Floral Friday Easter Bible Card

I found this colored-in image in the drawer and it needed to get on a card. It's painted with powdered chalk and paint. This next picture shows how the paint shines.

The other supplies are as followed. The background paper has been dry embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder and the ovals were cut out with Creative Memories Cutting System.

The lace in the center is fake and by that I mean it's self-adhesive from Michael's. Thanks for looking. Happy Good Friday to you all. 

Framed flower with Lace and Ribbon Card

I know it's not Floral Friday but I made this card specifically for the challenge at 

Moving Along with the Times

I would not have reached for my lace if it wasn't for the bingo challenge.
The tiny bow is wrapped around the lace to bunch it up.
The flower stamp is by Clearly Besotted. Center die cuts are by Spellbinders.

I did the diagonal: ribbon, patterned paper, and lace.

Thanks for looking.

Up cycling Grandma's card

When we would visit Grandma in Detroit she would give me all of the cards she had received. Including my own.

She would have been 101 today. She passed from Covid last October. She once told me that she just wanted to make it 100 and she did. Such a sweet lady and I got to spend 4 days with her in 2017. I learned a lot. She even let me tape her talking. Idt if any family members know that I have those recordings. That's what makes them even dearer to my heart.

This card was easy to alter. All I had to do was change the sentiment.

The brads are the type with the ability to put ribbon or in this case, I did lace through them.

Here's a picture of those brads.

Thank you 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.

Mimi's Button Day Sign

In honor of
Count your buttons day
I thought this sign is perfect.

Paul’s mom moved from an assisted living to a memory care based building. The facility likes to have the resident‘s name on their door and so my husband asked me to make something. I didn’t know what I was going to do and so I was playing around with what ended up being her sign.

I painted some cardboard off white with Making Memories paint.
I arranged these buttons to form her name. The buttons are woodsy looking.
I adhered some red yarn around her name. What a pain in the butt that was.
The background paper is by C Gull
I used rub-ons to create the word welcome.

The sign was rough looking the way it was with that cardboard showing and I wanted to give it a feminine touch. So to cover the cardboard on the top and bottom of her name, I adhered some pink ribbon and lace from her old stash on top of it.

I’m a little disappointed with the placement of the lace but i came up with a new slogan, 

It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done.

Thanks for looking.

Deep Red Stamps Madame Dragofly

I used the
Deep Red Stamps Madame Dragonfly
And

Ville de Saint Denis
The top half of the card is water colored and bottom heat embossed and inked. Bazzill patterned paper.the black is a piece of lace.
Thanks for looking.

Shabby Chic Cards

I'm not a shabby chic kind of gal but thought I'd take the challenge for an ATC swap. I started by running the base thru the Xyron upside down and adhering some lace scraps to the card. Then I picked out some scraps blue patterned paper by Basic Grey and some peach colored Die Cuts with a View cardstock. 

I knew I wanted to use these giant rhinestones by Glitz. They have a lot of dimension and I can't see using them for a card or scrapbook page. That's where an ATC can be a perfect canvas for things you love but can't use in other places.The half circles of rhinestones are by Heidi Swapp. They were complete circles until I cut them in half. So each card has the giant rhinestone, a half of a blue rhinestone circle and a Tim Holtz die cut word.

The other products I used:

Flowers by Recollections

Chipboard circle by Prima

Deckled edge square punch by McGill Craftivity which I cut in half

Pearls by Forever in Time

and

I did end up using some brads to hold the flowers in place and dotting some i's. I wasn't able to get the glue dot to adhere to the lace.

Hope you like them. Thanks for looking.

Butterfly Birthday Card

I made this card when I was selling them at a store and it was for a granddaughter.  Well since I will never have one I changed it into a birthday card, which I'm always in need of. The butterflies patterned paper is by K and Co. and the vine and leaves on the side are a Cricut cut from Art Philosophy. There is a brown piece of cardstock at the bottom to hold down the lace . I folded the lace on top of each other like a pleat and secured it down with Modge Podge and a foam brush. The foam brush had blue-ish ink remnants on it which is what I get for not cleaning my brushes when I'm finished. The sentiment is by Fiskars.

Thanks for looking.

Valentine ATC's

I made these ATC's for a Valentine's Day swap. The heart stencil and white glossy embossing paste are by Dreamweaver Stencils. I made the hearts on watercolor paper and after they dried I ran them through a pool of distress inks and water. I cut them down and inked the edges with Walnut distress ink before adhering each heart to its own digital tag that I had printed and cut out. 

The background is the Brick Wall Background Stamp by Deep Red Stamp stamped with brown ink by SU. I applied different colors of distress ink around the background to pull out the colors in the hearts. I wrapped lace around the base a few times before securing it with a brad. I cut the sentiments out from old greeting cards and adhered them to the upper left side.

