Orange and Yellow Thank You card

Start with a piece of Ranger watercolor paper and stamp a Hero Arts background stamp with Versa Mark ink to heat emboss it with white embossing powder. Slide mini distress ink pads over the top of the embossed background. Spray with water, dab with a paper towel and let dry. Die cut two yellow squares, two smaller orange squares and the medallion out of black cardstock using the Cricut and cartridge Art Philosophy. Die cut the sentiment die by Clearly Besotted and adhere all dies together as shown.Once background is dry adhere die cuts to the panel and the panel to a pre-made white card base 5 ½ x 4 by Recollections. 

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Choose your Path Graduation Card

Graduation card using:

Die cut by Cricut and Art philosophy cartridge 

Sentiment Unity Stamps 

Distress ink 

Patterned paper by The Paper Studio 

Corner rounder by Creative memories

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Any Occasion card

I'm in need of many thank you cards these days with the death in our family and the many nice things people did before and after his passing.

 For this card, I used an old embellishment to create the center point. The shape is cut by Cricut, Art Philosophy cartridge, with white and a rough purple paper by DCWV. Center flower is felt by Little yellow Bicycle. Flowers on top are old punches by Marvy. Flourish stamp and matching Die by Sizzix. Blue ink by Colorbox. Purple cardstock by Recollections embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Stamps on the ends by TPC Studio with Hero Arts ink.

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Manly Monday Birthday Plane

Sorry for the delay. My Manly Monday card uses a Sizzix Plane stamp, stamped in black, and cut out with matching oval die. I cut out the shape in the center with the Cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge. That cartridge has some great shapes that don't require a ton of layering. I cut black paper to go on top of blue Creative Memories patterned paper. 

The next layer of paper is by Basic Grey and it is matted onto black cardstock (Recollections). The final layer is Coredinations frosted blue cardstock before adhering it to a white card base. The birthday stamp is by Stampin Up. I really took a chance on the sentiment. I had everything, and I do mean everything done with this card except the sentiment. I practiced many times before I got the courage to stamp it onto my card........and it turned out great or I should say, good enough for me. I hope you like it.

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Baby Brother Layout

Today I have layout for you and this one is from my nephew's book. The top patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The word paper is a scrap from a friend and he bottom paper is by Coredinations. It had a really cool frosted look on the front but the back of the paper matched what I was doing better. 

The tag is a Cricut cut with the cartridge Don Juan and the tabs are size 1.5 by Art Philosophy. The cardstock for those cuts is by Recollections. On the tag I stamped a Hero Arts background stamp with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with white MyStamp Box embossing powder. I inked the tag with distress ink before setting a blue eyelet in the hole. After it dried I adhered felt numbers on it. The baby bingo is a Lindsay's Stamp Stuff digital stamp. The word brother is a Doodlebug thingy. The baby bottle sticker is by Frances Meyer.

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Butterfly Birthday Card

I made this card when I was selling them at a store and it was for a granddaughter.  Well since I will never have one I changed it into a birthday card, which I'm always in need of. The butterflies patterned paper is by K and Co. and the vine and leaves on the side are a Cricut cut from Art Philosophy. There is a brown piece of cardstock at the bottom to hold down the lace . I folded the lace on top of each other like a pleat and secured it down with Modge Podge and a foam brush. The foam brush had blue-ish ink remnants on it which is what I get for not cleaning my brushes when I'm finished. The sentiment is by Fiskars.

