Manly Monday Grill Masters Birthday cards

My cards today feature this Bar-B-Cutie is a SUGAR--PEA--DESIGNS--DIES & STAMPS. There is also a matching set of dies. I colored him and all of the accessories in with Copic markers. The little hamburgers and hotdogs are cute. The sentiment stamp is one from eBay with multiple colors of distress ink. The patterned paper is old gingham paper from Creative Memories.

The red one uses a border from Creative Memories and a sticker from Mrs Grossman’s 

I think the dies at the bottom of the card are an add-on set of stamps and dies. They don’t match as in cut out the stamps with the matching dies. The cute sentiment stamp set and cute die set. So, the icons on the gingham border and the sentiments are part of the add-ons. The border sticker and gingham are by Creative Memories.

I gave this guy some facial hair.

Floral Friday Just for you Clearly Besotted in yellow cards

I stamped and die cut out a ton of these Clearly Besotted flowers. In all different colors. 
Floral Friday continues:

This first card:  

The die-cuts are by Spellbinders and inked with distress ink. There is distress ink is around the outside white panel and also inside the die-cut. Squeezed Lemonade Is a great yellow distress ink. The ribbon is by Craft Smart. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and inked with Walnut distress ink.

I am struggling with the photos of the card. Idk if my monitor is showing the colors as flat or if it's the way I'm taking the picture. Below is the original picture and above is the same picture that has been enhanced.

Second one:

The patterned paper is from Poppy stamps and then the yellow die-cuts paper is by Scenic Route.

The die-cuts layered 4 deep are all by Sizzix.

Green ribbon-The Ribbon Boutique.

Third card:

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft (very old. using my stash makes me happy).
The stamped word "Let's" is a Paper Smooches stamp.
The "Celebrate" die is by Desire by Crafters Companion. The purple die cut is unknown because it was not my die.

I took a photo of these together to show how the same flower stamp looks in different colors.

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Blue Sewing Swirls Happy Birthday Card

The swirl design that I poked into cardstock came from a stencil by Oriental Trading Co. I backstitched the design with blue floss by DMC. 
I show a picture of the stencil at the end of the post.
The sentiment stamp is by Lawn Fawn.
The blue paper is an old folder.

I love the beautiful card and can only imagine the joy it would bring to someone receiving it. But I hate poking the holes. Tedious and hard on my wrists and right elbow.

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My card today has a little story. I’ll keep it brief.

About 4 years ago I used a stencil by Oriental Trading Co. The stencil is designed for you to poke the holes of the design through cardstock and then to do a backstitch in the holes and so I did just that on this paper/cardstock.

This paper has traveled around my craft room being placed in this drawer and then moved to another drawer.
So here’s my first problem with this card front, it was an odd size, and a lot of times it wasn’t bagged up.

 It’s ridiculous because I have a lot of baggies. When I would find it I just could not figure out what I wanted to do with it. It’s so pretty and time-consuming and maybe I didn’t want to make it into a card and give it away.

Well, the latest time that I moved it, I noticed that the sewing was starting to come loose. 

It looked frazzled. 

It was time to make it into a card. I didn't want all of the time spent on this card to be wasted.

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August Calendar Layout Cottage Before and After

This is my cottage calendar. Aug-Before and After. The woodgrain paper is unknown. Stamps- Bottle is by Simon Says Stamp. Digger is by SU. All have been stamped with HA grey ink.

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Deep Red Stamps Garden Girl Card

The little Garden Girl stamp is by Deep Red Stamps and I colored her in with Copic Markers. The sentiment is a sticker. The flower pot die-cut is by Dies...To die For. The patterned paper are scraps from my stash. Brads of garden tools are from Eyelet Outlet. The flowers in my card are punches from random companies. The paper was photo paper scraps that I inked with Ranger's alcohol inks. I used distress ink for the background. Jute by Tim Holtz

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Manly Monday It's "Time" To Celebrate Cards part 2

For each of my cards today, I used an embossing folder by Darice. The sentiment was made with alphabet stamps from Close to my Heart. The word stamps are from The Paper Studio. I also used distress ink on the edges of most.

1st card: Patterned paper by Bazzill. 

The die cut is from Spellbinders.

The circle was cut out using the Creative Memories cutting system.

I’m entering the green card into the Male Room Challenge 

Birthday cards

Patterned paper by Studio Calico.

Sentiment patterned paper is from a Tim Holtz paper

The circle in the back has been sprayed with my new Dylusions shimmer spray by Ranger. The sentiment die-cut is by Spellbinders. 

Here’s a picture of the group that I made including last week’s card using Deep Red Stamps.

I think the green card is my favorite color of the bunch.

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Scrapbook Layout with MIL and Pat Boone

My MIL is the sweetest, most patient, Christian woman that never said anything bad about anyone, even when there was reason to talk bad about them, she was not that kind of person. This is her as a teenager. The two handwritten words are from the back of the photo. 
The patterned paper is by stripes are by Creative Memories, Polka dot by Stampin Up, and the green ombre paper is a 6-6 Studio G

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Floral Friday Skinny Pink card

Recently, I made a bunch of new cards that have flowers on them.
 I needed some way to get them on my blog in an organized way.
So now I have Floral Friday.
The flower and matching die is by Clearly Besotted
The white lattice die-cut was cut out with my Cricut
The rectangle die-cut under the flower is by Spellbinders.
The embossing folder under the Cricut cut is by Cuttle bug.
You can see it in the close-up picture.
The patterned paper is an oldie from my stash.

