Brown and Off white Joy Christmas Card

The background paper is from Stampin Up and the Peace, Hope paper by American Crafts. The off-white die cut is from Spellbinders. The sentiment is unknown. Thanks for looking.

2 cards with the same distressed striped paper

The patterned paper is by My Mind’s Eye. The star stamp is from Stampin Up. The star dies in the center are ones I bought off of eBay. The ring with small stars around it in the center is by Jillibean Soup. The sentiment die on the other card is by Creative Expressions. The black decorative line underneath the sentiment is a rub-on from American Crafts. Thanks for looking.

December Calendar layout with an Our Family photo

The lamp chipboard sticker is by American Crafts. The scalloped border punch is by Fiskars. Our family" the vellum comes from Studio G. The patterned paper is by Crate Paper (I think)
Anyway, thank you for looking.

Floral Friday-Happy Day Card with tag and fancy border

I received the border in a swap. The sentiment die cut is designed by Studio G and Distributed by Hampton Arts. The floral tag is by SEI. The ribbon is by American Crafts and the stapler is by Tim Holtz. Thanks for looking.

March Calendar Layout Family Celebration

March-Doodlebug & Die Cuts with a View patterned paper. Cricut title. Random stickers by American Crafts. Circle cutting system by Creative Memories. Celebrations sticker by Paper Bliss. I inked it with pink distress ink.

Dog fabric Thank you card for Rusty

The dog patterned paper or what looks like patterned  paper is fabric. The yellow cardstock sentiment is a rub-on by American Crafts. The sentiment is a Hero Arts. Thanks for looking

Accordion card With Candy Canes with a Yellow background

😭 The front sentiment smeared. But if you open the rest of the card, I think you can get past that. (I hope I fixed it before sending it out.)

The sentiment was created in Design Space and then I used a gel marker to write it on the white cardstock. I just didn't wait long enough or it got thrown on my desk and something piled over it. Anyway, this is old and I mean old patterned paper by Provo Craft. Green paper by Sunborn. Ribbon from Michael's. The back sentiment is a Hero Arts stamp and 2022 is a Stampendous stamp set. Thanks for looking. All of the accordion cards were made using a Melody Lane Cricut Design Space SVG.

Aqua colored Christmas colored cards

My hands and arms are struggling to type. When my neuropathy flairs up, it feels like pricks of small needles with each touch of each key on the keyboard. I'm not looking for a pity party, I'm just telling you why I haven't been writing much.

Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Holly Trio of Cards Colored in with 3 different green combos

Hmmm...I'm not sure that I have a favorite. Do you? 
They were all colored with Copic markers.
The first card uses very primary colors. (PP by Sunborn)
In the second card, the green is muted, as if it were aged. (PP by K and Co and the rub-on border is by American Crafts))
The third card is bright with a yellow hue to it. (PP from stash. Green from Michael's. Rick Rack from my stash)
Thanks for looking.

1984 Family Scrapbook layouts

The Groh boy books continue. This is a 1984 pocket page layout. My page contains Project Life cards by Becky Gibbons by American Crafts.

Turkey and Thanksgiving stamps are by Hero Arts.

Alphabet stamps by Lawn Fawn. The sentiment stamp and number stamps are by Close to my Heart. 

Circle punch is by Creative Memories with the Family sticker by Deja Views

This layout is made from scraps. There's a Project Life card, Gold paper by Creative Memories and I can't remember where the mustache sticker is from.

Thanks for looking

It's your Day to Celebrate Party Hat Birthday Card

I have cards to post but just haven't found time. Again, I put too much pressure on myself to make my posts more exciting, whatever that means. But here's my card and the supplies.The ribbon-American Crafts. The sentiment and hat is by Cricut. The dots are from Gina Marie. The patterned paper is by Sunborn

Thanks for looking

UPDATED 5-16-22. FONT SIZE. PICTURE AND WORDS PLACEMENT.

