Floral Friday Christmas Cricut Slimline card

Slimline cards are a challenge for me. I feel like there’s so much wasted space yet if you fill it up, it’s just too much. 

The background patterned paper is by Bo Bunny.  The poinsettia is a Cricut die cut (Image set called Christmas Noel).

 

I dry embossed one of the layers of the poinsettia with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before adding Stickles to the petals.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts; I heat embossed it in gold and then colored in the frame with a mixture of paint and chalk. The ric rack is from my mother-in-law‘s stash.

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Painting for Surprise Loose Change Scrapbook Calendar Layout

I really like this layout. I used scraps of paper to create the background which matches the outside of our cottage.

 Then I cut out the super cute bucket and paint brush with my Cricut 

The surprise label is by The Paper Loft. I never thought I would use it but kept it around, “just in case.”  It has been in my stash for 10 years if not longer. I think it was 2009 that my mom and I went to Novi, Michigan for the scrapbook convention where we took classes. The different companies would give you the supplies to make layouts for us to put together while they teach us different techniques to go with the layouts. 

It was there that I took class from the famous Tim Holtz. It was more way more expensive but was worth every penny. 

He gave us so much information and had so much positivity. Just a really good educational class that I use those techniques over and over again. 

It was cool how we were made to sit by somebody that you didn’t know. Talk about vulnerable. But it was a really good idea. You could learn from the class and not socialize with your friends during class.

It really takes you out of your comfort zone being with the people that you don’t know. 

 Everyone was in groups of three except for myself and the other lady I was with. That worked to our advantage. You see, at the end of the class he told us to divide up the distress ink pads that we had been using in our group. It was evenly divided as you would take turns choosing which distress inks that you would like to keep. Everyone else had to divide their pads by three and my lady and I divided ours by two. And we exchanged well as in she took colors that I didn’t want. I thought it was really cool

that we got to keep the

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Just a Note with muted Colors and a wallpaper leaf Card

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye (background) and The Paper Loft (strips). The sentiment is a die by Spellbinders. I replaced the paper dot for with a dot for the “I” by Cloud 9. The label is made of chipboard and I painted it with Ranger’s gold distress paint and put Perfect Pearls on top of it. The leaf die is by Stampendous. The two leaves are unique for I cut one cut out of cardstock and one out of a wallpaper sample. Thanks for looking.
Happy Little Stamper challenge
Anything goes with dies

Floral Friday yellow and purple spring cards to donate to a senior living facility.

This is another set of spring cards I made to donate  to a senior center. The patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. The black cardstock is from Michael’s and the purple paper is from Studio G. The chipboard arrows were painted with Mr. Huey's paint. I can’t remember who makes the paint. To finish that landscape card I did something different and that I put patterned paper underneath each arrow. Before I shipped them out I saw this sticker and it was that something that this card needed. Thank you for stopping by.

Manly Monday Christmas card

 

My card is a masculine Christmas card for the challenge at 

The Male Room.

The sentiment tag and the middle border sticker is from We R Memory Keepers.

The die-cut tag underneath is one from my stash. I painted it brown to give it a rustic look for a man.

There’s a brad at the top of the tag and the bow is green jute by Tim Holtz.

This card screams guy card. Brad. A bow (tie). And a dude named Tim Holtz 

The patterned paper is by Bazzill.

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Manly Monday Blue with Red Flames Card

This is the last of the star with red flames that I can find.

Every boy in my family is probably singing Hallahuah!

Back story. I made 20 or more birthday invitations for one of my nephews 

His mother never sent them out. 

Fast forward, His parents got a divorce and a new mother in the house needs a round of applause 👏

Luckily and very nice of her to think of this,

She asked me if I wanted the invitations back to use them for something else.

The invitations were just sitting at their house and she was going to throw them away.

I’ve made them into birthday cards and have been giving one to each little boy in our families.

The flame is a foam stamp with no name

The red paint is called Happy Huey by Jillibean Soup

The star is a Creative Memories punch. 

