Tim Holtz Beer Blueprint Birthday Card

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m making a Tim Holtz Beer Blueprint Birthday Card for my son-in-law.

I used the stamp set shown above from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous called “Beer Blueprint.” The blueprint stamp sets have a foam backing – meaning they are really thick – so when using a MISTI, you have to remove the MISTI’s foam pad. If you’re using the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, you have to use the “rubber” side.
I found this card on Pinterest and it is my inspiration – I am intrigued by how the beer bottle is “behind” the mug.
First, I stamped the beer mug on a 4 x 5 1/4” piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper.
Then I stamped the beer mug again onto Inkadinkado’s stamping mask paper.
And cut out just the mug.
This creates a low-tack sticker that is placed over the mug on my card layer.
Shoot . . . I guess I was so excited about making this card that I forgot to take pics . . . Ugh . . .

Anyway, I put the stamped beer mug mask I cut out over the mug, and stamped the beer bottle over the mask – peeled off the mask – and It Looks Like The Bottle Is Behind The Mug!!!! Even through the mug handle!!!!

Then I used the Distress Oxide colors in Vintage Photo, Pumice Stone, Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Antique Linen, Rusty Hinge and Walnut Stain to watercolor the mug and bottle.
I blended the background around the images with Walnut Stain, Vintage Photo and Black Soot.
The sentiment is from the Close To My Heart Cricut Artistry S1508 stamp set.
To set the Distress Oxide ink, I blended some Judikins MicroGlaze over the entire layer – this keeps the DO from reacting to water – you know, in case beer gets spilled on it . . .
Here’s the finished card – it is definitely, in my opinion, one the best cards I’ve ever made.

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As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

January 2019 SSS Snow Much Card Kit

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I got the January 2019 SSS Snow Much Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp!

Above is an image from the SSS website of the kit – snowmen (I Do Love Snowmen) and wintery colors . . .
First up is the Strawberry Lemonade Charms sucker. Yum!!
There is always a sheet like this one in the kit – it shows inspiration cards created with products from the kit, as well as a list of the products.
There are two bags of Darice pom-poms – one colored and the other white.
There’s a mini bottle of Ranger Glossy Accents, a full-size pad of Custom Blend Distress Oxide, and a white Gelly Roll pen (mine didn’t work – if you watch unboxing videos of this kit, others had the same problem with the pen?????).
Thirty-one Darice assorted needles and a bobbin of white thread.
A Simon Says Stamp Schoolhouse Red envelope and a 6×6 pad of double-sided sheets of paper from Echo Park “Celebrate Winter.”
Three large black tags – these work great as embellishments on cards.
This is a SSS “Twirling Ice Skater” wafer thin die.
Gah, how cute is this stamp set???? I Love, Love, Love snowmen!!
The cardstock is #120 White, Surf Blue and Island Blue.
Card 1: I used the skater die, cutting it twice and then fussy-cutting the scarf, die cut an oval for the skater, adding a sentiment from the stamp set, and embellishing with sequins from my stash.
Card 2: I cut cardstock from the kit into pieces, creating the background, cut the penguin with my Brother Scan n Cut, and embellished the background with embossed snowflakes and sequins from my stash.
Card 3: I used the Tim Holtz Custom Blend Distress Oxide for this card – here’s a video showing the technique. The snowman was stamped and then cut out on the Brother Scan n Cut.
Card 4: The penguins were stamped and then cut out on the Brother Scan n Cut, and the card was embellished with some snowflakes from my stash.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

January 2019 scarlet lime Planner Society Kit

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! The January 2019 scarlet lime Planner Society Kit is here!!!! TPS Kits are now bi-monthly, rather than monthly. So, there are a few changes . . .

I get the Monthly Planner Society Kit Club subscription, as well as the Washi Tape Kit and the Box Sticker Kit. Above is a pic of the box. This is one of two planner kits I get each month – I love them both for different reasons. I love THIS one because it’s floral and girly – if you’re going to work, it may as well be in a pretty space, right?