And then I thought I was done. But I went to join these cards to the other sets I had made and they were smaller. Ugh! Are you kidding me? I sat on it for a day mostly because I was mad at myself. But then as I was into my brown scrap folder and this The Paper Studio glitter paper jumped out and said "Use Me!" I did so and loved it. It was the perfect end to these ATC's.

I hope you like them. Thanks for stopping by.

Wood grain Horse Card

Hi Dee Ho. Today's card is a little bit taller than usual for me. It's a 4x6 inch card base with white cardstock by The Paper Studio. This cardstock seems to be a little bit thicker which I think is better for a card base. 

The horse stamp is by Inkadinkado and I've stamped it with brown Stampin Up ink. I die cut the image and it's next larger die by Spellbinders. I inked the white cardstock with distress ink, blue on top and brown on the bottom with Ranger's distress ink. The patterned paper of the die cut behind the image is by Best Creations and the pennants are the back side of that same paper. (Are they even in business anymore? Who knows.) 

The background paper is a wood grain but I don't know who makes it because I won it from Simon Says Stamp. The lace is from my MIL's stash. The pennants are dies by Sizzix, the circle stamp is by Stampin Up stamped with brown SU ink and punched it out with a Creative Memories circle punch and the sentiment is a die cut by Die-Versions.

Thanks for looking.

To Have and To Hold Card

I have a wedding card today. I used a Jolee's cake sticker as my focal image on a Design Objectives die cut. The black cardstock is by Recollections. The patterned paper is by Making Memories and the creme cardstock is by Bazzill. The white die cut uses Recollections white cardstock and a spellbinders die cut with The Paper Studio's brads. I stamped an American Crafts sentiment with Hero Arts black ink. The lace and beads are from my stash.

Thanks for looking.

myStamp Box Birthday card

My card today features stamps by:

I used Ornamental Flowers for the flower in the center. It was stamped the flower with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed with yellow embossing powder by Stamp N Plus on a very light gray cardstock by Stampin Up. The die cut is by Design Objectives and the flower behind that die cut is by Imaginisce. 

The sentiment is one from the Whatever stamp set. It's stamped in black on white cardstock and matted onto black cardstock by Recollections. 

For the rest of my card I have vintage lace from my MIL, rhinestones by The Paper Studio and patterned paper by Studio G. 

Thanks for looking.

Challenges

http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Flower power

http://emeraldfaeries.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/challenge-55-flowers-ribbon-lace.html Flowers and lace

http://www.allwayssomethingcreative.blogspot.com/ Birthday

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

http://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2014/05/may-day-comes-up-daisies.html One embellishment {Rhinestones}

http://craftitudechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Use a die

http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.com/ To die for

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/ Punches or dies

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

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.com/ Flowers

http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2014/05/may-challenge-stamps-flowers.html Stamps and flowers

True Friends Card

I have another Deep Red Stamp card for you today. This one focuses on the True Friends sentiment that can be found at A Cherry on Top and at Scrapbook.com.

 This is another larger card for me. I usually only make the 4 x 5.5 cards but have recently taken an interest in larger ones. I received the We R Memory Keepers Envelope maker and want to make sure I use it. The size of this one is an odd 4 1/2 x 6 1/8. 

The patterned paper is by Cosmo Cricket and it covers the front of the card front. I adhered lace to the top and bottom and then layered a Spellbinders border die cut on top of that. I usually have problems embossing the borders but this one came out almost perfect. The next layer is orangish cardstock by Color-Aid and then the stamped sentiment. I heat embossed it with Versa Mark ink and Stamp N Plus gold embossing powder. The little sticker on the side is by K and Co. 

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look.

Challenges:

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

Valentine's Day with Flocking powder

I made this skinny card so I could let my sentiment hang off the edge. The sentiment stamp is by Close to My Heart which is on a Cricut label die and the happy letters are by Cosmo Cricket. The patterned papers are by My Mind's Eye and the heart ribbon by Heidi Grace for Fiskars. The heart in the middle of the twine is a button from my stash as well as the lace at the bottom. 

I die cut the hearts using my Cricut and then ran them through my Xyron to make them sticky. I used two separate colors of pink flocking powder on each of the heart die cuts. Once the flocking powder was on the heart I ran them through my Cuttlebug to make the flocking powder really stick to the adhesive on the heart. The two colors of pink flocking powder are by Inkadinkado. 

Thanks so much for looking.

