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.

Floral Friday Heart Border Celebrate card

This is the first card I made overlapping the heart stamp border. It goes with the other anniversary cards. But I don’t love this version of the card as much as the others. It’s a nice card for someone. It’s just not my favorite. 

The side panels are from a store-bought card. The sentiment die cut is by Sizzix. The heart rhinestones, which I don’t care for, are by The Paper Studio. Embellishing cards is awkward for me. It never looks…right. Anyway, the ink that I used on the heart stamp is by Stampin Up. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cricut Drawn Christmas Tree Upcycled Card

 

Every month a friend and I make Christmas cards. We call it 5on5: the goal is to make 5 Christmas cards on the fifth of every month at 5:00 PM. Each month we have a theme and  February’s theme was to reuse, recycle, or repurpose. Which brings me to this card that 

I received this 3 years ago. It had a noticeable smudge of green ink in the upper left corner. It 

took this long to figure out what I could do to the Cricut pen on the 

I tried a white gel pen, which made the green ink smear more. To make it not look as though I’m covering up a mistake, I would have to go around each area just like it smear the green and cover it with a white gel pen. 

This is what I have to say about that white gel pen wasn’t very consistent so I bought some off of Amazon that are amazing.

Anyway, the flaw needed to be covered up with something solid. I pulled out these not rhinestones or gems or enamel dots. Nope, none of those. They are a product by Imaginisce. You heat set them to your project with this tiny little thing that applies heat. They match the green marker used on the tree. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cricut border with added Christmas trees card

This border is a Cricut cut with a rhinestone in the center. Then I added Christmas tree die cuts. Some of them have been inked with distress ink. Some of them are also upcycled wallpaper samples. I did add dimensional adhesive behind two of them. Then I cut brown scraps to make the tree trunks. Thanks for looking. 

Lovely blue card with Brass Corners

This card is a recycled card of mine. Like I made it and it came back to me from an aunt or someone. If I looked hard enough I could probably find the original card on my blog but I have other things to do. The blue paper is by Colorbok. The brown patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The dry embossed square is by Cuttlebug and the stamp inside it is from Stampin Up. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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.

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Pink Flowers Destash Card

This card used up most of my small pink flowers. I will probably regret that in the future but there are other pink flower accents that I can make. 

When I started placing the flowers on the card I didn’t know where I was going with it. I just went for it and glued them down and added Stickles to the center. That wasn’t the best decision. I should have made the pattern then glued the flowers down. I thought:

Oh well, I liked the top better than the bottom.

 It was the bottom and so I was OK with it. 

The top is cleaner than the bottom. 

Nobody will see the bottom. Ya right!

I found the tiny plate with letter die cuts and cut out “Thirty 1993” for my Niece’s 30th birthday. I adhered the letters around a rhinestone cluster that I found in my stash. 

I had to cut off the edges of the front panel to fit on my card base. It wasn’t until then that I realized…I glued the letters on upside down.
I was crushed. I tried to take the letters off. Nope. Removing the letters was destroying the flowers, which I only had 2-3 flowers left.

Looking at it now, it’s no big deal. You can hardly tell or see what I’m talking about. But...You see this flower front panel had been sitting on my desk for weeks. I looked at it all of time. I was working to figure out the best way to finish it. I couldn't get just any sentiment to look "right". 

So when I found the alphabet plate I knew just what to do with it. I was excited to use it for the special occasion. But then to have so much into it to trip at the finish line...irritating. 

I have to remind myself that,

It’s handmade. Not Ha11m@rk.

Thanks for looking.

Teal and Yellow Butterfly with Rhinestones Card

Rhinestones by Rhinestones unlimited.

Ribbon by Stampin Up.

The patterned paper is by Echo Park.

The stamps are by Stampendous.

And the butterfly is by K and Company. 

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday My Cousin turns 40th this month

Let’s take note that this is a slim-line card. Some things I don’t do very often.

My cousin’s birthday is today and this is the card I made for her. I started out with a silver cardstock by Creative Memories. Sadly, they no longer sell this paper. Next is the pink gingham patterned paper is an oldie by Paper Pizzazz. 

So let’s talk about these flowers. So, Stampin Up, I’m working with 3 different stamp sets. 1 stamp set has a matching die to cut it out. For the remaining 2, you stamp the image and then punch it out by using a matching punch. I’ve always had a problem getting them lined up correctly.

The pink flower with the silver flecks is by Prima. The rest of the flowers are Gemini dies.