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You Look Fabulous...Given How Old your Are cards

You look Fabulous cards. 
The stamp Film stamp set is by Deep Red Stamps. 
The sentiment is by Stampendous

The sentiment was heat embossed in gold.

The dry embossed background on the card below the image is by Darice. I like the way I did the first card with the film strip better because I stamped it out on white and fussy cut it out. That way I was able to line up the pattern unlike the ones below. Oh well.

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August Calendar layout First Communion

August Calendar layout that I made for my brother's calendar
Cricut background, the frame around the photo, and the cup.
Vellum sentiment by Die Cuts with a View.
Cross sticker by Jolee's.

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Chalk Heart Anniversary Card

How about a little love this Tuesday.
The border stamp by TPC Studio was heat embossed with white embossing powder. 
The heart is from Stamp n Plus (no longer in business) and the powdered chalk that they sold was the stamping medium. 
The die-cut leaves were cut out using my Cricut with the draw and cut feature on some Creative Memories greenish colored vellum with a pattern on it. 
The pink patterned paper under the border is by Studio G and the pink mat patterned paper is by Sunborn.
I inked the edges with distress ink. 
I was going to do a heart pattern stamped background but I didn't care for it. It is visible in the closeup.

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Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps "Time" to Celebrate Card with Tag

Real quick, August 8, 2009 is when I started my blog. It has evolved in the last 12 years. At first, I was busy auditioning to be on Design Teams, trying to get published in magazines and entering a lot of challenges. I did those things to get noticed as a great card maker and scrapbooker because if I was I would get free products. Not worth it.

Now I use my blog as a place to have my projects all in one place. Who knows where it will go from here.                                                          All I can do is: Keep moving forward.

My card today uses two Deep Red stamps. The clock and the Metal Mesh background. I used distress crackle paint as the stamping medium. The sentiment is made up of an alphabet stamp set by Close to my Heart and the word stamps by The Paper Studio. The tag and brad are from my stash.

I’m entering this card into the Male Room challenge.

They turned 8years old this month

Birthday card for a dude

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Swirling Hot Air Balloon using Embossing Paste Card

Today’s card is a touch factor card. Those blue dots make you want to touch them and look at them more closely.

The hot air balloon stamp is by Prickly Pear Stamps. I colored it in with Copic markers and then fussy cut it out.

The sentiment stamp is unknown. 

The background was made with a metal stencil and white embossing paste mixed with blue fx powder. All three of these things are by Dreamweaver Stencils 

The back-background was made with distress ink. 

I made this grass by turning the distress tool and getting ink from the side of the tool.

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Upcycled Cat with a Mason Jar card

I have an upcycled card today. 

The sentiment stamp is by TPC Studio

The scallop square die-cut is by Spellbinders

The striped patterned paper is by Paper Pizzazz (Maybe).

Everything else is a store-bought card.

I did add Glossy Accents to the mason jar.

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Greens and Blue Hugs card

Cool colors card today. 

The sentiment stamp is one I bought from eBay. 

The embossed background is by Sizzix.

The inked background was made by distress oxides.

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Clearly Besotted Dandelion set with a stamping twist

I'm always looking for things to do with old products to justify the space they are taking up in my craft room. 

This stamp set is an old one called Dandelion Dreams from Clearly Besotted.

To get the stamped background I stamped the dandelions upside down to create a shadow around the image. I did so in lighter colors for the shadow and then the dandelion is a little bit darker color.

In the next picture on the bottom left, I accidentally stamped the shadow twice. One light colored and then I didn’t flip my stamp over and stamped the shadow in the darker color meant for the dandelion image. Poop! So I stamped the image in an even darker color.

This picture shows the right upper shadow that did not fully stamp but looked fine when a stamped the dandelion in a darker color.

In order to stamp the dandelion directly on top of the shadow I used some acetate underneath the stamp. The order: 

Stamp the shadow.

Place the acetate over the shadow

Place the image face down on the acetate covering shadow right where you wanted it.

Put the lid down on the Misty and peel back the acetate from the stamped image of the dandelion

Probably overkill and not necessary but that’s what I did and wanted to remember.

The last picture of the background before adding the sentiment.

The sentiment is a stamp set bought from eBay 

I cut around the sentiment 

The patterned paper main patterned paper is by Colorbok 

The polka dot paper is by Papertrey Ink. 

I inked the edges with pink ink 

I saw this idea on Pinterest from the blog and the blog post example is from 2014:

Inky Fingers blog

Wow! STUNNING CARDS

You need to go to her blog and check out her amazing cards.

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August Calendar Boyz Trip

Short and Sweet Post for today.
Colorbok patterned paper.
Cricut title.
Track stickers-Not so Cute Stickers

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Hexagon Birthday Card in green

I’m finally using some Pinterest posts as inspiration to use this stamp set.

The hexagon stamp and matching punch by Stampin Up 

The sentiment is from a different Stampin Up set that I stamped on vellum.

The flower punch is unknown 

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