December CaleNdar Layout wearing Shorts in winter

I made the mistake of asking him what he thought of this layout to which he replied why do you do you have Santa heads with shorts? I didn't think it mattered because I mostly go by colors in the photos and this worked.

The Santa paper is by My Mind's Eye. The whistle was made with my Cricut. The green corners are a square cut corner to corner. The words were made with letter stamps from OTC.

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Manly Monday Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Green with Stars Card

Merry Christmas. This is a fatter slimline card with Basic Grey patterned paper and DCWV green opulent cardstock. I stamped this old sentiment stamp from my stash onto a Dreamweaver Stencils die cut. The jute is by Tim Holtz. The stars are the bits that fell out of a Marvy corner punch. 

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Deep Red Stamps City Girl News Flash

For my card today, I have a City Girl stamp by Deep Red Stamps. She was stamped with Memento black ink and colored in with Copic markers. The teal papers came dry embossed and the sentiment sticker is by Close to My Heart.  Thanks for looking 

Manly Monday Blues and Greens Christmas card

 The background paper is by Stampin Up. I dry embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder by Cuttlebug. Then I lightly inked the raised area with distress ink. The plaid background stamp is by Just Rite stamps. I inked it with a bunch of different ink colors because I was testing the ink pads on a mint colored cardstock and ended up liking it. I inked the edges before taping it down. 

The tree stamp is by Cloud Nine. I stamped and colored it in with Peerless Watercolors. After that, it was off to the die cut using a Spellbinders die. I inked blue to look like the sky and then Stickles to look like snow.

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Floral Friday Christmas Cricut Slimline card

Slimline cards are a challenge for me. I feel like there’s so much wasted space yet if you fill it up, it’s just too much. 

The background patterned paper is by Bo Bunny.  The poinsettia is a Cricut die cut (Image set called Christmas Noel).

 

I dry embossed one of the layers of the poinsettia with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before adding Stickles to the petals.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts; I heat embossed it in gold and then colored in the frame with a mixture of paint and chalk. The ric rack is from my mother-in-law‘s stash.

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December Calendat Layout Pink Christmas

Before:

Above is the before and below is the after. I felt like it needed something more. I could have done a title but didn’t think of it. The embellishment isn’t that big of a difference but it enabled me to use one of the many baby stickers that I have. The patterned paper is pink color that matches two of their tops. 

The borders are by K and Co.

And after:

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Manly Monday Simple Christmas card

I recycled the image/sentiment from a Christmas card and then matted it onto another recycled piece of packaging. The next layer is a journal card by…My Mind’s Eye. The background paper is by Creative Memories. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Coral Floral Card

The patterned papers are by My Mind’s Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Gray. The sentiment by Hero Arts is stamped onto a Martha Stewart label sticker. The flowers are by Prima and brads probably from Making Memories.

Papers are same as above. The sentiment stamp by Hero Arts is stamped with Versa Fine black ink on a scrap of paper that has powdered chalk on it. It punched out beautifully using an oval punch by Marvy. The sentiment stands out from the white flowers most of which are by Prima. Thanks for looking.

The above photo is the rough draft of the 2nd card. I like what I went with. Thanks for looking.

Craft Roulette Fabric Wreath card

I have another fabric card to join the many others that I have made. These are squares of fabric that my Mother cut out for her potholders. She had heat and bond on the back so once I inherited them all I had to do was iron them onto the paper of my choice. This time it was a Spellbinders die cut. Then the background paper is by Creative Memories. The gold papers by Sizzix are supposed to resemble a present. 

As you read in the title, this card is for my new obsession called Craft Roulette. Check out the video that I linked below.

Craft Roulette 192 parameters were: a thank you card. I thank my Mom for cutting these out for me to use after she was gone. Colors-Farmers Market. Our farmers have apple farms, hence the green and red. Yard-the green in my wreath looks like grass . Confetti-the red berries in the wreath but now that I look at it the confetti could be the patterned paper.