Warning: this next description is weird and messed up. Everything in this description is not in the same sitting. I mean like years apart. But it was a happy accident that worked out beautifully. 

I die cut a piece of pink paper by Sizzix. 

Then I got new dies by Creative Expression. 

I cut a new shape out of the old shape and then left it inside of the die for a while. Time goes by until 

I finally wanted to use my new die, so I used a blending tool with distressed ink before removing the die from the paper. 

Time goes by again. 

I wanted to make a special card for my cousin 

I placed a gray paper behind it and then found these number stickers and they worked perfectly for this card. I love the way it turned out. I hope she got it on time. Thanks for looking.

 That probably made no sense to anyone but it was worth a try. After writing up this post for an hour and 15 minutes I’m calling it quits. Thanks for looking.

Celebrate card for a kid

I entered my 1st card into #CraftRoulette 

The parameters 

Card for a kid

Colors of a citrus farm

A spring scene

Metallic or foil.

The picture below shows the foil on the back of the rhinestones that I added on top of the balloons.

Stamp and ink by Stampin Up 

Distress ink too. I used a water pen by Ranger. 

The card base is a Thank you card from my mom’s funeral.

The clear beads and rhinestones are from my stash. Thanks for looking.

Hey Chicky card

This little chick and the flowers are stickers. I layered them onto a Making Memories chipboard shape/frame. The background is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder. The rhinestones are from Want 2 Scrap. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Bright Pink Card

This card is not my favorite but they don’t all have to be my favorite. The cardstock used is by Recollections. The stamp is by Inkadinkado and I colored it in with Copic markers before I used a Sizzix die to cut it out. I added some rhinestones and enamel dots from my collection. I put some washi tape on the side to make the card look less, and I mean less crooked. It doesn’t make it straight. It makes it less crooked. This card is an anniversary card. Thanks for looking.

Here are some other cards using the Same Stamp

Floral Friday Green and Blue Chipboard flower card

The green chipboard flowers are by Colorbok. The center chipboard flower was painted blue and then I brushed it with an emery board. The patterned papers are by Basic Grey and ??.  I put green rhinestones all down the center. Thanks for looking.

Gray busy fancy birthday card

There’s way too much going on with this card. The background stamp and ink are by Hero Arts. The die cuts are by Spellbinders. The bottom layer is a recycled wallpaper sample and the rhinestones are by Want2Scrap. Then the patterned paper is grrrr idk. I know what the pattern on the other side looks like. The flourish is a rub-on and the sentiment is a sticker. Thanks for looking.

Happy little stampers-birthday 

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. 

Yellow Balloon Birthday Card

These are not my favorite cards but I made them. This blog is a place for me to look at all the things I've made for the last 13 years. I wouldn't be true to myself to not have the ugly cards posted too. Creative Memories sticker borders. Sizzix die cut. Distress ink. I added a sentiment over the wrinkle in the die cut.

Stampin Up-polka dot paper. Tag Creative Memories. Spellbinders doily die cut. Thanks for looking.

Pink with Hidden White Border Punches card

The Recollections patterned paper is die cut out with a die from Lawn Fawn. The happy die cut is by Clearly Besotted and the word birthday is fun foam that was die cut out with a Papertrey Ink die.

The border punch is by Fiskars. The white on white really gives it a hidden element. Finishing up, I added a rhinestone to the i because I lost the original dot. Thank you for looking.

Pink Love you a Latte by Lawn Fawn Just a note card

I made the background of my card by using a Stampin Up background stamp, see below and then the coffee beans and hearts from a Lawn Fawn stamp set. I water-colored the coffee cup and the donut. The donut has sprinkles on top. The scallop circle die cuts are by Spellbinders with the pink patterned paper by Recollections. The Just a Note sentiment by Spellbinders was all connected but to keep it in the circle I cut it apart. In retrospect, I should have cut out the A and had the other two words separate. I put a rhinestone on the J and scattered a few small pink hearts by Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping by.

"Winter is Here" January Snow cards

Thanks for looking.

Colorful options Challenge Winter Blues

I turned a Fan into Butterfly on my Scalloped Circle Card

This card base is pre-made by Recollections. I inked the whole thing with distress ink and sprayed it with Dylusions golden mist. The main butterfly is a fan that I cut in half. The fan die cut has been in my stash for years and I  wanted to get rid of it. There was a challenge to use something Japanese and so I came up with this idea. The rhinestones and other green butterflies are f rom my stash. The sentiment die cut is by Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for looking. Warning, I have a lot of Christmas cards coming up in the next few weeks..