1972 Blue and Purple Pocket Page and Scrapbook Layout

Chugging along with 1972

I used number stamps by Stampin Up on a die that I bought on eBay

The patterned paper is by Pressed Petals (stripes) and by Deja Views (script font background)

Then for the pocket page:

Top left square: 

Patterned paper by Making Memories and cardstock unknown

The border punch by EK Success

Cake sticker by Jolee's

Date stamps by Close to my Heart

Journal box by Colorbok

Marker by Creative Memories.

Center square: patterned paper by Papertrey Ink

Center row left square: 

Border punch by Martha Stewart

 I painted the cardstock with powdered chalk mixed together with white paint both by Stamp N Plus (no longer in business) 

I inked the heart stamp with multiple colors of Versa Color ink and heat embossed it before cutting it out and cutting out a purple cardstock that you see behind it.

The letter stickers and reception sticker are unknown.

Lower left corner:

Crown die-cut by K and Co.

The letter stamps are from Michael's dollar bin

This is the same photo as above but scrapped in different colors for a different boy's book

I hate the next two pocket pages. There are way too many different papers. The busyness takes away from the photos. I might redo it but for now, it stays.

I used an unknown background stamp and heat embossed the suitcases with gold and added distress ink 

I used number stamps from Stampin Up. The other two fonts are dollar bin at Michael's font stamps

The die-cuts:

Green label die is Cricut

The peace sign is a punch by Marvy

 The gords are from K and Co.

 The circle in the center of the second page is something I received in a goodie bag at a crop 10 years ago. I dry embossed it and added distress ink. The brown sticker border sticker is by Creative Memories

The patterned papers are by Making Memories, October Afternoon, Die Cuts with a View, and Me and My Big Ideas

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1971 Paisley Pocket Page and Scrapbook Layout

I have to say, It was fun to use purple.

I used my Cricut to make the year die-cut  

The paper is a bold color and I think it makes the number stand out. 

Under the year, are 2 layers of patterned paper by Creative Memories 

The paisley patterned paper is by Die Cuts With a View

Other patterned papers that are here and there are by Creative Memories and Crate Paper. 

On the second page, I used stamps by Close to my Heart for the year. 

I really like this stamp set because it has great bold numbers in easy to read fonts. 

The black ink by Hero Arts also helps to make it stand out.

The right side border includes:

The Die Cuts with a View paisley paper 

Creative Memories paper and journal box

Border punch by Fiskars.

Striped paper by Colorbok

Epoxy circles on top and bottom of the date are by Miss Elizabeth's. 

Here's my 2-page spread all together

Same photo for a different book.

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1970's Making Wine Layout

There are so many different...things about this layout that I don't even know where to begin but I'm going to try until my hands hurt and won't let me type anymore.

Here we go.

This LO sat on my desk waiting for the perfect thing for the center. 

I found a vellum sentiment. Yay!

Scroll down to picture 2.

I ran it thru my Xyron machine and it was at the end of the roll which made the adhesive splotchy and it had cardboard from the roll stuck to the vellum. BOO! That's not the word I used. It was more like some F's, some SOB's, and a favorite one that I have to say way too often, Are you F-n kidding me? 

Anyway, what sucks about this whole thing, is I checked the roll before sending the vellum thru and everything looked good to go. Umm, not so much.

So, the next picture.

I sent this photo to Ali, along with 2 other other mess ups that will be posted in the near future and she calmed me down. Thank you Ali.

I looked in my stash, which you all know, it takes forever to go through your stash to find that one thing. Plus it makes a hurendous mess because you pull out of fun things that you forgot you had. SMH! 

So I finally found CM stickers that matched the colors of my layout. I used two of them. But most importantly, this circle went over the tear. Yay!

Patterned paper by K and Co

Rust-colored cardstock is by Color-Aid and off white cardstock  used on the Cricut die-cut is by Bazzill

Chipboard wine and glasses by Paper Accents

They were painted with Ranger Industries copper paint

Letter stamps by Michael's for the wine label 

Journal box by Creative Memories. It was pink and turned rusty colored with the help of Distress inks.

That is Mimi's (My precious MIL) handwriting. 

Side note: In the beginning of this project in 2014, she was helping me. She had just gone into an assisted living home and I was newly disabled. At that time I could still drive and pick her up to do things. It was good bonding time.

Anyway,

Chipboard grapes are by Paper Accents. I painted it with white Distress paint as the base and then I watercolored with distress ink. 

The last thing to this layout, I used 

Bubble stamp by Deep Red Stamps

Deep Red Stamps Men are like wine

to create a little card for a pocket page but I ended up scrapping these photos instead of doing a pocket page.

