Graduation cards

Here is another group of graduation cards that I made.

Sorry I don't know much about this card in the way of supplies. Here's what I do know: background paper by K & Co; strip of orange and tan paper by Simple Stories; ink by Ranger industries. That's about it. 

Supplies: Sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments; PP by Best Creations; ribbon by AC; embossing powder by Stampendous and ink by Versa Mark.

Supplies: Banner by Echo Park; stamp by Clear Dollar Stamp Co, The Paper Co, Hero Arts and Fiskars; Ink by RI and Memento; Ribbon by SU; Strip of paper on top of ribbon by Simple Stories; brads by CTMH.

Thanks for stopping by today. More to show tomorrow. I'm actually going to do pre-posts so not to mislead you.

Manly Monday 3 Father’s Day cards with a rustic feel

Some more Father's Day cards for Manly Monday.

The above card uses a background stamp by SU, ink by RI, paper by Deja Views, red cardstock by SU, a sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments, and the twine is UK.

The second card, uses stamps by CTMH, cloud brads by Eyelet Outlet, ink by SU and RI, and kraft paper by OTCo

The last card, just above this description, it uses PP by SU, kraft paper by OTCo, stamps by G Studio, ink by RI, and a sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by.

I'm entering this last card into the Digi's with Attitude challenge for a Fathers Day card.

I'm also posting these cards at Capturing a Moment in Time-Father's Day cards.

Updated blog posts on Aug 18, 2022 and I looked up the challenge blogs and they are no longer blogs.

Shannon's Sentiments Challenge

Saturday brings a new challenge at Shannon's Sentiments. This week it is a sketch and below the sketch is my card. Play along with us for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to Shannon's Store.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Today is going to be a busy one. 

Have a great weekend everyone.

June Calendar layouts

Here are a couple examples of my calendars that I make for too many family members each year. Being this is June I'm showing you my opposite families month.

This part of my in laws family lives in California and they came to MI for a visit.

This is my mom's calendar being that's my sister in law and brother. No comment.

Lots of product here but I am still finishing the big project for Saturday. Thanks for understanding.

Graduation cards

I made some graduation cards to sell and wanted to share them with you. I'm not able to do a supply list at this time for I am working on getting things wrapped up for this weekend. I hope you can understand. Check back tomorrow for some scrapbooking layouts that I recently made. Thanks for stopping by on this Wednesday.

Tuesday? Where did Monday go?

I am not having a creative day so far. I hope it gets better because I have so much to do. Anywho, I wanted to post some Father's Day cards for you on Manly Monday and didn't get to it yesterday. Here are three that I made that I wanted to share.

The sticker is by Bo Bunny, punch by Fiskars, font by LF, ink by VM and CTMH, embossing powder by SP, kraft paper by OTCo, blue CS by DCWV, polka dot paper is UK, circle cut out by CC by PC

PP is UK, Punch again by Fiskars, large staples for lack of a better name and not wanting to get up and look, EK Success, everything else is UK. Sorry about that.

PP by Sonburn, stamp by TPCo, die cuts by SB, sticker is UK, sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments, CS is UK, ink by RI

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow I will have a couple of Graduation cards to share with you.

I Did it Creations Challenge

This week (yesterday-shaking head that I missed a post) at I Did It Creations the theme is Hats. We are sponsored by Floppy Designs and my card is one I would use for a bridal shower. I chose not to color in the flowers because I felt that would make the card more complex and I was going for clean and simple. I don't use silhouettes very often so this was a nice change to play with something outside of my norm.

I don't have a supply list for this one other than the stamp is by  CTMH, ink by VM, Die cuts by SB, embossing powder by SP, ribbon by OF and PP by DCWV. I guess that's a better list then I thought. Happy Monday. I will post Manly Monday in a few hours.

Congrats Grad

Welcome to another week and a new month of challenges at Shannon's Sentiments. This week I am hosting the challenge and I would like you to create a graduation card/project with paper tearing in it. Easy! I know, right!

The sentiment is from the Follow your Dreams set. Other supplies: PP by CM and Best Creation, CS by TPCo, rhinestones are UK.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you are having a great weekend. See you tomorrow for IDIC's new challenge and then Manly Monday has more Father's Day card the day after. My goal for next week is to post every day so that means you have to stop back and check out what new project I have posted. I have made a ton of stuff in the last month. It's time to share it. Peace Out!!

