Sketch Print Cupcake card

The patterned paper is really old and I don’t know who it’s by. The green is by the Paper Loft. The cupcake stamp is by Tim Holtz. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday food and drink challenge

May Calendar Layout Gone Fishing

Products-Oriental Trading Co letter stickers in square punches by Creative Memories. Fishing title by The Paper Loft. Patterned paper by Colorbok. Thanks for looking

Calendar Layout The Paper Loft products

2019 Cottage Nov- Mountain man
Paper by The Paper Loft and Creative Memories photo mat with a recycled card under that. The double axe die cut with my Cricut. Title letters are stickers of wood and branches by Provo Craft (Old school!). I wrote with a distress marker

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Painting for Surprise Loose Change Scrapbook Calendar Layout

I really like this layout. I used scraps of paper to create the background which matches the outside of our cottage.

 Then I cut out the super cute bucket and paint brush with my Cricut 

The surprise label is by The Paper Loft. I never thought I would use it but kept it around, “just in case.”  It has been in my stash for 10 years if not longer. I think it was 2009 that my mom and I went to Novi, Michigan for the scrapbook convention where we took classes. The different companies would give you the supplies to make layouts for us to put together while they teach us different techniques to go with the layouts. 

It was there that I took class from the famous Tim Holtz. It was more way more expensive but was worth every penny. 

He gave us so much information and had so much positivity. Just a really good educational class that I use those techniques over and over again. 

It was cool how we were made to sit by somebody that you didn’t know. Talk about vulnerable. But it was a really good idea. You could learn from the class and not socialize with your friends during class.

It really takes you out of your comfort zone being with the people that you don’t know. 

 Everyone was in groups of three except for myself and the other lady I was with. That worked to our advantage. You see, at the end of the class he told us to divide up the distress ink pads that we had been using in our group. It was evenly divided as you would take turns choosing which distress inks that you would like to keep. Everyone else had to divide their pads by three and my lady and I divided ours by two. And we exchanged well as in she took colors that I didn’t want. I thought it was really cool

that we got to keep the

Thanks for looking

Just a Note with muted Colors and a wallpaper leaf Card

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye (background) and The Paper Loft (strips). The sentiment is a die by Spellbinders. I replaced the paper dot for with a dot for the “I” by Cloud 9. The label is made of chipboard and I painted it with Ranger’s gold distress paint and put Perfect Pearls on top of it. The leaf die is by Stampendous. The two leaves are unique for I cut one cut out of cardstock and one out of a wallpaper sample. Thanks for looking.
Happy Little Stamper challenge
Anything goes with dies

May Calendar Layout scavenger hunt at cottage

2019 May cottage calendar- Scavenger Hunt. Title sticker is by Three Bugs in a Rug.

Everything else is paper by The Paper Loft and Creative Memories. Thanks for looking.

Gabe’s Outdoor Adventures with Grandpa Layout

Here’s another layout in my nephew's scrapbook. The Left side: Patterned paper by Me and My Big Ideas and The Paper Loft. Tags are by Chatter Box. Hat and shovel stickers by Creative Memories and the word stickers are by 

Patterned paper by Stampin Up and Tim Holtz. Number stamps by Close to my Heart. Ink by Hero Arts. Letter stickers by Making Memories. The pine tree embellishments are by Jolee's Boutique-EK Success. The ephemera title thing is sooo old. I love to use old stash and like it when it doesn't look like an old stash. 

Tag Question-

Should I set the hole with an eyelet?

Should I put some jute or twine in the holes?

Tags are a grey area for me. I never know what to do to the top.

The stitching on them is a really nice touch. Shout out to Chatterbox if they are still around.

Thanks for looking

Calendar Layout Wednesday Picnic area at the Cottage

June 2019 Cottage calendar-Picnic Area

Background pp- EK Success

All other paper behind pics and accents-The Paper Loft

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1975 Outdoors and Christmas time Pocket page Scrapbook layout

More 1975

The first card: alphabet stamps on the journal box are by Stampin Up A sticker or two by Karen Foster

The center card, the words, "Outside in 1975", stamps are by Lawn Fawn on a The Girls Paperie die cut that I inked with distress ink

1975 was cut out using my Cricut

The scraps of patterned papers are by The Paper Loft 

The blue patterned paper used on 8 of the 9 cards is by Colorbok. (Bok not BoX)

I inked the edges with a brown chalk ink by Colorbox. (Box. Not BoK.)

