Manly Monday Books at a Coffee shop card

This card is for Craft Roulette card #213

Project: Hello card

Colors: Robust-my online resources said browns, dull orange, dull yellow, and grey
Element: Workplace people at work drink lots of coffee 

Random: Mixed media -Copic markers, background stamp, and using wallpaper.

 I made the background using a background stamp by Stampin Up with Hero Arts ink. The book stamp is by Darice and is colored in with Copic markers. Then I fussy cut the image. 

The brown and blue square dies were bought off eBay. The interesting look to them is because there was already a hole in the center of the blue square. So when I lined up the squares there was a funky look to it.

The “Hello” sentiment and the border dies are by Spellbinders. The side border is made from wallpaper samples.

 The rust-colored sticker dividing the stamped area and the border is by Creative Memories, I’m using up some oldies but goodies.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Thanks a Melon

I made this card for Craft Roulette #223 

Sentiment by Stamps for Life.

Watermelon border stickers by Doodlebug Designs. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Let’s Play Poker cards

The background paper is by Karen Foster. I die cut the hands from two different poker Cricut image sets. The simplest one is from an Old West image set. I had to put black and red cardstock behind the appropriate playing cards. The coin embellishment is from Me and My Big Ideas.

The other card has a more elaborate looking poker hand and it can be found in Cricut Design Space Father’s Day image set. I added a blue and read border sticker by Creative Memories only the width of the patterned paper and a second one below it spanning the entire card width. I needed a sentiment and so I found a sticker sentiment in my stash. I put it in between the two border stickers with a sticker dot in between the two words.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day.

September calendar Layout with Dad and Pam

I used a border punch by EK Success and did one side and the title was cut out with my Cricut. The circle was dry embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I inked it with distress ink and then sprayed it with water mixed with gold Perfect Pearls. I cut off the bottom of another circle the same size and adhered it to this one. I then used a border sticker and placed it over the seam. The die cuts are by Recollections.

Thanks for looking.

Happy Holidays card with a wheel stamp border

The patterned paper in the center is by Sunborn. The red borders are stickers by Creative Memories. The patterned paper on top is unknown. the drool mark is by my dog, Rusty. I should probably cover it up unless you didn't see it until I pointed it out. The wheel stamp border on the right is by Stampin Up. The sentiment sticker is intended to go inside a bottle cap. Thanks for looking.

A picture of the card after a few additional stickers to get rid of the bad water spot. I don’t like it with the stickers but too late now. 

Thanks for looking. 

Black and Pink Humming Bird Card

The Patterned paper by My Mind's Eye (Lost and Found-Madison Ave). The border is by Making Memories. The bird stamp is by Close to my Heart. I kept the outside just like that and put a T.O.Y sentiment on the inside. (T.O.Y is thinking of you). Thanks for Looking.
I'm entering the following challenges
Penny's Paper-Challenge

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.

Manly Monday Red Car with border stickers Card

The car image is from a Crate Paper paper pad. The border stickers are from Creative Memories. The sentiment is from Stampin Up. The papers are from my stash, aka I don’t know or remember. Thanks for looking. 

Dog Sending Happy Mail cards

I stamped the Stampin Up dog stamp on white cardstock and colored him in with colored pencils. I then used a square punch to cut him out and distressed the edges with distress ink.
He is on top of a Spellbinders die cut, on top of a Sizzix die-cut, and then the negative of a Cricut. circle

The pink pack background paper is a Project Life

The triangle around the dog is by Mrs. Grossman's
The sentiment is all by Lawn Fawn

Another card of the same dog

tHANKS FOR LOOKING.
Craft Rocket Challenge use dies

Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Woodgrain

I made these cards using the Deep ReD stamps 

Weathered Wall

Cornucopia Stamp

I heat embossed the weathered wall stamp. I had to stamp it twice to fit on the cardstock. I used my MISTI and I was successful. I used Peerless Watercolors to color in the cornucopia.

They are so messy because I kept falling asleep while painting these. I would wake up and the paintbrush would be in the wrong spot for that color or on the outside of the image. I used paper towels to get rid of the access but it didn't always save the image. Oh well. I think they still look nice...from a distance. lol

The red border and brown border sticker are by Creative Memories and Yellow unknown.

The border die is by Tim Holtz

This is the size of the weathered wall stamp and the size of the cardstock. You can tell that the MISTI really came through for me when it came to perfectly lining up the image. 

Thank you for looking.

Here are a few previous posts that go along with these two.

Cornucopia Cricut card

Woodgrain background example
Another ATC woodgrain example

Old time Cornucopia card from 2014

Example from Nov 2012

A Deep Red Stamps Gold Wedding Card

Today's card features this Crochet background stamp by Deep Red Stamps. I heat embossed the background stamp with gold embossing powder by Stamp N Plus. I did have to stamp it twice, once on the top and again on the bottom of the card base, to cover the card front and because I didn't line them up perfectly. I used some gold cardstock to separate the two halves. I cut a Little Yellow Bicycle doily in half and covered the seam/edge with a Mrs.Grossman's border sticker. The flower sticker is by K and Co and then the word stickers are by Bo Bunny.

Thanks for looking.

Halloween tags

For my tags today, I did the same design but slightly different supplies. I taught a class that featured this design of tag and two other fall cards. They are different because I didn't actually finish either tag while teaching. Just parts of one and parts of the other. Once I returned home I finished things up a bit.

I'll start with the first one which is dry embossed with a Fiskars embossing plate. I then inked the edges with Ranger distress ink using an ink blender tool. I love that look:)

On the left side I fit a piece of black cardstock to the tag and then used the patterned washi tape to finish the edge. The pumpkin border is by K and Co and I cut small pieces of black cardstock to paste behind the border for the eyes and mouths before adhering it to my tag. The center die cut is by Quickutz with Bazzill purple cardstock, the owl sticker is by Bo Bunny, and the bat sticker by Jolee's.

For the second tag, I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder and a bit lighter color distress ink for the edges. The black cardstock and different patterned washi tape are on the left side just like above. I did the same technique with the glittery skull border placing cardstock behind to make the eyes and nose appear orange. 

For the center I used a Spellbinders scallop die cut and a square punch by Creative Memories for my spider stamp by Inkadinkadoo stamped with black Hero Arts ink. The orange ribbon is a scrap from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I'll be back again tomorrow with another Halloween creation. I hope you will come back and check it out.

Challenges:

Still running

http://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/- Halloween
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/- Halloween or colors 

Links where challenge closed but has good examples linked. 

http://createdwithlovechallenges.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/- Halloween

Below are challenges that are no longer challenges.

http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/- Halloween anything goes

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/- Halloween

http://paradeyourcrafts.blogspot.com/- Halloween

http://stampandcreateblog.blogspot.com/- Fall or Halloween

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/- Halloween tags 2016

http://crazychallenge.blogspot.com/- B is for Bat

http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes

http://creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/- Halloween

Thecupboardtrilogychallenges.blogspot.com Halloween/fall 2015

Totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com No squares allowed

craftindesertdivas.com Anything goes

Bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/-Orange, purple and black 2016

Allwayssomethingcreative.blogspot.com Autumn and Halloween gone

No longer a card site

clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/- Halloween 

lovesrubberstampschallenges.com-Halloween 

blog.ribboncarousel.com/- Fall and Halloween

http://www.2creativechicks.com/- Halloween 

UPDATED LINKS, LABELS, AND PICTURES.10-25-21 
IT WAS A TON OF WORK.
Quick note, when I enlarged the tags they were really blurry. So I kept the original and enlarged one.