A Single Flower in a Mushroom card

This single flower in this card makes me think of the single rose in Beauty and the Beast. Even though my flower is not a rose and is inside a mushroom and not glass, basically they are nothing alike, the card makes me think of the movie Beauty and the Beast. Lol (that probably made absolutely no sense to anyone but me lol)

The flower stamp is by Lawn Fawn. I colored it in with Copic markers and then fussy cut it out.The sentiment and the circle stamp around it are by American Crafts 

The die-cut frames are negatives from a Cricut cut. The mushroom was cut out using my Cricut. The patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey

UPDATED 5-3-22 WITH A REVISED CARD WITH BORDERS.

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1983 May Wedding Layout

My husband is on the left.

The patterned paper for this layout is by Daisy D

on the bottom:

On the bottom row of embellishments, on each side of the small picture, I used a Creative Memories punch for two white cardstock squares and added Creative Memories stickers on top.

Then, I layered the decorative square punches, also by Creative Memories, onto regular squares.

The pink glitter paper is by Die Cuts with a View. 

The ring stamp is by American Crafts.

On the right side, the heart, the word May, and the year are stamps by Stampin Up.

The patterned papers are from my stash. 

This is the oldest boy’s wedding.

Thanks for looking.

Mini Baby Shower Cards in Mint and Purple

I had to make a small baby tag for a shower today. 

All of my baby boy supplies were on my desk 

Therefore, I decided to make a few more for future use.

They all use a Karen Foster sticker and die-cuts are by Spellbinders

I used Stampin Up star stamps for the background

But then   

The purple card has a sentiment inside by Current, circle, and tag dies from my stash.

The cup card sentiment by Pebbles, circle punch by Marvy, and ribbon by Offray

The bottle card, the sentiment is by David Tutera and it's glue onto a chipboard button by American Crafts

Thanks for looking

1975 Up North Teal and Mint Gradient Layout and Pocket Page

I couldn't decide the colors of these pages. I found a few clocks that show the colors. I put them on my Pinterest Home Board

Cindy Groh Home Board

Is it teal or mint?

Anyway, 1975 Continues.

This is a 2-page layout with the layout below as the left side and the pocket page as the right side.

The leaf die cut is by Gina Marie

The alphabet numbers are by SEI

The patterned paper is unknown

The pocket page details:

Cricut writing on vellum for details. I'm so mad that I didn't mark down the font.

The die- cuts are by Cricut (Wall Decor and More)

The patterned paper is by The Perfect Scrapbook by Colorbok (Sage Plaid)

Date stickers by Dear Lizzy + American Crafts

I have to include another layout with some of the same photos.

Thanks for looking

1963 All Green Pocket Pages Scrapbooking

I was typing up this blog post and it occurred to me that there is no date on this layout.

That won’t be a problem with all of the open space. Maybe I subconsciously left those areas blank.

The metal circles are by Stampin Up. Inside them are stickers by...darn it, I don’t remember. I threw the package away within the last week. I flip through my organizers daily. The organizers are separated by theme and they are the home to many sticker packs that I have been looking at for years. Now, do you think I can remember the brand? I will do a timed search to find them online. Timed search you ask? I set the timer on my phone and by the time that alarm goes off, I’m finished looking.

The patterned paper is by Recollections and old stuff by Provo Craft 

On the center 4x6, I used these transparent die-cuts. The flower one is by Maya Road and the smaller flower is by American Crafts. I set an eyelet in the center. The bouquet on the right is from Jolee’s a company of EK Success.

This page is a 4x4 pockets equaling 9 squares. I had the one larger photo that even if I cut it down it wouldn’t fit. I boldly cut the pocket open with an Exacto knife to fit the photo in with all the other relevant pictures. I love the results and that it is hard to see the the alteration unless your looking.

I received the glasses patterned paper in a ATC swap, bottom right. Isn’t it the cutest and perfect for the time frame. Haha, pun intended. The Christmas paper, bottom left is by Martha Stewart.

All of the alphabet stamps are from Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for looking 

Upcycled Floral cards

I upcycled some old cards from the many stashes I have accumulated. This first card is my favorite out of this bunch. I'm posting the other cards as a learning tool for myself. Should I ever search upcycled cards in the search bar, I'll know what not to do.

First card:

The sentiment is by Hero Arts with inked edges

I fussy cut the flowers out of a card 

Slapped it onto some patterned paper with the edges inked.

Pretty card to an assisted living home.

This thank you card was this shape. I cut off the back and added patterned paper to the corners. 

