Manly Monday Leafy birthday card

I colored the leaves in with Copic markers on a thin piece of patterned paper. The wood patterned paper is by The Paper Studio. You can see the ink bleeding through the paper. 

The stamp is by Simon Says Stamp, I think. The happy birthday is a Cricut die cut. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Kayak with a painted scene

I made the background with different paints and water. The water waves were cut out using my Cricut and crappy Dollar Tree glitter vinyl. I cut the paddle out with the Cricut too. The kayak is a stamp by The Paper Studio. I stamped it out on water color paper and used peerless watercolors and a watercolor pen by Ranger. 

I finished this one moments ago for theSimon Says Stamp Monday challenge -fun with paint

Heart Background Special Friend card

The blue glitter paper is by The Paper Studio. I cut the hearts out with my Cricut. Then I backed the hearts with Color Aid paper. I popped it up with foam adhesive. Except the open heart. I stamped the sentiment with Staz-on black ink on Sizzix glitter cardstock. Neither of the glitter paper shed. To a special friend is a Stampendous stamp.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp-hearts

Simon says Stamp-Anything goes

All sorts make your own background

Manly Monday Tree silhouette die cut

The tree background die is by Dreamweaver Stencils. The yellow background was made using distress oxide. The bottom edge is made up of border punches just 2 layers to make it look fuller. After I added the tree die to the background I dry embossed it with an embossing folder by The Paper studio at Hobby Lobby. I added distress oxide over the whole thing before added a upcycled thank you tag. 

I’m entering this card into the thank you challenge at Simon Says Stamp. And Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Thank you 😊 

 This card was made with a piece of basic gray patterned paper and a piece of copper metallic paper that has texture. The sentiment is by Bo Bunny, and the brad is by Creative Imagination.

The background paper is by Accord Publishing. This time I colored the die cut with a Copic Markers. I cut the edge thin so that it would sit inside the frame of the patterned paper. 

The background inside the frame was made with distress ink. I tried to make it look like a the shadows of the tree trunks. I ripped a piece of paper on the bottom edge of the tree and made it look like dirt. Hopefully it did. 

Thanks for looking and reading my long post. 

Fall Ephemera cards

I made this trio of cards using ephemera from a crafty friend.

The Fall card: The strip of paper in the center was stamped with a Stampin Up background stamp. It’s the same color for a tone on tone look. The checkered paper is by Provo Craft and the paper on top of that is a wood patterned paper by The Paper Studio. The jute is by Tim Holtz and the brad is by Creative Imagination. The sentiment was cut out with my Cricut.

The pumpkin card: This card has many of the same papers as above. The main thing that is different is I cut the wood patterned paper and gave each corner a fold up. Look closely and you can see how I did it.

The Bunny card: I stamped different leaf stamps with red ink onto a piece of striped patterned paper  by Provo Craft.  The brads are unknown. The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous and the orange oval die cut is by Sizzix.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Triple Fold card

I made this card using the tutorial by Brandi Mahon. The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio. The flower is by Stampendous. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday 50th Lumberjack Card

I bought this die plate from Scrapbooking Made Simple. The lumberjack stamp is unknown. I colored him in with Copic markers. The sentiment stamp is by The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. Thanks for looking.

Sage colored Candle Christmas Card

The polka dot patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink and the strips of paper that say Merry Christmas are by The Paper Studio. I heat embossed the candle image with silver embossing powder and added color to the candles with Stampin Up colored pencils. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Pup-er hugs

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio. The sentiment die cut is by Lawn Fawn. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Floral Friday Heart Border Celebrate card

This is the first card I made overlapping the heart stamp border. It goes with the other anniversary cards. But I don’t love this version of the card as much as the others. It’s a nice card for someone. It’s just not my favorite. 

The side panels are from a store-bought card. The sentiment die cut is by Sizzix. The heart rhinestones, which I don’t care for, are by The Paper Studio. Embellishing cards is awkward for me. It never looks…right. Anyway, the ink that I used on the heart stamp is by Stampin Up. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Pink and blue Cakes Card

This is my Craft Roulette #217. card:
Project: A2
Colors-French cafe
Element: June
Random: polka Dots-the background stamp

I made the background patterned paper with distress crayons. I pressed a crayon down on the outside edge of the white paper and then pulled the color in towards the center after each pass until I made a rectangle in the middle of the paper. Then I dipped my finger into water and followed the pattern started on the inside working my way out to the edge of the paper.  I then stamped a polka dot background with a Love Nicole stamp in a matching color. 

