May Calendar Layout Gone Fishing

Products-Oriental Trading Co letter stickers in square punches by Creative Memories. Fishing title by The Paper Loft. Patterned paper by Colorbok. Thanks for looking

Manly Monday graduation cards

Details/Products: The stars tape is by Scotch, the black cardstock from Scrapbook Made Simple, and the cap and diploma are puffy stickers by Paper House Productions. The sentiment is cut out with my Cricut and adhered to vellum. I adhered the vellum to a blue cardstock, which made the vellum look blue. I popped up the sentiment with white foam squares. The two corners were rounded with a CM corner rounder.

Details on my second card: Dry embossing folder by Darice. I inked it with distress ink. I adhered the sentiment to colored vellum that didn't match the school colors. So I colored the back of the vellum with a blue Copic marker before running it through my sticker maker by Xyron. The graduation cap is a sticker by Jolee's Boutique by EK Success. Thanks for looking.

Fancy Fold Graduation card for Jazz

Today’s card is a graduation gateway type of fancy folding card. The white paper is belly band that you slide off and can then open the card.

The belly band is off  and the card is opening.

Then you open it again to reveal the left side. Center

The whole card opened

 Graduation card for Jazz. She’s a former student of my husband. They had some sort of playful thing with pizza and donuts. I included both elements in the card.
My cards normally consist of stamps and for this card, I wanted to challenge myself not to use any stamps. 

That’s a big thing for me. I made this whole card with stickers and super old paper by Creative Memories. I think it’s super cute so she probably loved it. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Vellum sentiment card

The flower stamp is by Stampendous. I inked it with different colored ink pads. The border punch is by Fiskars. I made the paper that color with the same ink pad used on the flower. The sentiment is vellum and I think it’s by Creative Memories. I inked the edges with distress ink. Thanks for looking.

Bright colors make up this Balloon Celebrate card

I recycled the patterned paper from a card. The cardstock is from my stash. The "celebrate" and the "yay" are stickers. The balloon is brad and I added black floss. A busy card but I was happy to use up an old sheet of stickers. 

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DL ART- Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday-Balloons

May Calendar layout CA family is home

This one is easy:

House die-cut is a Cricut cut.

The patterned paper is by Hambly Studios 

The sentiment sticker is by Creative Memories 

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Hey Chicky card

This little chick and the flowers are stickers. I layered them onto a Making Memories chipboard shape/frame. The background is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder. The rhinestones are from Want 2 Scrap. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Recycled birthday card

This is a recycled card made by Tammy. The background is dry embossed. The sentiment is a Stampin Up stamp. I added crochet flowers to the centers of each square. 

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Celebrate Cream and Green Hand Stamped background card

 The card base was stamped with a leaf stamp and then if you look closely at the edges there's a straight line with swirls on it. Pretty. It would be nice if I knew who made that and the leaf stamp. The flowers are the cutouts of a border punch from Fiskars. The sentiment is a diecut by Crafter's Companion. Thanks for looking.

April Calendar Layout Good Day Sunshine

I like the layered border punches, one by Martha Stewart and the other by EK Success. The title is a Cricut cut and the word “Sunshine” looks like a stamp. This is an oldie but I need to post these calendars too. I get more every year. Thanks for looking. 

Manly Monday Houndstooth Tags

The tags are upcycled from a bank that my mom swooped up from being trash when the bank went computerized and no longer needed them 

My mom worked at a bank for 35 years. In that time she experienced many changes; a name change, staffing changes, location changes, and a change to become computerized. They no longer needed paper tags or plastic bags for checks or these shaped boxes that held specific papers. She helped those things to be recycled and not just thrown away. My Mom swooped up those tags before they made it into the trash bin and rerouted them to my house.

Anyway, I stamped the tags with a houndstooth stamp by Deep Red stamps. The small round circle at the top is a tag by Basic Grey. The background paper is ancient by Provo Crafts . The brad is from my stash. Thanks for looking.

April Calendar Layout photos from Chase n Megan's Wedding

The Patterned Papers by Stampin Up and Crate papers. Tag by MAMBI-Soft Spoken. The brad is by Making Memories. This is from the home 2021 calendar. Thanks for looking.

Butterfly duo cards with a stenciled background

I used a stencil to make the background on the kraft cardstock bases. My friend sent me this beautiful butterfly die cut that was too big for one card so I cut it in half. It turned out pretty. Thanks for looking.
Challenges:
613 Avenue create-Anything goes with a stencil

Floral Friday with pink and orange patterned paper by Bazzill

The background patterned papers are by Bazzill. Idk why they were cut like this but whatever the reason I put them together meaning the paper is double-sided. The heart is a die from eBay. The sentiment is a sticker by Pebbles. Thanks for looking. 

April Calendar Layout with my Great-nephew

This is my nephew and his girlfriend with my Great-nephew. The square of patterned paper in the center is by Making Memories. The leaves are by EK Success. The other stickers are by Me and My Big Ideas. And that's it. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Buck die cut with a tag and some upcycling

Simon says Stamp. Birthday 

The background paper is a wood pattern from the The Paper Studio Dendrology paper pad. The tag is by Basic Grey and the brad is from my stash. The birthday sentiment is by Stampin Up. I ripped the edges because they were uneven and it wasn’t worth my time to clean them up. 

So, I had die cut a different buck die cut out of the tag. I thought that the buck would look good in the tag’s patterned paper. Well, it didn’t. 

 I could not let the tag go into the trash/recycle bin so I needed to cover up the mess. I die cut the Spellbinders Label 4 out of a wallpaper sample. I die cut a buck head that was different and smaller than the original and then I adhered them together with Ranger Medium Matte. 

The label die didn’t cover the hole in the tag so I used the previous mistake/flaw to my advantage. I positioned the bottom of  the label die cut into the bottom of the tag which was the antlers of the original buck die cut.

In hindsight, I should have taken a picture of the tag before putting everything together because in 5 years I won’t understand what all of this means. Maybe. Thanks for looking.

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 
Thanks for looking.

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. 

Thanks for looking.

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.