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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Anniversary Butterflies

I've had these four (lightly) stamped pieces in my card parts for MANY years. I also had the butterflies all pre-done. So, I just added the stamped sentiment to each one, matted, and stuck the butterflies on with foam squares. Three of the butterflies were cut from metallic cardstock and one was done on vellum with the Glimmer Hot Foil system.

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For Baby

Another card part. The stamped image was done many years ago. I believe it's from Repeat Impressions. I embossed the top panel with a Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is part of an old Stamping Up! stamp. I added the thin red strip (very crookedly!) at the bottom of the embossing panel.

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Embossed Flowers

Again, the embossed panel and the sentiment were from my card parts. The folder is from Altenew. I very lightly colored the embossing with blender brushes and I popped up the sentiment (which was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system).

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Another simple card. Well, actually ALL of my cards are simple! The embossed piece was from my card parts, as was the sentiment. I very lightly added some color to the embossing with a blending brush. The sentiment had been die-cut using wrapping paper adhered to cardstock before cutting.

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Congratulations Butterfly

A super-simple congratulations card. The patterned paper and metallic strip were already on this card front. I added the die-cut metallic butterfly and the "Congratulations" sentiment. The sentiment was already die-cut. I rubbed an ink cube over it to coordinate with the paper.

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Birthday in Pink

I had my Butterflies Impressibilities plate out for another card, but this was my practice piece and it turned out so I had to use it, of course. I already had this sentiment from my card parts out on my table and it matched perfectly. I was able to find the same textured cardstock for the matting that I had already used for the sentiment. Yippee. :-) The sentiment is popped up on foam squares. I took out several more card parts and used them, so you'll be seeing a lot of them in the next few days. I still have new things to use, but I seem to be stuck on card parts!

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Stenciled Anniversary - Part Two

Here is another anniversary card using a different stencil set from Gina K than yesterday's card. Same thing, though. Stencils, Waffle Flower matting layers, hot-foiled sentiment from my card parts - popped up on foam squares.

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Stenciled Anniversary - Part One

I had two new stencil sets from Gina K that I had not used yet, so I was working with them and decided that they should be anniversary cards. Here is the first one. I used Gina K inks for it. I used Waffle Flower dies to cut the image panel and the matting piece. The sentiment is popped up on foam pieces. It was in my card parts. It was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system.

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Guy Card

I was looking through my "stash" of cards for March and April and realized that I had no cards very suitable for men, nor did I have any anniversary cards! So, I had to get busy yesterday afternoon and make a few. Here is the birthday card. I used a die-cut frame from my card parts that I've had out for a while. (I have two more frames that I need to use up, also.) The papers were from a matstack from The Paper Studio. I found a matching ink (from Altenew) and used a Gina K stamp for the sentiment, which is die-cut and popped up on foam squares.

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Foiled Birthday

Finally - a card! I don't know how life can be SO busy!! I used an Anna Griffin brass stencil for the main image. I used Deco Foil over it and used my Gina K Fuse to foil over it. The sentiment was also done using that technique. I embossed the border around the main image with a Gina K die. The image panel is popped up on foam squares. The card is done with ivory cardstock.

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More Taylored Expressions Flowers

Here are the last two flowers from Taylored Expressions. Again, the sentiments are from Gina K. For these two cards I used pieces from my card parts - the embossed panel on this first card and the die-cut panel on the second.

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Taylored Expressions Flowers

I really love these flower and leaves stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions, so I stamped, die-cut and colored several of them. Here are four of the cards I made with them. Two more of them to come tomorrow. The sentiments are all from Gina K. Some are stamped directly on the card and some are die-cut and popped up. I used the thin, metallic stickers between the white panel and the patterned papers.

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March Calendar Page

And poof - it's March!! Here is my calendar page for this month. I used a Sizzix die to cut out the sun and its center. The sentiment and the background stencil are from Gina K.

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Tiny Little Die-Cut Pieces:-)

I have been working on these little critters and things for quite a while and some are not even finished! Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but they are pretty cute - and tedious!! The dies are from Gina K. There are dies for everything - even the tiny little beaks and eyes! I did use black Nuvo drops for some of the eyes - easier. LOL!

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Cheery Daisy Thank You

I came across this mini stamp set from Altenew and just had to use it. I didn't think I had ever used it in the past, but then I could tell that it had some slight black ink staining, so I guess that I had. At any rate, here is ... again, I guess. I colored it quite simply with Copic markers. I doodled around the edges and matted it with black. I added three black nail head stickers to the image panel and another three to the card base. I added some patterned paper to the bottom of the card base and then a very thin strip of black above that. The image panel is mounted on foam squares. I always think daisies, yellow and black make such a cheery card.

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Stair-Step Daffodils

I keep thinking I need to do a special fold card of some sort, so here is one. Not terribly "special" but different from standard. Here is a stair-step card - or one variation of it. I cut several of them a few years ago to give to friends, but I still had one blank one left. I covered the entire front with the black and white patterned paper. The image is the last one that I had of this kind.

The sentiment is from a stamp and die set from Gina K. The die-cut that it is mounted on is also from Gina K.

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Patterned Paper Cards

This flower image has been in my card parts for years. I still have one more of them to use. I colored it to match some other patterned paper, but after it was colored I decided that it really didn't match! So, I went with some black and white patterned paper instead. I cut that paper in half, so of course I had to use the other piece, too. The sentiments on both cards were done with Gina K stamps and dies and popped up. 

The bicycle paper is from the same matstack as the black and white piece. I added "nail head" stickers to both cards. I see they are a little crooked on this second card, but I have since straightened them out.

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February Calendar Page

Well, here we are - February already! Here is my calendar page for the month. The embossing folder, stamps and paper are all from Recollections. 

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More Card Part Flowers

These flowers and leaves were in my card parts book, also. I think the flowers are probably from Altenew. The leaves are die-cut from green cardstock. I think the dies are from Gina K. The sentiment on this first one is from Gina K. The sentiment on the second card is a die-cut from my parts. I had rubbed copper ink over it. Each of these cards has a thin metallic sticker along the side of the patterned paper.

 

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Card-Part Flowers

All of these flowers and leaves were in my card parts book, but they are all gone now. I believe they may be from Altenew, but I'm really not sure. The sentiments are all from Gina K. The sentiment on this first one is stamped directly on the card front. The others are stamped, die-cut and popped up on foam squares. On each one, the front flower (or only flower) is also popped up on foam squares. I used a thin metallic sticker along the sides of the patterned paper.

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More Birthday Flowers

Still working on my Card Parts, but I'm actually making progress. :-) This stamped image was in the book. I colored it with Copic markers and added the Gina K Sentiment. I cut that panel and the black matting panel with Waffle Flower rectangle dies. Done!

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