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

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

Itty Bitty Glow in the Dark

I applied glow in the dark texture paste into a stencil onto white cardstock. The word Happy is a die by Gina Marie.  That’s all I have today. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cat staring out of a window card

The stamp is by Inkadinkado and it’s colored in with Copic markers. The orange die cut is by Gina Marie and the black and white frame die cut is by Cricut. Thank you for stopping by to check out my blog.

Weiner Dog sympathy card

Pet sympathy cards are hard for me since I lost my best friend in August. His name was Rusty and he was a beautiful Akita. He loved me more than anybody else. If I wasn't in the room he would go find me. I never knew that love before.
When Rusty died I received 2 sympathy cards. I was crushed. That being said, I don't want anyone else to feel like I did. When I hear of someone losing a pet I make a card and send it out. Therefore, I have a handful of pet sympathy cards to post.
I made this card by inking a rainbow of distress inks on a patterned paper. Then the circle was cut out with my Creative Memories cutting system. The dog stamp is by Gina Marie and the ribbon is by Martha Stewart.
Thanks for looking.

When Life gives you Scraps Make a Quilt card

This card has some straightness issues but it happens and it is what it is.

The patterned papers are by Cosmo Cricket. The die in the shape of a quilt square is byGina Marie Designs.

The sentiment stamp was by Stamp N Plus Scrap N and it is stamped onto an eBay rectangle die. 

Thanks for looking. 

Another group of quilt cards

Pink and Red snowman Christmas card

Hi. For my card today I used, Best Creations patterned papers, three different dies, two coloring mediums, and one sentiment stamp. So the dies are by Gina Marie in red, a Spellbinders die for my image, and an unknown die in black, The Spellbinders paper was inked with distress ink before I removed it from the die. The snowman is by Deep Red Stamps. I black heat embossed it and colored it in with powdered chalk mixed with paint and watercolor pencils by Stampin Up. I was able to smooth out the pencil lines with a water pen. The warm wishes sentiment is a stamp by Hero Arts.

I'm entering the 

Simon Says Stamp Anything goes challenge
I started doing this challenge more regularly about a month ago. I don't always make the card before the challenge ends. but that's okay because I use challenges as a way to spark my creativity or make me use supplies that I have. Last week's challenge was "not a card". I would have liked to use the challenge to get going on my calendars but Christmas cards took precedents. I will say that one of the recent challenges was to use foil and I finally pulled out the foil that had been in my stash for over a year. I'm not doing the challenges for the $25 prize because if I was I would get it done and linked up before the challenge expired. 

 I started thinking about how if I won the gift card that I would love to gift it to someone that doesn't have a lot of supplies and/or money to buy supplies. I have plenty of stuff but not everyone does.
So, I've decided that that's my new goal, Do the challenge, blog about it and link up before the challenge expires. Wish me luck and thanks for looking.

Peach Easter cross card

I've been making these Easter Cards to donate to the church and they send them to shut-ins. Ironic since I'm one myself. The pattern paper is by Provo craft. The die cut is by Gina Marie. The circle punch is by Creative Memories. The cross is a sticker by Jolee’s. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and the kraft cardstock is by Oriental Trading Co. Thanks for looking 

Greeting Of the Season Cricut Sentiment drawn on front Cards

I used my Cricut for the sentiments. The card on the left, patterned paper by Bazzill, die cut by Gina Marie, and rub on border by Die Cuts with a View. The second card, uses a frame from an accordion card and scraps from my stash. Thanks for Looking.

Manly Monday Nephew's birthday card

This nephew went to U of M and the colors are similar. The draw embossing folders are Cuttlebug and Gina Marie. The die-cuts are by Spellbinders, Clearly Besotted, and Papertrey Ink. I forgot to add the dot of the "i". Thanks for looking. I'm entering the Craft Rocket Challenges-Dies

Heat Embossed Snowmen for the January Snow challenge

 Thanks for looking.

CHallenges:
Craft Rocket Challenge-Dies (border dies)

Colorful OPtions chllenge-winter blues

Scrapbook Layout of us Fishing at the cottage in 2004

The hat stamp and alphabet stamps are by Close to my Heart. The die cut with the year on it is by Tim Holtz. The net die cut is by Gina Marie. The June and fishing sticker are from my stash.