Check out Craft Roulette on Fridays and then on they have a show on Tuesday.

December calendar layout Discover Cruise ship

Quilted Patterned paper gatefold card

I have a simple gatefold card with a belly band. It features green woodgrain washi tape. The die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The patterned paper is by October Afternoon. The center of the band is a stamp that I stamped with a new to me ink pad that was juicy. It was too juicy. So I used White pigment ink on a cotton ball and tapped around the shape. This gave it a cloudy look, but good look. Idk what kind of card this will be. But it’s okay to have options where I can add a sentiment later.

Another example using the same paper 

Quilted paper for Thank you cards

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November calendar layout remembering Jodi

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Who was Jodi? My Mom called Jodi my brother’s “lady friend”. Jodi passed away on January 10th, 2018 from an accidental overdose. These pictures are representations of her, her dog Chloe, who passed away in 2022 and the sweatshirt with her son’s business on the back. The sweatshirt finally fits my niece. 

The bone background paper and the strip of patterned paper are and on the right side are unknown. (The Paper Studio-maybe) The yellow borders were from a paper pad by Die Cuts with a View. The butterfly sentiment and wings were made on my Cricut. The little butterfly to the lower right is a Memory Box die cut. RIP stickers and Chloe was stamped. It seemed appropriate to post this on my birthday, I miss her so much. Thanks for looking.

Christmas Ornaments Card

I fussy cut these ornaments from patterned paper by The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. I then added Stickles to their design. I used my sewing machine to quickly sew the lines in to look like they are hanging down. The Hero Arts sentiment stamps were stamped onto cardstock and cut them out to fit the card’s design.

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Here are some other Christmas cards that have sewing on them. Keep in mind that these are OLD cardso

Purple snowflake card

3rd card down (I hand sewed the floss into the holes of the border punch.)

Pink Christmas 

2010 pink card

Scrapbook layout

Rock n roll

Manly Monday Green Rub on background

Craft roulette

Parameters

Project- A2

Color: Forest ColorS

Element- Starts with “H”

Random -Postage stamp

The background paper is watercolor paper by Strathmore. The pattern is a sheet of rub ons that I don’t know of any other way to use them. It would be a lot of work and frustration to get a little circle out of the center.

Anyway, I inked the background with green distress ink, sprayed the paper with regular water on it and wiped it off with a paper towel. That made the white stand out in the images. 

The Hero Arts sentiment was white heat embossed onto black cardstock and the layered onto Spellbinders die cut. The little tags were part of a prize and here’s a link to Layle by Mail. 

That’s it for me. Complaining—>I have so many things to do and not enough healthy days to do them. But, I woke up this morning and that’s a win. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday black and teal

The leaves are the negative pieces from a die cut by Simply Refinded. The flower stamp in the middle of the circle is by Hampton Arts. The stamp is unknown. Thanks for looking.

November Calendar Layout The Last Supper

I started with brown patterned paper by Creative Memories and then added the Making Memories floral paper  on top. The teal paper is unknown. 

The leaves are stickers. The title Grateful by K and Co. is a sticker on top of a Spellbinders die that I inked the inside before taking it out of the die. The flower in the brown square (by K and Co. too) is a sticker layered on top of teal square punch and a bigger brown square punches by Creative Memories.

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Cricut patterned background with a Butterfly Card

The background was made with a Cricut. The border punch is by Martha Stewart out of Making Memories and Sunborn patterned paper. The butterfly stamp was from Cloud 9 and I colored it in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking. 

Manly Monday Recycled Vintage Birthday card

The card above is where I started with this card…6 months ago. I final pulled it out and decided it was time to get it out and make it into a card.    

The background “paper” is the back of a die cut package by K and Co. The left side borders are just paper scraps from Die Cuts with a View and Crete Papers. The sentiment stamp is by Stampibilities from hobby lobby. All done, tada. Thanks for looking

Floral Friday framed with butterflies

Die cuts by Memory box and papers by My Mind’s Eye. Idk about the sentiment stamp. Thanks for looking.    

