Two More Christmas Cards

Two more Christmas cards done. I used one of my newer dies sets for the background. The sentiment is die-cut, also.

And the complementary card, using the reverse pieces. The white is sparkly card stock.

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Christmas with Gold

I have a few Christmas cards to share with you over the next few days. Nothing special, but progress. Actually, I'm doing quite well with them. It's my calendars that I REALLY need to work on!

This first one features some pretty paper from a beautiful Christmas paper pad which was a gift from a friend. The deer ornament and the branch were cut with dies. I added some gold cord to the ornament and placed it right beside the edge of the patterned paper. The ornament is popped up on foam squares.

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Happy Birthday, Dear Daughter!

Seems impossible, but our daughter turned 50 years old yesterday!! Gosh, I'm barely older than that myself! :-) Here is the card that I made for her.

The "50" was cut with dies. I added Versamark to them, then sparkly embossing powder and then Ultra-Thick embossing powder, making them more like embellishments. I cut that panel with a new-to-me die. The patterned paper and the ephemera are from Gina K.

Here is the inside. Again, more Gina K products and die-cutting.

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More Purple Flowers

I believe this completes my use of items from my friend Cheryl's (Paper Panacea) visit. :-) She brought over this flower die set for me to use. The sentiment was foiled with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. It's actually silver, even though it doesn't look like it in the photo.

The sentiment on this one is from Taylored Expressions and came from my sentiment box. The embossed background was done with one of Cheryl's embossing folders.

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White Anniversary

Another card thanks to Cheryl from Paper Panacea. The embossing folder and the sentiment with die belong to Cheryl. I added the gems - from Gina K.

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Book-Fold "Surprise" Card

My friend, Cheryl (Paper Panacea) showed me this fold, so of course I had to make a card like. (Thanks, Cheryl!) She also supplied me with the stamp and die to make the sentiment that I used. This is a book-fold card with the "surprise" in the middle. The papers and ephemera are from Gina K.

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Purple Greetings

My friend, Cheryl (Paper Panacea) brought over these dies for me to use last week. I made three cards with this flower. I added a little bit of color brushed over each of them, so they are all slightly different. Some petals are popped up, as well as the leaves. The backgrounds were embossed with folders that Cheryl brought, also. The first and third sentiments are from Taylored Expressions and the middle one is from Gina K - foiled.

For this third one, I added just a tinge of purple on the embossed background.

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Mr and Mrs

My friend, Cheryl (Paper Panacea) brought over this embossing folder with coordinating die when she came over last week. The colored flowers and leaves are the die-cut. I used some foam dots under the leaves. The sentiment was die-cut and in my parts. It's cut from foil.

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Curved Sentiments

My friend, Cheryl, (Paper Panacea) came over to play in my stamping room on Friday and brought over a few things to borrow. One thing I had asked her to bring was the die that cuts this curved border and the stamps to use on it. I cut and stamped several of them, with various greetings. Here are two of them being used. Thanks, Cheryl!

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September Calendar Page

My calendar page for September. Weird that there will only be three more for this year!!

The background was done using a Gina K stencil. The leaves are embossed with gold powder and are also from Gina K. Welcome to September!

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