Manly Monday Tree silhouette die cut

The tree background die is by Dreamweaver Stencils. The yellow background was made using distress oxide. The bottom edge is made up of border punches just 2 layers to make it look fuller. After I added the tree die to the background I dry embossed it with an embossing folder by The Paper studio at Hobby Lobby. I added distress oxide over the whole thing before added a upcycled thank you tag. 

I’m entering this card into the thank you challenge at Simon Says Stamp. And Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Thank you 😊 

 This card was made with a piece of basic gray patterned paper and a piece of copper metallic paper that has texture. The sentiment is by Bo Bunny, and the brad is by Creative Imagination.

The background paper is by Accord Publishing. This time I colored the die cut with a Copic Markers. I cut the edge thin so that it would sit inside the frame of the patterned paper. 

The background inside the frame was made with distress ink. I tried to make it look like a the shadows of the tree trunks. I ripped a piece of paper on the bottom edge of the tree and made it look like dirt. Hopefully it did. 

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Fall birthday card for my Aunt

The background patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. The orange die cut patterned paper is by Recollections (the die cut is by Dreamweaver Stencils.) The cream cardstock die cut behind the orange die cut was cut out with my Cricut. The sentiment is heat embossed in white. The yellow is distress ink. The large leaf punch is by EK Success, the next smallest leaf is a punch by Creative Memories, and the smallest leaf is a Brad by Creative Imaginations. I inked the largest leaf with chalk ink. I hope she likes it. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

You're a Dancing Shining Star

 

The background paper is by Karen Foster and the other layers are cardstock. The pink paper in the center was stamped with a Stampin Up wheel/rolling stamp thingy. The star brads are by Creative Imaginations. The sentiment is a sticker by Sticko  

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KCTC February calendar layout

This is my nephew and his dad, my brother, at the KCTC. end of the year ceremony. I think it stands for Kent County Training Center. Idk. I'm guessing. He went there as a high school student to learn about law enforcement.

So, I made the background with scraps of cardstock and added a few stickers at the bottom by Creative Imaginations. The pennants/banner were cut out with my Cricut. I stamped the letters with Stampin Up alphabets stamps, with SU ink. I sewed the banner on with embroidery floss. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Hockey is last minute Fun card

I was putting the year’s cards for my in-laws and was crunched for time. We have a great nephew that is into hockey and so I whipped this card up for him.         Thanks for looking

October Calendar Layout with the kids carving pumpkins

Here is the last October calendar page for year one of Wednesday calendar layouts. This one was from my Brother's 2021 calendar. The corners are from Recollections. I made the title with my Cricut. The epoxy sticker at the bottom is by Creative Imaginations. The second picture in this post shows the layout before the sticker and I'm half and half on it. Adding the sticker doesn't give your eyes a place to rest. But happily, it decreases the number of stickers in that package of stickers. On that sticker sheet, there's one with a cat that is ok to use on kids' cards but the last two stickers in the package are scary to me. Maybe they aren't scary. I will try to post a picture. 

This is me babbling.

I wish I was able to go in order, like this; all of the months from my brother's 2018 calendar on the first week of every month. Then the cottage's calendar 2018 for the second week. Then Paul's family calendar from 2018 for the third week and then I've made calendars for different people throughout the years to cover week 4 of the month...BUT I just can't get it organized to do it that way. My pictures folders are a mess and I can't figure out why. I'm the most organized unorganized person ever. I have labels on most things. I say most because it's one of the things on the list of help I need help finishing.

Organizing pictures is a BIG sigh followed by irritation followed by why can't I get someone to help me. I would pay them the going rate. Shoot, McDonald's is starting at $15. Starting! 
I made a list in outline form and #2 is I need a minion. Then
2a.) Get on my PC and delete duplicates. With that...I want the right pictures to go into folders that they are labeled to go into.
2b.) Clean up my blog, that one is harder than it sounds. Like 2a I want it to be done my way. Heck, once we established what I want, they could do it from home.
2c.) Use the label maker for all of my stamp sets. However,
2d.) I'm thinking of taking old stamps off the wood. But so many things come with that and maybe I need to make that decision before 2c.