I liked using this pp because it's the 2" pieces left over from a 6x6 paper pad. 

I work with pre-made card bases from Michael's and they are 4x 5.5-inch cards.

When I cut the 6x6 pads to fit my card base, I end up with a ton of these strips of paper.

If you have that same problem, tell me what you do with those scraps.

This next set of cards uses a background from a former card front. 

Hubby's Grandma gives me all of her card fronts. Well, she received two of the same card for her birthday or something like that. I think that's how the story went.

There's brown cardstock  by Stampin Up closest to the card base

The flowers are die cuts from K and Co. 

There's a brad in the center of the pink flowers

The sentiment is by Fiskars. Black ink by Hero Arts.

The green die-cut is unknown

The ribbon is by American Crafts

So..............

I didn't like the playful ribbon with the elegant flower die-cut

I had to make some adjustments. See the second photo to see my changes.

I removed the ribbon and I replaced it with 2 layers of lace.

I covered the top of the lace with a single color ribbon that was a better match for these flowers.

I think it looks better. Agree?

 Here are the second background card and I kept the playful ribbon because the flower die-cuts weren't as frilly. Plus when I went to change it the ribbon ripped the paper.

I didn't want to fuss with it anymore. 

The sentiment stamps are by Fiskars.

Same supplies for this 2nd card 

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards that I upcycled to make the cards.

Here's a pretty upcycled card

Another pretty one

Floral card from 2017

Christmas background

I would consider any of the Christmas fabric cards that I made last year, as upcycled.

I saved those pieces of fabric from my Mom's things when we had to sell her house.

If you want to see any of those,

Type the word fabric into the search box.

Below this line is my opinion/review of the sentiment stamp set for the last two cards.

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I have a small tidbit to say on this sentiment stamp set. I had it on my Amazon wish list but ended up finding it cheaper somewhere else. I was so excited to get the stamp set.

It arrived and I hated and still do hate it. 

The sentiments that are in print are too small to read, even hard for me at my young age. (cough, cough) I can't read them. 

It would be extremely hard for a senior citizen to read them.

All of the reasons below are in my opinion what makes the sentiments hard to read:

The cursive sentiments use letters that are too thick. Combine their thickness with the swirl and the size of the stamp, you end up wondering what the sentiment says.

If you don't have the perfect pressure when stamping, the sentiment turns out crappy. Look at my second card. Poor pressure, poor outcome.

The other thing that could have made a poor impression, my ink pads. I used Versafine pigment ink and maybe that wasn't the best choice.

2 other things that I just thought of:

You would not be able to heat emboss these sentiments. Even with super fine embossing powder, the letters would blend and blur together.

I don't think shadow inks would work well with these either but I did not try it.

I should have looked closer at the size of the sentiments beforehand. I was just so geeked that there were sooo many sentiments in one stamp set. Well, when the sentiments are 1/32 inch in size, you can add a lot of sentiments.

I'm done blabbing. I have more posts to get out this week. Sorry if my grammar sucks. I've tried to proofread this post. However, after an hour and half working on this post, I'm done and want to move on to the next.

Hello There Card with a tag

I started with a  tag by Basic Grey.
I inked up a background stamp by Hero Arts with Versa Mark ink.
I white heat embossed using Stampendous embossing powder
Then I inked the tag with Vintage Photo distress ink
I sprayed the tag with water mixed with gold Perfect Pearls
The ribbon is by American Crafts and it is secured with staples from the tiny attached by Ranger Industries.

The sentiment sticker is by K and Co

The patterned paper is by K and Co

Thanks for coming by and taking a look.

Updated7/21/21

Handmade flower TY Card for medical staff

I'm trying to use my thing that is already assembled for quick cards to send to medical workers and the elderly that are all alone. I found this already made flowers are perfect.

The flowers have stamps on them
The layered flower behind is old. I inked it to make it match better.
The leaf is from CM
The brad is by Creative Imaginations 

The sentiment is by American Crafts with Hero Arts ink

I used a template online and cut out the die-cut flower.
I used Distressed Stickles on the edges of the flower.

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards using the same flower
Nov 2015

Funny how I used the same patterned paper as I did back in 2015 as the one I made last week.
Birthday Blessings