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Beerfest Calendar Layout

I have a calendar layout to share today. Every year I make calendars for the family and one for the cottage. The one for the cottage is only allowed to have cottage pictures. "Beerfest" photos are only made while at the cottage. Here's the scoop there's a yearly event called BeerFest and it's here in Beer City USA, Grand Rapids, MI. One year on a cold February day the guys went to the event. They loved it and wanted to make it a yearly event. Next year when they went to buy tickets the event SOLD OUT in less than an hour. IKR-Holy Cow!
So, They started their own Beerfest event at our cottage. I find that better for everyone. I will babble for a moment (I'm timing myself). I was the one that had to pick them up in Grand Rapids. They were so drunk and so was every single one of the idiots staggering across the streets without looking. I lost two. They took off like some little kids at a grocery store. And the other drunks didn't know where they went but maybe across the street. Oh great. That's a four-lane street that in 55 MPH and one of the two lost, yup you guessed it, my husband.
Time's up. Doing this "event" at my cottage is better because everyone has a place to go inside and sleep or pass out.
The snowflake background is a Cricut cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I made it very large to fit the page. The blue background paper by Sunborn. Beer mug stamp, brown ink, and speckled cardstock by SU with the letter stamps by Lawn Fawn and black Hero Arts ink. I bought the tags at Walmart and they are by Forever in Time.

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Pretty Tag Embellishments

This first embellishment is a Spellbinders rectangle die that I stamped with an Anna Griffin background stamp with Colorbox pigment ink. I stamped the flower (Stampin Up) and used the matching punch to cut it out. I also used that same punch for a piece of foam to adhere together with the stamped image. I layered the circles together and placed the flower on top. I added an American Crafts pennant to use as a place to add the date.

In this second one, I die-cut the two layers using my Cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge. On the bottom layer, I stamped a Hero Arts background with Versa Mark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. On the die cut closer to the top I wrapped navy ribbon around it and tied it into a bow. 

I thought it needed a little bit more so I dug around in my goodies and came across the Hero Arts stamped love flower on a circle die cut. I added a scallop punch (Stampin Up) out of Die Cuts with a View patterned paper behind it. I set a purple-ish-colored eyelet in the center and adhered it down.

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My method of taking pictures back then gave terrible resolution. So the original is clearer than the extra-large view of the tags.

Christmas Card Layout of Michelle 2014

I have another layout for my Christmas Card book to share today. On this layout, I started with Recollections sparkly silver and green cardstock. I die cut the green shape and the letters with my Cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge. The number die cuts are white glitter paper (Recollections)  and behind the numbers is a piece of peachy/pink cardstock.

The swirl under the year and small circles on the right and left points of the green die cut are fabric stickers and by Little Yellow Bicycle. There's a chipboard arrow sticker to the top right of the photo to draw your attention to the cut-out from the greeting of their card. 

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Friend Michelle Christmas Card Layout

My layout today is one for the Christmas card book(s) that I'm always working on. I'm a little behind with these books but they are a work in progress. I've noticed people are sending less and less cards these days which makes me think this book series could come to an end one of these years. Big bummer. I really like seeing their kids grow from year to year.

The background paper is unknown but the paper for the die cuts are by Hot off the press. I welded the leaves together in Cricut Craft Room from the Art Philosophy cartridge. The poinsettias flowers are by Prima and I've placed a enamel dot in the center. The cream colored enamel dots are by Fiskars and the pinkish ones are by Cloud 9. The bird sticker is by American Crafts, the ribbon by Offray and the 2013 is cut out using the same cartridge as mentioned above. 

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Skating into Christmas

Christmas will be here before we know it so I've started working on them. This one uses the Deep Red Stamps Ice Skates stamp. I stamped it with Memento black ink and colored it in with Copic markers. I fussy cut the skates out best I could and then ran a black marker around the edges. 

I cut the layered die cut the image is on with my Cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge. The cream cardstock is by Bazzil and the burgundy by The Paper Company. The center paper is by Die Cuts with a View. The sentiment is a gold sticker by Mark Enterprises. They look really old.

The background of my card is an old Christmas card that was given to a friend and she in turn gave to me. I do love to recycle or would it be called upcycle-who knows. I just love to give old things new life.

This picture shows part of the Christmas card that I cut off in order to fit on a 4 x 5 1/2 pre made card base.

