Manly Monday I Made My own background for these three cards

I made these backgrounds by scoring lines using the black “blade” on the Fiskars trimmer.

I used stamps by Tpc Studio inside the score lines. 

The sentiment is by Great Impressions. 

I love this stamp for sending to people I don’t know. 

THIS POST

Shows some of the other stamps that are on my wish list.

The second one uses an unknown dino stamp

The transparency is left over from 

THIS CARD

The letters are by Tim Holtz. I have to get the punctuation from somewhere else before I send it out. 

Last is my green example.

I dry embossed a small embossing folder by Cuttlebug

I inked it with distress ink and layered it on top of two Spellbinders dies.

Here are the three together. I really liked the way that they turned out and think they are appropriate for a male. Sadly they will never know, nor care about the time I put into making these cards.

This is the stamp set. I used the second to the bottom stamp for all of my lines. 

Here's the scoring of the paper. I forgot to take a picture before I started so the stamping has already been started. 

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1977 Blandford Nature Center Layout

The Groh family scrapbook layouts continue.

The die- cuts are by Cricut.

The George font with the stakes is perfect for this theme. 

For the green die, I cut a piece of cardstock to fit in the center of it

I did that so the letter stickers by Provo Craft would stand out more

The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View

The pocket page:

Die-cut numbers are Cricut cuts.

The labeling under many of the photos from the Cricut's draw feature.

Letter stamps at the bottom left are by Lawn Fawn. The numbers are stickers.

Patterned paper: Creative Memories in the bottom corner of this card. It has a vellum sticker inside, also by Creative memories and the polka dot paper by Papertrey Ink.

At first, I didn't like the diagonal date but now I love how it stands out.

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Pink embossed butterflies with a pretty flower card

We need some pink in between all this blue layout stuff.!

I have to say, when I was looking at this card to write this blogpost I was clueless about the manufacturer for the leaves stamp on the tips of the die cut. 

But then, for whatever reason, I lifted my head and this stamp set was the first one on a peg.  Quite often stamp sets get moved around as I'm looking through them.

The leaves stamp comes from the Sincere Sentiments designed by SCDesign by Simonne Clay from the Cardmaker and Papercraft magazine. I bought it on Mercari with a bunch of other things to make my purchase worth the shipping cost. There are a lot of nice sentiments, see picture below.

Then, here's my next thing. The circle in the center is by Elle's Studio. I won these products years ago so I put them on my desk so I will see them and maybe use them. It worked because I used one here and on an upcoming card. 

The other details of the card are:

 The white and pink die cuts are by Design Objective Designs. 

The pink ink for the leaves is from Scrapbook.com. It's their own line of products called Umbrella. 

To finish up, the center circle is from a Jillibean Soup and the butterfly background embossing folder is by Gina Marie. I did put a little bit of distress ink on some of the butterflies

My craft room has a half wall (3'x6') and a wall (5'x5') with pegboard for my stamps. 

When people come into my craft room for the first time, they say it looks like a store. Also, they've no idea that the packages on the wall are stamps. Most people think of stamps as rubber on a woodblock.

Here's a picture of the stamp set

Elle's Studio Leftovers

Card with Elle's Studio circle 

Thanks so much for looking.

1976 Professional Family Pictures in Grey-Blue and Red

Check out the bottom for variations of 1976 photos

Label stamps by Lawn Fawn

Nov and 1976 cut out using my Cricut.

 The background paper is by Stampin Up

A scrap of patterned paper with Nov. on top is by Quickutz.

The following layouts are from other books that I made.

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1975 Outdoors and Christmas time Pocket page Scrapbook layout

More 1975

The first card: alphabet stamps on the journal box are by Stampin Up A sticker or two by Karen Foster

The center card, the words, "Outside in 1975", stamps are by Lawn Fawn on a The Girls Paperie die cut that I inked with distress ink

1975 was cut out using my Cricut

The scraps of patterned papers are by The Paper Loft 

The blue patterned paper used on 8 of the 9 cards is by Colorbok. (Bok not BoX)

I inked the edges with a brown chalk ink by Colorbox. (Box. Not BoK.)

Seriously. Did these two companies not know of each other when naming their company? SMH

There's not too much to talk about on this pocket page. 

The top right card is the only one with anything on it.

The date stickers are by Creative Memories

The title was cut out using my Cricut

The trees are stickers from my stash

The patterned papers are by Daisy D.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

1975 Up North Teal and Mint Gradient Layout and Pocket Page

I couldn't decide the colors of these pages. I found a few clocks that show the colors. I put them on my Pinterest Home Board

Cindy Groh Home Board

Is it teal or mint?

