Teal and Yellow Butterfly with Rhinestones Card

Rhinestones by Rhinestones unlimited.

Ribbon by Stampin Up.

The patterned paper is by Echo Park.

The stamps are by Stampendous.

And the butterfly is by K and Company. 

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Floral Friday Pretty in Pink Flowers and Crown card

Today my cards are just easy and 

The card below uses small stamps by Close to my Heart in Creative Memories decorative square punch. The top and bottom are turned and the middle one is a frame made with a large and small punch and white laid into that frame. Striped patterned paper is by Echo Park (Sweet Girl by Lori Whitlock) and polka dot paper is by Making Memories (Flower Patch)

The next card uses patterned paper by Basic Grey (Konnichiwa). The frame is by My Mind's Eye, Doily by Martha Stewart, and the crown is by Three Bugs in a Rug (I always thought that it was a strange name but there are others out there that make me wonder where such names came from for a stamp company.) I digress.

I had the opportunity to use this card for a 16th birthday card. The flowers on the side are from my stash. The sentiment went perfectly for the occasion.

As you can see with these two photos side by side my ongoing photography problem continues. You can see where the picture has a brown background and how the pink's warmth is more apparent. I think the background gives the pink background patterned paper more of an orange hue to it. The picture taken above was taken outside but on an overcast day and not on a sunny day. again where the true color of my cards are

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Manly Monday Happy birthday Cards

Patterned paper by Studio G. I did some sewing down the center to join the papers together. The yellow foam scalloped circle punch is by Stampin Up. The sentiment is by Echo park. Thanks for looking.

May Calendar Layout. Christmas photo

Hi from rainy Michigan. The last two days gave us some great sunshine. Still chilly but being in the sun was nice. The May layout comes from my brother’s calendar. You can’t tell but this picture was taken at Christmas. The patterned paper is either by Echo Park or Little Yellow Bicycle. The blue border paper is from Deja Views and the punch is by Fiskars. The other border punch is by Martha Stewart out of white cardstock. The butterfly and flower die cuts are from K and Co. Thanks for looking.

"Winter is Here" January Snow cards

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Colorful options Challenge Winter Blues

Manly Monday Robot card And a School picture Scrapbook Layout

I have a funny boy card.

The inside says: 

Have a happy birthday.

The robot is a digital stamp that I colored in with Copic markers.

The sentiment stamp is unknown. 

I bought from Tuesday Morning and the packaging was removed.

The die-cut Martha Stewart

The letter "U" is a Cricut cut

And the exclamation point is a sticker.

Today this guy turns 18. He hasn’t changed much. 

Check out the layout on yesterday’s post (April 11, 2021)

For a recent picture of him. 

He’s just a little dude in his 6th grade picture

Anyway,

The "years old' Stamps are Lawn Fawn Harold.

The "2014" stickers are by Echo Park

The die-cut Stars-Unknown

The number 11 are Quickutz dies

The white pen is by Uni-Ball Signo Broad

The patterned paper is unknown.

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Celebrate Cupcake card in Brown, Purple and Orange

 I found these pieces on my table and they matched so I put them together.

I’m guessing that the sentiment is by My Mind’s Eye. 

The patterned paper is by Sassafras Lass (cupcakes) and the polka dot paper is by Echo Park

The brown cardstock behind the sentiment is by Bo Bunny and I cut the corners off.

 

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Christmas Trees with long trunks Cards

I seriously do not know where these tree stamps came from. 

If I'm not remembering, then I either stamped them with someone else's stamps, or the stamps are old and I don't own them anymore.

The first card uses a border punch by Fiskars

The patterned paper is by My Mind's Eye and Provo Craft

The embossing plate in this card is an old way of dry embossing that I could do in my Cuttlebug but not in my Gemini.

The die-cut with diagonal patterned paper by Echo Park is an eBay die

I freehand drew the snow piles in the back of the trees and added some distress ink to make the sky blue. I colored the trees with Copic makers.

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Manly Monday Christmas Cards using Deep Red Stamps

I used a stamp by Deep Red Stamps

Acorn and Buck set are from the

Seasons of Joy stamp set

I inked the buck stamp with distress marks before I stamped it on the paper.

