Glitter Background with Pink Overlay

I cut the pink background overlay with my Cricut and then glued it onto a piece of glitter cardstock by Sizzix 

The sentiment is a vellum sticker that I die cut out of a Spellbinders die. While the paper was still in the die, I inked the top with pink distress oxide. The vellum acts as a mask creating a white ring around it. The black and white puffy stickers are by Studio Calico.  

Simon says stamp wedding/anniversary

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge anything goes

Floral Friday Llama Graduation Card

I stamped the llama image with black Memento ink and I colored it in with Copic markers. (See the colors I used in the photo below.) Then I adhered it to the top folding card on a card. When you lift up the llama card front, you see a graduation cap that I cut out with my Cricut. The orange ribbon is from Michaels. Funny thing, I tried so hard to conceal the ribbon behind the white flap. After fiddling with it and it wouldn't do what I wanted it to. When I closed the flap and I liked it better sticking out from behind. Then I had to fiddle with it and make it stick out more.
 

 I heat embossed the background stamp with red, magenta, and orange embossing powders on white cardstock. Then I heat embossed a sentiment on a piece of vellum with Magenta embossing powder. I used a Xyron sticker maker to adhere the sentiment to the background.

Craft Roulette #268. Parameters: Project: A card for a student. This is a quirky graduation card for Maya. Colors: In modern. It's black and white with a loud color to carry the load and give it a pop.  Element: Clothing. The llama has a covering on its back, but you could count the graduation hat. Random: Abstract blob. The flowers in the background stamp by Hero Arts look like blobs.

The colors in this card are loosely based on this Color Cube card.

Thanks for looking.

4 Legged Friends Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge 

Anything goes Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

Layered Background Christmas card

I cut the sentiment and background with my the Cricut. The word holiday is a die from Scrapbooking Made Simple. I put the sentiment on vellum so I wouldn’t cover up the background  amt and had to do something with it. The sentiment fit perfectly. I put a white border around the edge and this card is  done. Thanks for looking.! 

Challenges:

Simon says stamp Christmas/holiday card

Floral Friday Roses Slimline cards

On this first card, I inked the stencil with pigment inks by Colorbox onto vellum with white stripes. Then I heat set it with clear embossing powder by Hero Arts. From there, I just cut it down, added mats behind it, added some rhinestones and then added a sentiment onto a red die cut.

This second card has the same background just on Sizzix gold opulent paper. 

You can see the heat embossing on this picture. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-add pink

Manly Monday Cityscape Card

The patterned paper is by Cricut. The blue brick is vellum that I dry embossed with a Darice embossing folder. The city line stamp and cloud stamps are by Stampendous. I did stamp out the clouds in blue ink and then used white pigment ink to fluff them up. The grass was created with green ink and a makeup sponge. I used a marker to add a shadow to the base of the buildings. The sentiment stamp is from…idk. Anyway, thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Cheers to the New Year

Happy new year with a Craft Roulette card Manly Monday style. It’s from episode #246. The parameters were:

Project-holiday card

Color-Trees

Element-Drinking vessel

Random-something from your floor.

Overlapping Hearts Stamped in a row

The patterned paper is by  Deja Views. The vellum sentiment is by Quick Quotes, and I adhered it with a Xyron sticker maker. The heart stamp is unknown.  I added pearls by Couture Creations and sequins by Fun Stampers Journey.
It was by accident that I stumbled onto this design. It’s not a new, original, or even cre8ive design, but it’s not what I was trying to do.

I was auditioning different shades of pink ink with a different heart stamp onto white cardstock. I couldn’t find the right pink or red color for yesterday's card, and so I thought maybe if I stamped one heart on top of the other, I would get the color that I was trying to match. I’m looking to match the patterned paper. But then I quickly realized that you can’t do that with rubber stamps on a wooden block. They end up kind of halfway on top of each other. Tada, this stamped border design was put together and then changed up for this card. So that’s what I thought of when I first came up with this idea.  

Thanks for looking.

June Calendar layout Happy Camper

This layout is from the June cottage calendar 2022. The die cut in the lower right corner is the negative of a frame die cut. It and the Happy Camper die cuts were cut out using my Cricut. I did ink them with distress ink. It gives it a grungy feel. 

The vellum sentiment in the lower right corner is by Creative Memories. The washi tape on the bottom is by Stampin Up and the washi tape by Paul’s head is by We R Memory Keepers.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Holly Hobby Craft Roulette card

I bought a Holly Hobby stamp set while in Wisconsin October 2022. It’s exclusive to Cardmaking Magazine and I got it for a buck. I bought it for my cousin’s birthday which was Nov 2023.

