Cricut Christmas cards using both positive and negative word

I made these cards on my Cricut. I added Stickles to the holly berries

The JOY letters came from the card above. The die-cut it's on is by Spellbinders. The patterned paper is by Bazzill. Then a red scrap of paper in the center.

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December Calendar Layout Christmas Gala at GA

This calendar layout is from my Brother's 2019 calendar. That's my Mom, myself, and my nephew.
The background paper is by Creative Memories. All of the die-cut embellishments are Spellbinder's dies. The title sticker letters are fuzzy and are by Making Memories. Thanks for looking.

'Tis The Season Banner card

The background is a Stampin Up stamping wheel the same color as cardstock. The sentiment is a Cricut cut and inked. The banner is a punch from Stampin Up that I was able to match with a Hero Arts pennant stamp set. The trees were a Cricut cut. I sewed the top of the banner with my Husqvarna sewing machine.
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Manly Monday Starbucks Coffee Coupon cards

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Christmas cards that I wasn’t able to post in Dec 2020

I really like these two cards but I wasn’t able to get a very good picture of them. The wording seasons greetings is a large probably would be best for a slimline card and so I had to get creative on how to make it work for my 4x5.5 size cards.

I really like this blue card because of the eyelets and the gold string by Martha Stewart. They really give it a different look than what we would normally see him and I think that I will be doing that again. 

The next card, the dove stamp is by Deep Red stamps 

May the Spirit

I have it stamped onto cardstock by Forever in Time. Then I used a die I bought on eBay to cut out the dove and cut the next size up in brown cardstock. The patterned paper by Bo Bunny.

These sentiments came off the following store-bought cards,

These are the stickers that I used and they are very old.

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Upcycled Christmas Cards

I used store-bought cards on all of the cards in today's post. With this wreath card, I used Craft Smith patterned paper behind the image.

The ornament image in this card below is from a store-bought card. The word peace is a die-cut by Clearly Besotted. The ampere symbol is a sticker by Tim Holtz and the word love is a sticker as well.

Then these last two use old paper by Die Cuts with a View, gold paper by Creative Memories, and a sentiment generated by a computer.

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Floral Friday Accordion Fold WERQ Christmas card

I used my Cricut to make this accordion card. My hands hurt to type. So I will come back and give products.

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Christmas Cards with Doves

The circle stamp in green around the dove has holes punched out of it and that's where you see the red.

Dove punch is unknown.

The die-cut LawnFawn in Basic Grey patterned paper 

Green cardstock dry embossed with a Darice folder. 

I changed the first card by adding chipboard corners.

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December Calendar Layout Mom and Bob's Chair

Red neck chair skiing. PP-Creative Memories. The black and cream striped ribbon is by Stampin Up. Label case by Making Memories, stamped the title using OTC stamps, and brown ink by SU. This layout is from the 2019 cottage calendar. That is my husband and I did not sign a waiver for him to do this but I did sign life insurance papers. I'm totally kidding. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Merry and Bright Cards

Christmas Cards with black ribbon on top of every other white stripe. My friend said it looked masculine and therefore, I decided to make it today's card (s). I put eyelets in the tags that I can hand cut out of the sentiment sheet from the same paper pad. I had cut off the bottom of this tag because it had the words to and from on it. In order to continue the look of a chalkboard, I would use a white pen around the edges. 

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I turned a Fan into Butterfly on my Scalloped Circle Card

This card base is pre-made by Recollections. I inked the whole thing with distress ink and sprayed it with Dylusions golden mist. The main butterfly is a fan that I cut in half. The fan die cut has been in my stash for years and I  wanted to get rid of it. There was a challenge to use something Japanese and so I came up with this idea. The rhinestones and other green butterflies are f rom my stash. The sentiment die cut is by Lawn Fawn.

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Floral Friday Vintage-ish flower card

The background is a Heidi Swapp stencils with silver embossing paste. I covered that with a pearlescent paint by SNP (No longer around) Then I added JacQuard Brilliant Gold powder on top, which is like Perfect Pearls. 

The die cuts, I bought off of eBay.

The little card in the center is by Melissa Francis.

The glittery paper strip behind the center embellishment is cardstock that was sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

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December Calendar Layout Side by Side

This layout is from the December home calendar 2019. Patterned paper by Craft Smith (Michael's). The letter stickers are from Oriental Trading Co.
<Click> Side note-I strongly dislike it when alphabet stickers do not have numbers. Continuing on, the grass border by Creative Memories. Black cardstock by Recollections.THANKS FOR LOOKING

1984 Family Scrapbook layouts

The Groh boy books continue. This is a 1984 pocket page layout. My page contains Project Life cards by Becky Gibbons by American Crafts.

