Manly Monday Spider-Man card

The background was made by my niece. The spider-man stickers are by ek Success. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Peach and Navy Birthday Cards

These birthday cards were cut out with my Cricut. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Happy Birthday Hats Card

Today I have a birthday card with patterned paper by Scenic Route (hats and obverse side is green on top), Stampin Up (blue), and Idk the border's paper but I bought the die cut on eBay. The sentiment is by Jillibean Soup and stamped on an upcycled bank tag.

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Fancy Fold with Kites card for a co-worker

Card standing upright 

This card was made for the challenge at 

Craft Roulette. The parameters were:

Project-A card for a co-worker (I made this for my cohort. We came up with, 5on5. It’s where we make 5 Christmas cards on the 5th of each month at 5pm)

Colors-kites in the sky (my sky is blue.)

Element- April (I made the same fancy fold for my husband, who’s birthday is in April)

Random-Sparkles (sequins in the bike.)

Card laying down 

All of the patterned paper including the designs happy mail, bicycle and the Unique in the right corner are by My Mind’s Eye 6x6 patterned paper pad. I added yellow sequins by Fun Stampers Journey on the wheels.

 

This is the card folded up and ready to be mailed.

The happy mail stamp is by Lawn Fawn and is stamped with Hero Arts ink. (The post card is from the paper padlock) The sun is a Cute Clip by Doodlebug Designs (Sunny Skies) and inside of the sun is a clear yellow enamel dot. 

 

One more photo of it upright at a different angle.

Thanks for looking and HAGD

January Calendar layout Grandpa Brian

Here we go with another year of Calendar layouts on Wednesday. This one was for my brother’s 2023 calendar. The blue background is the actual calendar base. February is pink. March is green. April is blue and so on. Sometimes I used the color instead of adding anything to it.

Anyway, I used some really old products for this layout. The snowflake paper circa 2005 and is by Colorbok. The large white snowflake on the right side was cut out with my Cricut. I have not touched my Cricut in well over a year.

The border at the bottom is a blue vellum by Creative Memories. The title on top is a Sunborn die cut and I can’t remember if the letters/words were in the circles or if I stamped them. I think that the letters are perfectly straight, so I’m going to say I didn’t stamp them.

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Manly Monday Gabe Junior year Scrapbook layout

I will update this post with his school picture. Patterned paper by Bo Bunny. Alphabet stamps by Stampin Up. The blue on blue music note stamps are from Stampibilities. 

The Cricut did all kinds of work on this layout. 1st it wrote on the vellum down the right side of the photo. 2nd the percussion is a draw and cut. 3rd it cut out the title. That G is having issues. 

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Chalk zig zag border card

This card was a bit frustrating to make. As my husband would say, this card is kicking your butt...and why, well

The Spellbinders zigzag borders are covered with powdered chalk mixed with paint.

The borders are leftovers from this card:

Here’s a card using the same borders

The sentiment stamp is one that I bought off of eBay.

I used different colored distress inks to give it a multi-color appearance. Then I hand cut the sentiment out and inked the edges with distress ink. 

So here was my drama with this card:

I lacked planning the card before I put it together. When I put glue adhesive on the entire zigzag border, the glue stayed on the card base and was tacky. I could not remove the border from the card because it started to come apart. So when I decided to do this frame, the adhesive was/is on the card where those zigzag die-cuts were going to be. WTH did I just say? 

The adhesive is everywhere and I can’t get it off with an adhesive remover square thingy. The corner pieces are so small that when I rubbed over them with the square adhesive remover the corners came off.

The adhesive got on the edges of the card where I originally placed the border. But now that I’m thinking of it and writing this, I could just cut the frame off this card base end it here it to another one, and then cut those corners out to adhere to another card base as well. I might just do that. 

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Paisley Fabric Circle cards Part 1

The paisley center is a piece of fabric leftover from my Mom's massive fabric collection.

The border sticker is from Doodlebug.

I used decorative scissors on the edges of orange cardstock on both of the cards.

In the second card, the blue flower is a Cricut cut and the spikey circle is possibly from Scenic Route die-cut. The yellow patterned paper is by Studio Calico (June Card Kit 2014- Dear Lizzy)

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Online Card Class Crushing cardstock Weaving Card

This card was made with inspiration from the Online Card Class called Crushing cardstock.

The stamp is by Clearly Besotted

The four edges are washi tape that matched and helped pull it together

The die-cut in the center was bought off of eBay. I inked the inside with distress ink.

