Manly Monday Haunted House card

The background is a upcycled card base covered with white cardstock, purple cardstock and a partially cut  square die cut out of black cardstock. That die is covered with black and white polkadot Papertray Ink paper and a lawn die cut out of Papertray Ink paper. The haunted house die cut was given to me. Thanks for looking. 

Just for You Fall Leaves and Colors Card

The patterned paper is from Accord Publishing. The die cut is by SMS Scrapbooking made Simple. The gems are from Couture Creations. The sentiment is from a magazine stamp set. Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Alice in Wonderland Belated Birthday card

Craft Roulette #222

Project: This fun fold card is an A2 and is called a Dutch door. The front of  the card base is cut in half so the top of the card opens up separately from the bottom. I hope that makes sense to future me.

The patterned paper is by Cricut and the yellow chained border sticker is by Doodlebug. The stamped sentiment is by Stampendous. I really like this card because it’s so colorful and that is because the patterned paper really does all of the work for you. 

The keyhole on the front of the card is a heavy embellishment. I felt as though it fit the movie especially it fits the first scene when she falls down the hole and starts talking to the doorknob. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Oxide background Poinsettia Christmas

I made this card for Craft Roulette #206. The parameters were: Project-card with a heart (the word heart is in the sentiment). Colors-vintage (I think it looks vintage). Element-plant (pontisettia). Random- lace in the base (there’s lace on the card base.).

 I started by stamping a bunch of panels with the poinsettia in the center and the sprigs in the corners. I colored this one with Copic markers but hated it so I heat embossed another one on watercolor paper and colored it in with watercolors. I dislike this one too. But due to time constraints, I had to go with it. 

So what is it that I don’t like about the new flower? There's no definition that the flower has petals. There’s no dimension. When you have different shades of colors added you can look as though one petal is under another. 

Anyway, I created the background with distress oxide and spritzed it with water. Then I added pre-adhesive lace to make it look like a present.
CS-Hobby Lobby
Watercolor CS- Tim Holtz
Distress Oxides
Stamps-Stampendous
Copics and Zig markers
Lace-Recollections

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Slimline Pumpkin card

The patterned paper scraps were found in my stash. The pumpkin stamps and sentiment are by Stampibilities. I colored them in with Copic markers. The enamel dots are by Hero Arts-maybe.Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Pastel Butterfly Cards

I white heat embossed the butterflies and colored them in with Copic markers. Butterflies and sentiment stamps are by Stampendous.

I used the same patterned paper as my first layer. Even though it's mostly covered up it pulls out the little bit of color in the butterflies. The patterned paper pad is from Hobby Lobby. (I should use it more).

The diagonal design border on this second card is washi tape by 3M. It's a pain to get off the roll because it's fragile and the stickiness isn't consistent. I almost had it to the size I wanted and it ripped. Oh, Come on!!

 The lace is from Scrapbooking Made Simple, the oval die cut is by Spellbinders, and the celebrate die is by Couture Creations.

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Books at a Coffee shop card

This card is for Craft Roulette card #213

Project: Hello card

Colors: Robust-my online resources said browns, dull orange, dull yellow, and grey
Element: Workplace people at work drink lots of coffee 

Random: Mixed media -Copic markers, background stamp, and using wallpaper.

 I made the background using a background stamp by Stampin Up with Hero Arts ink. The book stamp is by Darice and is colored in with Copic markers. Then I fussy cut the image. 

The brown and blue square dies were bought off eBay. The interesting look to them is because there was already a hole in the center of the blue square. So when I lined up the squares there was a funky look to it.

The “Hello” sentiment and the border dies are by Spellbinders. The side border is made from wallpaper samples.

 The rust-colored sticker dividing the stamped area and the border is by Creative Memories, I’m using up some oldies but goodies.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Scalloped circle card

I made this simple anniversary card using a scalloped circle pre-made card base by Recollections. I used my Cricut to cut out the green die cut and then put yellow cardstock behind it. The sentiment stamp and dual colored heart sticker are unknown. The gold heart is a Sizzix die with gold Sizzix paper. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Best Fishes in squares card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #225

Parameters

Project: A2

Colors: tea party

Element: house pet

Random: stripes 

And I thought the random was the packaging. 

No silly. That was last week.    

Anyway…this is the tea cup color inspiration 

And when you look at the two sided by side it looks weird but when you look at just the picture above it makes more sense.

            

The first thing is I used this teacup as my color palette. It’s hard to tell but I really did take the colors as my inspiration from the tea cut 

The stamps I’m using are by Lawn Fawn I colored them with Copic markers. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

 

Manly Monday Surfboards with a Big Wave

I made this card for Craft Roulette #227 

Project: 4x8

 Colors: Mountain  

Element: Float(s) or floating. 

