Happy spring card

This card linked below is similar to the one above.

Quad square spring card

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Floral Friday Easter Bible Card

I found this colored-in image in the drawer and it needed to get on a card. It's painted with powdered chalk and paint. This next picture shows how the paint shines.

The other supplies are as followed. The background paper has been dry embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder and the ovals were cut out with Creative Memories Cutting System.

The lace in the center is fake and by that I mean it's self-adhesive from Michael's. Thanks for looking. Happy Good Friday to you all. 

Painting for Surprise Loose Change Scrapbook Calendar Layout

I really like this layout. I used scraps of paper to create the background which matches the outside of our cottage.

 Then I cut out the super cute bucket and paint brush with my Cricut 

The surprise label is by The Paper Loft. I never thought I would use it but kept it around, “just in case.”  It has been in my stash for 10 years if not longer. I think it was 2009 that my mom and I went to Novi, Michigan for the scrapbook convention where we took classes. The different companies would give you the supplies to make layouts for us to put together while they teach us different techniques to go with the layouts. 

It was there that I took class from the famous Tim Holtz. It was more way more expensive but was worth every penny. 

He gave us so much information and had so much positivity. Just a really good educational class that I use those techniques over and over again. 

It was cool how we were made to sit by somebody that you didn’t know. Talk about vulnerable. But it was a really good idea. You could learn from the class and not socialize with your friends during class.

It really takes you out of your comfort zone being with the people that you don’t know. 

 Everyone was in groups of three except for myself and the other lady I was with. That worked to our advantage. You see, at the end of the class he told us to divide up the distress ink pads that we had been using in our group. It was evenly divided as you would take turns choosing which distress inks that you would like to keep. Everyone else had to divide their pads by three and my lady and I divided ours by two. And we exchanged well as in she took colors that I didn’t want. I thought it was really cool

that we got to keep the

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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 Majorie’s birthday card

The only floral is on a tiny piece of patterned paper.

I stamped the butterfly stamps that came from Dollar Tree onto cream cardstock by Cricut and I colored them in with Copic Markers. I cut them out by hand and then used pop dots to adhere to the wings.

The patterned paper in this card comes from: are you ready for this? Cardstock doesn’t count. From the top-down, My Mind’s Eye. Die cuts with a View. Provo Craft. Recollections. Strathmore watercolor paper with a random color mix. Die Cuts with a View, Provo Craft, My Mind’s Eye, and Christmas paper on them both by Anna Griffin. The sentiment is an old embossing folder. It's one of the small ones and I just inked it with distress ink.

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Floral Friday Simple Hexagon makes a flower patterned Card

A nice and easy card today. I’m using an old Stampin Up bee stamp and hexagon punch. Then a little inspiration from my Mom who was a sewer quilter. I recall her making a pillow with this pattern. It looks like a flower. I just need to add a green stem and leaves. Or I can leave it like it is. So, This whole weekend I will “bee” posting cards bee, beehives, hexagons, or honeycomb type patterned cards. I hate bees when I go outside but I have been digging in the drawer and these backgrounds came out screaming, “Put me on a card bitch!” Lol. Today is the kind of day that I need to swear and laugh. So enjoy the weekend and as always, thank you for stopping by my blog and taking a look.

If you have a moment can you leave me a comment  telling me where you live and what’s the weather like. I live in Sparta, MI and it has been raining all day and is still going at 11:45pm.

Cricut Yellow and Purple Birthday Presents Card

I made this card using my Cricut. It is a “drawer card”. When Idk what to do with a projectat I stuck it in a drawer after I didn’t like what I did with that. I’m finally sifting through these projects and deciding what to do with them. Unfortunately, like this one, they’re NOT very pretty. But since yellow and purple are complementary colors I don’t mind this one as much…it’s not that bad. Idk, I have mixed feelings on this card, do I like it or do I not like it?

Floral Friday Yellow and Gold Anniversary Cards

I’m still recovering from surgery. So, no babbling today. Thank you Faith. I retook the pictures and it wasn’t perfect sunlight so maybe once they are posted on the blog we will be able to see a difference. I did notice this, the yellow sentiment is on a piece of paper that absorbed the ink making it spread out and this skinny font and all of the pretty swirls don’t look as crisp as the other card. Also, I stamped it more than once and I should have waited for the first layer of application of ink to dry before doing that. I think that’s something I will learn to do with my MISTI. Where is the khaki stamped sentiment on a better quality piece of paper I could be wrong but I think it is a different brand of ink. I didn’t know that. I wish I would have stamped the happy anniversary with the Khaki ink because that would have given us a clear comparison of the two inks in the two pieces of paper. But I would like to know if the third picture looks blurry. It does to me. Thanks for looking.

Blue and Yellow Balloon Birthday card

I’m using those Stampin Up birthday stamps again. I have a bunch of cards that I made with that stamp set and I’ve decided not to post them all at once. I find that when my posts contain a ton of cards, I don’t really look at all of the them. Lol. 

So besides the balloon stamps, I used a Lawn Fawn Happy stamp and die. The birthday die cut is by Clearly Besotted. The patterned paper is unknown. I did use my sewing machine for the strings of the balloon. Thanks for looking.

I’m entering these challenges:

Fab and funky Birthday 

Polka doodles anything goes

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.

Up cycling Grandma's card

When we would visit Grandma in Detroit she would give me all of the cards she had received. Including my own.

She would have been 101 today. She passed from Covid last October. She once told me that she just wanted to make it 100 and she did. Such a sweet lady and I got to spend 4 days with her in 2017. I learned a lot. She even let me tape her talking. Idt if any family members know that I have those recordings. That's what makes them even dearer to my heart.

This card was easy to alter. All I had to do was change the sentiment.

