Peach with Blue Butterfly Card

The butterfly stamp is by Stampendous. I heat embossed in white on white cardstock. I colored it in with Copic Markers. The background paper is by Provo Craft. The ribbon is by American Crafts. Thanks for looking.
Simon Says Stamp Wings challenge

Lawn Fawn Bunny on a Sled

I made this card for Craft Roulette #316. Parameters: Project- Hello card. Colors-strawberry fields. Element-Hop(s) hopping. Random-large letters. 

The background was created by distress ink. I made some hills with a stencil and distress oxide and Versa Magic chalk ink. The letter dies are by Sizzix (665335). I cut them out of Color-aid paper and stamped them with small snowflakes by Lawn Fawn with a Versa Magic ink. 

The bunny is by Lawn Fawn, houses border by Stampendous, and winter is a stamp from another Stampendous stamp set. I colored the images with Copic markers. The bunny is on a foam sled. 🛷 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Four legged friends challenge 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything goes challenge

Heat Embossed Pink Butterfly card

The butterfly stamp by Stampin Up is heat embossed with pink powder by Stampendous. The background is a stencil by Hero Arts. I’m entering this card into the 

Simon Says Stamp embossing challenges

Manly Monday Old Car in the Field

The green cardstock is by Recollections. I heat embossed a variety of twig stamps by Stampendous with platinum embossing powder by Ranger. Then I cut out a few of the leaves and tucked the car underneath.

I made this card for Simon Says Stamp Wheels challenge

Heart Background Special Friend card

The blue glitter paper is by The Paper Studio. I cut the hearts out with my Cricut. Then I backed the hearts with Color Aid paper. I popped it up with foam adhesive. Except the open heart. I stamped the sentiment with Staz-on black ink on Sizzix glitter cardstock. Neither of the glitter paper shed. To a special friend is a Stampendous stamp.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp-hearts

Simon says Stamp-Anything goes

All sorts make your own background

Manly Monday Desert Card

This was my Craft Roulette 296 card last week. I love how it turned out. The background was in the bin that I like to call, the
"I don’t know what to do with this background" . 

It almost got cut up into sentiment. But I’m glad it didn’t.

The background stamp is by Hero Arts and is heat embossed in silver. It was inked with two different colors of distress ink, which you can see how the top is one color is different from the bottom.

The image was made on a blank business card. The stamps are by Stampendous. I stamped the image a while back to see how it looks. 

The parameters for Craft Roulette were 

Project-A2

Colors-Fresh and Clean

Element-From the Desert

Random-Distressed edge

The one that is a head scratcher is thecolor parameter and how my card works with it. I followed Donna Shelcucky .

Thanks for stopping by.

Fall Ephemera cards

I made this trio of cards using ephemera from a crafty friend.

The Fall card: The strip of paper in the center was stamped with a Stampin Up background stamp. It’s the same color for a tone on tone look. The checkered paper is by Provo Craft and the paper on top of that is a wood patterned paper by The Paper Studio. The jute is by Tim Holtz and the brad is by Creative Imagination. The sentiment was cut out with my Cricut.

The pumpkin card: This card has many of the same papers as above. The main thing that is different is I cut the wood patterned paper and gave each corner a fold up. Look closely and you can see how I did it.

The Bunny card: I stamped different leaf stamps with red ink onto a piece of striped patterned paper  by Provo Craft.  The brads are unknown. The sentiment stamp is by Stampendous and the orange oval die cut is by Sizzix.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Framed Square Sunflower card

I made this card for Craft Roulette #282. 

Project-card for a teacher. (My hubby). 

Colors-classroom colors (whiteboard and blue jeans on kids.). 

Element-from the country (sunflowers are in the country). 

Random– Frame. ( You can see the multiple frames of yellow and brown cut out with my Cricut)

The sunflower image is Stampendous. I color copied the packaging of the die set and then colored some areas with my Copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I used a white gel pen bought on Amazon. The sentiment sticker is by Cloud 9.

Thanks for looking and HAGD! 

Floral Friday Paper Pieced Sunflower Sympathy Card

The sunflower background die is from Scrapbooking Made Simple. I used a host of old patterned papers by Provo Craft to paper piece the petals back into the die. The center of the flower is brown flock by Inkadinkado. 

Then, sigh, I matted the flower die panel onto another piece of patterned paper from that same paper pad. Well…it was crooked and for some reason I thought that I could straighten it out making the same marginal frame around the edges using pinking shears. It didn’t. SMH! I decided to make the whole thing look uneven by trimming the edges in different areas and ways. I made it look like it was supposed to be distressed.

