Floral Friday Scalloped circle card

I made this simple anniversary card using a scalloped circle pre-made card base by Recollections. I used my Cricut to cut out the green die cut and then put yellow cardstock behind it. The sentiment stamp and dual colored heart sticker are unknown. The gold heart is a Sizzix die with gold Sizzix paper. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

November Calendar Layout The Last Supper

I started with brown patterned paper by Creative Memories and then added the Making Memories floral paper  on top. The teal paper is unknown. 

The leaves are stickers. The title Grateful by K and Co. is a sticker on top of a Spellbinders die that I inked the inside before taking it out of the die. The flower in the brown square (by K and Co. too) is a sticker layered on top of teal square punch and a bigger brown square punches by Creative Memories.

Thanks for looking.

November Calendar Layout Good Times

with the Groh Family

I used patterned paper by K and Co, Fancy Pants Designs as well as Die Cuts with a View.

The die cuts are by Spellbinders.

I wish I could tell you exactly where the heart and the Good times stickers came from but those things are downstairs.

Manly Monday Let’s Bowl, Let’s Bowl, Let’s Rock n Roll

I sang that song ^^^over and over again while I was making this card, 

This is the front of the card. The orange patterned paper is by Imagination Project. The black patterned paper and bowling shirt sticker is by Karen foster designs. The black, patterned paper was a long strip, and I was being lazy. So instead of cutting it to the size of the card I made the card the size according to the height of both patterned paper scraps.

This is the back of the card. You can see where the black patterned paper is making its way to the inside of the card. I made the bowling lane using a ruler, a pencil and distress ink.

Then this is the inside of the card. Tada. The End. Oh no. There’s more…

That arrow, that’s where the goods are stashed. My friend’s son is turning 11 and we tend to give people money denominations same as their age. Soooo, Behind door number one is…

$11. He will like it. And he won’t care that it’s only eleven dollars. 

He will be grateful for any denomination of money that he receives. 

Thanks for looking.

June calendar layout Dance Recital time

This is from my Mom’s calendar.

And this calendar is from my brother’s calendar.

The big thing about these layouts is the die cut dancers. I cut them out using my Cricut and the Decor and More cartridge.

The rest are stickers or scraps from various manufacturers. Thanks for looking.

Fancy Fold Graduation card for Jazz

Today’s card is a graduation gateway type of fancy folding card. The white paper is belly band that you slide off and can then open the card.

The belly band is off  and the card is opening.

Then you open it again to reveal the left side. Center

The whole card opened

 Graduation card for Jazz. She’s a former student of my husband. They had some sort of playful thing with pizza and donuts. I included both elements in the card.
My cards normally consist of stamps and for this card, I wanted to challenge myself not to use any stamps. 

That’s a big thing for me. I made this whole card with stickers and super old paper by Creative Memories. I think it’s super cute so she probably loved it. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Hey Chicky card

This little chick and the flowers are stickers. I layered them onto a Making Memories chipboard shape/frame. The background is dry embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder. The rhinestones are from Want 2 Scrap. Thanks for looking.

Manly Monday 3 cuts of patterned paper birthday cards

All of the patterned papers are by SEI. The sentiments are all different. I'll try to identify them later. Thanks for looking.

Here's another card using that patterned paper.

July Calendar Layout using a former card

July Calendar 2019 and this calendar is done!!!

Bell stamp by Deep Red Stamp. It was heat embossed silver

Patterned paper by Bo Bunny. White cardstock by RE that was inked with distress ink. Star stencil is a Cricut negative with glimmer mist. Star border is by Cricut and also sprayed with glimmer mist

Star brad by Creative Imaginations.
I had a hard time finding all of my 4th of July creations. But here are a few.
Layout using the bell stamp
July fourth Calendar LO
Star Card
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty-2
Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Graduation card for Rockford graduate, Reach for the stars

The die cuts are from Sizzix. The graduate sticker is by Sticko. Orange inks from Prima. Stars from my stash. Stamps by Clear Dollar Stamps. The Reach for Stars stamp is by  and the hockey puck die cut is an old die. Thanks for looking. Side note-I couldn’t find the card the day of the graduation and had to use one from my stash. Ugh!

Rest, Relax, and Repeat Beach Scene Card

I made this beach scene card using off white colored cardstock that I tapped into different colors of ink to give it the textured look. I wish I would have made more than just for this card. 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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October Calendar Layout with the kids carving pumpkins

Here is the last October calendar page for year one of Wednesday calendar layouts. This one was from my Brother's 2021 calendar. The corners are from Recollections. I made the title with my Cricut. The epoxy sticker at the bottom is by Creative Imaginations. The second picture in this post shows the layout before the sticker and I'm half and half on it. Adding the sticker doesn't give your eyes a place to rest. But happily, it decreases the number of stickers in that package of stickers. On that sticker sheet, there's one with a cat that is ok to use on kids' cards but the last two stickers in the package are scary to me. Maybe they aren't scary. I will try to post a picture. 

This is me babbling.

I wish I was able to go in order, like this; all of the months from my brother's 2018 calendar on the first week of every month. Then the cottage's calendar 2018 for the second week. Then Paul's family calendar from 2018 for the third week and then I've made calendars for different people throughout the years to cover week 4 of the month...BUT I just can't get it organized to do it that way. My pictures folders are a mess and I can't figure out why. I'm the most organized unorganized person ever. I have labels on most things. I say most because it's one of the things on the list of help I need help finishing.

