Foxy Birthday

I do believe that this cute little fox has been in my parts since last January. I still have several more pieces to use that I made then. The dies are from Gina K. I cut out the frame with a die, also. I brushed a little green ink very lightly on the frame. The frame is popped up, as is the fox. The sentiment came from my parts, too, from many years ago. It was printed from the computer with a black background around white letters and then foiled. The background is from an ancient matstack from Die Cuts With a View. (I just realized looking at the photo that the eyes are different! One is die-cut and one is gel pen or Nuvo drops! I will attempt to fix that.)

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Happy Birthday, Owen! - and Bonus

Today is one of our grandsons' 15th birthday. He plays string bass in the school orchestra, is on the sailing team, loves Legos, and plays bass guitar in a band called "The Relish Agents" whose "mascot" is a pickle. So, we had AI generate this image for us. What a great idea for a card by Jim! It is 5 x 7 inches.

Yesterday was Day One of Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas. You could purchase a box with 12 "gifts" in it. She will be doing a live every day until December 23, opening up one of the bags in the box and then showing a card/cards she makes with them. Yesterday was this Ornate Frame. I got up really early this morning and this is what I did with the frame.

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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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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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Letting the Paper Do the Work

I've had this 12 x 12 sheet of patterned paper with flocked flowers for about fifteen years. I recently came across it and thought it was time to cut it up, while I had it out. Otherwise it may have been buried for another 15 years! Each of these three cards fit into a legal size envelope. They are 4 x 9.25 inches. The sentiments all came from my parts. I think this first one is from Gina K. It was cut out with a Stampin' Up! Word Window punch. (I think that's what it's called.) I added a light touch of ink over it with a blending brush. In real life, it matches the pink wonderfully. I had also cut several extra layers for dimension.

The sentiment on this second one had been printed on my computer and then foiled with a laminator and matted with gold foil cardstock. It's popped up on foam squares.

And the sentiment on this third one had been done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. It's mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper was the left-over and I matted it with a matching cardstock and placed it toward the left side of the card.

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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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Happy Birthday, Owen!

Our middle grandson's birthday was yesterday. I can't believe he is fourteen already! He LOVES Legos (they sure don't look like this anymore!) so I made him this card. Hard to tell unless you zoom in on the photo, but four of the Legos are three-dimensional. The inside was special, too, but I didn't really want to share it here. The sentiment panel is stamped and popped up.

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Happy 44th Birthday!

Today is our son's 44th birthday. For many years, we have been making him a card with a picture of an athlete whose number is the same as our son's age. So here is this year's - Chuck Foreman. It's nice that we can use a Minnesota athlete this year.

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Happy Retirement

The embossed background, the foiled butterfly and the foiled sentiment were all in my card parts and they came together nicely enough to make this retirement card, which I think will go to my sister. The butterfly was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment was printed on my laser printer and then foiled with my laminator. The butterfly and sentiment are popped up on foam squares, and the background and sentiment are matted with gold metallic cardstock.

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March Calendar Page

Here is my March calendar page. March always stumps me! I found this digital image and colored it with Copics and sponged around the edge.

My blank calendar files are under my blog header, if anyone is interested in using them. If you try use them and have problems, feel free to email me.

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Foiled Anniversary Roses

More foiiled pieces using my Glimmer system. I colored this one with Copic markers. The matting has edges punched with an old Martha Stewart punch. (I have a few punches out on my table, waiting to be used.) I added a scored line on the bottom and the top. The sentiment was printed on my computer and foiled with foil and a laminator. I added several sequins of various sizes.

This one is made with the negative of the first card.

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Happy Tenth Birthday, Jonah!

Well, our second youngest grandson just turned ten yesterday! Hard to believe. The youngest will be ten in September. Amazing! We made this card quickly for Jonah. He's a drummer - and a great one, at that! 😊 The picture is clip art and the sentiment is computer-generated. Happy Birthday, Jonah!

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Valentines for the Grandkids

Here are the valentines I made for our grandkids. They are all very simple and self-explanatory. I printed the sentiments for each of them on my computer. I used glitter cardstock and dies for all of them. On this first one, I used a Gina K stencil for the background and thin, metallic stickers on the white panel.

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Die-Cut Birds - Hello, Birthday, Anniversary

I had these die-cut birds and the already-made backgrounds in my card parts. Hard to see in this first one is the white sentiment. It's easy to see in real life.

The sentiments on these last two cards were printed on my printer.

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Happy Birthday, Owen!

I made this card this morning for our grandson who is turning twelve today. Happy Birthday, Owen! He plays bass guitar and just moved up to the next level last night. Congrats to him! The inside of the card wishes him a happy birthday and also congratulations. I found the image on-line and printed it out. I also printed another copy and fussy-cut the "Guitar Hero" and popped it up on foam squares. The sentiment was cut with a die. The finished card is five and a half inches by seven.

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April Calendar Page

April has arrived!! Thank goodness March is over - it was much too cold!

This month's calendar page uses a two-piece umbrella die. I used gold foil cardstock for the frame and Michael's patterned paper for the main piece. I printed the sentiment on my laser printer and then used fold foil and my laminator.

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March Calendar Page

And we have flown into another month! Here is my page for March. The kite was printed using clip art and paper pieced. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I sponged a little ink around the edges for more defintion of the panel. Happy March to you all!

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Purple Foil Birthday

And this is (hopefully) the last of my card parts for a while. (Don't get me wrong! I still have LOTS of card parts, but they are all neatly filed away in a binder in clear pocket sleeves.) I had used a Gina K Foil Mates sheet and purple foil to make the purple-on-white foiled piece. Then I took the left-over piece and foiled it on a piece of white cardstock I had printed black on my laser printer. That way I could use the whole piece of foil. The parchment paper that I used was a bit crinkly, though, and the foiling didn't work all that well. I just cut the pieces down to the best parts and put them on this card. I started by placing them on a piece of black cardstock. Then I trimmed down the black piece to make a thin border all around. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I die-cut it and popped it up on foam squares.

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January Calendar Page

Wow, another year of calendar pages! Happy New Year!!

I found this cute snowman in the on-line clipart. I colored him with Copic markers and placed him on some Recollections paper.

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Winter Birthday

For this wintery birthday card, I randomly stamped the snowflakes in Versamark and embossed them with clear embossing powder. Then I ink-blended with two colors of turquoise ink and used watered down white guache to splatter on it. I always like when others use the splatter technique, but I'm not sure if I've ever done it before! The sentiment was printed on my laser printer, foiled with turquoise foil and mounted on foam squares.

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