Chipboard buttons banner card

I made a banner out of chipboard buttons and yellow floss. The vellum sentiment is by Mrs Grossman’s. 

I’m entering the Simon Says Stamp Monday Stitch it challenge

Green and Blue Happy Birthday Card

Patterned paper by Studio G. Border punch by EK Success. Happy die by Lawn Fawn. Oval die cut by Sizzix out of Creative Memories patterned paper. DMC floss for the string on the balloon.

Cards using the same stamp set

Gabe Freshman year and 1st year Percussion

I used both sides of a patterned paper by Bo Bunny. I use Design Objectives label dies to make the banner at the bottom on the left. The alphabet and words stamps are by Lawn Fawn. The embroidery floss is by DMC. I’m sure where the freshman sticker is from.

On the right side, the the words at the top we’re. printed using my Cricut markers. The title letters are from my Quickutz and they are on a border  from Sunborn. The last thing is the drum that I cut out using my Cricut. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Birthday Balloons, Cakes, and Presents cards

 Blue paper is by Studio G and the green paper is by Making Memories.

I sewed strings for the balloons with embossing floss by DMC. I then put foam adhesive under the balloon to accommodate for the height that the floss adds to the element.

The scallop circle sentiment is stamped and punched out of dimensional foam. The card uses stamps from Stampin'Up.

The ribbon is by Stampin Up. Patterned paper by Studio G. Label die cut by Design Objectives. Yellow rectangle by Spellbinders. Border punch by Tim Holtz.Brads from stash. This card is a total fail but I can't take it apart and start over.

This one is so ugly and I don't know what to do with it. It's definitely manly.

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Fall colors Tag with Floss Card

I am posting this card a day late for the fall equinox because Wednesday is for calendars, which the calendars are appropriate to.
The background stamps on the left are by Stampin Up.
The sentiment and the whole tag were part of a trade years ago. 
The patterned paper is by Studio G

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Blue Sewing Swirls Happy Birthday Card

The swirl design that I poked into cardstock came from a stencil by Oriental Trading Co. I backstitched the design with blue floss by DMC. 
I show a picture of the stencil at the end of the post.
The sentiment stamp is by Lawn Fawn.
The blue paper is an old folder.

I love the beautiful card and can only imagine the joy it would bring to someone receiving it. But I hate poking the holes. Tedious and hard on my wrists and right elbow.

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My card today has a little story. I’ll keep it brief.

About 4 years ago I used a stencil by Oriental Trading Co. The stencil is designed for you to poke the holes of the design through cardstock and then to do a backstitch in the holes and so I did just that on this paper/cardstock.

This paper has traveled around my craft room being placed in this drawer and then moved to another drawer.
So here’s my first problem with this card front, it was an odd size, and a lot of times it wasn’t bagged up.

 It’s ridiculous because I have a lot of baggies. When I would find it I just could not figure out what I wanted to do with it. It’s so pretty and time-consuming and maybe I didn’t want to make it into a card and give it away.

Well, the latest time that I moved it, I noticed that the sewing was starting to come loose. 

It looked frazzled. 

It was time to make it into a card. I didn't want all of the time spent on this card to be wasted.

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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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Embroidery floss Thank you card

My card today has a full border and a simple sentiment to balance it out. The patterned paper is by Provo Craft. I added Stickle dots to the pattern. The ribbon is by Offray. I swirled the embroidery floss into this design and glued it on top of the ribbon and paper. The white brads are placed around the floss for extra support. The chipboard flowers are by American Crafts with brads in the center of each one. The brads are by Making Memories. The sentiment is a Cricut die cut.

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Season's Greetings Banner Card

I have a card today using some small ornament stamps that have been stamped, colored and Stickled from the lady I got all the Christmas stamps from. I punched each one out with the mosaic punch by Stampin Up to make a banner. I sewed DMC floss at the top of the green patterned paper by Creative Memories and then matted it onto reddish/burgundy cardstock.

The patterned paper is by Making Memories, which looking back at my posts I see that I've used this paper a lot this season. It is adhered to a 5x6.5 off white card base by Recollections. The sentiment stamp and black ink are by Hero Arts on green Creative Memories green cardstock. I used a Sizzix die to cut it out and inked the inside with distress ink before adhering it to the card.

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Sweet birthday card

Background stamp by Hero Arts, clock stamp (sneaky thing is behind the birthday sticker) is by Tim Holtz, ink by Stampin Up and Versa Mark, embossing powder by Stampendous, patterned paper by MME and Making Memories, border punch by Fiskars, floss and sticker by Karen Foster, die cut by Spellbinders and circle die cut from Creative Memories.

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Challenges:

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/-Happy birthday

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/-Add a sentiment

http://creativecraftchallenges2.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.com/-Embossing (background is heat embossed)

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/-Anything Goes

http://www.jennipherlowery.com/search/label/Tuesdays%20Testimonial-Anything Goes

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.com/-Distressing

http://houseofgilli.blogspot.com/-Use two of your favorites (border punch and background stamp)

http://lollipopcrafts.blogspot.com/-Use two different punches or dies (border punch and spellbinders label die cut)

http://lovetocreatechallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

Freedom isn't free July Calendar Layout

Happy Fourth of July! 

This layout is the calendar month of July for my mom's calendar. That's my husband and me last summer. 

