Monday, August 25, 2025
September Calendar Page and a Card
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Creative Memories Sketches- Two Layouts
Next, I used this double page sketch:I didn't have two sheets of patterned paper to use on the background, so I used a mask and ink blended the wonky ovals. I used my Cricut to cut the wave border, the circles, and the title. I embellished the page with some stickers, puffy stickers, and flair buttons. I love the soft colors of this one!
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Kindergarten
My photos are different sizes, but the grid worked well with these. I used several of the decorative branding strips for this layout. I used a couple of scraps of coordinating patterned paper as well. For the title, I used my Cricut to cut the letters on the little tabs. To embellish the page, I used some rub ons, stickers, and puffy stickers. At this point, I realized that I had the first and last day photos flipped. Since I had rub ons over them, there was no moving the photos, so I just swapped the labels which is why the last day of school photos are on top. I used my sewing machine to add the stitching.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
More Cards
This card started with the sticker. I knew I had some of this wave paper, so I cut a chunk to fit my card front. I used a light blue watercolor paper for the sky and layered the two papers together. I added the sticker to the top of the waves. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a scrap of the watercolor patterned paper and ripped the end before adhering it to the card. At this point, I felt like the sky needed a little something, so I added some water to a drop of gesso and splattered it on the background.
For this card, I started with the three popsicle panel. I added the sticker letters on the popsicles. I then found the houndstooth paper to use for the background. The red one on the bottom was actually pink, which was bugging me, so I colored over it with an orange marker to make it match the red in the popsicle. I used a border punch on another scrap of patterned paper for the strip below the popsicle panel. I finished off this card by covering the popsicles with Glossy Accents.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Masculine Cards
I have already shared some masculine cards over the last couple of days, but I have a couple more that didn't fit into either of the previous categories. For this first card, I used the July card sketch from Stick it Down and the inspiration picture from The Card Concept:
Monday, August 4, 2025
Cards with Die Cuts
For my next card, I used an embossing folder on silver foil cardstock for the background. I then adhered the die cut over the top- super simple!
For this card, I was using up some patterned papers from some collections that are pretty picked over. I decided to add a large popsicle to the center for the sentiment. I had initially made a pink popsicle, but I wanted to bring out some of the colors in the center panel, so I remade them green. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment with light blue embossing powder. I finished off the card with a sprinkle of sequins.
For my final card, I started with a tie die mask and blended it first in one colored and then turned it 90 degrees and blended it with a second color. I cut the soccer ball from vinyl, which tends to work better with designs this fine. I masked off the center of the card in the size of the ball before inking the background to keep the ball white. I cut the numbers from gold foil cardstock. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold. Funny story on this card- it's for my son, who turned 15. As I was finishing up the card, I remembered that my son's actual number is 16- oops, almost. 😝Sunday, August 3, 2025
Card Pairs
For my final pair, I used the same background stamp, heat embossing it with silver powder before watercoloring it with Distress inks. I used my Cricut to cut the sentiment and hearts for the anniversary card and the center medallion for the birthday card. I stamped and fussy cut the butterflies. I finished off the birthday card with a sentiment strip.