Hot Foil Christmas Card

Finally, another Christmas card! This card is 6 1/2 inches by 5 inches. I did the image using my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment is popped up. It's from Gina K and is actually silver - done with Gina's foil. There is a thin red strip below the sentiment which was hot-foiled.

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Even More Dies and Foil

I pulled out this die, also, last week. It cuts the open dots. I matted with yellow and added the butterfly and the sentiment, which were both done on the Glimmer Hot Foil system and cut out with dies. The butterfly is on vellum. Both are popped up on foam squares.

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More Hot Foil

These cards were both made with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment on this first one is from Gina K. I trimmed down three sides of the image panel. Then I added thin metallic strip stickers around the three edges that I trimmed down.

I wanted some subtle color on this one, so I used my lightest Copic markers.

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Hot Foil and Dies

All of these cards are similar. I used dies to cut the borders. The flowers are all from Gina K that I had made earlier using stamps, stencils and dies. I used my Glimmer Hot Foil system for the sentiments. (Some of the sentiments are from Gina K - stamped and die-cut.) Then I put the pieces together to make these cards.

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More Anniversary Wishes

Same patterned paper as yesterday's. Sentiment from Gina K. Embossing with a Darice folder. I donate cards to our church to help out the library. I noticed we were out of anniversary ones, so I have to replenish the supply. 

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Anniversary Wishes

While I was looking through my supplies for yesterday's embossing folder, I came across this one, so I thought I would use it. It cuts out the center as it embosses the rest. I lightly ink-blended on it. I added patterned paper behind it, with a sentiment from Gina K. The flowers are ancient ones from Michael's that I also ink-blended on. I added enamel dots for the centers.

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Birthday Cattails

I needed a birthday card for my brother, and this first one is the one that he got. Or hopefully will get by his birthday on Tuesday! I don't generally make cards for specific people, but I don't have any masculine cards in my stash. I ink-blended the background. For the sun, I ink-blended it on the cut-out pieces and added them back in. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Edited to add: The die is from Memory Box.

Since I had the die out, I made another card. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug/Anna Griffin embossing folder. The sentiment is again from Gina K.

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Another Hot-Foil Anniversary

Another card made using my Glimmer Hot Foil system - the bottom part is foiled. The top was embossed with a Darice folder. The sentiment is from Gina K and die-cut. The little flowers are die-cuts, also. The circle is popped up on foam squares. It's really hard to see, but there is a thin strip of black cardstock between the white embossed piece and the foiled piece.

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Hot Foil Anniversary

I keep thinking that I need to sell my Glimmer Hot Foil system. I don't use it much and I don't have much for plates. But, I spent some time making anniversary sentiments and a few other things the other day. Then I ran across a couple seldom used dies and had to try those out, too. So here is the first of my latest creations.

The opening was done with a die. I embossed a piece of vellum with a Darice folder and put it behind the opening. I popped the entire panel up on foam squares. The flowers and leaves were die-cut from scraps of foiled cardstock. The sentiment is popped up on foam squares, also. I have one more card for tomorrow. I hope to get some more time and finish up some more cards very soon. It's summertime - time for golf and pickleball! 

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Congrats, JP!

The son of some of our friends graduated from high school this year, and here is the card that I made for him. I'm quite sure I must have made a card like this before, but this is unique with his colors and initials. :-) I used my JustRite Stamper for the stamped part. Dies for the circles. QuicKutz dies for the hat and diploma. Cuttlebug folder for the embossed background. That's about it.

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June Calendar Page

Oh my goodness, it's June! How did that happen? Here is my calendar page for this month. The image is from My Favorite Things and the sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. I did the coloring with Stampin' Up! chalks. Anyone still have those? :-) That's all there is to it! Happy June!

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More from the Altenew Set

I had these pieces on my table from when I was playing with the Altenew set from a few days ago. I thought I would put them on cards instead of in my card parts book. This first one is a z-fold card.

The embossed bottom piece on this card is from my card parts book from ages ago.

The other half of the ancient embossed piece.

I brayered ink on to the embossing folder before embossing. It wasn't perfect, but I like the looks of it. The sentiment is silver-foiled.

Back to the thought of switching the spare bedroom and the stamping room around. I was actually ready to start doing that!! But, I measured again and realized that there is no way all my card-making supplies would fit into the other room, so now I definitely have to put the idea out of my head. No window, but lots of room. :-)

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Musical Birthday

A very quick card for today. A couple weeks ago, I was looking through my supplies to see if there was anything that I could get rid of. I came across my Stampin' Up! Coluzzle system. Anyone remember those?? It was before dies! I had to try it out, for old time's sake. I cut these two circles with it. (It also cuts ovals.) Of course, I couldn't toss them. One was white, so I used a blending brush to add slight color around the edges and added the purple circle over it. Then I embossed them with a Sizzix folder and mounted on foam squares. The music die cut was in my card parts and I added it on top of the circles. The sentiment is stamped and die-cut with a Gina K set and popped up. I embossed the background piece with a Darice embossing folder.

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More Die-Cut Pieces

Another card using the Altenew set from a couple days ago. I stamped, colored, die-cut and popped up the images for this card. The sentiment is from the same set. I added a couple of scored lines to the center panel, and I also added the black nail head stickers. I have a few more images from this set ready to use. Maybe I'll use them very soon.

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Christmas Folk Art Cards

I got this set from Altenew in January, and I finally used it. There is much more I could do with it, but for now, I'm kind of wondering why I got it! There is a 3D embossing folder, stamp set, stencils and dies. It was really discounted and I couldn't resist it. I'll revisit it at a later date, I'm sure. Because this set had never been used, I am adding it to Darnell's NBUS blog.

