Birthday Daisies

When I came across this folder recently, I was thinking about doing this card. I finally got it done. I used the folder (from Darice) on white-core, blue textured cardstock. After embossing it, I used a sanding block to sand off the color from the embossing. Then I left the daisies white and colored the flower centers and leaves and stems with markers. The sentiment is from Gina K and is white embossed. The blue panel covers the whole card front.

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April Calendar Page

April First - no fooling! 😁 Here is my calendar page for the month. All of the stamps are from Gina K and the coloring was done simply with Copic markers. Hope you all have a great April!

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

I saw this card on Cheryl's blog a while back and wanted to make one like it. I made a little variation on it. I really meant to stamp the two panels differently, but then I forgot and stamped the same image on both! LOL! I just added the sentiment to the hidden panel. I stamped the images in color, them stamped over them with Versamark ink and clear-embossed them. I added my image panels as squares instead of diamonds.

Here is what it looks like when it's opened. I just realized that I didn't put my card on a panel, either. (I did add a black panel to the completed card, but didn't take a new photo.)

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Double Gate Fold Card

I saw this card layout on Liz's blog awhile back - very cool. I asked her for the link to the instructions and she sent me this link. Thanks, Liz! I finally got around to making one. The flower on the belly band was from my parts (dies by Altenew) but I changed the flower center to match the card better.

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Four "Scrap" Cards

I used up four scraps on these cards. Maybe leftovers is a better word, but they were on my table and I wanted to use them up. The heart was the left-over piece for this card. I used a Gina K stencil to add the design to it. I traced around it on the gold cardstock and cut it out a little bit bigger to add the mat. I embossed a piece of white cardstock and matted it with the same gold. The heart is popped up. The sentiment is from Gina K, also, as is the embossing folder.

The center panel on this first card was done while cleaning my brayer from a previous card. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder. I added the thin strip of gold metallic on each side and die-cut the  sentiment from the same card stock.

The patterned paper scrap was left over. I simply matted it and added the die-cut sentiment and shadow - from Gina K. I also added three little embellishments.

The patterned paper on this one is the left-over part. I added it to the left side and then added a thin strip of brown. The sentiment is from Gina K.

I'll probably be absent for a while again. Lots of things going on! I'll be back when I can.

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Simple Thinking of You

Finally, another card! Life has been busy - too busy for card-making. For one thing, we are redoing a bathroom and that requires lots of decisions and shopping and checking out tile, etc. At any rate, I do have a card for today. I still have some card parts sitting out, and this made use of one of them. The oval had been die-cut and I had brushed some green over it. I pulled out my current favorite flower stamp set and stamped the flowers and the sentiment. Then I used the coordinating stencil and colored it. I added some shimmery enamel dots and added them. The background panel was embossed with a 3D Altenew embossing folder.

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Wedding in White

Our niece just got married and this is the card I made for them. The embossing was done with an Altenew folder. I simply brayered my new favorite color ink (Moonlit Fog from Gina K) lightly over it. The sentiment is also from Gina K. I added three silver nail heads around the sentiment.

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Thank You

I needed a quick thank you card, so I went for my favorite flowers, which are of course popped up. The stamp, stencils and die are from Gina K. I added enamel dots from Pink and Main for the flower centers. The sentiment is from Avery Elle. I used a gray for the stamping. I also added thin metallic stickers along the edges of the image panel.

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Together Forever

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her, so I suggested instead that she design it herself. Here is the pretty card she came up with. We started with another of the stamped-frame panels from my parts. (Three left!) Most of this card is die-cut. The "Together" stamp and the "forever" dies are from a Gina K set. The heart and the "Together" are popped up on foam squares. The blue is metallic cardstock and the gray heart is actually glitter cardstock. The "forever" is cut from silver metallic cardstock.

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Anniversary

Using up one of my stamped frame panels. I decided to use the circles die on this one. The flower - stamp, stencil and die - is from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, too.