50th Anniversary invites

So I have a very full plate and didn't go to bed last night in order to finish a project that I wanted to have out in the mail by June 1st. Well I settled for June 2 or 3 when two wonderful friends of mine offered to help assemble my in laws 50th wedding anniversary open house invitations on June 1st. With that being said I have all of them done and ready to go into the mail as of June 3rd and that pleases me. Goal accomplished! Onto the next task.......

But before that here are 2 versions (just different patterned paper) of the final product that were sent to close immediate family members and then a lesser version was sent to farther away family and friends.
Yes I am insane and paid double postage for these beauties because even though I ironed the tulle and bow down for a long period of time they still didn't fit through the post office's slot. But in my defense I really thought the tulle screamed wedding and felt the need to use it.

My Mother in law told me her colors were peach and teal and with that I went with the peach a.) because I got the card stock and patterned papers dirt cheap and hey who doesn't want to spend less when you're dealing with large quantities of cards and b.) the peach and teal together just wasn't my style on the day I picked the papers out and c.) she said her bridesmaids probably don't remember what color their dresses were and what seemed like the biggest thing in the world 50 years ago is really not as important to her anymore. Bless her heart. She's a saint and the nicest woman I have ever known. Does she deserve double postage for putting up with him for 50 years? Hell yes! I would have taken him down years ago and told him to get his own damn coffee. LOL. I'm so glad no one really reads my fluffy writing. They might find out what I am really like:)

Supplies: MS border punch on scrap pieces of white CS, peach CS by Bazzill, PP by Scenic Route, stamps frame by HA, celebration and years together font by Lawn Fawn, 50 by SP, ink the color is SU Regal Rose combined with Tea Dye distressing ink by RI (I didn't have a peach colored ink so I made my own), ribbon by OF and oval cut out using the CC by PC.

Thanks for looking. 

*Don't forget tomorrow is the last day at Shannon's Sentiments to link up your May challenges. New challenge and new month starts on Saturday. So if you can't get your stuff together by tomorrow a new month is right around the corner.

*I Did it Creations is using Happy Harry for their challenge and there is only 1 day and 19 hours left to get in on that one. There are only 6 entered so far. Get your tails over there and give the freebie a go.

*Christmas Cards all Year Round just started it's June challenge "Anything Goes" a few days ago. You need to complete 5 Christmas cards and link them to the blog by the end of June to be in the running for a fabulous prize. There hasn't been a whole lot of action on this site so your chances are good at winning and what about getting some Christmas cheer in June going. I already have a piece of paper that says buy this person this for Christmas. Crazy!?! I know, right! Also if you create an awesome card that you think would rock a magazine publishers socks off the time is now for Christmas calls. Cards Magazine has their December call up and it's due soon. Check it out HERE. Not to forget the Create book call and the Cricut magazine calls as well. So way to much info I think in this post. I will tone it down for the next post. It's an hour away from Friday. Party! Party! The weekend is upon us! Relax and Enjoy. Summertime is the best time in Michigan.

Christmas Cards all year Round monthly challenge

This month at Christmas cards all year round the challenge is Anything goes as long as it's a Christmas card. I have made three for such the occasion. 

This card the PP is by SU, the chipboard by Colorbok, border punch by EK Success, sentiment by HL and the rest is unknown.

The red CS in this card is by PC, black by TPS, kraft by Oriental Trading Co, stamp by Elle's Studio, ink by VM, embossing powder by SP and ribbon by SU.

This one is similar to the first with floss by Karen Foster, red CS by SU, and circle sentiment by Netty's. 

So join us this month at CCAYR and get a head start on your Christmas cards.

Manly Monday

This weeks Manly Monday post will feature a couple more Father's Day cards.

I Did it Creations Challenge

This week at I Did It Creations a freebie image is being offered up to use as your image on your card. His name is Happy Harry so I thought what a perfect image for a birthday card. 

The black and white polka dots is ribbon by Offray, border punch by  Fiskars, flowers by Prima and the ones sprayed with Glimmer Mist are by Recollections. The sparkle brads are by Making Memories, HB stamp by Hero Arts, ink by Versa Mark and embossing powder by Stamp n around, card base is by Halcraft and scissors are Pioneer.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will join us at the IDIC blog for this challenge.

Shannon's Sentiments Challenge

This week at Shannon's Sentiments the challenge is a friendship card using the colors purple, green, black and white. My purple isn't that of royalty but it is a shade of purple.

Supplies:

Leaf-Prima, flower-Petaloo and inside is Prima, card base-RE, Dies-SB, PP-TPS, die CS-TPCo and SEI and Stickles -RI.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card. I hope you will refer to my key on the right sidebar for the abbreviations of the supplies. Have a great weekend.