The first row of blue "cardstock" is an old folder.

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps "Time" to Celebrate Card with Tag

Real quick, August 8, 2009 is when I started my blog. It has evolved in the last 12 years. At first, I was busy auditioning to be on Design Teams, trying to get published in magazines and entering a lot of challenges. I did those things to get noticed as a great card maker and scrapbooker because if I was I would get free products. Not worth it.

Now I use my blog as a place to have my projects all in one place. Who knows where it will go from here.                                                          All I can do is: Keep moving forward.

My card today uses two Deep Red stamps. The clock and the Metal Mesh background. I used distress crackle paint as the stamping medium. The sentiment is made up of an alphabet stamp set by Close to my Heart and the word stamps by The Paper Studio. The tag and brad are from my stash.

I’m entering this card into the Male Room challenge.

They turned 8years old this month

Birthday card for a dude

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Birthday Cake. Birthday Time ATC's

I created the background for these ATC's using a Tim Holtz clock stencil. I inked them with a dark purple and then went in and added the blue, yellow, and green, which are all distress inks. The cake stamp by SU was stamped in purple and I added gold Smooches ink to the flame of the candles.

The word "Birthday" is a Maya Road stamp stamped with black Hero Arts ink and the word "Time" is part of a ribbon by Queen and Co. The clock is from a piece of decorative tape that reminds me of athletic tape. I used the Ranger stapler to create the hands of the clock. The purple ribbon was white and I dyed it with either distress ink, SU ink, or Sta-On ink. I didn't have the color purple ribbon so I made my own.

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UPDATED PICS 9-2021

Sweet Baby Felt Rocking Horse Card

A quick and simple card today that I made in minutes. Love those kinds that just come together like it was nothing. I used old products too. The patterned paper and the border sticker are both by Provo Craft from 7 years ago. The cardstock is from Michael's, Die cut by Spellbinders and that paper is by Jenni Bowlin. The felt rocking horse is by Martha Stewart, the sentiment stamp is by Fiskars with ink by Versa Mark and embossing powder by Stamp N Plus. The border punch is by Fiskars. The Broken China distress ink is by Ranger Industries.

Thanks so much for looking.

Manly Monday Tim Holtz Man with an Umbrella Card

This card is similar to an orange Manly Monday I posted recently. I loved the way it looked in blue and had to share it with you. I used alcohol inks on glossy paper, stamped the man in Memento black ink, and then embossed it on my Cuttlebug.

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UPDATED 6-3-22

Manly Monday Teenage Star Birthday card and a Toadily cute layout

My card is one I sent to our teenage nephew and I really liked how the Bo Bunny paper looks with the SU star stamps. The sentiment is by HA and ink is by Clearsnap. Brads by Bo Bunny and CTMH.

I'm entering this card into the following challenge:

Totally paper crafts(FR)-One for the boys

Digi Doodles(TH#68)-CAS

My Mums Crafts(W#15)-For a teen

Clear it out(TU)-Anything Goes

Lady bug Crafts(TU)-Summer birthdays

2 Sisters Challenge(SA#49)-Anything Goes

Send a smile for kids(SA)-Card for the boys

This week I have a layout and a card to share. I love this layout and it's not toad-ally manly. It's more little boy cute than anything else.

I'm not sure who the paper is by but the ribbon is by OF; letters CC; stamped letters LF; border punch by SU; green punched paper by CM.

I'm entering this layout into the challenge at Lasting Memories for the big bold titles challenge (#48).

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my "Manly Monday" post. Stop back tomorrow for some more inspiration. I still have a lot to show you for the month of July.

UPDATED 8-18-22

Pink Snowflake card

I made this card for the following challenges:

Stampaive-Christmas

Crafty Ann-Christmas

Pollycraft-In stitches

Practical Scrappers-Stitching

Sew many challenges-Sewing

TFL

1993 Tiny Tot Scrapbook Layout

Another Layout for Kenzie's book.
Scenic Route patterned paper
Stampin Up number and small letter stamps
Cricut George cartridge title letters
Flower by Creative Memories



Thanks for looking 7/15/20

Formal dance LO

TFL

2004 Spotlight LO

I got to use some old paper by Cross my heart on this LO. I also have pp from Cherry Arte; floss by American Thread Co; CS by The Paper Co & DCWV; Stickers by Mrs Grossman, Moxxie & Sandy Lion; Ink and stamps by SU; Brad by Provo Craft. TFL