Random: Water 

I made the background when I added water to leftover distress oxide on my mat. I smooched the paper onto the mat and tada. I followed up by adding yellow distress ink in the upper right corner. For the sand, I ripped paper and inked it with distress oxide.

The wave is a Cricut cut. It’s messed up. I think the pieces got lost on my desk. I had cut out a few different waves and then got distracted by something else. Then as a try to make the wave look better I got out an old Fiskars textile plate and a stylus to put waves onto the waves. It was a fail. LoL! So to try and make the wave better I pounced on powdered chalk. Meh. 

The chair die cuts are by Gina Marie. The surfboards are stamps by A Stampers Journey. I added the arrow like pattern with a colored pencil. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday a Negative and Positive card

I love to Upcycle> Recycle> Reuse> Repurpose> and Reduce the trash.

For my two cards today I extracted the sentiment out of Aunt Gail's store-bought card and I was able to make these two cards. Can you see where the cards were one and became two?

I started with a lavender card base and then layered patterned paper by Basic Grey that was 1/8" smaller around the edges. The rhinestones and enamel stickers are from my stash. 

The sentiment is from a store-bought card and I cut it out with a die from Kaisercrafts. So instead of throwing away the yellow cardstock, it came from...tada! 

Look, it's the yellow cardstock from above. Isn't that cool? Why haven't I done this before? Anyway, I added polka dot patterned paper by Studio G behind the yellow cardstock.
I stamped the large sentiment with Hero Arts ink and it never evenly dispersed into the cardstock. I stamped it multiple times with the MISTI. I decided to color in the bare spots with my Stampin' Up watercolor pencils to fill in the bare spots.
The fun arrow and banner combo come from the Scrapbook Expo. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD 

August Calendar Layout 2024 Celebrate and Congrats

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Shark Bite card

This Deep Red Stamp sentiment makes me giggle. The seaweed stamps and mulberry paper are unknown. 

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever noticed the designs on Kleenex boxes? Some of them have better designs than patterned paper.

Well, I cut a part of a design on a Kleenex box to look like waves. I popped one up with foam squares so I had a place for my seaweed stamps. 

I made this card for Craft Roulette #226 and the parameters were:

Project-see thru (you can see through the mulberry paper.

Colors-Jungle (there’s green in the leaves)

Element-Teach(es)or teacher (sentiment says “I’ve learned…)

Random-Tangle (the waves are tangled)

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Happy 27th Anniversary to us

This is the anniversary card I made for my husband. Well, we were lucky to be able to take a vacation up north with family on the actual day of our anniversary. Sadly, I forgot the card at home, and even worse, I still haven’t given it to him.

The flower was folded crêpe paper/streamer paper. I had stamped it with a Stampin Up wheel stamp and gave it a little bit of Stickles. The arch die was a Cricut cut. The doily is by Doodlebug. The letters and heart are like Quickuts. And the patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink.

Card made this card for Craft Roulette #219

Parameters:

Project – anniversary.

Colors – garden salad. I looked up salads and found one with brown rice, walnuts, and tomatoes.

Element – new. The letter dies are new to me.

Random – fold a corner. The flower has many folded corners.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Thanks a Melon

I made this card for Craft Roulette #223 

Sentiment by Stamps for Life.

Watermelon border stickers by Doodlebug Designs. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Holly Hobby Flying a Kite Card

I made this Holly Hobby card for

Craft Roulette episode 221. 

The parameters were:

Project: A2 size card 

Colors: A donut shop-I think sprinkles on donuts are pink, blue, and green. 

Element: Dolly- When I was growing up, Holly Hobby was my doll, wallpaper, blanket, and decorations. You get it.

Random: A purse or pockets- HH has pockets in her dress. 

I colored the image in with Copic markers, but there was something about the sky that I wasn’t able to get the way I wanted it with the Copic markers. I got out my new Distress Crayons. I had no idea how to use them, so I got out some reinforcement. I used a blender and then a water brush. It doesn't look great but I'm saying that this is an artistic approach to making a sky.

The background patterned paper is from Papertrey Ink. The sentiment puffy stickers are by Glitz. The clear stickers are by Mrs Grossman’s. 

The reason for two photos is to show the card in vivid mode and regular mode of my camera.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

July Calendar Layout 2024 Orange at a Football game.

