Snowflake frame card

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  The snowflake frame is by Memory Box. The patterned paper and label are so old that I don’t remember. I did apply distress Stickles on the leaves but you it’s hard to tell in the pictures. Distress Stickles are not sparkly.

Simon Says Stamp weather challenge

Be Merry Zoe Christmas card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #279

The parameters are PROJECT; kid’s cards . COLORS: theater  ELEMENT: picture RANDOM: half and half 

The patterned papers are by Ciao Bella's Ziggy and Zoe. Frame stamp by Newton’s Nook. Sentiment die is unknown but I covered it with Stickles.

Challenges: Simon says Stamp-Christmas 

Square Snowflake Card

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Happy 27th Anniversary to us

This is the anniversary card I made for my husband. Well, we were lucky to be able to take a vacation up north with family on the actual day of our anniversary. Sadly, I forgot the card at home, and even worse, I still haven’t given it to him.

The flower was folded crêpe paper/streamer paper. I had stamped it with a Stampin Up wheel stamp and gave it a little bit of Stickles. The arch die was a Cricut cut. The doily is by Doodlebug. The letters and heart are like Quickuts. And the patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink.

Card made this card for Craft Roulette #219

Parameters:

Project – anniversary.

Colors – garden salad. I looked up salads and found one with brown rice, walnuts, and tomatoes.

Element – new. The letter dies are new to me.

Random – fold a corner. The flower has many folded corners.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Alcohol Inks and Sunflower Card

I made this background with alcohol inks. This lovely sunflower found its way onto my desk and it matched the paper just beautifully. I added Stickles to random areas of the flower to give it some sparkle. I had some rub-ons of a straight stitch in the yellow-orange color.

 The last thing I did was glue on the “happy” sentiment die cut by Clearly Besotted and when I was doing that the glue got all over the letters. To fix it, I brushed gold Perfect Pearls over the letters.

The flower stamp is by Stampendous. They went out of business in September of 2022, Please correct me if I’m wrong. 

Why is this important? I’m going to tell you. I purchased the dies because they were less than a dollar. I was going to look around for the matching stamps. It never occurred to me that the company would go out of business and I wouldn’t be able to get them anymore. Having the dies was a bit pointless until a friend shared with me to color copy the images on the package to use with the dies. I didn’t know you could do that after the company went out of business. Kick butt!

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Floral Friday Pink Flowers Destash Card

This card used up most of my small pink flowers. I will probably regret that in the future but there are other pink flower accents that I can make. 

When I started placing the flowers on the card I didn’t know where I was going with it. I just went for it and glued them down and added Stickles to the center. That wasn’t the best decision. I should have made the pattern then glued the flowers down. I thought:

Oh well, I liked the top better than the bottom.

 It was the bottom and so I was OK with it. 

The top is cleaner than the bottom. 

Nobody will see the bottom. Ya right!

I found the tiny plate with letter die cuts and cut out “Thirty 1993” for my Niece’s 30th birthday. I adhered the letters around a rhinestone cluster that I found in my stash. 

I had to cut off the edges of the front panel to fit on my card base. It wasn’t until then that I realized…I glued the letters on upside down.
I was crushed. I tried to take the letters off. Nope. Removing the letters was destroying the flowers, which I only had 2-3 flowers left.

Looking at it now, it’s no big deal. You can hardly tell or see what I’m talking about. But...You see this flower front panel had been sitting on my desk for weeks. I looked at it all of time. I was working to figure out the best way to finish it. I couldn't get just any sentiment to look "right". 

So when I found the alphabet plate I knew just what to do with it. I was excited to use it for the special occasion. But then to have so much into it to trip at the finish line...irritating. 

I have to remind myself that,

It’s handmade. Not Ha11m@rk.

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Manly Monday Blues and Greens Christmas card

 The background paper is by Stampin Up. I dry embossed it with a snowflake embossing folder by Cuttlebug. Then I lightly inked the raised area with distress ink. The plaid background stamp is by Just Rite stamps. I inked it with a bunch of different ink colors because I was testing the ink pads on a mint colored cardstock and ended up liking it. I inked the edges before taping it down. 

The tree stamp is by Cloud Nine. I stamped and colored it in with Peerless Watercolors. After that, it was off to the die cut using a Spellbinders die. I inked blue to look like the sky and then Stickles to look like snow.

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Floral Friday Christmas Cricut Slimline card

Slimline cards are a challenge for me. I feel like there’s so much wasted space yet if you fill it up, it’s just too much. 

The background patterned paper is by Bo Bunny.  The poinsettia is a Cricut die cut (Image set called Christmas Noel).

 

I dry embossed one of the layers of the poinsettia with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before adding Stickles to the petals.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts; I heat embossed it in gold and then colored in the frame with a mixture of paint and chalk. The ric rack is from my mother-in-law‘s stash.

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Manly Monday sports frame card

So, today is a good day to start posting on my blog again.

Why?

I like my blog. I like looking back and seeing my creations that I made years ago. So same schedule as before;

Manly Monday 

Calendar Wednesday

Floral Friday

Happy Monday to all. So here is another Craft Roulette challenge card. Ya know what? The show airs on Friday and people have until Sunday at midnight to enter the challenge. That would be 1 AM my time. So of course I wait until 11 to start my project and it takes me until the very last second. I like the way the card turns out.

Craft Roulette  #177 

The parameters are games, colors-summer vacations, windows, and checks. I made the sunrise from yellow ink 

And a piece of paper to create the rays. Then I added put Stickles on the rays. I stamped the sports frame by Stampendous colored it in with Copic markers and then cut it out with the matching dies. The grass is made out of regular green ink. Since one of the perimeters was checks I took a green marker and drew checks into the grass. 