Seriously. Did these two companies not know of each other when naming their company? SMH

There's not too much to talk about on this pocket page. 

The top right card is the only one with anything on it.

The date stickers are by Creative Memories

The title was cut out using my Cricut

The trees are stickers from my stash

The patterned papers are by Daisy D.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Manly Monday Wyoming Scrapbook Layout

This is the last page in my husband’s scrapbook of his trip to Wyoming 

The patterned paper is by The Paper Loft.

I ripped it and inked it to go around the article that was in our town’s paper. 

I created the year die cut with my Cricut and Don Juan font. 

The month sticker is so old, I no longer have the packaging.

I hope to share other layouts from his book. 

Thanks for looking.

Deep Red Stamps Victorian Seamstress card

I used a stamp by Deep Red Stamps called 

Victorian Seamstress

I colored her in with Copic Markers

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted

The die- cuts are by Sizzix and The Paper Loft

I made the patterned paper using a stencil by The Crafter's Workshop and distress ink

I sewed around the image.

Thanks for looking

Enjoy It's your Day

I have a card today that features a 

background stamp that can be found at

Scrapbook.com

I stamped it with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger copper embossing powder onto Ranger Watercolor cardstock. Then I inked the background with Antique Linen distress ink direct to paper technique. I added Stampin Up ribbon to the right side of  card and adhered The Paper Loft sentiment to the bottom of the card panel. I then added a SRM Sticker sentiment to that sentiment. The clock front is wood by The Little Yellow Bicycle with hand brads (playing spinners) by Ranger Industries.

Thanks for looking

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://notrealstamps.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes
http://www.happylittlestampers.blogspot.com.au/ Embossing
http://thecraftingcafe.blogspot.co.uk/ Favorite technique (heat embossing)
http://addicted-to-stamps-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/ Embossing
http://stampedblessings.com/ Anything goes
http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

Tree bark Background Stamp by Deep Red Stamps

I made today's card using the Tree bark background stamp by Deep Red Stamps.

I heat-embossed the background with Versa Mark ink and clear embossing powder by Stamp N Plus. Then I used Stamp N Plus copper powdered chalk called Ritzy mixed with paint and smeared it onto the cardstock. I love the way it turned out. 

Other products include a sentiment by The Paper Loft, die cuts by Spellbinders, patterned background paper by Cosmo Cricket, Jute by Tim Holtz at Ranger Industries, and the epoxy sticker by Studio G. 

Thanks for looking.

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ Make your own embellishments {Die cuts with epoxy sticker}

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/ Anything goes

http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://perfectlyrustics.com/ Sentiment Not Birthday

http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/ Embossing powder

http://squigglefly.blogspot.com/ Emboss or die cut {I have both}

http://thepapernestdollschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/ Use a sentiment Still open in 2023

Manly Monday

Hi everyone. Sorry for the late post. I'm working with my MIL, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's, on her old magnetic photo albums. There about 40 or so books that need to be transferred into acid free sleeves with some sort of annotation as to what they are. Thanks to We R Memory Keepers we are on our way with two and a half books down. {Buy their stock-it's going to be an expensive project} I just really want to get whatever memories we can out of her before the disease progresses anymore. She took the photos and then the time to put them into books so they were of some value to her. I think it's only right to preserve them for her.

So Here we go with Week 1 of 2014 Manly Monday posts. I hope you will leave some love on these amazing crafters blogs. There is some inspiration in each piece for those pesky male cards. Enjoy.

Gram's Treasures

Pause Dream Enjoy

A Fourth Life

Dawnie's Den

Kartolina

Art Belly dancing Crafts

I Love to Make Cards

My Paper Love

Scrap-N-Patch

No Bees, Please!

Stamping in Pink

Magagi's Crafty Bits

Handcrafted Especially for You

Weren't those awesome? Love the variety.
For my card I chose to heat emboss this Wagon Wheel Stamp by Deep Red Stamp. It's a new stamp at A Cherry on Top.

