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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Christmas in Red and White

I had cut this bow from some foiled leftovers. I embossed this card front with a Darice folder. The sentiment is from Avery Elle. I also added three red 'nail heads."

The "joy" had also been cut with foiled leftovers. I had enough for two of these cards. Same embossing folder as the first card, and some more nail heads.

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Thank You Flowers

Finally - another card! Life is just too busy, but it's all good! I guess I didn't get the embossing very deep on the bottom of the white panel because it doesn't show very well. But, it's there! I got a new die at the Dollar Tree, so of course I had to try it out right away. I did it once with white on the top of the panel, and once in ivory, but just the thin strip. I colored the ivory one, and you'll see it some day. I scored the lines with my Scor-Buddy. The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

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Anniversary in Pink

And a couple anniversary cards in pink. I matted the die-cut heart with pink glitter cardstock and mounted it on foam squares. The sentiment is from Avery Elle. I also added a thin strip of the glitter cardstock beneath the patterened paper.

The roses and leaves on this card are done with an Altenew set. The sentiment is embossed with silver and I used a thin strip of silver metallic beneath the patterned paper.

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Five More Sticker Cards

I've had these stickers for many, many years. I made these simple cards with them. The stickers themselves are white with lines around the edge. The sentiment on this card is from Stampin' Up! I colored the image with Copic markers.

I matted this panel with white and added it to a card base. The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

The embossing was done with a Darice folder.

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Pink and Gray

Here are two more of my cards made with card parts. The "parts" on these are again the die cuts. I placed them on pink glitter card stock and matted with black. The patterned paper backgrounds are again ancient Stampin' Up! The sentiments are both from Avery Elle.

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Happy Birthday with Alcohol Inks

When a friend was over a couple weeks ago, I quickly showed her my alcohol inks. I just totally randomly picked out two bottles and dropped some ink on the cardstock, just to show her how they worked. After she left, I ended up using the same two inks to cover the entire piece. I thought it was pretty cool, and so I made it into a card. I matted it with a matching cardstock. The sentiment was already stamped and on my table. It's from Avery Elle and is embossed in black and double matted and mounted on foam squares.

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Hello and Thank You with Baby Wipes and Stencils

I tried a technique that I had tried quite a while ago but with no success. It worked a little bit better for me this time. I ink-blended ink onto cardstock, then ran it through my BIGkick with a stencil and a baby wipe. (From bottom to top: rubber mat, ink-blended cardstock, stencil, baby wipe.) On this card, I used regular cardstock and Gina K inks. The sentiment is a few layers of white, topped with a layer of metallic pinkish-purplish. I also spritzed each one with a bit of water, but that mostly doesn't show up.

For this one, I used distress inks and a super-super-cheap watercolor paper.

This one uses Gina K ink and the super-super-cheap watercolor paper. I stamped the sentiment (from Avery Elle) with Versamark and embossed with clear powder. Then I used foil on it. That technique does not work well for me, and I don't think I'll try it again. I mounted the matted sentiment on foam squares.

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Calla Lily in (Mostly) White

Well, here is the Calla Lily Edgeabilities card that I promised. I decided to try one without any coloring. I think it works okay, but the colored ones are probably a better choice. The sentiment is from Avery Elle and I embossed the yellow piece with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder.

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Leaf Prints - Literally!

The next three days will have the last of the card parts that were in a plastic sleeve, waiting to be used. The rest of them are filed away. Yippee!

These three cards were made using real leaves - run through my BIGkick. Some are only the natural color, others have ink added. Since I did them last fall, I'm not positive which are which. The sentiment on this card and the second card is from Papertrey Ink. The background on all three is a die plate. 

The sentiment on this one is from Avery Elle.

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Open Frame Cards

I'm on a "use up some card parts" kick lately. I was putting away some newly-made card parts, and came across the lovely ones that I already had. You'll be seeing a few over the next few days. These two cards started with the die-cut frames. This one also uses a die-cut heart that was already made. I added the heart over the frame and stamped the sentiment - from Avery Elle. I mounted the panel on foam squares and added three dots of Nuvo Drops.

