Birthday card - one year old

Grandbaby first birthday needed a fun card.

I love this QK monkey so easy to put together.

Using some fun embellies I premade with 

watercolor color papers and leftover inks and/or paints.

and Martha Steward alpha punch (wish I got the numbers punch)

but alas.....

Love the monkey shines font!!!

The alphas in blue are QK calvin.

 

Homemade state flag journaling cards

I decided mostly on overnights as we pass through states to do the state flags and use them as journaling cards as I have no photos. I started with Colorado which we did stay a couple weeks, and then Mexico because it was cool.

I mistakenly made one for Missouri when I really needed Mississippi LOL. 

I tried to be respectful so when I couldn't draw it or die cut it I downladed the emblem.

It was fun!!!.

Some are easy and some not so hard.

 

Memories in the Making album- 2 new pages done

I'll chase a bee anywhere.

Butterflies too.

As well as other assorted critters.

I was going to use these photos in my travelogue but

I printed them too small by not paying attention

when automatically clicking print.

I really enjoy trying to make the backgrounds add

something to the page and photo.

And the embellishments.

Swoon.

Love using my stash.

Tim Holtz mostly and mostly older stuff

I tossed the packaging.

Silly me.

 

Halloween cards

I actually finished the cards for the grands. It started out innocently enough making a card for Ashton and he’s not quite a year. I didn’t want to scare the pants off of him so I found this cute stamp set that I bought on the whim that are LDRS creative stamps and it has cute little dogs so I decided it was cute for him. I thought it was too cutsey for the older ones but changed my mind. . and yes I fussy cut out way more critters than I needed Shockingly my fingers weren’t happy also, I didn’t make them quite as cookie-cutter as I usually do. Moved the moon around which was fun in changing everthing else up.

ALOT OF FUSSY CUTTING. 

There were 6 dies of the animals so I made 10 of each because

I thought I would need that many for the cards.

Silly me.

However, it was great to have a big selection.

Only count I got right were the bats.

And because the moon was on black paper I used enamel ink.

Belated birthday card

I can't believe I forgot a birthday - and the notification on

calender that has been set for EONS didn't 

inform me.

😐

Anyhoo...I also have to admit that I totally jacked this

idea off the internet, however, didn't

keep track of the site.

My bad.

Honestly, I wish I had thought of it.

I actually wonder why I haven't.

🤣

So its basically cardstock of different colors

because why not.

It is adorable.

So this is Oliver a TH sissix die,

the alpha set - is an old Quickutz die called

Holiday.

Didn't realize how big it was but

I love it.

 

Challenge #3 - Brooke & Lynn rocks it-totally

Having a BLAST!!!!

We both love how our challenge turned out.

This was the sketch for Brooke

8"circle as background

cardstock

design your own pattern paper

watercolors

something handmade

She totally nailed it and 

I LOVE THE TITLE.

Awesome play on words involving her hubby.

and in her words.....

So, it's on 9x12 watercolor paper. Background done with oxides and shimmer mists, with various stencils, bubble wrap. Strips under pic also done on watercolor paper. One is embossed with scales them misted with shimmer mist. Other one is done with handmade "wave" border with oxides. Oxide colors used are speckled egg, broken China, pumice stone, black soot and blueprint sketch. Shimmer mists are patina, sea glass, honeydew mist and walnut shine. Even added some magic mesh!

Brooke's challenge for me:

Nuvo glimmer spray

heat emboss title

envelope

6 different color cardstock

3 washi tape

WELL.....I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!

It was so much fun.

So I did use 6 different cardstock colors for 

both the flowers and the banners 

with the flowers tucked nicely in the envelop.

The nuvo spray color I have does not match the

cardstock colors so I sprayed it on

a tag and tucked it into the envelope.

3 different washi is stacked on each other

and the heat embossed title.

Well...I used a puffy title and had some shabby chic

embossing powder and it worked

great until I got a little too close to the J and

it started to melt the actual J. 

Ooops.

It works.

We are currently thinking of tossing another challenge

SO STAY TUNED...

 

The making of Olivers for Easter Cards

There are a lot of moving parts on this baby so

trying to keep track was seriously tough.

They tend to wander off no matter how careful I am.

I also decided to just go for it in making 10 Olivers for 

the grands Easter cards....

