I Heard You Were Amazing

Background is a die cover plate by Scrapbooking Made Simple. However, it didn’t cut it just penetrated the thick Sizzix paper So I inked it with blue distress Oxide in the center.  I didn’t like it so I abandoned it and put it in my drawer of backgrounds. The sentiment stamp is by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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Heat Embossed Santa Card

The Santa stamp is by Inkadinkaso. Then I ink the background with distress ink. It was so boring so I cat it up after I added washi tape cut with decorative scissors. The sentiment is a rub on by Making Memories. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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October Calendar Layout The new Mr. And Mrs

The pumpkin patterned paper is unknown but if I had to guess it would be The Paper Studio. The background patterned paper is by Daisy D. The patterned paper border in the center is by Making Memories. The large green leaf is by Stampendous. The brown leaf punch is by Marvy. The other leaf die cut is by Sizzix. The stamped sentiment is by Lawn Fawn and the stamps in the squares on the right is by Stampin Up. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Holly Hobby Craft Roulette card

I bought a Holly Hobby stamp set while in Wisconsin October 2022. It’s exclusive to Cardmaking Magazine and I got it for a buck. I bought it for my cousin’s birthday which was Nov 2023.

I made a part of this card for,

Craft Roulette #187

Project: Cardstock and not cardstock (tan is cardstock and foto paper is not)

Colors: Santa’s workshop (red, green and neutrals)

Element: Collars (there are collars on dresses)

Random: Zigzag (green rub ons)

After Craft Roulette,  I wanted to do more with the card for my cousin’s 50th birthday. I wanted to depict something special that was a piece of our childhood. That piece was Holly Hobby. 

 I decided to use all of the images in the stamp set. The card front image opens to the right and that door was covering the second image.

The Craft Roulette  part of the card was the little girl leaning over top of fence.  

The picture above is what you see when you take the card out of the envelope.

Then you open the mini card to reveal the girl on the fence on the left and the girl in the field on the right.

There’s one more turn. And that shows the last little girl in the stamp set and she’s flying a kite.

Not what you would expect from the front is it? Here’s the thing. I didn’t expect to add the girl laying on the grass but this is what the back of the mini card looked like this,

I needed to cover that so I stamped and colored the little girl on the grass.

My cousin loved the card and was super impressed.

The patterned paper is an oldie from Provo Craft. The rub-ons came from a pack of borders by Making Memories, maybe. The stamp set is from a magazine. I colored in the images with Copic Markers and used alcohol inks to create the skies and the grass. The grass stamp is by Stamp N Plus Scrap N. The sentiment is on vellum is from Quick Quotes.

 Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Happy Spring Cards

Patterned paper by Making Memories and PiggyTales.com. The vellum is from my stash. The word “Spring “, was cut out using my Cricut. I did use some brads by Making Memories, a flower die cut by Sizzix, and a flower stamp by…maybe Hero Arts.

The Happy Stamp is by The Stamps of Life. I stamped off with the Happy stamp. I used Basic Grey on the card in the center. I cut a flower out of the patterned paper and it was a perfect swoop as the “spring” die cut. 

Upcycled Stockings Christmas Cards Part 2

It’s green for St. Patrick’s Day!

I used a Tim Holtz stencil with distress ink to create a tone on tone background. The stocking is an upcycled To From tag. The sentiment is metal and it’s by Making Memories. Thanks for looking.

Valentine’s Day cards for assisted living residents

My niece and I made cards for the seniors at the assisted living center my mom was at.

The patterned paper is from a seasonal paper pad by The Paper Studio. The heart is a negative of something, and I just loved the way the words lined up with the shape of the heart. I drew a dashed line around the edges of the card with a Copic marker.

The heart and XOXO are die cuts from my Cricut. The Be Mine sentiment is an unknown stamp. The sentiment on the right is a cutout from a cereal box, and the purple sparkly heart die is unknown.

The pattern paper is by Recollections. The pink glitter heart is Making Memories. The border at the bottom consists of heart punches.

I know very little about the cards above. The background is dry embossed. The flower stamp was colored with markers for the multiple colors. The heart die cut was by Quickutz. The sentiment on the card on the right is by Lawn Fawn. The heart is unknown. Sizzix paper.

My niece put this one together. The red paper is dry embossed with hearts that are going horizontally when the pattern is vertical. The sentiment is by Hero Arts, and it is heat-embossed in white by a Spellbinders die cut.

