Floral Friday Alcohol Inks and Sunflower Card

I made this background with alcohol inks.This lovely sunflower found its way onto my desk and it matched the paper just beautifully. I added Stickles to random areas of the flower to give it some sparkle. I had some rub ons of a straight stitch in the yellow-orange color.

 The last thing I did was glue on the “happy” sentiment die cut by Clearly Besotted and when I was doing that the glue got all over the letters. To fix it, I brushed gold Perfect Pearls over the letters.

The flower stamp is by Stampendous. They went out of business in September of 2022, Please correct me if I’m wrong. 

Why is this important? I’m going to tell you. I purchased the dies  because they were less than a dollar. I was going to look around for the matching stamps. It never occurred to me that the company would go out of business and I wouldn’t be able to get them anymore. Having the dies was a bit pointless until a friend shared with me to color copy the images on the package to use with the dies. I didn’t know you could do that after the company went out of business. Kick butt!

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Upcycled inside sentiments on Christmas cards

The sentiment is an upcycled inside of a Christmas card that I layered it onto patterned paper by K and i and by Bo Bunny. I colored the Holly and berries with Copic markers.

The sentiment was die cut by Spellbinders and then inked the edges with distress ink. The striped patterned paper is unknown but the red patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The Santa stamp was black heat embossed and colored in. 

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Floral Friday Sending You a Hug

Last summer I had two big spine surgeries. So before I went into surgery #2 I started stamping everything that could keep my attention. I thought that It would give me something to color while in recovery and then give me some backgrounds to pair up with the images. 

This background is one of them. I used a lighter pink ink with a simple Stampin Up background stamp onto white cardstock. 

The die cut is by Couture Creations. The cardstock is a glimmering pink cardstock from a holiday pack by Sizzix. I stamped a Stampendous sentiment onto white cardstock with a grey color ink. Then I took my Creative Memories square punch and made the sentiment look good before adhering it to the center of the die cut. 

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April Calendar Layout Brian and bowling.

Confession, I totally cut myself out of the picture. My face was spread out because of the way that I was standing and leaning forward onto my bag. You can see me. My arm is in a blue shirt on the right side. Anyway, the bowling patterned paper is by Karen Foster. The other patterned paper is Harley Davidson paper made by EK Success. I liked the flames in the paper because they matched the blue bowling shirts. The title is a sticker by Stickibilities. The side border is made up of bowling ball stickers by Scrappin Sports and More, SMR Stickers, and someone else. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for looking and listening. 

My husband took the picture of my brother because he is drinking coffee out of an Old Kent Bank cup at a bowling alley around the corner from the house we grew up  My Mom worked for OKB for 30+years. 

It hasn’t been called OKB in over 20 years. So for them to have the coffee cup with the bank’s logo on it was enough for my husband to take a picture of my brother with the cup he stole from the bowling alley for sentimental reasons. LOL. 

Thank You for Hawaii with Hibiscus Flower

Hi. I stamped the hibiscus stamp by Deep Red Stamps with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with platinum embossing powder by Ranger. The red die cut is by Gina Marie. The thank you die cut is from my stash. 

I made the background paper with blue distress inks and foam applicator using a wavy mask at different angles on white paper. I put a little ink here, then moved the mask and put a little bit of ink there. It creates white space and with the blue it looks like waves. I lamely tried to add in some brown distress ink at the bottom to resemble the sand. I hate it but not enough to redo it. 

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Crafting Godess Card Fun Fold card

I made this birthday card using sparkly cardstock by Sizzix and ephemera die cuts by Stamps and Scrapbook Expo. It’s called Crop Kit. I’m not sure where they came from but they made a cute birthday card for a crafty friend. Fun fold cards are such a joy to make. I think to myself, “I made that card”. 

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April Calendar Layout Sunflowers and Audrey

The green patterned paper is by Sunborn. The green cardstock is the other side of that patterned paper. The woodgrain patterned paper is by Pebbles. 

The sunflower stamp is by Stampin Up. I added gold and bronze Perfect Pearls to the flower and fussy cut it out. I stamped the leaf in a green ink by SU. 

For the blue sky, I used distress ink as the base and then added some translucent paint mixed with a powdered chalk which is like Perfect Pearls.

I imagined the patterned paper look like tall green leaves and the woodgrain look like the steps.

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Silver and Muted Red Christmas Card

  My Christmas card has a few layers. The layer closest to the card base is a pearlescent red by Coordinations. The gray with red stripes is the backside of a journaling card by Teresa Collins. The red die cut with silver marker outline was made with my Cricut and silver metallic pen. The white die cut is by Spellbinders. The “Joy” card is from a We R Members Keepers 6x6 paper pad. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Big Blue Birthday Cake Card

I cut the cake out with my Cricut. The background was stenciled using distress ink and The Crafter’s Workshop 12x12 stencil. Then for whatever reason I covered part of the background with China Blue distress oxide. (It looks okay.) 

I added Smooch ink to the flames of the candles. The card front panel is size 4x5.5. The card base was 4.5x5.5. I cut the front and then adhered a piece of blue cardstock on the inside of the inside of the card.

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Cynthia’s BIG Teal N Pink Birthday Card

This is a big card. I took a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of white cardstock and folded it in half. Then I started my layering. First, a piece of bright pink cardstock. Then a striped piece of vintage wrapping paper. Followed by a blue patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. 

To finish up, I found the blue scallop square in butterfly in my stash. I added a “happy” die cut by Lawn Fawn and the “birthday” die cut by Clearly Besotted. 

The lady I made this card for has  macular degenerative disease. Her daughter requested cards to be large and have larger fonts.

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Floral Friday background with Brads Card

I love this card. I finally used my Distress Crayons to make the yellow colored background. Then to finish the look of the background I stamped it twice with a Love Nicole small dot background stamp. 

The die cut is by Ultimate Crafts. I didn’t like the red color of the red paper so I inked it with a Simon Says Stamp ink pad. It took a bit to dry before I could adhere it to the background. Once I did I set some flower brads in the centers of the flowers of the die cut. 

Next, I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of buttercream cardstock

with black ink. I adhered it in the center of the card front and tada! The End!

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Life’s a Beach Stampendous Shell Stamp card

Hi-de-ho! My card has no patterned paper. I made them all by myself.starting with the sunshine that I made with the edge of a distress ink pad on white paper. Then I adhered that piece to a piece of cream cardstock. Finally, I ripped the right side of those two papers.

I made the bottom paper look like sand with distress ink and a sponge dobber. I tore the right side and of that paper and then adhered it under the white cardstock. I stamped the shell and sentiment from Stampendous on white cardstock. You can see the starfish’s leg went off onto the cream cardstock. I stamped the sentiment underneath. It is also by Stampendous.

The card base is peach cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my card.

April Calendar Layout Callie’s matching clothes.

This is a very plain layout with scraps of cardstock and a little piece of Bo Bunny patterned paper. The embellishments are stickers from my stash. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Turtle Card

This card started with this cute turtle die cut that was a gift from a seller on Mercari. I made the background with distress ink and a piece of paper as a mask. The green frame was a negative to a rectangle. The paper is by Color Aid. The picture shows what a mess it is underneath. I had to die cut some waves to put on top of the green frame.

The dark blue waves are the negative K and Co paper which you can see in the picture on the right. It’s a beach/travel scallop shaped paper and I’ve used the side where you tear the paper off of the pad as waves. Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of your week.