Manly Monday Baseball Cards

The bat stamp is by Stampin Up. The arrow die cut is by Clearly Besotted. It reminds me of the stitching on a baseball. 

The arrow die is by Clearly Besotted. The ball in the above card is a sticker on foam adhesive. The sticker border at the bottom is by Creative Memories. 

The borders and ball corner, as well as the bat, are by Accord Publishing. The Play stamp set is by Colorbok.. I colored in the “Play” sentiment.    

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Floral Friday Yellow n pink Basket Weave Card

The background was weaved together using paper scraps by Provo Craft, Sunborn and Creative Memories. The sentiment dies are from Clearly Besotted. The yellow flower is a stamp and matching die from Stampin Up. The pink flower is a die cut from Gemini and the smaller flower is a punch by Marvy Uchida.

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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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Cynthia’s BIG Teal N Pink Birthday Card

This is a big card. I took an 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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Manly Monday Balloon Slimline Card in greens and blues

Today, I gave this old Stampin Up stamp a new-to-me twist by using different colored inks and aligning the balloons side-by-side. I haven’t used this set in a while and the only reason I did is because I’m rearranging my room to be ergonomically correct and any stamp sets like this, ones which I haven’t used in a long time, are taking up prime real estate in my craft room. I decided to use the ones I liked or hadn’t used yet before I needed to get rid of them. 

This is a 4 x 8 1/2“ card.*

The patterned paper is by Studio G and Cosmo Cricket.

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Manly Monday layered Orange and Black Birthday card

I thought the card above was finished, but then I decided to add the plaid patterned paper behind the front card panel and liked it so much more. 

So for the new card, the patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. Birthday die by Clearly Besotted. I cut out one with orange Bazzill cardstock and another with black Recollections cardstock. When I glued them together I offset the black one under the orange.

The epoxy stickers are by Cloud 9 which is a company of Fiskars. The dotted line is made with an orange pen. Thanks for looking.

Peace and Dove Rub-On Christmas card

This is a very simple card but I like the way it turned out. The image is a rub-on by Fancy Pants. The sentiment die is by Clearly Besotted. I cut it out of 3 different colors and then offset it so each color can be seen. Thanks for looking. I'm entering the Holiday cheer challenge at

Simon Says Stamp

Floral Friday Congratulations card for Jade

CAS for the Happy Little Stampers challenge. 

Jade is a friend’s daughter who is graduating from high school and came over one day to make cards. She made one like this and my hubby and I both loved it so I made one for her. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Green Scalloped circle flowers cards

I made these cards using some busy patterned paper by using a scalloped circle punch to get the flower. The flower was lost in the patterned paper. I think it looks great on these four cards. I was happy to find that another flower left over so I could cover up the area by the diagonal sentiment. 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.

Blue and Yellow Balloon Birthday card

I’m using those Stampin Up birthday stamps again. I have a bunch of cards that I made with that stamp set and I’ve decided not to post them all at once. I find that when my posts contain a ton of cards, I don’t really look at all of the them. Lol. 

So besides the balloon stamps, I used a Lawn Fawn Happy stamp and die. The birthday die cut is by Clearly Besotted. The patterned paper is unknown. I did use my sewing machine for the strings of the balloon. Thanks for looking.

I’m entering these challenges:

Fab and funky Birthday 

Polka doodles anything goes

Manly Monday Six squares Happy Birthday Card

This one has two different woodgrain patterned papers. One from Basic Grey and the other from Studio Calico. The stamps are from the dollar bin at Michael's. The happy die is by Clearly Besotted. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Nephew's birthday card

This nephew went to U of M and the colors are similar. The draw embossing folders are Cuttlebug and Gina Marie. The die-cuts are by Spellbinders, Clearly Besotted, and Papertrey Ink. I forgot to add the dot of the "i". Thanks for looking. I'm entering the Craft Rocket Challenges-Dies

Upcycled Christmas Cards

I used store-bought cards on all of the cards in today's post. With this wreath card, I used Craft Smith patterned paper behind the image.

