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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February Calendar Winter Wonderland Chair Ski

The background paper is unknown. The frame around the picture is by Forever in Time. The title and snowflake are cut out with my Cricut, The stickers are unknown. Thanks for looking.

Calendar page July at GA (Not a USA layout)

July but not the USA-  the patterned paper companies are Making Memories, Stampin Up, and Creative Memories. Circle dies were cut with Cricut. The flowers that I fussy cut are by My Mind's Eye.

There are Stamp by The Paper Co (smile and Memories in the Making) 

The small gems are by Forever in time. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Tree die cut Cards

For both cards, the background stamps are from Stampin Up. On the first card, the Forever in Time green cardstock is ugly. It’s from my Mother’s stash and I’ve been trying to find ways to use it-Like use it as a layer or alter it with stamps and inks. I’m open to other ideas you may have any. Please.

 This is the negative of a Cricut cut that I stamped with a bright green ink to see how it was going to look. Well, terrible. I used the other side of the paper for that Cricut cut and thought I’d and use the negative for mountains. It sort of worked. I used brown distress ink to ink the smaller tree and ink the scallops to be more convincing and then said, done. I inked the sky with blue distress ink and again, done. I stamped a Lawn Fawn sentiment at the bottom, and done, done with card one.

The second card, same thing, background stamp, inked the middle tree but this time I used foam adhesive to give it dimension. The sentiment is from Michael’s dollar bin, the patterned paper is unknown, and the tree die cuts are from eBay.

 I’ve been told, Guys don’t care about the fine details. So…done.  Thanks for reading and looking.

Examples using the same die cuts

A good example of using the tree dies.

I’m entering the cards into a few challenges.

Fab and funky Birthday  

Creatlicious AG Make own background (I did it on first card)

Polka doodles anything goes

Manly Monday Yellow Sympathy Cards

I made these for a male colleague whose father passed away. I think they work well for a dude and that's why I'm posting them for Manly Monday. The patterned paper is by K and Co, the Danny O 12x12 double-sided designer paper. I've used it a few times in the Groh Boy Books.
The sympathy stamp on the first card is by Fiskars and it is stamped onto a Spellbinders die cut. The sentiment stamp for the card in the center is by  Hero Arts. The sentiment on the left is by Stampendous.

Side note...I hate my indoor setup for taking pictures. I can't get the lighting to capture the true color of my cards. I've searched and watched Youtube videos on how to take photos of crafts with the angle of the camera, the lighting, or lightboxes and never found the right video that worked for me and my area.

Then, I found one lady that I really liked. She was taking pictures of cards and not just crafts. I watched her first and second videos with excitement. But just when she was going to go to the next level, I'm thinking of a third video of what to do... she offers a class to get the rest of the information.
So I go and look up her class price thinking it might be worth it. The class was $65. I might have paid that price but and there's always a but, that $65 was for one section of the class on taking pictures of cards.
Say What?!
After that, I had to give myself a break from watching YouTube videos on taking pictures of my cards. The disappointment of getting nothing out of time spent and wasted was bumming me out.
Here's my example of how I can't get the true color.

This card below was taken in my craft room. It just isn't the same color as the real cards. It is a work in progress and a challenge to conquer.

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Floral Friday Sunflower Tag card and older SU Sunflower stamp card

The tag for this card is an upcycle. It was made by a family member named Dawn and it was given to Grandma LaFrate in 2016 (I think-SMH. I thought I took a picture of the back so I would be able to reference it. I can't find it.)

So all I did was ink the Provo Craft patterned paper with distress ink,
Heat embossed the sentiment stamp by Forever in Time, inked it, and punched it out. 
The circle underneath is a Recollections journal box. I used a Spellbinders die to cut it out and then inked it. The first time I inked it in Vintage Photo and I did;t like it, I flipped it over and inked it with Peeled Paint.
The sentiment is on Zots 3D dot thingy's that I fought with and won't use them again for a circle punch. I thought that since they were round that would work better than the square dimensional adhesive. Not so much. It looks warped. Oh well.

This next card was also made by Dawn. I took the top of this handmade card and cut off the dirty sides. Then I added the panel onto this store-bought card because it matched so beautifully.

 

The card below uses a very old Stampin Up stamp set and a Close to my Heart sentiment. 

I used perfect pearls on the sunflower. The patterned papers are by Studio G (orange check) and Studio Calico (woodgrain). The die-cut behind the sunflower is by Spellbinders.
Here is a link to the other place I used this same stamp.
Dec 2011 Calendar LO

Sunflower cards

Purple and Aqua flower For You card

The flower stamp is a Cricut draw and cut that I colored in with Copic markers. The sentiment is by Forever in Time, punched out with the Creative Memories circle punch. The die-cut by Tim Holtz is the border die on both sides. I scattered Stickles in the background.