FYI, I have no affiliation with The Planner Society, I just LOVE their planner kits 🙂
Here’s a peek inside the box.
The Washi Tape Kit now comes with four rolls – 30mm, 15mm, 10mm, and 5mm. There’s an extra roll of washi in the bi-monthly kits.
The Box Sticker Kit has full boxes, half boxes, quarter boxes, washi strips, clipboard boxes, headers, and more. Pretty sure these are exactly the same as the monthly kits????

The stickers are designed to fit in the Erin Condren, Inkwell Press, Paper Source planner, Happy Planner, and box style inserts from some etsy shops. The full boxes are 1.5” x 2”.
The planner kit comes in a patterned paper bag.
First, is this pouch with the same pattern as the paper bag and a cute pink and white check interior.
On the left are supplies to make pen loops – there’s a really good video on how to make them on YouTube. There is also a roll of washi and an adorable washi paperclip.
The felt flowers are really soft and lay pretty flat in my planner. There is also a flower cup patch, and a matching flower cup stamp.
These washi holders are new – I actually use them as bookmarks 😛

The clear adhesive pockets are pretty awesome, too. AND, they’re so pretty . . .
Two note pads are tied together with black & white gingham ribbon – one is for weekly planning and the other is daily. Isn’t that pen beautiful?
These are tabs and labels – there are the same number of tabs in the bi-monthly as the monthly had.
There are two sets of word toppers – one solid and the other with patterns from the kit. There’s actually one less of these than there were in the monthly kit . . .
Five square inspirational sentiment notecards and three rectangular graphic notecards.
The diecuts in the kit are large and really thick. How adorable are these?
There are four small sticker sheets – three are deco and one is washi.
This is a full sheet of glitter edgers and bows.
Six double-sided printed sheets of cardstock above – the cardstock is nice and thick and comes in the most beautiful patterns.
There are two printed sheets of vellum – one floral and the other pink houndstooth – and one solid colored sheet of pink cardstock with lace laser cut designs around the edges.
Above are two sheets of printed acetate – pink vines and gold spiral curls.
This is a pic of the kit in use in my blog planner. Pink and gray are one of my favorite color combinations.

If you want to see some of the differences between the monthly and bi-monthly kits, check out my December 2018 post.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

Pinkfresh Studio Unicorn Card

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m making a Pinkfresh Studio Unicorn Card for my daughter-in-law’s birthday. She’s an artist and I think she will appreciate the abstract unicorn on this card.

I used the “Magical Unicorm” stamp set from Pinkfresh Studio.
Above is the inspiration for the card. I didn’t make mine square – it takes extra postage.

The stamp and die set for my Pinkfresh Studio unicorn card were purchased from simonsaysstamp.com – again, it’s by Pinkfresh and is called “Magical Unicorn”.
I used Close To My Heart cardstock in Mint and White Daisy – die cutting the horn and two flowers out of the White Daisy and the ears and one flower out of the Mint.
Yeah, so . . . I changed my mind about about the horn and decided to emboss it directly on the card layer with Brutus Monroe Gilded Sparkle embossing powder – very gold and glittery!

Yep, it makes all the difference . . .
An ear was added on either side of the embossed horn.
Then the eyelashes were stamped with Brutus Monroe Raven ink.

Spacing the ears and eyelashes was surprisingly easy once the horn was in place.
The stars were included in the stamp set and were stamped with CTMH Ballerina ink. They were placed randomly as I turned the layer a quarter turn after each stamp.
So far so good, right? Next, I mounted the White Daisy layer onto a Mint layer.
Which was then mounted on a White Daisy card base.
The die cut flowers were stamped (this stamp was also included in the stamp set) with CTMH Ballerina ink and layered across the forehead of the unicorn mimicking a mane.
And . . . Wow . . . How pretty did that come out?

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

Anna Griffin Mini Stamps and Dies

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m using the Anna Griffin Mini Stamps and Dies to create some beautiful neutral cards.

