April Calendar Layout Brian and bowling.

Confession, I totally cut myself out of the picture. My face was spread out because of the way that I was standing and leaning forward on my bag. You can see me. My arm is in a blue shirt on the right side. 

Anyway, the bowling patterned paper is by Karen Foster. The other patterned paper is the Harley Davidson paper by EK Success. I liked the flames in the paper because they matched the blue bowling shirts. The title is a sticker by Stickibilities. The side border is made up of bowling ball stickers by Scrappin Sports and More, SMR Stickers, and someone else. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for looking and listening. 

My husband took the picture of my brother because he is drinking coffee out of an Old Kent Bank cup at a bowling alley around the corner from the house we grew up  My Mom worked for OKB for 30+ years. 

It hasn’t been called OKB in over 20 years. So for them to have the coffee cup with the bank’s logo on it was enough for my husband to take a picture of my brother with the cup he stole from the bowling alley for sentimental reasons. LOL. 

1980 Power tools and Brick Back porch Pocket Page Layouts

I think this 2-page spread is before yesterday's post. It's close enough.

The saw blade and 1980 were cut with my Cricut 

Label stamps and Utensils stamps on the bottom middle card are by Lawn Fawn

Black letter stickers by Tim Holtz

*Note-If you see those stickers anywhere in my room, please point them out to me. I can't find them. Ugh!

The shovel sticker is by Forever in Time

Music notes and fishing stickers from Stickabilities

Border stickers by Creative Memories

Embossing folder by Darice

Patterned paper by Stampin Up, Me and My Big Ideas, and My Mind's Eye

I inked the edges of the saw. He received a power tool as a gift for most occasions. Birthday, Father's Day, and Christmas.

Thanks for looking.

1980 Easter Scrapbook Pocket Pages

This top part is short and sweet, rather to the point.

Whereas the bottom layout description is lengthy. You've been warned.

I used stamps by Lawn Fawn Harold's ABCs for name labels as usual 

I also used these Lawn Fawn stamps:

Violet's ABCs for the first card #1 and #5

Riley's ABCs for the word Easter

The arrow stamp is by Heidi Swapp. 

I would stamp the first time when the ink was its wettest on the outside

Then I'd huff on the stamp and stamp it again moving in toward the center

I think this technique is called generation stamping. 

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

These planner stamp sets are the perfect size for my pocket pages.

The diamonds, squares, and Ampere sign are stickers by Creative Memories

The gold number stickers, 1980, are by Stickabilities (7/8" Hand Drawn)

The cross sticker is by Recollections

Next.

The Brick background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps.

I stamped the above on off-white cardstock and then onto a Lawn Fawn die cut

I lined the bricks up on the paper and the die cut

I was trying to give it a dimensional feel.

My list of Lawn Fawn stamps for this page include:

Of course Harold for the labeling people

The word Easter and the egg are from one of their planner stamp sets

The word birthday is from the Everything stamp set.

The 1980 number stamps are by Stampin Up

I used some square brads in a few cards.

I labeled some of the photos with labels from the computer. 

When there are more people, the stamped labels are too big to fit on the cards. 

Plus I don't have their names already stamped out in different colors on different colored cardstock like I do with the intermediate family. 

When I make one name label for a family member, I make a ton of them.

Honestly, the names are relatively short-Joe, Dan, Paul, Oma, and Opa. 

When I do a Mike label, I switch out the last two letters and do Mimi.

Steve and David are the longest names and sometimes I switch out letters for their names since they both have a v in their names.

Moving on, the green border stickers in the middle row and center bottom row are from Creative Memories

I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to stamp the word birthday on the sticker.

The arrow sticker is by Becky Higgins Project Life.

So here's my WTH rant.

The brick sticker in the corner is by Forever in Time 

I bought at Dollar Tree

This one little pile of bricks sticker is the only one that I could find in my stash.

I have a folder of just "Tools"

I have a Creative memories 3" thick binder of just "Boy Stickers" 

I have a binder with a folder of die-cuts for the male gender

I have a folder for Manly Monday, more masculine crap 

Plus I can't forget all of the other folders and binders that

I went through looking for some damn bricks!

And this one cheapy dollar store sticker is the only one I found.

Thank you for looking and listening to my silly rant.

I looked for and did not find a wheel barrel sticker

This causes me to get more creative in the coming pages.

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this but Opa was a bricklayer. 

Hence, the more than usual bricklaying projects in these photos.  

Guitar You Rock cards

Here’s another set of music type cards.

The sentiment stamp is by Fiskars

The die- cut are by Sizzix with star brads with four prongs

I made the paper with a The Crafter’s Workshop stencil and Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels 

The guitar sticker is by The Paper Studio

2nd card: The dry embossing is with a Fiskars embossing plate with blue distress ink lightly patted on top. 

The guitar stamp is by Stickibilities and the sentiment by Clearly Besotted.

I colored in the guitar with Stickles and covered with Glossy Accents.

I fussy cut out the guitar and adhered it to a Sizzix die-cut

The patterned paper is by Studio G

Thanks for looking 

For you Deep Red stamps Heart Card

I used stamps by deep Red stamps
Heart with roses
Heat embossed in red
Mesh Lacey borders
Stamped the mesh in a lighter red by Stampin Up and the lace border with Simon Says Stamp red ink which is dark red.

The sentiment is made up of letter stickers by Stickibilities and Glitz

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards using the same stamp. My dates are off but the link is there.
January 2014
January 2019
February 2019

Borders
Mesh border
More borders

Shannon's Sentiment Inspirational Tuesday

I thought a little mid week action on the blog may get you inspired to do this weeks challenge at Shannon's Sentiments, which is fussy cutting.

On the inside is a sticker that says Soon. I distressed this one up, which I must say is thought provoking when you don't have a tool to do it with. I need to be more careful when distressing with an Exacto knife. This card has all kinds of stuff to it. The flowers (circle on a stick) are from the Spring Time set. The flowers inside are hand stamped using Memento ink and fussy cut out with stamps from Lawn Fawn. I colored the flowers in with Copic markers and then hit them up with Glossy Accents to make them all epoxy looking. I am still very new to Copics so forgive the novice appearance to my coloring. The "leaves" are made using Karen Fosters floss and adhered on by Glossy Accents. The patterned paper by Provo Craft is very old and the grass stamp on that striped paper is by Lawn Fawn using a green Memento ink. Oops almost forgot, the sentiment is by Stickabilities So stop over to Shannon's Sentiments to post your latest creation using the technique fussy cutting.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day filled with joy. Remember to take time to pray thanks to God for the blessings He has given to you in your life. Some day before you know it that blessing could be gone forever. Everything happens for a reason all part of His plan for each and everyone of us. God is Good.