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The Value of an idea Card

This sentiment is a great lead-in to a belated birthday card. The idea is to send the card on time.
I find it funny that recently I used ribbon on a card and now ribbon has been on a bunch of my cards.
The centerpiece of the card is an ATC that I give credit to in the picture below.
I stamped the background with Close to My Heart stamps. The ribbon is by Offray and the dots are by Gina Marie. 

Below is the ATC designer.

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Football Go! Team! Go! card

The main die with 6 open circles is by Gina Maire. 
Circle punch Lawn Fawn.
The Go!'s were from a Lawn Fawn alphabet set and the word Team was made with a Sizzix stamp set. 
The background paper is by American Traditional Designs. I popped up the football circles with Therma Web Zots 3D

Thanks for looking.

Red, White and Blue Ribbon Commemorate 911

Real quick I want to tell you about this card since today marks 20 years since 911.

The die-cuts: scappled circles in red by Spellbinders and the inside white one is by Gina Marie, It was a quit out of an upcoming card. (Oops. I keep falling asleep.)

The ribbon in the center is the front of a pin. I had hubby get rid of the backing and I adhered it to the die-cut. 

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Online Card Class Inlay Die Cutting technique -Christmas Quilt square cards

The Online Card class Day 2 Inlay Die Cutting technique. I've wanted to use this large die for a while and this was the perfect opportunity.

This is the card I made with the bottom right square.

The sentiment is a stencil with embossed paste. And then the border is by Creative Memories.

I had some scraps of the tree paper that I put on card bases to get them out of the way.

As I was going outside to take pictures and I thought, maybe these backgrounds would work with the quilt square.

They did look nice.

But now to choose. Or go into the stacks and tote of Christmas paper and maybe find the same paper. I can't help but think of the mess I would make. I'm going to hold off for now.

I had this square already cut out. The patterned paper is Houndstooth. I filled in the rest with scraps. Then I found these adhesive squares to place around the outside squares. They are by Recollections. 

This is the card I made with the brown square.

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Floral Friday Clearly Besotted in Peach Just for you Cards

The layered flowers use the stamp set Nouveau Flowers (circa 2015) from Clearly Besotted and I cut them out with their matching dies. I used all different inks to give the flowers some dimension and interest. 
The little squiggly stamps on each card are unknown. Unfortunately, with all of my recent "Hauls", I prefer the term "Deals", I think that saying a product is unknown is going to become common in my posts. 

The sentiment stamp is unknown. (It was one of my deals) The rectangle die-cuts by Gina Marie . Gina Marie is from where I live in Sparta, MI. My husband taught her and her sister in high school. She had a store 5 miles from my house that was getting more sales online and decided to close up her shop in 2017. She has a great selection of dies at cheaper prices than most others in the cardmaking world. The only patterned paper that I know for sure is the background paper by Papertrey Ink.  I never thought I would use it (too busy). In fact, I often use the back of it for the white paper.

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It's your Day to Celebrate Party Hat Birthday Card

I have cards to post but just haven't found time. Again, I put too much pressure on myself to make my posts more exciting, whatever that means. But here's my card and the supplies.The ribbon-American Crafts. The sentiment and hat is by Cricut. The dots are from Gina Marie. The patterned paper is by Sunborn

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UPDATED 5-16-22. FONT SIZE. PICTURE AND WORDS PLACEMENT.

Manly Monday Rockets and Stars card

There are no stamps on this card. I did use distress ink around the edges.

The star die-cuts are by Gina Marie 

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon and Provo Craft.

Nothing special. I made it for a birthday card request on the Facebook group. A little boy likes space and planets and this is what I was able to do. 

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Manly Monday Gabe with his Great-grandparents 2005 Layout

Another layout finished and ready to go into the scrapbook for my nephew.

The letter stamps were bought from Oriental Trading Co. 

The letter stickers are by Freckled Fawn

The vellum sentiment is by K and Co.

The pocket is by Colorbok

The embellishment that says Family and Cousins are from a dollar store.

The circle die-cut with 2005 in it is by Gina Marie

The patterned paper is by The Paper studio (stripes), Basic Grey (blue background), 

Thanks for looking