This was on HSN in August, 2018. It was introduced to accompany the Mini Anna Griffin Die Cutting machine. It includes 12 stamps and 22 dies – there are birds, butterflies and lots of sentiments, including With Sympathy, Thank You So Much, Sending My Love, Birthday Wishes, as well as single words Happy, With, You, and Many.
The set comes in this three-hole-punched heavy plastic sleeve that fits in a standard three-ring binder. Above are the dies – each image comes with two dies so you can layer them.

I really like the cursive birthday, love, sympathy and thanks – they fit the entire width of an A2 card whether it’s vertical or horizontal.
These are the stamps from the set – not that many, BUT there are so many combination possibilities for the sentiments. This is definitely an all-purpose stamp set that I will reach for time and time again.
I made two cards with the die and stamp set. Above is the inspiration for the first card.
Here’s the finished card. The Scroll Embellishment in the background is from the Anna’s Window Box Cards cartridge. Everything else is from the die and stamp set. The cardstock is Whisper and silver foil from Close To My Heart.
This is the inspiration for my second card.
Above is the finished card – I often find I don’t have enough masculine card, so I used neutral colors. I used Anna Griffin cardstock for the card. The black leaf flourish is from Anna Griffin’s Rose Medley Candy Bag Topper – everything else was created with the die and stamp set.

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As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

February 2019 Cocoa Daisy Kit Simon & Betty

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! The February 2019 Cocoa Daisy Kit “Simon & Betty” is here!!!

I get the Monthly Cocoa Daisy Planner Kit subscription, as well as the Planner Add On and the Classified Kit. Above is a pic of the inside of the box. This is one of two planner kits I get each month – I love them both for different reasons. I love THIS one because it’s always so colorful and uses shapes and patterns throughout their designs – if you’re going to work, it may as well be in a pretty space, right?

FYI, I have no affiliation with Cocoa Daisy, I just LOVE their planner kits 🙂
The kits come with a card exemplifying the kits’ theme on one side and a note from Christine on the other.

The theme for this kit is “Chemistry” – my daughter is a Biochemistry Prof at the University of Wisconsin and she LOVED the female chemist, lol.
This is the Planner Add On Kit – the items in this kit are completely different from those in the Planner Kit.

Includes:
• A sticker elements sheet by Just Jaimee
• A general planner sticker sheet by Just Jaimee
• An extra sticker sheet by Just Jaimee
• Three 3×4 notecards
• A 4×6 notecard
• Page flags
• Die cuts by Just Jaimee
• Colorful Days washi
• A Betty enamel charm
• Sequin mix
• A Simon embroidery clip
This is the Classified Kit – it’s supposed to be a secret until it arrives. There are spoiler videos out there, but I like being surprised.

It includes a stamp set, two cards, a sheet of acetate, a roll of washi, some wire shape clips, and two sheets of stickers.
The main planner kit comes in a clear drawstring bag.
3×5 notepad by arleigh – Simon the Scientist “Let’s Test This Theory”
Candy heart sticky notes by arleigh
The crystal pen has a matte pink finish on the barrel, a set of crystals in the center and a Daisy on the end
Simon enamel charm – wearing a lab coat
The printed tag has a cascade of falling hearts on a watercolor background
Puffy conversation heart stickers – I sent these to my grandchildren
5×7 planner sticker sheet by arleigh
Date sticker sheet by arleigh
Tab label stickers by Just Jaimee
Six tab die cuts by arleigh
Planner die cuts by arleigh – Simon, Betty, arrows, paper airplanes, roses, birds
Candy hearts washi tape by arleigh
The Standard Dori includes:

Kraft cover that says “Start Here” with an arrow
Pages:
◦ Monthly Calendar
◦ 3 lined journaling pages
◦ 11 blank (with design) pages
◦ 10 graph paper pages with 3 sections
◦ 10 unlined pages with 3 sections
◦ Last page with design
A sheet of vellum with hearts . . . what I like about the heart-patterned products in this kit is that they’re not February specific. I mean, I really think I could use them any time.
Six 6×8 papers by Just Jaimee. See what I mean about the hearts? There are hearts pouring out of a faucet into a cup, an overall pastel background, and a gray heart patterned background – all of them can be used any time of the year.
How pretty is this????? I love the colors and patterns in these kits!!!!!!!
Here’s a weekly spread. I couldn’t resist fussy-cutting the faucet and cup from a sheet of the paper – doesn’t that look awesome? I mean, really . . .

