Gold Flowers Birthday

It seems I always make pieces, and I don't want them to sit around any more. So I'm trying to use them up right away. The gold frame was one of these pieces. I cut a piece of white to fit on it and embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder. I matted the entire panel with black. I black-embossed the flowers on gold and cut them out. They are from Gina K, as is the sentiment.

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Soft Sympathy

I needed a sympathy card a little bit ago for a sentiment, and went to this wood-mounted set from Stampin' Up! While I had it out, I decided to use the images from it, also. I used markers to color the images and then "huffed" on them before stamping. I added some tiny stickers to the flower centers. The background is shimmery cardstock that I embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

This one is softer, because I didn't re-color the image. I just breathed on it again and there was enough ink left for this card. This one has a slight texture to the matting layer.

The other image in this set - done the same way. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug/Anna Griffin embossed folder. I have SO SO many wood-mounted Stampin' Up! sets and I don't want to get rid of most of them. I would sell them if I could, but they are even hard to GIVE away! LOL!

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Butterflies and Dragonflies

Happy Mother's Day!

The butterflies and dragonflies on these cards are from Gina K. I was experimenting just a little bit with watercolor. For this first one, I wet the butterfly (which had been heat-embossed) and then dropped the paint on it. It's popped up. I used an old Stampin' Up! stamp for the background for the butterfly. The sentiment is also from Gina K. In fact, all of the stamps in this post are Gina K.

This one is also watercolored, with a few white dots added.

The panels on each side of this gate-fold card were done using my gel pad. Haven't used that for a long time. (Almost never!) I watercolored the flower.

And the last card for today. I had used my gel pad to make the cardstock I used to stamp and die-cut these pieces. The background panel was done when I was cleaning off the brayer. Then I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder and added a little extra color. I also added a little Diamond Glaze to the dragonfly and the flower center.

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Completed Card Bases - Installment #3

And the last of my pre-made card bases. Sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Image stamp from Gina K.

Just added a layered die-cut to this one. Could use a little something more. Maybe a black butterfly in the upper right.

Same Papertrey sentiment and three nail-head stickers.

Gina K sentiment. The panels are popped up. I also added the three tiny nail head stickers.

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Flower Warm Wishes

More card parts. The die-cut pink layer was in my book. I embossed it with an Anna Griffin Cuttlebug folder, added the score lines with my Score-Pal and then added the green strip at the bottom. I used a Gina K set for the flower and the sentiment, and another Gina K set for the circles. I stamped, stenciled and die-cut the flower. The flower and the sentiment are popped up. I made two of them and used up the pink die-cut pieces. I think I still have some in white and maybe ivory.

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Happy Musical Birthday

I am having fun using up card parts again. The dies cuts (Butterflies and musical birthay) were in my parts. I used a piece of pink shimmery cardstock for the background. First I embossed it with a Cuttlebug Anna Griffin embossing folder.

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Turquoise-y Christmas

My brother and sister-in-law were in town for a few days and stayed with us. I was showing my sister-in-law a few things in my stamping room. Of course, I had to make them into cards! This first one was done with a Darice folder and also a Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment is from Gina K and is foiled. I added a little Star Dust Stickles to the centers of the snowflakes.

This one uses the same Darice folder. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I added a couple flat sequins.

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You Make Me So Very Happy

(OOPS. I meant to schedule this for Monday. Oh well, here it is.) Another card that I made on Friday while I was crafting with Bonnie - a neighbor and friend. I came across the negative of a die-cut heart and couldn't bear to toss it. So I trimmed it down. It had been done with double-sided paper, so I pieced together a couple scraps to place behind the heart. Then I took a thin strip of the patterned side and stamped the sentiment (from Gina K) on it. I also added a couple of very thin strips of the solid color to put on the top and bottom of the sentiment. That strip was popped up on foam squares. I added some white dots with my gel pen along the edge of the heart and both sides of the sentiment. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

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Valentine's Day in August

I got these stickers in January with my $5 voucher from Michael's. Time to put them on cards. I used my small Cuttlebug folders to emboss a frame for each of them - four hearts and five squares. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. The stickers already had a lot of dimension.

