Manly Monday Dog Sympathy

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Floral Friday bouquet of flowers die cut

I used a Couture Creations stencil on the background with purple ink. Then I took green olive colored ink around the edges. The bouquet is a die cut and the pink in the center is just cardstock. Thank you for visiting my blog. 

3 Stripes of patterned paper Anniversary cards

I made these fun anniversary cards using my Valentine’s Day products. The patterned paper is by Fancy Pants. The scalloped border die cut is by Martha Stewart. On the first card, I cut the border in half and adhered them to the outsides. The polka dot patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink. 

For the second card, I left the border together and adhered it to the center. I cut the top of the strips of patterned paper on the top and bottom with decorative scissors that resembled postage stamps.

The sentiment on both cards is by Close to my Heart. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Cityscape Card

The patterned paper is by Cricut. The blue brick is vellum that I dry embossed with a Darice embossing folder. The city line stamp and cloud stamps are by Stampendous. I did stamp out the clouds in blue ink and then used white pigment ink to fluff them up. The grass was created with green ink and a makeup sponge. I used a marker to add a shadow to the base of the buildings. The sentiment stamp is from…idk. Anyway, thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Hamburger birthday card

The cheeseburger is a die cut from a friend. The patterned paper is by Studio G. The red opulent paper is by Sizzix. The large circle was cut out with my Cricut. The Happy stamp is from Lawn Fawn. The word Birthday is a stamp from Stampibilities. 

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A Craft Roulette original, the “Zoyfold” card

As the title says, Craft Roulette’s Mary Gunn and Irene Smith came up with this name to describe a card design that is part Z-Fold card and part Joy fold card.

In the image above, the embossing folder is by Darice and I inked it with distress ink. The vellum is from the Paper Studio and I cut it into a circle using my Creative Memories cutting system. The gems are by Couture Creations. 

The brick embossing folder by Darice. I inked it with all different inks before spraying it with water. This is the inside flap other side of the green cardstock.

The vintage looking door stamp is from Deep Red Stamps. I used watercolors to color it then die cut it out with a Sizzix oval scalloped die. The oval mat behind the image is also by Sizzix. 

This card was made for Craft Roulette episode #249. The parameters were: project-“Zoyfold” card. Colors-elegant. Elements-Front Door. Random-3 circles.

I’m entering this card into 

Simon Says Stamp-Add texture. 

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Just a Note glow in the dark card

Today’s card is SOooo fun. I started by applying glow paste by Tim Holtz onto a stencil by Couture Creations. The brads are by Making Memories. The label is by Recollections. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug. 

Check out the paper that the sentiment was cut out of. It looks a little different. I went to the recycle bin and pulled out a piece of white cardstock. It’d been die cut, but didn’t cut all the way through. I die cut the sentiment out of a piece of paper. Hence, why there are cut lines on the sentiment die cut.

 Lastly, I tried to ink the edges of the paper, but the paste is gritty and wouldn’t take ink. I must be doing something wrong.anyway. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

I’m entering this card into 

 Simon says stamp add texture.

Floral Friday Thinking of You card

I die cut the flower which is connected to the white square. The sentiment is the Draw and Cut from Cricut. The die cut behind the the flower is by…BUT the patterned paper is by Anna Griffin and the gold background paper is from Creative Memories. All of this is on a black cardstock base.

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Wooden Butterfly Crackle Paint card

You might be thinking, what am I looking at? I”m going to try and tell you. 

On the white cardstock is a brown background die by Simply Defined called “Whimsical Nature, Thick Jungle Background”. I like the background because you could cut pieces out and create a different background theme.

The butterflies are made of wood (Maya Road) and I painted them with very old Fire Brick Red distress crackle paint. The results weren’t great. I threw it away after that. Ranger’s Crackle paint is no longer sold in colors. 

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Manly Monday Happy Birthday Hats Card

Today I have a birthday card with patterned paper by Scenic Route (hats and obverse side is green on top), Stampin Up (blue), and Idk the border's paper but I bought the die cut on eBay. The sentiment is by Jillibean Soup and stamped on an upcycled bank tag.

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Floral Friday heart wreath card

I inked the lower part of the card with distress ink. I sprayed the card and red cardstock with Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. I covered the seam between the red cardstock and the inked card base with gold paper is by Sizzix. 

I don’t know where the heart image is from and I’m not certain about the butterfly stamps either.  Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Cheers to the New Year

Happy new year with a Craft Roulette card Manly Monday style. It’s from episode #246. The parameters were:

Project-holiday card

Color-Trees

Element-Drinking vessel

Random-something from your floor.

Overlapping Hearts Stamped in a row

The patterned paper is by  Deja Views. The vellum sentiment is by Quick Quotes, and I adhered it with a Xyron sticker maker. The heart stamp is unknown.  I added pearls by Couture Creations and sequins by Fun Stampers Journey.
It was by accident that I stumbled onto this design. It’s not a new, original, or even cre8ive design, but it’s not what I was trying to do.

