August Calendar Layout of us at Cedar Springs Brewery

The border is be Sunborn. I put the two straight edges together and put the blue pearls border over the seam. The pretzel stamp is by Tim Holtz which I colored in with Copic markers and then inked the edges with distress ink. The beer bottle eyelet is by Eyelet Outlet. Thanks for looking.

” Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” – – Ogden Nash

Worldly Cards Part 3

This is the last set of the world cards I made for a police department to show them some love and appreciation.

I used some bits and pieces from the previous cards that I posted

This starred paper is so old. I think it is by Making Memories

I set an eyelet and some ribbon inside

The right side has been misted with glimmer mist

Of them all, this is my least favorite. 

The background paper is too much. 

I like how I cut the sentiment die-cut in half. 

But maybe on a different card.

Patterned paper by October Afternoon

I don't love this one either.

 I think it's because I used two different Spellbinder die-cut shapes.

This last one, I stamped the edges with an old dance Stampin Up set.

The hello is a Heidi Swapp tag that I cut off the top.

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Deep Red Stamps Tea time with a friend

I used stamps by Deep Red Stamps called

Tea Time

The sentiment is by Stampendous

The die- cuts are by Design objectives with eyelets by Eyelet Outlet

The patterned paper is by Recollections

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Stampin' Up row of presents card

The pink patterned paper is by The Paper Studio. Gingham paper by...outside cover paper says "Homespun Collection, Mixed cardstock". There is no indication of who the papers are made by.

Circles-2 pink cardstocks by Die Cuts with a View. 

The white cardstock is the back of a store-bought greeting card. The row of presents is one stamp which I stamped with light blue ink. I colored them in with Stampin' Up watercolor pencils. 

The sentiment is a vellum sticker by K and Co. The balloon is a brad by Eyelet Outlet and the ribbon is by Offray.

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Manly Monday Sailboat Party Time

I made this card using the sailboat images from a store-bought card. The red circle was too light so I heavily inked it with Simon Says Stamp red ink. The gold circle die-cut is by Spellbinders. The gold paper is by Creative Memories. The star eyelet is by Making Memories and the sailboat eyelet is by Eyelet Outlet. The blue arrow punches by Stampin' Up. The sentiment stamp is by Fiskars.

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Deep Red Stamps ATC Mixed Media Framed decoration for Paul

My husband’s birthday is today and I wanted to share what I made for him...last year. I enjoyed making it because it shows all of the different aspects that make him well, him. I used Deep Red Stamps, distress inks, alphabet journal cards by Colorbox, brads by Eyelet Outlet, Around the Block and The Paper Studio. 

All the Atc's use the Brick Wall background stamp with distress ink. I’ve done this distressed look with the brick stamp on this set of Valentine ATC’s.

This first card represents how he likes to hunt, fish and camp. Here are the Deer Stamp and a few other cards using this stamp, Buck Card and Buck card #2

Paul is a physics teacher and he wears a tie most days. The Quantum Background Stamp is perfect for this card. I used this background stamp on this Graduation card.

He likes to work in his barn on cars and drink beer with his friends. Beer and power tool are buttons. Here are the Chevelle Stamp and some other cards using the stamp Chevelle card and Chevelle Card #2

This card represents the four seasons. It is something that he cherishes about Michigan. (Brads-Orange flower for spring, sun for summer, leaf for fall and snowflake for winter). Here is the Leaves Stamp I used on this card.

With the cards all lined up in a row, I dislike the placement of the P because it doesn't line up with the other letters. Unfortunately, it was the only one left in the set.

I backed the cards with Creative Memories cardstock and some random patterned paper.

The frame for my decoration hung in my mother’s house my whole life. The irony, I never knew the man in the frame whereas I’ve known my husband more than half my life. I dabbed the frame with Colorbox pigment ink and poured Gilded Ivory embossing powder by The Powder Keg over it and heat it with my heat gun. It took a lot of coats of embossing powder to cover it. Sometimes I would let it bubble up from too much heat too see what it would look like.