Beer thirty somewhere

I would just like to say, I don't drink and do not endorse these beer companies nor am I receiving royalties for displaying their bottle caps on my blog. However that being said I could be if someone wants me sponsor my paper craft habits. lol. When people come to our cottage and drink beer they throw their bottle caps in this pot (I guess that's what you would call it-like a pot you would put a plant in). We get a large variety of beer caps and so my husband figured out how to pound them down "flat" so the edges would flair out ever so beautifully. I've had them for a while and when I was asked to make some Fathers Day cards for a local scrapbook store I thought they would be a perfect accent to a male card. So here are three that I made.

Blue CS by PC and white by RE, Dad stamp by CTMH, ink by VM by TK, embossing powder by RI, ribbon by OF, Sentiment by Netty's, embossing folder by CB by PC, other bottle cap.

I'm entering this card into:

Creative Card Crew(TU 5-24)-Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious(W#57)-Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments(W#29)-Male card

Charisma Cardz(TH#21)-boy oh boy

 PP by K & Co, stamps by LF, ink by VM by TK and blue by CTMH, die by SZ, blue CS by Sunborn, brads UK, circle cut by CC and bottle cap.

I'm entering this card into:

The Paper Shelter(W#15)-Anything Goes

Meljens Designs(W#60)-Dad card

Card base by RE, CS by Pressed Petals and Sunborn, Embossing folder by CB by PC, ink by CTMH, die by SB, brads by 3B, Sentiment by Shannon's Sentiment, PP by KC.

I'm entering this card into:

Digital Tuesday(TU#112)-Texture

Digi Stamps 4 Joy(W#19)-Boys Boys Boys

Pals Paper arts(TH#95)-Brads

Little Miss Muffet(T#10)-Metal Embellishment

Thanks for checking out my bottle cap card creations.

Same patterned paper = 3 different cards

I used this old paper by Prima on some Fathers Day cards and thought I'd share the three different cards. I have to start using abbreviations for companies because I have 293 pictures in my May of 2011 downloads file. Granted those are usually two pictures of each project but that is still a ton of stuff to mark and give credit to. So refer to my sidebar for abbreviations of companies that I use most often and tire of typing the name out. Call me lazy if you want but I would rather refer to it as budgeting in my time management department. Lol

Card base by Recollections, PP by Prima and DCWV, CS is UK, stamps by CTMH and ink by Colorbox by Clearsnap, dies by SB.

Card base by Recollections, stamps and both green inks by CTMH, brown ink by SU, CS is UK, PP by Prima

Card base by Studio G, Chipboard by AC, floss by KF, circles cut with the CM's cutting system, corner rounder by CM, digital stamp UK-I looked every place I could think of and couldn't find it's owner. The border punch is UK I received it in a swap. 

I have so many fathers day and graduation cards to share that you are going call me crazy. So stay tuned for daily posts by me for a while.

30 more minutes and it's Friday in Michigan. What are you doing this holiday weekend?

DT call at IDIC

I Did it Creations Blog

We are looking for several new members for our design team.

You will be provided with digital images each month to work with.

You will be expected to participate in weekly challenges.

Our challenges are on Sunday, and you will need to have your creations in to our design team leader, by Wednesday before each challenge.

You are required to post your challenge items on your blog with a link to the challenge blog and current sponsor. You may be asked to promote certain activities such as blog hops too.

You must have a blog.

For questions or more information please email me (Wendy) at

wpettifer@gmail.com

with IDIC CHALLENGE BLOG - DESIGN TEAM CALL

in the subject line.

Please provide a brief bio and also a link to your blog.

This Design team call ends June 5th.

Thanks, Wendy

IDIC DT Team Leader

Pink Wednesday

I thought I would share a few different shades of pink I used in my dance scrapbook that I just completed.

The background paper is by MME with We R Memory Keepers on top of that and pressed Petals on top of that. The letter stamps are unknown (they are the titles to the song of the costume). Right flower by Stampin' Up and left flower stamp by Close to my Heart. Sticker by creative Memories. 

Black paper by The Paper Co and all other paper by Creative Memories. Flowers are unknown and outer border is tinsel from an old gift bag.

This an old layout that I revamped for her book so I don't know all the particulars in supplies on this one. 2008 stamp by Technique Tuesday, flourishes by Recollections, journal spot and we sticker by K and Co. Hope you have a great Wednesday. 