I was auditioning different shades of pink ink with a different heart stamp onto white cardstock. I couldn’t find the right pink or red color for yesterday's card, and so I thought maybe if I stamped one heart on top of the other, I would get the color that I was trying to match. I’m looking to match the patterned paper. But then I quickly realized that you can’t do that with rubber stamps on a wooden block. They end up kind of halfway on top of each other. Tada, this stamped border design was put together and then changed up for this card. So that’s what I thought of when I first came up with this idea.  

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Floral Friday Heart Border Celebrate card

This is the first card I made overlapping the heart stamp border. It goes with the other anniversary cards. But I don’t love this version of the card as much as the others. It’s a nice card for someone. It’s just not my favorite. 

The side panels are from a store-bought card. The sentiment die cut is by Sizzix. The heart rhinestones, which I don’t care for, are by The Paper Studio. Embellishing cards is awkward for me. It never looks…right. Anyway, the ink that I used on the heart stamp is by Stampin Up. 

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Making my own patterned paper Anniversary Cards

I created the background using purple card stock using a heart stamp by Hero Arts. The black border is tape from Dollar Tree. 

Card #2-I made the pattern on the lower portion of the card using a border stamp in the mosaic stamp set by Stampin Up. The top portion of the card is a dry embossing folder by Cuttlebug. A piece of black ribbon in the middle separates the top and bottom. The sentiment is unknown. Thank you for looking.  HAGD! 

Peace, Love and Joy Big card

This card is from Craft Roulette #244.

 The parameters were:

Project-Joy fold

Color-Bold/cold

Element-family 

Random-ribbon 

The gold paper, letter dies and the white die cut layered at the bottom of the cluster are from Sizzix. The embossing folder is by Gina Marie. The die cut that the ampersand sign is on is by Creative Expression. There’s Rick Rack on the left side of the card on top of a snowflake background stamp that I heat embossed in green embossing powder.  The joy tags on the right are sewn up there with not twine, but like hemp ribbon. 

It’s a very heavy card. I would probably have to add extra postage. Thanks for looking.

December Calendar Layout 2024

The pattern paper and journal box are by My Mind’s Eye. The stamp is by Stampin Up. 

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Gingerbread Cookies Craft Roulette card

Craft Roulette #241

Z-fold card

Scarecrow colors

Baking

Crinkle inkle 

The sentiment is a draw and cut with my Cricut. The patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The gingerbread men stamp are by Smith Craft.  Aluminum foil.

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Clean and Simple Snow cards

This is a clean and simple card. I dry embossed the blue cardstock with a Fiskars texture plates. Then I die cut the snowflakes out of white glitter paper. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Cricut Drawn Christmas Tree Upcycled Card

 

Every month a friend and I make Christmas cards. We call it 5on5: the goal is to make 5 Christmas cards on the fifth of every month at 5:00 PM. Each month we have a theme and  February’s theme was to reuse, recycle, or repurpose. Which brings me to this card that 

I received this 3 years ago. It had a noticeable smudge of green ink in the upper left corner. It 

took this long to figure out what I could do to the Cricut pen on the 

I tried a white gel pen, which made the green ink smear more. To make it not look as though I’m covering up a mistake, I would have to go around each area just like it smear the green and cover it with a white gel pen. 

This is what I have to say about that white gel pen wasn’t very consistent so I bought some off of Amazon that are amazing.

Anyway, the flaw needed to be covered up with something solid. I pulled out these not rhinestones or gems or enamel dots. Nope, none of those. They are a product by Imaginisce. You heat set them to your project with this tiny little thing that applies heat. They match the green marker used on the tree. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Fold Out Christmas Tree Farm Card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #239 the parameters were to make an interactive card with picnic colors, farm elements, and strips of paper.

I’m not sure what this card fold is called but I am obsessed with it. It’s so easy to score and it looks like a rock star. The first picture shows what it looks like when you take it out of the cart. You don’t even see the trees on the outside until you open it up. I love that when you do open it up you have a full 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 view that stands up for display. 

My picnic color is green. My farm is a Christmas tree farm and I have 2 strips of silver Sizzix mirror paper on the insides. I had a hard time getting the two darkest colored trees to fold in so you wouldn’t see them until the card was opened.

The front of the card is a Cricut draw, and I did it with a glitter marker. The middle Christmas   tree is from a store bought card, but the other trees were cut with my Cricut. The star top are from a corner punch that is made of stars. The perfect little size for things like this. I drew the tree trunks on with colored pencils and Copic markers.

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November Calendar layout 5 boys in the back room 2024

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Tis’ the season to be Jolly

Square Snowflake Card

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Floral Friday Sunflower card

 

I made the background with a soft plaid background stamp for a tone on tone look. The sunflower stamp is by Stampendous and I colored it in with Copic markers. 

The sentiment is unknown. Thanks for looking.

Sunflower in primary colors

Sunflower with fabric

Colorless sunflower card

Floral Friday Sunflower Stamp

 

 The stamp is by Stampendous. The single die cut by Spellbinders. The stamp was inked with multiple small ink cubes to give the image multiple colors. After I ran the die cut through the machine I inked the inside with green distress ink. This card base is very flimsy and not strong enough to hold anything more than the one die cut. Thanks for looking. HAGD!