July 2011 up north trip layout

I have another layout for my nephew's scrapbook. The Circle die cut is by Elle's Studio. The patterned paper is by Fancy Pants from 2011. H2O paper is by Splash of Color LLC. Fiskars border punch on the orange cardstock at the top.

This next picture is the pocket page card. 

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Manly Monday Earthy For You Card

This card came together with whatever was on my table.

The sentiment stamp is heat embossed in white and then inked with distress ink.

The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug 

Now the chipboard rectangle, it may be by Basic Grey but Idk for sure.

The brown label die-cut is by Elle’s Studio.

The bird die-cut is by Colorbok.

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Scrapbook Layout of Hubby in 2nd grade

This layout is for my hubby's scrapbook.

I’m not sure of all of the details of these layouts other than:

Crate Papers 

Shaped paper from Michael’s Recollections 

Some stickers on the side are by Little Yellow Bicycle 

The labeling was done with tiny alphabet stamps from Oriental Trading Co. 

There are some Elle’s Studio labels

Patterned paper by K and Co and Stampin Up.

The twine is unknown.

Letter stamps are by Lawn Fawn.

And here the two layouts are side by

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Jewelry Heart Be Mine Card

I have a lot of things to up-cycle from my Mom's and my MIL's stash. This little stash item got glued onto a card.

The sentiment is by is a SU stamp set with matching punch

The die-cut Elle's studio and Spellbinders

The center panel is cardstock stamped with a SU wheel in red

I haven't used those in a while

I have to tell you about the sentiment stamps 

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1962 Family trip to FL Scrapbooking Pocket pages.

In 1962 my MIL's family and only the family went on a vacation to FL. Here are a few of the many photos from that trip along with some cute photos that I wanted to include in this book.

This is the right side of the layout. See the bottom for the two sides together.

Alphabet stamps are by Close to My Heart

I cut words FUN and CUTE with my Cricut

The smile sticker is by Studio 112 and Family Vacation sticker...My guess is from the Current catalog.

The die-cut border is by Martha Stewart and the bottom center card has a square in it by Elle's Studio. There is a brad after the letters FL inside the square.

Patterned papers are by October Afternoon (Squares with a pop of red) and Poppy Stamps (polka dots)

(((This is terribly confusing)))

Maybe just look at the pictures

Here they are together and they're not totally the same but for me, they are close enough.

LINK TO LEFT SIDE LO IS HERE

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Same Martha Stewart Flower sticker for 3 Sympathy cards

I made a handful of cards with the goal to use up a pack of stickers. I love these flower stickers by Martha Stewart so much but it's time to let them go and show others their beauty on a few simple cards.

I used a sentiment stamp by Close to my heart

The patterned paper is unknown right now. 

I'm spending way too much time looking for the manufacturer. 

I have to move on.

The next card,

I cut two 12x12 borders from Sunborn to fit around the edges of the card front 

The die cut under the flower is by Design Objectives. 

It was inked with distress ink before removing the die from the paper.

Sentiment by Hero Arts

Last card,

I'm using more of the packages of Elle's Studio products. 

See this post for the meaning of the last sentence

This pink paper has pretty gold words on it.

The cream-colored die cut is by Spellbinders

The pink die cut is by Design Objectives.

The gold leafy die cut on the right upper side is a Cricut cut leftover from

THIS LAYOUT

And matches my 

Elisabeth’s 50th birthday card

This card is a fabulous example as to why I dislike using liquid adhesive. It's all warped and not evenly stuck down in places. SMH.

Always learning.

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Pink embossed butterflies with a pretty flower card

We need some pink in between all this blue layout stuff.!

I have to say, when I was looking at this card to write this blogpost I was clueless about the manufacturer for the leaves stamp on the tips of the die cut. 

But then, for whatever reason, I lifted my head and this stamp set was the first one on a peg.  Quite often stamp sets get moved around as I'm looking through them.

The leaves stamp comes from the Sincere Sentiments designed by SCDesign by Simonne Clay from the Cardmaker and Papercraft magazine. I bought it on Mercari with a bunch of other things to make my purchase worth the shipping cost. There are a lot of nice sentiments, see picture below.

Then, here's my next thing. The circle in the center is by Elle's Studio. I won these products years ago so I put them on my desk so I will see them and maybe use them. It worked because I used one here and on an upcoming card. 

The other details of the card are:

 The white and pink die cuts are by Design Objective Designs. 

The pink ink for the leaves is from Scrapbook.com. It's their own line of products called Umbrella. 

To finish up, the center circle is from a Jillibean Soup and the butterfly background embossing folder is by Gina Marie. I did put a little bit of distress ink on some of the butterflies

My craft room has a half wall (3'x6') and a wall (5'x5') with pegboard for my stamps. 

When people come into my craft room for the first time, they say it looks like a store. Also, they've no idea that the packages on the wall are stamps. Most people think of stamps as rubber on a woodblock.

Here's a picture of the stamp set

Elle's Studio Leftovers

Card with Elle's Studio circle 

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Sweet Girly Lion Card

Yesterday's card was simple and today's card screams at you.

I used stamps by Stampin Up

The sentiment is a sticker 

The patterned paper is by Stampin Up, K and Co, Elle's Studio and Cosmo Cricket

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Forever in our Hearts Bright sympathy cards

I made a few not your normal sympathy cards. The colors are kind of bright. I'm not sure if that's good or bad but any card you send someone will be appreciated.