Thanks for looking

Christmas tree card with Mulberry Paper

This is a crazy card. The snowflake background paper is by Making Memories. The snowflakes are a flock sort of touch.
The blue background is a mulberry paper. I did a few things with it. First, I pulled the edges apart using water and a tool from Creative Memories. Second, I added small stars that I retrieved from a corner punch. Lastly, I sprayed the mulberry paper with a mixture that I made where I added perfect pearls into a water bottle.
And here's the last part about my card the tree. I used distress markers to color in the rubber area before stamping it down. Then I fussy cut the tree and adhered it to the mulberry paper with foam adhesive. Not pleasant or easy to do. Anyway,
Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Coral Floral Card

The patterned papers are by My Mind’s Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Gray. The sentiment by Hero Arts is stamped onto a Martha Stewart label sticker. The flowers are by Prima and brads probably from Making Memories.

Papers are same as above. The sentiment stamp by Hero Arts is stamped with Versa Fine black ink on a scrap of paper that has powdered chalk on it. It punched out beautifully using an oval punch by Marvy. The sentiment stands out from the white flowers most of which are by Prima. Thanks for looking.

The above photo is the rough draft of the 2nd card. I like what I went with. Thanks for looking.

November Calendar Layout The Last Supper

I started with brown patterned paper by Creative Memories and then added the Making Memories floral paper  on top. The teal paper is unknown. 

The leaves are stickers. The title Grateful by K and Co. is a sticker on top of a Spellbinders die that I inked the inside before taking it out of the die. The flower in the brown square (by K and Co. too) is a sticker layered on top of teal square punch and a bigger brown square punches by Creative Memories.

Thanks for looking.

Cricut patterned background with a Butterfly Card

The background was made with a Cricut. The border punch is by Martha Stewart out of Making Memories and Sunborn patterned paper. The butterfly stamp was from Cloud 9 and I colored it in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking. 

Floral Friday Hello card with Half and Half

This card is one of my faves and there’s nothing to it. Patterned paper is by Making Memories and the word die cut paper is by Colorbok. The main die cut is by Simply Defined by Scrapbooking made Simply. I don’t exactly know where the sentiment die is from. But I do know that it’s in blue and white packaging and it’s a girl’s name. It’s probably in the basement. I can’t go into the basement to look it up because I had surgery in June and my balance is off making me more susceptible to fall. So I’m staying upstairs.

Thanks for looking.

April Calendar Layout with my Great-nephew

This is my nephew and his girlfriend with my Great-nephew. The square of patterned paper in the center is by Making Memories. The leaves are by EK Success. The other stickers are by Me and My Big Ideas. And that's it. Thanks for looking.

Debra's 60th Birthday card

Debra is a Zoom friend. I used two identical Project Life cards, one on top and the other on the bottom then I added these Making Memories number stickers on top of a Colorbok chipboard buckle. The ribbon is from Pebbles. Thanks  for looking.

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

Thanks for looking.

Deep Red stamps gold embossed butterfly card

Isn’t that crazy how the card looks in the different lights. The scalloped half circle is a journaling card by Making Memories. The butterfly stamp is by Deep Red stamps. I heat-embossed with a gold embossing powder. Then a inked the area where the butterfly is. Then I partially colored it in with different colors of distress ink. 

Thanks for looking. 

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Black and Pink Humming Bird Card

The Patterned paper by My Mind's Eye (Lost and Found-Madison Ave). The border is by Making Memories. The bird stamp is by Close to my Heart. I kept the outside just like that and put a T.O.Y sentiment on the inside. (T.O.Y is thinking of you). Thanks for Looking.
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Thinking of you Basic Grey Tag Card

The patterned paper is by Making Memories. The tag is Basic Grey. The sentiment is a rubber stamp. Thanks for looking.

Double up- cycled Christmas card

The patterned paper is by Pebbles. The eyelet is by Memory Makers. The gold thread is by Martha Stewart. The die cut is by Spellbinders and it was a wallpaper sample. The ornament of the manger scene was a advertisement from one of the ministries in town.

Thanks for looking.

Calendar page July at GA (Not a USA layout)

July but not the USA-  the patterned paper companies are Making Memories, Stampin Up, and Creative Memories. Circle dies were cut with Cricut. The flowers that I fussy cut are by My Mind's Eye.

There are Stamp by The Paper Co (smile and Memories in the Making) 

The small gems are by Forever in time. Thanks for looking.