Floral Friday Cards with Handmade flowers in Burgundy

I sat and put some flowers together with other things, doily, tags, and other flowers. I made them into cards and haven’t posted about them. These patterned paper flowers are randomly in pairs and were bugging me. Thanks for looking. 

Calendar scrapbook layout August. Bark River

   

This is from the home calendar Aug 2022-

PP by Reminisce. Letter sticker by Current. 

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Manly Monday Gabe Junior year Scrapbook layout

I will update this post with his school picture. Patterned paper by Bo Bunny. Alphabet stamps by Stampin Up. The blue on blue music note stamps are from Stampibilities. 

The Cricut did all kinds of work on this layout. 1st it wrote on the vellum down the right side of the photo. 2nd the percussion is a draw and cut. 3rd it cut out the title. That G is having issues. 

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March Calendar Mermaid Niece in the Box

My niece in a box is now 12 years old. Polka dot patterned paper is by Making Memories and I’m not sure about the others. Alphabet stickers by Current. I used the Creative Memories alphabet line it up thingy. That’s super exact. The mermaid and accessories are Lawn Fawn stamps colored in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Accordion Fold WERQ Christmas card

I used my Cricut to make this accordion card. My hands hurt to type. So I will come back and give products.

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September Calendar 2021 Bunyea family in Japan

The sentiment is a sticker by Current.

The die-cut is by Cricut.

The patterned paper is by Basic Grey

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Cottage 2021 Calendar scrapbook layout

Today I have some of the calendar layouts.

This first layout, the patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View.

The bottom borders are by Sunborn. The scallop is the negative of where the borders are attached together when you buy them. So you have the border with brown circle that is still attached to the packaging. Then above that is where the next border would have been but I removed it. So this is the negative of the removed scalloped border.

 I can’t think of another way to explain it.

Title die cut is by Cricut.

 For this Fourth of July layout, I used some label die cuts by Design Objective to create a banner. 

The red floss is by DMC

The stamps inside each label are by Lawn Fawn.

The firework diecuts are by Dies...to dies For. 

The glitter paper is by Recollections.

The polkadot patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View.

The corner at the bottom, is a piece of red card stock cut with decorative scissors for the edge.

This next layout is part of a weekend that my husband and his friends do every year. It was quite cold and for whatever reason they were in the shed with the heater drinking beer. Why they didn’t go into the cottage is baffling to me. But, boys are dumb.

The die cut is by spellbinders and the little man sticker is by Close to my Heart.

The letters stickers are by Current.

The patterned paper is from my stash. 

For the next layout, I used the same letter stickers as the layout above.

The border punch is by Fiskars.

The stickers are from Creative Memories and Stickibilities. 

The pretty green patterned paper is fine Doodlebug.

I would guess that the green grass paper is by Colorbok.

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1962 Family trip to FL Scrapbooking Pocket pages.

In 1962 my MIL's family and only the family went on a vacation to FL. Here are a few of the many photos from that trip along with some cute photos that I wanted to include in this book.

This is the right side of the layout. See the bottom for the two sides together.

Alphabet stamps are by Close to My Heart

I cut words FUN and CUTE with my Cricut

The smile sticker is by Studio 112 and Family Vacation sticker...My guess is from the Current catalog.

The die-cut border is by Martha Stewart and the bottom center card has a square in it by Elle's Studio. There is a brad after the letters FL inside the square.

Patterned papers are by October Afternoon (Squares with a pop of red) and Poppy Stamps (polka dots)

(((This is terribly confusing)))

Maybe just look at the pictures

Here they are together and they're not totally the same but for me, they are close enough.

LINK TO LEFT SIDE LO IS HERE

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Breast Cancer Card Hope

My card today was made with pieces from different projects. I know the stamped background is from my sister's baby shower invitations and my niece is 3.
The purple paper is from a teaching project at the Senior Center and I stopped that about 3 years ago.
I'm not one to throw things away.
The ribbon stamp is by Stampibilities/Hobby Lobby
The background stamp is by Stampin Up with Umbrella ink exclusively through Scrapbook. com
The purple cardstock is by Recollections and was dry embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.
The sentiment sticker is from Current and I inked the edges of that white paper.

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Breast Cancer cards

Friendships are Treasures Card

The sentiment on this card is by Current. The background paper is unknown but the gold paper underneath is by Creative Memories.

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3 Peachy Pinky cards

Here’s another set of cards I made to send to friends and family for my mom’s funeral. I’m really enjoying making these cards. I’ve had these things cut out or colored in but haven’t used them. Now I am. My friend calls the cards “Lick N Sticks”. Have you ever heard that expression?

This sentiment is from Current. The border punch is from Martha Stewart at EK Success out of Bazzill cardstock. The patterned paper is by Stampin Up. 

The second card , the polka dot patterned paper is by Daisy D’s and I’m not sure about the paper on the top and bottom. The square die cut is by Spellbinder. The round die cut is from Cricut. I covered it with powdered chalk mixed with paint. The flower stamp is by Stampin Up and it was stamped with black ink.