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

Beer Foam Mug Birthday Card

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m making a Beer Foam Mug birthday card for my son-in-law.

Above is a screenshot of the design in Cricut Design Space – I started with a rectangle sized to fit on the front of an A2 card. This is EXTREMELY helpful when sizing an image. After sizing, I deleted the rectangle because it was no longer needed, of course.

The “Happy Birthday” placement was a little tricky. I had to turn it, size it AND place it in just the right place to fit in the opening. Eeek!!!
This is the inspiration for my card – which I found on Pinterest – my go-to place for card ideas. I was looking for a beer mug card because my son-in-law likes to drink beer, duuuuh . . .
Here are the cutout pieces. I used Close To My Heart cardstock in Colonial White, Clover and Saffron.

The beer mug is from the Cricut Everyday Popup Cards cartridge – free with an Access subscription – and I used the Cricut Algebra font for “Happy Birthday” – also free with Access.
I edged the mug and the bubbles with CTMH Saffron ink.
The mug is attached to the background piece – providing a base to attach the bubbles – hey, I did pretty good with the sentiment placement, right?????
And . . . Here are the bubbles. I started around the edge and layered the rest of the bubbles on top.
I chose a woodgrain background – perfect for a masculine card – AND a card with a mug full of beer, of course.
See what I mean????
Here’s the finished card with its envelope – I chose a cream card base and envelope that blends in really well with the wood-grain layer and the beer mug.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

Brutus Monroe Lucky You Inspiration Box

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! This is the December 2018 Brutus Monroe Lucky You Inspiration Box. This is a kit that comes with all kinds of products to make beautiful cards.

Above is a picture of the outside of the box – green plaid and a circle of all kinds of lucky items.
Oooo, here’s a peek inside the box.
There are four small bags of embellishments – coins, koi wood cutouts, red flat-back pearls, and gold flat-back pearls.
One entire yard of sheer gold ribbon and a roll of “wishing tree” foiled washi.
Scarlet surface ink and ColorShift aqua pigment.
This is a full-size stamp set called “Lucky You” – there are lots of images as well as sentiments – large as well as small.
Four different designs on toner cards that can be run through a minc with colored foil. I love these!!
Two sheets of glitter cardstock – gold and purple.
There are 14 sheets of cardstock in the kit – Raven, aubergine, red, lime green, marsala, eggplant and light heather.
Card #1: I heat embossed the background with shamrocks using Raven embossing powder. Then I blended it with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink in Squeezed Lemonade and Mowed Lawn. “You got this!” is embossed with Brutus Monroe Gilded Sparkle embossing powder. “I’d wish you luck . . .” Is embossed with BM Alabaster embossing powder.

I also used gold glitter cardstock, wrapped ribbon around the top layer, and added a gold flat-back pearl.
Card #2: I embossed shamrocks on the lime green cardstock with clear embossing powder and blended over them with TH Mowed Lawn ink. The gold glitter stock was embossed with Raven embossing powder, and the horseshoe was embossed with BM gilded embossing powder. Finally, I added three gold flat-backed pearls.
Card #3: This is a toner card run through my minc with gold foil. I embossed a horseshoe with BM gilded embossing powder on white cardstock. The sentiment is embossed with BM Alabaster embossing powder.
Card #4: The background was stamped all over with koi fish using BM Raven ink. I then filled in two of them with a gold marker, and added three gold flat-backed pearls. The sentiment was embossed with BM gilded embossing powder. Finally, I added three gold flat-backed pearls.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

December 2018 scarlet lime Planner Society Kit

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! The December 2018 scarlet lime Planner Society Kit is here!!!!