Manly Monday

Here is my second addition to Thank you cards for my husband although he thought the dragonfly was a little iffy. I thought it was more manly then a butterfly. Next time I'll use the bee and sting his little behind:)

I love that Core'dinates paper and how fun it is to emboss and then sand out the greenish color. The sentiment is by Shannon's Sentiments newly released set of thank yous and thanks. There is so much to offer in that set. The die cut is by Spellbinders, which I sprayed with Perfect Pearls and water. The dragonfly is by K & Co, the embossing folder and Cuttlebug are by Provo Craft and brads are unknown. 

Thanks for stopping by to see another Manly Monday card. 

I Did it Creations Challenge

This week at I Did It Creations our challenge is ANYTHING GOES. We are sponsored by Toucan Scraps and were given a few digital papers and images to go with them. I chose the peach colored paper and scalloped circle for my card.

I used some old Pebbles paper for the background and Stampin' Up ribbon in the middle. The eyelets are unknown but the flowers are by Petaloo.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to enter your project into the ANYTHING GOES challenge at IDIC.

Shannon's Sentiments Challenge

This week at Shannon's Sentiments the challenge is to create a birthday card. I used a tag from an older set called Vintage tag set for my card today.

The tag can be found in THIS set. I love how much use I get out of Shannon's sets. Supplies: Cardbase from Michael's dollar bin for 8 (like that price), stamps by Studio G (leaf), Hero Arts (circles) and Imaginisce (Sentiment), ink by Close to my Heart, Tsukineko and Ranger industries, cardstock is unknown except the kraft paper is from Oriental Trading Co, Liquid Glass by Close to my Heart and pop up foam by 3M.

Thanks for stopping by and looking. I hope you will join in on our challenge at Shannon's Sentiments. Shannon's challenges run monthly so now is about the time you should be getting those submissions in. 

May 7th was a Get well card 

May 14th was three flowers and no patterned paper

May 21st is a birthday card

There's only one more left. Link your projects to the side bar for May's challenges and you could be chosen at random for a $10 gift certificate to Shannon's store. Those that participate the most for that month receive an image worth $3. See the blog for all the fine print and the store for what you are going to buy even if you don't win the gift certificate:)

Have a great weekend.

Smooch Invites

While I wait for this silver Smooch to dry I wanted to show you one of the invitations I made for my sister-in-laws family reunion. I went very simple because I was low on time and so was she.

So I found these cards at Michaels in the dollar bin so you know it is a card not a tag. I sprayed with Smooch (by Clearsnap) then placed the Glitz Design paper on it and the title, which I stamped with Colorbox ink by Clearsnap. Very simple but does the job:) Happy Friday everyone.

Hip Hop Super Star

These two layouts are fun and bright for a Thursday. 

The letter tags are by Current from eons ago along with the Stampin' Up dance  stamp and stars stamped with Pink Passion ink by SU too. Superstar sticker is by Jollee's/EK Success, floss by Coats and Clark and the the patterned paper is by Basic Grey.

When I started to put this book together I thought I would include layouts from my personal books that she was in the pictures of. At that time I was scrapping 8.5x11 and therefore had to adjust them to make 12x12 layouts. This is one of them where I didn't change anything to the smaller layout just added to make it the size I wanted and am using now. 

Supplies that I know of: pink & blue cardstock are by Sunborn as well as the title paper. Background paper by Basic Grey, stickers by Moxxie, mask and star punch by Creative Memories, mist by Tattered angels, font by Quickutz, glitter by Stamendous. 

Thanks for looking today. I hope Thursday is a great day for you:)

Imaginisce card

I made this card for a challenge at Imaginisce. The challenge is to have a masculine theme, use a snag stamp and 75% of Imaginisce products with in your card. Here is my card

The background paper is by Core'dination, ink by Versa Mark, embossing powder by Ranger and everything else is Imaginisce. Thanks for looking.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

A Spoonful of Sugar (TU#152)-Anything goes

Jac-inks(TU#8)-Heat embossing (the red shape in which the presents and candles are in are heat embossed stamps)

Sweet Stamps(TU#15)-Birthday card

Lexi's Creations(M#40)-spots or stripes

Magical Monday(M/5-16)-Embossing

Make it Monday(M#37/5-16)-Anything goes (every week)

Karen's Doodle shop(M/5-16)-Bold and Bright

Calendar pages April and May

Every year around the time school starts back up I start to gather photos from the year and make calendars for family members. This year I made (5 brothers, M&D Groh, Grandma, the oldest niece, my Mom and Brother) 11 of them plus I have one in my office that is different from everyones. I thought I would share the different ones that I had for April and May.

