Landscape Rectangle Accordion Card - Happy Birthday Masculine

 

So I found metal dies by Karen Burniston.  How fun!  I normally use my Silhouette or Cricut to make things, but her dies are so fun!  I must admit, I bought a few.  Shhhh....don't tell.  LOL.  This is the Landscape Rectangle Accordion Die.  I always struggle with making masculine cards, but I think this one nailed it.  The truck is Stampin' Up Trucking Along.  It goes great with this card I think and masculine!  Just love it.  

With Sympathy Card

I just got this new Stampin Up Birds and Branches set and decided to make a sympathy card.  I just love these little birds.  We just lost my niece to covid so I made this card for my brother and his wife and thought I would tuck in a check to help with the funeral costs.  I figured that money in this case in lieu of flowers would be appropriate.  I am so over covid and so sad that it is here to stay.  My heart goes out to all who have lost loved ones due to this awful virus.  No everyone suffers a loss, but in our case, we did.  I think these birds make a pretty card and look forward to using them again.

https://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-623-wreath-for-all-season.html 

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2021/10/challenge-55-anything-goes-with.html

https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2021/10/october-2021-challenge-11-anything-goes.html

Snowman Swing Card

Do you want to build a snowman?  I had fun making this swing through snowman card for some challenges this week.  Isn't it sweet!  I just got these stamps and wanted to use them so it was perfect.  Love these little guys!

Little Red Wagon Snowperson challenge

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/01/challenge-584-christmas.html Christmas -snowman 

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2021/01/shopping-our-stash-437-i-need-cup-of.html Cocoa

https://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/01/challenge-197.html Favorite products, dies and stamps

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2021/01/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-133.html AG

Quarentine Mask Cards

Someone on one of my groups shared a link of a lady sharing this cute little digi quarentine stamp.  I wish I could remember who that was to give you the link and her credit, but I can't remember now.  I made several of these cute little cards to send to friends to make them smile during this time.  I hope they like them.  The stamps was the same, but I just used a 6x6 paper pad I had so the backgrounds were all different but not too much.  I think they turned out fun.  

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-552-patterned-paper-or-create.html patterned paper

https://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/06/challenge-165.html layers

Congratulations Reveal Wheel Card

I had bought these cute little stamps and the reveal wheel set and wanted to use it.  I must admit, these are so fun!  It takes a bit to get the stamps to line up, but such a fun interactive card.  These are a perfect way to use up those 6x6 paper pads that we all have stashed around.  I love how it turned out.  I wish them luck as they move on to new adventures in their life and hope they enjoy the card and remember us! 

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2019/10/challenge-520-dont-forget-about-me.html Don't forget about me.
https://www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e78a445a800-challenge-605-sparkles sparkles (the gold stripe is sparkly shiny paper)

Get Whale Card Reveal Wheel

This was such a fun card to make.  When you turn the wheel, it says, "get whale soon."  I must admit, the hardest part of the whole card is actually getting the words to appear in the window the way they are suppose to.  It's close but I still need to find out how to fine tune that process.  Here's to hoping I can find an easy way.   LOL.  

http://justusgirlschallenge.blogspot.com/2019/07/just-us-girls-color-week-497.html color pink, dark pink, and green 

http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2019/07/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-94.html AG

https://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/07/challenge-120.html mood board, sea

Picture Changer - Smile, Frog, Rainboots

I LOVE LOVE these picture changer cards.  How absolutely fun is this?  This has got to be a way to make someone smile.  I think I could play with them all day.  So much fun to make and receive.  It was also a fun way to learn to use more stamps.  I have been a scrapbooker for years, but I have only been a stamper for about a month.  Sometimes, it is fun to do something new.  So much fun!

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-583-square.html square

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-498-flower-frenzy.html flower

https://alwaysfunchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-111.html  color challenge

3 Peaking Bird Card

What a fun project.   I saw a few cards online like this and decided to give it a try.   I love these little birds.  They are so fun!  I am still learning to blend with my markers, but I think, these turned out pretty cute.  

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-580-tie-bow.html bow

Happy Birthday Bear Card

This was a fun card to make.   I used my new metallic rubons to create the metal look on the embossed cogs in the background.  It turned our so nice.  This card is for my FIL.  Inside it says, "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional!"  LOL.  Like father, like son....just sayin.'  

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-512-9th-of-may-annual-bloghop.html

Mother's Day Card

I finally jumped on the metal die cut band wagon.  I have been scrapping and card making for years and use my cutting machine all the time.  However, metal dies are something that I have never gotten into...I can cut almost anything I need on my machine and a die is limited to only one size so I never felt a need.  Well, I found a group online that uses unbranded dies.  One thing that I love about dies is the intricacy that they have that just isn't the same when cut on my machine.  So finding a bunch of cheaper dies, I thought it would be fun to have a few flourishes, frames, and flowers that I could cut quickly for projects while my machine is cutting other items.   This is my very first die cut card.  I think it turned out nice.   With that being said though, 2 of the 8 dies that were unbranded did not cut but the ones that did, cut so nicely!  Still waiting to see if the company will do anything about the ones that don't cut or not so we shall see if it is really worth it or not.  Of course the 2 most expensive ones were the 2 that didn't cut.  Hmmmm.... anyone else had that issue?

https://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2019/03/challenge-575-feminine.html feminine

Pop and Twist Happy Birthday Card

I have been seeing these pop and twist cards all over the internet.  I made a couple for Christmas but my Mom had a birthday coming up and I thought she might think it was fun so I made a birthday card for her.  These are so fun...to make and to give!  Plus the yellow papers on this card are all left overs from other projects so a win/win all the way around.  Happy Birthday Mom!

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2018/10/challenge-468-digi-do.html digi stamp
https://alwayshappybirthday.blogspot.com/2018/10/reminder.html birthday
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2018/10/himcr-374-super-scraps-saturday-october.html scraps
https://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.com/2018/10/october-2018-challenge-1-whats-your.html using my cutter for just about everything is my scrappy power - LOL
http://cardztv.blogspot.com/2018/10/cardz-tv-anything-goes-challenge-69.html AG