Happy Spring Quad Eggs Card

The background is a stencil 

The border punch is by Martha Stewart

The eggs are Stampin Up stamps with Ranger's distress ink cubes and the sentiment by Lawn Fawn.

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April Calendar Easter Blessing

The pattern paper on the left upper corner is by Die cuts with a View. The other corners are by My Mind’s Eye. The eggs and title were cut out with my Cricut. The grass die cut is unknown. Thanks for looking.

2 Different Purple Cross Cards

Purple cross card

For the card above, I used scraps of purple paper to create the background. I couldn’t get them on straight, so I purposely made them crooked. The cross is a stencil with iridescent embossing paste and they are both by Dreamweaver stencils. I had to cut behind the cross in order to feed the ribbon to lay over the cross. Then I attached the ribbon on the front with a glue dot.

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For the second card, I stamped the Stampin Up cross stamp and colored it in with Copic Markers. I Outlined the cross with an STA Metallic Pen. The cross is layered on top of Cricut cuts from the cartridge Labels. The corner punch is by Marvy. The flower in the corner is unknown at this time but the leaves die cut is Recollections. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Owl-Who Me?

The owl is from patterned paper. I used a Spellbinders die to cut him out and then the next size up cut it out of a wallpaper sample. The sentiment is stamped with alphabet letters from SNP (no longer in business). The die cut was cut it half and so I placed a Creative Memories sticker over the seam. The brown background paper is dry embossed with a wood pattern embossing folder by Darice. The strips of paper are scraps from my stash. Thank you for stopping by.

Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes

Eggs in a row card for Terry

The egg stamps are by SNP and the sentiment is by Stamps of Life. I masked off the eggs so they looked behind each other. It then colored them in with Copic markers. I stenciled the background and added a ribbon to the side. Thanks for looking.

Simon Says Stamp Anything goes

March Calendar layout Lucky Day

This is a March calendar layout from the cottage. The papers are from Recollections. The iye cuts are by Cricut. Thanks for looking.

Mini Slimline Egg card

I did a lot of masking on this card. The stamp is from Michael’s and I colored it in with Copic markers. The sentiment is a stamp by Stamps of Life.  The ribbon is by Martha Stewart.  Thanks for looking

Challenges:

Cutie Pie Challenge-Begins with a B (Bunny and butterfly on the ribbon)

Love to Scrap- Anything goes

Get Creative Challenge-Bunny Hop

Simon Says Stamp- Easter/Spring

Simply Creating-Spring colors

We Love Stampin-Stamping with Spring

Sweet Stampin Challenge-Spring/Easter

Fab 'n' Funky- Lots of layers (layers of eggs)

Never Before Used stuff-AG with something you've never used before. That stupid ribbon has been in my baby girl folder for years. It was brand new because I thought it was just for babies until I looked again and 3 out of the 6 ribbons can be used for Easter.

Manly Monday Hold Your Horses card

The horse stamp is and I've stamped it with brown Stampin Up ink. I die cut the image and it's next larger die by Spellbinders. I inked the white cardstock with distressa ink, blue on top and brown on the bottom with Ranger's distress ink. The patterned paper of the die cut behind the image is by Papertrey Ink. This card came together when I found the horse image (Inkadinkado) in a drawer. It’s a drawer of images that could be referred to as any of the following: misfits, projects to be finished, or maybe I was stamping one so why not stamp a bunch of them. Whatever the reason that I had extra stamped horses that is my card for today. For other examples using horse stamps check out  my links.  

Blue horses

Another horse card

Anniversary Card of off-white, pink and brown

This is a recycled card so I added the sentiment to make it an anniversary card. Thanks for looking.

Sew Lovely Border to Background cards

The border stamp that I used to make a background is by Stampendous. I upcycled a thank you card from the funeral home. They have a nice dry embossed frame. 

The card above was stamped with black ink and colored in with Copic markers. Then I matted the panel onto red and black cardstock before adding them to the base. The sentiment is a Fiskars stamped in black on red cardstock.

For the card above, I used different ink pads on the same border stamp using the following colors: SU Daffodil Delite, SU Pink Passion, Hero Arts Tomato, SU Ballet Blue ink pad infested with other blue inks, and the last blue is HA Cornflower. 

I heat-embossed a Lawn Fawn sentiment, pink powder onto the vellum. (I used vellum because I was covering up an oops but didn’t want to cover up my background.)

  

Do you see my error? Thanks for looking have a great day.