2e.) Dance VHS project. I actually had someone that was doing that project. We were kicking ass on that project and then Covid hit and the project came to a complete halt. I think that it will be resumed.
2f.) 3 Inch disks project. I have a box of them that is how we saved things in the '90s. We had a camera that didn't have film, it had one of those disks. I have the converter to plug into my computer and move any worthy pictures onto my computer. The most important pictures I'm looking for are of my husband's back. Skin cancer comparison photos.
And the last thing that I've thought of that I need a minion for is...
2g.) Check and do the maintenance on my Copic markers. Though I love to play with them, they are not getting the love they deserve and it's resulting in the markers going dry and the nibs destroyed.
I have two people that would be perfect for the job but have both said not now. I'm going to hang onto that string of hope that they will say, I can help you with one of your tasks.
Until then, I have a list typed up on my blog ready to go.
Do you have anything you wish someone would do for you? Maybe I forgot it and need to add a 2h.)

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Deep Red Stamps Umbrella card

Another fall card using Deep Red Stamps. I would like to use all of my DRS fall-type stamps. I have them, I like them and now I need to use them. This one is called-

Galoshes and Umbrella

I watercolored this image a long time ago...So I do not remember what I used.

Patterned paper by Basic Grey (background) and Tim Holtz (circle)
Brads from Creative Imaginations
The sentiment stamp and die -unknown

I'm entering my card into the challenge 

Patties Creations Design challenge

The theme is fall or autumn using an image

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A card for a Young Lady with a blue star background

I made this for a young lady in the family and then forgot to send it.

The yellow paper was dry embossed with a Swiss Dot Cuttlebug embossing folder. I inked it lightly with olive green distress ink.

The little girl image is a digital stamp. I would have to look way into the deepest part of my computer to find out the artist. 

I colored her in with Copic markers

The brad is by Creative Imagination.

The die-cut stars are cut out with Quickutz 

The patterned paper is by Studio G

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Manly Monday a few Hockey Layouts

I'm working on my nephew's graduation book and this is one of the many hockey layouts that I will be posting.

The helmet stamp is from Stampin Up.

The date and jersey die-cuts were cut out using my Cricut. 

The circle patterned paper is by Colorbok.

I used the Creative Memories cutting system to cut out the circle.

The hockey patterned paper is Flair Designs.

The player sticker is by Jolee's.

The Red Wings sticker is an officially licensed sticker.

The hockey stick and puck is by Jolee's

The funny part about the picture below is the handmade shin guards.

This next hockey layout uses pictures from 2017.

Patterned paper by Flair Designs.

Puck and net stickers are by Creative Imaginations.

Cardstock strips are the bottom are from my stash

The sticker border in the center is unknown.

There are star brads and eyelets and star die cuts

I included number stickers

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Handmade flower TY Card for medical staff

I'm trying to use my thing that is already assembled for quick cards to send to medical workers and the elderly that are all alone. I found this already made flowers are perfect.

The flowers have stamps on them
The layered flower behind is old. I inked it to make it match better.
The leaf is from CM
The brad is by Creative Imaginations 

The sentiment is by American Crafts with Hero Arts ink

I used a template online and cut out the die-cut flower.
I used Distressed Stickles on the edges of the flower.

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon

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Here are some other cards using the same flower
Nov 2015

Funny how I used the same patterned paper as I did back in 2015 as the one I made last week.
Birthday Blessings

Fall Arrangement Cards

Here are a few fall cards

Below is the first card and its details:

The background paper is by Cosmo Cricket.

The stitched rectangles are die-cuts I bought off of eBay.

The tag die-cut is by Sizzix

The leaf brads are by Creative Imaginations.

The second card,
The die-cuts are by Spellbinders
One of the papers is a wallpaper sample and the others are misc patterned paper.

There isn't a manufacturer on this stamp. I colored it in with Copic Markers.
The sentiment stamp and black ink by Hero Arts
The background paper is by Provo Craft inked with distress ink Tea Dye

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Metallic Graduation cards

Grey and Gold Card: Patterned paper by Karen Foster. Washi tape by Stampin' Up. Frame by Target (2006). Stars are iron on made in Taiwan. Grad cap by The Paper Studio. Gold brad by Creative Imaginations. Gold cardstock by Creative Memories.

Burgundy and black Congrats: Sentiment by MyStamp Box. Specialty paper by The Paper Studio. Black cardstock is dry embossed with Darice folder.

Gold card: Gold paper is unknown. Chipboard shapes by Inque Boutique (2008). I can't find the congrats stamp. Grad cap is made of fabric and is by Jolee's Boutique. Black cardstock is dry embossed with Darice folder. 

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Rooster ATC

Today I have a rooster ATC to share. The word Rooster reminds me of the character in the 1980's version of the movie Annie. He was Miss Hanagan's brother. (I think that shows my age).