I had sprayed it with different colors of Glimmer Mist (Tattered Angels)

The blue dry embossed (Cuttlebug/Provo Craft) was also sprayed with Glimmer mist too 

I was checking to see which ones still sprayed the mist and not many had a nice spray like hairspray. I'm not fond of the plops of ink. Personal preference

The sentiment at the bottom is a sticker by Three Bugs in a Rug.

I think the sentiment will make it harder to find someone to give it to.

We'll see.

Thanks for stopping by to check out today's Manly Monday card.

I have mixed feelings when my card isn't for an adult man for this post on my masculine themed day 

The last few posts have been more for boys or teens...anyway.

Deep Red Stamps North Pole

My cards today use a Snowman by the Northpole by Deep Red Stamps and can be found
Deep Red Stamps on eBay

North Pole Snowman on DRS website

The image is colored in with powdered chalk and paint.

The patterned paper is by Making Memories

Yarn by EK Success.

Rectangle die-cuts from eBay

I've already blogged about the 1st card.
Deep Red Stamps Snowman by the Northpole
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Manly Monday Deer Head card

I used the Deep Red Stamps Tree Rings stamp for the background. I stamped it with off white acrylic paint. The deer die cut is by Recollections and the Happy is by Lawn Fawn. I decided to keep it plain and not stamp  on it. The oval die was in my stash.  The yellow/orange card base is by Recollections.

Thanks for looking. Have a great Monday.

For You Tag Card

The tag on this card had antique cars on it. I painted over them with Making Memories off white paint. I put a SEI rub-on on it before setting an eyelet and adding ribbon. The rest of the card is gingham vellum I found in the stash and it's om an off white card base. Then the sentiment stickers are by Doodlebug.

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Manly Monday Vintage Delivery Truck

The Vintage Delivery Truck stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. I stamped it with white paint onto brown cardstock. 

I die cut two stitched rectangles. The truck image with a small die and then die-cut the next larger rectangle out of October Afternoon graph patterned paper. 

I inked the edges of the dies. 

The card base is pre-made kraft cardstock made by Recollections. 

The background is off-white cardstock that has been embossed with a Darice clock folder and then heavily inked with distress ink. 

I then added washi tape by We are Memory Keepers to the panel before adhering it to the center of the card.

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Updated 7-20-21

Manly Monday Rock Star Card

Manly Monday card today is possible for a male teen. This is another one that I changed from a Father's Day card to a birthday card. The original post can be found

HERE

I changed the circle into a strip of red cardstock that was stamped with Fiskar stamps using black ink. When I tore off the circle part of the green ripped off but only a little bit on the edge. 

Then the inside of the card I covered up the Father's Day sentiment with the red cardstock stamped with the same stars as in front. The white oval is stamped with a Hero Arts stamp.

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"Happy Day"

My card is also being featured on the Stamp N Plus blog. The iris folding grad cap stamp can be found HERE. I can't believe how easy it is to do iris folding and who knew I would like to do it. I used Hero Arts black ink for the cap and patterned paper by Recollections for the iris folding and Karen Foster as the background. The sentiment is a SRM Sticker.

The flourish is a piece of grungeboard by Tim Holtz that I painted with Adirondack Metallics acrylic paint which is made by Ranger Industries. While the paint was still wet I sprinkled Stamp N Plus white glitter all over it. After it dried I sprayed the flourish with Krylon Fixatif in desperate hopes that the glitter would stick to the flourish and not everything else in my studio. I must say this picture is great at catching the sunlight. Look at that sparkle!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look and if you have any questions, comments or concerns please leave me a comment below. I love reading them all-the good, the bad and the ugly:)

Challenges:

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/- Graduation

http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything goes

Logan’s Birthday Cake-It’s Not Easy Being Green scrapbook layout

Updated July 13, 2021. Again on 3-17-23

The challenge that I am referring to, is no longer around.

In the challenge at The Sisterhood of Scrap, you need to use the word green or the color green in your title. I love this little saying by Kermit the frog and how it fits with my cousin's boy's cake. TFL.

This layout is from a sketch on papercraftplanet.com. They post a sketch weekly in the Scrappy Sunday group. The stamps are by SU; title by MME; paper by CM, DCWV, Deja views, Sunborn; ink by Colorbox and ribbon by Wyla.