Floral Friday Happy 27th Anniversary to us

This is the anniversary card I made for my husband. Well, we were lucky to be able to take a vacation up north with family on the actual day of our anniversary. Sadly, I forgot the card at home, and even worse, I still haven’t given it to him.

The flower was folded crêpe paper/streamer paper. I had stamped it with a Stampin Up wheel stamp and gave it a little bit of Stickles. The arch die was a Cricut cut. The doily is by Doodlebug. The letters and heart are like Quickuts. And the patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink.

Card made this card for Craft Roulette #219

Parameters:

Project – anniversary.

Colors – garden salad. I looked up salads and found one with brown rice, walnuts, and tomatoes.

Element – new. The letter dies are new to me.

Random – fold a corner. The flower has many folded corners.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Thanks a Melon

I made this card for Craft Roulette #223 

Sentiment by Stamps for Life.

Watermelon border stickers by Doodlebug Designs. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Holly Hobby Flying a Kite Card

I made this Holly Hobby card for

Craft Roulette episode 221. 

The parameters were:

Project: A2 size card 

Colors: A donut shop-I think sprinkles on donuts are pink, blue, and green. 

Element: Dolly- When I was growing up, Holly Hobby was my doll, wallpaper, blanket, and decorations. You get it.

Random: A purse or pockets- HH has pockets in her dress. 

I colored the image in with Copic markers, but there was something about the sky that I wasn’t able to get the way I wanted it with the Copic markers. I got out my new Distress Crayons. I had no idea how to use them, so I got out some reinforcement. I used a blender and then a water brush. It doesn't look great but I'm saying that this is an artistic approach to making a sky.

The background patterned paper is from Papertrey Ink. The sentiment puffy stickers are by Glitz. The clear stickers are by Mrs Grossman’s. 

The reason for two photos is to show the card in vivid mode and regular mode of my camera.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

July Calendar Layout 2024 Orange at a Football game.

I’ve always thought this color of the calendar was orange thus making it the stupidest color for a July calendar page. But I went with it for the calendar page. I buy the pre-made calendars from Current. It saves me time but definitely not money. Idt anyone has ever tried to give me money for calendars. Hmmm.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

A Fruity Drink with an Umbrella card

The scalloped half circle is paper by Deja Views. I cut it out with my Cricut. The light blue patterned paper in the center is by Colorbok. The sentiment is by Die Versions and it’s cut out of polka dot patterned paper by Papertrey Ink. The drink is a sticker from a dollar bin at Michael’s. Stickers get a bad rap in the card making world. And they’re not terrible if you use them well.

Ice cream card

Poker chip, sentiment, and border stickers

Thanks for looking.

Trio Window Birthday Card

A very big and loud birthday card that I sent to my brother. It weighs a lot. I enjoyed making it was something different.

 

 

I made this card for Craft Roulette #209

Project-A tri-fold card (my card has three folds)

Colors-Sleigh ride (I did mine as in the Nightmare Before Christmas movie)

Element-funny or Joke(s) (The sentiment sticker says, “How old are you now?” That’s kind of funny.)

Random- out of proportion (both of the sentiment stickers have a large word in them and that is out of proportion from the other.

Now that I look at this card, the nonhuman middle cake looks like it’s flipping you off. LoL! 

Anyway, Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

June Calendar Layout brothers at a Whitecaps game

Patterned paper by MAMBI. Border punch is EK Success. Banner and embellishment-Cricut. Letter stamps are by Stampin UP. Old calendar made DEC 31 2015.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Christmas Nativity scene Ornament Card

The ornament stamp was one that I borrowed from a friend and I wrote the company name on the back of the image but when I fussy cut it out the name on the back was never seen again. 

I adhered the image to an unknown patterned paper and with the ornament just awkwardly hanging there, it looked unfinished. So I added a gold brad, yes a brad, at the top of the ornament and to make it look like a real ornament I wrapped gold thread around the brad and then taped to the back of the card. The “thread” is by Martha Stewart. 

Moving down the card we come to a punched border on gold pearlescent paper. Next down the card is a pennant that overlaps the above but of a different piece of gold paper. Both gold papers are from the same paper pack by Sizzix. The sentiment is a Stampendous stamp. 

This picture shows the shine of the pennant paper and it’s a close up of the thread wrapped around the brad.

Thanks so much for looking. HAGD! 

