Ribbon runs thru my heart card

This was the negative of a Cricut heart cut out. I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist before layering ribbon to the back side. The sentiment is a sticker by SRM Stickers. Thanks for stopping by.

Eat Lots of Cake/ no ice cream

I made this card for Craft Roulette #215

Project: Birthday card

Colors: Petting zoo

Element: Scoops

Random: Tabs

This card is such a joy to make that I might make more. For some reason, I have a lot of those ice cream stickers. No one will know if I make duplicates of the same card.

Here’s the card with the tag out of the pocket. And then the next picture is the other side of the tag.

Here’s the other side of the tag.

The word stickers are by SRM stickers, the ice cream stickers are by Mrs. Grossman, the heart die cut is from Lawn Fawn, and the yellow circle border on the tag is by Doodlebug. I used a white square punch from Creative Memories to create the grid. The center squares are on dimensional adhesive.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!  

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. 

1981~1983 Scrapbook pocket pages family album

There is a story that goes with these first two layouts. The short version is, there were family members that didn't want to look at these scrapbooks.
And I can’t make them. SO...
I had already finished the layout on the left. The 1982 page on the right was made after that occurrence.
Then I was told that I can't have my feelings hurt if people don't want to look at the Groh Boy books. I was only a jerk for the next couple of layouts. A friend strongly encouraged me to go back and add labels to these pages. I will when I'm ready to. 

The patterned paper in this layout are by Recollections, Craft Smith, Best Creations, and Carta Bella. The sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts. The name labels are alpha stamps from Lawn Fawn. The number stickers were by Pink Paislee. The Christmas trees and the arrow are cut out using my Cricut. The green rounded square is by Spellbinders which has been inked with green distress ink. The letter stickers are by Little Yellow Bicycle and word stickers were by SRM Stickers.

Thanks for looking.

May Calendar layout Celebrate Happy Memorial Day

A calendar layout for Labor Day. The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View? Thanks for looking

Easter Bunny cards

Bunnies are in my yard and now on my cards.

For the first three cards, I use a bunny stamp by Stamp N Plus Scrapping.

I colored it in with Copic markers 

The sentiment stickers are by SRM Stickers

The die-cuts:

Square by Sizzix-I inked the inside with distress ink and the Oval by Cricut 

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio (I love the pretty egg colors)

My second bunny card, it was cut out with a Sizzix square die and inked on the inside with distress ink.

The background paper is by Making Memories 

The sentiment is a Imaginisice stamp stamped onto a Spellbinders die cut 

That cardstock is by Bazzill 

The ribbon is by Offray 

The bunny sticker is by Remenisice and the Sunday sticker is by Doodlebug. 

For my third card, The journal sticker with the carrot is by Reminisce

The die-cut behind the bunny is from Spellbinders 

The patterned paper is by Making Memories (orange)

Doodlebug (white with words)

For my fourth card I used an unknown digital stamp with the sentiment. 

It is layered onto a Spellbinders die cut.

The egg eyelets are by Eyelet Outlet 

The grass die-cut is by K and Co 

The ribbon is by Offray.

The patterned paper is by Doodlebug and The Paper Studio 

Thanks for looking

Same flower Stamp is colored 3 ways

I have 3 cards using the same flower stamp in different colors. I didn't have all three cards made at the same time to post with the one in April.

I used this flower stamp by Inkadinkado and colored it in with Copic markers

The sentiment is by SRM Stickers

The border punch by Fiskars

The patterned paper is by Memory Box

The white rectangle die cut is from eBay and it has a light purple distress ink on it.

Here is the first one that I posted

This is the third one using this stamp. 

Die-cuts by Spellbinders.

Embossing folder by Sizzix

A few brads from my stash

Quite a different look with the same stamp when looked at side by side.

This last one is a crappy photo but still wanted to see the two cards side by side.

I’m entering this flower card into:

Allsorts challenge -flowers

Creative fingers-AG

Thanks for looking

Just a Note Dry Embossed Rainbow Sheets of Music Cards

These cards are made with leftover backgrounds from a group of ATC's I made back in Feb 2017. I knew I would use them someday. lol

The sentiment sticker is by SRM Stickers and I put it across the top and bottom
The dry embossing is a Fiskars plate. They're really old. 
I used them with my Cuttlebug but have feared to try them with my Gemini. 

The Gemini company didn't have a warranty card in the box.

So, I'm not as willing to try new combinations on this machine quite yet. 

^^This is the old me and I mean old like a week ago.

Because as of today, May 7th, I'm getting ambitious and brave enough to give it a try. 

