My Autumn Masculine Card for Die Cut Divas

The last day of the challenge at Die Cut Divas is today, sponsored by Dies R Us.  Submit a project featuring a Halloween or Autumn project.  You could win a $10 Voucher.

   

$10 Voucher Prize

I needed a masculine card and it could well serve as birthday, hello, cheers, or just a wonderful Autumn card. My friend had printed out some masculine cards she found on Pinterest, so I don't know who made the card of my inspiration, but I am grateful. I usually color, but nothing is colored on this card. The yellow cardstock makes a great background to bring out the Autumn colors and brick and wood squares.

Check out Die Cut Divas for our end of month "thank you" post here.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Garden Patch - 1 1/2 inch & mini petals

Elizabeth Craft Designs Through the Lens papers (Wood & Stone)

Little B Handwritten (for you)

QuicKutz Nesting Circles

Yellow cardstock in my stash

Vagabond die cut machine

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Dies R Us Just For The Guys

This Wood grain card might appeal to guys more than women, but I love the touch of wood in a card.  The Die Cut Divas has a challenge that gives a nod to the season here in the Northern Hemisphere, Autumn and specifically in the United States, Halloween.  Use either theme (to me, it's all Autumn because Halloween is in the Fall) and join the challenge at Die Cut Divas.

This frame actually has six (6) squares, but it's so easy to cut the middle bar right out for a bigger area and a wider use of the Garden Patch die.  You don't have to buy another die, although I can't say I'm not going to buy any more dies because I am.

I wanted something a bit masculine and woody even though the mice don't appear masculine, but I think they create a fun element.  I've published this post on my blog at A Bit of This and That.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Design Dies - Winter Wish - at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Design Dies - Garden Patch 1 1/2 inch & mini petals at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Design paper Through the Lens Wood paper
Hero Arts Christmas Mice stamps and dies at Hero Arts or A2Z Scrapbooking
Vagabond die cut machine
Copic markers

A Cup Full of Happy

Dies R Us has many dies available for your happy use.  The challenge this month is "Anything But a Card at Die Cut Divas and this is your last day to participate.  The challenge closes at 9:00 p.m. Pacific today.  Be sure to get your submission in on time.



Tags are usually fun to make, but I had a die set that I wanted to play with and had to think out of the box, or cup on this challenge.  Here are the results, Tea Cup Tags.  I made a couple for Christmas time and two for birthdays or other happy events.  Each tag has a teacup shaped panel behind it so a message could be included. This post is also at Dies R Us.

Close-ups below

I will be using these for birthdays and then Xmas tags for my tea-drinking friends.

Aupplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup at Dies R Us

Little B Handwritten

Elizabeth Craft Designs Noel

Ribbons

Patterned papers

Vagabond die cut machine

Calendar For Show

It's a Dies R Us month for Die Cut Divas with an "Anything but a Card" challenge



This post is on the Die Cut Divas' blog right here.

I've had this Tim Holtz calendar for more than three years and with working, stamping and otherwise busy, I only took it out and said I'll get to it later.  Later finely came.  And YES, it took a lot of time to cover everything with patterned paper, then determine what die cuts to use on each paper, cut the images and finally arrange and attached them, keeping in mind what patterns and images might be next to the tab I was working on.  Most of the time, the tabs work well together.


LOTS OF PHOTOS:

All Completed Months Laid Out

All Completed Days Laid Out

All Completed Dates 0 - 3 Laid Out

All Completed Dates 0 - 9 Laid Out

Finally, a completed Calendar

My BLUE MONDAY is a bit dark to show up well.

This was a lot of work, but it was well worth it. 

Supplies:

Lots of Elizabeth Craft Designs dies available at Dies R Us

Local King Rubber Stamps and Dies- only the snowman tab

Sizzix ABC - I used only the numbers
Crafty Sentiments Designs - boy on chair
February is a commercial card of a house

I'm entering the challenges below.

Classic Design Team Challenge Blog (Anything Goes)

Craftingwith an Attitude (Anything Goes)

Create and Makes Challenge Blog (Anything Goes)

The Crafty Addicts - Anything Goes

Crafty Creation Challenges Anything Goes 

A Professional and Serviceable.Folder

A folder for men or women, professional and serviceable.  Check out Die Cut Divas to join our challenge for July, Anything But A Card.

Since the challenge for this month is to make something other than a card, I needed to make a folder for my Toastmaster speeches and evaluations so I could identify my folder from others in my file cabinet.  I didn't want to go too crafty with this folder, but just needed a label.  The key is the key to unlocking your own success through Toastmasters.


I've done two different labels, the first one was my first attempt and the second label is for more folders for our Toastmasters' club for their online manuals.