This last card the patterned paper is by Creative Memories. The tag is by Colorbok. The sentiment stamp is by Lawn Fawn. The flower stamp is by Stampin Up with matching die. Border punch is the same as above. 

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Deep Red Stamps Summer

Another card to share for the Kindness Campaign card Drive. 

This one uses a Deep Red Stamp called

Summer Tiles

I stamped it onto Strathmore watercolor cardstock with Hero Arts black ink and colored it in with distress inks and a water pen all by Ranger. The background paper is by Bazzill, ribbon by May Arts, green cardstock by Stampin Up and the sentiment sticker is by Current.

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Pink ATC's

I joined the ATC (Artist Trading Cards) Swap at Scrapbook.com. The theme for this set yellow and pink. I chose to do a couple of variations of pink but the yellow is pretty close the same.

Lace ATC

I started adding yellow distress ink color to the yellow background with a scallop stencil. It's hard to see. I had to look at my directions twice to figure out what the heck is this talking about but it's there if you look closer. I stamped the lace border by Deep Red Stamps with pink ink by Umbrella onto Recollections yellow cardstock. I matted the yellow onto a piece of light pink cardstock by Provo Craft. The dies on my card are negatives to a Cricut Easter egg cut in Cricut Craft Room.

Art ATC

For this ATC  I used the  back of a Coredinations card that I messed up on. I stamped the Deep Red Stamps circle background stamp on to the pink cardstock with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder by Hero Arts. I inked the edges of the card with pink distress ink and then the tag with yellow distress ink, Both inking of the edges was done with an ink blending tool by Ranger. The yellow cardstock through the center is watercolor paper by Ranger that has been inked with Peerless watercolors. It was a left over scrap that I wanted to use and not waste. The tag and chipboard flowers are unknown however the word "art" is a sticker by Creative Imaginations.

Joy ATC

For this one I used background paper by Best Creations. The yellow paper is watercolor paper (same as above) by Ranger and colored in with Peerless watercolors. The sunburst chipboard is by Maya Road that I painted with yellow paint by Pebbles. The "joy" sticker is by Current and I added star foam dies by Lawn Fawn. The foam is by Tiny Crafts at Dollar General and twine by Oriental Trading Co.

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Deep Red Stamps Daisy Splash

Today's card is a little different style/color combo for me. I do love pink and black together especially on the stage but when it comes to cards I tend to be more cautious in my color choices. 

Let me tell you about my bright N bold card. The stamp I used is by Deep Red Stamps and it's called Daisy Splash. You can find it at Scrapbook dot com and at A Cherry on Top. Fun pat about this stamp is its kind of like three stamps in one. There's this large stamp and then two smaller stamps. You could keep the. Together but I chose to separate them. You will see the creations I've made with the other stamps probably next week.

I stamped the large image onto white cardstock with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed the image with bright pink embossing powder by Stamp N Plus. The cardstock is by Recollections, pattern paper by K and I memories, sticker sentiment by Current and rhinestones by The Paper Co. I did round the edges of the image with Creative Memories corner rounder. I liked the look of the two corners rounded

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Easter Calendar Layout with Chalk eggs

I have a calendar layout to share using a Stamp N Plus stamp, powdered chalk, and paint. When you mix the powdered chalk with paint it creates a new medium to color in your stamped images. It doesn't take that much mixture to cover in an average size image and when I am finished painting an image I can not waste the leftover mixture. What I do is take a large paintbrush, dip it into the mixture and paint a piece of white cardstock. I end up with a handful of pieces of paper like this in all different chalk colors. For this layout, I took the three colors you see below and punched them out with an oval punch. I added the letter stickers {old alphas by Creative Memories} and used them as a design piece and as my title for my layout.

The patterned paper for my layout is by DCWV. It's part of a zoo stack but it was the best I could do with the colors the kids wore. I think this year I will need to communicate the colors they can wear according to my Easter papers. I'm sure they'd love that- yeah probably not. 

The swirl is a canvas sticker by Little Yellow Bicycle and to finish I stamp the He is Risen stamp sentiment from Stamp N Plus, see below, in blue onto white cardstock. The blank calendars are from Current. 

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UPDATED 3-27-22 FONT AND PHOTO PLACEMENT AND SIZE. TITLES 

Noel chalk card

For this fun Christmas card I used patterned paper by DCWV, cardstock by Recollections, letter stickers by Current, brads by Making Memories, stamp, embossing powder, powdered chalk and paint by 

Stamp N Plus.

I used a mixture of chalk and paint together to paint in my heat embossed stamped image. It's one of my favorite techniques. 

