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! 

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! 

Manly Monday 3 cuts of patterned paper birthday cards

All of the patterned papers are by SEI. The sentiments are all different. I'll try to identify them later. Thanks for looking.

Here's another card using that patterned paper.

Digital Ornament stamp card

The background embossing folder is by Cuttlebug. The green cardstock is from my stash. The journal card is by Theresa Collins. The digital stamp is unknown and I did look for the company for over 30 minutes. I colored it in with Copic markers.

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Tag for my nephew's Christmas present

The light bulbs are Cricut cuts and the letter stamps are by Close to my Heart.
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Scrapbook Layout of Hubby in 2nd grade

This layout is for my hubby's scrapbook.

I’m not sure of all of the details of these layouts other than:

Crate Papers 

Shaped paper from Michael’s Recollections 

Some stickers on the side are by Little Yellow Bicycle 

The labeling was done with tiny alphabet stamps from Oriental Trading Co. 

There are some Elle’s Studio labels

Patterned paper by K and Co and Stampin Up.

The twine is unknown.

Letter stamps are by Lawn Fawn.

And here the two layouts are side by

Thanks for looking

Floral Bouquet in Coral

Whenever I make wedding cards I Google trendy wedding colors of 2015 to get an idea of what colors are popular. This coral is one of those colors. I stamped the bouquet of flowers with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with a semi pink embossing powder by Stampendous. The image was punched out with an EK Success punch and I also punched a piece of white fun foam to go under it. The die cuts behind the image were cut out using the Cricut and the Lacy Labels cartridge. I fall in love with that cartridge over and over again. 

To finish the card I embellished with American Crafts ribbon and some Lawn Fawn baker's twine. The button is from my MIL's stash that I inherited. I threaded the twine through the button and then secured it onto the card with a Zot. The sentiment is hard to see but it is the circle on the right. The stamp and the ink are both by Stampin Up. I punched the sentiment with a Creative Memories punch. Then I set a large white eyelet into the circle and threaded the twine through the eyelet. 

Thanks for looking.

Embossing Paste on a Dreamweaver Stencil creating a present Card

This week we’re going to celebrate with the awesome Woodware Design Team and theDreamweaver Stencils Dream Team all of the the great Stampendous and Dreamweaver Stencils products that Woodware makes available to the UK market. This is good news for our crafty friends in the UK because we’ll be offering prizes and our UK friends are eligible to win!! We’ll be offering three prizes in the UK and three in the US. Each prize package will consist of Nathalie Kalbach’s terrific Grunge Mixed Media Cling Rubber Stamp Sets and the beautiful Zen Butterfly Dreamweaver Stencil! Both products are ideal for adding texture and backgrounds to your projects!

Deadline to comment is Sunday, March 29th, Pacific Time. Winners will be picked using random.org and announced Tuesday, March 31st, in the afternoon.

And that’s our theme!! Making Texture. We hope you’ll enjoy the wonderful inspiration that three talented teams will bring you this week! Be sure to visit all the blog links listed and leave your comments! Each comment will count as an entry towards one of the terrific prize packages.

Here are the designer’s sharing the projects today —

Stampendous Blog     Jamie Martin    Amy Hurley-Purdie     Janelle Stollfus     Pam Hornschu     Kristine Reynolds     Asia King      Wendy Price     Lea Kimmel     Woodware Craft Collection Blog     Siobhan Fyffe     Dreamweaver Stencils Blog     Lyn Bernatovich     Cindy Groh     Gill Wilson     Laura Drahozal     Louise Healy     Lynn Mercurio     Alison Heikkila

My card uses Stampendous stamp that can only be found at Woodware (404 error) Thank you Stamp and a Large Damask stencil can be found at Woodware or Stencil with Style
I inked the stencil with Ranger distress ink and an ink blending tool. Then I used transparent embossing paste over the whole pattern and set it aside to dry. The big ribbon is by May Arts which I've tied into a bow. The twine is by Lawn Fawn and I wrapped it around the bulk of the bow before tying it into a bow too. I stamped the sentiment by Stampendous in Hero Arts black ink on a Clearly Besotted die cut made of Neenah Solar White cardstock. Then I adhered the whole front panel onto a 5 1/4 square card base by The Paper Studio.
Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/

http://craft-deebowz.blogspot.com/p/challenge.html Bow

http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.ca/2015/03/marchs-anything-goes-challenge.html Ag

http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ Anything goes

Manly Monday

I made this card for a gentleman at work for his retirement. The background patterned paper is by Basic Grey, scalloped edge is by K and Co and striped by DCWV. The dies in the center are by Spellbinders for the square and stampin Up for the pennants. The for you stam is also by Stampin Up. I used Ranger distressing ink to highlight the square die cut in the center. The eyelet and twine are from my stash.

Thanks for looking. 

