1972 Blue and Purple Pocket Page and Scrapbook Layout

Chugging along with 1972

I used number stamps by Stampin Up on a die that I bought on eBay

The patterned paper is by Pressed Petals (stripes) and by Deja Views (script font background)

Then for the pocket page:

Top left square: 

Patterned paper by Making Memories and cardstock unknown

The border punch by EK Success

Cake sticker by Jolee's

Date stamps by Close to my Heart

Journal box by Colorbok

Marker by Creative Memories.

Center square: patterned paper by Papertrey Ink

Center row left square: 

Border punch by Martha Stewart

 I painted the cardstock with powdered chalk mixed together with white paint both by Stamp N Plus (no longer in business) 

I inked the heart stamp with multiple colors of Versa Color ink and heat embossed it before cutting it out and cutting out a purple cardstock that you see behind it.

The letter stickers and reception sticker are unknown.

Lower left corner:

Crown die-cut by K and Co.

The letter stamps are from Michael's dollar bin

This is the same photo as above but scrapped in different colors for a different boy's book

I hate the next two pocket pages. There are way too many different papers. The busyness takes away from the photos. I might redo it but for now, it stays.

I used an unknown background stamp and heat embossed the suitcases with gold and added distress ink 

I used number stamps from Stampin Up. The other two fonts are dollar bin at Michael's font stamps

The die-cuts:

Green label die is Cricut

The peace sign is a punch by Marvy

 The gords are from K and Co.

 The circle in the center of the second page is something I received in a goodie bag at a crop 10 years ago. I dry embossed it and added distress ink. The brown sticker border sticker is by Creative Memories

The patterned papers are by Making Memories, October Afternoon, Die Cuts with a View, and Me and My Big Ideas

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Recovery Time Card

My Manly Monday card is for a guy recovering from surgery or maybe an accident. The patterned paper is by Making Memories and all of the stamps and ink are by Stampin Up. The blue cardstock is by Pressed Petals and the brown by Coredinations. The scallop border punch is by EK Success.

I will say it took me a couple (or more) tries to get the hands of the clock in the correct spot. It's a rubber stamp that I feel like it's a guessing game or just wishful thinking to get the dot in the center. I think having a Stamp-a-m-gig or whatever they are called would make the lining up easier but I do not have one of those.

Kind of simple. I hope you like it.

Have a great week.

Calendar Layout Beers to You

Happy St. Patrick's Day. I don't have a card for the occasion because really what would I do with it?I chose this layout because it has green in it and drinking beers is commonly associated with the holiday.

The "Beers to you" can is a Cricut cut found on the cartridge Father's Day Card. I cut the image out with white cardstock by Recollections however it didn't quite fit my layout because if you look closely there is a comma after the word "you". That is because it cuts out as "Beers to you, Dad". I tried to cut out the word "Dad" in the Cricut Craft Room but couldn't get it to work out the way I wanted. So I cut the can out and discovered it was super easy to cut the word "Dad" off of the can. I don't think you can tell besides someone may think why would the comma be there. It's funny because I can't remember if the word "Dad" was attached under the "to you" or to the arch at the bottom. Would you have caught it if I didn't point it out? 

Anyway, I matted the can onto some packing I found in my stash which is a beautiful gold. The border punch is by EK Success with Stampin Up cardstock and the background papers, blue cardstock and patterned paper, are by Pressed Petals.

Thanks for looking.

Wednesday Fairy card

Running a little behind today with my post. I have a very full plate at the moment and am trying to find balance. It will come but it would help to prioritize my events and decide what needs to get done first. It's funny how I will have nothing going on for like a month and then the next month I'm going every which way. So I made this card for a DT commitment but the theme and sponsor has changed so I'm posting it today. I have quite a few photos to show you. The first one is the card opens up and down instead of side to side and also the Hero Arts background stamp that I heat embossed onto the pink cardstock.

This second one shows the image by Beary Dust Designs, which I colored in with distressing inks sprayed with Perfect Pearls and water. The skin is not ideal but I figured it's a fairy and can be an off skin tone.

This one shows that using the Perfect Pearls with the water really makes the fairy sparkle.

