October Calendar Layout Happy Fall Party Crashing

This is an oldie. I always stamp on the  old calendar layouts, “From the 2013 calendar” which you can see under the photo. Those letter stamps are by Lawn Fawn. I have another layout from this party that was in another family’s calendar. 

The brown shaped cardstock by Creative Memories. I chopped it up to fit the 8.5 x11.75 layout. The die cuts are by Recollections. The red leaf punch is by Marvy. The football is a sticker. I used the Creative Memories cutting system for the circle. The title are letter stickers by 

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October Calendar Layout The new Mr. And Mrs

The pumpkin patterned paper is unknown but if I had to guess it would be The Paper Studio. The background patterned paper is by Daisy D. The patterned paper border in the center is by Making Memories. The large green leaf is by Stampendous. The brown leaf punch is by Marvy. The other leaf die cut is by Sizzix. The stamped sentiment is by Lawn Fawn and the stamps in the squares on the right is by Stampin Up. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Yellow n pink Basket Weave Card

The background was weaved together using paper scraps by Provo Craft, Sunborn and Creative Memories. The sentiment dies are from Clearly Besotted. The yellow flower is a stamp and matching die from Stampin Up. The pink flower is a die cut from Gemini and the smaller flower is a punch by Marvy Uchida.

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Manly Monday Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Green with Stars Card

Merry Christmas. This is a fatter slimline card with Basic Grey patterned paper and DCWV green opulent cardstock. I stamped this old sentiment stamp from my stash onto a Dreamweaver Stencils die cut. The jute is by Tim Holtz. The stars are the bits that fell out of a Marvy corner punch. 

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Floral Friday Coral Floral Card

The patterned papers are by My Mind’s Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Gray. The sentiment by Hero Arts is stamped onto a Martha Stewart label sticker. The flowers are by Prima and brads probably from Making Memories.

Papers are same as above. The sentiment stamp by Hero Arts is stamped with Versa Fine black ink on a scrap of paper that has powdered chalk on it. It punched out beautifully using an oval punch by Marvy. The sentiment stands out from the white flowers most of which are by Prima. Thanks for looking.

The above photo is the rough draft of the 2nd card. I like what I went with. Thanks for looking.

Candy Cane Lane card with a double heat embossing

This card is something else. I loved doing it and I need to find a different embossing folder to try the same technique, agree? And I will take ideas/requests
There are way too many pictures but sometimes that’s the way it goes. 

The embossing folder is by We R Memory Keepers. It's a little bit longer, so that's why I could line up the design. Meaning I could do this technique because the opposite, embossed and debossed was longer and could line up. (that was a horribly long run-on sentence.) 

The embossing folder is 3" wide. Therefore, these are 3 separate pieces of cardstock. (I think I said that)

I dry embossed 2 pieces of red cardstock and I'm not sure if they are from the same manufacturer they look like two shades of red. I hate the shades of red cardstock and how they are hard to match up. I probably didn't think the idea would work. 

>Click<My cousin used to obsess over the shades of red and I would be so Rrrr, "Just pick a piece of red paper!" So one day I ran into a problem with matching reds so I fanned out the pieces of red cardstock all over my desk and took a picture. I texted her the picture and apologized for those times that she couldn't find just the right red to match her son's shirt when we were scrapbooking. She appreciated the apology. 
>Click< Back- moving on with the tour. 

Then I dry embossed a shimmery white cardstock. 

I took a red "Wet Looks" Marvy embossing marker colored it into the debossed pattern and then heat embossed it with red embossing powder.
I did the same thing for the red cardstock but in white. The embossing marker is Embossing Dual Pen 11 #81 Clear by Tsukineko and used Hero Arts white embossing powder to finish the job. 

I must say that I didn't use a powder bag before heat embossing and it shows with embossing powder everywhere. For the first time with such a technique, I'm all good with that.  
I trimmed the panel down and gave it a nice white border on the sides. The sentiment is one of Cricut's print and cut. 

This post was stupid long and way too wordy with probably many grammatical errors. This may be why I didn't want to post it. Thanks for sticking with me. Thanks for looking.

Unique background Fall colors card

My card was created using one distress ink and a Post-It note. The leaves are die-cuts from my Cricut and one is a Marvy Punch. 

This is how I finished it.

I'm super tired of my phone camera and how the colors are not true to the card.