June Calendar Layout Bennett 2024

A list of supplies: Patterned paper by Me and My Big Ideas. Alphabet stamps by Close to my Heart. High five stamps by Stampin Up. Distress ink on a The Crafter’s Workshop stencil found on the pennants that say “Vroom”. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Graduation paper clip Card

The patterned paper is by Karen Foster and the gold cardstock is by Sizzix. The embossing folder is by Darice. So what I did with this card was I put both the patterned paper and white cardstock into the embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug. This way I wouldn’t have to try and line them up together. The white gel pen by Sakura. the golden paper clip is unknown. 

I don’t like top-folding cards. I’ve handed out a lot of Christmas cards to the elderly and when they were given a card they would try to open it as a side-folded card.

The other thing that I dislike with top folding cards is they don’t seem to stand upright, no matter what the thickness is of the cardstock. When you try to display them I find they do the splits. 

So I put the paper clip in that spot so that they had to take it off and then they would lift it up. I made this card for the Craft Roulettee show on Friday nights. 

The parameters were:

Project: A window, mine is the frame. 

Colors: Bird colors, red, yellow, blue in the patterned paper.

Element: On the pond,the ripples around the word water ripples.

Random:Paper clip

Thanks for looking.

UPDATE:

I changed it. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Special Day Card in Green and Blue

The striped patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned paper that the sentiment is on is by Recollections. The circular background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. The green die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The heart die cut is by Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is by Stampibilities.

Thanks for looking. HAGD 

Floral Friday Upcycled Layered Sunflowers card

I made this card using a store-bought card. I fussy cut the flowers and then layered them onto the card base. The two flowers on the right-hand side were attached with dimensional adhesive. The sentiment is from My Stamp Box. The circle punch is by Creative Memories. I put some blue I. The corner represents the sky.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Eat Lots of Cake/ no ice cream

I made this card for Craft Roulette #215

Project: Birthday card

Colors: Petting zoo

Element: Scoops

Random: Tabs

This card is such a joy to make that I might make more. For some reason, I have a lot of those ice cream stickers. No one will know if I make duplicates of the same card.

Here’s the card with the tag out of the pocket. And then the next picture is the other side of the tag.

Here’s the other side of the tag.

The word stickers are by SRM stickers, the ice cream stickers are by Mrs. Grossman, the heart die cut is from Lawn Fawn, and the yellow circle border on the tag is by Doodlebug. I used a white square punch from Creative Memories to create the grid. The center squares are on dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!  

June Calendar layout Happy Camper

This layout is from the June cottage calendar 2022. The die cut in the lower right corner is the negative of a frame die cut. It and the Happy Camper die cuts were cut out using my Cricut. I did ink them with distress ink. It gives it a grungy feel. 

The vellum sentiment in the lower right corner is by Creative Memories. The washi tape on the bottom is by Stampin Up and the washi tape by Paul’s head is by We R Memory Keepers.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

A Duet of Butterfly cards

I have two A2 cards using the same die cut in 2 different colors.

Let me know which one you like by leaving me a comment at the end of this post.

The sentiment die is by Memory Box.

After I glued the butterfly die cut onto the white cardstock, I noticed that my glue had seeped out from underneath the butterflies. 

To fix that I took a soft makeup brush full of Jacquard powder and dusted it all over the card front. 

 I dusted under the butterfly wings so the texture was the same throughout the card. 

Sloppy? I think it looks sloppy. Did this totally fix it? No, not really but I couldn’t throw it away. Consider the lesson learned to have a lighter hand when applying the Bearly Art glue.

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon. I stamped, colored, and fussy cut a butterfly stamp by Cloud 9. 

 Then I colored on the butterflies of the die cut for a tone-on-tone look and hoped to add some interest. I did outline one of them with a white gel pen. The sentiment on the inside said, “I’m here for you”. (Idk if anyone will get the symbolism)

So which one do you like better? Comment below. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Let’s Play Poker cards

The background paper is by Karen Foster. I die cut the hands from two different poker Cricut image sets. The simplest one is from an Old West image set. I had to put black and red cardstock behind the appropriate playing cards. The coin embellishment is from Me and My Big Ideas.

The other card has a more elaborate looking poker hand and it can be found in Cricut Design Space Father’s Day image set. I added a blue and read border sticker by Creative Memories only the width of the patterned paper and a second one below it spanning the entire card width. I needed a sentiment and so I found a sticker sentiment in my stash. I put it in between the two border stickers with a sticker dot in between the two words.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a great day.

Hello Die cut with `umbre background

The patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket (how do they come up with these names of companies?) The die cut is by Simply Defined from Scrapbooking Made Simple. I inked the background with three distress inks; Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, and Salty Ocean. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Life is Short Mix things up Wobbler card

I made this card for, you guessed Craft Roulette episode 210

The parameters were:

Project: Include action 

Colors: Northern Lights 

Element: Blackboard 

Random: Oval

Here is my card on Craft Roulette’s website.