Turkey and Thanksgiving stamps are by Hero Arts.

Alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn. The sentiment stamp and number stamps are by Close to my Heart. 

Circle punch is by Creative Memories with the Family sticker by Deja Views

This layout is made from scraps. There's a Project Life card, Gold paper by Creative Memories and I can't remember where the mustache sticker is from.

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Manly Monday Joe's 40th birthday card with Eyelets

The concept was good the execution was not so good. I really don't want to talk about this card because it took forever and it turned out so juvenile. I can't say I will do it again but can't is a strong word and I do have a few other ideas I want to try using my eyelets.
The sentiment stamp is by Paper Smooches. 
The eyelets are from my stash.
I like the next picture with the added
center to the zero.

The paper tore at the VERY LAST minute. I didn't want to try and "fix it" and risk making it worse. UGH! 

Here's the inside sentiment accompanied by a massive amount of 40's sequins.

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1981~1983 Scrapbook pocket pages family album

There is a story that goes with these first two layouts. The short version is, there were family members that didn't want to look at these scrapbooks.
And I can’t make them. SO...
I had already finished the layout on the left. The 1982 page on the right was made after that occurrence.
Then I was told that I can't have my feelings hurt if people don't want to look at the Groh Boy books. I was only a jerk for the next couple of layouts. A friend strongly encouraged me to go back and add labels to these pages. I will when I'm ready to. 

The patterned paper in this layout are by Recollections, Craft Smith, Best Creations, and Carta Bella. The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. The name labels are alpha stamps from Lawn Fawn. The number stickers were by Pink Paislee. The Christmas trees and the arrow are cut out using my Cricut. The green rounded square is by Spellbinders which has been inked with green distress ink. The letter stickers are by Little Yellow Bicycle and word stickers were by SRM Stickers.

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Scrapbook Layout of us Fishing at the cottage in 2004

The hat stamp and alphabet stamps are by Close to my Heart. The die cut with the year on it is by Tim Holtz. The net die cut is by Gina Marie. The June and fishing sticker are from my stash.

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Floral Friday Epoxy stickers with flower punch Card

The pattern paper is by Bazzill. The ribbon is from my stash. The background die cut is unknown. I inked the inside with distressing before taking the paper out of the dye. The flowers are a punch that I doubled up to give more dimension. The scallop squares are by spellbinders. The epoxy circles on top of the scallop squares are by The sentiment is a stamp by forever in Time. After high stamped it with red Simon says stamp ink, a circle punched it out.

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Chalk zig zag border card

This card was a bit frustrating to make. As my husband would say, this card is kicking your butt...and why, well

The Spellbinders zigzag borders are covered with powdered chalk mixed with paint.

The borders are leftovers from this card:

Here’s a card using the same borders

The sentiment stamp is one that I bought off of eBay.

I used different colored distress inks to give it a multi-color appearance. Then I hand cut the sentiment out and inked the edges with distress ink. 

So here was my drama with this card:

I lacked planning the card before I put it together. When I put glue adhesive on the entire zigzag border, the glue stayed on the card base and was tacky. I could not remove the border from the card because it started to come apart. So when I decided to do this frame, the adhesive was/is on the card where those zigzag die-cuts were going to be. WTH did I just say? 

The adhesive is everywhere and I can’t get it off with an adhesive remover square thingy. The corner pieces are so small that when I rubbed over them with the square adhesive remover the corners came off.

The adhesive got on the edges of the card where I originally placed the border. But now that I’m thinking of it and writing this, I could just cut the frame off this card base end it here it to another one, and then cut those corners out to adhere to another card base as well. I might just do that. 

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November Calendar Layout in pink and purple

These are our California nieces and nephew. I'm not sure where they were in CA that it snowed but it did. The snowflake is a sticker by Jolee's. The mittens are by The Paper House. The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View.

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So...Two things about today's post:
First thing, I didn't use traditional fall colors on this November calendar layout.

The second thing, It's a November calendar layout and today is Dec 1st. I ran out of Wednesdays in November. I don't want to wait until next year November. I am working on getting this 2021 calendar all posted. If I skip this one month, I will probably forget it, or more than likely, I will post it twice.
Anyway...A more Christmas-type calendar layout will be posted next week.