Love tag with Heart Card

My stash of anniversary cards was low and so when I had the love supplies out for Valentine's Day, I whipped up a few easy anniversary cards.

The word "love" was a die-cut tag by Heidi Swapp. I trimmed the tag portion off the top and made it into a rectangle. 

The red heart in the center was pink until I colored it in with Copic markers.

The patterned papers are from a Recollections pad at Michael's

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Frame Project for a Design Team Call

As we bring in the new year I felt this was an appropriate time to post this project

I tried out for a design team and didn't make it. The company is called Dies...to Die For and if you use the link below to purchase anything I receive a small commission. Follow this link:

Dies...to Die For

Before you read the long Facebook post that I wrote pleading for votes, you must know that even though I didn't make the team

I absolutely LOVE how this frame turned out. 

I would like to share a project with you. I feel very vulnerable doing this...but here we go. I am "auditioning" for a spot on a design team. What's that Cin? It’s where this company, called Dies...to Die For, would send me free products which I would then use to create something, a card, a scrapbook page, a calendar page, any type of project using their product which are dies. Dies go into a machine and cut out different shapes of die-cuts

They then use my projects to showcase the different ways to use their product/dies for their website or social media.

Design Team-There are two rounds to make the team and I made it to Round 2. The 2nd round is based on the number of votes by the public and I need votes to be chosen.

However, I looked at the other submissions and they are good. Like so good I’m a little embarrassed to show you what I made. But I’m going to because my project has a meaning to me and gives you a look into our lives. Side note-I could have submitted the card I made as a backup but their dies really fit my vision for this frame project.

Each of the frames represents a “First” for us this year- Something we’ve never had or done before. Each frame uses die cuts from the company Dies...To die For. I have a caption under each of the pictures of each panel for you to read.

Please go to the link to cast your vote. Please vote for someone.

Dies...To Die For is a small business in Sparta, MI that will get more exposure from you clicking that link. Let’s do what we can to support small businesses.

https://www.facebook.com/shopscrapbook101

Thank you.

HERE'S THE PROJECT I SUBMITTED

Other products:

I used a stamp by Lawn Fawn, Close to my Heart

Stencil by Heidi Swapp and Tim Holtz

Copic markers

Deep Red Stamps

Distress ink

No patterned paper was used on this project.

Below is the

Calendar die set

*Virtual Dr. Appointments. OMGoodness, I love not running to my pain doctor’s office every month and I mean LOVE it. 

Tablet/phone die set,

Tissue Box and Medication die set

*The Zoom concerts. Paul put together a Zoom meeting for the family to gather and listen to his nephew Gabe play the piano. Gabe is a fantastic pianist that gets paid for his talent by playing 4 masses every weekend. He is going to play a Christmas music concert on Christmas evening. If you want to link message me.Tablet/phone die set,Background stamp-sheet music is by Hero Arts. Piano sticker is by Frances Meyer.

*WERQ is my dance fitness class. It’s a form of exercise that I fell in love with 4 years ago. Because of the pandemic, the owner of WERQ has allowed teachers to hold classes online. I’ve met people and taken classes from people all over the US. That has really helped keep my spirits up.Stickles on the letters. Star stamps by SU. Word dance is a sticker by Frances MeyersComputer Set with Printer

*PG went back to teaching in Aug and he started wearing scrubs to work. Scrubs are easy to wash and comfortable. He started a little trend.

Nurse Scrubs, Masks and Gloves

Deep red Stamps Quantum background stamp

*We started a garden! Cucumbers and yellow squash grew better than anything else we planted. You know you’re getting old when you excitingly start talking to someone about what your garden grew this week.

Fence Die Set

Build a Monkey die set-The pots are an upside-down part of that set.

*This Thanksgiving we stayed home and it was the first time PG had ever cooked on Thanksgiving. We went non-traditional and had fish on the grill.

Christmas Tree die set-the garland for waves

Bass die set

*The last one started when bowling got canceled. The guys started an online poker group complete with Zoom meeting to chat with each other as if they were sitting together playing poker. (It’s not real money.)