I apologize for the extra letters or words that are odd. My hands are very jerky today. Also, they say the anesthesia can cause a fog for a while afterward. I probably just got over the fog and then had my second surgery. Thanks for looking

Plus, I am on an iPad and sometimes blogger which is a Google platform, don’t play nice in the sandbox

Floral Friday Puple and Pink Daisy card

The card today is a birthday card. The patterned paper is from a 6x6 paper pad by a Hampton Arts company called Studio G. The flower stamp is on a Spellbinders die cut. 

Idk why I stamped the flower onto purple cardstock, seriously idk why. But then I used a Spellbinders die to cut it out...crooked. So it sat in my drawer until recently, before calendar season. I'm looking at it going, what do I do with this thing, which direction should the card be, why did I put foam adhesive on it and why didn't I hide the foam better? Ugh! I took a Copic marker and colored the foam adhesive purple when my hand jerked and the marker went on the die cut. Awesome. I colored the edges in the darker purple and again my hand jerked so I brought the color in toward the flower. The flower got lost on the die cut so I put Stickles in the center and I wish I wouldn't have. The card's orientation is portrait. Here are some other cards using the same stamp. Thanks for looking.The die cut in the center is a Cricut cut. It is 2 layers with the pink paper by Sunborn and the purple cardstock from my stash. Here is a fun fact about that die cut, on the back  it says, "CCR Cartridge Freebie called Labels." 

Let me dissect that lingo; CCR is "Cricut Craft Room". That was the second computer software that the Cricut company used and could be used with the archaic Cricut Expression. The word "Cartridge" should also be a giveaway that these are old die cuts because Cricut went away with cartridges when they introduced the "Explore Air". When they released the Explore Air they also created a new software called "Design Space" to take place the CCR. Sadly, Cricut still uses the same DS software that it did back then. SMH.

Anyway, below are links of cards using the same daisy stamp.

A Special Day 

Distress stain Daisy stamp 

Yellow and Green Daisy

Cricut Christmas cards using both positive and negative word

I made these cards on my Cricut. I added Stickles to the holly berries

The JOY letters came from the card above. The die-cut it's on is by Spellbinders. The patterned paper is by Bazzill. Then a red scrap of paper in the center.

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Floral Friday Background Die Cut Cards

The pretty floral die-cut for my cards today is by Sizzix.

For the Best wishes card, I sprayed the white die cut wish Dylusions shimmer spray. The sentiment is a Cricut cut. It has a shadow patterned paper houndstooth. The epoxy stickers are by Cloud 9 (Fiskars).

The second card uses the same die but this time I colored in the pattern with Copic markers. I then added some Stickles, which I don't love but oh well. The stamped sentiment by Fiskars is on a Spellbinders die cut. The oval ring is by Creative Memories.

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Peace on Earth WRMK Sticker card

A little bit different Christmas card to share today. In the center is a sticker by We R Memory Keepers 

Die-cuts underneath are by Spellbinders. Patterned paper by Scenic Route. I added Stickles to the design. The green-colored paper die cut is an old packaging.

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100th Birthday cards

I made these cards to donate.
The gift and number stamps are by Stampin Up.
Birthday die-cut is by Clearly Besotted (?)
I used a Darice border embossing folder with Stickles
The card on the left uses a recycled background.
The patterned paper used on the card on the right is by Studio Calico.

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Purple and Aqua flower For You card

The flower stamp is a Cricut draw and cut that I colored in with Copic markers. The sentiment is by Forever in Time, punched out with the Creative Memories circle punch. The die-cut by Tim Holtz is the border die on both sides. I scattered Stickles in the background.

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Multiple layered Flower Pink Card

I can't totally explain the pictures because I have PT. Let's just say getting the gromet and the brad in the middle was a challenge because I could not use my Crop-o-dile.

The sentiment stamp is from a dollar bin from Michael's and stamped in white pigment ink by SU

The die-cuts-Spellbinders

The patterned paper is by Sunborn

The master plan has been set as you can see in the photo below.

And here is the pretty card again.

Previous post with these flowers

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Bright colore handmade Flower cards

I should have posted these with yesterday's post but I felt like the WoW! colors of these would overshadow the softer colored flower card.

I don't have it in me to list the products. If you have a question on something please leave me a comment.

I made these ATC's in 2017 and they were published in 

Swap Art

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Silver cards with purple flowers

At the end of this post, I responded to my own post from yesterday. lol...That probably makes no sense to anybody but me.

The first set of two cards are similar and the second set of two cards are similar. However, the first and third cards have nothing in common. 

Scratch that! Card 1 and Card 3 use the same circle square die cut.

Moving on.

The stamp on the pink card is by Stampin up. I colored it in with Copic markers and used some Stickles on each flower.

The sentiment is part of the bouquet stamp

The gray square with circle edges die-cut is by Spellbinders

The silver paper is by Creative Memories

I used the same silver cardstock on these two cards in the same way.

So check this out.

I found a trend on some store-bought cards.

There will be a large image on the front of the card and then there will be a smaller image of the same design or color on the back of the card.

I used both images in this set of cards.

This the front image of the card. I matted it onto the same silver cardstock as above the same purple recycled card as below.

The purple and yellow backgrounds are recycled cards. 

Square punch by Creative Memories. 

The scalloped square die is by Spellbinders.

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Yesterday I said, I need to quit using this stamp set. I've tried. 

But now I think it's time to move on from yesterday's stamp set and a few others that I've gotten my money's worth on. 

So let me tell you about the company called,

 Dies...to Die For

 The owner lost her husband when her children were very young and it prompted her to start making memory books of him for her kids. 

Here's her page about Crafting for a Cause mission.

She is a local scrapbook business and you may recall that I auditioned for her DT back in December. You can see the project I made in this post HERE.

Thanks again for stopping by. Have a great weekend.