Have a Mice Christmas

I finally had a little time to do some creating, and this is what I came up with. I dug through my box of items to use and pulled out this stencil set and stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn - from the class I took over a year ago. The mice images were already stamped, colored and cut out. I made a frame for them to land on - they are popped up with foam squares. The background was stenciled.

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December Calendar Page

And my final calendar page for 2025 - can you believe it?? The embossed panel is part of a Darice folder. It's matted, and that's it! I hope everyone is ready for Christmas and can sit back and enjoy the season.

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More Re-Purposing

The flowers (and the little butterfly on this first card) were fussy-cut from a thank you card that we received. I love the colors and they matched so perfectly with papers from a recently received paper pad. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Same papers and flowers and the sentiment is again from Gina K. I added the flowers onto a die-cut oval.

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Gold Foil Birthday

A birthday card with gold foil over black. Really hard to see in this photo - well, actually impossible! You can see how it really looks in the photo to the left, except the top is not black, either. The image and die are from Gina K. I cut out the image from black cardstock, too, and offset it from the gold one and popped it up on foam squares. The sentiment was printed on my computer and foiled and also popped up. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and matted with black.

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Warm Christmas Wishes

Another Christmas card using the holly corner punch - this time in the corners. :-) The sentiment again is from Lawn Fawn and this time I added a green metallic sticker at the top of the sentiment panel. The red background was embossed with a Sizzix folder and I added Nuvo drops for the berries.

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Holly For Christmas

Well, I finally have a couple cards to share with you. I think three days worth and then I'm done for a while again. The good news is, though, that the Christmas cards are all complete and the envelopes are all addressed and stamped. We still have to do the letter, though. AND I still have to figure out which card to send to which person. That is almost the hardest thing! LOL! 

I used a corner punch to make the border along the border of these cards. I added Nuvo drops for the berries. The sentiments are from Lawn Fawn. I also added thin, red, metallic stickers above the punching.

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Oops - More Christmas Pieces

Several years ago there used to be a theme - What's on Your Desk Wednesday. Well, here's what's on my desk on Friday! LOL! I think that I said a month ago that I had all the Christmas cards that I needed for this year. But, I happened across these dies again and just had to use them! So, here are more card parts for me to make into Christmas cards for next year. The square ones are made with dies. The holly ones are made with a punch. I used the corner punch to make a border. One piece is not for Christmas - the gold one in the upper right. It was done with a left-over foil piece on black toner paper. I cut out a black piece to put as a shadow. I'm not sure if this will get used or not. It's awfully dark and hard to see the floral image. Just thought I'd share what I've been working on.

Update on my hand. The surgery sites are basically all healed up now. At this point, I'd say that my hand is back to the way it was before the surgery - not better. I guess it probably WILL take the several months that I was told!

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Warm Birthday Wishes

My hand is healed up enough to golf now, so my card-making has taken a back seat. Golf, and other things like getting ready for winter and Thanksgiving and Christmas.

These cards are both made with Gina K foilable sheets and stencils and dies. On this first one, I added very thin metallic, scallopy stickers alongside the white panel. The flowers and the main sentiment are popped up.

I happened across some pre-made card bases from many years ago, and I used one for this second card. It's a tri-fold card with a hole in the front. One panel just folds over the holed panel. I added a piece of patterned vellum behind the hole. The image and sentiment are from the same Gina K set as the first card.

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November Calendar Page

What - November??? Here is my calendar page for the month. The background was stamped with a stamp from My Favorite Things using multiple ink colors. The pumpkins and the sentiment - from Gina K - were stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with gold. Happy November!

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Repurposed Thank You

Often when we receive a thank you card, I will "repurpose" it. This one was simply the silver Thank You on a white card. I looked for some patterned paper that I had that had silver in it and came up with this pattern. I cut out the opening with a die that has x x x around the edges and then I matted with silver cardstock. I also took my turquoise and purple blending brushes and added slight color to the sentiment piece with the ink that was already on the brushes.

Update on my hand: the surgery site is healing amazingly well. The surgery was not quite three weeks ago and the stitches were removed just six days ago. It's practically all healed up already. However, I think it's going to take a long time for the full range of motion to return. I'm just hoping that it DOES! I'm actually going out golfing this morning. Wish me luck! LOL!

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Baby Boy

These scraps of blue plaids were also on my table. I matted each of them and thought they would work for a baby boy card. I dug out a set from Inkadinkado from forever ago. I colored the cute little teddy bear with Copics and popped him up on an oval. The sentiment is from the same set.

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St. Paddy's Day - in October???

Another piece that was sitting on my table. It's left over from my calendar pages. (You'll see it again in March. :-) ) I stamped, colored and matted the image and popped it up on foam squares. I found another piece of green patterned paper and matted that for another layer. I printed the sentiment out on my computer.

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Simple Thank You

The stencil that I used to ink up the background for this card is from Picket Fence. I got it for 60% off. :-) I had it matted and added to a card front for a few weeks and it was finally its turn to get made into a card. I simply added the "thank you" sentiment that I had recently dug out. I may have never used it before. It's from Heidi Swapp.

I get my stitches out this morning at 10:00 CST. I can't wait! I'm pretty sure I will need some PT on my hand, though. I can't bend one of my fingers and I can't totally straighten out another. It'll all be good, though.