Lucky Die Set

Laptop die set

All of the large letters in the project are from Hannah's varsity letters die set

Be sure to go check them out. They have a sale going on right now. Here's the link.

DIES...TO DIE FOR SALE ENDS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT

I absolutely LOVE how this frame turned out. 

It needed to be updated.

Here's the same frame with the Halloween theme:

And here's the Christmas themed frame.

 SMALL NOTE 

to self

Looking at the frame now:

I wish I would have done the calendar frame differently. Maybe put the title down one row and added a few arrows on the outer corners.

I wish I would have thought to keep the full letter Z instead of the outline. I just wonder if it would have looked better next to the outline of the music note border.

I would do the WERQ letters differently. I shouldn't even write those things because

I absolutely LOVE how this frame turned out. 

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Manly Monday Skater Boys Cards

Another set of Kenny K boy cards. Both colored in with Copic Markers

 The blue paper is by Recollections and has been cut with decorative scissors to create the side border, that you can't really see. 

The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug/ Provo Craft

The background paper is by Imaginisce

The image is behind a frame that was a negative Cricut cut

The sentiment is by TPC Studios

The arrow stamps are by Heidi Swapp

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1980 Easter Scrapbook Pocket Pages

This top part is short and sweet, rather to the point.

Whereas the bottom layout description is lengthy. You've been warned.

I used stamps by Lawn Fawn Harold's ABCs for name labels as usual 

I also used these Lawn Fawn stamps:

Violet's ABCs for the first card #1 and #5

Riley's ABCs for the word Easter

The arrow stamp is by Heidi Swapp. 

I would stamp the first time when the ink was its wettest on the outside

Then I'd huff on the stamp and stamp it again moving in toward the center

I think this technique is called generation stamping. 

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

These planner stamp sets are the perfect size for my pocket pages.

The diamonds, squares, and Ampere sign are stickers by Creative Memories

The gold number stickers, 1980, are by Stickabilities (7/8" Hand Drawn)

The cross sticker is by Recollections

Next.

The Brick background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps.

I stamped the above on off-white cardstock and then onto a Lawn Fawn die cut

I lined the bricks up on the paper and the die cut

I was trying to give it a dimensional feel.

My list of Lawn Fawn stamps for this page include:

Of course Harold for the labeling people

The word Easter and the egg are from one of their planner stamp sets

The word birthday is from the Everything stamp set.

The 1980 number stamps are by Stampin Up

I used some square brads in a few cards.

I labeled some of the photos with labels from the computer. 

When there are more people, the stamped labels are too big to fit on the cards. 

Plus I don't have their names already stamped out in different colors on different colored cardstock like I do with the intermediate family. 

When I make one name label for a family member, I make a ton of them.

Honestly, the names are relatively short-Joe, Dan, Paul, Oma, and Opa. 

When I do a Mike label, I switch out the last two letters and do Mimi.

Steve and David are the longest names and sometimes I switch out letters for their names since they both have a v in their names.

Moving on, the green border stickers in the middle row and center bottom row are from Creative Memories

I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to stamp the word birthday on the sticker.

The arrow sticker is by Becky Higgins Project Life.

So here's my WTH rant.

The brick sticker in the corner is by Forever in Time 

I bought at Dollar Tree

This one little pile of bricks sticker is the only one that I could find in my stash.

I have a folder of just "Tools"

I have a Creative memories 3" thick binder of just "Boy Stickers" 

I have a binder with a folder of die-cuts for the male gender

I have a folder for Manly Monday, more masculine crap 

Plus I can't forget all of the other folders and binders that

I went through looking for some damn bricks!

And this one cheapy dollar store sticker is the only one I found.

Thank you for looking and listening to my silly rant.

I looked for and did not find a wheel barrel sticker

This causes me to get more creative in the coming pages.

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this but Opa was a bricklayer. 