Second label, which I like better than the first.

My folder with label below

Arlene at A Bit of This and That

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Design Stitched Rectangles at  Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Design Alphabet 2 - Lower Case at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Design Steampunk Charms - 6 dies set at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Design Labels & Circles not in stock, any framing die will work
File Folder
Vagabond die cut machine

There's a New Challenge at Die Cut Divas

Dies R Us is Die Cut Divas' fabulous sponsor for July and it's Anything But A Card time.


I've made a notebook (I'm calling it a notebook for lack of a better name) in 2017 so I could keep track of my DT creations.  I never finished the inside of the front cover and decided to remedy that with a scene, totally made of die-cuts. The scene reminds me of a spring day out in the foothills.

Close-up below

New page inserted back into the notebook

Supplies:

Elizabeth Crafts Hot Air Balloons at Dies R Us

Elizabeth Crafts Beach Edges not longer in stock, however Adventure Edges is in stock at Dies R Us

Elizabeth Crafts Stitched Rectangles at Dies R Us

Impression Obsession - Classic Truck at Dies R Us

Memory Box mini clouds - not in stock, but search for clouds at Dies R Us

Hero Arts sentiment from an old stamp set

Scrap Papers

Hero Arts stencil - Spiral Stencil with light sponging of distress ink (whatever was left on one of my          sponges)

Vagabond die cut machine

End of Year Season's Greetings

Last Day of the year and Die Cut Divas is thanking Dies R Us for it's sponsorship. Be sure to check Die Cut Divas blog out here.


I have not used the Birch Trees dies very much at all, so it was time to put a scene together.  I liked the idea of a dark Water Blue or Sky Blue as a background for a forest of white birch trees. There are two layers of beach edges faking it as snow banks where I poked trees in  so that there are actually three layers of trees, a couple on the panel with the truck, several more under that panel and more under the layer against the blue card.  The truck is entirely made of a heavy shiny cardstock that I have no idea where I got it.  This is such a neat truck too.  I thought Red hub caps worked here too.

Close-up of truck and birch forest

Supplies:
Impression Obsession Birch Trees at Dies R Us
Impression Obsession Class Truck at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Designs Beach Edges - yes used them for the snow
Copic marker for the birds R27 & R29
Black shiny paper for the truck
Nuvo Crystal Drop Red Berry on the hubcaps
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stickers (Season's Greetings)
Vagabond die cut machine

Die Cut Divas' Let It Snow

Join the Die Cut Divas for the Winter challenge here.

I've worked with some different dies (for me) and I have enjoyed putting them together to make a composite I do like.  I took the corner die-cut and laid it over the ornament and used it as a stencil, dabbing the distress paint onto the ornament.  I thought that would tie everything together.  Visit us at Die Cut Divas for more samples and to join in on the challenge for December.

Close-up of ornament & die-cut showing one is the negative of the other.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitched Rectangles at Dies R Us

IO Dies Vintage Ornament at Dies R Us

Tutti Designs Snowflake Corner at Dies R Us

Cottage Cutz Le It SNow (Dies R Us has a lot of "Let it snow" sentiments here)

Distress Paint Broken China

Marvy's La Plume Gold

Vagabond die cut machine

Up-cycling a Tree

Hi there, I'm subbing in for Dawn B today at the Die Cut Divas..




Dies R Us is our sponsor and you could win a $10 gift certificate on a random draw of entries to the Winter Challenge this month,at Die Cut Divas. I die cut this tree with several others a year ago and now's the time to use this beautiful tree die cut.  I like to make something used into something new and this tree is cut from a tissue box that my friends from work saved for me.  I doubt that you would have known the origin of my tree unless I told you.  And no one would know this is a tissue box on the card itself.  I am pretty proud of the fact that I re-use many things that would just be put in the re-cycle without going through a re-use first.

To make the Window Frame, I left the frame in the die and dropped the glue onto the panels. I put the upside down frame about 1/2 inch from the edge of my desk.  I turned the card front upside down on top of the frame and pressed the card onto the die, lifted up and my frame was attached to the card in a perfect frame.   I left the center cuts out because I thought it would frame the tree better.

Close-up below.  The paper is that shiny.

Supplies:

Cheery Lynn Designs Frame Window B at Dies R Us

Dees Distinctively Die Overlay 3 at Dies R Us

Cottage Cutz Le It Snow (Dies R Us has a lot of "Let it snow" sentiments here)

Rinea double-sided foiled papers from The Stamp Doctor

Vagabond die cut machine

Lots of BRRRRRR

Check out the Die Cut Divas blog for December's challenge.

