Green Glitter Paper Ornaments card

The ornament die cut is by Spellbinders. I cut it out with Recollections glitter paper, and the gold is by Sizzix. The sentiment is unknown. I added green rhinestones. Thanks for looking.

Christmas Tree Background card

This is a premade card with a full coloring page of different styles of Christmas trees. It's an A2 size. I colored them in with Copic markers. The sentiment is unknown, but I cut it out with a Sizzix die. Thanks for looking.

Clean and Simple Snow cards

This is a clean and simple card. I dry embossed the blue cardstock with a Fiskars texture plates. Then I die cut the snowflakes out of white glitter paper. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Tis’ the season to be Jolly

Square Snowflake Card

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Oxide background Poinsettia Christmas

I made this card for Craft Roulette #206. The parameters were: Project-card with a heart (the word heart is in the sentiment). Colors-vintage (I think it looks vintage). Element-plant (pontisettia). Random- lace in the base (there’s lace on the card base.).

 I started by stamping a bunch of panels with the poinsettia in the center and the sprigs in the corners. I colored this one with Copic markers but hated it so I heat embossed another one on watercolor paper and colored it in with watercolors. I dislike this one too. But due to time constraints, I had to go with it. 

So what is it that I don’t like about the new flower? There's no definition that the flower has petals. There’s no dimension. When you have different shades of colors added you can look as though one petal is under another. 

Anyway, I created the background with distress oxide and spritzed it with water. Then I added pre-adhesive lace to make it look like a present.
CS-Hobby Lobby
Watercolor CS- Tim Holtz
Distress Oxides
Stamps-Stampendous
Copics and Zig markers
Lace-Recollections

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Christmas Nativity scene Ornament Card

The ornament stamp was one that I borrowed from a friend and I wrote the company name on the back of the image but when I fussy cut it out the name on the back was never seen again. 

I adhered the image to an unknown patterned paper and with the ornament just awkwardly hanging there, it looked unfinished. So I added a gold brad, yes a brad, at the top of the ornament and to make it look like a real ornament I wrapped gold thread around the brad and then taped to the back of the card. The “thread” is by Martha Stewart. 

Moving down the card we come to a punched border on gold pearlescent paper. Next down the card is a pennant that overlaps the above but of a different piece of gold paper. Both gold papers are from the same paper pack by Sizzix. The sentiment is a Stampendous stamp. 

This picture shows the shine of the pennant paper and it’s a close up of the thread wrapped around the brad.

Thanks so much for looking. HAGD! 

Upcycled inside sentiments on Christmas cards

The sentiment is an upcycled inside of a Christmas card that I layered it onto patterned paper by K and I and by Bo Bunny. I colored the Holly and berries with Copic markers.

The sentiment was die cut by Spellbinders and then inked the edges with distress ink. The striped patterned paper is unknown but the red patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The Santa stamp was black heat embossed and colored in. 

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Silver and Muted Red Christmas Card

  My Christmas card has a few layers. The layer closest to the card base is a pearlescent red by Coordinations. The gray with red stripes is the backside of a journaling card by Teresa Collins. The red die cut with a silver marker outline was made with my Cricut and silver metallic pen. The white die cut is by Spellbinders. The “Joy” card is from a We R Members Keepers 6x6 paper pad. Thanks for looking.

Pink and Purple Winter Outdoor Accessories Card

I cut the gloves and scarf out with my Cricut many years ago. I will try to link back to the layout in which they came from. The die cuts are wrapped around the super old frame die cut by Provo Craft. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. Thanks for looking.        

Upcycled Stockings Christmas Cards Part 2

It’s green for St. Patrick’s Day!

I used a Tim Holtz stencil with distress ink to create a tone on tone background. The stocking is an upcycled To From tag. The sentiment is metal and it’s by Making Memories. Thanks for looking.

Upcycled Stockings Christmas Card Part 1

This was an upcycled to-and-from tag. I glued it onto a sparkly glitter green cardstock die cut. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. 

Come back tomorrow to check out the second stocking card I made. Thanks for looking.

