper is by Provo craft. I cut a scallop square by Spellbinders. The sentiment die is also by Spellbinders. I bought the rectangle die cut from eBay. I inked the paper with distress ink before taking it out of the metal die.
This was the Siri dictation-husband linked with the stress sink (giggle) before taking it out of the metal. The actual coffee cup is stamped into some graph paper by Project Life. The dot for the J is a sticker by Cloud Nine.
Then the second card uses patterned paper by My Mind‘s Eye, Basic Grey, and somebody else. The die cuts are by DO Crafts, Spellbinders, and Papertrey Ink. The teacup was heat embossed in white and the steam was stamped and cut out with a matching die.
I'm entering this card(s) into the AG with dies at
Happy Little Stamper

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 

2 Cherry Sweet Cards

  

The cherry and pink papers are by Die Cuts with a View. The sentiment was made using my Cricut. I inked the edges of the sentiment with distress ink.

I have a few different paper companies- My Mind’s eye. Die cuts with a View. Studio G. Basic Grey. The sentiment is a die cut by Sizzix

Upcycled Christmas Wreath Card

I up cycled the wreath from a store bought card. I used my Creative Memories circle cutting system to make it a circle. It is so not even but hey, that’s what makes it handmade. The patterned paper is by Basic Grey and the sticker border is from Hobby Lobby. I inked all of the edges with distress ink. Thanks for looking. I’m going to enter this Christmas challenge anything goes.

12 Months of Christmas 

Manly Monday Six squares Happy Birthday Card

This one has two different woodgrain patterned papers. One from Basic Grey and the other from Studio Calico. The stamps are from the dollar bin at Michael's. The happy die is by Clearly Besotted. Thanks for looking.