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! 

Manly Monday Chalk Markers Hello card

I stamped The sunrise and car with chalk markers. The car is a second generation stamp image. I added yellow, blue and green, distress ink to create the sunny scene. The car is from Tim Holtz and the sunrise and sentiment is unknown. 

I put that front panel onto a black card stock card base. 

This card was made for Craft Roulette #287. The parameters were: project – card with a hello. Colors – crisp. Element – Sunny. Random – pennant.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-bright and colorful

Autumn Birthday wishes

So I didn’t like the patterned paper on this card base. So I heavily inked it with distress oxide, and when I had it covered, I then took a background stamp a Chevron background stamp and sprayed it with water. I then put the card on top of the background and let it sit for a couple of seconds I pulled it up and was able to get the image of the background stamp.

The background stamp is by Hero Arts. The border die is by Tim Holtz. The birthday die is by Clearly Besotted. I just realized that the tiddle is missing from the I. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

However Long the Night the Dawn Will Break

This is a tribute card to 911. The patterned paper is from my stash. I applied Astro Paste by Simon Hurley onto a sunrise stencil by Tim Holtz directly onto of the patterned paper at the top of the card. The bottom of the card is white cardstock that I used to wipe up the remaining paste on the stencil. The unknown sentiment is on a Spellbinders scallop circle die.  Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Craft Roulette Matchbook Best Wishes Card

This card is for Craft Roulette #271

Parameters: Matchbook card (held together by two brads with jute wrapped around them. Jute is  Tim Holtz.)

Park colors: blue sky and dirt trails. We used Color Cube #176. (See below) The patterned paper is by Paper Favourites.

Element-key (I found it in my brad container) 

Here is a picture of the card opened.

Here are the Color Cube colors.

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Art Impression Lighthouse card

The lighthouse stamp is by Art Impression and I colored it in with Copic markers. Then I die cut it out with an eBay stitched square die. The patterned paper is by Paper Favourites. The hemp is by Tim Holtz. The enamel dots are by Hero Arts. The sentiment is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. 

Thanks for looking.

Challenge:

Art Impressions Anything goes
Cardz for Men Body of water

Manly Monday Beach Scene Card

The car stamp is by Tim Holtz in brown chalk marker, that I regret giving them to my niece.the die cut was bought on eBay.

The baby is interested in what is Mom and Dad doing. Details on the guy/girl panel: they are on a die cut that resembles a rope net or mermaid tail scales. The chair is by Gina Marie and the flip flops were drawn by my husband. Y

Then you open the next panel and you can see the parts and pieces that I used to make this  card. The seashell die cut is by Creative Expression (i think). I used a post note to ask off the different shelves and seaweed with I sprayed it with glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. Same chair and shoes but the sunglasses are Stampin Up

This card was made for Craft Roulette #253

Card with 3 folds, sweater colors, footwear for an element, and Post it for Random. It’s a Gatefold card with an extra hinge. All of the papers are by Carta Bella. Other 

Just a Note glow in the dark card

Today’s card is SOooo fun. I started by applying glow paste by Tim Holtz onto a stencil by Couture Creations. The brads are by Making Memories. The label is by Recollections. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug. 

Check out the paper that the sentiment was cut out of. It looks a little different. I went to the recycle bin and pulled out a piece of white cardstock. It’d been die cut, but didn’t cut all the way through. I die cut the sentiment out of a piece of paper. Hence, why there are cut lines on the sentiment die cut.

 Lastly, I tried to ink the edges of the paper, but the paste is gritty and wouldn’t take ink. I must be doing something wrong.anyway. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

I’m entering this card into 

 Simon says stamp add texture.

Manly Monday Life is Short Mix things up Wobbler card

I made this card for, you guessed Craft Roulette episode 210

The parameters were:

Project: Include action 

Colors: Northern Lights 

Element: Blackboard 

Random: Oval

Here is my card on Craft Roulette’s website.

I dry embossed white cardstock with a Tim Holtz splatter folder. I messed up the embossed side so I flipped it over and used the debossed. Someone said, “there’s two sides to every paper”.

 I sprayed the debossed side with Dylusions white Linen Shimmer spray by Ranger and then while it was wet I took a soft bristle paint brush and started brushing the chalk all over it. The spray dried quickly so I had to move fast but still ended up doing it three times. I also dry embossed the top of the mixer die cut and  addd chalk to it too. I wanted it to look like the mixer exploded.

The shimmer paper is by Sizzix. The blackboard paper was a fuzzy texture but not obvious so it worked for me. It’s stamped with chalk ink by Colorbox. I lined the edge of the box with a white gel pen and then smeared it.

