Floral Fridy Spanner Christmas card

I love CRAFT ROULETTE because it teaches me to go outside my comfort zone. This week the wheel stopped on a fun fold card called a Spanner card. It has three folds for the recipient to open. This is what the card looks like when you take it out of the envelope. Pretty.

P.S. CRAFT ROULETTE Airs on YouTube every Friday night at 7:10 EST. Here are the details in case you’re interested in checking it out. 

So the border on the bottom is made up of a horizontal strip of Sizzix opulent paper. Layered on top of it is a border from an old paper pack by Die Cuts with a View. The doily in the center is by Stampin Up. It’s hard to see but I adhered tiny red flowers behind the green flower that form a wreath on top of the doily. All flowers are by Prima.

Next, you open the card and you see an embossing folder by Darice and the wreath on top by Jolee’s. It was placed on the back of the white tag to cover it up. 

On the last page/ panel, I added red opulent paper on both sides. When I did that I accidentally bent the paper so I added a sticker by EK Success to cover it up. 

I put a vertical border strip by Die Cuts with a View on the left of the white cardstock and finished with a sentiment by Stampendous.

. I’d never heard of a spanner card so I went to Split Coast Stampers for a tutorial. Tada!

(So I’m noticing that these links give you a “redirect notice”. Tell me if you get that too.)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Manly Monday graduation cards

Details/Products: The stars tape is by Scotch, the black cardstock from Scrapbook Made Simple, and the cap and diploma are puffy stickers by Paper House Productions. The sentiment is cut out with my Cricut and adhered to vellum. I adhered the vellum to a blue cardstock, which made the vellum look blue. I popped up the sentiment with white foam squares. The two corners were rounded with a CM corner rounder.

Details on my second card: Dry embossing folder by Darice. I inked it with distress ink. I adhered the sentiment to colored vellum that didn't match the school colors. So I colored the back of the vellum with a blue Copic marker before running it through my sticker maker by Xyron. The graduation cap is a sticker by Jolee's Boutique by EK Success. Thanks for looking.

January Calendar Layout Aqua 2 couples young and old

The patterned paper is by Stampin Up. The Snowflakes by Jolee's. The shaped mat by Colorbok. Thanks for looking. 

January Cottage calendar Gabe is helping.

So a large tree stood tall over our cottage and deck. A tornado, one of many that touched down that day, took our tree down. That tree was 2 feet away from hitting the cottage. Craziness! (This is from the 2020 cottage calendar.) 
These are old supplies. The top patterned paper is by The Paper Studio (Della Fantasia) and I can't find the other one. The border is super old and doesn't have any manufacturer. The three stickers are from Jolee's Boutique. The word "helping" is a font stamp set by Stampin' Up. Thanks for looking.

October Calendar Layout Brrrr Mom it's Cold Outside

Today is my Mom's birthday. She would have been 76. After she died in July 2019 from complications of dementia and failure to thrive we held a memorial at the funeral home. Then we did a burial of her ashes on her birthday, October 12, 2019. It was so cold that day that I couldn't use normal colors for an October calendar page.  The patterned paper on the left is by Recollections and by Basic Gray in the Cricut title. Snowflakes by Maya Road and Jolee's. The border punch is by Fiskars. Thanks for looking.

April Calendar Layout Brothers at the Range

April-Brothers
PP by October Afternoon, Colorbok, Coordinations, EK Success.
Title by My Mind's Eye. Guns stickers by Not so Cute stickers in Grandville MI (Circa 2000). Bullseye by Jolee's stickers. Distress ink on all of the edges. This is from the cottage calendar 2019. Thanks for looking.

Peach Easter cross card

I've been making these Easter Cards to donate to the church and they send them to shut-ins. Ironic since I'm one myself. The pattern paper is by Provo craft. The die cut is by Gina Marie. The circle punch is by Creative Memories. The cross is a sticker by Jolee’s. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and the kraft cardstock is by Oriental Trading Co. Thanks for looking 

Calendar February Layout Tying the knot again

I cut the title using my Cricut. The little die cut underneath it and the flowers are by Jolee’s. The stamps are by Stampin Up. The patterned paper is by Creative Memories and the pink with red velvet is unknown. The heart is chipboard by Making Memories. Thanks for looking.j

"Winter is Here" January Snow cards

Thanks for looking.

Colorful options Challenge Winter Blues

Christmas Tree made of Stars Card

The stamp is by DeNami Designs, circa 1997. It's gold heat embossed. I added the gold Creative Memories paper behind the tree. I have been hoarding that paper because they no longer make it. The presents are from Jolee's. Thanks for looking.

November Calendar Layout in pink and purple

These are our California nieces and nephew. I'm not sure where they were in CA that it snowed but it did. The snowflake is a sticker by Jolee's. The mittens are by The Paper House. The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View.

Thanks for looking

So...Two things about today's post:
First thing, I didn't use traditional fall colors on this November calendar layout.

The second thing, It's a November calendar layout and today is Dec 1st. I ran out of Wednesdays in November. I don't want to wait until next year November. I am working on getting this 2021 calendar all posted. If I skip this one month, I will probably forget it, or more than likely, I will post it twice.
Anyway...A more Christmas-type calendar layout will be posted next week.

Gabe’s Outdoor Adventures with Grandpa Layout

Here’s another layout in my nephew's scrapbook. The Left side: Patterned paper by Me and My Big Ideas and The Paper Loft. Tags are by Chatter Box. Hat and shovel stickers by Creative Memories and the word stickers are by 

Patterned paper by Stampin Up and Tim Holtz. Number stamps by Close to my Heart. Ink by Hero Arts. Letter stickers by Making Memories. The pine tree embellishments are by Jolee's Boutique-EK Success. The ephemera title thing is sooo old. I love to use old stash and like it when it doesn't look like an old stash. 