I have this honeycomb stencil by Tim Holtz that I thought it would be a great chicken wire look for my background.  I decided to do reverse inking where I put ink down on the stencil and put the paper on top of the stencil. I started with the ink Antique Linen but needed more color. I tried black soot and that was too much. Finally went with Hickory Smoke ink because it was visible but didn't take over the card like the black did. All the inks mentioned above are distress inks by Ranger.

I masked off the sky with a cloud punch by no name and applied Tumbled Glass ink to the top of the card and Antique Linen to the bottom, both with distress ink tools. The fence is a Doodlebug sticker that I didn't have enough to cover the ATC. I decided to cut it in half and place the rooster in between. You would never be able to tell if I didn't tell you. I added a Creative Imaginations sticker to the right side.

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This was made in Oct 2016

Deep Red Stamps Enchanting Moments Card

Start with a piece of Basic Grey patterned paper size 4 x 5 ½ and adhere to the top 3 pennants of different lengths using My Mind’s Eye patterned paper. Die cut a brown cardstock butterfly with Cricut. Stamp the Floral Mosaic background stamp (Deep Red Stamps #4x604417) with black Hero arts ink onto off white cardstock. Color in one of the flower shapes found in the background stamp, with gold Smooches ink by Clearsnap. Cut the flower shape out and ink edges with distress ink (Ranger). Adhere butterfly die cut as shown and arrange the stamped image in the center. Set a gold brad (Creative Imaginations) in the center. Add two K and Co premade flower die cuts, a chipboard sentiment by Prima and alphabet stickers by Making Memories for the word “Moments”. Adhere the front panel to an off-white card base (Recollections).

   

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Post Family Farm Layout

For this layout, I cut the title using my Cricut (Don Juan). The stamps are by Stampin Up, Sizzix and Lawn Fawn. Sticker border by Doodlebug Designs. Patterned papers are by The Paper Studio and Die Cuts with a View.

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Pink and Blue flower birthday card

Start by making a pink cardstock card base size 4 ¼ x 5 ½  and adhere flower patterned paper by The Paper Studio to the front. On white paper adhere a journal block sticker (Creative Imaginations) and a sentiment sticker on top of the first (American Crafts). Adhere pink ribbon around the edges of the white cardstock and adhere to panel to the front of the card.

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Snowball Season

Start with white pre-made card base 4 x 5 ½  by Recollections. On white cardstock by American Crafts dry emboss snowflakes pattern (Cuttlebug). Cut in a diagonl and adhere to card front. On small piece of white cardstock stamp the mittens with Versa Mark ink and heat emboss with black enbossing powder by Stampendous. Add the snowball rub-on to the upper right of the mittens before adhering to black cardstock. Then add the word season sticker by Making Memories to the bottom right.  Die cut a rectangle with rounded edges and adhere the image to the center of it. Adhere a Doodlebug Token (483 Winter) to each side of the die cut and set them with a black brad by Creative Imaginations.Adhere die cut group to the front of the card base.

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Slug Bug Card

The car stamp is by Unity and I colored it in with colored pencils. I used a water pen to blend it in before fussy cutting it out and stamping the license plate with Michael’s dollar bin alphabet stamps. The sentiment is by Hero Arts, peace symbol border is by Creative Imagination and flower brad is by Eyelet Outlet. Tag maybe My Mind’s Eye and I’m not sure about the ribbon and eyelet.

 I made this card for my niece that turned 25 (what!) and the slug bug is a significant part of our relationship. When she graduated from high school she had a hippie themed party.  I’m not sure if hippie is the correct term for it but she had things like peace signs and Volkswagen bus photo prop. The car stamp was used for her the graduation party invitations. We collaborated a lot to get just the look she was going for and then had fun making them with my sister and nephew. Good bonding family time together.

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Musically inclined cards

These are my ATC cards from last month. The background is a combination of distress ink and gold perfect pearls. I stamped the Music Swirl stamp by Deep Red stamps with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger's copper embossing powder. Then I adhered small translucent and gold stars with multi medium mat and adhesive. The sentiment stickers are by Creative imaginations.

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French Manor Cards

I heat embossed different elements of a Stampendous stamp set with different colors of embossing powder by:

Ranger Industries

Stampendous

Stamp N Plus

Hero Arts

Stampin Up

Word stickers are by Creative Imaginations

Other sticker by Fiskars and K and Co

A few misc die cuts by K and Co.

Center border is vintage ribbon....for lack of a better word

Rhinestones by The Paper Studio.

The background is inked with distress ink with an ink blending tool

And edges inked with black distress ink.

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