St. Patrick’s Day Cards

This is a long post.

I’m going to be brief because there are a lot of cards.

I used my Cricut to draw and cut the die-cuts in the first seven cards and then thing for around his neck.

The patterned paper for the beer mug, keg, and the card with a corner pp and border is by Accord Publishing. It was a calendar from 2010. There’s a picture halfway down the post.

This first one, I made the smiley face to put the headband on. HAPPY is by Lawn Fawn. 

Pp for the pot is by The Paper Studio. Sentiment by Lawn Fawn.

Dry embossing folder by Darice.

Green circle is an up cycled thing from subway. I tried to stamp a shamrock on the ribbon but it didn’t work.

Cheers die-cut is by Lawn Fawn.

This is the Accord Publishing paper I used.

I made this card and thing for around his neck for my cousin’s son so that his “Pa” won’t pinch him for not wearing green. I have a a 

The road border stamp is by The Paper Studio

The sentiment is by Taylored Expressions

The die-cut Cricut draw and cut

The sticker sentiment is by Sticko.

This lovely lady finally made it onto a card. I found her online years ago when I was doing ATC’s. 

The green shamrock pattern is fabric. It’s fraying and I kind of liked it that way.

The striped patterned paper is by Best Creations. 

This next card is simple but still nice.

I die-cut the border with my Cricut.

The pp is from the Accord Publishing calendar.

The sentiment stamp is by Stampin Up.

This card front is an up cycled piece of another card that came in the mail many years ago to my MIL. I put the company’s information in between the two pictures 

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Cut off the front of the one card and place it on patterned paper by Accord Publishing to make another.

Gallant effort to save the world

Cards I found on my blog you doing a

Search of St. Patrick’s

The clover in the second card was a flower painted green and trimmed a petal to look like a stem

Rainbow and green flower

Perk Up! ATC

I made it for my hubby years ago.

Pretty background ATC’s

Rainbows to gold ATC’s

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Purple Vases with some Pink Flowers Card

The vase stamps are from Close to my Heart and the flower stamp is from Stampin Up. The flower is sprayed with Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. The gems are from Michael’s. The ribbon is by Offray. The patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink.

Not my favorite card but someone will appreciate the thought of being sent a card.

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Manly Monday Blue Embossed Distress ink Just for You in a circle card

The title is a little long. Lol. But it helps me know which card it is.

The sentiment stamp is by The Paper Co. with blue ink by Ranger

The circle punches are by CM. One large one under the diagonal patterned paper and two-layered on top with dimensional adhesive.

The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View

and graph paper is a Project Life card

The blue cardstock is dry embossed with a Sizzix folder. 

Then I inked it with distress ink color faded jeans and spritzed with some water.

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Happy Birthday Sweetie Pi Card

My cousin's daughter's birthday is today. 

The die-cut is from my Cricut. I had to do some slicing in order to replace the word PIE with the symbol Pi.

The sentiment is by Stampibilities

The patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket

The envelope is from Neenah

These are the envelopes. I think you can tape them and it will stand up.

Heads up-I do have a bunch of St. Patrick’s day cards for Wednesday.

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Mountain Man Jr. Plus 2012 Scrapbook Layout

I've been finishing up some of my nephew's scrapbook for his graduation in June.

I have been scraping him since he was born so I have pieces that are finished but are very old-school looking with outdated papers and silly design principles.

The big thing is, when I first started scrapbooking, I scraped size 8 1/2 x 11.

I think it was my wedding album that made me cross over.

The 8.5 worked great for bridal showers and the bachelorette party. It also worked for my table cameras, because I put a picture of the person together with the card they gave us

But when it came to the photographer's pictures I needed more room to place more pictures that went together on a 2-page layout.

So, I switched to 12x12. Great. But, I have 2 full shelves of 8.5x11 scrapbooks. I have been slowly converting the okay layouts to be full size and go into his 12x12 book.

I have been converting calendar pages into 12x12 too.

So here's today's layout.

Lawn Fawn ink and alphabet stamps

Cricut Campin Critters cartridge

I’m entering this into 

The Male. room challenge

No cards

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Silver cards with purple flowers

At the end of this post, I responded to my own post from yesterday. lol...That probably makes no sense to anybody but me.

The first set of two cards are similar and the second set of two cards are similar. However, the first and third cards have nothing in common. 

Scratch that! Card 1 and Card 3 use the same circle square die cut.

Moving on.

The stamp on the pink card is by Stampin up. I colored it in with Copic markers and used some Stickles on each flower.

The sentiment is part of the bouquet stamp

The gray square with circle edges die-cut is by Spellbinders

The silver paper is by Creative Memories

I used the same silver cardstock on these two cards in the same way.

So check this out.

I found a trend on some store-bought cards.

There will be a large image on the front of the card and then there will be a smaller image of the same design or color on the back of the card.

I used both images in this set of cards.

This the front image of the card. I matted it onto the same silver cardstock as above the same purple recycled card as below.

The purple and yellow backgrounds are recycled cards. 

Square punch by Creative Memories. 

The scalloped square die is by Spellbinders.

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Yesterday I said, I need to quit using this stamp set. I've tried. 

But now I think it's time to move on from yesterday's stamp set and a few others that I've gotten my money's worth on. 

So let me tell you about the company called,

 Dies...to Die For

 The owner lost her husband when her children were very young and it prompted her to start making memory books of him for her kids. 