Hence, the more than usual bricklaying projects in these photos.  

Small Embossed Flower Bouquet cards

Simple card with Making Memories patterned paper and two chipboard exclamation points by Hiedi Swapp.

The dry embossed flowers are by Cuttlebug.

I inked them with distress ink

I'm not sure where the doily square die cut came from.

This second card...

I liked it better without the big bulky brad sentiment.

It was a soft card like the one above when it was just the embossed flowers

And then I went in and added 

This a metal embellishment that doesn’t match well

Oh well, moving on.

That is a small embossing folder is by Cuttlebug 

I lightly inked it with distress ink.

The die- cuts are by Design Objectives and Spellbinders.

The patterned paper is by Creative Memories-brown

 Making Memories-floral and

 Die Cuts with a view-green

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1972 Snowing in October Scrapbook Layout and Monkeys in the Pocket Page

Typing up all of the products is tiring. 

I need to toughen up!

I used the word stamp, October, by Heidi Swapp

The stickers are by We R Memorie Keepers

The die- cuts are by Cricut (date) and Quickutz (names)

The patterned paper is by Me and My Big Ideas

There are some close-ups.

I feel as though I've already posted the "matching" Pocket page but here it is again.

First square:

The background paper is by Provo Craft.

The calendar is unknown.

Stamps by Stampin Up and Hero Arts birthday stamp 

The rest of the paper are scraps from my stash.

Monkey sticker by Recollections

Border by EK Success

The patterned paper on the bottom by Creative Memories

Sentiment stamp by Close to my Heart.

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Anniversary Cards

Thankfully, I still need anniversary cards and these two cards were so similar that I put them into one post.

Starting with the background, I sprayed Glimmer Mist onto a stencil by Heidi Swapp and then inked the edges with distress ink. The glitter paper is by Recollections, the black die cut is an oldie from Die Cuts with a View and the red heart is a Cricut die cut stamped with a Cloud 9 sentiment with red Simon Says Stamp ink. I think Cloud 9 is a company within Fiskars.

For this next card: I created this background of hearts using the negative of a Cricut cut that I inked with distress ink. The heart die cut is from eBay out of Forever in Time pink cardstock. The square die cuts look inked. The pink paper on the left is by Studio G and the sentiment stamp is by TPC Studios with Stampin Up ink.

I feel like the word sentiment Love is a darker ink than the Best Wishes sentiment. The first is by Simon Says Stamp and the second by Stampin Up. I think it’s time to replace my SU ink pads because the pads are uneven so refilling them has become pointless. I’ve had some of these ink pads for over 10 years. They’ve had a good life. Lol.

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Wish And Pray 4 Peace

This one is complex for me. Anna Griffin embossing folder, leaf die cuts by Stampendous, red die cut is a square that I cut the corners off with decorative scissors, wish is a Heidi Swapp download, & pray are alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn, staple is by EK Success.

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I wanted to add this close up

Scalloped Shape Mosaic

This is one of those sets that I bought because the example the demo did with it was really cute but when I got it home I didn't know what to do with it. I searched Pinterest and some  other sites however I felt as though the cards made we're all the same. 

 I made this one and submitted it to the Just Cards magazine where it was published. 

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Deep Red Stamps ATC's

For the first card I used Retro Umbrella Girl. I stamped her in black and cut her out. The green cardstock is dry embossed with a border folder. The circle is a Heidi Swapp freebie download. I inked the edges with whatever mixture was left on my table at the time.

This one below I stamped the Vintage Swirls background stamp with Old Paper distress ink and brushed on some gold Perfect Pearls. I stamped the Movie Clapper in black and added a rub-on inside of it. I stamped the film piece from the Vintage photo Frame set on the left side twice. The sticker is by Cloud 9.

I stamped the frame from the Vintage Photo Frame set in a sage ink. I colored in the Vintage Delivery Truck with distress markers before stamping it inside of the frame. The side design with wheels and cogs is washi tape. The words at the top are Creative Imaginations stickers that I colored in with distress markers and the 4 is a rub on by The Paper Studio.