But which plates would I use run them in my Gemini is the question. Hmm

Continuing on with the cards, I inked the embossed area with distress ink. I'm not one to do rainbow colors but these turned out so cute that I may try it again.
Then I trimmed down the Strathmore watercolor paper and sprayed it with water
I kept dabbing off the extra ink with a paper towel so the embossed pattern would show through.

I added pink and black behind it to make it fit the card base. 

The next card uses the same dry embossed plate but on plain white cardstock.

I went over the embossed areas very gently with an ink blending tool and the same colors of ink as above.

The sentiment is a stamp from Stampibilities on Bazzill purple cardstock. 

It doesn't photograph well but looks nice face to face. 

I used pink eyelets inside the Spellbinders label die.

Thanks for looking

Funky Christmas Tree Stamp

My favorite craft to do is to stamp. The best day is one that ends with inky fingers. It's fun for me to see how I can get the same tree stamp to turn out so differently on each card.

Both cards, the tree stamp is by Hampton Arts and is stamped with Tsukeno black ink and colored in with Copic markers. The patterned paper by Carte Bella and inked with distress ink. Green circle die-cut from Cricut. The sentiment is by Hero Arts.

The patterned paper is unknown but it is very old.  Border punch by EK Sucess.  Sentiment stickers by SRM Stickers.

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Iris Folding Sailboat

I made an iris folding sailboat card. The patterned paper on the inside is by Making Memories. The blue around the boat is distress ink. Sentiment sticker is by SMR Stickers.

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Deep Red Stamps Military Miss You Card

Our nephew is in the Air Force and will be deployed this summer. I hope to send this card to him while he's overseas. It's a scary thing to have a loved one halfway across the world and to always be worried about his safety.

My Deep Red Stamp called Band of soldiers stamp seemed a perfect fit for this card. The blue cardstock background is dry embossed with a star folder by Darice. The sentiment is an SRM sticker on a blue punched cardstock. The circle border is made up of circles that may have been inked with distress ink and sprayed with a Perfect Pearls water mixture. The papers are by Sunborn and Recollections.

Thanks for looking

Chicken Dinner Thank you Card

Start with a 5 ½ x 4 ¼ kraft card base (Recollections) and adhere a piece of patterned paper (October Afternoon). On Strathmore watercolor paper stamp the chicken (Stampin Up) with black Hero Arts ink and color in with distress inks and water. Trim down and ink edges with distress ink. Die cut a scallop rectangle out of recycled textile material and ink edges. On small pieces of white cardstock ink with red, orange, yellow and brown distress ink. Adhere those pieces behind the border die cut openings then adhere the border to a scrap of brown paper before adhering to the card base. Adhere the chicken to the rectangle die cut and to the card. Adhere Jillibean Soup sentiment die cut.

Thanks for looking.

Deep Red Stamps Thanks a Bunch Card

Start by punching the corners of a piece of turquoise cardstock (Recollections) size 5 ½ x 4. Cut a smaller piece of off-white cardstock (Forever in Time) and insert the edges into the turquoise punched corners. Ink the butterflies from the Dragonflies and More stamp by Deep Red Stamps (5x704004) with Peacock Feathers distress ink by Ranger. Stamp the border onto off white cardstock. Border punch (Fiskars) the stamped border and a piece of patterned paper (Studio G). Adhere the two together and then to the card panel. Adhere a piece of ribbon to the bottom of the stamped border. Add an SRM Stickers as shown and set a grey brad in the center before adhering to a 5 ½ x 4 off white card base (Recollections). 

Thanks for looking.

Holiday Cheer Wreath

Sentiment sticker is by SRM Stickers. I made the wreath by stamping the same holly stamp in a circle. I inked the stamp by directly coloring on the stamp’s rubber with distress markers. Green paper by the Little Yellow Bicycle.

 

Thanks for looking.

Glad Tidings Christmas Horn Card

SMH-Too busy of a card after looking at it. It probably took me forever to make as well.
Horn stamp by Deep Red stamps
Die cuts by K and Co and Spellbinder
Sentiment sticker by SRM 

Thank you for stopping by.

Deep Red Stamps and Xyron Blog Hop Day 4 + Giveaway

Welcome back to day 4 of the Deep Red Stamps and Xyron blog hop.

I made a layout for my nephew's scrapbook using:

Liberty Bell rubber stamp by Deep Red Stamps 

Xyron Create-a-Sticker 250 for the fireworks, the tabs along the inside of the bottom two photos and on the liberty bell.

I started with a white piece of cardstock, glimmer mist (Tattered Angels), Smooch spray ink (Clearsnap) and a star stencil (The Crafter's Workshop). I masked off a portion of the cardstock and sprayed the blue ink over the stencil and then the red. You can see at the top where I did the masking and I didn't like the separation line of the two colors. It was too bold and I wanted a more airy feel to it. From there I sprayed some more ink and inked the edges with distress ink and an ink blending tool (Ranger). 