I used Versa Mark ink and Stamp N Plus gold embossing powder to create my image and after I stamped and embossed the wagon wheel I die cut it out with a Spellbinders circle die. I like to add some dimension to my die cut images so while it was still in the die cut I used Antique Linen distress ink on the open area of the die cut. I love the way distress inks make things all come together. 

The boot, hat and sentiment are fussy cut out of a Die Cuts with a View Boys Stack patterned paper. The both brown cardstock pieces were scraps from my pile. However, the patterned papers I know are by Tim Holtz (background) and The Paper Loft (plaid pattern).

Challenges:

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/- CAS

http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ For the boys

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/- Boys/Men

http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.com/- A man card

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

http://digisketchchallenge.blogspot.com/ One for the men

Manly Monday Moose Masking technique card

My card is featuring a Moose stamp from Stamp N Plus. I thought he was perfect for manly cards. I stamped him on Strathmore watercolor paper using Hero Arts black ink. I colored him in with distress markers and a water pen before making a mask of the moose using masking paper by Inkadinkado. I covered the moose with the mask and made my background using distress inks and an ink blender all from Ranger. I used the colors Broken China and Tumbled Glass for the sky and then Crushed Olive for the grass. I wanted to hide my crafty boo-boo so I stamped a grass stamp also by Stamp N Plus where the sky meets the ground. I think I could do more to make the boo-boo blend into the grass but haven't done it yet.

After I colored in the image and created the sky and the ground, I sprayed it with water mixed with Perfect Pearls. I mounted the image onto brown cardstock and then pieced together the rest of my card with things I had been hoarding for some time now. Who knows why I save things instead of using them. Idk-smh. I do know the sentiment is by The Paper Loft. They have some great outdoor papers and sentiments to go with them.

So I will be looking for manly cards to post upon my return Monday, January 6, 2014. Until then I do have a few manly layouts to share along with some cards. I will be posting in December I just won't have time to postcards made by other crafters. I hope you understand. Thank you.

Please forgive the terrible lateness of this post. I'll say it again-that job thing that I have to go to really puts a cramp in my crafting time-lol. If I didn't have to go there four days a week I think I would be able to get these posts out on time. With that being said, the Christmas holiday is a very busy time for me. I make more than a dozen calendars for family members. My time online will be limited. I think it would be best to postpone Manly Monday until the start of the new year. It's hard to find masculine cards when all the challenge sites are doing Christmas challenges.
Well, here we go...

J Atterbury Creations

Purpleglo Creations

Nicole's Craft Nook

Honey's Cards and Crafts

Challenges:
http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes with stash item anything goes {my stash item is the brown checked paper}
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://paperminutes.blogspot.com/- Birthday card with an animal
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/- Anything goes
http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/- Cute scenes or backgrounds
http://cardsformen.blogspot.com/- Anything goes for a guy
http://www.anonymousstamps.blogspot.co.uk/- No theme
http://tokbobok.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://sparklesforumchallenges.blogspot.com/- Animals
http://cateredcrop.com/- Animals
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/- Anything goes
http://herecometheboysblogchallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes for boys
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
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Manly Monday

Welcome back to Manly Monday. Check out the guy cards I found this week and then scroll down to see mine. It's getting tough to find regular cards with all the Christmas card challenge themes going on. If you've made a masculine card and would like it posted on Manly Monday, send me an email which is listed in the right column. Thanks.

Castles in the Skies

Kompis-Kort-by-MI

Croft Crafts

Chris and Lou

Nixe-Moni Creative

Val By Design

I found this embossing folder at our LSS and wasn't sure how I would use it but I would find away. I embossed a piece of Neenah Solar white cardstock and then cut the bottom of the design off to do something more with it. Using a blending tool and distress ink from Ranger Industries I was able to turn the white cardstock brown in certain areas and over the raised ares. I trimmed up the word Camping, distressed the edges with scissors and matted it onto brown cardstock. Other supplies in my card: Jute from my stash, the tent brad is by Eyelet Outlet and the background paper is by The Paper Loft. 

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:
http://natalieandamy.blogspot.co.uk/- For the boys