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White on White Birthday Wishes

A white on white birthday card - always nice, I think. The butterfly is five layers of die-cuts. I dipped it in Versamark and added some iridescent sparkle. The background is embossed with a Gina K folder. The sentiment is also from Gina K - stamped and die-cut.

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Season's Greetings

Another Christmas card - only because this "Joy" ornament was on my table. It's mounted on foam squares. I used a piece of patterned Christmas paper down the middle, with thin metallic strips on each side, and one more metallic strip for the ornament string.

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Simple Pleasures

The sentiment and the chair stamp are both from Repeat Impressions. I fussy-cut the chairs for all the cards after stamping them on patterned papers. I added a little bit of shading with Copic markers and popped them up. For this first card, I just added it to a die-cut square. This is one of my favorite simple layouts.

For these other two, I took a piece of white card stock, scored it with a score board and then dragged a few colors of ink across it. I thought I would look like wainscotting, but it looks more like flooring. Whatever! I used Gina K stencils for the background on the tops of them, with a thin strip of brown in between.  I matted the sentiment on this card.

Different paper, different stencil and different placement of the sentiment. Otherwise the same thing. :-)

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Birthday Irises

The image on this card is an unmounted rubber one from Repeat Impressions. I was on Wendy's Design Team for many years and I still have all of the stamps. I colored this one with Copics and matted it. Then I used a square die and embossed the background for it. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Just a "bonus" card since these two pieces were on my desk, too. Not really any different from a previous post, but new nonetheless, so here it is!

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You're the BEST

The flowers were stamped with an old wooden stamp from Inkadinkado. The sentiment was from another ancient wooden stamp from Studio G. The background on this first one is a wooden stamp from Inkadinkado. I think I'll leave this stamp out for a while and use it again.

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thanks so much!

My right hand is still healing, but I've been able to put together some more simple cards. My mission is to use up all the parts and card fronts that were on my desk in that recent photo. I only have one more card front and a few more parts to use - maybe 4 - 6 more cards. 

These cards were done with a very old wooden stamp - probably from the dollar bin at Michael's or Joann's from 20 years ago! I stamped, colored and matted them, and placed them on panels from my card parts book.

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Simplicity

Four more cards done with one sheet of patterned paper, stamps, and in the case of this first card - some card parts and stencils. The stamps and stencils are all from Gina K.

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Three More Super-Simple Cards

 

Three more cards using card bases I had previously made. I simply stamped sentiments on the patterned paper. I did the orange ones first and then the black. I think the black is probably better.

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Thinking of You - Times Three

Three more simple cards using patterned paper card bases and My Favorite Things sentiments. I added a die-cut butterfly to this first one.

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One Down, Several to Go

Well, there is not much I can do in my stamping room with my wrapped-up hand. But, I was able to finish up this card. The background was made a few days ago. I simply added a multi-layered die cut to it.

My fingers are still quite swollen, but I think I'm making progress. On Sunday, I get to remove the wrap. Yippee!

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Surgery Update

Thanks for all of your good wishes! The surgery went well. I ended up having three fingers done! No pain medication other than ibuprofen. My hand is just very uncomfortable this morning. It's SO swollen! I'm wondering if it's wrapped too tightly. I'm waiting for a call-back on that.

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Accumulating Card Parts

I am constantly setting things aside as I come across them. I was looking at an 8 1/2 by 11 inch matstack and pulled out some papers to put on card fronts. Here they are - ready for the (simple) finishing touches.

The first one here was done with a new stencil (for me) from Picket Fence. The second here was done with strips from the tops of patterned paper pages.

And these are some items that I stamped with stamps that I happened across and also left-overs from my calendar pages. Hopefully they will make it onto cards soon.

Just a little update. Today is my fingers surgeries. Thanks for the good wishes. Also, my calendars for 2025 are all finished. Yahoo! Now, as I get together with friends, I can deliver their calendars!

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So Many Smiles ...

I found this envelope that I had made, in with the cardstock of this color. I thought that was a silly place for it, so I made a card to go with it - just a very simple card. I looked for something with the same bright yellow-green and came across this paper. It was just the flower and then I found a sentiment (from Gina K) that fit the space very nicely. Done! The finished card is a bit of an odd size - four and a half inches by five and three-eighths inches.

EDITED TO ADD: The name of the stamp set is Grand Garden - by Alicia. I don't see it in the store, though. I did find one on eBay as I'm adding this.

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Halloween - and a Short Break

This card came about because I bought this Memory Box die on clearance at a local stamping/paper store. Of course I had to try it right away, and then make a card with it. I think I will make a couple more like it. The paper on the card front and also the piece behind it are from a very old matstack from Recollections. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. The main panel is popped up from the card base.

And, of course I had to use the piece that was cut out from the first card! LOL! Simply matted and popped up. The strip across is from the same pad. This sentiment is also from Repeat Impressions.

I will probably be missing for a little while. I'm having surgery on a couple fingers on Tuesday and I also have to really get to work on my calendars. Time is just flying by and I haven't done many of the calendar pages! I'll be back, though.

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Fall Cards

Cards using some fall papers. This first one and the last one are nearly identical, but different enough that I'm sharing both. The sentiment panel was one that I cut out from one of the sheets that came with the paper pad. The apple basket stamp is from Repeat Impressions. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and it's popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

The circle piece was also from the paper pad. Hard to see in the photo, but it says, "Thankful for You" in gold.

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