 Lastly, the black die cut is by Spellbinders and the white die is by Creative Expression. I forgot to mention that the blender was colored with Copic markers.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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.

Manly Monday Chuggin’ along card for Ryder

The train and icons I lightly stamped in the background paper are by Tim Holtz. The sentiment is one I made years ago with Lawn Fawn Harold Alphabet. Thanks for looking.

Peaceful Kayaking Card

So this card was made for the Simon says stamp Monday challenge which is more like a grunge type challenge and if you saw my post from last week, you’ll see that I’m not the greatest at it. I’m going to keep on trying. 

I made this background with distress inks and water. It doesn’t have as much grunge as others but I did make this card for this challenge. Distress ink and distressed watercolor paper by Tim Holtz for Ranger. The stamp is by Stampibilities. The rub ons are by Making Memories. Thanks for looking.

July Calender layout Young Evalynn fishing at the cottage

Cottage life is fun. Especially when you catch a fish. That sweet little girl is now 13 and doesn’t want anything to do with her aunt. It hurts but there’s nothing I can do about that. All I can do is hope and pray that she’s making good choices.

 

All of the patterned papers are by Die Cuts with a View. The fish die cut was cut out using the Cricut. The bubbles are rhinestones. The wavy paper is the negative of a Tim Holtz scallop boarder. Thanks for looking.

 

Blueprint Present Birthday card

I used the same Tim Holtz stamp on watercolor paper and colored it in with Peerless Watercolors. The background paper is by Bo Bunny. The center die cut is by Spellbinders and the other two were cut out with my Cricut. Thanks for looking.
Other cards with this stamp:
Triple fold
2015
Blue Present card

Manly Monday Santa is outside the window Christmas card

The brown patterned paper is Cosmo Cricket. The window die is an oldie by Tim Holtz. The patterned paper inside or rather it's outside the window it's another oldie by Martha Stewart. The sentiment sticker is by Mrs. Grossmans. Thanks for Looking.

Manly Monday Mini Card in a Card using Tim Holtz stamps

These pictures represent winters in Michigan.

The three blueprints images are stamps by Tim Holtz. I stamped them onto his watercolor cardstock and colored them in with his distress ink refills and a water pen by him before I  inked the edges with distress ink, by him. The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye but idk about the paper that makes the extra fold. The Kraft cardstock card base is from The Paper Studio. The border punch on the front of the card is by Martha Stewart. Thanks for looking.

I'm entering this card into the

Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge

August Calendar Layout of us at Cedar Springs Brewery

The border is be Sunborn. I put the two straight edges together and put the blue pearls border over the seam. The pretzel stamp is by Tim Holtz which I colored in with Copic markers and then inked the edges with distress ink. The beer bottle eyelet is by Eyelet Outlet. Thanks for looking.

” Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.” – – Ogden Nash

Manly Monday Poker BIL's Card

This is the front of the card. The crimper is by Fiskars. The little playing cards are dies by Quickutz. The patterned paper underneath the straight flush is by Tim Holtz. I'm not sure about the bottle cap but it beautifully fits in as a 10 of hearts. The alphabet stamps are by Oriental Trading Co. It's a great little set. 

And this is the inside of the card. The inside letters are Michael's. I thought it was witty
Straight Flush? Nope! 4 of a kind for our 7 card stud because he turned 47. 

But now that I read again, it's hard to understand.

This is a fabric that I used heat and bond to attach the fabric to the cardstock.

Cricut cut the four and seven.

And then I tripped on the finish line and cut the word kind in the wrong spot. It turned out fine.

Here is another poker playing card

Another post using the playing cards
Playing Solitaire birthday card

Thanks for looking.

Busy Bees with Silver Embossing Paste, honeycomb stencil background

I went digging inside the drawer and look what I found, this embossing paste honeycomb background.  

This stencil by is Tim Holtz and I applied Dreamweaver Stencil's silver embossing paste. Then the bee stamp is by Stampin Up. Its original stamp is the one in the center that has words coming out of his butt. I stamped the bee in yellow and cut off the sentiment.
 The hexagon punch is by Stampin Up. The center embellishment is stacking hexagons pointing up and down. Thank you for looking.

I'm entering the Stencil challenge at 

Happy Little Stampers

Floral Friday-Happy Day Card with tag and fancy border

I received the border in a swap. The sentiment die cut is designed by Studio G and Distributed by Hampton Arts. The floral tag is by SEI. The ribbon is by American Crafts and the stapler is by Tim Holtz. Thanks for looking.