Floral Friday Sunflower stamp card #1

The sunflower stamp is by Stampendous and I've colored it in with Copic markers. I die cut it out with one of my new dies and can't remember which one. I inked the die cut with distress Oxide. 
The frame background paper is by Accord Publishing. The sunflower patterned paper is fabric. I adhered it to the framed paper and ran it through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder resembling a basket. I inked the fabric with the same Distress Oxide (the last gray ink color that was released). The black border is lace. 

This is a larger card, 5x6.5 and it's a little roughed up, on purpose. 

This is the first of three cards with this same sunflower image. See you next week. Thanks for looking.
PS. I made THIS card with the same fabric.

Flower Friday Hidden fabric Sunflower card

The gold paper is by Sizzix. The sentiment is from Close to my Heart. The tag is a recycled item. The leaf stamp is a Studio G red rubber stamp. On the inside when you lift the gold paper up the journal box is by Recollections and the sunflower is fabric. Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Craft Roulette Fabric Wreath card

I have another fabric card to join the many others that I have made. These are squares of fabric that my Mother cut out for her potholders. She had heat and bond on the back so once I inherited them all I had to do was iron them onto the paper of my choice. This time it was a Spellbinders die cut. Then the background paper is by Creative Memories. The gold papers by Sizzix are supposed to resemble a present. 

As you read in the title, this card is for my new obsession called Craft Roulette. Check out the video that I linked below.

Craft Roulette 192 parameters were: 

a thank you card. I thank my Mom for cutting these out for me to use after she was gone. Colors-Farmers Market. Our farmers have apple farms, hence the green and red. Yard-the green in my wreath looks like grass . Confetti-the red berries in the wreath but now that I look at it the confetti could be the patterned paper.

Check out Craft Roulette on Fridays and then on they have a show on Tuesday.

Manly Monday Zombie sending hugs Card

The card above needed something…

So as you can see I started with one card and decided to go with my gut and add a zombie. Whenever in doubt add a zombie. What’s happening with me? Craft Roulette is happening to me. Mary says so many cards would not have been made if it wasn’t for Craft Roulette. The parameters are:

Make a card for a teacher-my card went to a teacher friend who has cat scratch fever.

Color-Tartan

Spring or fall scene-fall scene

Create a wrap- My fabric is ironed on and wrapped around to the back.

The red pattern is fabric and the yellow paper is old. I don’t have a clue by whom. The sentiment is an after-market set from Mercari. One of the words is spelled wrong.

Anyway, the fence die cut is unknown. I layered up 3 of the fence die cuts on top of each other for some dimension that I wouldn’t have been able to do with foam tape. This old tree die cut was cut out with my Cricut. It was out of a patterned paper so I inked it brown. I colored it with some Copic markers. The zombie stamp is from Prickly Pear. Thanks for looking. Have a great week.

Manly Monday Poker BIL's Card

This is the front of the card. The crimper is by Fiskars. The little playing cards are dies by Quickutz. The patterned paper underneath the straight flush is by Tim Holtz. I'm not sure about the bottle cap but it beautifully fits in as a 10 of hearts. The alphabet stamps are by Oriental Trading Co. It's a great little set. 

And this is the inside of the card. The inside letters are Michael's. I thought it was witty
Straight Flush? Nope! 4 of a kind for our 7 card stud because he turned 47. 

But now that I read again, it's hard to understand.

This is a fabric that I used heat and bond to attach the fabric to the cardstock.

Cricut cut the four and seven.

And then I tripped on the finish line and cut the word kind in the wrong spot. It turned out fine.

Here is another poker playing card

Another post using the playing cards
Playing Solitaire birthday card

Thanks for looking.

Queen Bee Hexagon Stencil with Embossing Paste Cards

I used a Hero Arts background stamp for the tree on the left. The branch off of that is a branch off of a Memory Box die. The beehive is a piece of fabric that my Mom cut out and put bondage on the back and then I ironed it onto a square die cut by, my guess is Bo Bunny with a layer behind it. The honeycomb background is a stencil by Tim Holtz. I used regular white embossing paste. The color came from my mat. It was a mixture of inks that I had already used on my mat. I usually do a lot of backgrounds using embossing paste at the same time. So you will see the same paste used in some other bee cards The sentiment is a sticker. Thanks for looking.