I dry embossed white cardstock with a Tim Holtz splatter folder. I messed up the embossed side so I flipped it over and used the debossed. Someone said, “there’s two sides to every paper”.

 I sprayed the debossed side with Dylusions white Linen Shimmer spray by Ranger and then while it was wet I took a soft bristle paint brush and started brushing the chalk all over it. The spray dried quickly so I had to move fast but still ended up doing it three times. I also dry embossed the top of the mixer die cut and  addd chalk to it too. I wanted it to look like the mixer exploded.

The shimmer paper is by Sizzix. The blackboard paper was a fuzzy texture but not obvious so it worked for me. It’s stamped with chalk ink by Colorbox. I lined the edge of the box with a white gel pen and then smeared it.

 Lastly, the black die cut is by Spellbinders and the white die is by Creative Expression. I forgot to mention that the blender was colored with Copic markers.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Holly Hobby Craft Roulette card

I bought a Holly Hobby stamp set while in Wisconsin October 2022. It’s exclusive to Cardmaking Magazine and I got it for a buck. I bought it for my cousin’s birthday which was Nov 2023.

I made a part of this card for,

Craft Roulette #187

Project: Cardstock and not cardstock (tan is cardstock and foto paper is not)

Colors: Santa’s workshop (red, green and neutrals)

Element: Collars (there are collars on dresses)

Random: Zigzag (green rub ons)

After Craft Roulette,  I wanted to do more with the card for my cousin’s 50th birthday. I wanted to depict something special that was a piece of our childhood. That piece was Holly Hobby. 

 I decided to use all of the images in the stamp set. The card front image opens to the right and that door was covering the second image.

The Craft Roulette  part of the card was the little girl leaning over top of fence.  

The picture above is what you see when you take the card out of the envelope.

Then you open the mini card to reveal the girl on the fence on the left and the girl in the field on the right.

There’s one more turn. And that shows the last little girl in the stamp set and she’s flying a kite.

Not what you would expect from the front is it? Here’s the thing. I didn’t expect to add the girl laying on the grass but this is what the back of the mini card looked like this,

I needed to cover that so I stamped and colored the little girl on the grass.

My cousin loved the card and was super impressed.

The patterned paper is an oldie from Provo Craft. The rub-ons came from a pack of borders by Making Memories, maybe. The stamp set is from a magazine. I colored in the images with Copic Markers and used alcohol inks to create the skies and the grass. The grass stamp is by Stamp N Plus Scrap N. The sentiment is on vellum is from Quick Quotes.

 Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Thinking of You Rusty Colors Card

The sentiment is from the cut and draw feature on my Cricut. The square was a negative of a die cut.  I created the side border swiping my ink pads back and forth. The rest was put together on a Kraft cardstock.

Thanks for looking and HAGD

May Calendar layout MemorialDay/Reunion

My in-laws hosted a Memorial Day weekend gathering to celebrate 2 milestone birthdays, a 40 year wedding Anniversary, and to see aunts and uncle along with cousins. It was fun and nice to see people. Paul’s uncle has great stories that I love to listen to. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

City girls by Deep Red Stamps

The Deep Red Stamps girls are on summer vacation and others are ready to go. I stamped all of them with Memento black and colored them in Copic markers.

The Sassy City girl wearing the pants, the pink embossed paper used in this card is from a store-bought. I put a slit in the top left corner to allow the white paper to go through it. Something different so it’s not exactly the same as the store-bought one

The background for Missy in the pink party dress above was made with powdered chalk mixed with paint in red and brown. The 4” square patterned paper is by DCWV. The two brown brackets are rub-ons.

The City party girl in purple has a really easy and short list of supplies, the background with embossed hearts is a store-bought card. All of the purple cardstock is from my stash.

Let's talk about the City Girl wearing a blue skirt,  I had made a really ugly background with the Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass…and one more distress ink. But it worked well with the way I had colored her a long time ago. The black cardstock behind her is by SMS. The sentiment is by Stampin Up.

Which card or girl do you like? Leave me a comment below.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Manly Monday Red Retirement Card

I used the draw and cut function on my Cricut. The background was dry embossed with a Provo Craft/Cuttlebug embossing folder. Then I inked it like a crazy person with distress ink. Idk what my deal was. I was an inking idiot. LoL! Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Manly Monday Baseball Card

This card came together as I cleaned up my desk. The baseball is an image from an Accord Publishing calendar (circa 2011). The gingham and the red are corners from Creative Memories. The star patterned paper is from DCWV. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD.