Coffee Productivity Cards

The die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The sentiment stamp is by Deep Red Stamps.

Simon says stamp food or drink challenge

Manly Monday E=Mc2 Graduation card

This is a Craft Roulette card episode #259. The parameters were: a card with two folds, Math, and markers. The color parameter was Jelly beans. The colors are too loose meaning you could use any colors. So, a Zoom group and I pull a card out of the Color Cube and make that the color parameter. I like more of a challenge. Idk. 
My card is a matchbox card. The background, E=Mc squared stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. I stamped it with black ink and blended my background with distress oxides. The grad cap was made with my Cricut. The sentiment die is by Spellbinders, and the sentiment is from Stamps of Life. The ribbon is from Michael's. I colored the white line in the middle with a Copic marker.

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Manly Monday a Shark and Seaweed Cards

The green mulberry paper has been frayed on the edges. I stamped the Deep Red Stamps sentiment onto white cardstock. Then I added some Cricut wave die cuts on the left card a then I added some waves from the pattern on a Kleenex box to the card on the right. The seaweed stamps and matching dies are unknown.
LINK to the first card I made with this stamp
Thanks for looking. HAGD! 
Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes

Manly Monday You’re a Deer card

The stamp and sentiment are by Stampendous, and the background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. I used two different colors of distress ink on the background. I colored the deer in with leftover ink on a paintbrush.

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Cute and Cuddle
We Love Stamping - Clean and Simple
Krafty Chicks Challenge - Clean and Simple
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Clean and Simple
Carabbie Moments of Craft - Cute
Polka Doodles - Anything goes
Pammies Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes
Digi Choose Day - Anything goes
Pink Gem Challenge - Anything goes

Manly Monday Shark Bite card

This Deep Red Stamp sentiment makes me giggle. The seaweed stamps and mulberry paper are unknown. 

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever noticed the designs on Kleenex boxes? Some of them have better designs than patterned paper.

Well, I cut a part of a design on a Kleenex box to look like waves. I popped one up with foam squares so I had a place for my seaweed stamps. 

I made this card for Craft Roulette #226 and the parameters were:

Project-see thru (you can see through the mulberry paper.

Colors-Jungle (there’s green in the leaves)

Element-Teach(es)or teacher (sentiment says “I’ve learned…)

Random-Tangle (the waves are tangled)

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Special Day Card in Green and Blue

The striped patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned paper that the sentiment is on is by Recollections. The circular background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. The green die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The heart die cut is by Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is by Stampibilities.

Thanks for looking. HAGD 

City girls by Deep Red Stamps

The Deep Red Stamps girls are on summer vacation and others are ready to go. I stamped all of them with Memento black and colored them in Copic markers.

The Sassy City girl wearing the pants, the pink embossed paper used in this card is from a store-bought. I put a slit in the top left corner to allow the white paper to go through it. Something different so it’s not exactly the same as the store-bought one

The background for Missy in the pink party dress above was made with powdered chalk mixed with paint in red and brown. The 4” square patterned paper is by DCWV. The two brown brackets are rub-ons.

The City party girl in purple has a really easy and short list of supplies, the background with embossed hearts is a store-bought card. All of the purple cardstock is from my stash.

Let's talk about the City Girl wearing a blue skirt,  I had made a really ugly background with the Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass…and one more distress ink. But it worked well with the way I had colored her a long time ago. The black cardstock behind her is by SMS. The sentiment is by Stampin Up.

Which card or girl do you like? Leave me a comment below.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

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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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 

Pink and Red snowman Christmas card

Hi. For my card today I used, Best Creations patterned papers, three different dies, two coloring mediums, and one sentiment stamp. So the dies are by Gina Marie in red, a Spellbinders die for my image, and an unknown die in black, The Spellbinders paper was inked with distress ink before I removed it from the die. The snowman is by Deep Red Stamps. I black heat embossed it and colored it in with powdered chalk mixed with paint and watercolor pencils by Stampin Up. I was able to smooth out the pencil lines with a water pen. The warm wishes sentiment is a stamp by Hero Arts.

