Floral Friday rainbow frame art

The wood fence with flowers is from Dollar Tree, and I colored them in using colored pencils. The wood butterfly and banner are older pieces by Maya Road. I initially painted the butterfly and banner with Antique Linen Crackle Paint. I later tried to layer Peeled Paint Crackle Paint over it after attempting to revive the paint with hot water, but unfortunately, it did not adhere well and flakes off when touched. This happened when I was stamping the Spellbinders sentiment onto the banner.

For the other materials, the metallic paper is by Hunky Dory, and the ants are stickers from Creative Memories. The patterned paper is unknown, and the RAK came from my mother-in-law’s stash.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

I’m entering the frame into Simon Says Stamp Monday rainbow challenge

These frames are in my half bath in between the cabinets.

Floral Friday Clearly Besotted in Red and Black

The stamp and matching die are by Clearly Besotted. The red die-cut is chipboard that I painted with red crackle paint by Tim Holtz and Ranger. That tells you how long I've had that in my stash. The off-white scallop circle is possibly Stampendous. The black cardstock is dry embossed with a Chevron embossing folder by Cuttlebug. The patterned paper is by Pebbles

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps "Time" to Celebrate Card with Tag

Real quick, August 8, 2009 is when I started my blog. It has evolved in the last 12 years. At first, I was busy auditioning to be on Design Teams, trying to get published in magazines and entering a lot of challenges. I did those things to get noticed as a great card maker and scrapbooker because if I was I would get free products. Not worth it.

Now I use my blog as a place to have my projects all in one place. Who knows where it will go from here.                                                          All I can do is: Keep moving forward.

My card today uses two Deep Red stamps. The clock and the Metal Mesh background. I used distress crackle paint as the stamping medium. The sentiment is made up of an alphabet stamp set by Close to my Heart and the word stamps by The Paper Studio. The tag and brad are from my stash.

I’m entering this card into the Male Room challenge.

They turned 8years old this month

Birthday card for a dude

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Elephants

I used an elephant stamp by Deep Red Stamps

African Elephant Stamp

I colored it in with Copic markers.

The sentiment is a metal circle with sentiment Knowledge on the front. It by Tim Holtz held in place by a brad.

The die- cuts are by circle by Creative Memories cutting system

The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View

The second card I die cut a Tim Holtz border out of cereal board and then painted it with Crackle paint by Ranger

The background paper is a recycled card.

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards using the same stamp.

Deep Red Stamps Elephant

Red and Black squiggly square stamp card

I used stamps by Fiskars for the square and Stampin Up for the flower

The die-cuts are by Spellbinders 

The embossing folder by Darice and painted with distress crackle paint.
I used brads and eyelets too.

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Halloween Frame needs some help

Thanks for coming to see my crea8tion
This frame is made with multiple cards and some embellishments that were given to me in a trade.
The only card I could find to link back to is the skull. If you can find any of these cards, comment with the date the card was posted and I'll send you a goodie bag.
However, not all of the frames are cards. I'm going to try to explain which are cards and which are not.

There are 4 rows of 2 frames.
Bottom two are cards-Find them
Next row up, left is a card to find. right is not.
Next row up, left is a card to find. right has already been found.
Top row, Left is not a card right is a card to find.

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards used in the frame
Skull Halloween

I Forgot Day- Belated birthday card

I found this website that lists silly everyday holidays. It has perked me up by guiding me to which card to post on which day.

I discovered that today is
"I Forgot Day"

And that ties in with this belated birthday card for my nephew.

The swirl pattern is an embossing folder by Darice on black cardstock. I covered the pattern with crackle paint, peeled paint. I added gold Perfect Pearls before it dried. The jute is wrapped around the two papers with the birthday stamped sentiment by Stamping Scrapping on top and bottom. The inside says, "Here's the card I should have sent".

Thanks for looking.

You and Me Card

Cute card for Valentine's Day.

Start with white pre-made card base 4 x 5 ½  by
Recollections and layer in the middle a 4x4 square of
pink cardstock (Stampin’ Up). Layer a
border to the left a strip of pink
cardstock (Core’dinations), red cardstock
and then red glitter cardstock both of
those by Recollections.

Paint cereal board heart with last remaining
Fired Brick Crackle paint by Ranger. Sniff Sniff.
The sentiment is a Colorbok sticker
that I backed with white cardstock and then cut the ends.

Thanks so much for looking.

Yellow Flower Birthday Cards

This first is a birthday card that was previously posted and can see it HERE. I altered this card because the sentiment was adhered with foam squares that started to cave in and bent the cardstock. The new sentiment is by TPC Studio.

This card was published as a Mother's Day card. The background is a small Fiskars stamp that I stamped multiple times with Colorbox chalk ink. The flower closest to the base is a Sizzix die painted with Scattered Straw crackle paint by Ranger. On top of that is a Stampin' Up punch and on top of that is a Sasafrass sticker. The sentiment stamp is  by......idk but I do know that the label it's on is by Martha Stewart.

Thanks so much for looking.

Love tag

For this tag I heat embossed a Hero Arts background stamp using Versa Mark ink and WOW! embossing powder. Then I inked it with distress ink and sprayed it with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. 