The sentiment is a Rub-on by Bo Bunny  

For the 2nd card, the die-cut sentiment is by an upcycled card and Cricut 

The patterned paper is by Echo Park 

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Acorn Stamp

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5 Christmas cards made from one store bought card

The images on these cards are from one store-bought card by American Greetings 

The sentiment stamps are by Hero Arts 

The patterned paper is by K and Co.

The green cardstock is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss dot pattern.

This next card uses a die-cut I bought on eBay and the light green die cut is unknown. The ribbon around the card is by stamping up and the pattern paper is unknown

For this one, I backed the image up with light green card stock. The die-cut behind it is one that I bought off of eBay. It has pattern paper from Cosmo Cricket. The sentiment is from Close to my Heart.

For this card a matted the image onto a piece of dry embossed red card stock. The embossing folder is by spellbinders. The pattern papers on the bottom are by Echo Park and stamping up.

This last one is my least favorite. The red die cut is by spellbinders. The chevron pattern paper behind it is an old Kleenex box. The sentiment is from a store-bought card. I think the edges of the image.

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1979 Christmas and 1980 Snowstorm Pocket pages

It's 1:35am and my head bobbled and I woke up to see WWWWWWWWWWW

on the screen. Why a W? Not sure.

I will say it's a good indication that I need to go to bed.

The patterned paper is by Echo Park

Spellbinders die cut in the center if the first card

The year is Cricut cut.

Lawn Fawn labeling alphabet Harold

On the second page, the four large 4x6 photo spots are patterned paper by Echo Park.

The 6x6 pad of paper came in handy

The bottom embellishments are from my Mom's stash

The word Dan on the left is a Quickutz die 

 The center square uses most of the 1980's stickers on a sticker sheet.

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Have a great week.

Fall Rosette Sunflower Card

The card today is a redo. I received the rosette in a swap ad it had spooky Halloween decorations on it, 

Well I wouldn't have used it so I removed the spooky and added a sunflower sticker

The white embossed background is by Spellbinders

The yellow patterned paper is by Echo Park 

The border punch is by EK Success

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The end of 1974 and the 1975 shows the boys cleaning the kitchen Pocket Pages

This post is the end of 1974 and the second page starts with 1975

I used stamps by Christmas is by Hero Arts

The tree and date die- cuts are by Cricut

The tree sticker is by Jolee's

Green washi tape on the bottom of the first card

The patterned papers are by:

Echo Park, Stampin Up, Me and My Big Ideas, and the green on top says The Divine Collection

I made this card with CM stickers and stamps by Stampin Up and Michael's dollar bin

This next moves us into 1975

Kitchen die-cuts by Cricut

Numbers are stickers

Not sure on the Main dish stamp

Circle button die-cuts by Echo Park with floss

The corner punch is by EK Success

The patterned paper is by Me and My Big Ideas

Vellum by The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby

I adhered the vellum onto the card with the Xyron sticker maker.

Journal on vellum is using the draw feature on Cricut

The font is called Kickball

Rub-on by Autumn Leaves

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1970 Beautiful Mom Layout and Pocket page to match

Welcome to the 70's

I used number stamps by Stampin Up in the Spellbinders die-cut at the bottom. 

I inked the outside of the die-cut.

The name and age are alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn

All of the other die- cuts are cut out using my Cricut.

The patterned paper is by Doodlebug

The flower sticker at the bottom

I added more to the matching pocket page than I usually do. 

The stickers are old ones by Making Memories.

So there's a story with the station wagon. My husband and younger brother always had to sit in the way back of the car which was facing backward. This would make his motion sickness brother barf every time-per, my husband. His other complaint was the toxic fumes from the car that he had to inhale. All of that made him have a "horrible childhood. "

I found this car pattern on the back of My Mind's Eye paper that I bought for the front side.

I had to use it for this photo.

Orange, brown and outside gold border stickers

Yellow and brown oval sticker. 

I covered up a word that I would never use with the picture.

This sticker is one of those that you would fold in half as a pull out tab, I think. 

I stamped the date with Close to my Heart stamps.

Tiny little sticker in the corner by Karen Foster.

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Orange, yellow and green flower card

I used stamps by Stampin Up and Mama Elephant for sentiment
I colored in the flower with Copic Markers

I cut a slit into the flower and inserted a leaf die-cut.

The patterned paper is by Echo Park
Border punch by Fiskars

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Here are some other cards using the same stamp.
Yellow 2019
July 2019
Oct 2018-yuck
Jan 2017
May 2017
purple May 2017