A Fruity Drink with an Umbrella card

The scalloped half circle is paper by Deja Views. I cut it out with my Cricut. The light blue patterned paper in the center is by Colorbok. The sentiment is by Die Versions and it’s cut out of polka dot patterned paper by Papertrey Ink. The drink is a sticker from a dollar bin at Michael’s. Stickers get a bad rap in the card making world. And they’re not terrible if you use them well.

Ice cream card

Poker chip, sentiment, and border stickers

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Friend layout pictures from a crop in 2008

This is an old layout that was hanging out in my drafts. All of the paper is by Die Cuts with a View. Circle shapes were cut out using the Creative Memories cutting system. The flowers are from Oriental Trading Co. The date alphabets are by Lawn Fawn. The journal box and the rhinestones were picked up at Michael’s. Thanks for looking. 

October cottage calendar layout post OakDan

This is a calendar layout from the cottage calendar. The patterned papers are from Michael's. The fire die cut was cut with my Cricut and I layered it onto a Spellbinders die cut. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Poker BIL's Card

This is the front of the card. The crimper is by Fiskars. The little playing cards are dies by Quickutz. The patterned paper underneath the straight flush is by Tim Holtz. I'm not sure about the bottle cap but it beautifully fits in as a 10 of hearts. The alphabet stamps are by Oriental Trading Co. It's a great little set. 

And this is the inside of the card. The inside letters are Michael's. I thought it was witty
Straight Flush? Nope! 4 of a kind for our 7 card stud because he turned 47. 

But now that I read again, it's hard to understand.

This is a fabric that I used heat and bond to attach the fabric to the cardstock.

Cricut cut the four and seven.

And then I tripped on the finish line and cut the word kind in the wrong spot. It turned out fine.

Here is another poker playing card

Another post using the playing cards
Playing Solitaire birthday card

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Manly Monday Tree die cut Cards

For both cards, the background stamps are from Stampin Up. On the first card, the Forever in Time green cardstock is ugly. It’s from my Mother’s stash and I’ve been trying to find ways to use it-Like use it as a layer or alter it with stamps and inks. I’m open to other ideas you may have any. Please.

 This is the negative of a Cricut cut that I stamped with a bright green ink to see how it was going to look. Well, terrible. I used the other side of the paper for that Cricut cut and thought I’d and use the negative for mountains. It sort of worked. I used brown distress ink to ink the smaller tree and ink the scallops to be more convincing and then said, done. I inked the sky with blue distress ink and again, done. I stamped a Lawn Fawn sentiment at the bottom, and done, done with card one.

The second card, same thing, background stamp, inked the middle tree but this time I used foam adhesive to give it dimension. The sentiment is from Michael’s dollar bin, the patterned paper is unknown, and the tree die cuts are from eBay.

 I’ve been told, Guys don’t care about the fine details. So…done.  Thanks for reading and looking.

Examples using the same die cuts

A good example of using the tree dies.

I’m entering the cards into a few challenges.

Fab and funky Birthday  

Creatlicious AG Make own background (I did it on first card)

Polka doodles anything goes

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.

Floral Friday Holly Trio of Cards Colored in with 3 different green combos

Hmmm...I'm not sure that I have a favorite. Do you? 
They were all colored with Copic markers.
The first card uses very primary colors. (PP by Sunborn)
In the second card, the green is muted, as if it were aged. (PP by K and Co and the rub-on border is by American Crafts))
The third card is bright with a yellow hue to it. (PP from stash. Green from Michael's. Rick Rack from my stash)
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December Calendar Layout Side by Side

This layout is from the December home calendar 2019. Patterned paper by Craft Smith (Michael's). The letter stickers are from Oriental Trading Co.
<Click> Side note-I strongly dislike it when alphabet stickers do not have numbers. Continuing on, the grass border by Creative Memories. Black cardstock by Recollections.THANKS FOR LOOKING

Christmas Alphabet letters Cards

The Christmas letter stamps are oldies from Michael's. I stamped them with green ink and colored them in with colored pencils. The square punches from Creative Memories. The patterned paper is by Creative Memories (background paper and journal box) with black paper behind it. The gold paper is by Little Yellow Bicycle.