November Calendar Layout Good Times

with the Groh Family

I used patterned paper by K and Co, Fancy Pants Designs as well as Die Cuts with a View.

The die cuts are by Spellbinders.

I wish I could tell you exactly where the heart and the Good times stickers came from but those things are downstairs.

Intricate die-cut birthday card in Aqua

The background paper is a Project Life card. The die cut is by Simply Refined from Scrapbooking Made Simple. The cardstock is by Color-Aid. The sentiment stamp is from Michael’s dollar bin many eons ago. That die cut is by Stampendous. There is one more thing that I almost missed. There is a border stamp on cream cardstock at the bottom. It is from the Stampin Up Mosaic stamp set. It’s stamped with Hero Arts ink.

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Manly Monday Red and Black Argyle card

The argyle background is a Cricut die cut. The sentiment is by some stamp company in the basement. Hehe.

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Manly Monday EEK! Gdê

I really like the way this card came together. The little monster stamps are by Stampendous. I stamped them with black Memento ink and colored them in with Copic markers. I then took the colorless blender and pulled the color out from the monsters to make them appear fuzzy.

The window is a piece of white cardstock stamped with a Just Rite wooden background stampin brown ink. I cut the windows out using my trimmer. It’s a little bit rough but I’m okay with it. I die cut the letters and exclamation point by Sizzix. Underneath the window are three pieces of packaging I used to create my background. 

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October Calendar Layout Halloween Mickey

 This is my husband’s nephews and their wives and sons. The Mickey head was made with 3 circles of K and I patterned paper. I stamped inside the circles in the pattern. The other two pieces of paper are by Bo Bunny. The brad is by Around the Block. 

Cricut Snow Globe Christmas Card

The snow globe is a Cricut draw and cut out of textured cardstock. I colored it in with colored pencils. The background stamp is by Stampin Up. The Merry Christmas is a rub-on. The smallest snowflakes are sequins by American Crafts. I added Stickles to the star and snowflake punch. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Zombie sending hugs Card

The card above needed something…

So as you can see I started with one card and decided to go with my gut and add a zombie. Whenever in doubt add a zombie. What’s happening with me? Craft Roulette is happening to me. Mary says so many cards would not have been made if it wasn’t for Craft Roulette. The parameters are:

Make a card for a teacher-my card went to a teacher friend who has cat scratch fever.

Color-Tartan

Spring or fall scene-fall scene

Create a wrap- My fabric is ironed on and wrapped around to the back.

The red pattern is fabric and the yellow paper is old. I don’t have a clue by whom. The sentiment is an after-market set from Mercari. One of the words is spelled wrong.

Anyway, the fence die cut is unknown. I layered up 3 of the fence die cuts on top of each other for some dimension that I wouldn’t have been able to do with foam tape. This old tree die cut was cut out with my Cricut. It was out of a patterned paper so I inked it brown. I colored it with some Copic markers. The zombie stamp is from Prickly Pear. Thanks for looking. Have a great week.

Mini Happy Holidays Card for Mom

This card base is an upcycled thank you card from my Mom’s funeral memorial. It sounds morbid but my Mom would have liked that I was using them. The size is smaller 3.5 x 5 and it has dry embossing around the edges that I lightly inked with distress ink. To explain this card I’m going to start with closest layer to the card, which is a Creative Memories journal card. On top of that is blue cardstock followed by a card from a Craft Smith paper pad. I didn’t like the sentiment so I covered it up with a stamped sentiment. I’m happy with how it turned out. I have a few cards using similar products that I have to watermark. Thanks so much for taking a look at my blog.

October Calendar layout Spiderman is in Arizona

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Just For You Diagonal design

I colored this image twice and then put them in the drawer.  So this card uses cardstock by Bo Bunny and Scrapbook made Simple (Black). The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye. The sentiment is stamped Pebbles but the sentiment stamp is unknown at this time. Thanks for looking.

This card looks like the same card but I know that I just put it together.. Just for you

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. 

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