So I picked the brightest colors I had and die cut out 20.

Why you might ask,

well....

there are alot of parts and itty bitty parts so just

in case I had two.

And carefully piling them in a small bowl in order

to keep the pile piled which gave it

a real good chance that all the parts would be there

by 2's just in case.

One can only hope.

And then you have to bold, if not daring, and just lay it all out.

On a table.

Near an open window.

I did leave the really really tiny parts in the dish.

And since I decided to use whatever color caught my fancy

in putting together the bunnies.

Yup them babies are mutli-colored.

It was kinda fun, but I found I used the colors I really

liked and ran out of parts in order to 

roll the colors across the board.

Like so.........

That grass patch cracks me up and it reminds me of a skateboard.

LOL.

So wild colored bunnies needed wild colored backgrounds,

obviously not thinking it through but they looked good

when I tried them out as they were premade.

A few days before I played around with inks

and oxides and decided why not.

So I did.

HOWEVER, WHEN I BOUGHT OLIVER I ALSO BOUGHT

THE BASKET WEAVE EMBOSSING FOLDER

AND DID I REMEMBER TO USE IT???

Why NO, no I didn't 😐

 

St. Patrick's day is coming up

Corned beef and cabbage.

YUM!

And adorable leprechauns too.

GOT THIS FROM THE INTERNET!

How adorable is he and HOW COME I CAN'T

COME UP WITH CUTE STUFF LIKE THIS ON MY OWN.

Seriously.

So that little sticker sheet was used to put

stickers on the inside with the sentiment,

No photo of that,.

And no I didn't use the piles. 

Shapes are amazing actually and I find I can make stuff

with shapes as opposed to lifelike.

So to make the shamrock - actually clover on the hat.

Hearts.

I used QK cookie cutters and rectangles

were whacked on the cutter.

I also in looking at this photo it needed a background

which is why if you look above I went

a little nuts with a shamrock stamp.

Used Peeled Paint and a really old hero arts stamp.

 

Theodore for the birthday card

Love Theodore even if putting him together can be quite the struggle.

Since I made different colors for most of the pieces

one ends up with almost enough for two.

And that's what happened here.

From now on when I'll building one of these adorable

characters, I shall make enough for two.

Comes in handy.

I finally got around to using an embossing folder.

I have them, seldom use them because

while others totally rock them - I seem to struggle.

However, be bold, be daring - I wanted some texture in background and

this was one way to do it.

Love how it turned out - just highlighting

some of the embossed to bring the background out even more.

"Celebrate" fit his backside perfectly and

on the inside - typical "happy birthday" stentiment.

 

TN - New pages in the album

I've been lazy, lackadaisial, and laidback.

My bad. 

In the meantime.

I love where this traveler's notebook is going. 

The different sizes, papers and style.

Got some TH going on here - been crushing on his stuff

since I spent a couple hundred hours watching

his videos.

The tag is a heritage pix from back in the day.

Makes me swoon.

 The blue tag the back of the tag for the one above

with the journalin. Not too much

because I have scrapped that photo before, but

I find it fun using my heritage pix rather than Tim's paperdolls.

I can just seen my family losing their minds

trying to figure who in the family that paperdoll might be.

On second thought it could be FUN.

LOL.

That PL card is an old Studio Calico that came in the 

kits, and the bird is cleverly covering up the year 2016.

I believe I'm whining about COVID-19 on the back.

I am whining on the back of the PL card.

Everyone is whining LOL.

Anywhoo, using an envelop to scrap about roasting,

watching tv and having a cup - outside.

Back of the envelope had to have something on it.

 I love envelopes.

And another PL card from Studio Calico with another

clever cover up for the year.

 The PL card needed a back so there that is,

and playing cribbage with dad.

Not a lot of journaling because I yacked about it 

in a lot of other places.

Using up lots of stash and odds and ends.

Love it.

Valentines for the grands

PINTEREST STRIKES AGAIN!

They turned out to be really fun.

Love that owl - M's I believe for like a $1.

I do need to work on my fussy cutting.

Cardstock, hero arts, washi.

And who doesn't love googly eyes.

Well I gave in to the matchy matchy

Sort of. 

I still have the other TN - see yesterday's post.

I still would like your opinion over there.

This TN started out with Dylusions whitewashing the

chipboard and then again using the splat

TH stencil.