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Die-Cut Flower Birthday

I had five of these flowers made up, so I made five cards like this one and used them up. The flower dies are from Altenew. I stenciled the middle section using a Gina K stencil and added thin black strips on each side, then matted the entire panel with black. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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Foxy Thinking of You

I think I'll work on my smaller card parts for a while now. This completed die-cut fox has been in my parts for over a year now. I had also recently come across the die that cuts out the dots in circles and I wanted to use it again. Actually, I started with the die on ivory cardstock and then chose the cute little fox to put in the center. He's popped up, of course. I matted with black. I tried several colors behind it and decided that black was best after all - probably mostly because of the little bits of black on the fox. The fox is from Gina K and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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HELLO friend

And ... the last card panel-sized piece from my card parts!! I have small pieces to use, and also a few stamped frames that I'm actually saving. :-) The die-cut pieces are from Gina K, as is the sentiment. The flowers are popped up. I ink-blended the flower matting piece before adhering the black die-cut piece.

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Super-Simple Pet Sympathy

The next-to-the-last embossed background from my parts. I made a super-simple card for the loss of a pet with it. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and is popped up.

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Hummingbird Thinking of You

Another embossed panel from my card parts - two more to go! I die-cut the colorful hummingbird and popped him up. The die-cut sentiment is also popped up. The background was done with a Sizzix embossing folder.

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Die-Cut Heart Anniversary

Another embossed panel from my card parts used up. I die-cut the intricate heart and placed it in the embossed rectangle frame and added the sentiment - from Hero Arts. I also matted the panel.

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Masculine Birthday

I die-cut the square panel with an Altenew die when I had friends over, so I had to use it. I found a piece of patterned paper that I thought it would work with nicely, and then I looked through my dies and found this one. I cut it twice out of black and glued them together and added them to the die-cut panel. The stamped sentiment is from Gina K.

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More Simple Embossing Folder Cards

I had these two embossed pieces in my parts, but now they are cards. For this first one, which I actually like better, I simply took a brayer and lightly brayered ink over the embossed image panel. The sentiment was in my parts, also, and I popped it up.

This one is almost identical to yesterday's card. Different folder and different colors, but the same idea. Added color to the debossed side and then brayered over the flat part. This sentiment is adhered directly to the image panel.

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Debossed Beauty

I had a couple friends over the other day and was showing them all (yeah, right!!!) of my stamping tools and supplies. So, of course I ended up with several card parts. One of them was this embossed panel made with a 3D folder from Altenew. I lightly added color to the debossed side and then used a brayer to add color over the top. I think it looks kind of antique-y. The sentiment was from my parts. (Thanks, Cheryl!) This card is actually going to another Cheryl. :-)

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March Calendar Page

And now it's March somehow! And here is my calendar page for the month. The stamp is an old wooden one from Canadian Maple Collections. I colored it with Copics. The patterned paper is from Recollections from many, many years ago.

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Foiled Leafy Birthday

Two nearly identical cards, but I'll share them both anyway. I have many sheets of Gina K's toner printed sheets for foiling that I bought about seven years ago. I decided to foil part of one. (They are 8.5 by 11 inches.) I made two card-sized pieces and foiled them with a nice spring green color. I matted them with black and added a black strip with a silver-embossed sentiment on each one. Of course, I can't photograph the foil, so you just get to see a little bit of it.

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Gate-Fold Birthday

A gate-fold card for today. The base and the sentiment circle are ivory cardstock. I cut the intricate panels using a Gina K die and shimmery cardstock. The brownish mattings are also shimmery cardstock. The circles are die-cut and the sentiment is from Gina K, also.

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Die-Cut Flower Birthday

Here is another die I hadn't used for a long time - the flower panel. I matted it with a patterned paper. The sentiment is from Gina K. I stamped it on the same patterned paper and matted it with the same shimmery cardstock. The sentiment is popped up. I think it should have been a little bit higher, but it was too late to remove it - it was stuck fast and I didn't want to risk ripping the card base.