Tag Question-

Should I set the hole with an eyelet?

Should I put some jute or twine in the holes?

Tags are a grey area for me. I never know what to do to the top.

The stitching on them is a really nice touch. Shout out to Chatterbox if they are still around.

Thanks for looking

November Calendar Layout Let's Eat

November home Calendar 2019. Patterned paper by K and Co. Cricut title with Jolee's stickers and a pie die-cut. Thanks for looking

October Calendar Layout Halloween at GA

 Witchy Woman. 
K and I Memories and DCWV witch paper. 
Cricut- Black frame with a white circle. 
Pumpkin embellishment is by Jolee's

October 2019 Brother's calendar.

My Mom's birthday was yesterday. 

Today is her great-grandson's birthday.

Thanks for looking

Christmas card book through the years with the Sarjeants

This first card really shows my old style of scrapbooking. I used many components of the actual Christmas card they sent with the photo. Things like the circle at the bottom. I cut it out with the Creative Memories cutting system. I circle punched the sentiment (Peace) and then larger green circles for them to stand out. Then, I cut out what was written on the inside and taped it onto the left side border stickers. I even cut out their signature and placed it below the title. I stamped their name on white cardstock and cut them out. That and the year is on the right side. It's a super old fashion way to scrapbook but that's what I did at that time. 

The second one:

The big flower in the center is by Jolee's. The patterned paper is beautiful but unknown.

The banner and the stars in the corner were cut out with my Cricut

The third card:

The blue paper did all of the work, all I did was add their names on blue cardstock with Lawn Fawn ABC's stamps.

This 4th year is a little bit fancier.

There's a rhinestone circle around the year of the card.

The tag includes their last name because it isn't listed on the Christmas card.

The next thing we received is a graduation announcement

I made the sandy paper bottom left with torn paper and distress ink.

I used the sun rays stencil by Tim Holtz and Squeezed Lemon Distress ink.

On the right side, I used pre-made patterned paper.

I added the middle embellishments above and below her photo in the center.

Thanks for looking

August Calendar layout First Communion

August Calendar layout that I made for my brother's calendar
Cricut background, the frame around the photo, and the cup.
Vellum sentiment by Die Cuts with a View.
Cross sticker by Jolee's.

Thank you for looking

July Calendar Layout-Bark River Spectators

 The stickers are from Bo Bunny, Sticko, and Jolee's. The firework die-cuts by Dies...to Die For. The cardstock is from my stash. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Wall Senior pictures of Spencer

I have a layout for Manly Monday as well as a chatty post.

This is my nephew Spencer. I replaced his 11th-grade picture on the wall with his senior pictures on this layout. Honestly, I don't like the layout of the wall. It's too busy. But I don't have time to replace it, so it is what it is.

Patterned paper-MAMBI, Close to my Heart, and Tim Holtz.

The pennant stickers were by Jolee's. They were the last ones in the package. It felt good to finish a package of stickers.

The handmade pennants use scraps of paper by Creative Memories.

The "class of" letters are Lawn Fawn.

The Spencer stamp is by...I can't find it. Do you remember when they had things with your name on them? As kids, my siblings and I always looked for our names anywhere they had things with names on them. My siblings' names were easy to find, Brian, John, and Jenny. Although, Jenny could only be found as Jennifer and my name was a challenge to find Cindy, not Cynthia.

Well, I found the names of family members on stamps. I bought all of them that I could find. 

You don't see names on things anymore. With so many unique names and the way people spell "normal" names not the normal way, I can only imagine that name stamps are a thing of the past.

My niece's name would be in the group of normal names spelled wrong.

Evelyn, right? No.

Evalynn.

Anyway,

Sorry I have been MIA.

My dog had to be put to sleep. That was big and really hard. But I can say, it is getting easier. Yet there are certain things that cue a tear or two.

Next thing,

My nephew's open house was last weekend and I FINISHED the books on time!!!

I was really proud of myself and proud of the books. They turned out fabulous. Like, I'm really excited to have completed the books on time, ON TIME!

I will have a lot to post and I hope you like them.

But for today, thanks for looking.

June Calendar Layout Charter Fishing

I'm dedicating Wednesday as a Calendar layout day. I will post June layouts in June and so on but I can't say I will be in order with the years. I'd like to be but unfortunately, I know I won't be able to organize that.

PP-Old MME and DCWV. Font-Quickutz. License plate-Karen Foster. Hooks-Jolee's from 2013. The dates on some of my old products astonish me.

This LO is from the 2021 home calendar.

Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday a few Hockey Layouts

I'm working on my nephew's graduation book and this is one of the many hockey layouts that I will be posting.

The helmet stamp is from Stampin Up.

The date and jersey die-cuts were cut out using my Cricut. 

The circle patterned paper is by Colorbok.

I used the Creative Memories cutting system to cut out the circle.

The hockey patterned paper is Flair Designs.

The player sticker is by Jolee's.

The Red Wings sticker is an officially licensed sticker.

The hockey stick and puck is by Jolee's

The funny part about the picture below is the handmade shin guards.

This next hockey layout uses pictures from 2017.

Patterned paper by Flair Designs.

Puck and net stickers are by Creative Imaginations.

Cardstock strips are the bottom are from my stash

The sticker border in the center is unknown.

There are star brads and eyelets and star die cuts

I included number stickers

Thanks for looking