The banner was made using Cricut cartridge Country Life (or is it Living? not sure) 

The chipboard pieces are by The Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby and the peace sign sticker by EK Success. 

Cardstock by Coredinations and patterned paper by My Mind's Eye. The stamps in the background are by Stampin up with ink by Close to my Heart. 

Thanks for looking.

Thank you to all of the men and women in the armed forces especially our nephew Aaron who is in active duty and away from his young family for 180 days. God Bless you!

Here's a little history lesson for you. Did you know that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both dies on July 4, 1826? They did. It was exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I find history very interesting. My reading is usually of the historical nature. 

Anyway.......

February calendar page

Over 10 days into the month and I didn't share this cute February calendar page. That is my niece. I adore seeing little ones all bundled up. So darn cute!!

Papers by Making Memories, flourish cut out using Cricut and Storybook cartridge, button stickers by Sticko/EKSuccess, border punch by Martha Stewart and I think the sparkle heart is by Me and My Big Ideas. Thanks for looking. 

Christmas card with flowers

**Click here for my Challenge with a prize

I made this lovely card to sell at the local scrapbook store. Apparently the ladies like cards with flowers. I hope they like this one. I sure do. The best part about this card is that all the paper used was scraps I found in my stash. It makes me feel good to use those little pieces that I save for "someday". Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/(W#147)-Christmas with a sentiment

http://digistamps4joy.blogspot.com/(W#33)-Christmas

http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/(W#16)- Anything goes

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/(W#101)-Anything goes

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/(W)-Anything goes

http://www.whimsical-designs.com/(W)-Layer it

Use Your Stash Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards all year Round September challenge: This month we are having a stash challenge and the only "rule" is that anything you use on your cards needs to be at least a year old - stamps, papers, embellishments: everything!

Almost everything on this card is over a year old. The ribbon is super old from my mom's sewing stash. Supplies: red paper and Santa sticker by Lily Bee Design; PP by SU; ink by Colorbox; embossing powder by Stampendous; stamp by Scrappy cat and Fiskars

Supplies: ribbon by AC; Sticker by Lil yellow bicycle; ink by Colorbox; PP by Rhonna Farrer for Autumn Leaves (2007) and the other is by K&i

Supplies: Stickers by EK Success and Lily Bee Designs; punch by Fiskars; Copic markers; floss from my mom's stash; CS Bo Bunny and  RE. The stamp is unknown. I stamped a bunch of them at crop about four years ago. At that time I wasn't concerned with who made what.

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Pink Card with Handmade epoxy button

Border punches by Fiskars and Stampin Up. Felt ribbon by American Crafts. Flower by Creative Memories. Button  on top is paper that has been covered with Glossy Assents. Glimmer Mist from tattered Angels is used as well.

I made this card for the following challenges:

Kraftin Kimmie-use pink

Incy Wincy-using punches

Sketches 4 All- Using punches

Speedy the Cat-Punch it

Crafty Creations-make your own button

TFL

Baby card, a butterfly card, and a circle background birthday card

Baby card, a butterfly card, and a circle birthday card.

This one I made for my SIL's baby shower. The die cuts are from Sassafras, letters from MM, ribbon from Joann's, ink from SU, and pink paper from CM. The rest I just found in my stash.

The ribbon is by American Crafts; ink by SU; Stamp by CTMH; orange paper by Provo Craft; blue paper by Sunborn; floss by DMC and die cut from Cricut cartridge Storybook.

Supplies all stamps and ink by Stampin Up; Brown and white CS by The Paper Co; blue paper unknown; ribbon by American Crafts and brad unknown. TFL

January Calendar LO Brrr...It's cold The 'Rents at the cottage

 

I hope everyone had a great NYE. I have made a few resolutions that I intend to feature on a lo this weekend. This calendar page layout is for our house calendar. I've decided to post the LO on the first of each month. I don't have the word January on it because it is on the lower half. This is my Dad and stepmom up at their cottage on Jan 09. I usually don't use a picture from that month from the previous year. It just worked out this way. I do try to put pictures in of whose birthday it is that month or the main holiday of that particular month. I only use pictures from the previous year and try to get most of the nearby family in the pictures.

Supplies-felt mittens by AC; floss by DMC; Cricut Cuttin Up and paper by Urban Lilly. I cut the snowflake out of the remainder of the paper and used 3-d adhesive to give the page dimension. The letters are on the same paper as the rest of the lo. The paper gradually got darker so it worked out nicely to only use one piece of 12x12 paper for an 8.5x11 LO. TFL
Updated 11-1-22

Fall Colors with a Chicken Layout

 

I created this LO for a challenge at Dixie Pieces. The challenge was to use the same picture more than once in a layout. For some reason, I ordered this photo in multiple sizes. idk why, but I did. It worked out perfectly for this challenge.

Supplies-paper by Basic Gray, DCWV, Paper Reflection and Sunborn, rick rack by Crafts ect, pen by Creative Memories, brads by The Paper Studio, floss by Clark and Coats, stickles by Ranger, colored pencils by Stampin Up, stamp by CTMH, ink by Colorbox, letters and die cut by Cricut Storybook cartridge and the rooster and chicken buttons are unknown. TFL

Poker night with friends Layouts Updated

UPDATE ON 10-8-21

I've ADDED THE OTHER SIDE AND CLOSE-UPS

I really love this border and will probably do it again.

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