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Thinking of You

I pulled out a couple of dies to use that I hadn't used for awhile. Here is the first one. I used ivory for this card. I matted the die-cut panel with green and added it to the ivory cardbase. I used a Gina K stamp for the sentiment and matted with the same color and popped it up. I think this would work for a guy. Pretty simple.

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Turquoise Sympathy

We needed a sympathy card, and here is what I made. Nothing particularly special, but I think it's pretty enough. I used a set from Gina K - polyglaze image and sentiment to foil (with silver), stencils to color the image, and dies to cut them both out. They are, of course, popped up. I added some patterned paper on the left side and a thin strip of silver alongside it. It's really hard to see the foiling, so here is a little bit better view.

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Sweet Friend

I came across this die from Altenew recently and decided to use it. I cut it out of a bright pink and matted with black. Then I had to figure out what to do with it. So, I dug out a set from Gina K that I've had for many years and have hardly used. I used a stencil for the flower petals and stamps for the black areas and the center dot, then a die to cut out the flower. It's popped up, of course. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Cattail Birthday

I used a Sizzix folder and brayered ink on to it before embossing. I was working on a different card, but was not happy with that one, but I salvaged this part of the embossed cardstock. I had already run my brayer over some white cardstock to clean it off as much as possible, and I decided to keep that piece and use it. Of course the two pieces matched exactly. :-) I matted the embossed piece with black and looked through my dies and found this one to use. The sentiment is from Gina K and was in my parts. I blended matching ink over it and popped it up.

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Birthday Roses

The last of this die-cut edged card part. I added some Washi tape over the matching pink cardstock and trimmed it down and added it towards the bottom of the panel. I scored lines on each side of it. The flower image was from Gina K and was colored using coordinating stencils. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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Birthday Wishes

These two stenciled background pieces came from my card parts book. I simply trimmed them down a tad, added the thin black cardstock strip and the sentiment - from Gina K. I love that font!

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Birthday Wish

Another couple of card parts used up. I really am making progress. I had thought I would never reach the end of them, but now I can actually foresee them being gone! The butterfly and the die-cut panel were the parts for this card. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I added shimmery cardstock under the die-cut area on the edge of the card.

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Hello

The last of my leafy die-cut card parts! I added three score lines above the leaves with my Scor-Buddy. The "hello" dies are from Gina K and are popped up.

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Thankful For a Friend Like You

The stenciled panels on each side of this card were in my parts from several years ago. I added them to the card base and then added the white panel in the middle and two thin metallic strips on the sides. The image and sentiment stamps are from Gina K. I colored with Copics.

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Pop-Out Card

I really like special fold cards, but it seems I rarely do any. This one came from Cheryl's blog - this post. The butterfly came from my parts and is popped up. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

Here is how it looks opened up.

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Hummingbirds - On Cards

Well, I actually finished up the cards using the hummingbird dies from a few days ago. I also used up other card part pieces. This die-cut piece was in my parts, again from many years ago. I used a new-to-me stencil from Gina K for the design behind the hummingbird. The sentiment is from Gina K, also. I added the green strip behind the die-cut leaf pattern. All of the hummingbirds are popped up.

I ink-blended the green on the left side under the die-cut leaves. Again, the stencil used behind the hummingbird and the sentiment are from Gina K.

This frame pieces was left-over and I ink-blended to make it the color I wanted. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is popped up and is from Gina K.

The same as the second one, but the hummingbird is facing the other direction.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, my friends! A couple quick ones to share. I used dies to make them both. I did this one first, and then used the left-overs to make the second one. I'm really trying to use up my parts and to NOT make more! :-) I used a Darice embossing folder on this first one. I believe the "friend" die is from Gina K.

Along with left-over parts, I die-cut the pink "friend" and I used a stitched rectangle die for the image panel.

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