WELL..............

I didn't quite apply the paint correctly through the stencil

SOOOOO...

I had to smear it on purpose because it wasn't a good look

and there was no fixing it

UNLESS

you smoosh it about. So I did.

THEN

I broke out the TN stamps. 

(you knew TH would be there somewhere)

Love how the front cover turned out........

and the rings.

Here is front and back together.

And here are the inside covers.

I sort of cloned them.

I have no idea why.

Here is the first page in the notebook - which is an

envelope and a tag with some washi.

I figure I'll work it as I go.

(And I did work them so tune into Monday

and you'll see what I did.

(Quite the tease I am)

ALSO

I didn't put all white papers inside.

I tried to match up the colors on the covers.

Well colors do come in shades.

 I am so diggin' the tags, however, changes
can be made and pages rearranged.

That's the beauty of rings.

Here is just a "pre-done" page that'll hopefully

compliment the page next to it.

I'm loving this of course.

I'm loving the other one.

I'm working on getting over my bad self.

😂

Christmas cards for the grands.

I need to remember they're getting older.

Sigh.

They turned out cute.

 Front side - inside.

Now to remember to mail them on time.

Birthday card for a friend

I love these big, huge sunflowers, again my pal

Holli's stamp that I made a few of

and you will be seeing again, is so pretty.

Who doesn't love a sunflower and when was

it not a good idea to use a sunflower.

Anywhere.

I stamped the sunflower in black on some

really textured cardstock.

I mucked around using gelatoes to give it 

more color and shadows.

 The inside is kinda of plain here but

I did more and tucked it in the envelope and

licked the flap.

So if you'll use your imagination,

 I splattered brown gelato about and

stamped an adorable old-timey bunny peeking

out from behind the sign on cream

colored cardstock.

It's really cute.
You should see it. 

Recollections, Prima stamp, gelatoes.

Rustic mini album

I believe I mentioned that I had a bunch

of these sunflowers Holli stamped for me and

that you'd see more of it!!!

 I wanted to make a mini album as a gift for my pal Tobie

who is my boxbuddy for workouts.

And pulling all my papers out I didnt' really have a "theme"

going on. Not that a theme is necessary

it just helps when putting things together.

 In the process of trying to pull out papers and figuring things out,

I decided that in using the sunflower it really

wouldn't go with anything I had, but, I really wanted to use it

and then a lightbulb went off -

 Why did I have to cover up this chipboard with paper.

Hmmmm????

 A challenge!!!

 I did find some "rustic" cards, tried my hand at a "shaker"

we'll see how well that works LOL.

 Employed a bunch of stamps (fussy cutting), punches and buttons galore.

I really love how it turned out.

All the photo mats are 3.5x4.5 so if my pal uses

3x4 photos there's plenty of room even when I put 

embellishments near the mats.

Studio Calico stamps, various punches, Hero Art stamps, buttons

galore and cardstock.

Instead of sending Valentine cards

I made these monkeys, one of each sex, on a straw for all the grands 

instead of a card. 10 of them in all.

They were a lot of fun to make and as an

extra goodie, I wrapped $1 bill around the straw and

used a piece of twine to hold it on.

I'm told they were a big hit.

So the girl monkey has eyelashes and earrings.

Gold earrings. LOL!!!

Oversized photo

This photo needed to be 8x10 more or less.

I wasn't going to back it but the photo paper I printed

it on was so flimsy and it needed some stiffness.

I was also out of my mind with printers this day.

My HP-8250 that I've had for a lot of years bit

the dust by spewing ink that couldn't be cleaned up.

Then for some reason my remaining

printer took FOREVER to print - because the lid

was up (which it wasn't), then I needed to change the ink

(which I did) and then it couldn't "see" it.

(which it finally found it).

SIGH.

Because of the "white space" at the bottom

I kept most all the embellies there.

 I did get a bit over the top with words but

they worked.

Added this at the top because there were "legs" there.

Soooo. Now there aren't.

We take this photo annually and it's mostly family

and some friends.

The dynamics seem to be changing each year, people come and go.

And it was windy.

Really really windy - if you noticed.

I actually tossed mist on the photo.  *gasp*

I love doing pages like this - and need to do more.

If I could find 12x12 photo paper I'd be doing that too.