The circle sticker is by CM

All together one more time.

Thanks for sticking with me during this busy month. 

Going forward, you will see me posting more layouts than cards. 

I need to get them off of my PC and onto the blog/web.

Thanks so much for looking

This Special Little card comes your way....

I love this sentiment for donation cards.

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio 

The die-cut is by Sizzix 

Border stickers by Mrs. Grossman’s

The sentiment stamp is by Great Impressions

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Before I go...

I have a small rant on the new Blogger format.

It has been such a hassle for me for the following reasons:

Adding labels takes soooooo much time. 

Click here. 

Move cursor. 

Type in there. 

Click label. 

Click apply here. 

REPEAT FOR EACH LABEL!

And I have to point out that the delete icon is right next to the label icon. Buyer beware.

So what's the big deal? I like labels. 

I can go to the search box and type the word Graduation.  

~Poof~ my graduation projects appear. I can look and see if I've posted a project before or just scroll thru my old stuff 

Side note, in 2009 when I started my blog, I didn't know what labels were and didn't use them. So when I see an old post without labels, I add them. My complaint is, adding labels to those old posts was easier and took less time with the old Blogger format. 

When I load a picture to a blog post, the pictures are sized as extra-large. Now I admit, the XL pictures are nice to look at to see the detail of the card or LO but that size picture doesn't fit on my Blog's template. 

So that is something that I could fix but don't know exactly how.

UPDATED PIC, WORDING, SPACING 10-4-21

Garfield with his bunny slippers card

This was another donation card to someone that likes Garfield. 

The orange polka dot in by My Mind’s Eye 

The rest of the die-cutS are by Spellbinders

The Garfield stamp by PSX and colored in with Copic markers 

Heart stamps that make up the background are by Lawn Fawn with Hero Arts ink.

The sentiment is a word bubble sticker that I’ve had for 15 years. I often think, why am I keeping these stickers? Why, because you never know when you’ll have a card like this needs one of those stickers.

Thanks for looking. Have a great day.

1970's Boys Playing Pocket Pages Layouts

In the Groh family, these are the kinds of things done by 4 boys and a husband.

I used stamps by Cloud 9 (boys will be boys) and Deep Red Stamps on the bottom card

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders and Colorbok

The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View, 

The wood veneers are by Maya Road

This card was an experiment using Close to my Heart stamps Hero Arts ink. Would the stamps continue to have a crisp look on the wood even after it dried?

I think it did. I like the end results.

I made a banner out of the wood pennants by Maya Road attached together with embroidery floss. 

The upper stamping looks horrible but I decided not to redo it for time reasons. 

I placed small brads in some of the open spaces. 

I used stamps by Deep Red Stamps on the card below. 

The tag is a Creative Memories punch and I stamp the 

Winter Pine stamp by Deep Red Stamps

Ducks Stamp by Deep Red Stamps

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Graduation Wish of Many Bright Tomorrows card

Sorry I’ve been absent. I have been scrapbooking at our cottage. 

The sentiment stamp is from an old Stampin Up set. 

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders

The patterned paper is by Bazzill (bottom layer), The Paper Studio (top layer), and Papertrey Ink (die-cut red polka dot paper)

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Dry Embossed Happy Graduation Cards

This first card is my favorite out of the three cards.

The dry embossing folder is a Darice folder

I used a graduation stamp by TPC Studios 

It is white heat embossed

The Happy die sentiment is by Clearly Besotted 

The diploma Sticker is by Jolee's

The next card: Dry Embossing is a Cuttlebug folder

I inked the embossed words with Firebrick red distress marker.

The border is an oldie from my sticker stash.

The triangle and circle were scraps I found when I was cleaning my craft room.

IMO It’s not a good card but I have a feeling that the boy/young man that received it only cared about the contents inside.

I had higher expectations for this card because I used Firebrick red distress oxide ink on black cardstock. It looked great when I applied the ink but I was shocked and disappointed at how pink it turned out after it dried. What!

I still went with the original plan for this card to be red and black by adding red cardstock behind it and red washi tape from Stampin Up at the bottom.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look at my new posts.

UPDATED PICS, DESCRIPTION, LABELS 10-1-21 and again 4-26-25

1970 Beautiful Mom Layout and Pocket page to match

Welcome to the 70's

I used number stamps by Stampin Up in the Spellbinders die-cut at the bottom. 

I inked the outside of the die-cut.

The name and age are alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn

All of the other die- cuts are cut out using my Cricut.

The patterned paper is by Doodlebug

The flower sticker at the bottom

I added more to the matching pocket page than I usually do. 