The card base is from Current. I inked the edges so it wouldn’t stick out and compete with the white sentiment label. The sentiment is by Stampendous and it’s cut out with a Spellbinders die.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Square background card

I made this background with leftover squares from my Accordion cards. I inked the background with distress ink. Then, the white frame was made with Stampendous dies. The sentiment is from a store-bought card. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

I'm entering the challenge at The Male Room

Thank you card for the cruise

I made this card for the gentleman that cleaned our room on the cruise. Scrapbooking Made Simple background die, Sizzix skinny oval and Spellbinders fatty oval. Sentiment by Stampendous. Thanks for looking. 

Yoga Frogs Pop Up card

I love this card. When you open it the frog pops up. That embossing folder is by Cuttlebug fits the frog theme so well. The frogs are by Stampendous and I colored them in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Floral Friday Triple Fold card

I made this card using the tutorial by Brandi Mahon. The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio. The flower is by Stampendous. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Anchor Card

The patterned paper is by Studio G. The embossed paper is by Colorbok. The sentiment is a stamp by Stampendous that I cut out with a Spellbinders die.  While the paper was still in the die I embossed it using a rubber mat and then inked it with distress ink. 

This card was supposed to go for Kendra‘s card challenge #10 but I didn’t like it. So it sat in the “To Be Finished” box waiting for an occasion or to come up with a brilliant way to finish it.

 The sketch that inspired my card is in the upper right corner. Keep in mind, sketches are there to spark your creativity, and this was mine loosely based on the sketch.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday You’re a Deer card

The stamp and sentiment are by Stampendous, and the background stamp is by Deep Red Stamps. I used two different colors of distress ink on the background. I colored the deer in with leftover ink on a paintbrush.

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Cute and Cuddle
We Love Stamping - Clean and Simple
Krafty Chicks Challenge - Clean and Simple
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Clean and Simple
Carabbie Moments of Craft - Cute
Polka Doodles - Anything goes
Pammies Inky Pinkies - Anything Goes
Digi Choose Day - Anything goes
Pink Gem Challenge - Anything goes

Manly Monday Frog and Lizard card

I stamped and then heat embossed a variety of different stamps leaf stamps onto green cardstock. I cut it out with a Creative Memories wavy square shape. I inked the edges and adhered it to the card base (4x5.5)

The frog and lizard were both heat embossed with platinum embossing powder by Ranger. I colored them with Copic markers, fussy cut, and then adhered them to the background. The lizard is on foam tape. The sentiment is Lawn Fawn. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

I'm entering this challenge into:

The Male Room-Monochromatic

Stenciled Butterfly Cards

For my first card I created the background, using a Stampendous stamp that reminds me of a dandelion. To get the multiple colors, I used different pressures and second-generation stamping. 

The butterfly is a stencil from Dollar Tree. I colored the lines of the butterfly with a red Copic marker. Then I added more color to accent the design in colors matching the patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. When I cut the design out I left an outside border, which accents the coloring.

The sentiment is by Stampin and Scrapping. The last thing is the twine on the left side is by Lawn Fawn

The card above using two diagonal striped patterned paper and the obvious one is by Stampin Up. The second diagonal stripes are on the butterfly. I arranged the stripes to go in the same direction as the other patterned paper. 

The butterfly is the same design as the first card. When I made this butterfly I only traced the design with red Copic marker and did not fill it in. A difference between the two butterflies is  out close to the edge. Then I ran a darker red copic marker along the edge.

 The doodling on the top and bottom of the center panel comes from the pens used on the draw and cut feature on the Cricut. The sentiment is by Hero Arts. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday Cityscape Card

The patterned paper is by Cricut. The blue brick is vellum that I dry embossed with a Darice embossing folder. The city line stamp and cloud stamps are by Stampendous. I did stamp out the clouds in blue ink and then used white pigment ink to fluff them up. The grass was created with green ink and a makeup sponge. I used a marker to add a shadow to the base of the buildings. The sentiment stamp is from…idk. Anyway, thanks for looking.

Manly Monday Cheers to the New Year

Happy new year with a Craft Roulette card Manly Monday style. It’s from episode #246. The parameters were:

Project-holiday card

Color-Trees

Element-Drinking vessel

Random-something from your floor.

Floral Friday Sunflower card

 

I made the background with a soft plaid background stamp for a tone on tone look. The sunflower stamp is by Stampendous and I colored it in with Copic markers. 

The sentiment is unknown. Thanks for looking.

Sunflower in primary colors

Sunflower with fabric

Colorless sunflower card