The brads are the type with the ability to put ribbon or in this case, I did lace through them.

Here's a picture of those brads.

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Manly Monday Happy Beer Card

This is a great card for beer drinkers.

The heart stamp is from the “Love you a Latte” stamp set by Lawn Fawn.

The yellow Archival ink by Ranger 

 I did a little second-generation stamping.

 

The sentiment is a stamp with the matching die by Lawn Fawn.

The beer glass uses the Draw feature on my Cricut. I used a shimmer gold pen.

The black paper is from The Shimmer Stack by Die Cuts with a View.

The yellow paper is a cardstock scrap.

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Celebrate with Balloons Mini Card for Henry

This is a mini card that I put in with a gift sent to my cousin's son. No stamps. The sentiment is from a 6x6 paper pad. The die-cuts- eBay (blue) and Creative Memories (yellow). The other papers are from my stash. The yellow polka dot down the side is washi tape by Stampin Up.

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Silver cards with purple flowers

At the end of this post, I responded to my own post from yesterday. lol...That probably makes no sense to anybody but me.

The first set of two cards are similar and the second set of two cards are similar. However, the first and third cards have nothing in common. 

Scratch that! Card 1 and Card 3 use the same circle square die cut.

Moving on.

The stamp on the pink card is by Stampin up. I colored it in with Copic markers and used some Stickles on each flower.

The sentiment is part of the bouquet stamp

The gray square with circle edges die-cut is by Spellbinders

The silver paper is by Creative Memories

I used the same silver cardstock on these two cards in the same way.

So check this out.

I found a trend on some store-bought cards.

There will be a large image on the front of the card and then there will be a smaller image of the same design or color on the back of the card.

I used both images in this set of cards.

This the front image of the card. I matted it onto the same silver cardstock as above the same purple recycled card as below.

The purple and yellow backgrounds are recycled cards. 

Square punch by Creative Memories. 

The scalloped square die is by Spellbinders.

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Yesterday I said, I need to quit using this stamp set. I've tried. 

But now I think it's time to move on from yesterday's stamp set and a few others that I've gotten my money's worth on. 

So let me tell you about the company called,

 Dies...to Die For

 The owner lost her husband when her children were very young and it prompted her to start making memory books of him for her kids. 

Here's her page about Crafting for a Cause mission.

She is a local scrapbook business and you may recall that I auditioned for her DT back in December. You can see the project I made in this post HERE.

Thanks again for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

Two Birthday cards Yellow Lots of candles and Purple Flowers Card

I have two more birthday cards to add to my collection of upcycled store-bought cards

The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous

The cake is from a recycled card that I fussy cut out.

I used a recycled circle from a card that my grandma received. It was falling off the original card and worked well to cover up the words my sister.

The flower background is a recycled card.

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Little And yellow elephant baby card

Today I have a cute little elephant card

Why do they always put elephants and hippos in the stamps sets made for a pregnancy related cards?

Elephant Stamp is by Close to my Heart 

I colored him in with Copic markers. 

Then I layered that elephant with 4 different squares-ish punches and die cuts 

The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug

The is no patterned paper on this card.

The sentiment is from Honey Bee stamps, I think. They were a gift from Vera for helping her with the Caring Hearts card drive. 

I’m bummed we’re not doing it this year because it was successful and the nursing homes loved it. It worked out well making it possible to have my minor foot surgery. I’m finally able to go downstairs and craft apick up and put away 

I was able to add some yellow brads. I’ve made an effort to use brads and eyelets in my projects and sadly, I haven’t made a dent in the amount I have.

So, I thought about doing a few rainbows with them. Maybe not on a card, it may be too top heavy. But what about on a canvas or in an open frame or in a quilting hoop with strong fabric to hold it in place.

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Yellow Flower All Occasions card

The stamp is by Michael's and I colored it in with Copic markers, even the background of the stamp's paper. The yellow background cardstock is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The layers under the stamp are scraps I found in my stash. The brown ribbon is also a scrap.

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Yellow Doily Card

This one is so simple but I like that about it. The yellow cardstock is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Doily by Doodlebug and sentiment sticker by Pebbles. Stamp in the center is by Stampin Up.

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Pocket pages 1970's Steve's Book Feb sketch

I have a new Sketches In Thyme Project Life/Pocket page to share. A thought came to me when I joined a few PL groups on FB that what I am doing is not really considered  "Project Life". But I like how the pocket pages have transformed the pictures with the help of little bits here and there I'm proud of the books I've made. And screw the 5 Groh boys if they don't like them. I found this system to be the easiest way for me to put these photos in albums. 

Here's my page for today. I really liked the sketch of the card, which you can see below. My card using the sketch in the middle row right side card. I like that it's crooked and suppose to be that way. The patterned papers are by Making Memories (green, yellow, orange pattern) and Creative Memories (Red paper.)

 Then I had some fun using the Small Talk and Frames Cricut cartridge for the center card. I added some arrows and circles to spice up the pictures. The numbers that are a bold font are by Stampin Up and any other ABC's are by Lawn Fawn.

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Deep Red Stamps Crochet Thanks

Today's card uses a Crochet stamp by Deep Red Stamps. I heat embossed it with Versa Mark ink and white embossing powder. Then I added some distress inks onto my craft sheet and sprinkled it with Perfect Pearls. I sprayed the area generously with water and swirled the inks and Perfect Pearls together. I ran the stamped tag thru the colors and let it dry. I set a large silver eyelet through the hole.

The patterned paper is old by All My Memories and the yellow cardstock is by Sunborn. I used a border punch by Fiskars on the green paper. I dry embossed the paper under that with the swiss dot embossing folder by Provo Craft. The sentiment at the bottom is a sticker by K and Co.

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UPDATED PICTURE, LINK, AND LABELS 9-30-21