The stickers are old ones by Making Memories.

So there's a story with the station wagon. My husband and younger brother always had to sit in the way back of the car which was facing backward. This would make his motion sickness brother barf every time-per, my husband. His other complaint was the toxic fumes from the car that he had to inhale. All of that made him have a "horrible childhood. "

I found this car pattern on the back of My Mind's Eye paper that I bought for the front side.

I had to use it for this photo.

Orange, brown and outside gold border stickers

Yellow and brown oval sticker. 

I covered up a word that I would never use with the picture.

This sticker is one of those that you would fold in half as a pull out tab, I think. 

I stamped the date with Close to my Heart stamps.

Tiny little sticker in the corner by Karen Foster.

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My Mind's Eye Mint-Green-Purple Die Cut Cards

I put these two cards together because the die-cuts are from the same collection.

The first card. 

The patterned paper is by Colorbok

Cardstock by Bo Bunny 

I used a stencil and Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels to create the background paper in the middle

I also inked it with distress ink 

The die-cut scalloped flower, that is also inked around the edges with distress ink, is by My Mind’s Eye 

This second card is simple yet it has a ton of layered die-cuts by Spellbinders and My Mind’s Eye 

There are 4 layers of die-cuts that end with a tiny die-cut in the middle that says "Friends".

The patterned paper is by Colorbok 

And easy peasy. Looks cute and all done.

Thanks for looking.

Mollicone Wedding 1963 Layout

I know this isn't a Manly Monday project but it's the day they got married 57 years ago.

This should be the end of 1960 scrapbook layouts, hopefully. I'm going to start bringing in the '70s layouts and try to go more in chronological order.

The patterned paper is by My Mind's Eye

Cardstock from my stash

The gold flourish die-cuts at the bottom are very beautiful 

The off white flourishes were pieces that fell off and were on the floor from a different project. A card I think. 

The date along with the above were cut out with my Cricut. 

The names of the bride and groom are stamps by Sizzix. The and in between is a sticker.

The arrow punch is by Stampin Up and its off white cardstock was overspray from a different project too. It is Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels. 

I was asked to point out the in-laws in photos like this. I know where they are but future generations even my SIL didn't know where they were. So I'm using her suggestion/good idea.

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I sewed a pocket so I could include these fun ephemera. 

So check out this amazing ephemera that was with these wedding photos. I don't think the book has ever been opened. I tried to open it and the pages stuck together like how a new book does.

The problem-the book would fall to the bottom of the pocket.

I tried putting chipboard into the pocket to hold the book and that was a fail.

So without digging around forever, this is the first paper clip I came to and it works for me.

I put it into a baggie to preserve it.

I appreciate you stopping by today and thanks for looking

Peacock ATC turned into a card

The peacock in today's card was an ATC

 but it didn't quite fit into my notebook of ATC's

 I decided it would be great on a card that I would donate

So there was very little for me to do with such a beautiful card as the main focus.

I stamped a Stampin Up background stamp with purple ink onto a mint colored cardstock

Then, I added two brads from stash

Boom! Done!

Is that wrong of me, to use ATC's on cards? I think it's okay to do so if I'm donating them.

I did feel funny about watermarking it. 

For some reason, I didn't get the maker's name to give credit.

I made it a while back and can't recall the specifics.

Anyway,

Thanks for looking.

Have a great day.

Sweet Girly Lion Card

Yesterday's card was simple and today's card screams at you.

I used stamps by Stampin Up

The sentiment is a sticker 

The patterned paper is by Stampin Up, K and Co, Elle's Studio and Cosmo Cricket

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Golden Lab Card

So simple, yet it's a card that any dog lover would enjoy.

I used a stamp by Gina Marie with Colorbox pigment ink and fussy cut it out 

The sentiment is by Darice and stickers by Reminisce

The patterned paper is by Basic Grey and Colorbok

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Bright and Non-Traditional Colored Happy Graduation Cards

I few graduation cards that I made

First Card.

The sentiment Happy is by Lawn Fawn with matching die

The sentiment Graduation is by TPC and is white heat embossed

The patterned paper is by Making Memories and My Mind's Eye 

I'm not sure why I did the diagonal green paper.

It certainly gives a different look

Second card.

The patterned paper frame is from the patterned paper in the card above

The orange paper is by Sunborn. 

The rays are a stencil by Tim Holtz using distress ink and oxide

The sticker is by K and Co

Last one.

The sentiment sticker is by K and Co

Brad by The Paper studio. 

I made the background using Clear Dollar Stamps and Stampin Up.

I chose Stampin Up inks and would stamp off the ink before stamping on the paper.

Thanks for looking