I’ve always thought this color of the calendar was orange thus making it the stupidest color for a July calendar page. But I went with it for the calendar page. I buy the pre-made calendars from Current. It saves me time but definitely not money. Idt anyone has ever tried to give me money for calendars. Hmmm.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

A Fruity Drink with an Umbrella card

The scalloped half circle is paper by Deja Views. I cut it out with my Cricut. The light blue patterned paper in the center is by Colorbok. The sentiment is by Die Versions and it’s cut out of polka dot patterned paper by Papertrey Ink. The drink is a sticker from a dollar bin at Michael’s. Stickers get a bad rap in the card making world. And they’re not terrible if you use them well.

Ice cream card

Poker chip, sentiment, and border stickers

Thanks for looking.

Trio Window Birthday Card

A very big and loud birthday card that I sent to my brother. It weighs a lot. I enjoyed making it was something different.

 

 

I made this card for Craft Roulette #209

Project-A tri-fold card (my card has three folds)

Colors-Sleigh ride (I did mine as in the Nightmare Before Christmas movie)

Element-funny or Joke(s) (The sentiment sticker says, “How old are you now?” That’s kind of funny.)

Random- out of proportion (both of the sentiment stickers have a large word in them and that is out of proportion from the other.

Now that I look at this card, the nonhuman middle cake looks like it’s flipping you off. LoL! 

Anyway, Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

June Calendar Layout brothers at a Whitecaps game

Patterned paper by MAMBI. Border punch is EK Success. Banner and embellishment-Cricut. Letter stamps are by Stampin UP. Old calendar made DEC 31 2015.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Christmas Nativity scene Ornament Card

The ornament stamp was one that I borrowed from a friend and I wrote the company name on the back of the image but when I fussy cut it out the name on the back was never seen again. 

I adhered the image to an unknown patterned paper and with the ornament just awkwardly hanging there, it looked unfinished. So I added a gold brad, yes a brad, at the top of the ornament and to make it look like a real ornament I wrapped gold thread around the brad and then taped to the back of the card. The “thread” is by Martha Stewart. 

Moving down the card we come to a punched border on gold pearlescent paper. Next down the card is a pennant that overlaps the above but of a different piece of gold paper. Both gold papers are from the same paper pack by Sizzix. The sentiment is a Stampendous stamp. 

This picture shows the shine of the pennant paper and it’s a close up of the thread wrapped around the brad.

Thanks so much for looking. HAGD! 

June Calendar Layout Bennett 2024

A list of supplies: Patterned paper by Me and My Big Ideas. Alphabet stamps by Close to my Heart. High five stamps by Stampin Up. Distress ink on a The Crafter’s Workshop stencil found on the pennants that say “Vroom”. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Graduation paper clip Card

The patterned paper is by Karen Foster and the gold cardstock is by Sizzix. The embossing folder is by Darice. So what I did with this card was I put both the patterned paper and white cardstock into the embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. This way I wouldn’t have to try and line them up together. The white gel pen by Sakura. the golden paper clip is unknown. 

I don’t like top-folding cards. I’ve handed out a lot of Christmas cards to the elderly and when they were given a card they would try to open it as a side-folded card.

The other thing that I dislike with top folding cards is they don’t seem to stand upright, no matter what the thickness is of the cardstock. When you try to display them I find they do the splits. 

So I put the paper clip in that spot so that they had to take it off and then they would lift it up. I made this card for the Craft Roulettee show on Friday nights. 

The parameters were:

Project: A window, mine is the frame. 

Colors: Bird colors, red, yellow, blue in the patterned paper.

Element: On the pond,the ripples around the word water ripples.

Random:Paper clip

Thanks for looking.

UPDATE:

I changed it. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Special Day Card in Green and Blue

The striped patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned paper that the sentiment is on is by Recollections. The circular background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. The green die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The heart die cut is by Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is by Stampibilities.

Thanks for looking. HAGD 

Floral Friday Upcycled Layered Sunflowers card

I made this card using a store-bought card. I fussy cut the flowers and then layered them onto the card base. The two flowers on the right-hand side were attached with dimensional adhesive. The sentiment is from My Stamp Box. The circle punch is by Creative Memories. I put some blue I. The corner represents the sky.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Eat Lots of Cake/ no ice cream

I made this card for Craft Roulette #215

Project: Birthday card

Colors: Petting zoo

Element: Scoops

Random: Tabs

This card is such a joy to make that I might make more. For some reason, I have a lot of those ice cream stickers. No one will know if I make duplicates of the same card.

Here’s the card with the tag out of the pocket. And then the next picture is the other side of the tag.

Here’s the other side of the tag.

The word stickers are by SRM stickers, the ice cream stickers are by Mrs. Grossman, the heart die cut is from Lawn Fawn, and the yellow circle border on the tag is by Doodlebug. I used a white square punch from Creative Memories to create the grid. The center squares are on dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!