Floral Friday Dirty Flower on a stencil card

I made this card with a stencil and distress ink. The ATC patterned paper is by Tim Holtz. The flower was in my stash. The butterfly is a stamped image.

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge- make your own background.

Floral Friday Dimensional flower card

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I made this card using a stencil, distress ink, colored pencil, Tim Holtz Atc patterned paper, a butterfly stamp that I doodled all over it, and also a large flower. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenge-Simon Says Stamp-texture

Allsorts-create your own background

Floral Friday Thinking of You card

I die cut the flower which is connected to the white square. The sentiment is the Draw and Cut from Cricut. The die cut behind the the flower is by…BUT the patterned paper is by Anna Griffin and the gold background paper is from Creative Memories. All of this is on a black cardstock base.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Thinking of You Rusty Colors Card

The sentiment is from the cut and draw feature on my Cricut. The square was a negative of a die cut.  I created the side border swiping my ink pads back and forth. The rest was put together on a Kraft cardstock.

Thanks for looking and HAGD

You’re one of my Nicest Thoughts

Card for Evalynn…Just because I haven’t seen her in a while.

I used a white on white background. The pretty die cut in the center is by Scrapbooking Made Simple (green paper by Color-Aid). The sentiment is by Hero Arts. 

On the inside of the card I wrote! “Well”. She didn’t get it. I thought it was funny and it never occurred to me that she wouldn’t get it. Oh well.

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Just For You Diagonal design

I colored this image twice and then put them in the drawer.  So this card uses cardstock by Bo Bunny and Scrapbook made Simple (Black). The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye. The sentiment is stamped Pebbles but the sentiment stamp is unknown at this time. Thanks for looking.

This card looks like the same card but I know that I just put it together.. Just for you

Manly Monday Wisconsin Sympathy or thinking of you card

The stamp is by Stampin Up and idk about papers. I acquired them on a trip to Wisconsin. I think they are perfect for a guy thinking of you. Thanks for looking.

Thinking of you Basic Grey Tag Card

The patterned paper is by Making Memories. The tag is Basic Grey. The sentiment is a rubber stamp. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday masking a rectangle

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Any Occasion Cards Purple and Red donation cards

I think this is the end of the cards that I made to donate to a friend in California. The patterned paper is from Accord Publishing the cardstock is by Recollections. The butterfly and flower are die cuts from Crafter’s Companion.

This last one uses bees I cut out of a patterned paper from the Accord Publishing The patterned papers on the outsides are by Basic Grey. The sentiment stamp by Stampabilities. It is stamped on a K and Co. label
Thanks for looking. 

Lately, I haven't been thrilled with my blog. It feels like a mess. There aren't enough hours in the day to fix 3971 blog posts. I was hoping that the background change would get the fonts the same size. Nope!  It didn't work.  So, there are two options
1.) Continue pondering over it and wasting time re-doing every post since 2009.
2.)Stop worrying about it. Each day 15 people come to my blog.
I blog so my projects are all in one place. I like to look back at the cards and layouts I did in 2011. In fact, I started with didn't make cards at first. It was mostly scrapbooking and I have a lot of scrapbooking things to post. Off of my computer onto my blog.  I will finish up with one of my quotes...

It doesn't have to be perfect, It just has to be done- Cindy Groh 

Floral Friday We're praying for you Cross card

The patterned paper is a journal card from a Recollections paper pad. The cross stamp and colored pencils are by Stampin Up  The pink die cut is by Spellbinders. Sentiment by Close to my Heart. The card size is 4 1/4 x 5 1/8. I ended up putting some pearls on the card but didn't take a picture. Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Yellow Sympathy Cards

I made these for a male colleague whose father passed away. I think they work well for a dude and that's why I'm posting them for Manly Monday. The patterned paper is by K and Co, the Danny O 12x12 double-sided designer paper. I've used it a few times in the Groh Boy Books.
The sympathy stamp on the first card is by Fiskars and it is stamped onto a Spellbinders die cut. The sentiment stamp for the card in the center is by  Hero Arts. The sentiment on the left is by Stampendous.

Side note...I hate my indoor setup for taking pictures. I can't get the lighting to capture the true color of my cards. I've searched and watched Youtube videos on how to take photos of crafts with the angle of the camera, the lighting, or lightboxes and never found the right video that worked for me and my area.