These pictures have the same letter stamps that are card-bound.

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Christmas Tree Embossing paste card

The brass tree stencil is by Lasting Impressions, Circa 1997. I used Dreamweaver Stencils embossing paste and Perfect Pearls. The tape ripped the cardstock when I pulled the stencil up. It was too pretty to toss, so I kept it, and tada. It made it onto a card. The ribbon is by Michael's and Oriental Trading Company. The die-cut is by Spellbinders. The patterned paper is by Martha Stewart

This is the inside of the card.

I'm entering this card using a stencil into:

Sisterhood of Crafters

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Multiple layered Flower Pink Card

I can't totally explain the pictures because I have PT. Let's just say getting the gromet and the brad in the middle was a challenge because I could not use my Crop-o-dile.

The sentiment stamp is from a dollar bin from Michael's and stamped in white pigment ink by SU

The die-cuts-Spellbinders

The patterned paper is by Sunborn

The master plan has been set as you can see in the photo below.

And here is the pretty card again.

Previous post with these flowers

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The happy couple groomsman layout

Family album book layouts.

I used a sticker Happy Couple” by Me and My Big Ideas 

The flowers are by Michael’s and Prima

The letters and swirls die-cuts are by Quickutz

The arrow was cut out using my Cricut

I added the black paper to make it stick out more. 

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye. 

Originally, the price of the paper was 59 cents. That should say the age of this paper but I found that when I flipped the paper over it had a 6 for $1.00 sticker.

This is another layout with my FIL as a groomsman. As of now, I don't have a supply list for this one.

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Sitting here...Thinking of you card

The bird on the branch was originally an ATC that I thought with a few added bits, it would make a nice card.

I made the sentiment by stamping these alphabet letters stamps from the dollar bin at Michael’s.

They are the second generation stamped.

 The dry embossing is a Cuttlebug folder.

The polkadot patterned paper is by Crate Papers. 

The inside sentiment says, “thinking of you”.

So all together it says, “Sitting here thinking of you”.

This will make a nice donation card.

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Manly Monday Fish on Black Paper Cards

I saw this technique on Splitcoast Stampers. When the card is in your hands the fish catch your eyes making you want to look at it more closely. 

I stamped the fish with Versa Mark ink and then dried the images with a heat gun. 

Then I colored the open area of the images in with some colored pencils by Stampin Up and Faber-Castell. The Faber-Castell pencils produce very vibrant colors that go well with this technique. I found that regular colored pencils didn’t show up on the black cardstock. 

 The fish stamps are by Close to my Heart

The hook die-cut is by Quickutz and the silver string is from my stash

The sentiment in the card below is a Lawn Fawn die cut.

For the next two cards, I think the bubble patterned paper is by Paper Pizzazz.

The sentiment stamps are both from Michael’s dollar bin

Best wishes sentiment stamp is hiding in my room. So I’m not sure on that one.

And the last card,

The sentiment is a Lawn Fawn Stamp.

The background paper is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

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Love tag with Heart Card

My stash of anniversary cards was low and so when I had the love supplies out for Valentine's Day, I whipped up a few easy anniversary cards.

The word "love" was a die-cut tag by Heidi Swapp. I trimmed the tag portion off the top and made it into a rectangle. 

The red heart in the center was pink until I colored it in with Copic markers.

The patterned papers are from a Recollections pad at Michael's

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Purring Cat Cards

2 Cat cards for you today

I used a stamp by Michael's that I colored in with Copic markers.

The sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp 

I had these grey papers floating around in my craft room

The patterned paper is an old graduation open house invite.

I used a stamp by Close to my Heart and colored it in with Copic markers

The sentiment is a store-bought card

The die-cut-circles punch Creative Memories and the rectangle label is a Martha Stewart sticker

The patterned paper is from a Kleenex box

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I’m entering my cards into the 

Creative Inspiration challenge 

Animal Antics.

And

The Male Room

Animals

Deep Red Stamps Santa Card and a Candle card

I used a Santa stamp by Deep Red Stamps

So...to save on time...

I posted a picture of what the green scalloped oval details are. 

Any guesses?

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye 

The ribbon is from Michael’s.

This card has the same scalloped oval

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