Challenges:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/-Anything goes

http://pennyblackatallsorts.blogspot.com/-One for the boys

http://sentimentalsundays.blogspot.com/-Anything goes

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/-Three designer papers

http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything goes

Butterfly special day with cool eyelet crisscross

I made today's Stamp N Plus blog card using this butterfly stamp and this sentiment from Stamp N Plus. I used powdered chalk combined with paint to create a medium to stamp my butterfly. This is a great way to use powdered chalks. My patterned papers are by DCWV and Bella Blvd, die cuts by Spellbinders, eyelets by Making Memories and twine by We R Memory Keepers.

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://tuesdaythrowdown.blogspot.com/-Summertime

http://www.allwayssomethingcreative.blogspot.com/-Butterflies

http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.com/-Wings

http://clearitoutchallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything goes with yellow

(old product from my stash is vthe grey patterned paper)

http://flourishes.org/category/challenges/timeless-tuesday/-Summer

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

http://sassycherylschallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything Goes

Chalk-Ah-Lot Frog Hang in There card

Edited May 2021. 

BIGGER PICTURE.

CLEANED UP CHALLENGE LINKS.

This fun sentiment from my Cricut was perfect for the frog stamp. It can be found on the Wild Card cartridge under shift phrases of the tweety card. (page 47 in the handbook)

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.com/-Anything goes-ENDED (2017)

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/-see those layers-STILL GOING

http://digidoodleshopsbest.blogspot.com/-Animals-REMOVED

http://craftingwhenwecanchallenges.blogspot.com/-Animals-ENDED (2017)

http://opus-gluei.blogspot.com/-Branching out

Thanks for stopping by.-ENDED AND NOTHING TO LOOK AT

Serenity card

New card for you. Just made it today. I borrowed some wonderful phrase stamps from a friend and made a pile of them today. I will be sharing them for the next couple of days. For this one I used patterned papers & ink by Stampin Up, flowers by Prima, ribbon by Heidi Grace and Offray, embossing folder by Provo Craft and cardstock is from my stash. Thanks so much for looking.

Challenges:

http://craftyannschallengeblog.blogspot.com/(F#59)-Bold and Bright

http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.com/(F#13)-Pink

http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/(F)-card for a female

http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/(F#104)-Ribbons &/or bows

http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com/(TH#77)-Double down {two ribbons-one on top of the other}

http://craftypurplefrogchallenges.blogspot.com/(TH)-Flowers

http://doyoustackup.blogspot.com/(TH#59)-Layers

http://theprettylittleribbonshop.blogspot.com/(M#7)-Anything goes

Birthday blues

I made this card to sell at the local scrapbook store. I had to fiddle with it a lot to get it out the door. I really love border punched right now but am slightly bored with the ones I have. Oh well, I'll just keep on using what I have. Like this Martha Stewart punch is an oldie but a goodie in my opinion. 

The flower stamp by Hero Arts on the kraft paper is heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

It's different then what I normally create but I still like it.

Celebrate Sunflower Image Card

This week at I Did it Creations our theme is flowers and we were sponsored by Floppy Latte Designs So for my DT card I chose the sunflower image.

I colored the image in with Copic markers and cut it out using a Spellbinders die cut. I like the way the die-cut matches the shape of the image.

The background has been dry embossed with a Darice embossing folder. I put Want 2 Scrap pearls inside the visible circles.

At the bottom of the card, is a piece of gathered ribbon with twine wrapped around it.

Thanks for looking

**Click here for my Challenge with a prize

Edited 5/20/21-cleaning house on some of my blogposts

Manly Monday 3 Father’s Day cards with a rustic feel

Some more Father's Day cards for Manly Monday.

The above card uses a background stamp by SU, ink by RI, paper by Deja Views, red cardstock by SU, a sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments, and the twine is UK.

The second card, uses stamps by CTMH, cloud brads by Eyelet Outlet, ink by SU and RI, and kraft paper by OTCo

The last card, just above this description, it uses PP by SU, kraft paper by OTCo, stamps by G Studio, ink by RI, and a sentiment by Shannon's Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by.

I'm entering this last card into the Digi's with Attitude challenge for a Fathers Day card.

I'm also posting these cards at Capturing a Moment in Time-Father's Day cards.

Updated blog posts on Aug 18, 2022 and I looked up the challenge blogs and they are no longer blogs.

A basket full of Apples

This weeks I did it Creations challenge is kindly sponsored by Trees Award Digi Stamps (no longer there)


Our challenge theme for this week is Keep it simple.

To enter the challenge you are encouraged to use an image from the Trees Award Digi Stamps. Your choice of one image used by the DT will be available upon request as a freebie to use in the challenge. Please email jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com with

Freebie Request on the subject line.
Challenge #22
Keep It Simple

Then please leave a link to your new challenge creation at I did It Challenge blog (no longer around) linking directly to your creation (not just your blog)

Here is the card I made with one of the beautiful digi stamps made by Trees Award which I colored in using Copic sketch markers. The sentiment and background stamp along with the red cardstock are by Stampin Up. Bakers twine by Prima, green apples have Stickles by Ranger on them and brown CS is from Hobby Lobby.

Make sure you go check out the other Design Team members creations (links on
the sidebar) and browse through the wonderful images that Trees Award has for sale over at the Stitchy Bear and I Did it Creations Crafting Boutique.



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