My brothers calendar April calendar page:

For his calendar I used these stripes of sentiments (in the right upper corner) throughout the entire calendar. I found them at My Simple Stories, which are still free and available. It just gave his calendar some unity which I liked and may do more so in the future. That big oval is a recycled card, blue paper by CM, The pink is very old and the purple is by Colorbok. Border sticker by Current, chipboard by Making Memories and bunny sticker by Karen Foster. This family has an annual Easter Egg hunt and these are all the cousins.

This is my moms April calendar page:

The picture isn't the greatest (sorry) I believe the patterned paper is by K and Co, the pink paper is by CM, April showers is by Provo Craft (very old),dies are by Spellbinders, egg stamp and ink by Close to my Heart and the stickers I think are by Stickibilities.

This is my in-laws May calender (they all had the same photos per month just variations of those photos depending on paper availability). 

All the patterned paper by CM, stamps are by Close to my Heart (letters and leaves) and Martha Stewart (leaves and acorns), embossing flowers under right photo and brown paper is by Cuttlebug/Provo Craft, and the button leaf is by I think All dressed Up is the company name.

This is my mom's May calendar  

The green patterned paper to the left is by Sunborn and under the squares is by CM, square stickers by Provo Craft, circle stickers by Basic Grey, Livin' Loud card by Fancy Pants (I think), blue papers by DCWV and the rest of the paper is just scraps from my stash.

So as you can see these calendars are a great way to use up old product and my families (not to be mean) don't know if the products are new or old. You can also tell the different photos I am working with per family. My husbands grandmothers calendar included pictures of her other children and I come from a divorced family therefore the pictures of my moms calendar vary from that of my brothers calendar. My brothers calendar includes photos from my dads side of the family. So there are 7 calendars that have all the same pictures in them and the remaining 4 (and my office calendar) have some different pictures. 

I do have a system to my calendar madness that I will share with you. This year I took all my Creative Memories paper and put it in a bag. Each time I would start a page to any calendar I would go there first. Then if I couldn't find a match I would go to my Sunborn paper that I bought from Sam's Club a few years back. If I still was striking out with paper I would go to my stash. The problem with going to the stash is the time it takes to go thru the stash and find the right paper. Well I didn't have that kind of time so I really limited myself in what supplies I used, other wise I would have to start them in January to get them out for Christmas gifts.....um no thanks. Besides I like to use photos from the year before and no older. It is a progression of how much the kids and adults have grown or changed that makes it fun. At the end of each year we rip them out of the calendar, trim them up all pretty and put them into a Pioneer 8.5x11 scrapbook and use it as one of our many coffee table albums. It's fun for people to look at all the different years and fun for me to see my style has evolved from year to year.

One final note and then I have to get back to this scrapbook I am working on. I put the families birthdays and anniversaries in the calendar so people can look on their calendar and remember to call each other on their event. I send cards to each and every single person in our families but for other it's a great way to stay connected with the family since we are in Michigan and we have family that live in California. 

Hope you have enjoyed these two months worth of calendars. I will have more to share in the future and won't have to explain as much. Have a great Tuesday:)

Cindy

Manly Monday Thank You Cards

This week and next week our Manly Monday is going to be thankful for the things others do. My husband has people that donate products to his classroom and he wants thank you card the kids can sign but doesn't want flowers on it. I know, what's wrong with flowers, right? So I have made him some manly non flower thank you cards to share with you.

The circle outlines were made by Cricut and are Sunborn paper, the blue circle was punched using a Creative Memories circle punch and then it and the die cut were inked by Close to my Heart Moonstruck ink. The die cut is from Spellbinders and the sentiment is from Shannon's Sentiments Thanks set, which was released on May 15th. The background stamp is by Maya Road and I used Stampin' Up ink on it. Blue paper and the stamp underneath the sentiment (to cover up an oops I made) is by SEI

This one is a recycled card that I acquired from one of my mothers and it works perfectly for a male thank you card.

This one the sentiment stamp is by American Crafts and the border by Fiskars, die cut by Spellbinders, ink by Ranger Industries

One more

Same stamp sets as card above.

These are husband approved cards to use for another man. I guess less is more in his eyes. Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my Manly Monday series of cards. Some day when I get to scrapbook my own pictures I will be able to share boy/manly layouts. However, I can't see that happen just yet. 

Happy Monday everyone.