Thanks a Melon

I made this card for Craft Roulette #223 

Sentiment by Stamps for Life.

Watermelon border stickers by Doodlebug Designs. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Teacher Appreciation Week Thank You Cards

You never want to hear the words “we had a lockdown today”. Worse yet it was because someone was in the building. That’s when I made these cards the night of the lockdown day. They’re not awesome cards but they were appreciated by the principal and vice principal. I didn’t take many pictures or close ups of them except that one. It was 6am and hubs was leaving for work.

The patterned papers are by Kaiser Crafts. The big Thank you and Grateful stamps are by The Paper Co. The yellow and green patterned papers are oldies by Provo Craft.

Thanks for stopping by. HAGD.

Manly Monday Thank You Card

The thank you sentiment is from a store bought card. The patterned papers are by Studio G.

Here’s another thank you card using the same patterned paper and a sentiment by The Paper Co.

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Floral Friday Autumn like colored cards

Background patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned paper used in the Sizzix die cuts is by Papertrey Ink. The brown paper is a scrap and the gold letters, no clue. 

The second card has green opulent paper by Sizzix on the bottom half. The center cardstock is a dry embossed border by Cuttlebug. I don’t use those nearly enough but I should because when I do, I really like the way they look. The tag is an upcycled item from my stash. The sentiment is by Just Rite. I wish I could remember how I got the ombré color on the sentiment. It is looks great.

The above card started out as a birthday card but the sentiment was hard to read. (See below)

You can see why I changed it.

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Pink Floral bouquet shiny Upcycled card

The floral bouquet covers up a 25. It is an upcycled wedding table card that I thought would be worth a try. The floral is a die cut by my friend Rosie. I added a few sequins and then the title is a die cut by?? I have so many new die cuts that I can’t keep track of the companies.

This is the wedding number that I covered with the bouquet. Pretty good.

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So then I made this second card green. So on this cardI made my own background. I used a Stampin Up background stamp on cream card stock. Then I added distress ink around the edges. This bouquet is foiled. 

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Cricut Thanks card in Mint and purples

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Floral Friday Simple Hexagon makes a flower patterned Card

A nice and easy card today. I’m using an old Stampin Up bee stamp and hexagon punch. Then a little inspiration from my Mom who was a sewer quilter. I recall her making a pillow with this pattern. It looks like a flower. I just need to add a green stem and leaves. Or I can leave it like it is. So, This whole weekend I will “bee” posting cards bee, beehives, hexagons, or honeycomb type patterned cards. I hate bees when I go outside but I have been digging in the drawer and these backgrounds came out screaming, “Put me on a card bitch!” Lol. Today is the kind of day that I need to swear and laugh. So enjoy the weekend and as always, thank you for stopping by my blog and taking a look.

If you have a moment can you leave me a comment  telling me where you live and what’s the weather like. I live in Sparta, MI and it has been raining all day and is still going at 11:45pm.

Floral Friday Wild Patterned Paper Thank You Card

The ugly patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. If you look below closely you can see the second die under the sentiment is patterned paper is by We R Memory Keepers. The top layer of the sentiment is an old wallpaper sample. I thought the rustic look went with the flowers. Idk about the Thank you die cut. The strips of paper in the center, underneath the sentiment, I found them on the floor. I liked the way it brought your eyes to the sentiment and made the sentiment placed and not just floating. Those dies are by Spellbinders. Thanks for looking.

Peace and Paisley cards Part 2

For these first three cards, I doubled up the fabric paisley circles ironing them onto the paper with border die cuts behind them.

The peace sign punch is from Oriental Trading Co.

On the card below, I layered Spellbinders die cuts under the fabric.
Here is another Peace card. 

For this next card, I dry embossed the blue paper with a Sizzix folder.

I punched out some leaves and adhered them to the orange cardstock and spritzed them with Glimmer Mist.

The ribbon is from Offray.

I layered Spellbinders die cuts under the fabric.  

This next picture is yesterday's two cards with this one.

These cards were made as thank you cards for the parents that helped/contributed to the homecoming float. Long story short, Hubby and other friend teachers are advisors for the class of 2025. The theme this year was decades. The Senior class chose the 1980's. The Juniors were 2000's. The Sophomores were 1990's and the Freshman were 1970's hence the funky cards. 

Along with designing these cards, I used my Cricut to cut out a bunch of 1970's type die cuts that the kids glued onto signs. They waved the signs during the Mock Rock (a dance that I choreographed).
So, I had a few extra fabric circles and adhered them to the sunglasses die cut.

This picture makes me giggle because it reminds me of the next picture.

Hubby and BIL check on my dad's cottage when going to our cottage. My Dad's cottage is a 5-minute walk from ours. So they went in, checked on things, and drank one of my Dad's beers.
They found these glasses on the table and in an effort to find out who they belonged to, they took a selfie wearing the glasses and sent it to the family GroupMe app. LOL.

The family didn't think it was as funny as I did.
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Memorial Day Thank you Card with Handmade Star Background

Happy Memorial Day!

Thank you to all the former and active servicemen and servicewomen that have fought for our country.

Thank you doesn't seem like enough.

God bless you all.

 

This card was supposed to be today's post but I forgot to change out the layout for this card. Oh well, it's a 2 for 1 day at Cre8iveCindy! 

The sentiment is a sticker by Mrs. Grossman's. It's a cute little sheet of thank you sentiments.

The circle scallop die-cuts are all by Spellbinders. The bottom one is vellum with flicks of color here and there.

The patterned paper is by Me. I punched a bunch (haha) of stars with scrap paper and glued it on the card base. 

The ribbon that goes through the center is from my MIL's stash. It is by The Robert Stanley Collection. I like it and may use it for a 4th of July card.

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Rainbow Thank you Card

I'm not a rainbow kind of crafter. It's pretty and I like to see youtube people use the colors but I don't gravitate towards them. 

Now that I think about it, youtube influencers probably use all of those colors to show/promote the companies new ink colors. What do you think?

Do you use rainbow colors in your own card making?

 

This is another upcycled card where I'm using pieces from 2 different store-bought cards;

The sentiment and the green border paper. 

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Thankful Pumpkin Card

Today I have a Thank you card with an autumn theme

The sentiment is a Stampin Up die that I cut white and colored green with a marker

The pumpkin die-cut border is by Creative Memories-really old

Patterned Paper by Recollections except the brown is unknown

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I cut the sentiment apart to make this card

Pretty in pink and lots of layers for dimension

Another card with the same sentiment

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 

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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.

You're in my Thoughts Die-cut leaves up the side of a barn

The first card 

The sentiment is a sticker by K and Co.

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders 

The leaves are cereal board that I inked with orange, brown and green ink

Then I heavily brushed them with Perfect Pearls in gold

The rectangle die is from eBay

The patterned paper is by Prima

 

The second card uses the same die-cuts and then the other leaves are by Spellbinders

The gold paper is by Creative Memories

The oval die-cut is unknown and the sentiment stamp, I can't find it.

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Green and Blue Thank you Cards

The center of this card is made of scrap cardstock and ribbon by May Arts and Offray

The sentiment die-cut is by Clearly Besotted

The patterned paper is by October Afternoon

I used these circular brad type things with the on WRMK brad inside the largest circle.
The sentiment sticker is by K and Co

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On a scale from 1 to 10, you are an 11 card

The background stamp is by Hero Arts and I heat embossed it with white embossing powder onto colored card stock.

The sentiment is by Stamping up 

The die- cuts are by Spellbinders. I used eyelets to secure those label dies in place.
I think I only used one patterned  paper in that is in the first left upper corner is Basic Grey

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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

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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