Manly Monday Emoji Poop belated birthday Card

The inside of this card says, "Poop! I missed your birthday". I used my Cricut to cut out the 💩. The embossed background is an Impresslit from Sizzix. It cuts out the center square as it goes through the machine to emboss.  I inked the raised area of the background with distress oxide and that’s it. This die/embossing folder would make a good shaker window.

Did you know...that the Oxford Dictionaries declared emoji as the word of the year in 2015?

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My Time to craft challenge-Birthday theme

Cut it Up- This makes me happy (March 10-22)

March calendar Layout Togethness

I used all Creative Memories products on this old calendar layout. Thanks for looking. 

Manly Monday I Run Because I Really Like Beer card

I made this card for my BIL’s birthday. The background are strips of scraps. The sentiment is a draw and cut using the Cricut. Thanks for looking. 

March calendar Layout Celtic Cross

March-The patterned paper is Christmas paper. (Little Yellow bicycle?)

The cross is from a junk mail card set.

The gold cardstock is by Creative Memories 

The green patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket

Border Punch by EK Sucess 
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Hearts Patterned paper Love you card

The patterned paper is by Recollections, and the hearts were cut out using dies by eBay, Papertrey Ink, Cricut, and a punch by Creative Memories. The I Love You stamp is by Forever in Time.

My card today was made as an example for my niece. Last month she did a collection for the American Heart Association. I sent her some card stuff so she could create some awesome thank-you cards for those people that donated. 

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March Calendar Layout Rock Stars

Patterned papers by Recollections and Die Cuts with a View. Title and guitar stamps by Stampibilities. Cricut cuts for the card shapes. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Puple and Pink Daisy card

The card today is a birthday card. The patterned paper is from a 6x6 paper pad by a Hampton Arts company called Studio G. The flower stamp is on a Spellbinders die cut. 

Idk why I stamped the flower onto purple cardstock, seriously idk why. But then I used a Spellbinders die to cut it out...crooked. So it sat in my drawer until recently, before calendar season. I'm looking at it going, what do I do with this thing, which direction should the card be, why did I put foam adhesive on it and why didn't I hide the foam better? Ugh! I took a Copic marker and colored the foam adhesive purple when my hand jerked and the marker went on the die cut. Awesome. I colored the edges in the darker purple and again my hand jerked so I brought the color in toward the flower. The flower got lost on the die cut so I put Stickles in the center and I wish I wouldn't have. The card's orientation is portrait. Here are some other cards using the same stamp. Thanks for looking.The die cut in the center is a Cricut cut. It is 2 layers with the pink paper by Sunborn and the purple cardstock from my stash. Here is a fun fact about that die cut, on the back  it says, "CCR Cartridge Freebie called Labels." 

Let me dissect that lingo; CCR is "Cricut Craft Room". That was the second computer software that the Cricut company used and could be used with the archaic Cricut Expression. The word "Cartridge" should also be a giveaway that these are old die cuts because Cricut went away with cartridges when they introduced the "Explore Air". When they released the Explore Air they also created a new software called "Design Space" to take place the CCR. Sadly, Cricut still uses the same DS software that it did back then. SMH.

Anyway, below are links of cards using the same daisy stamp.

A Special Day 

Distress stain Daisy stamp 

Yellow and Green Daisy

KCTC February calendar layout

This is my nephew and his dad, my brother, at the KCTC. end of the year ceremony. I think it stands for Kent County Training Center. Idk. I'm guessing. He went there as a high school student to learn about law enforcement.

So, I made the background with scraps of cardstock and added a few stickers at the bottom by Creative Imaginations. The pennants/banner were cut out with my Cricut. I stamped the letters with Stampin Up alphabets stamps, with SU ink. I sewed the banner on with embroidery floss. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Bright Pink Card

This card is not my favorite but they don’t all have to be my favorite. The cardstock used is by Recollections. The stamp is by Inkadinkado and I colored it in with Copic markers before I used a Sizzix die to cut it out. I added some rhinestones and enamel dots from my collection. I put some washi tape on the side to make the card look less, and I mean less crooked. It doesn’t make it straight. It makes it less crooked. This card is an anniversary card. Thanks for looking.

Here are some other cards using the Same Stamp

Debra's 60th Birthday card

Debra is a Zoom friend. I used two identical Project Life cards, one on top and the other on the bottom then I added these Making Memories number stickers on top of a Colorbok chipboard buckle. The ribbon is from Pebbles. Thanks  for looking.