For this photo I wanted to show you how I took the light pink lace and weaved purple floss by Karen Foster into it on the top and bottom edges. I just thought it made the lace stand out against the pink paper. The little flowers are brads that anchor the lace to the pink cardstock and I placed purple pearls by Recollections in the centers.

This last picture shows the inside of the card. I'm not usually one to do anything fancy on the inside but the kraft colored tag on the same color cardstock/card base just didn't work for me. The die I used is by Spellbinders and the scallop off white punch is by EK Success. 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my fairy card.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Anything Goes challenge(TU#51)-Diecuts or punches

Ribbon Carousel(TU#24)-Sparkle and bling

Tuesday Throwdown(TU#70)-Think Pink

Use it Tuesday(TU#17)-Use metal (brads and I have had them for years)

Crafty cardmakers (MO#53)-Anything Goes

The Kraft Journal(MO)-To Die cut for

Simon Says Stamp and Show(MO)-Things with wings

Woodware(MO#47)-Anything goes

Sentimental Sundays (SU#75)-Anything Goes

Stampin Sisters in Christ(SU#110)-Anything Goes

Marks Finest papers (SA#76)-No Designer papers

I Did it Creations Challenge

Welcome to another week of I Did it Creations challenge. This week our challenge is ANYTHING GOES and we are sponsored by Robyn's Fetish. I picked a basket of apples to color in with my Copic markers. I then cut the image out and adhered it to Spellbinders die cuts. I used paper by Creative Imaginations, Pressed Petals, We R Memory keepers, Recollections and the apple is unknown. The sentiment rub on is by Kaisercrafts.Thanks for stopping by and checking out my card.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

                                                        CES challenge(SA)-Seeing Red

Easy Craft Project(FR#48)-Thank you card

Simply Create(FR#53)-Older than 6 months (rub ons, polka dot patterned paper, ribbon)

Paper Crafting Journey(TH#20)-die cuts/punches

Crafts and Me(W#55)-Use a digi

Fab N Funky(W#93)-Die cuts/punches

Little Red Wagon(W#101)-Thanks

Anything Goes(TU#55)-Die cuts/punches

Shopping our Stash(TU#20)-Thank you card

Beer thirty somewhere

I would just like to say, I don't drink and do not endorse these beer companies nor am I receiving royalties for displaying their bottle caps on my blog. However that being said I could be if someone wants me sponsor my paper craft habits. lol. When people come to our cottage and drink beer they throw their bottle caps in this pot (I guess that's what you would call it-like a pot you would put a plant in). We get a large variety of beer caps and so my husband figured out how to pound them down "flat" so the edges would flair out ever so beautifully. I've had them for a while and when I was asked to make some Fathers Day cards for a local scrapbook store I thought they would be a perfect accent to a male card. So here are three that I made.

Blue CS by PC and white by RE, Dad stamp by CTMH, ink by VM by TK, embossing powder by RI, ribbon by OF, Sentiment by Netty's, embossing folder by CB by PC, other bottle cap.

I'm entering this card into:

Creative Card Crew(TU 5-24)-Anything Goes

Truly Scrumptious(W#57)-Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments(W#29)-Male card

Charisma Cardz(TH#21)-boy oh boy

 PP by K & Co, stamps by LF, ink by VM by TK and blue by CTMH, die by SZ, blue CS by Sunborn, brads UK, circle cut by CC and bottle cap.

I'm entering this card into:

The Paper Shelter(W#15)-Anything Goes

Meljens Designs(W#60)-Dad card

Card base by RE, CS by Pressed Petals and Sunborn, Embossing folder by CB by PC, ink by CTMH, die by SB, brads by 3B, Sentiment by Shannon's Sentiment, PP by KC.

I'm entering this card into:

Digital Tuesday(TU#112)-Texture

Digi Stamps 4 Joy(W#19)-Boys Boys Boys

Pals Paper arts(TH#95)-Brads

Little Miss Muffet(T#10)-Metal Embellishment

Thanks for checking out my bottle cap card creations.

365 Cards challenge for Wed

I made a birthday card for the challenge at 365 Cards Wednesday card challenge. Shannon's Sentiments is sponsoring their challenges this week and although I didn't use Shannon's image I wanted to share it.