I'm entering the 

Simon Says Stamp Anything goes challenge
I started doing this challenge more regularly about a month ago. I don't always make the card before the challenge ends. but that's okay because I use challenges as a way to spark my creativity or make me use supplies that I have. Last week's challenge was "not a card". I would have liked to use the challenge to get going on my calendars but Christmas cards took precedents. I will say that one of the recent challenges was to use foil and I finally pulled out the foil that had been in my stash for over a year. I'm not doing the challenges for the $25 prize because if I was I would get it done and linked up before the challenge expired. 

 I started thinking about how if I won the gift card that I would love to gift it to someone that doesn't have a lot of supplies and/or money to buy supplies. I have plenty of stuff but not everyone does.
So, I've decided that that's my new goal, Do the challenge, blog about it and link up before the challenge expires. Wish me luck and thanks for looking.

Deep Red stamps Dove of Peace in Gold card

The dove the world is by Deep Red Stamps. I colored with Copic markers. Border punch by Fiskars. The ribbon is by Pebbles and the gold paper is by Creative Memories. Enamel dots by Gina Marie. Thanks 

Anything Christmas atHoly Ivy Christmas

Anything goes Christmas at Hazel’s Christmas

Anything goes Christmas at12 months of Christmas

Deep Red stamps gold embossed butterfly card

Isn’t that crazy how the card looks in the different lights. The scalloped half circle is a journaling card by Making Memories. The butterfly stamp is by Deep Red stamps. I heat-embossed with a gold embossing powder. Then a inked the area where the butterfly is. Then I partially colored it in with different colors of distress ink. 

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Simon says Stamp-AG

Deep Red Stamps Sunflowerin the Meadow card

Deep Red Stamps sunflower stamp. I colored with Copic markers. The corners are the kind you slip the paper in front of the corners. The punch is by EK Success. Thanks for looking. 

July Calendar Layout using a former card

July Calendar 2019 and this calendar is done!!!

Bell stamp by Deep Red Stamp. It was heat embossed silver

Patterned paper by Bo Bunny. White cardstock by RE that was inked with distress ink. Star stencil is a Cricut negative with glimmer mist. Star border is by Cricut and also sprayed with glimmer mist

Star brad by Creative Imaginations.
I had a hard time finding all of my 4th of July creations. But here are a few.
Layout using the bell stamp
July fourth Calendar LO
Star Card
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty-2
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Manly Monday Pocket watch birthday cards

Pocket watch die cut is by K and Co. The background stamp in the1st card is Camouflage stamp by Deep Red Stamps. I made the frame around the pocket watch by using the frame inPhotographer stamp set by Deep Red stamps.I stamped it one way and then I turned it to stamp it down the other way creating this double frame. I made this frame 3 or more years ago and it sat it the drawer. This is like the year of the use stuff put in a drawer. Thank you for looking.

Christmas cards that I wasn’t able to post in Dec 2020

I really like these two cards but I wasn’t able to get a very good picture of them. The wording seasons greetings is a large probably would be best for a slimline card and so I had to get creative on how to make it work for my 4x5.5 size cards.

I really like this blue card because of the eyelets and the gold string by Martha Stewart. They really give it a different look than what we would normally see him and I think that I will be doing that again. 

The next card, the dove stamp is by Deep Red stamps 

May the Spirit

I have it stamped onto cardstock by Forever in Time. Then I used a die I bought on eBay to cut out the dove and cut the next size up in brown cardstock. The patterned paper by Bo Bunny.

These sentiments came off the following store-bought cards,

These are the stickers that I used and they are very old.

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Halloween envelopes to the kids

I used some of the envelopes that are the card to send to with a couple of great-nephews and friends' kids. I stamped the inside with SU stamps.

Then I stamped a bunch of images to color in.

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Floral Friday with Sunflower Backgrounds by Deep Red Stamps

I colored in these sunflower backgrounds last year.

I love how they turned out.

 I haven't made them into cards because I don't want to cover up the beauty of the flowers.

See below for the cards.

This is a Deep Red Stamp 

Sunflower background stamp

This thing is so old and I was able to use it. It's by Provo Craft.

The below background is MIA

Challenge at Creative Imaginations

HERE'S AN OLD-OLD POST WITH A SUNFLOWER

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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. 

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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