Then, I found one lady that I really liked. She was taking pictures of cards and not just crafts. I watched her first and second videos with excitement. But just when she was going to go to the next level, I'm thinking of a third video of what to do... she offers a class to get the rest of the information.
So I go and look up her class price thinking it might be worth it. The class was $65. I might have paid that price but and there's always a but, that $65 was for one section of the class on taking pictures of cards.
Say What?!
After that, I had to give myself a break from watching YouTube videos on taking pictures of my cards. The disappointment of getting nothing out of time spent and wasted was bumming me out.
Here's my example of how I can't get the true color.

This card below was taken in my craft room. It just isn't the same color as the real cards. It is a work in progress and a challenge to conquer.

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look.

Fall Thinking of You Wreath square card

The card base was cut out with Cricut

The sentiment is a die-cut from AC Moore called Love Nicole

The die-cuts in this card are from the Stampendous wreath set. I did start with a circle cut out with my Cricut. I inked it with distress ink.

The papers I used were scraps and wallpaper samples. 

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Four Cards using a wreath die cut

I've had these wreath die-cuts in my stash for years. It was time to take an afternoon and put them onto cards. I made the sentiments with my Cricut using the draw and cut feature. The wreath die-cuts are unknown. I inked them with Colorbox chalk ink, distress ink, or colored in with colored pencils (the one on the far left). The patterned paper is by Making Memories called Autumn Splendors. There are pieces of patterned paper by Provo Craft. The jute is by Tim Holtz. Border punch by EK Success. 

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Floral Friday Just for you Clearly Besotted in yellow cards

I stamped and die cut out a ton of these Clearly Besotted flowers. In all different colors. 
Floral Friday continues:

This first card:  

The die-cuts are by Spellbinders and inked with distress ink. There is distress ink is around the outside white panel and also inside the die-cut. Squeezed Lemonade Is a great yellow distress ink. The ribbon is by Craft Smart. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and inked with Walnut distress ink.

I am struggling with the photos of the card. Idk if my monitor is showing the colors as flat or if it's the way I'm taking the picture. Below is the original picture and above is the same picture that has been enhanced.

Second one:

The patterned paper is from Poppy stamps and then the yellow die-cuts paper is by Scenic Route.

The die-cuts layered 4 deep are all by Sizzix.

Green ribbon-The Ribbon Boutique.

Third card:

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft (very old. using my stash makes me happy).
The stamped word "Let's" is a Paper Smooches stamp.
The "Celebrate" die is by Desire by Crafters Companion. The purple die cut is unknown because it was not my die.

I took a photo of these together to show how the same flower stamp looks in different colors.

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Greens and Blue Hugs card

Cool colors card today. 

The sentiment stamp is one I bought from eBay. 

The embossed background is by Sizzix.

The inked background was made by distress oxides.

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It's Your Day...Thinking of you-Orange and Yellow Card

The sentiment stamps are by Stamps for Life. They are made to curve like the words on top. I wanted to surround the flower with the sentiment. So, I curved the stamp in my MISTI to match my needs. 
The matching die-cut and stamp set is by Sizzizx. 
The rectangle is by Lawn Fawn. 
The patterned paper is by Basic Grey and My Mind's Eye

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Sitting here...Thinking of you card

The bird on the branch was originally an ATC that I thought with a few added bits, it would make a nice card.

I made the sentiment by stamping these alphabet letters stamps from the dollar bin at Michael’s.

They are the second generation stamped.

 The dry embossing is a Cuttlebug folder.

The polkadot patterned paper is by Crate Papers. 

The inside sentiment says, “thinking of you”.

So all together it says, “Sitting here thinking of you”.

This will make a nice donation card.

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Recycled card base with oval cards

Today I have an upcycled card set. The "patterned paper" is a card that I recycled. It just so happened that the same card had two similar arrangements of flowers on the inside and outside on the bottom. They both needed to hide some text. This made for the perfect area for an oval die-cut. The oval die-cut is by Spellbinders. The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. The felt butterfly die-cut is by Little Yellow Bicycle

For the 2nd card,

The chipboard, which is the pink polka dot flower, and the yellow frame for the flower is by Making Memories.

The yellow with pink circle in the center flower is by The Paper Studio. 

The border sticker is by Doodlebug. 

These cards are certainly not my favorites but I made them so I should post them. 
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Fall Colors Thinking of You cards

I still have a few fall cards to post.

The larger leaf die-cut is by Gina Marie

I cut the TOY die-cut out with my Cricut.

The other leaf is a Creative Memories punch.

The chevron with glitter patterned paper is by Recollections 

In the card below, the leaf die-cuts were cut from a cereal box. I then inked them with green distress ink 

Sentiment sticker by Pebbles 

Leaves are by Spellbinders 

Patterned paper by Recollections 

Thanks for looking