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Soft colors make a wreath card

I made my card today using die cuts from a Sizzix set that is full of birds. The patterned papers I used were by K and Co., Pepertrey Ink, and Tim Holtz. The background paper is by Studio Calico. The sentiment stamp was a set I bought off of eBay. I've been on a shopping spree the last month. I'm not as familiar with my new products. Anyway, the bow is a sticker by Mrs. Grossman. I punched the center of the wreath out with a Marvy circle punch.

Lately, I have been doing challenges for inspiration and a place to start.

I made this card for the challenge at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

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Floral Friday You are Amazing Card (I love it and want to keep it)

This is one of my favorite cards in a while. The border stamp is by Prima. The sentiment is a Cricut draw and cut onto vellum. The flower and leaves are die-cuts or stickers by My Mind's Eye, K and Co, Marvy flower punch, and Sizzix leaf dies. Some of them I colored in with Copic markers. Center die-cut is by Spellbinders

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Mimi 1st Communion 2 page layout

I have a 2-page layout for today. This is my MIL in her younger years.

All of the labelings are done with alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn 

The die-cuts on the 1st page are by:

Letters by Quickutz 

Numbers by The Girls Paperie 

Corner punch by Marvy 

The patterned paper is vellum by K and Co.

Flowers and brads from my stash

2nd page:

The dry embossed frame is by Provo Craft (Omgoodness! That thing is so old. Happy to use old stash)

The doilies are by Doodlebug, Stampin Up, and Little Yellow Bicycle.

And then the sentiment at the bottom was a recycled bookmark. 

Doily paper by Basic Grey 

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Write on your heart Card

I used a stamp from a friend's stash.

I colored the rubber part in with different colors of distress markers and then huffed on the stamp before stamping it onto white cardstock

The sentiment is vellum and it is by Creative Memories

The corners are rounded with a Marvy punch

The patterned paper behind the green cardstock is a wood grain pattern. I believe it is by Prima.

Check out this card using the heart stamp

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Peace and Love Van Stencil card

I used a Dollar Tree stencil and Tattered Angels Glimmer mist spray to create the van 

The sentiment is made up of  a Marvy Peace sign punch, an epoxy circle sticker by Cloud 9 and an ampere sticker by Making Memories, and a love epoxy sticker by K and Co.

The patterned paper is unknown. I swap scraps with a friend.

I did add a border sticker by Creative Memories in between the cardstock and patterned paper.

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Here are some other cards using the same stamp.

Van Stamp

Peace Sign punch

Mini Baby Shower Cards in Mint and Purple

I had to make a small baby tag for a shower today. 

All of my baby boy's supplies were on my desk 

Therefore, I decided to make a few more for future use.

They all use a Karen Foster sticker, and die-cuts are by Spellbinders

I used Stampin Up star stamps for the background

But then the purple card has a sentiment inside by Current, circle, and tag dies from my stash.

The cup card sentiment by Pebbles, the circle punch by Marvy, and the ribbon by Offray. The bottle card, the sentiment is by David Tutera, and it's glued onto a chipboard button by American Crafts

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Gnome Card and 100th birthday banner

I made this card and banner for our grandma’s 100th birthday. 

There was a lot of time making this card. The gnome is a Cricut cut in my stash.

The gnome is an inside family joke

Edited-I did look it up and the gnome is from the cartridge Fresh Picked.

 The brick paper is from Recollections and looks like real brick. 

I made the grass paper from scraps. I inked them with distress ink and cut slits in the top. 

I used dimensional adhesives to give the grass multiple layers. 

The mushroom and flower are stickers by K and Co. 

The lattice on the left was inspired by the heritage photos I'm scrapping.

 I took a vine-like ribbon and weaved it into the lattice die-cut by Cricut. 

That ribbon has been in my stash for probably 5 years

The flowers on the vine were made with a punch from Marvy.

 It felt good to use a lot of old supplies. And have it come out so cute. 

I hadn't been entering challenges but have recently found a few blogs I like. This card is perfect for the summer fun challenge at:

Bitten by the bug

I hoped Siri was correct. I stamped out those numbers. I love how it turned out.

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Wooden Anniversary card

This was playing around with things that were already on the countertop. I don't love this card but it's still a nice anniversary card to send.

The corner punches are by Marvy. 

The stamp in the center is by Hero Arts and I colored it in with colored pencils. 

Polka dot paper by Papertrey Ink. 

Kraft paper by Oriental Trading Co. 

The sentiment was a free download. I've had it for years.