All the stamps used in these ATC's were by Deep Red Stamps

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View from a Bird's Nest

I created these ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) with many ideas that in the end turned out quite well but it took a long time to get those ideas together and all to work in a way that I would be proud to trade them.

I started with this Spellbinders die cut but cut in half and then die cut two for each ATC foam with adhesive backs by Tiny Crafts. This will be the bird's nest and the foam will make it so the bird appear to be sitting in the nest.

I had some raffia and I separated each piece to make the strands thinner.

After that, I cut them into smaller pieces.

 I covered the die cut with liquid glue by Beacon and added raffia to the soon to be nest. I would put something heavy on it to dry and move on to the next one. By the time I I was done adding to the 6th nest (just in case something goes wrong, it's good to have extras) the glue was dry on the first so I could Add more glue and add more raffia. This picture shows the start of the layer process.

Moving on to the next step, I inked a hexagon stencil by The Crafter's Workshop with Scattered Straw distress ink and over that inked a polka dot stencil by Heidi Swapp with Tea Dye distress ink. I cut that piece down and matted a scrap of Bazzill cardstock behind it.

I adhered the nests onto two foam die cut before adding them to the background. The chipboard birds are by Prima and to finish the card I stamped the sentiment from Newton's Nook.

I hope you like them. Have a great day.

Happy Day Layout

I do love this layout with its bright colors and simple design. The yellow background paper is by Die Cuts with a View. There is a super hero in the right lower corner that I covered up with the blue and red cardstock. 

I die cut everything else with my Cricut. The balloons are from George and Basic Shapes and the chevron stencil is by Heidi Swapp. I applied a rainbow of distress ink with an ink blending tool on top of the white layer. I adhered the two layers together and tied a bow of baker's twine around the bottom. I used some 3M foam adhesive under the balloons with the string of baker's twine tucked underneath it. The bottom of the twine is taped to the back of the red cardstock. The curl in the string just happened. Nothing fancy or any special adhesive to curl it. 

The Happy Day cut is from the cartridge The First Few years which was a freebie in Cricut Craft Room. I would really like to get that cartridge. It's on my wish list. The 1st die cut is an oval by Small Talk and Frames and I welded the 1st from the font cartridge Doodletype inside of it. The word birthday is a stamp by Lawn Fawn with black ink by Hero Arts.

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Sassy Studio Designs Sketch with Elsa

This is for the Thursday night challenge at Sassy Studio Designs the Thursday challenge  is

This I colored in Elsa Queen Coronation Sassy with Copic markers and some colored pencils by Stampin Up. 

I always have a problem coloring her hair. I think of the hair color as a white almost grey like this picture:

but then in a different light it looks like a light blonde like this picture:

Here she is in her coronation dress:

and in this dress I don't know which I see more of-white or blonde. Either way I'm not impressed with the way I colored her hair and so I'll call it, "a work in progress".

For the rest of my card I used the Creative Memories cutting system to die cut the image into an oval. The patterned papers are by My Mind's Eye and Memories in the Making. The card base has a glittery finish (David Tutera) and funny thing-I taped the pieces of the card on upside down. Ugh! The embossing folder is by Darice and I inked the edges with Evergreen Bough distress ink (Ranger). The sentiment is a download from Heidi Swapp and I stuck with a generic sentiment to make this card any occasion needed say for a birthday card, go job card or even a happy holidays card. To finish up the snowflakes are a mix of K and Co stickers and some snowflakes are a Marvy punch.

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Copic colors I used:

Cape-V04, RV17 and Faber Castell colored pencil #125

Hair-C00, C01, Y000, W0

Dress-BG18, BG34, BG11, a Stampin Up colored pencil and Faber Castell #162

Gloves-BG34, BG11, Faber Castell #162

Top of dress-C5, C3, C7

Lips-R85

Eyes-B00, B02, B04

The gold highlights come from a gold Wink of Stella pen