Supplies: patterned paper by Meissa Frances, cardstock by Pressed Petals, punch by Martha Stewart, stamps by Lawn Fawn and Hero Arts, Ink by Ranger Distressing ink and Colorbox ink by Clearsnap.

The inside sentiment is "Sweet like you" by stamps from Maya Road and Hero Arts.

Thanks for looking.

Color combo birthday cards

How about this one: red, teal and grey. Something different and outside of my box is always a good thing to try. Thanks for stopping by today. 

I Did It Creations Challenge

This week at I Did It Creations the challenge is use pink and purple in your creation . We were sponsored by Stitchy Stamps and I chose this ticket that has a wonderful birthday sentiment on it. I used my Spellbinders small and large die cuts to create the background using paper from Pressed Petals and our local Dollar General. The sentiment was colored in using Copic markers and matted on black cardstock. The embellishment that I made is from Spellbinders dies and a Creative Memories punch. I added a little floss by Coats and Clarks to the holes of the die and tied it in a bow.

 Thanks for stopping by. Please visit the other DT gals blogs for their project which you can get those blog addresses from HERE (on the right side bar) or HERE (the second team down). The I Did it Creations challenge blog  is only one part of a whole community of scrapping and cardmaking people, ideas and even shopping at discount prices. Check HERE for the links to this world that Robyn from Robyn's Fetish and Jeanette have created.

Manly Monday 40th Birthday

I worked on these invitations last week and they are now out in the mail and hopefully being received by people. It really didn't take me very long but I will say it reminded me of my factory working days. Glad those are done and over:) This was a lot more fun then inspecting the paint job on car parts but still one after another after another. blah. lol.

Here's my card/invitation with instructions to follow:

They are very similar but each one was done a bit different so I thought I would show you just two also because the color of grey was different depending on what I had available. My grey supply is no longer available. I have one 1/2 12x12 piece left. Time to go shopping and restock that. hehe. Anyway:

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder Diamond plate that he liked and I really did buy it for boy/man cards. Every piece of grey paper I could find in my stash got cut into 3 3/4 inch wide by 5 1/4 inch tall and then embossed and inked them with Pumice Stone Ranger Distressing ink or Inkadinkado black ink or a combination of the two. I then took all the scraps of white paper I could find and used the 40th stamps from a Inkadinkado set and then spelled out Birthday Party using my favorite letter stamps in the world, Harold's Alphabet by Lawn Fawn. Put them on a block and started stamping with my Inkadinkado black ink and then used my blending tool by Ranger to ink the edges with the Pumice Stone. After that I cut the white paper to the size of the grey cardstock (some were different sizes because of the amount of grey cardstock that I had. I tried to get more cards out of what I had, which in turn made some of them smaller) I taped the white cardstock to the embossed grey.

Here comes the tedious part-I used the Indie Art cartridge by Cricut and cut out wrenches an bolts in sizes 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 inch and then glued them onto each card. My fingers were all glue by the end of that part. After I did that I didn't feel like the white cardstock was sticking to the grey very well (I used double sided tape-which can be hit or miss on embossed paper) so I went around with my Crop-o-dile and added eyelets and brads to secure the sentiment. This was a great way to use up those "I have one of this color left" pieces. Then I made the inside information on my computer and ran each card through the computer and then used Tesa tape to adhere the grey cardstock piece to the card base, which was 4 1/4 by 5 1/2.

Supply manufacturers: most brads and eyelets were by Making Memories, Some grey cardstock by DCWV and Pressed Petals, white cardstock mostly by Recollections, patterned paper for wrenches and bolts by Far and Away. I think that's it.

 Best wishes for this happy Monday.

Family Cuddle LO

Here's a layout I made last night. It's part of our family reunion pictures from 2009. Supplies: Stickers by Sticker studio and Fiskars;CS by Pressed Petals; PP by Rocky Mountain; Tag by We are Memory Keepers; Stamps by Stampin Up and ink by Ranger.

TFL.

Spring Break in Cocoa Beach Scrapbook Layout

Scrapbook layout for Kaylin's book

Hi all. Sorry I haven't posted in the past few days. I was finishing up an SB for a graduating senior. Her open house was tonight so I have been working very hard on that. This is one of her LO's. Supplies: CS by Pioneer and Pressed Petals; PP by DCWV and Scenic Route. TFL and have a great weekend.