And, all nine of them.

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Birthday Cattails

I needed a birthday card for my brother, and this first one is the one that he got. Or hopefully will get by his birthday on Tuesday! I don't generally make cards for specific people, but I don't have any masculine cards in my stash. I ink-blended the background. For the sun, I ink-blended it on the cut-out pieces and added them back in. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Edited to add: The die is from Memory Box.

Since I had the die out, I made another card. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug/Anna Griffin embossing folder. The sentiment is again from Gina K.

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Congrats, JP!

The son of some of our friends graduated from high school this year, and here is the card that I made for him. I'm quite sure I must have made a card like this before, but this is unique with his colors and initials. :-) I used my JustRite Stamper for the stamped part. Dies for the circles. QuicKutz dies for the hat and diploma. Cuttlebug folder for the embossed background. That's about it.

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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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Window Birthday

This is sort of a left-over piece from my SCT class. For one company, I was supposed to cut out a window similar to this one. I thought I would do it on my Cameo Silhouette, since I had no die to cut out this shape. However, my Silhouette would not work with my computer! So, I left it for quite a while. A week or two ago, a friend came over and fixed my problem. So, I now had four pieces like this. I glued them together for sturdiness. Then I thought a silhouette stamp would be good behind the window, so I ink blended and added the stamp from Gina K. I think the sentiment is from Gina K, too, but I'm not certain because it came from my card parts. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder.

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Wonderful Day

A scrap of patterned paper was the basis of this card. I added thin strips of green on the top and bottom of it. I found the Swiss Dots embossed pieces in my card parts book and, cut in two, they fit perfectly on the top and bottom of the card. Added the sentiment and called it done. :-)

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Simple Birthday - Times Four

I thought it was about time that I used some of my little Cuttlebug embossing folders. So, here are four cards using one of the sets that I have. For each one, I went over the raised images with a sparkle pen. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The image panels are all popped up with foam squares.

On this last one, I got a drop of something on it, so I covered that little drip with some sparkle and added other dots as well.

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Hello There

After a good streak in my stamping room, I have been absent for awhile again. I finally got a chance to make another card, and here it is. I ordered a kit from SCT (Scrapbook and Cards Today) quite a while ago. It was a June kit, so it just arrived last week. I didn't know what was coming and I was slightly disappointed, but I guess it was okay for the cost. Included in the kit was the die that cut this sentiment. It is from the SCT Signature Collection.I tested it out, and of course I had to use the test piece! I decided to color the leaves. I glued it to a scrap that was on my table from my covering of a box. It was a nice size for the sentiment. I matted that panel with white and mounted it on foam squares. I embossed a full-sized card panel with a Cuttlebug folder for the background and glued it to a card base.

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More Sympathy

Three more sympathy cards for me and my church and maybe for the thrift store Cheryl volunteers at and makes cards for. The stamps are from an old Stampin' Up! set. i embossed the side panel with an old Cuttlebug folder. I also added some Liquid Pearls to the flower centers on this first one, which I made two of. For the stamping of the images, I used markers directly on the rubber stamp.

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

My friends, Cheryl and Vicki, both had a card using this layout on their blogs on the same day! I didn't look at the videos that they linked, but instead just looked at the pictures and winged it. The sentiment is from Gina K. I used part of a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the embossing on the image panel. The background is a shimmery, metallic-y cardstock.

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Just For You

While browsing through my stamps, I came across this set, so I made this card. Then, while writing this post, I had to look through my stamps again to see who the set was from. I found I have at least three sets with mason jars and covers! Oops. This one is from Recollections. The set includes the dies. I used a die to cut the cover. It's popped up with foam squares. I colored with very light Copic markers. I embossed the white layer with an old Cuttlebug folder and trimmed it down.

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Sending Birthday Wishes

More card parts - these are from Stampin' Up! I added them to card bases that were in my card parts. The flowers are mounted on foam squares.

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