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Lots of Love Whale Card

The whale stamp is by Clearly Besotted. The whale was stamped with Hero Arts grey ink and then fussy cutout. The spout of water and the sentiment with HA ink Cornflower color
Sun stamp by Unity Stamp Co. Archival yellow ink and punched out with a circle punch by Marvy
Sentiment by Lawn Fawn. Sun by Unity Stamp Co.
Wave die-cuts by eBay. Papers by Creative Memories, The Paper Studio, and Echo Park.

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Here are some others using the same stamp.

Whale Done

Whale Get Better 1

Whale get better 2

Whale done for my niece

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Christmas Trees Peace card

I used the negative of a tree die-cut as a stencil with distress ink. I tore the white cardstock and put Stickles on it to represent snow.

The sentiment is by Stickos stickers

The die-cuts are by eBay and Marvy for the small tree

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Deep Red Stamps Floral Arrangement

I have two cards using the same stamp by

Deep Red Stamps
Floral Arrangement

Colored with Copic markers.

Sizzix embossing folder with Recollections cardstock

Shaped green paper by K and Co.
Butterfly punch by Marvy. It has dimensional adhesive under the wings

The same stamp stamped Deep Red Stamps Floral Arrangement with black ink and colored it in with Copic Markers.
The background paper is bu SU and the doily is by Doodlebug.
I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment st the bottom of the stamped image.

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Cream colored Graduation cards

Good Luck-Cardstock by CTMH that I stamped with an old SSU graduation stamp set. Square punches by Creative Memories out of Project Like paper. Stickers by CM, Paper Inc and EK Success.

Amazing Card- Background same as above but with black ink. The circle die cut by Cricut. The sentiment is dry embossed folder by Cuttlebug with Faber Castell blue Gelatos. Embellishments by The Paper Studio.

Go Forth and Conquer-The dry embossing is by SU embossing folder. Corner punch by Marvy. Square tan paper is by Basic Grey. Background cardstock by CTMH.Blue square punch by CM and paper is a recycled folder. Stamp by Hampton Arts with Hero Arts black ink. Blue ink by Ranger on edges of white cardstock.

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Fall wreaths

Fall wreaths with paper leaves. Products listed below.

I started with styrofoam wreaths from the dollar store and wrapped it with small pieces of fabric. 

All kinds of product in these. Stamped leaves by Stampin Up (Colorbox ink and die cut with matching dies). Large leaves with embossed detail by Martha Stewart. 

Leaves by Creative Memories large brown, medium red leaves, embossed yellow and many small oak and maple leaves which is a punch. Those red leaves were either sprayed with Glimmer Mist or stamped with a word background stamp by Hero Arts.

Spellbinders leaves are the larger orange in the back as well as one five leaf and one three leaf  die cuts cut out of cereal box. 

The leaves by Marvy are punches that are big in the back or super tiny in the front.

There are 2 green ones that I see were cut from my Cricut and not needed for whatever reason. The plain green leaves are die cuts by Sizzix.

There are two green leaves from my early days for scrapbook and card making when I was in design teams. The leaves are digital stamps but I’m not sure where they’re from. I also have Dreamweaver Stencils they are small. I used embossing paste (probably white) and when it was dry I applied Perfect P earls. There’s a few random leaves and they are all close to each other (makes it easier to point out). There’s a green tree and orange glitter felt leave. The last thing I’m going to point out on this one is  a "lick it and stick it" somewhere type thing. I found it in my MIL’s craft things. Maybe they were supposed to go on the back of an envelope. Idk but they add nice color to the wreaths.

Yellow wreath:  There are a lot of the same leaves on this one.
Here are some others:
Stamped leaves by Close to me heart leaves are the two medium size green and one caramel color with veins darker than the leaf border.
Canvas background stamp by Stampin Up.
Maple leaf orange and Acorn stamps by  Inkadinkado stamps.
Green leaves, maple and oak
Background flowers by Daisy D
Burgundy felt maple
Flourish by Sizzix
Three off white leaves with one with inked edges and green with polka dot paper are by Cricut.
Two flowers by Petaloo
Water colored leaf is a digital stamp
Large die cut leaves are from a school my step mom worked at. Scallop circle die by Spellbinders
Tiny leaf stamp by Clear Dollar stamps
Two pre-made leaf die cuts by Recollections.
One of the Spellbinders dies is cut out of upholstery type sample fabric.

Lots of information. I hope it makes sense.