Looking at my card, can you guess?  It's BRRRRr Winter time in the U.S. and lots of places are turning cold or are COLD.  I can see snow across the valley to the mountains after it snows.  That's close enough for me.  I can go see the snow when I want, play in the snow when I want, and have a jolly good time in the snow when I want.  It doesn't have to get up close and personal all the time. 

Check out the December 1st post for sponsor and challenge.

Close-up

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Sprig with Berries at Dies R Us  (unfortunately mispelled as Prig with Berries

Elizabeth Craft Designs Brrrrr at Dies R Us  (cut twice and layered)

Elizabeth Craft Design Stitched Rectangles at Dies R Us
Graduated colored panel is from a 12" X 12" paper pad from Michaels 3 years ago
Nuvo Crystal Drops in Berry Red and Woodland Green
Sprig is cut from a metallic green paper from my scraps
Vagabond die cut machine

Taking a Balloon Ride

Time for making those guy cards and usually I can't think of anything, however I thought a hot air balloon might be just the thing.  It looks rather like Halloween, but that was not my intention.  It'll still be a guy card to me.

Close-up of balloon and branch in the background.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Hot Air Balloons at Dies R Us (small balloon used here)
Elizabeth Craft Designs Through the Lens Metal used for "hello" and "balloon"
Spellbinders Labels 8
Memory Box Delicate Branch Frame
Little B Handwritten (die)

Shipping Out to a Fantastic Day

And the Die Cut Divas challenge continues. I love sailing ships and who could resist this one.  I used black card stock and copper paper from The Stamp Doctor.  I love the look of the copper sail and embellishments.  The die cut set is such fun to work with.  

This post is on Die Cut Divas.

Clos-up of the ship. 

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Boat at Dies R US
Card stock & Copper paper
Vagabond die cut machine
Old Hero Arts wood block sentiment

Die Cut Divas new September Challenge

The beginning of a new challenge at Dies R Us begins today.  Be sure to visit and see our examples and what the challenge is all about at Die Cut Divas.

The sponsor this month is Dies R US.


I thought the use of a limb was perfect to set my owl upon.  I am quite happy with the results.  No stamping at all.  Such a fun expression for the owl too.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Poppy the Owl
Elizabeth Craft Designs Through the Lens WOOD background paper
Spellbinders Labels 8
Memory Box Delicate Branch Frame
Little B Handwritten (dies)
Decorative paper for the owl.

Season's Greetings

The last card of the year and I'm still feeling the happy glittery feelings of the season.

Here is the last card of the year for Die Cut Divas. Until next year, have a great end of the year.
This is my sample at Die Cut Divas.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Season;s Greetings at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Designs Fitted Rectangles at Dies R Us
Spellbinders Stars

A Wheelbarrow full of Shells

Die Cut Divas' Sponsor is

The challenge is Layering or Layer It.  

I was in the mood for something different.  I used a wheel barrow from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Wheelbarrow at Dies R Us

Elizabeth Craft Designs Stickers with Cold Diamond colored with Copic markers.

This is my sample card at Die Cut Divas.

Chilly The Penguin

Die Cut Divas' Sponsor is

The challenge is Layering or Layer It.  I made this card for Die Cut Divas here.

I had created the backgrounds with an older Hero Arts stamp, Chalk Background.  I used white ink on black glossy paper, first and second stage stamping.  I came across the paper when going through papers to select a background for this cute penguin.  I had to think black and white, so sponged the holly branch with Distress ink Black Soot.  My pops of color come from the berries, scarf and little orange tones of feet and beak.  I hope you like this because I really do.  It's different and I like it.  

This card turned out to be a glittery arty card.

Supplies:
Elizabeth Craft Designs Fitted Rectangles at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Designs Chilly the Penguin at Dies R Us
Elizabeth Craft Designs Sprig with Berries
Black Glitter Paper
Blue Glitter Paper for scarf
Wink of Stella on body, beak scarf, sprig & berries

Our December Challenge

December First at Die Cut Divas

I created two cards because I need several gift card holders for the holidays. With wonderful dies for outside and inside, I was able to make two wonderful cards.  My kids will receive restaurant gift cards in these wonderful projects.  The large dies create an easy way to decorate the front of a card.   Be sure to join the challenge of layers at Die Cut Divas.

Blue Card

 Inside of Blue Card - some glittery paper for a backdrop

Red Card

Inside of Red Card 

Lots of room to write a nice message.

Supplies

Elizabeth Craft Designs Sleigh Gift Card Holder at Dies R Us

Elizabeth Craft Designs  Seasons Greetings at Dies R Us

Cuttlebug

Glitter Paper for the sentiment

Designer papers