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Friends Stencil Card

For my card today, I used a metal stencil and applied Dreamweaver Stencils white embossing paste over it. After the paste dried, I placed the stencil over the word and covered it with silver powdered chalk. The die cut is a Cricut cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge that I inked with Broken China distress ink (Ranger). The black cardstock, flower and the flower's glittery center are by Recollections. The edges of the black cardstock have been die cut with a Sizzix die, and then, over those scalloped edges, is a Memory Box die cut.

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Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 4 + Giveaway

Welcome back to day 4 of the Deep Red Stamps and Xyron blog hop.

I made a layout for my nephew's scrapbook using:

Liberty Bell rubber stamp by Deep Red Stamps 

Xyron Create-a-Sticker 250 for the fireworks, the tabs along the inside of the bottom two photos and on the liberty bell.

I started with a white piece of cardstock, glimmer mist (Tattered Angels), Smooch spray ink (Clearsnap) and a star stencil (The Crafter's Workshop). I masked off a portion of the cardstock and sprayed the blue ink over the stencil and then the red. You can see at the top where I did the masking and I didn't like the separation line of the two colors. It was too bold and I wanted a more airy feel to it. From there I sprayed some more ink and inked the edges with distress ink and an ink blending tool (Ranger). 

I die cut the fireworks from my Cricut (Ultimate Series cartridge) using blue cardstock (Stampin Up) and red sparkle paper (Recollections). The tabs are also die cuts from my Cricut (Art Philosophy cartridge) and I adhered a date sticker (SRM Stickers) and a 4th of July sticker (The Paper Studio). The photo mats are patriotic theme cards for pocket scrapbooking (Project Life). All the corners of the pictures and the white background paper were rounded (Creative Memories) to match the PL mats. I did not round the corners of the blue background paper (Prima) because I didn't want the other layout to show through. Hope that made sense.

The Liberty Bell is stamped onto off white cardstock (Recollections) with a grey shadow ink (Hero Arts). I inked the edges of the stamped image to match the edges of the background paper. The red mat behind the stamp is red (Stampin Up) with a very gold sparkle to it. I sprayed the red with a mix of gold Perfect Pearls (Ranger) and water. It's so pretty I hated to cover it up.

Giveaway Time!

Be sure to comment on this post and the previous posts from this week:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

For your chance to win a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

There are other Xyron designers participating today and each of them have a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

Shellye McDaniel - http://www.shellyemcdaniel.com/

Amanda Vasquez - http://artsymomma.com/
Roni-Ink Stains

Good luck to everyone and thank you for stopping by.

Manly Monday Moose

For my Manly Monday card I used a sample from a furniture store. It was cut with pinking shears on both sides and I trimmed the top and bottom so it looks like it is frayed. The die cuts the moose stamp (SU) is on are by Spellbinders. I inked the inside of the white die cut with Tea Dye distress ink and an ink blending tool both by Ranger. The cardstock used on this card are all by Recollections and the background paper is unknown. The tag is a Cricut cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge and the baker's twine is by Fashion Naturals (dollar store). The sentiment is by Just Right stamps and the ink in both stamps is Chocolate Chip by Stampin Up.

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Sneaker Calendar Layout

I made this layout for a calendar and now that I look at it, I think it needed a title. But honestly, I don't think my brother would really notice or care. This is my nephew and niece with my sister's dog. 

The background paper is by Hot off the Press and the purple paper at the bottom is by Sunborn. I made the swirl at the bottom with an old Creative Memories trimmer thingy. The patterned paper at the way the bottom is by Colorbok and it has been punched with a Stampin Up border punch. 

In black by the picture is a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die that I cut in half to place on each side of the photo. The die outside that is a Cricut cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I know the shadow paper is by Die Cuts with a View. I would guess that all the cardstock on this layout would be by Recollections. 