I made a part of this card for,

Craft Roulette #187

Project: Cardstock and not cardstock (tan is cardstock and foto paper is not)

Colors: Santa’s workshop (red, green and neutrals)

Element: Collars (there are collars on dresses)

Random: Zigzag (green rub ons)

After Craft Roulette,  I wanted to do more with the card for my cousin’s 50th birthday. I wanted to depict something special that was a piece of our childhood. That piece was Holly Hobby. 

 I decided to use all of the images in the stamp set. The card front image opens to the right and that door was covering the second image.

The Craft Roulette  part of the card was the little girl leaning over top of fence.  

The picture above is what you see when you take the card out of the envelope.

Then you open the mini card to reveal the girl on the fence on the left and the girl in the field on the right.

There’s one more turn. And that shows the last little girl in the stamp set and she’s flying a kite.

Not what you would expect from the front is it? Here’s the thing. I didn’t expect to add the girl laying on the grass but this is what the back of the mini card looked like this,

I needed to cover that so I stamped and colored the little girl on the grass.

My cousin loved the card and was super impressed.

The patterned paper is an oldie from Provo Craft. The rub-ons came from a pack of borders by Making Memories, maybe. The stamp set is from a magazine. I colored in the images with Copic Markers and used alcohol inks to create the skies and the grass. The grass stamp is by Stamp N Plus Scrap N. The sentiment is on vellum is from Quick Quotes.

 Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Happy Spring Cards

Patterned paper by Making Memories and PiggyTales.com. The vellum is from my stash. The word “Spring “, was cut out using my Cricut. I did use some brads by Making Memories, a flower die cut by Sizzix, and a flower stamp by…maybe Hero Arts.

The Happy Stamp is by The Stamps of Life. I stamped off with the Happy stamp. I used Basic Grey on the card in the center. I cut a flower out of the patterned paper and it was a perfect swoop as the “spring” die cut. 

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.

Thanks for looking. 

December calendar layout Discover Cruise ship

Hello with Gold Embossing Paste on a brown circle

My card today was inspired by the designers at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge. The vellum sentiment by Natasha. The circle stencil by Anna-Karin and the embossing paste (texture paste) by Lols.

This card was made for the Simon says Stamp circles challenge 

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday graduation cards

Details/Products: The stars tape is by Scotch, the black cardstock from Scrapbook Made Simple, and the cap and diploma are puffy stickers by Paper House Productions. The sentiment is cut out with my Cricut and adhered to vellum. I adhered the vellum to a blue cardstock, which made the vellum look blue. I popped up the sentiment with white foam squares. The two corners were rounded with a CM corner rounder.

Details on my second card: Dry embossing folder by Darice. I inked it with distress ink. I adhered the sentiment to colored vellum that didn't match the school colors. So I colored the back of the vellum with a blue Copic marker before running it through my sticker maker by Xyron. The graduation cap is a sticker by Jolee's Boutique by EK Success. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Vellum sentiment card

The flower stamp is by Stampendous. I inked it with different colored ink pads. The border punch is by Fiskars. I made the paper that color with the same ink pad used on the flower. The sentiment is vellum and I think it’s by Creative Memories. I inked the edges with distress ink. Thanks for looking.

Sew Lovely Border to Background cards

The border stamp that I used to make a background is by Stampendous. I upcycled a thank you card from the funeral home. They have a nice dry embossed frame. 

The card above was stamped with black ink and colored in with Copic markers. Then I matted the panel onto red and black cardstock before adding them to the base. The sentiment is a Fiskars stamped in black on red cardstock.

For the card above, I used different ink pads on the same border stamp using the following colors: SU Daffodil Delite, SU Pink Passion, Hero Arts Tomato, SU Ballet Blue ink pad infested with other blue inks, and the last blue is HA Cornflower. 

I heat-embossed a Lawn Fawn sentiment, pink powder onto the vellum. (I used vellum because I was covering up an oops but didn’t want to cover up my background.)

  

Do you see my error? Thanks for looking have a great day.

December Calendar layout with an Our Family photo

The lamp chipboard sticker is by American Crafts. The scalloped border punch is by Fiskars. Our family" the vellum comes from Studio G. The patterned paper is by Crate Paper (I think)
Anyway, thank you for looking.

November Calendar Layout Sport coat night

The glass stamp is by Paper Smooches. The alphabet dies are by Quickutz. The left side vellum is from Hobby Lobby. This layout is from the cottage calendar. I made a card with this vellum. Martini Card, and a card with the stamp set. Cheers. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday, “How old would you be”

I’m so behind on posting to my blog. I will fill in details some other time. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Happy Anniversary Card

The patterned paper is by Creative Memories and the center paper is by Prima. The word "Happy" is an eBay stamp that I heat embossed gold on self-adhesive vellum by Paper Reflections. The word "anniversary"  is a Lawn Fawn stamp using Catherine Pooler ink and on a die cut from my stash. Thanks for looking.