I get the Monthly Planner Society Kit Club subscription, as well as the Washi Tape Kit and the Box Sticker Kit. Above is a pic of the box. This is one of two planner kits I get each month – I love them both for different reasons. I love THIS one because it’s floral and girly – if you’re going to work, it may as well be in a pretty space, right?

FYI, I have no affiliation with The Planner Society, I just LOVE their planner kits 🙂
The Washi Tape Kit comes with three rolls of washi that are 30mm, 15mm, and 10mm wide. This month, it came in a paper bag with the Planner Girls on it.

The washi roll on the left has an awesome signature floral design.

The washi tape in the center has a pink floral design on a light blue background.

The washi on the right has a splatter design on a light pink background.
The Box Sticker Society Kit came in this black on white plaid patterned design paper bag. It includes a half sheet of clipboard stickers, a half sheet of full boxes, a half sheet of half boxes, quarter boxes, and washi strips, and a half sheet of decorative and functional stickers.

The stickers are designed to fit in the Erin Condren, Inkwell Press, Paper Source planner, Happy Planner, and box style inserts from some etsy shops. The full boxes are 1.5” x 2”.
The main planner kit came in this floral paper bag – don’t you just love the metallic stars and splatters??
How cute is this acetate pouch?

The plaid.

The pink.

The bow.
There are two sizes of acrylic stacked bows – I use them for bookmarks. Cool, huh????
These are plastic adhesive pockets – useful in so many ways . . . About time useful was pretty too . . .
These are made out of light pink velour – on the left is a planner clip and on the right is a wide clip.
I love how everything coordinates with each other as well as the papers.
Four mini sheets of stickers – they fit perfectly into the pockets of a TN (Travelers Notebook).
At the top are two sets of page tabs – one in metallic silver and the other in patterns from the kit. In the middle are three sheets of labels for the tabs – again in coordinating patterns with the kit designs.
The Planner Society die cuts are larger than those in most kits – there are also several journal cards included.
On the left is a large sheet of silver metallic puffy stickers and on the right is a fairly new item – scalloped glitter strips and bows.
There are six double-sided sheets in the top pic, and two sheets of vellum and one sheet of acetate in the bottom pic. Beautiful, beautiful paper . . .
I use this kit in my blog planner – it’s so pretty – plaid, floral, pink, black, blue – so, so pretty . . .
Here is a weekly spread where I organize projects for my blog and keep my blog writing on schedule.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

Brutus Monroe Dream Catching Card

Hi Guys! Come on in and see what I’m doing today! I’m making a Brutus Monroe Dream Catching Card for my daughter’s 38th birthday – seriously, I have a 38-year-old child.

That just blows me away . . .

Check out my Brutus Monroe Dream Catching Kit unboxing on a previous blog. Here’s a step-by-step birthday card I made from this kit.
I purchased the dream catcher cut file from the Brutus Monroe website – this makes life sooooo much easier – no fussy cutting the dream catcher. After cutting out the dream catcher on my Cricut, I stamped the design with Brutus Monroe Alabaster ink.

The purple background was created using a Brutus Monroe techniquehere’s a link to the video. The sentiment was die cut from a piece of white glitter cardstock using the Close To My Heart ‘Happy Birthday’ dies.
The purple layer was glued to a piece of white glitter cardstock.
Then it was glued to a white card base.
Next, I attached the dream catcher die cut to the front card base layer with foam tape.
Yeah . . . so . . . I attached the sentiment – BUT you can’t read it, there’s not enough contrast.

Okay, Plan B . . .
I cut another sentiment out of light purple glitter cardstock.

Sheesh . . . still not enough contrast . . . Hmmmm, Plan C????
Ok, so, I cut the sentiment out again from dark purple glitter cardstock.

Aaaah, there we go . . .

MUCH BETTER . . . It came out pretty good. I love the background and it was so easy to create.
Isn’t this a pretty card? The purple watercolored background paired with the Kraft dream catcher and alabaster embossing powder make a really striking contrast.

Hey, if you’d like to see some of my other projects, check out my Instagram and Pinterest board, and I would LOVE it if you would follow me.

As always, I’m Livin’ the Moments . . .

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