Here is the finished project in the sunlight.

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Fishing N Beer

Start with a piece of Ranger watercolor paper and ink and blend blues and green distress inks. Sprinkle with water set aside to dry. Using the Cricut die cut fish of different shapes, sizes and paper. Doodle on the fish with a gold gel pen. Stamp the sentiment called “Fishing Lesson” by Deep Red Stamps #3x503061 with black Hero Arts ink. Adhere fish as shown and set a beer bottle eyelet at the end of the sentiment. Eyelet by Eyelet Outlet. Trim down the panel before adding it to a 4 x 5 ½ white pre-made card base (Recollections).

You can purchase the sentiment stamp
HERE

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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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Kraft and Purple Christmas card

The snowman and snowflake were made by a woman who made these square pieces before no longer able to. They came with the rest of the stamps I received about 2 years ago.
Anyway. I stamped a Deep Red Stamp in the background, used a sentiment from a recycled card. The snowflake brads are by Eyelet Outlet.

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Slug Bug Card

The car stamp is by Unity and I colored it in with colored pencils. I used a water pen to blend it in before fussy cutting it out and stamping the license plate with Michael’s dollar bin alphabet stamps. The sentiment is by Hero Arts, peace symbol border is by Creative Imagination and flower brad is by Eyelet Outlet. Tag maybe My Mind’s Eye and I’m not sure about the ribbon and eyelet.

 I made this card for my niece that turned 25 (what!) and the slug bug is a significant part of our relationship. When she graduated from high school she had a hippie themed party.  I’m not sure if hippie is the correct term for it but she had things like peace signs and Volkswagen bus photo prop. The car stamp was used for her the graduation party invitations. We collaborated a lot to get just the look she was going for and then had fun making them with my sister and nephew. Good bonding family time together.

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Manly Monday Camping Life Cards

These ATC's were part of a swap with a camp theme. 

The word camp is a dry embossing folder is by Darice.

I embossed it on blue cardstock and cut the letters out. 

I then outlined each letter with a Creative Memories gel pen.

I inked the bottom with tea dye distress ink and the top with different blue inks.

The fire, dragonflies and tent brads are by Eyelet Outlet.

The second card uses a sticker by Pebbles.

I'm not sure about the patterned paper and different camping type pre-made die cuts.

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Manly Monday Cruisin' Speedster

I made these backgrounds with bubble wrap dipped in powdered chalk on Strathmore watercolor paper. Then on this first card, I stamped the Simon Says Stamp road with black Hero Arts ink. The car stamp is by Stamp N Plus. The blue mat behind the stamped image is by Bazzill. I die cut the sentiment from Cricut cartridge Boy will be Boys.

The second card has many of the same elements. However it includes a Spellbinders border die, an Ebay die cut out of blue cardstock by Stampin Up and a brad by Eyelet Outlet. I used the Creative Memories cutting System to create the oval and the sentiment by Cricut and same cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Fruity ATC cards

My cards today were for the ATC swap. theme: the color orange, primary orange. The tangerine chipboard is a clothing tag that I cut off the edges with corner decorative scissors and inked the edges orange. The background is a Stampin Up canvas background stamp. I stamped it onto orange cardstock with white Studio Calico paint. I inked the edges orange.

The yellow cardstock on the right side is by Paper Reflections.I sprayed the cardstock with orange Smooches spray by Clear Snap. Once it dried, I stamped a Hero Arts tropical leaves stamp on top using Tsukineko green ink, which I think is called bamboo leaves. It's faint but I like that. Then I randomly cut the edge off to keep the orange in site.

I cut up these Hawaiian menus that Grandma had saved from their cruise in 1985 to get all the little words. (Oh yes, she still had them) I adhered the words to the tag and outlined them with,a white Sharpie marker. The fruit stickers are by American Crafts/Amy Tangerine, the pineapple brads by Eyelet Outlet and the rhinestones from my stash.