Here's her page about Crafting for a Cause mission.

She is a local scrapbook business and you may recall that I auditioned for her DT back in December. You can see the project I made in this post HERE.

Thanks again for stopping by. Have a great weekend.

Thinking of You Square grid like pattern card

I used stamps by Hampton arts with matching dies for the outside squares. (They're more of a rectangle but we're going to go with square:)
Then I have the same Stampin Up squares that I've been trying to find a way to use them in a way that I like them.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts

I used inks by Hero Arts, Stampin Up and distress ink residue.
 Pool Tide by Hero Arts in the center square. The same stamps around the outside squares are Sage Shadow by Stampin Up. I stamped off with this color and then stamped onto the die-cut. It's an old ink with a flip-top case. It has survived for many years.

On the SU stamps, I used the inks SU Soft Sky, SU Certainly Celery. Umbrella Sea Glass. When I stamped a bunch of these a few years ago, I didn't clean the stamp before stamping the next time.

I also did the stamping on random pieces of white cardstock and some on the backside of patterned paper that I knew I wouldn't use. 

Therefore, the shades of white are off and that's something that I would have stamped again but then I would still have these oddballs sitting in my drawer.
Since I did not clean the stamps in between each use, the squares have their own unique color. I can see where the brown tint of ink is on the blue squares. 

Here's another one with those stamps. 

All the stamps are by Stampin Up 

The flower die- cuts have matching stamps but for whatever reason
 it didn’t cut all the way through the paper on the inside flower. It’s hard to explain.

The patterned paper is by Basic Grey
Vellum is from my stash
The grommet in the center is by WE R Memory Keepers
Ink is by Stampin Up and Ranger

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Here are some other cards using the same stamp.
Burgundy box card 
Happy Birthday Green and yellow
Basic Grey Paper Pad
Smaller cards
This one is ugly-what the heck was I thinking
Acorn Card
Anniversary cards

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Citrus Hello Sunshine Former ATC Card

I made this ATC in 2017 and decided to use it.
Truth-it was sitting on the counter and I didn't want to fuss with my ATC folder.

Link to the ATC

Check out the link for the stamping technique on the ATC. 

The dry embossing folder is not one I own. I did put distress ink on the raised areas.

I’m entering my card into the Through the Craft room door Anything goes challenge 

 I tend to find A LOT of rabbit holes during the day. Not one of them is helpful in pushing my progress further along.

So if I can recognize that an action or doing something that isn't necessary and may lead to a rabbit hole search, I'm trying to avoid them. Trying.

However, I felt the need to find out when I made this ATC. I started looking in my photo folders. Which lead me to start organizing my pictures. 

That is a big No-No!

Frustrating! Annoyed! I keep seeing that one picture somewhere else-so do I keep it? I'll just make another folder! 

NO-NO-NO!!

I need and have offered to hire a minion, I mean HS student, to go through and delete duplicate photos for me. I will pay them for it.

In my dreams.

Thanks for looking and listening to my babbling.

UPDATED PICS, WORDS, LABELS 10-4-21

Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Big Buck card

I’m behind in my posts. Let’s see if I can get something typed up for the days this week. I have stuff to post, it’s just the time gets away from me too quickly.

The stamp by Deep Red Stamps is called 

Buck Deer

Colored with Copic markers 

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio 

Buck, Acorns, white tailed deer cards

Scroll down to see this buck card

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Dreamweaver Stencils Embossing Paste Trees Card

Something a little bit different 

I used a metal stencil by Dreamweaver Stencils. 

I used embossing paste and covered it with Metallic FX.

The die-cut are negatives from the water and beach scenes I did last year

I inked the kraft-colored paper.

The patterned background paper is by K and Co

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2012 Road Trip to the UP in MI Scrapbook Layout

Another Layout for my nephew's book.

Patterned paper by Deja Views.

Border punch by Stampin Up. 

2012 are Rub-Ons by Autumn Leaves

Cricut title is from Pack Your Bags cartridge.

I’m entering the challenge of 

Not A Card

At 

the Male Room

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Pretty Layered Die Cuts Purple Card

The die-cuts are all by Spellbinders, listed in order from front to back:

Exquisite Circles (white cardstock)

Label 3 (checked patterned paper by My Mind's Eye)

Label 8 (Light purple)

Fair Isle (darkest purple)

 

The little flower in the center is a brad.

The dry embossing folder is by Cuttlebug

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Christmas cards Scrapbook Layout-Sassy in 2012

Today, I have some layouts from my Christmas card scrapbook. We no longer get cards from them. But if you think of it that was nine years ago. The older of those girls is probably 20.

The letter stamps are by Stampin Up 

The circle stamps at the bottom of this layout are by Unity Stamp Co. I added some Stickles around the edges for a little sparkle.

The patterned papers are from my stash. I love using scraps for the pennants.

The snowflake on the left isn’t a die cut and isn’t paper. It’s reminds me of a sequin.  I put a Brad in the center of it.

My guess on the reindeer die-cut is Cricut.

For the next layout, all of the diecuts are from my Cricut 

The pattern paper is by Die Cuts with a View 

The border punch is by Fiskars 

The word “girls” is rub-on by Autumn Leaves

The number stamps are by Stampin Up 

I inked the edges with distress ink 

The day cuts on this layout look amazing but they are time consuming to put together. 

But they look good.

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