Accordion fold card with vintage wrapping paper

The sentiment is by Just Rite stamps. The chipboard button is by Colorbok. The white card stock panel is stamped with different Hart stamps. The colorful green, pink and blue paper is actually wrapping paper.  

The hearts are from all different walks of life. I just grabbed the colors I needed from my love  supplies. One of the hearts from Dollar Tree was a puffy plastic and it had an industrial pattern and color too. I painted hot pink over that shit. Another heart is chipboard. Another heart is felt.

In the picture above, you can see the backside of the card. I cut frames out of the wrapping paper to make the back look pretty.

This card was created with the following the parameters on Craft Roulette #200

Project: kids card (I gave it to my niece). Colors: in brrrr (The blue and white reminds me of winter, which is cold). Comic or cartoon: (the line up of squares in the center look like a comic strip to me). Random: button. (The front is a chip board button to hold the card together)

I’m trying really hard to get my cards posted. 

I can fill in the blanks at a later date.

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

September calendar Layout with Dad and Pam

I used a border punch by EK Success and did one side and the title was cut out with my Cricut. The circle was dry embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I inked it with distress ink and then sprayed it with water mixed with gold Perfect Pearls. I cut off the bottom of another circle the same size and adhered it to this one. I then used a border sticker and placed it over the seam. The die cuts are by Recollections.

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Christmas Easel cards with Santa buttons

Patterned papers are by Craft Smith and Die Cuts With A View. Then there’s a Santa button as the door stopper. 

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Easel candy cane Christmas card

The patterned paper is by Martha Stewart and the sentiment is a Draw and Cut with the Cricut. The door stopper is a heart button. I had to use a glue gun to adhere it to the card.

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Puppy Thinking of You Up-cycled Card

This first card:

The background paper is a Kleenex box. 

The dog stamp is an old one by Stampin Up. I colored him with Copic markers and then cut him out with a square punch.

The triangle pattern around him is a border sticker by Mrs. Grossman that I cut down to match the shape of the square die-cut that is by Spellbinders.

The white die cut is unknown.

The card is jam-packed with layers but, I think someone will like it. I want the sentiment on the inside to say something like sending you happy mail.

 

Second Card:

The puppies and the sentiment are from a store-bought card

I used a dog foot stamp for the bottom 

This last card,

A long time ago while standing in line at Michael's I found this dog stamp in the dollar bin that was perfectly placed where a waiting customer could look through it.

I colored it in with Copic markers

The background patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View 

The patterned paper on the tag is by Provo Craft (Very, Very, Very old paper! Look at me, using my stash. Oh yay!)

I cut out the tag with my Cricut

The brad is by Around the Block

The doghouse and bowl buttons are by Dress it Up

This card will need to go into a padded envelope with extra postage.

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WERQ Friend Christmas Card scrapbook layout

Here's another layout for my Christmas Photo Cards Scrapbook.

The word "Friends" is vellum and is by Creative Memories

The circle punches are by Creative Memories. The letters and numbers are SU stamps stamped into each small circle. The zeros are buttons

The red patterned paper is by Little Yellow Bicycle and the green paper in the center is by Provo Craft.

I wanted to cover up a seam in the center of the layout.

 The translucent ribbon I pulled out was too see-thru. I needed something else to cover the seam but not take away from the green ribbon.

So I came up with this, I put the rick rack inside the center of the green ribbon and folded it in half.
I used a glue gun to adhere it all together and to the paper.

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Christmas Card Button Cards

The stars buttons in this set of cards are from my mom's stash. The stars as a tree turned out cute.

She had these old-style buttons that I know I wouldn't use on anything else so I made them into a tree.

Finally, I saw this idea in the Caring Hearts Card Drive cards.

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3 of my favorite Christmas Cards from this year

These are three totally different cards but I like them more than the others I made this year.

This stamp by Close to my Heart is not that long. You have to line it up and stamp it twice. The problem is, the stamp is stained and it’s hard to see. Sometimes it takes a few tries. 

Anyway, I colored them in with some random markers on my desk. The let it snow is ribbon from the dollar store or the dollar bucket at Michael’s. The green paper is from Stampin’ Up! They make such pretty paper.

This next card, the patterned paper is by K and Co. the sentiment is by Hero Arts 

Older crafters probably have a few of those metal stencils in their stash. I think that someone showed me how you can use one of them with a stylus. 

About 5 years ago I was introduced to embossing paste but I haven’t practiced in a while. One day I sat down with embossing paste and stencils and practiced. The last ones I made were my best.

 I found this tag in my stash from that day and wanted to make it stand out. So I heavily inked just the outsides of the tag to make the tree to be the first thing your eyes see.

I stapled a piece of ribbon from my husband's Oma with Tim Holtz Attacher

And this last card,

This is an old Stampin Up Christmas tree stamp. Stamped in olive and I trimmed it closer to size. The die-cut behind the tree is unknown but I do know the paper is by Fancy Pants.

I punched out 2 squares of the silver paper by CM. They don't sell it anymore, Ugh!

Then I cut the squares in half to put on the corners. The star is a button with embroidery tread tangled inside of it.

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1979 Christmas and 1980 Snowstorm Pocket pages

It's 1:35am and my head bobbled and I woke up to see WWWWWWWWWWW

on the screen. Why a W? Not sure.