February Calendar Layout Video Chat

This is my Brother's 2023 calendar. I never realized how much I video chat with the kids. Upper left is nephew Spencer and in screen is Emberlee. Then the middle picture is my great-nephew Andrew. And then the last picture is of my niece Evalynn. 

So, the patterned paper is from Michael's (Recollections). The border on top is a Cricut weld of circles. The video chat circles are Close to my Heart alphabet stamps and Creative Memories circle punch. The hearts in the border are Lawn Fawn dies. The hearts in the center are Cricut dies and a Creative Memories punch.

Thanks for looking.

Valentine's Day card

February Calendar Layout Measure twice, Cut Once

This layout has wood paper from a small local business. I have to ask my family about it because I can't remember. The sawhorses are stickers by Creative Memories. The saw sticker is by Peter Horjus Design. The tape measure at the bottom is patterned paper from Tim Holtz. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Poinsettias in circles Cards

Check out these Poinsettia cards.

I clear heat embossed the poinsettia stamp, then inked it with distress ink to give them color, and circle punch by Creative Memories. The background embossing folder is by Creative Expressions (That's a guess). Thanks for looking I think I have a few more of these flower stamps to bore you with.

February Calendar Winter Wonderland Chair Ski

The background paper is unknown. The frame around the picture is by Forever in Time. The title and snowflake are cut out with my Cricut, The stickers are unknown. Thanks for looking.

Blueprint Present Birthday card

I used the same Tim Holtz stamp on watercolor paper and colored it in with Peerless Watercolors. The background paper is by Bo Bunny. The center die cut is by Spellbinders and the other two were cut out with my Cricut. Thanks for looking.
Other cards with this stamp:
Triple fold
2015
Blue Present card

Floral Friday Pretty in Pink Flowers and Crown card

Today my cards are just easy and 

The card below uses small stamps by Close to my Heart in Creative Memories decorative square punch. The top and bottom are turned and the middle one is a frame made with a large and small punch and white laid into that frame. Striped patterned paper is by Echo Park (Sweet Girl by Lori Whitlock) and polka dot paper is by Making Memories (Flower Patch)

The next card uses patterned paper by Basic Grey (Konnichiwa). The frame is by My Mind's Eye, Doily by Martha Stewart, and the crown is by Three Bugs in a Rug (I always thought that it was a strange name but there are others out there that make me wonder where such names came from for a stamp company.) I digress.

I had the opportunity to use this card for a 16th birthday card. The flowers on the side are from my stash. The sentiment went perfectly for the occasion.

As you can see with these two photos side by side my ongoing photography problem continues. You can see where the picture has a brown background and how the pink's warmth is more apparent. I think the background gives the pink background patterned paper more of an orange hue to it. The picture taken above was taken outside but on an overcast day and not on a sunny day. again where the true color of my cards are

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Brown and Off white Joy Christmas Card

The background paper is from Stampin Up and the Peace, Hope paper by American Crafts. The off-white die cut is from Spellbinders. The sentiment is unknown. Thanks for looking.

January Calendar Layout Joy

I used a border punch by Fiskars on the white cardstock. The rest of the papers are from my stash. The title is cut with the Cricut and I glued it on top of a flower. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Green and Blue Chipboard flower card

The green chipboard flowers are by Colorbok. The center chipboard flower was painted blue and then I brushed it with an emery board. The patterned papers are by Basic Grey and ??.  I put green rhinestones all down the center. Thanks for looking.

January Calendar Layout Aqua 2 couples young and old

The patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The Snowflakes by Jolee's. The shaped mat by Colorbok. Thanks for looking. 

Manly Monday 3 cuts of patterned paper birthday cards

All of the patterned papers are by SEI. The sentiments are all different. I'll try to identify them later. Thanks for looking.

Here's another card using that patterned paper.

Cuckoo clock Lovebirds card

This cuckoo clock die is from Spellbinders. Some of the papers were inked with distress ink. The patterned paper is wood grain. The sentiment is Lawn Fawn ABC stamps. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Cricut Wooden Basket Card

I used the draw-and-cut feature on my Cricut for the flower box. The sentiment was from a friend and the two papers were scraps. Super easy. Thanks for looking.

2 cards with the same distressed striped paper

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye. The star stamp is from Stampin Up. The star dies in the center are ones I bought off of eBay. The ring with small stars around it in the center is by Jillibean Soup. The sentiment die on the other card is by Creative Expressions. The black decorative line underneath the sentiment is a rub-on from American Crafts. Thanks for looking.