Ugly paper group 2

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Round 2 of cards with this ugly patterned paper

Simons Says Stamp wedding/ anniversary cards

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge anything goes

Floral Friday Arch flowers card

Background created with a Gina Marie stencil positive and the negative. The flowers are die cuts are from Creative Memories. The arch is die was cut out with my Cricut. The shelf is a Spellbinders die. 

Simon says Stamp feminine challenge

Lawn Fawn Bunny on a Sled

I made this card for Craft Roulette #316. Parameters: Project- Hello card. Colors-strawberry fields. Element-Hop(s) hopping. Random-large letters. 

The background was created by distress ink. I made some hills with a stencil and distress oxide and Versa Magic chalk ink. The letter dies are by Sizzix (665335). I cut them out of Color-aid paper and stamped them with small snowflakes by Lawn Fawn with a Versa Magic ink. 

The bunny is by Lawn Fawn, houses border by Stampendous, and winter is a stamp from another Stampendous stamp set. I colored the images with Copic markers. The bunny is on a foam sled. 🛷 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Four legged friends challenge 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything goes challenge

Double stencil birthday card

I used distress ink on a Creative Expressions Chevron stencil and the sun stencil is by Hero Arts. The cake is a die by Cuttlebug. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp more than one stencil challenge

Happy Easter

The butterfly is heat embossed with pink powder by Stampendous. The background is a Gina Marie stencil. 

The sentiment was a die that I borrowed. I colored it in with colored pencils and markers. I’m entering this card into:

Simon says Stamp embossing challenge

Trio of Simple Cricut cards

There are three cards but I’m only entering one into the challenges listed below the picture. 

I literally cut the overlay/background out with my Cricut and glued it on a piece of yellow cardstock. That’s what I consider clean and simple. I’m entering the card above into the,

Simon says Stamp clean and simple 

The background on this middle card was created with distress oxides and spritzed with water.

This last card I inked the edges with distress oxide.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Manly Monday Frog on mixed media background

Background-wave stencil by Stampendous green Astro paste. The sky is blue distress ink sprayed with blue glimmer mist. Then a plastic doily and used as a stencil to put a pattern on that upper portion by spraying it with a distress spritz in green. It didn’t really show up. I used it on another project sprayed it with a blue and then turned the stencil onto the card. It’s hard to explain. 

Then took a stencil by Creative Expressions called outlined duo rectangles that has multiple levels of dotted lines in an outline around the edges with distress oxide. 

There’s a slit cut into the paper within the green border where frog die cut slides in. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday add green challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Add green

Large Christmas tree with strips of paper card

I die cut a bunch of Christmas trees and then had the seniors at church decorate them from behind

I did things a little bit different on this card then many of the others. I added the green background frame to set it apart from the blue patterned paper. I adhered the paper strips to the back and then ran that whole thing into an embossing folder with ornaments on it. After embossing, I inked the inside areas of the tree with distress oxides. The star is an iron on patch that can use an iron on to adhered it to anything. 

Monday Simon Says Stamp- add some green

Manly Monday Chalkboard sentiment card

The patterned paper has green and blue stripes. I decided to change things up with it. I came in with a Hero Arts stencil and blue distress oxide. After random ink blending I spritzed it with Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. The sentiment is a chalkboard stamp stamped with distress oxide onto Color Aid paper. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Simon says Stamp challenge Make your own background 

I won the challenge! First time ever. Super excited.

Manly Monday multiple steps background

The background doesn’t really look like much, but it took a couple of steps to get there. I don’t love it but somebody will love getting this card. What I see and what the recipient sees are very different.

The card base is cherry red and I was going to work that background into an orange red like the sentiment card. Stand back! LoL! 

I took a background stamp from Stamping Up, inked it with black distress oxide ink and placed the card on top of it. I sprayed the background with water and hit it with the heat tool. I heavily inked the background with two oxides and the one I know was Rusty Hinge. I went direct to paper and it wasn’t changing the color like I thought it would. While the ink was still wet I heat embossed it with clear powder. The embossing didn’t cover it completely but that’s okay

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-Thank you card.