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Dragonfly die cut For You Card

For my card today,

The sentiment stamp by Forever in Time was heat embossed white and inked heavily with blue distress ink.

The orange background is heavily inked with distress ink too.

The dragonfly die-cut is possibly by Gina Marie 

The card base was cut out with my Cricut.

The patterned paper is by Making Memories

I’m entering my card into the challenge at 

Creative Inspiration

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Thinking of you With some sewing in it Card

The flower Stamp is by Stamp N Plus.

The Sentiment stamp is by Forever in Time and it is on Die Cuts With a View patterned paper.

I sewed around the edges for something different.

The haystack patterned paper is by ProvoCraft.

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Mini Baby card for a gift

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted and the sticker by Forever in Time

The die- cuts are die-cut inlay on the word baby.

I used washi tape at the bottom

Card size is 4x3 

I had to make an envelope on my We R Memory Keepers to fit such a small card.

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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.  

Cards for Medical workers with Heartbeat Cricut die-cuts

I think is the last of the medical worker cards.

Simple cards today. They don't even have a sentiment

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders and hearts by Cricut

This patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket. This one is my least favorite because it's too busy

The white is dry embossed with a Quickqutz embossing folder

I dry embossed the squares around the cards with a stylus and my Fiskars trimmer.

I only used a background stamp by Mama Elephant on this lung card 

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Here are some other cards for medical workers.

Stethoscope

Other Heartbeat Cards

Manly Monday Star with Triangles Card

I used stamps by Simon Says stamps (triangles) and the star stamp is unknown but I had stamped it and cut out the star. I adhered it with foam tape to another stamp of the star.

The sentiment is by Forever in Time. I white heat embossed it onto kraft cardstock.

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders and a circle punch by Marvy

I used a thick ribbon on the first one and a thinner ribbon on the bottom card

The drops in the second card is a border stamp that I used to make my own patterned paper 

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Pink Embossed Square of Small Flower card

The sentiment was heat embossed in white with a stamp by Forever in Time 

The embossed flower is by Cuttlebug. 

The patterned paper is by Stampin Up.

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Using the embossing squares in 2010

Green Flower card

I used a flower stamp and the tag are by Recollections

Colored with Copics

The sentiment is by Forever in Time

The die-cuts are by Spellbinders

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft (really old)

Eyelet is in the tag

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Stethoscope Cards

More Medical cards

The die- cuts are by my Cricut and the hearts are unknown

This blue and grey card,

I used a stamp for the sentiment by Forever in Time

Embossed with white powder by Stampendous

Next card,

Washi Tape on the side by SU

Next card,

The patterned paper in the first card My Mind's Eye

Chevron embossing folder by Cuttlebug

Next card,

The patterned paper is by Bella Blvd 

Sentiment stamp by Hampton Arts

Washi tape at the bottom

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Pointy SU Flower stamp

I used stamps by Stamps of Life for the circle background, Lawn Fawn hearts inside circles and Stampin Up Flower 

I colored the flower in with Copic markers.

The sentiment is by Forever in Time (stamp with grey HA ink)

The die-cut is by Spellbinders

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Here are some other cards using the same stamp.
June 2019
July 201
August 2019
June 2010
April 2017

Fun center die cut, Pink and Kraft, Pink and purple, Blue and white with hearts, Yellow with checked background paper, Pink and blue, Yellow and red

Be Still my Heart Cards

I used stamps by Forever in Time on the first card's sentiment 

The die- cuts:
Hearts are bought from eBay

The sentiment is in a circle punch by Creative Memories. That was my last circle punch and it was used on this card.
My husband has taken the punch apart in the past to make it punch well. Well, this was the last time. He said I had to buy a new one.
The patterned paper is by in the background and the heart is by Deja Views
The ribbon is by Stampin Up-Yeah! I'm using ribbon.

This next one Same hearts as above. The outside heart was cut with some ugly paper and it turned out well. 

Background cardstock from Recollections was dry embossed with a Provo Craft folder.

The sentiment is by TPC Studios. I wonder if they are still in business/

Does anybody know?
The die cut by Spellbinders has eyelets at the end. Yeah! Using eyelets.

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Green Coffee Cup Card

I used sentiment stamps by Lawn Fawn

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders

The patterned paper is from my stash
The coffee cup sticker by Forever in Time
Corner punch at the bottom.
Not my favorite card but live and learn from each card.

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Pink and Brown with Hearts Smile card

The sentiment is a sticker by Forever in Time

The die- cuts are chipboard pieces from my stash

The cardstock is from my stash
This is a smaller card

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