Sage colored Candle Christmas Card

The polka dot patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink and the strips of paper that say Merry Christmas are by The Paper Studio. I heat embossed the candle image with silver embossing powder and added color to the candles with Stampin Up colored pencils. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

3 Stripes of patterned paper Anniversary cards

I made these fun anniversary cards using my Valentine’s Day products. The patterned paper is by Fancy Pants. The scalloped border die cut is by Martha Stewart. On the first card, I cut the border in half and adhered them to the outsides. The polka dot patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink. 

For the second card, I left the border together and adhered it to the center. I cut the top of the strips of patterned paper on the top and bottom with decorative scissors that resembled postage stamps.

The sentiment on both cards is by Close to my Heart. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

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! 

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! 

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

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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 Autumn like colored cards

Background patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned paper used in the Sizzix die cuts is by Papertrey Ink. The brown paper is a scrap and the gold letters, no clue. 

The second card has green opulent paper by Sizzix on the bottom half. The center cardstock is a dry embossed border by Cuttlebug. I don’t use those nearly enough but I should because when I do, I really like the way they look. The tag is an upcycled item from my stash. The sentiment is by Just Rite. I wish I could remember how I got the ombré color on the sentiment. It is looks great.

The above card started out as a birthday card but the sentiment was hard to read. (See below)

You can see why I changed it.

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Floral Friday Yellow Spelllbinders card

The patterned papers are by Papertrey Ink. The Copic markers that I used were:Y11, Y28, YG91,G24, YG99. The middle flower is raised up on 3M dimensional adhesive. I used a white gel pen and. some Stickles. Sometimes it was added to cover something lol up.The pattern paper is by Papertrey Ink.

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Manly Monday Hold Your Horses card

The horse stamp is and I've stamped it with brown Stampin Up ink. I die cut the image and it's next larger die by Spellbinders. I inked the white cardstock with distressa ink, blue on top and brown on the bottom with Ranger's distress ink. The patterned paper of the die cut behind the image is by Papertrey Ink. This card came together when I found the horse image (Inkadinkado) in a drawer. It’s a drawer of images that could be referred to as any of the following: misfits, projects to be finished, or maybe I was stamping one so why not stamp a bunch of them. Whatever the reason that I had extra stamped horses that is my card for today. For other examples using horse stamps check out  my links.  

Blue horses

Another horse card

Hearts Patterned paper Love you card

The patterned paper is by Recollections, and the hearts were cut out using dies by eBay, Papertrey Ink, Cricut, and a punch by Creative Memories. The I Love You stamp is by Forever in Time.

My card today was made as an example for my niece. Last month she did a collection for the American Heart Association. I sent her some card stuff so she could create some awesome thank-you cards for those people that donated. 

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Floral Friday Poinsettias Heat embossed in circles Christmas Cards

This card is in the Simon Says Stamp weekly challenge. This week it is Add some sparkle. The red paper is glitter cardstock

I clear heat embossed the poinsettia stamp, inked with distress ink to give them color, and circle punch by Creative Memories. The white die is by Papertrey Ink and inside it is a Spellbinders die. The sentiment is unknown. The glitter cardstock is by Recollections and the dotted line is a rub-on by Die Cuts with a View.

I made the flowers the same way as the first card. You can now see what they look like before adding red ink. The large center die cut is unknown but the square behind the center is by Spellbinders. All of the edges are inked with Distress ink. 

I have more of these to play with so you'll see them again. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Cards with Handmade flowers in Burgundy

I sat and put some flowers together with other things, doily, tags, and other flowers. I made them into cards and haven’t posted about them. These patterned paper flowers are randomly in pairs and were bugging me. Thanks for looking. 

June Calendar Layout Kids in the Foam Pit

This is such a bright layout but the papers match the foam in the pit. The title is from my Cricut. The vellum sentiment is unknown. There are many scraps of paper. The blue/purple cardstock is from Craft Smith (Michael's). [Is it blue or is it purple? that is the question. lol]
The orange papers have a little more to them. The polka dot paper is by Papertrey Ink. The orange paper on the bottom row from left to right  I have a feeling that the first paper has something on it. The second orange paper is dry embossed with little squares, like the foam in the pit. The last orange paper is stamped with a border stamp by Simon Says Stamp. It's a tone-on-tone looking thing. Thank you for stopping by.

Manly Monday Sewn Banner birthday cards

The patterned paper of the blue card with screw heads is by Adorn It. The pennants are Hero Arts stamps and I stamped the Close to my Heart alphabet letters on top of each. I use my sewing machine to connect the penanent across the top with blue thread. The birthday die cut is by Papertrey Ink. Problem with doing these banners on a card is that they end up being five and 3/ fours x 4 instead of my usual 5 1/2 x 4. So I have to make a new card base for them which is something I’m not used to doing. I buy my card bases from Michael’s they come with the envelopes and although they are thin and not the larger pound cardstock they are convenient. Also, I don’t like to make my own card bases. The cutting, scoring is not the greatest on my wrist, then you have color choices, and then you have to buy envelopes. Nah. I’ll buy the pre-made. As a matter of fact, I was running out of white cards so I purchased enough packs to get free shipping from Hobby Lobby. Well Hobby Lobby cards are size 4.25 x 5.5 and Michael’s card size is 4 x 5.5. I should write a post it note on my computer to be reminded.

I’m entering the Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday challenge.

Manly Monday Nephew's birthday card

This nephew went to U of M and the colors are similar. The draw embossing folders are Cuttlebug and Gina Marie. The die-cuts are by Spellbinders, Clearly Besotted, and Papertrey Ink. I forgot to add the dot of the "i". Thanks for looking. I'm entering the Craft Rocket Challenges-Dies

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

Thank you for looking.

Floral Friday Clearly Besotted in Peach Just for you Cards

The layered flowers use the stamp set Nouveau Flowers (circa 2015) from Clearly Besotted and I cut them out with their matching dies. I used all different inks to give the flowers some dimension and interest. 
The little squiggly stamps on each card are unknown. Unfortunately, with all of my recent "Hauls", I prefer the term "Deals", I think that saying a product is unknown is going to become common in my posts. 

The sentiment stamp is unknown. (It was one of my deals) The rectangle die-cuts by Gina Marie . Gina Marie is from where I live in Sparta, MI. My husband taught her and her sister in high school. She had a store 5 miles from my house that was getting more sales online and decided to close up her shop in 2017. She has a great selection of dies at cheaper prices than most others in the cardmaking world. The only patterned paper that I know for sure is the background paper by Papertrey Ink.  I never thought I would use it (too busy). In fact, I often use the back of it for the white paper.

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Smaller Pink flower card

The flower stamp is by Stampin Up 

I colored it in with Coppic markers and fussy cut it out to leave a white edge around the flower.

The corners are rub-ons by Colorbok 

The diecuts are by Spellbinders with the polkadot patterned paper by Papertrey Ink

This is a smaller based card by Coredinations

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Purple Vases with some Pink Flowers Card

The vase stamps are from Close to my Heart and the flower stamp is from Stampin Up. The flower is sprayed with Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. The gems are from Michael’s. The ribbon is by Offray. The patterned paper is by Papertrey Ink.

Not my favorite card but someone will appreciate the thought of being sent a card.

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Blue and yellow Borders birthday card

For today’s card, I layered multiple borders by Sunborn onto the card base.

The sentiment die- cuts are by Clearly Besotted (happy) and Papertrey Ink (birthday) 

It is now evident to me that i is not dotted. Poop!

Thanks for looking