I will say it's a good indication that I need to go to bed.

The patterned paper is by Echo Park

Spellbinders die cut in the center if the first card

The year is Cricut cut.

Lawn Fawn labeling alphabet Harold

On the second page, the four large 4x6 photo spots are patterned paper by Echo Park.

The 6x6 pad of paper came in handy

The bottom embellishments are from my Mom's stash

The word Dan on the left is a Quickutz die 

 The center square uses most of the 1980's stickers on a sticker sheet.

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Have a great week.

Mimi's Button Day Sign

In honor of
Count your buttons day
I thought this sign is perfect.

Paul’s mom moved from an assisted living to a memory care based building. The facility likes to have the resident‘s name on their door and so my husband asked me to make something. I didn’t know what I was going to do and so I was playing around with what ended up being her sign.

I painted some cardboard off white with Making Memories paint.
I arranged these buttons to form her name. The buttons are woodsy looking.
I adhered some red yarn around her name. What a pain in the butt that was.
The background paper is by C Gull
I used rub-ons to create the word welcome.

The sign was rough looking the way it was with that cardboard showing and I wanted to give it a feminine touch. So to cover the cardboard on the top and bottom of her name, I adhered some pink ribbon and lace from her old stash on top of it.

I’m a little disappointed with the placement of the lace but i came up with a new slogan, 

It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done.

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Fall Embellishment Card

I inked the edges with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed them with copper embossing powder by Ranger Industries.
The gold embossed leaf stamps in the background are by Deep Red Stamps
Elm Leaves Stamp

The circle embellishment is dry embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder inked with distress ink.
The tree is chipboard from Recollections.
The patterned paper and leaf button is unknown to me. 

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10 Year Blog anniversary

On this day10 year’s ago I started my blog. Over 3150 post later I’m still here.
 It seemed appropriate to post a card I made for a 10-year cousin. So,

I took the numbers off a scrapbook paper of letters and numbers, inked them, matted a square behind them and added Creative Memories letters stickers.  The letter alphabet stamps are from Oriental Trading Co. The framed paper is unknown and the background cardstock is by Forever in Time.

Here is the first card I posted
Happy birthday card



Here is the first layout that I posted.
Summer Scents



Things on my blog are a little different because I post more cards than layouts. It's fun to look back on my style and see how it has changed.

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Deep Red Stamps ATC Mixed Media Framed decoration for Paul

My husband’s birthday is today and I wanted to share what I made for him...last year. I enjoyed making it because it shows all of the different aspects that make him well, him. I used Deep Red Stamps, distress inks, alphabet journal cards by Colorbox, brads by Eyelet Outlet, Around the Block and The Paper Studio. 

All the Atc's use the Brick Wall background stamp with distress ink. I’ve done this distressed look with the brick stamp on this set of Valentine ATC’s.

This first card represents how he likes to hunt, fish and camp. Here are the Deer Stamp and a few other cards using this stamp, Buck Card and Buck card #2

Paul is a physics teacher and he wears a tie most days. The Quantum Background Stamp is perfect for this card. I used this background stamp on this Graduation card.

He likes to work in his barn on cars and drink beer with his friends. Beer and power tool are buttons. Here are the Chevelle Stamp and some other cards using the stamp Chevelle card and Chevelle Card #2

This card represents the four seasons. It is something that he cherishes about Michigan. (Brads-Orange flower for spring, sun for summer, leaf for fall and snowflake for winter). Here is the Leaves Stamp I used on this card.

With the cards all lined up in a row, I dislike the placement of the P because it doesn't line up with the other letters. Unfortunately, it was the only one left in the set.

I backed the cards with Creative Memories cardstock and some random patterned paper.

The frame for my decoration hung in my mother’s house my whole life. The irony, I never knew the man in the frame whereas I’ve known my husband more than half my life. I dabbed the frame with Colorbox pigment ink and poured Gilded Ivory embossing powder by The Powder Keg over it and heat it with my heat gun. It took a lot of coats of embossing powder to cover it. Sometimes I would let it bubble up from too much heat too see what it would look like.

Here is the finished project in the sunlight.

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Lacy-Plaid Pink and Black Card

This is the first time I've played with distress oxides on the oval die cut. I inked the die cut, sprayed it with water and let it dry before stamping. The patterned paper is by Paper Pizzazz. The black rim oval is by Maya Roads-something I've wanted to use or get rid of. Stamps are by American Crafts and Lawn Fawn with black ink by Hero Arts.

The lacy tape is from Dollar Tree, the two pink oval die cuts are Spellbinders and the buttons are from my stash.

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Gold Christmas card

I started with a Christmas sentiment found on a recycled card and dry embossed it with an embossing folder by Darcie.  I  liked the gold in this card and kept it as part of the theme throughout. The background paper is by Anna Griffin and gold thread by Martha Stewart. Star button from my stash.

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Flowery and Beautiful A

My friend and I found this wood A at a garage sale. I painted it first with pink Plaid paint and then I just layered the flowers, chipboard odds and ends, buttons, rhinestones, glitter dots and everything in between. Now she wants me to do the rest of the letters in her daughter's name; Adelynn. What did I start? If you missed it, here is a link to the purple crown I did as a test for this A.

A Crown for a Purple Queen

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