Anyway, 1975 Continues.

This is a 2-page layout with the layout below as the left side and the pocket page as the right side.

The leaf die cut is by Gina Marie

The alphabet numbers are by SEI

The patterned paper is unknown

The pocket page details:

Cricut writing on vellum for details. I'm so mad that I didn't mark down the font.

The die- cuts are by Cricut (Wall Decor and More)

The patterned paper is by The Perfect Scrapbook by Colorbok (Sage Plaid)

Date stickers by Dear Lizzy + American Crafts

I have to include another layout with some of the same photos.

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1975 Lots of Red with a heart Scrapbook Layouts

I don't usually use any hearts but a challenge a scrapbook.com pushed me to do so.

This layout is on the right side of this double page layout.

The labeling on the left is using my Cricut writing option. The font is A Child's Play on vellum 

The circle punch is by CM and the heart is chipboard painted white.

The patterned paper is by Recollections (hearts) and the dark red polka dots by Jelly Bean Soup.

The rest are scraps from K and Co, Creative Memories, and The Paper Studio from my stash

The red cardstock to the left is by Recollections and the red below photo is by Provo Craft. I inked it with distress ink. 

Stamps: The word summer is by Stampin Up and the date is by Close to my Heart

Pocket page details:

The top row of white cardstock square cards has been stamped with a square stamp that fits (close to it) around the photo. The square stamp is by Fiskars with red SU ink.

Patterned paper by Die Cuts with a View

Journal on vellum using the write feature on Cricut

This font is called Little White Lies

The black arrow punch is by Stampin Up.

The die-cut in the center is by Sizzix but the paper is unknown.

The date was made with my Cricut 

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Manly Monday Blue and Green Patterned Paper cards

A simple guy card using scraps from cards on 

THIS POST

I used a sentiment stamp by Hero Arts

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon and Making Memories

Scraps.of blue cardstock for the rest of the card.

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I thought I would enter this one into the anything goes challenge at 

Craft Happiness challenge.

The end of 1974 and the 1975 shows the boys cleaning the kitchen Pocket Pages

This post is the end of 1974 and the second page starts with 1975

I used stamps by Christmas is by Hero Arts

The tree and date die- cuts are by Cricut

The tree sticker is by Jolee's

Green washi tape on the bottom of the first card

The patterned papers are by:

Echo Park, Stampin Up, Me and My Big Ideas, and the green on top says The Divine Collection

I made this card with CM stickers and stamps by Stampin Up and Michael's dollar bin

This next moves us into 1975

Kitchen die-cuts by Cricut

Numbers are stickers

Not sure on the Main dish stamp

Circle button die-cuts by Echo Park with floss

The corner punch is by EK Success

The patterned paper is by Me and My Big Ideas

Vellum by The Paper Studio at Hobby Lobby

I adhered the vellum onto the card with the Xyron sticker maker.

Journal on vellum is using the draw feature on Cricut

The font is called Kickball

Rub-on by Autumn Leaves

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1974 Professional picture done 3 ways

The patterned paper by Making Mind's Eye

Die cuts with there names in them were cut out with my Cricut

I inked them with the Milled Lavender distress ink.

I set the label dies with eyelets. I need to keep using those little boogers up.

The names and ages were stamped with Oriental Trading Co alphabet stamps

Date and large die cuts behind the photo were also cut out with my Cricut

The other side is a pocket page.

Papers are from the same pad of paper by My Mind's Eye

1974 are stamps by Stampin Up on a Lawn Fawn die cut.

The center photo has Joe's name with Lawn Fawn stamps and a cake sticker by Creative Memories

The beer bottle stamp in the lower-left corner card, I would say is by Simon Says Stamp

The motorcycle sticker is by Stickopotamus

These are from individual books. If I get a chance I will look up the products.

These 2 layouts are from Pau's book.

The next two layouts are from David's Book

Here's the matching side for the above layout.

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1974 Newspaper article for Making wine Layouts

Here's a link to the first wine layout: 

Wine making layout 

This layout has a shortlist of supplies.

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft, Color-Aid, and Studio G.

The grapes were created the same way as above LO and chipboard are by Paper Accents.

The green label and pennant die-cuts are by Cricut.

I used number stamps by Stampin Up and below are letter stamps by Lawn Fawn 

Thanks for looking

Here are some other wine cards.

Fine Wine Card

Deep Red Stamps Sentiment

Wine card

Bubbles Stamp by Deep Red Stamp

And last Wine Card using a different stamp set but the same paper pack of patterned paper.

Thanks for looking