On this one, I used some flowers and leaves that I had just stamped with a new-to-me Altenew stamp set. I think it is my first Altenew set. :) I had stamped them and fussy-cut them out. I added some blue vellum to the window. This panel is also mounted on foam squares.

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Embossed Christmas Trees

I have spent a fair amount of time in my stamping room lately, but I've mostly been making more "parts" rather than cards. I had been slowly using up my parts, but I have lots more now. Oops! I do have a couple cards to share, though. And hopefully I'll start turning some of my parts into cards.

The main image on this card was done with a stamp that I got for Christmas. I embossed it with green embossing powder. The sentiment is from Avery Elle, also embossed. I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the background. I matted with matching green cardstock.

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Black and Ivory Thinking of You

Two quick "thinking of you" cards for you today. These die-cut pieces were in my card parts. I added them to an ivory card base. The sentiment is from Avery Elle and is stamped with black and embossed with black embossing powder.

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Perfect Pearls Silhouette Shimmer

Edited to add: Oh my goodness - I messed up! I had said that I used PearlEx, when I actually used Perfect Pearls! So sorry about that! Thanks, Darnell, for that comment! 

Jennifer McGuire has posted a few videos recently using Perfect Pearls powder. They have inspired me to dig out my powders. Hopefully I'll have time to make more using more techniques. 

For this card, I simply stamped on black with Versamark and brushed the Perfect Pearls pearl powder over the page. I matted with shimmery silver paper. The image is from Gina K and the sentiment is from Avery Elle.

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Fall Thinking of You

I cut this piece out a couple weeks ago, but never did anything with it until a couple days ago. I brushed three fall-ish colors of ink onto the die-cut and then added it to a 6 x 3.5 inch off-white card base. I stamped the sentiment, from Avery Elle, with a darker brown ink.

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Heart Anniversary

Both the fancy heart and the die-cut panel came from my card parts book. I mounted the panel on foam squares and added the heart spanning the opening. The sentiment is one I've used in a couple of my most recent blog posts. It's from an Avery Elle set.

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Circle Anniversary

The die-cut flowery piece was another piece I pulled from my card parts book a few days ago. I just had to pull out a few pieces to get my mojo flowing again. The circle was also in my card parts. Both pieces were white. I brushed ink onto the circle piece using Gina K inks. I love them for blending. Then I brushed green inks onto the flowery piece. I put those pieces together and mounted them on foam squares. The sentiment and the hearts are from a new-to-me Avery Elle set.

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Birthday with Amelia's Flower

I finally got to spend a little time in my stamping room again. Here is the card that I completed. The image was drawn by our granddaughter, Amelia. I colored it with Copic markers. I matted with purple, added some scored lines and a sentiment from Lawn Fawn (that I just got in the mail today) and mounted it on foam squares. The background is very shiny and purple. It's done with foil, a pre-printed sheet from Gina K and a laminator. You can sort of see the purple in the small photo on the left.

I'm linking this up to Darnell's NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) challenge.

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Welcome Little One

Finally I'm sharing another card I made with the Avery Elle stamp set that Harriet gave me when she was here. I colored the images with Copic markers. All of the stamps are from the same set. I punched the bottom border with an EK Success border punch and matted with blue. I used a white gel pen for the dots on the fawn and butterfly.

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Thanks, Harriet!

I made this card using a stamp set from Avery Elle. This is my first set from this company, and it was a gift from my friend, Harriet. Thank you so much! What a cute set.

The two butterflies, the balloon, the sentiment and the duck are all from the set. I stamped the duck and then masked the beak and face to stamp the balloons - one at a time. I colored with Copic markers. Then I added the white on the balloons and the polka dots on the butterflies with a white gel pen. In honor of Harriet, I made my card the long way:) I also rounded the bottom corners.

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