Manly Monday Kayak card

I made this card for a friend's husband's birthday. This old cling stamp set is by TPC Studio. I heat embossed the kayak with Salty Ocean embossing glaze by Ranger. Then I used distress oxides to palette paint the kayak in. The paddle is heat embossed with Stampendous silver embossing powder and colored in the same way. 
The background...I made a bunch of these that day while experimenting with different-sized paintbrushes.  I took a chance and painted close to the kayak with a large wet brush and this is what it looked like. I love it. I have to thank Simon Says Stamp for challenging me to roll my sleeves up and play.  It feels great to use some of the fun products I've collected throughout the years. Thank you.
I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday-Masculine

Manly Monday Black Background Music card

I made this background using thin patterned paper and an old Fiskars texture plate. From there I tested different red Copic markers on it to see if they needed to be refilled. Then I thought it was a good idea to go direct to paper with Black Soot distress oxide. That is a juicy ink pad and it saturated the paper all the way through. 

The image was cut out, and not very well from a patterned paper by Feature Art in Australia. I had to go around the edges with a dark grey Couture Creations alcohol marker to make them look even. 

The sentiment is an old rubber cling stamp by Fiskars. I stamped it out with Versa Fine black ink. The stars are from a birthday present die that I found with no packaging.

These cards are going out for donation.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges- Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge masculine 

I’ve been using this challenge to make and use products in different ways that I haven’t before. Idk if my projects are exactly right for this challenge but it’s helping my creative block.

Simon Says Stamp Wed challenge-Anything goes 

Addicted to Stamps-any occasion

Glitz and the heart of letters-M for masculine

Best Wishes stenciling technique

I used a Momenta stencil and a Scrapbooking Made Simple leaf stencil with Distress Oxide inks. I inked the stencils in the normal way. Then I sprayed the leftover ink on the stencil with water and squished it over the top. 
I reused a floral image, except I added Perfect Pearls on the pedals. I found the sentiment in Cricut Design Space, and instead of cutting it out, I used my markers to write it out. Then I punched it out with a circle punch.

Thanks for looking.
Simon says Stamp. Use more than one stencil

Double stenciled backgrounds

This is a Tim Holtz tag that I did a stencil on a stencil technique. The twisted square stencil is by Momenta, and the dot stencil is by Gina Marie. I used Distress Oxides. The sentiment is by Sizzix. I stamped it with purple ink and clear heat embossed.

Then I created a small tag using a different stencil with the square stencil, but I didn't know how to finish it off, so maybe next time.

This last one uses two stencils and the same sentiment stamp.

Simon says Stamp Use more than one stencil

Manly Monday E=Mc2 Graduation card

This is a Craft Roulette card episode #259. The parameters were: a card with two folds, Math, and markers. The color parameter was Jelly beans. The colors are too loose meaning you could use any colors. So, a Zoom group and I pull a card out of the Color Cube and make that the color parameter. I like more of a challenge. Idk. 
My card is a matchbox card. The background, E=Mc squared stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. I stamped it with black ink and blended my background with distress oxides. The grad cap was made with my Cricut. The sentiment die is by Spellbinders, and the sentiment is from Stamps of Life. The ribbon is from Michael's. I colored the white line in the middle with a Copic marker.

Thanks for stopping by.

4 Snow Globe Shaker Christmas Cards

The snow globe die cuts were cards that I cut apart. They came to me in the stash of the older woman that I was lucky enough to receive her Christmas card making supplies after she had to go to a nursing home. 

The background of this card was made with distress ink and water and maybe some kind of spray/spritz. I dry embossed the red part with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and in an effort to make it look brown I continued to add distress oxide to it. Meh. The sentiment stamp is by Inkadinkado. 

For this card, my background paper is by Carte Bella.  The sentiment is by Inkadinkado. The scene is made up of stamps from Stampendous.

For this card, my background paper is by.  The sentiment is by Inkadinkado. I love that name. The scene inside is made up of stamps by Stampendous.

The background of this card was made with a stencil by The Crafter’s Workshop, distress ink, and Glimmer Mist spray by Tattered Angels. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. The scene is made of stamps by Lawn Fawn that were colored in with Copic markers. 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.

Vintage Love Forever Card

I will have to write out the supplies as time permits.

Thanks for looking.

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! 

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!