Organizing pictures is a BIG sigh followed by irritation followed by why can't I get someone to help me. I would pay them the going rate. Shoot, McDonald's is starting at $15. Starting! 
I made a list in outline form and #2 is I need a minion. Then
2a.) Get on my PC and delete duplicates. With that...I want the right pictures to go into folders that they are labeled to go into.
2b.) Clean up my blog, that one is harder than it sounds. Like 2a I want it to be done my way. Heck, once we established what I want, they could do it from home.
2c.) Use the label maker for all of my stamp sets. However,
2d.) I'm thinking of taking old stamps off the wood. But so many things come with that and maybe I need to make that decision before 2c.

2e.) Dance VHS project. I actually had someone that was doing that project. We were kicking ass on that project and then Covid hit and the project came to a complete halt. I think that it will be resumed.
2f.) 3 Inch disks project. I have a box of them that is how we saved things in the '90s. We had a camera that didn't have film, it had one of those disks. I have the converter to plug into my computer and move any worthy pictures onto my computer. The most important pictures I'm looking for are of my husband's back. Skin cancer comparison photos.
And the last thing that I've thought of that I need a minion for is...
2g.) Check and do the maintenance on my Copic markers. Though I love to play with them, they are not getting the love they deserve and it's resulting in the markers going dry and the nibs destroyed.
I have two people that would be perfect for the job but have both said not now. I'm going to hang onto that string of hope that they will say, I can help you with one of your tasks.
Until then, I have a list typed up on my blog ready to go.
Do you have anything you wish someone would do for you? Maybe I forgot it and need to add a 2h.)

Thanks for looking.

August Calendar layout First Communion

August Calendar layout that I made for my brother's calendar
Cricut background, the frame around the photo, and the cup.
Vellum sentiment by Die Cuts with a View.
Cross sticker by Jolee's.

Thank you for looking

Borders, Dry Embossing and an Epoxy Sentiment Card

So yesterday was my 24th wedding anniversary. Crazy to think that I am old enough to have been married that long. Fitting for the occasion I have an anniversary card to show you today. The sentiment is an epoxy sticker in a set of baby stickers. The die-cut is by Sizzix(I think). The yellow circle in the center is an image from a single small embossing folder by Cuttlebug. I punched it out with a circle punch from CM. The border dies are by Spellbinders. The patterned paper is from my stash.

Today is a great day to post a card that says, love. 

My biggest fan who loved everything I made, she died on this day in 2019.

My Mom. most of the time she was lovingly known as Beth. Liz. Lizzy. Lizard. Grandma. And our favorite, “Grandma Wizz”. A name was given to her by her youngest granddaughter that couldn’t say, Liz. The irony was my Mom always had to pee. I disliked when my Mom would say she had to go to the “Pee Palace”. SMH in embarrassment.

There are loving memories of her that have been floating around in my head. They make me smile more and not as sad as they once did.

May she Rest In Peace.

Thanks for looking

Manly Monday Wall Senior pictures of Spencer

I have a layout for Manly Monday as well as a chatty post.

This is my nephew Spencer. I replaced his 11th-grade picture on the wall with his senior pictures on this layout. Honestly, I don't like the layout of the wall. It's too busy. But I don't have time to replace it, so it is what it is.

Patterned paper-MAMBI, Close to my Heart, and Tim Holtz.

The pennant stickers were by Jolee's. They were the last ones in the package. It felt good to finish a package of stickers.

The handmade pennants use scraps of paper by Creative Memories.

The "class of" letters are Lawn Fawn.

The Spencer stamp is by...I can't find it. Do you remember when they had things with your name on them? As kids, my siblings and I always looked for our names anywhere they had things with names on them. My siblings' names were easy to find, Brian, John, and Jenny. Although, Jenny could only be found as Jennifer and my name was a challenge to find Cindy, not Cynthia.

Well, I found the names of family members on stamps. I bought all of them that I could find. 

You don't see names on things anymore. With so many unique names and the way people spell "normal" names not the normal way, I can only imagine that name stamps are a thing of the past.

My niece's name would be in the group of normal names spelled wrong.

Evelyn, right? No.

Evalynn.

Anyway,

Sorry I have been MIA.

My dog had to be put to sleep. That was big and really hard. But I can say, it is getting easier. Yet there are certain things that cue a tear or two.

Next thing,

My nephew's open house was last weekend and I FINISHED the books on time!!!

I was really proud of myself and proud of the books. They turned out fabulous. Like, I'm really excited to have completed the books on time, ON TIME!

I will have a lot to post and I hope you like them.

But for today, thanks for looking.

Summer Fun 2006 at the cottage scrapbook Layout

This book is of my nephew is coming together. 

In fact, I just scrapbooked his senior picture. 

I'm about to print prom and graduation day pictures.

This layout makes me happy because I was able to use SO many old products from my stash and you can't tell. 

The swimming stamps-Stampin Up 

The sentiment is by-Colorbok (Summer Fun)

There are no die-cut

Border sticker by the sunglasses stamped image-Mrs. Grossman's

Patterned papers by-Crate Papers (shaped background), Provo Craft (wavy blue),  My Mind's Eye (stripes), Queen and Co (polka dots), Unknown (fish paper to the right)

I love the sunglasses stamp. It's on a tab that comes in these ephemera packets and I never use them.

I should find someone to exchange ephemera packs with. I get sick of the same pieces and therefore only use a small portion of them. Anyway, Blah, Blah, Blah.

Distress markers colored on the back of the rubber stamps allow me to get multiple colors on my stamps.

Thanks for looking

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.

Thanks for looking

May Calendar layout Celebrate Happy Memorial Day

A calendar layout for Labor Day. The patterned paper is by Die Cuts with a View? Thanks for looking

Colorful and a bit obnoxious butterfly card

This card was donated to someone turning 40. So altogether the sentiment reads, “Sparkle and Shine, Say goodbye to 39.”

The butterfly stamps with matching dies are by Recollections

The embossed background is by Cuttlebug

The corner die-cuts are by Sizzix and the sentiment sticker is by Crate Paper

Thanks for looking