I used stamps for the sentiment by Stampibilities

The heart dies I bought off of eBay.
They were cut out of DCWV glittery paper.
The red paper behind it is by Craft Smith.
I sprayed it with Perfect pearls gold
Border punch by Fiskars

The patterned paper is by Elle's Studio



The second card is on kraft cardstock
The ribbon is old and I can't remember who it's by. Maybe Prima? Shout out if you know.
The die-cut by Spellbinders
The Forever sticker is by ha, Forever in Time.
I added a few red heart rhinestones.

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5 Valentine Cards

Last year a friend and I made a bunch of twisted easel cards for the seniors at my mom's assisted living center. The twisted easel part was wasted for they didn't know what to do with it. 
From that project, I have leftover easel cards and the 4x4 card fronts.
Since they were in a basket waiting to be used I finished a few and redid a few by taking apart the easel to make the card fronts into cards that I will be able to use. 
I included the original photo of the card below the redo.

This first card was a leftover square that never made it onto an easel card.
Patterned paper by DCWV and K and Co.
Die cuts by Spellbinders, which has eyelets at each end and the sentiment stamp by TPC Studio 
Circle die cut by Elle’s Studio 
Black ribbon on the left and then layers of cardstock
The card’s base is having a hard time supporting the weight

The next card is a strange combo of colors. 

Heart stamp with rose design in the the center is by Stamp N Plus

The patterned paper is by Studio Calico

The heart die cut from eBay
I used a yellow heart eyelet in the center

This next three cards were easy to redo once I removed the 4x4 square off of the easel card, I backed them onto a card base with something new behind it.
This one, I layered a pink cardstock that was dry embossed with hearts.

This one, red cardstock underneath. 

And lastly, once this 4x4 card front was ready for redo, I positioned a tape with a lace design down the center of an off white card base and taped the square on top. 

It’s a great anniversary card.

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Butterfly Best Wishes card

I bought this stamp off of Etsy many years ago and I found this paper with it already stamped with black ink and colored in with colored pencils. Then I fussy cut the image. The polka dot paper is a Project Life Card. The grid paper is by Elle’s Studio. The sentiment is by Stamp N Plus. I punched out a few squares and then cut them in half to make corners.

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Large Assortment of Happy Valentine's Day Cards

Here's some more Valentine's Day cards. I posted a bunch more on the page at the top of the blog.

The title of this card is a cupcake stick that we tore apart for just the sentiment. Die cuts by Cricut and patterned paper by Fancy Pants.

These cards were made from an anniversary card we received. 

Die cuts by Cricut.

Old velvet ribbon. Elle's Studio sentiment. Making Memories glitter heart. 

Pink paper by DCWV and purple by Recollections. Die cuts by Cricut. Chipboard heart Making Memories. Sentiment stamp by The TPC Studio Co. Love brad by Eyelet Outlet. 

Die cuts by Spellbinders. Red velvet ribbon. Paper by Papertrey Ink. Sentiment stamp by The TPC Studio Co.

Heart stamp by SNP (no longer in business). Glitter tape and altered heart sticker from Dollar Tree.

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Birthday Blessings

I have another repurposed card that I've turned from a Mother's Day card to a birthday card.  HERE is what it looked like before and below you'll see I only changed the sentiment with a small heart to the left. Below is the inside which is a die cut by Elle's Studio and a stamp by Stamping Scrapping.  

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Flower Basket Birthday Card

Today's card is a remodel. It was a Mother's Day card that I converted into a birthday card. It had this huge pearl brad in it that would never go through the machine at the post office. HERE is the original card where you can see a products list. 

Here's what I did to revamp it. The Mother's Day label was not coming off without taking the green cardstock with it. I really wasn't that interested in tearing the whole card down more just change those few elements. So I covered up the the longer Elle's label with a smaller one from the same pack (Is it sad that I still have the same pack of labels that I did from 2013?) I layered the die cut "happy" by Clearly Besotted over the two labels in brown. As I look at the card, I'm not really impressed with the color of the sentiment but it's done and I'm sure no one in my family will say anything.

For the inside of the card, I used a brown label from the same pack of labels. The sentiment is by Stamping Scrapping in brown Stampin Up ink.

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Time 2 Celebrate

Sorry I have been MIA. Recent health developments limit me ability to get downstairs to my studio to work and create. Plus I'm finishing up 2015 calendars and I just don't think 2016 calendars will be made for next year. My heart is just not into it anymore. 

I'm sharing a fun, bright and girly card to welcome in the new year. My patterned papers are by DCWV, the doily is by Little Yellow Bicycle, the rick rack is by The Paper Studio, chipboard flower by Maya Road which is painted with Making Memories paint. The flower stamps and punches are by Stampin Up with Hero Arts shadow inks and the centers of the flowers are by Want 2 Scrap (small rhinestones) and Forever in Time (large rhinestone). The sentiment die cut is by Elle's Studio with the sentiment by Just Rite stamps and ink by Hero Arts. Oops I missed the leavesoff the small flowers. They are a die cut by Elizabeth Crafts on white cardstock and then inked with distress ink and sprayed with water. 

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