Entering Simon Says Stamp Up in the air Challenge

Dog fabric Thank you card for Rusty

The dog patterned paper or what looks like patterned  paper is fabric. The yellow cardstock sentiment is a rub-on by American Crafts. The sentiment is a Hero Arts. Thanks for looking

Peace and Paisley cards Part 2

For these first three cards, I doubled up the fabric paisley circles ironing them onto the paper with border die cuts behind them.

The peace sign punch is from Oriental Trading Co.

On the card below, I layered Spellbinders die cuts under the fabric.
Here is another Peace card. 

For this next card, I dry embossed the blue paper with a Sizzix folder.

I punched out some leaves and adhered them to the orange cardstock and spritzed them with Glimmer Mist.

The ribbon is from Offray.

I layered Spellbinders die cuts under the fabric.  

This next picture is yesterday's two cards with this one.

These cards were made as thank you cards for the parents that helped/contributed to the homecoming float. Long story short, Hubby and other friend teachers are advisors for the class of 2025. The theme this year was decades. The Senior class chose the 1980's. The Juniors were 2000's. The Sophomores were 1990's and the Freshman were 1970's hence the funky cards. 

Along with designing these cards, I used my Cricut to cut out a bunch of 1970's type die cuts that the kids glued onto signs. They waved the signs during the Mock Rock (a dance that I choreographed).
So, I had a few extra fabric circles and adhered them to the sunglasses die cut.

This picture makes me giggle because it reminds me of the next picture.

Hubby and BIL check on my dad's cottage when going to our cottage. My Dad's cottage is a 5-minute walk from ours. So they went in, checked on things, and drank one of my Dad's beers.
They found these glasses on the table and in an effort to find out who they belonged to, they took a selfie wearing the glasses and sent it to the family GroupMe app. LOL.

The family didn't think it was as funny as I did.
Thanks for looking.

Paisley Fabric Circle cards Part 1

The paisley center is a piece of fabric leftover from my Mom's massive fabric collection.

The border sticker is from Doodlebug.

I used decorative scissors on the edges of orange cardstock on both of the cards.

In the second card, the blue flower is a Cricut cut and the spikey circle is possibly from Scenic Route die-cut. The yellow patterned paper is by Studio Calico (June Card Kit 2014- Dear Lizzy)

Thanks for looking.

Mom's Pink and Red Fabric in a card

Today is my Mom's birthday. It only seemed right to show a card that I made using her fabric. I die cut the flower in the center out of the fabric's design with a square die. The square and rectangle dies were bought off of eBay

Thanks for looking.

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 

.

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

Thanks for looking

5 Different Snowmen Cards

This is a longer post with different snowmen images. The description of each card is under the photo. Enjoy.

I love this snowman card because the snowman stamp by Close to My Heart is so playful. The green die cut is by Dreamweaver Stencils, and the polka dot glitter paper is by Doodlebug. This embossing folder is by Spellbinders, and I stamped snowflakes in each square of the dry embossed.

Next, I used a snowman stamp from 1998 by Designs by Trena Hegdahl for Westwater Enterprises.

 I colored it in with chalk mixed with paint before cutting it out with a die by Spellbinders. To get the color inside the die cut, I added distress ink with an ink blending tool while the paper was still inside the die. The patterned paper is by Bazzill.

The sentiment is a heavy brass embellishment by The Paper Studio and is held down with brads

For this next card, I used one of my Mom’s fabric squares.

A link with other links to cards using my Mom’s fabric squares

The background is a recycled card.

The scalloped die cut behind the snowman is by Spellbinders and the red scalloped die cut is from eBay. 

In the cards above, I upcycled snowmen images from two different store-bought cards. On the left, I stamped the white background with snowflakes. And then I cut a red cardstock square into triangles.

For the card on the right, I added the snowman onto a scalloped rectangle die cut by Spellbinders. I placed some red rick-rack down the center of a piece of blue cardstock that is dry embossed with an embossing folder by Spellbinders before adding the snowman on top.

The last card is my Elsa card that I finally finished up. She doesn’t need a post of her own. 

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio and Carter’s Bella.

Colored with Copic markers, with some white paint on her cape. 

The sentiment came with the set of images.

Thanks for looking