For this first card, I stamped with a dark gray ink, then used the stencils to do the coloring. That was a bit of a pain, because some of the stencils had to be cleaned and flipped over between colors. After coloring it, I used the die to cut the top edge and then used the embossing folder over the stamping. Unfortunately, you can hardly see the embossing. I added the sentiment, which was included in the set, and also some Star Dust Stickles in a few places.

A simpler version - just die-cutting the edge, embossing, and matting. Added the sentiment and a few nail-head stickers.

And the simplest of all - embossing a card front and adding it to the card base and then adding a foiled, die-cut sentiment from Gina K, popped up on foam squares.

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Z-Fold with Pop-out Panel

I got a Mother's Day card from an on-line friend. (Thanks, Donna!) I love the layout, so I finally made a "special fold" card. All the stamps, stencils and dies are from Gina K. It's basically a Z-fold card with an extra pop-out in the center. You can pretty much see it in these photos. I made two of them.

It's been great to have some time in my stamping room, but this is all I've got for now.

Oh, I had mentioned switching my stamping room with the spare bedroom in order to have a window in my stamping room. After MUCH deliberation with myself, I decided to scrap that project. It makes me sad, but I'm just not sure I could arrange things to have everything as convenient as I have it now. 

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Hanukkah and Christmas

I came across a present I received from our daughter in 2006. I do know the date, because it's a calendar where each date is a separate page and meant to be reused for scrapbooking. It says to just add a photo to the center and put it in a scrapbook. I decided I better use the sheets, or just get rid of it. Well, it's MUCH too hard to just get rid of something! So, I made 14 cards so far from it - four Hanukkah and ten Christmas. For almost all of them, I cut out the center image and matted it then added foam squares. Then I cut down the background to fit a card front and re-added the image. I'm not going to show all of them, because they are all basically the same thing. The first three cards are A2 size and the last one is bigger. My plan is to add sentiments to them, but I think they would even be fine without them.

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May Calendar Page

Well, May snuck up on me, for sure! Here is my calendar page for the month. The stamp is from Stampendous and I colored it with Copic markers. The patterned paper is from an ancient matstack from Recollections. I really like using that stuff on my calendar pages because it is so thin and the pages fit nicely into the frame. Happy May Day to all!!

I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing well, just busy with so many other things and hardly any time in my stamping room. I am considering a huge project, though. My stamping room does not have a window. We have a guest bedroom that rarely gets used. I'm thinking of switching them around. I would love a window, but I do also love the arrangement of my current room. I've been making diagrams and trying to figure out how it would work out, and it seems as though it might be okay. I guess I'll think about it more and make my decision soon. Wish me luck! :-)

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A Foxy Little Thank You

This cute little fox was created using a die set from Gina K that I got in January. I made up a few of each of the little critters and, again, never put them on a card. Well, here is one of them - finally. He is popped up on foam squares, of course! The sentiment is from Hero Arts and is die-cut and popped up. Just a simple and cute little thank you.

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More Patterned Paper

These three frames were cut from patterned paper and matted with gold foil and stuck into my card parts quite a long time ago. I used Gina K sentiments and ephemera to decorate them up. I stamped a sentiment on the inside of this first one that says, "friendship is about who came and never left your side."

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Cute Critter Birthday

I remember stamping, coloring and die-cutting several critters probably back in November or so and then never doing anything with any of them. I don't even remember which company they are from. But, here is one of them on a card. All of the stamped elements are popped up on foam squares. The heart balloon was originally colored in pink, but it looked more like a card for a boy, so I added blue marker over the Diamond Glaze that I had already added to it.

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Card -Part Frames

These cards were all made with die-cut frames from my card parts, partnered with patterned paper. The sentiments are all from Gina K.

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Simple Birthday

This scrap of patterned paper was left over after I used some to decorate a small jar for my stamping room. I matted it with purple and popped it up on foam squares. The background was embossed with a folder from LDRS and matted with the same purple. The sentiment is from Gina K and die-cut.

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Warm Birthday Wishes in Pink

I finally had a few hours to spend in my stamping room, and it was awesome! I am finding, though, that even as I'm working to use up my card parts, I am making more!! Drat! Oh well, it's all fun.

Today my card is made with one of Gina K's newer kits - but probably December or January, so not the latest. The flowers were done with stamps, stencils and dies. They are popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is also from Gina K and is popped up. The background was left over from one of my more recent sessions and was done with an Impressibility. I brushed ink very lightly over the debossed side and matted with black.

I have a few more cards to share, so I'll be back for the next several days.

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April Calendar Page

Oops - April Fools!! (On me.) I forgot to schedule this post. At least it's still going up on the First. 

Here is my calendar page for April. I used dies from My Favorite Things for the umbrella, a stencil for the background and my computer for the sentiment. You can't tell in the photo, but the umbrella handle is cut from foil cardstock. Happy April to all.

I just don't seem to be able to find time to spend in my stamping room! Not sure where all the time goes, but ... Hopefully I'll get back to card-making and blog-reading again soon.

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Warm Birthday Wishes

This ivory panel that I had die-cut many years ago is no longer in my card parts. I stamped the sentiment on to it and then used an Impressibilities plate covered with light pink ink to deboss the design on to it. I added the slightly patterned paper to the bottom of the card front and stamped the rest of the sentiment on it.

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Another Butterfly Anniversary

The white die-cut panel for this card was also in my card parts for years and years. I stamped the sentiment (from Gina K) on to it and then embossed it with a Gina K folder. The butterfly is also from Gina K. I stamped it with Versamark in, embossed it, and then hot-foiled it. Then I die-cut it and used a bit of color-blending on it.

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