I’m entering this card into the:

Jingle Bell Rock challenge-Sparkly 

Merry Gold Christmas card

The gold paper, white glitter paper, and red die cut are by Sizzix. The white die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The Want2Scrap rhinestone shape fits a Spellbinders label but I used it to go around the circle sentiment which was cut apart from a paper pad.

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Big Wordy Christmas Cards

Above is a recycled card front with a gold die cut and white cardstock behind it. I like it.

The die cuts are by Scrapbooking Made Simple. Thanks for looking.

Red, White and Blue Carta Bella Christmas cards

The Merry sentiment die is from Lawn Fawn and the sentiment stamp is from Stampendous.

Previously I made a group of cards using this paper pad by Carta Bella and you can see them HERE. In fact, here is a link to all of the projects using this paper pad. C@RTA BELLA

Thanks for looking.

Jesus is the Gift card

The background paper is by Stampin Up. The tag is by My Mind’s Eye. The die cut is a wallpaper sample and is cut out using a Spellbinders label one. The ribbon is from my stash.

A little long story that I want to remember how I felt at this time.

When I started this card I didn’t know my niece was going to come over so it was all over the desk. She proceeded to take lots of stuff out of the drawers and cabinets in order to finish only to put part of it together and leave me to finish it. Typical 12-year-old. But ya know what, I miss those days of her inviting herself over to my house where I would have so many things to get done and she would come over and we did WERQ a dance fitness class. We did marker cleaning (yikes! I should pay her for that.) we would make a mess in the kitchen and the craft room. Problem was, she would leave the mess for me to cleanup. I want that to continue but maybe it needs to be in a different way that the 13 year old (14 in March) girl wants to do. I’m willing to evolve if she is wants to think of what that something might be.

(Not proofread. Hehe) Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Christmas tree card with Mulberry Paper

This is a crazy card. The snowflake background paper is by Making Memories. The snowflakes are a flock sort of touch.
The blue background is a mulberry paper. I did a few things with it. First, I pulled the edges apart using water and a tool from Creative Memories. Second, I added small stars that I retrieved from a corner punch. Lastly, I sprayed the mulberry paper with a mixture that I made where I added perfect pearls into a water bottle.
And here's the last part about my card the tree. I used distress markers to color in the rubber area before stamping it down. Then I fussy cut the tree and adhered it to the mulberry paper with foam adhesive. Not pleasant or easy to do. Anyway,
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Manly Monday Snowmen in a bucket

I have this card with the same image

Snowmen in a bucket 2022

This reminds me of the “boys” in the hot-tub on Tuesdays for what my husband calls “Hot Tub Tuesday “. Anyway,

I colored the Stampin Up snowmen stamp with Copic markers. That’s all I know about on this one. I did mess up the back side with a stupid ink spot. So I stamped the backside with the snowflake stamp. (Thanks for stopping by and looking at my layout.

So, according to the blogger website only 5-11 people visit my blog. Lol. Leave me a comment below so I can see who the 11 people are. Lol.  Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Musical Christmas Easel Card

I made this card for my nephew and his roommate who are at Western Michigan University and are both in the music program. I was inspired by the Craft Roulette parameters:

Project-square

Color- nest

Element-ladder

Random-add a cat

Obviously a square. The tan colors look like a nest. The bow on the horn looks like cat ears. And then on the inside of the card, there is patterned paper that has a keyboard that one could say looks like a ladder.

The patterned paper on the front is by Me and My Big Ideas. black die cut is by Spellbinders and the other is by Design Objectives. The DO die cut is out of a wallpaper sample.

Check out Craft Roulette. It sure is fun and such a great challenge.

Here is a link to the webpage 

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Blues and Greens Christmas card

 The background paper is by Stampin Up. I dry embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder by Cuttlebug. Then I lightly inked the raised area with distress ink. The plaid background stamp is by Just Rite stamps. I inked it with a bunch of different ink colors because I was testing the ink pads on a mint colored cardstock and ended up liking it. I inked the edges before taping it down. 

The tree stamp is by Cloud Nine. I stamped and colored it in with Peerless Watercolors. After that, it was off to the die cut using a Spellbinders die. I inked blue to look like the sky and then Stickles to look like snow.

Thanks for looking