Challenges:

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/ Love is in the air

http://sassystudiodesigns.blogspot.com/ Valentine's Day

http://shellysimagesblog.blogspot.com/ Two hearts and Red and/or Pink

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/- Use texture {flocking powder}, Die cuts {hearts} and three word sentiment

http://www.lisasomerville.com/ Two or more DP

http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.com/ Use a die cut or a punch {Heart die cuts}

http://www.craftforthecraic.blogspot.ie/ Heart

http://craftitudechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes or Valentine's/Love

http://creativecornerchallenges.blogspot.de/ From the heart

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/ Ch #38 Valentine's Day

http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.ca/-Be my Valentine

http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/ Valentine's Day

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

http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.com/ Love is in the air

http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.ca/ Valentine/Love card

http://totallypapercrafts.blogspot.com/ Valentine/Love 

Kitty Christmas Card for Chalk Ah Lot challenge

Hi all. Welcome back to week 2 of Chalk Ah Lot's animal with chalk challenge. I have a new Christmas card to share using powdered chalk and a kitten stamp by Stamp N Plus. The powdered chalk can be found HERE and the kitten stamp can be found HERE. 

I colored the kitten in with powdered chalk mixed with water. It's the perfect medium to color in images and there's no need to spray a fixative because the powdered chalk stays on the image. I also used the same mixture to place splotches of the flesh colored chalk on the white cardstock around the image. The sentiment stamp also by Stamp N Plus can be found HERE; it is stamped with Stampin Up ink onto K and Co patterned paper.

The candy-patterned paper on my card is by October Afternoon and the red background paper is by My Mind's Eye. The green cardstock is by Sunborn and white cardstock by Recollections. I used some older green lace my mom found in her basement for the bottom. I doubled it up in the center to give it a little dimension and then placed an unknown flower over the center to cover the adhesive. This type of dimension seems to go through the postal system without extra postage. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges:

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Any sentiment

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

http://izazoviislatkisi.blogspot.ca/search/label/Izazovi Favorite Season

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

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

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

http://abcchristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes Christmas

http://www.2creativechicks.com/ Anything goes

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

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes Christmas

http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes Patterned paper

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

Any Occasion card with a pear stamped with chalk

There's a new challenge on the Chalk Ah Lot challenge blog. This one is nice and easy; Anything goes with chalk. It will run for 2 weeks. Visit the challenge blog HERE and visit the sponsor Stamp N Plus for their powdered chalks and stamps.

QI used the lime green powdered chalk by Stamp N Plus as ink to stamp my pear on watercolor paper by Strathmore. The pear stamp can be found HERE.Then I mounted it onto black cardstock by Recollections. The patterned paper is by Colorbok and the card base is a dollar bin item from Michael's. I die cut a scrap of watercolor paper for the sentiment. The die cut is by Sizzix. The sentiment is by Scrapbook Pros and the brad is by CTMH. The lace is by Prima and the flowers are by Recollections and Creative Memories. I used some epoxy fots on the left side. These are also by Creative Memories.

Challenges:

http://z.blogspot.com/- Anything with a B {Brads in the white flowers}

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.com/- Anything but a birthday card

http://myheartpiecesdigitalstampchallenge.blogspot.in/- Use a piece of metal {Sentiment and brads}

http://paper-craftingjourney.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes

http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://www.inklingsandyarns.com/- Anything goes

http://www.ladyanneschallenges.com/stamp-challenge.html- Anything goes

http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/- Die cut {sentiment is on a Sizzix die cut}

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

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes

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

Sew Much Joy

I'm featuring a new to me stamp company called Deep Red. They make all kinds of images for an flavor of  stamping taste you have. 

For my card I used THIS stamp set that I heat embossed using Ranger embossing powder and Versa Mark ink. I used a blending tool and distress ink by Ranger around the edges and then mounted it onto some Recollections cardstock. The image is raised up with foam adhesive.

The background paper is by My Mind's Eye and the sewn cardstock is by Oriental Trading Co. All the other cardstock is by Recollections. The lace for my card is by Prima and the silhouette embellishment is by Recollections. I used a Studio 112 label die cut for my sentiment and the letter stickers are by Miss Elizabeth's.

Thanks for checking out my card. 

Challenges:

http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/- Newest stamp

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

http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/- Anything goes

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

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/- Use your new stash

http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/- Stitching

http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/- Anything goes

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

http://craftspotbykimberly.blogspot.com/- 3D {Silhouette embellishment}

http://lovetoscrapchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/- Embossing, Sentiment and lace

http://avenue613.blogspot.com/- Anything goes with optional stitching

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes

http://joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.ca/- Embossing

http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.com/- Stitching real

http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.com/- Something new

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

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/- Anything goes

Always and Forever

I have a wedding card for today. I used an embossing folder by Darice on old silver Creative Memories paper. The background paper is by DCWV and the black cardstock is by Recollections. The lace is by Prima and the ribbon is by Queen and Co. The champagne glasses brads are old and I don't have the packaging anymore. 

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://eclecticellapu.blogspot.co.uk/-Wedding, anniversary or engagment

http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/-Special occasions 

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

http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.com/-Anything goes

http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.com/-Anything goes with ribbon

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

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