I die cut the fireworks from my Cricut (Ultimate Series cartridge) using blue cardstock (Stampin Up) and red sparkle paper (Recollections). The tabs are also die cuts from my Cricut (Art Philosophy cartridge) and I adhered a date sticker (SRM Stickers) and a 4th of July sticker (The Paper Studio). The photo mats are patriotic theme cards for pocket scrapbooking (Project Life). All the corners of the pictures and the white background paper were rounded (Creative Memories) to match the PL mats. I did not round the corners of the blue background paper (Prima) because I didn't want the other layout to show through. Hope that made sense.

The Liberty Bell is stamped onto off white cardstock (Recollections) with a grey shadow ink (Hero Arts). I inked the edges of the stamped image to match the edges of the background paper. The red mat behind the stamp is red (Stampin Up) with a very gold sparkle to it. I sprayed the red with a mix of gold Perfect Pearls (Ranger) and water. It's so pretty I hated to cover it up.

Giveaway Time!

Be sure to comment on this post and the previous posts from this week:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

For your chance to win a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

There are other Xyron designers participating today and each of them have a $25 coupon to Deep Red Stamps.

Shellye McDaniel - http://www.shellyemcdaniel.com/

Amanda Vasquez - http://artsymomma.com/
Roni-Ink Stains

Good luck to everyone and thank you for stopping by.

Easter Cross Cards

I have a bunch of Easter cards for you today. They were so similar that it seemed silly to break them up. They all use the background paper by K and Co and purple cardstock by Sunborn. They all have a border stamps by TPC Studio, and the digital images were all colored in with powdered chalk mixed with paint by Stamp N Plus.

This first card I used the Creative Memories cutting system to create the oval and shadow on the cross. The egg shape with the sentiment is a Cricut cut from the cartridge Cricut Font and Basic Shapes under the Funky Shapes tag. The sentiment is by Stamp N Plus and it and the border stamp were stamped with Stampin Up Chocolate Chip ink. The cross digital image is by SGT Stamper but I could not find her on the web to give her credit. If you know something I don't about this company or person please let me know. 

This next card features a cross by Robyn's Fetish. I went a little different color scheme with this one and I like how it turned out. Sometimes different can be good. The peach paper was in my stash but I do know the green cardstock is by CM. The sentiment is a SRM Sticker on one of those little Spellbinders die cuts that you never know what to do with. One last thing on this one is the border is stamped with purple Staz On ink.

This card the digital image cross is not identified in my files. In fact I can't find it in my files anywhere. I have a horrible digital image system that I've been trying to clean up for years and have been unsuccessful. If you know who made this cross digital stamp please let me know so I can give credit to that person.

This semi circle was cut with CM cutting system and then stamped with the border stamp with SU Lavender Lace ink. The purple cardstock behind the image and that of the egg is by Recollections. The Easter sentiment stamp is by Imaginisce on Oriental Trading Co kraft paper.

Thank you so much for looking. and have a great rest of your day.

SB.com-Border stamps

Just Because Flourish Latte

Today my card features one of my favorite Deep Red Stamps the Flourish Latte. I stamped the image with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger's platinum embossing powder. Then I die cut it out with a Design Objectives die and matted it onto a Spellbinders die cut. The background paper is by The Paper Company, the border paper is by Making Memories with the border punch by EK Success and the sentiment sticker by SRM Stickers.

Manly Monday Classic Car

Edited April 2021 see the sidebar for an explanation  

My card was heavily inspired by a card made by Lisa Somerville. I really liked the patterned paper she chose on top and I remembered I had similar paper in my stash. HERE is the post.

Although my card s different I hope you can see where the inspiration came from. I have a few other car cards coming up that I used the same card as inspiration.

The car stamp is by Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous and it is stamped with Hero Arts Charcoal shadow ink. I matted the image with grey cardstock by Recollections. The patterned paper is by Sunborn {I bought it at Sam's Club years ago}, the sticker sentiment is by SRM Stickers and then the boarder sticker that hides the seam of the two papers is old by CM.

Welcome back to Manly Monday cards. I hope you are all having a great holiday weekend. Since you have the day off you should sit back and click to the blogs listed below. Each blog post features a masculine card for you to be inspired by. And while you're there leave them some love. 

Crafty Sunflower

Glitter in my Hair

Tone's Scrapper Room

Little K Smith's Crafts 

Tindaloo

Drassika

Anna's Handmade Cards

Thanks for looking.