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Challenges:

http://www.papercraftstar.blogspot.com/-Holiday Greenery

http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/-Embossing

http://tandastamps.blogspot.com/-Anything Christmas

http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/-Christmas traditional colors

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

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/-Favorite technique

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

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

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

http://www.craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.com/-Christmas Anything goes

http://lexiscreations.blogspot.com/-Christmas

http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/-Christmas is coming

Calendar pages April and May

Every year around the time school starts back up I start to gather photos from the year and make calendars for family members. This year I made (5 brothers, M&D Groh, Grandma, the oldest niece, my Mom and Brother) 11 of them plus I have one in my office that is different from everyones. I thought I would share the different ones that I had for April and May.

My brothers calendar April calendar page:

For his calendar I used these stripes of sentiments (in the right upper corner) throughout the entire calendar. I found them at My Simple Stories, which are still free and available. It just gave his calendar some unity which I liked and may do more so in the future. That big oval is a recycled card, blue paper by CM, The pink is very old and the purple is by Colorbok. Border sticker by Current, chipboard by Making Memories and bunny sticker by Karen Foster. This family has an annual Easter Egg hunt and these are all the cousins.

This is my moms April calendar page:

The picture isn't the greatest (sorry) I believe the patterned paper is by K and Co, the pink paper is by CM, April showers is by Provo Craft (very old),dies are by Spellbinders, egg stamp and ink by Close to my Heart and the stickers I think are by Stickibilities.

This is my in-laws May calender (they all had the same photos per month just variations of those photos depending on paper availability). 

All the patterned paper by CM, stamps are by Close to my Heart (letters and leaves) and Martha Stewart (leaves and acorns), embossing flowers under right photo and brown paper is by Cuttlebug/Provo Craft, and the button leaf is by I think All dressed Up is the company name.

This is my mom's May calendar  

The green patterned paper to the left is by Sunborn and under the squares is by CM, square stickers by Provo Craft, circle stickers by Basic Grey, Livin' Loud card by Fancy Pants (I think), blue papers by DCWV and the rest of the paper is just scraps from my stash.

So as you can see these calendars are a great way to use up old product and my families (not to be mean) don't know if the products are new or old. You can also tell the different photos I am working with per family. My husbands grandmothers calendar included pictures of her other children and I come from a divorced family therefore the pictures of my moms calendar vary from that of my brothers calendar. My brothers calendar includes photos from my dads side of the family. So there are 7 calendars that have all the same pictures in them and the remaining 4 (and my office calendar) have some different pictures. 

I do have a system to my calendar madness that I will share with you. This year I took all my Creative Memories paper and put it in a bag. Each time I would start a page to any calendar I would go there first. Then if I couldn't find a match I would go to my Sunborn paper that I bought from Sam's Club a few years back. If I still was striking out with paper I would go to my stash. The problem with going to the stash is the time it takes to go thru the stash and find the right paper. Well I didn't have that kind of time so I really limited myself in what supplies I used, other wise I would have to start them in January to get them out for Christmas gifts.....um no thanks. Besides I like to use photos from the year before and no older. It is a progression of how much the kids and adults have grown or changed that makes it fun. At the end of each year we rip them out of the calendar, trim them up all pretty and put them into a Pioneer 8.5x11 scrapbook and use it as one of our many coffee table albums. It's fun for people to look at all the different years and fun for me to see my style has evolved from year to year.

One final note and then I have to get back to this scrapbook I am working on. I put the families birthdays and anniversaries in the calendar so people can look on their calendar and remember to call each other on their event. I send cards to each and every single person in our families but for other it's a great way to stay connected with the family since we are in Michigan and we have family that live in California. 

Hope you have enjoyed these two months worth of calendars. I will have more to share in the future and won't have to explain as much. Have a great Tuesday:)

Cindy

Lady Bug Card

This week at Shannon's Sentiments our challenge is to use an animal in your card or project. I chose to use the ladybug in the Spring time set for my card.

I used glossy accents for the spots. It turned out very cute in person. Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great weekend.

Butterfly Birthday Greetings

This week at Shannon's Sentiments the challenge is to use an oval on your project. I chose a birthday card using a partial sentiment from the Easter set. 

Supplies: patterned paper by The Paper Studio, sticker by Current, punch by Fiskars, green and blue cardstock by Core'dinations, ink by Stampin' Up and white cardstock by Recollections. 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget Shannon's is having a DT call right now. You could be part of this amazing team with so many lovely images to chose from. 

Bye for now - more for tomorrow (preset). hehe. I'm on top of things for these couple of days.

February calendar layout

I make calendars for family members each year for Christmas (well before the new year if they are lucky). It's a big job but everyone really likes to have them. This is Grandma's February calendar layout. She has a slightly different one then my husbands siblings because I included pictures of her other children into her calendar. Does that make sense? Anyway, Grandma's is different so I thought I would show it here. Some supplies: red cardstock by DCWV; black circle outline by SEI; stamps and ink by Stampin Up; Love brad by Eyelet outlet; Cherish vellum by Quick Quotes. The big heart punch I received in a swap but the other punch is by Fiskars. Oh and the calendar itself I bought from Current. I'm entering this one into Simon Says Stamp and shows Love theme.Thanks for looking. Have a great weekend.