The ornament image in this card below is from a store-bought card. The word peace is a die-cut by Clearly Besotted. The ampere symbol is a sticker by Tim Holtz and the word love is a sticker as well.

Then these last two use old paper by Die Cuts with a View, gold paper by Creative Memories, and a sentiment generated by a computer.

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Framed flower with Lace and Ribbon Card

I know it's not Floral Friday but I made this card specifically for the challenge at 

Moving Along with the Times

I would not have reached for my lace if it wasn't for the bingo challenge.
The tiny bow is wrapped around the lace to bunch it up.
The flower stamp is by Clearly Besotted. Center die cuts are by Spellbinders.

I did the diagonal: ribbon, patterned paper, and lace.

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Floral Friday Yellow Shaped Clearly Besotted flower Cards

The Flower stamp set and matching dies are by Clearly Besotted

The sentiment is a die-cut by AC Moore called the Love Nicole collection

The die-cut base and the small white die-cut are unknown. The yellow is Spellbinders

The patterned paper is by Poppy Stamps. Rick Rack is from my stash

In the card below I used the same flower stamp set

The sentiment is from my stash

The die-cuts are by Sizzix (yellow) and Spellbinders (coral)

The patterned paper...I made my own background by following a "Forgotten Technique" on a YouTuber named Justine. 

The stencils are by The Crafter's Workshop for the large one

The smaller stencil is by Dollar tree. I love that it's a self-adhesive stencil.

These probably weren't the best two stencils to use together with the yellow and red Distress Oxide inks.

The Sisterhood of Crafters is to use a stencil. I used two.

These next couple of pictures show the yellow cards I made with the same floral Clearly Besotted stamp set. 

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Floral Friday Clearly Besotted in Red and Black

The stamp and matching die are by Clearly Besotted. The red die-cut is chipboard that I painted with red crackle paint by Tim Holtz and Ranger. That tells you how long I've had that in my stash. The off-white scallop circle is possibly Stampendous. The black cardstock is dry embossed with a Chevron embossing folder by Cuttlebug. The patterned paper is by Pebbles

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Online Card Class Crushing cardstock Weaving Card

This card was made with inspiration from the Online Card Class called Crushing cardstock.

The stamp is by Clearly Besotted

The four edges are washi tape that matched and helped pull it together

The die-cut in the center was bought off of eBay. I inked the inside with distress ink.

The first row of blue "cardstock" is an old folder.

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Floral Friday Clearly Besotted in Peach Just for you Cards

The layered flowers use the stamp set Nouveau Flowers (circa 2015) from Clearly Besotted and I cut them out with their matching dies. I used all different inks to give the flowers some dimension and interest. 
The little squiggly stamps on each card are unknown. Unfortunately, with all of my recent "Hauls", I prefer the term "Deals", I think that saying a product is unknown is going to become common in my posts. 

The sentiment stamp is unknown. (It was one of my deals) The rectangle die-cuts by Gina Marie . Gina Marie is from where I live in Sparta, MI. My husband taught her and her sister in high school. She had a store 5 miles from my house that was getting more sales online and decided to close up her shop in 2017. She has a great selection of dies at cheaper prices than most others in the cardmaking world. The only patterned paper that I know for sure is the background paper by Papertrey Ink.  I never thought I would use it (too busy). In fact, I often use the back of it for the white paper.

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Purple Birthday Card with Copic markers to the rescue

I have a cute birthday card with a lot to say about it. Tim Holtz die created the border on tap. The scalloped border is a sticker by Doodlebug. The border at the bottom was a pink sparkle and by Making Memories. Well, things can’t be easy and somewhere it’s got a pen mark on it. I sprayed it with this obnoxious shimmer spray that I recently purchased. It didn’t do much of anything to help my situation. I took a purple, light purple colored marker to the edges. I must say I was quite nervous because my arm tends to jerk.

The happy die is by Clearly Besotted. The word birthday is a draw feature on my Cricut.

The flower stamp is by Stampin Up. I colored it in with Copic markers. It was kind of drab and didn’t do much for the card.

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