The cute sneaker ribbon is by Offray. I have to tell you when my mom gave the ribbon to me I was like-ummmmm....what the heck am I going to use this on? Well... crazy enough when I saw this picture the first thing that stood out to me was their shoes. So.....Ta-da! Enter the crazy ribbon from my crazy mother. Crazy runs in our family! Lol

 

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Scrapbook.com-Cricut challenge with a twist of an animal

Celebrate with Schlitz

Today's wacky holiday is Old Stuff Day so what a great day to do a bottle cap card. This Schlitz cap has been manually depressed by my husband. I'm not sure how he does it but the caps usually pass my quality control. I glued the cap onto a light brown cardstock circle punch by EK Success. I used Glossy Accents to adhere the cap to the cardstock by putting the adhesive on the caps highest points that will be in contact with the cardstock and then I set a punch on top of it to dry. I usually do a bunch at a time and sometimes forget that I'm doing that project. I'll see my punches all over my tabletop and start putting them away until I notice what is underneath. Silly.

The light brown cardstock as the background is cardstock by Sunborn. I stamped it with circle stamps by Stampin Up and then inked the edges with distress ink and an ink blender. The middle kraft cardstock is by Oriental Trading Co. The canvas stamp is also by SU and I ripped the edges of the cardstock at the top  and bottom. The bottle cap is secured to a Spellbinders die cut out of Bazzill cardstock . The same cardstock was used on the sentiment but for this die cut I used my Cricut and the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. The sentiment stamp is by Fiskars.

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My Utah Family's 2011 Christmas Card Layout

This is a Christmas card from my Aunt and her family for another layout in my Christmas card books. She actually sent two cards which worked out great since the letter was on the backside of the photo. I had to trim everything down but I made it work for this 8.5 x 11 size paper. The patterned papers are by Me and My Big Ideas, Sunborn, and Craft Smith. The cardstock is by Recollections and the number stickers are by Me and My Big Ideas. I used the Cricut to for my die cuts. The Cricut Craft Room has a freebie in there called Cricut Fonts and Basic Shapes. The circle on the top left is an uppercase O that I cut out with the outline tab. The tabs that I wrote on are from the Art Philosophy cartridge. The buttons are from my stash and the marker I used to write on the tabs is by CM.

SB.com Scrap with Scraps

SB.com Cricut cuts the two tabs and the circle on the left upper corner

Grand Divas-Sketch-THIS ONE CLOSED IN 2018 AND THE ONE BELOW IN 2017 BUT BOTH OF THE SITES HAVE GOOD LO'S TO CHECK OUT.

Picture This-Photos, buttons, scraps, and die cuts

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Inked Background Layout

Still working on my Christmas card scrapbook. I'm into 2013 with this family so I'm getting closer. The background paper was white with all these snowflakes heat embossed on it. I brought in distress ink color Fired Brick slowly and carefully in order to achieve the darker edges and lighter center. Then I sprayed the paper with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. I know it's two guys and guys don't like sparkle but it's my book and I like sparkle.

The rest of the layout follows a sketch at Stick it down, see below. The polka dot and green word patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View. The red cardstock in back is by Coredinations and the green paper matted behind the photo is an old journal box from Creative Memories. To finish, the washi tape down the left side is by Darice, the border sticker with snowflakes is by K and Co and the 2013 is cut from my Cricut Art Philospohy cartridge.

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http://stickitdown.blogspot.ca/-Sketch

Cousins 2013

Here again with another layout for my Christmas card book. I don't even feel like I'm making a dent in it but I'll keep plugging away it and hopefully I can feel more accomplished by the end of the next week.

This layout follows a sketch from Sketches in Thyme, which you can see below. The patterned paper, hay chipboard and all cardstock in the layout are by Recollections. The green and blue larger elements were cut out by my Cricut and the cartridge was Art Philosophy by CTMH. The alphabet letters are die cuts by what use to be Quickutz. The sparkle circle stickers are by Foreveer in Time and the vellum sentiments are by Quick Quotes. The smaller circles at the top are Spellbinders dies.

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http://sketchesinthyme.blogspot.com/ Sketch Week 2

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/ Lots of layers
http://open-mindedcraftingfun.blogspot.ca/ Kids just want to have fun
http://anythingbutacard.blogspot.ca/ Anything but a card
http://crafting-with-friends.blogspot.co.uk/ AG