October Calendar Page

My October calendar page. The stamps (ghost, bat and sentiments) are all from a Recollections set. I stamped them and then masked off the ghost and the bat with Gina K's masking magic. Then I ink blended around them. Happy October!

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More Simple Christmas

This card is made using a die from the same Taylored Expressions die set I used for yesterday's cards. I made four of this one. The sentiment is from PaperTrey.

This card uses the same die, multiple times. The sentiment is foiled and is from Gina K.

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Multiple Christmas Cards

I went to a local stamping store because they had some products on clearance for 60% off. This was a three die-set from Taylored Expressions. I thought they were fun. I made ten cards with these two dies. I will post the other design soon. The sentiment is from PaperTrey. I added a few dots with Nuvo Drops.

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50th Birthday

A friend of ours very recently turned 50 (yes, he is two days younger than our daughter!) and this is the card that I made for him. Actually, I made him one just like this one, except his has the "alligator skin" on the inside on both of the folding parts of the pop-out. I made two more like this, too - one with no green on the inside and one that is not a pop-out at all. They are all book-fold cards, though. The stamps on the outside are from Tim Holtz.

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White on White Birthday

I saw a card like this on Wanda's blog (My Creative Corner) back on April 28th. I copied it to my desktop to remind me to make one like it, so here it is, finally. The sentiment is from Gina K. I added silver die-cut butterflies instead of white ones. The embossed panel is popped up on foam squares. I made four of them, because I had two embossed pieces on my table.

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Simple Christmas

One last Christmas card for now. A very simple one, for sure! This thin strip was left over after yesterday's card, so I wanted to use it up. I added it to a piece of patterned paper and popped up the sentiment - from Gina K.

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More Die-Cut Backgrounds

Three more Christmas cards done with dies. I like the first two!

Actually, I like this one okay, too, after I added a strip of patterned, matted paper down the left side. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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AI Images - Birthday

My friend, Cheryl (Paper Panacea) makes some very beautiful cards using AI-generated images. I thought I would look for an image to use, and this is the one that I chose. I made four cards using the image. They are all "book-fold" cards. Two are identical, and the other two are slightly different. This first one is a top-fold. I embossed the top piece with a Darice folder.

Same as the first, with a side-fold.

And, another side-fold, but with a white panel on the left side which was scored with my Scor-Pal.

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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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Embossed and Stenciled Flowers

Just a super quick card for today. I used an Altenew embossing folder and stencil set for this card front, to show a friend. Decided to just put it on a card base. Then I added a pre-made foiled sentiment from my parts. The sentiment is popped up.

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Birthday Wishes

Another card like one from a few days ago. The closed card is four and a quarter inches square. The image panel came from a mat stack and is popped up. I stamped the sentiment (from Gina K) and gold-embossed it. Here is a photo of the opened card. So very simple to make!

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Two Miscellaneous Cards

I have gotten to spend a lot of time in my stamping room the last week or so, and it's been great! Still using up old things, though. I haven't even used my Gina K purchases that I bought at her Fourth of July sale!! Soon, I hope.

The flowers on this first card are from Gina K - stamps, stencils and dies. The sentiment is also from Gina K. The big flower and sentiment are popped up. I added a thin strip of purple and also black above the patterned panel.

The die-cut piece on this card was still in my die when I went to put it away. (It was used for my card from Tuesday.) The black frame was in my parts. I let some of the flower pieces hang out of the frame. It was so plain so I added some doodling and lines with a white gel pen. Not terrible happy with this card, but maybe someone will like it.

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More Cards in Pink

More pieces cut from a patterned paper stack. Once again, this flower was not colored in - just a gold outline. But, I colored it with Copic markers. It's matted and popped up. The sentiment is foiled and also popped up. The background panel was from the same pad. I added metallic gold stickers on both sides of it.

Same as the first one - different image and sentiment, also foiled.

And one more. I embossed the background on this one with a Gina K folder.

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Die-Cut Background

All three of these cards were done with one of my newer dies. (There were three in the set - here is the second.) I used the same three patterns/solid for all three. I added a "Hugs" sentiment to this first one.

For this one, I added the die-cut flowers. I also used the die on patterned paper and added those pieces into the black outline. I think the sentiment is from Gina K.

Same thing, with a sentiment from my parts.

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Fun-Fold Birthday

Here is a card that I made using double-sided paper. The design came from my friend Cheryl's blog, Paper Panacea. One post using it was August 22. There was another earlier, if you wanted to check out more of her blog. I glued down the front flap on my card. I added glittery strips on each side of the front flap. The sentiment was cut out of silver foil cardstock.

Another identical card using a different sentiment - partly the leftovers from the first card. I added thin strips of patterned paper on each side of the center panel.

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