The only difference between this second one and the rest is, I added some Spellbinders dies above the tag. It may have been to cover up a mistake. It was also stamped with the leaves stamp. 

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Happy Birthday cards

I made these ATC's for the monthly swap I do at Scrapbook.com. I inked a stencil by The Crafter's Workshop with a different mix of distress inks. When I was done inking, I sprayed the stencil with water and placed white cardstock on top of it to create a reverse pattern. 

The border punches are by EK Success and the pennant dies by Lawn Fawn. The letter stamps inside the pennants are by Oriental Trading Co with pink SU ink. The balloon brads are by Eyelet Outlet, party hat eyelets may be by them too and the present brad is by Around the Block. The words "Birthday Girl" are stamps from two different Lawn Fawn stamp sets and the sentiment on the second card is by Fiskars. Both are stamped with Hero Arts black ink.

Manly Monday Triple Beer

My card today uses beer eyelets by Eyelet Outlet and a sentiment die cut by Lawn Fawn. The die cuts I bought off of EBay so there's no manufacturer. I did ink the inside of the middle dies with distress ink. The green cardstock is by Recollections and that's all I know. I like the way it turned so that's all that matters.

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Sympathy Card

Today's card is a deepest sympathy card. The stamps used in this card are by Hero Arts. I inked the background stamp with two colors of distress ink (Ranger) before stamping it onto white cardstock. I matted a piece of K and i Memories patterned paper behind the background image. The sentiment label is a Spellbinders die that I cut and then embossed with my Cuttlebug. I stamped the sentiment with white pigment ink (SU) and set with eyelets by Eyelet Outlet.

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Mr. and Mrs.

Today I have another ring card for you. You can see the first one I posted HERE. The diamond is a Sweet Stamp Shop stamp however they no longer sell it. I think that you could use THIS one by Ellen Hutson or THIS die set or Lawn Fawn has a new stamp set. 

The actual ring is silver heat embossed white cardstock that I did a Jennifer McGuire trick by taking the Versa Mark ink pad and patting it onto white cardstock in a large enough area to fit my circle punches. I then punched a small circle first and then a larger circle just outside the small circle to make a ring. I used punches by Creative Memories and EK Success.

The background is a Hero Arts stamp that I heat embossed with silver embossing powder also by Hero Arts. The scalloped circles dies are by Spellbinders and the white pearls are by Want 2 Scrap. The border on the bottom is Recollections cardstock and a Tim Holtx border die. The purple pearls on the bottom are by Eyelet Outlet. The sentiment is patterned paper by The Paper Studio. I erased the edges to make appear dreamier then just regular old silver.

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Mom ATC's

Mother's Day ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) for my swap at Scrapbook.com

All the ATC's have a chipboard "M" that are unknown. I like the way these one turned out. I usually don't like to do all the same thing when it comes to these swaps. I felt like these ATC's were different maybe because of the colors or because each one has unique differences (I used a stencil for on and a stamp for another) that made them feel like they were different but yet are alike. I'll stop rambling.

Green ATC

The patterned paper by Making Memories

The background paper (teal) is by Color Aid

The white cardstock by American Crafts and green by Creative Memories
The letter stamps by Fiskars and ink by SU (Bermuda Bay)
 and the brad is unknown

Orange

The background cardstock is by Provo Craft.
I inked a Tim Holtz stencil with distress ink 

The bottom right corner is Alcohol inks by Ranger on glossy paper
The letter stamps by Fiskars and ink by SU
 and the brad is unknown

Pink
The pink shiny cardstock by Recollections
The letter stickers by Freckled Fawn
Yellow paper is watercolor paper by Ranger that has been covered with Peerless watercolors
Yellow paper has been stamped with Deep Red Stamp Flourish with Umbrella pink ink
The brad is by Eyelet Outlet and the flower is by Stamping Scrapping

Thank you for looking. Have a great day.