The flower is chipboard by Maya Road-maybe, that I painted with Ranger's Crackle Paint (Fired Brick). Once it dried I inked the edges with a dark brown distress ink. The center of the flower is a Spellbinders die cut which shows another way to use the smallest die cuts that no one ever knows what to do with. The love sentiment die cut is by K and Co and the rope around the hole at the top is by Wyla Inc. I should have set the hole with a heavy duty eyelet but it is what it is. 

I hope the recipient likes the tag. Thanks for looking.

Fall Stencil ATC's

These ATC's were for last month but I didn't get a chance to blog about them. For the background paper of these cards I used old packaging because I wasn't sure what I was doing at the time and didn't want to waste good paper. That "waste good paper" statement makes me laugh. What project do I think deserves "good paper"? Silly.

I added acrylic paint to white embossing powder and applied it to a Dreamweaver Stencils fall leaves stencil. After they dried, I covered each one with Perfect Pearls gold, bronze and copper. I liked the gold the best (left side). 

The leaf is a punch that I covered with Scattered Straw Crackle Distress paint (Ranger). After they dried, I stamped the word fall using My Stamp Box letter and Close to my Heart orange ink. I tied raffia in a bow around the stem of the leaf and covered the center with a leaf punch. Lots of leaves but they turned out pretty.

Thanks for looking.

Fall With Sympathy Card

Today's card is for all the fall lovers out there. I just used this leaf die a week ago for a Leaf Shaker card and now here's another way to use it. I die cut it out of chipboard and then distressed the edges with distress ink by Ranger. Then I stamped the lines on it with brown Stampin Up ink and covered it with clear Crackle Paint by Ranger. Set aside and let dry.

The background was made with a canvas background stamp that I still love with a caramel-colored SU ink. Then I inked the edges with distress ink and adhered a piece of brown cardstock behind it. I die cut the rounded square which is a Spellbinders die out of Bazzill cardstock.  I took the same brown cardstock that is behind the stamped background across the bottom. The sentiment is by Gina Marie All Seasons Stamp set which I stamped in dark brown SU ink on Oriental Trading Co kraft cardstock and adhered it to the lower right side. Then I added a Creative Imaginations leaf brad below the sentiment.

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Manly Monday Dinosaur

Welcome back to Manly Monday. Please click on the blog name to be directed to the masculine card. We have a couple younger cards, including my own, but a couple for the dad's too. In other words we have a great mix of cards to share today. 

Daffodil Cards

Crafted by Jules

Guylaine Seyer

Papers, Markers, Inks, Oh My

Purple Princess Diaries- Scroll down

Stamp N Play

Indiana Inking 

I made another dinosaur card using the Stampendous Dinosaur stamp Set, I did the same thing as my card on Friday with the triceratops. I stamped the dino onto Ranger watercolor paper with Hero Arts black ink and colored it in with Peerless watercolors and a paint brush. I pulled out some of Ranger's crackle paint (Rock Candy) and covered the Spellbinders die cut with it. I fussy cut the stamp out and adhered him to the die cut. The polka dot patterned paper is by Making Memories, twine by Tim Holtz, and stamped the sentiment onto Creative Memories sand colored cardstock with Stampin Up brown ink.

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Follow the design of the dry embossing folder with Chalk Thanks Card

Chalk ah Lot challenge this week is Red with chalk. Join us with your red chalk project. My card uses Stamp N Plus powdered chalk mixed with paint colored onto the pattern of the dry embossing folder by Cuttlebug. I used that same mixture to color the top of the Cricut Thanks die cut. The Recollections wooden butterfly was painted in with Ranger Industries Fire Brick Red Crackle Paint.

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Manly Monday

I have some awesome guy cards to share with you this week. Sit back and take a ride to each blog for some inspiration.

Jazzy Paper

Jenny Hurley cards

Kim's Cards and Crafts

Lily Bette's Cards

Crafty-Stamper

Tilly's Crafts

Get the JC Look

Dawn's crafting

My Crafting Place

Crafty Girl 21

Made by Helen

Sister Craft-Bea-Doreen

Crazy 4 Flowers Cards

I Love to Make Cards

This week for my Manly Monday card I used crackle paint by Ranger Industries on a piece of wrapping paper that I found in gift decorating tote. I thought it was perfect for a manly card and there wasn't enough left for a present but the perfect amount for two cards. First off I want to show you a picture of the crackle paint on the map. Isn't that cool? I love it. 

For the rest of my card I used some Stampin Up patterned paper, sentiment stamp and Chocolate Chip ink and brown cardstock by Recollections. It's nice that the double sided patterned paper matches so nicely with the rest of my cards elements. After cutting the wood grain background patterned paper and adhering the map with the brown matte on to it, I cut these one inch strips of the other side of the patterned paper which is a leaf design. I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of Recollections cream colored cardstock and inked the edges with a Ranger blending tool and distress ink Pumice Stone. I adhered the sentiment to the patterned paper and attached it to my card base with double sided tape and brads from The Paper Studio. I thought it needed a small embellishment so I pulled out these tags by SEI and tucked them into the sentiment. I've used these before, recently, and find them to really add to a masculine card without too much bulk. At the end I adhered the card front onto the card base and off in the mail one of them goes to my mom's significant other:)

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