The blue glitter paper is not glittery. It has a coating over it so it doesn’t shed. It is by The Paper Studio. The blue opulent paper is by Die Cuts with a View. The white with blue squiggly lines is by Cricut. I colored the image in with Copic markers.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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

Manly Monday Confetti Birthday Card

This is a square card and the confetti patterned paper by Accord Publishing was a 5 x 7. Therefore, I had to cut it down and make it mesh together to fit seamlessly. And I can honestly say that when I look at this picture, I can’t tell where that seam is.

 The star punch is by Creative Memories and the paper is a glitter paper, but it’s almost waxy and it is by The Paper Studio

The wavy rectangle dies are by Stampendous. The sentiment die is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The wonky shaped die, red cardstock die in the center, it is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. 

Thanks for looking.

Christmas Ornaments Card

I fussy cut these ornaments from patterned paper by The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby. I then added Stickles to their design. I used my sewing machine to quickly sew the lines in to look like they are hanging down. The Hero Arts sentiment stamps were stamped onto cardstock and cut them out to fit the card’s design.

 Thanks for looking.

Here are some other Christmas cards that have sewing on them. Keep in mind that these are OLD cardso

Purple snowflake card

3rd card down (I hand sewed the floss into the holes of the border punch.)

Pink Christmas 

2010 pink card

Scrapbook layout

Rock n roll

Manly Monday Buck die cut with a tag and some upcycling

Simon says Stamp. Birthday 

The background paper is a wood pattern from the The Paper Studio Dendrology paper pad. The tag is by Basic Grey and the brad is from my stash. The birthday sentiment is by Stampin Up. I ripped the edges because they were uneven and it wasn’t worth my time to clean them up. 

So, I had die cut a different buck die cut out of the tag. I thought that the buck would look good in the tag’s patterned paper. Well, it didn’t. 

 I could not let the tag go into the trash/recycle bin so I needed to cover up the mess. I die cut the Spellbinders Label 4 out of a wallpaper sample. I die cut a buck head that was different and smaller than the original and then I adhered them together with Ranger Medium Matte. 

The label die didn’t cover the hole in the tag so I used the previous mistake/flaw to my advantage. I positioned the bottom of  the label die cut into the bottom of the tag which was the antlers of the original buck die cut.

In hindsight, I should have taken a picture of the tag before putting everything together because in 5 years I won’t understand what all of this means. Maybe. Thanks for looking.

January Cottage calendar Gabe is helping.

So a large tree stood tall over our cottage and deck. A tornado, one of many that touched down that day, took our tree down. That tree was 2 feet away from hitting the cottage. Craziness! (This is from the 2020 cottage calendar.) 
These are old supplies. The top patterned paper is by The Paper Studio (Della Fantasia) and I can't find the other one. The border is super old and doesn't have any manufacturer. The three stickers are from Jolee's Boutique. The word "helping" is a font stamp set by Stampin' Up. Thanks for looking.

Merry Christmas A Child is Born card

Merry Christmas. A friend sent me this die cut and so I made a background using distress ink and flicked a little bit of water on it. I put wood-patterned paper behind the words. The patterned paper behind the front panel is by Colorbok. Thanks for looking.

Fall Colors with leafy dry embossed background card

I found this beautiful background in “the drawer”. It’s dry embossed with a Darice embossing folder. I covered the background with Distress Oxide and sprayed it with Dylusions Shimmer Spray. I wrapped the rust-colored ribbon down the center of the embossed background and secured it around the backside. Then on top of the ribbon is a piece of patterned paper by The Paper Studio. I used my Cricut to cut out the sentiment. The leaves and the die cut in the center are by Spellbinders. Thanks for looking.

I’m entering Crafty Cats anything goes birthdays. 

Up-cycled Mint colored Christmas Circles

The circles are from junk mail and the holly around the circle I made on my Cricut. I put eyelets in the top and put a silver string through it. The patterned paper is wood design and from The Paper Studio. It's called Dendrology. 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.