More Marker-to-Rubber Stamp Cards

Marker to rubber stamp, mist and stamp. The sentiments on both of these are from Papertrey Ink.

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More Marker-to Rubber Stamp

Marker on rubber stamp, then mist and stamp. The sentiment on this one is from Gina K.

The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Sentiment from Papertrey Ink.

Sentiment from Papertrey Ink.

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Cheery Daisies

Another wood-mounted rubber stamp for this card. Daisies - my fave. Super simple coloring and a sentiment - from Gina K. Some cute dotted yellow patterned paper and some thin black strips completed the card.

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Beautiful Sketches

I made these cards with one of my new sets from Gina K. This sentiment and the image stamps are from the set, called Beautiful Sketches. I stamped them on watercolor paper and painted them. I die-cut them out and matted them and popped them up. The patterned paper is all from an ancient matstack from Die Cuts With a View.

On this one, I tried to paint it "sloppily." I'm not thrilled with how the flower turned out, but the leaves are okay, I think.

I had originally painted the flower pink, but later made it purple. The pink was just too bright. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Feel Better Soon

More scraps - the pink pieces were saved from the trash by using them on this card. The image and sentiment stamps are both from Gina K. The image panel is popped up on foam squares.

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More Stickers

Using up some more stickers. I already tossed the packaging, so I don't know who these were from. I added the stickers to scraps of white cardstock and then matted them with black and added them to a card front. Then I added the sentiments, which are all from Gina K. Another package of stickers used up. I really don't have very many left. Yippee!! These stickers do have some dimension.

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Wishing You a Speedy Recovery

A speedy recovery card for a friend having hip surgery. The image panel is an alcohol inked background - one of my first attempts. It was made after I had my blowing tool, but before I had better special paper. I still like it a lot, though. You can see the "wispiness" better in person. The "wishing you" stamp is by Verve and the silhouette stamp is Gina K. I added thin holographic strips on each side of the panel.The inside says, "a very speedy recovery."

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Wishing You a Speedy Recovery

A friend recently had rotator cuff surgery. This is the card I made for him. The tree is from an old Stampin Up! set. I inked it up in green, then used a brown marker to color the trunk and and ground, and a darker green marker to "thump" some extra color on the tree. That panel is matted with green and then mounted on foam squares. I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder on the top part of the bottom layer. I added a strip of the green cardstock between the embossed area and the patterned paper. The sentiment is from Verve. The inside says, "a speedy recovery."

I sure haven't been doing much posting to my blog, for sure - haven't made any new cards. But, my stamping room keeps getting a little bit more organized. And our Christmas shopping is almost done. (We don't have a lot of people to buy for.) And the Christmas cards (80) are all ready to go out except for the Christmas letter. So, I'm feeling pretty good about those things! Maybe we can get decorated for Christmas this week and then sit back, relax and enjoy the holiday season!

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Thinking of You - W-Fold Card

A friend of ours just had back surgery this week. Here is the card that I made for her. It's called a W-fold card. The outside is pretty plain, but I actually like it enough to maybe make another card or two like it, without the "stuff" on the inside!

The outside uses a Darice embossing folder. After embossing, I rubbed the raised areas gently with an orange and then with a yellow ink pad. The sentiment is from an old set from Stampin' Up! The stamps on the inside are all from a "Flip Set" from Repeat Impressions. They are made for use with a "flip card" but I thought they worked great for this style card, too.

Since I used Repeat Impressions stamps, I thought I would link up to their "Anything Goes" challenge. You can find that challenge here. The card base and other panels are ivory cardstock.

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Flower Card Parts

Here are four more cards that I made in my quest to use up my card parts. I will never use up ALL of my card parts, but I am going to continue toward that goal.

I believe that both stamps on this card are from Gina K. It was colored with Copics. I added strips of thin glitter tape along each edge of the image panel. I used a Darice cloud embossing folder for the background.

Again, I think these stamps are from Gina K and again are colored with Copics. I matted with gray cardstock and used patterned paper for the background.

I'm pretty sure this flower stamp is from Stampin' Up! It, too, was colored with Copic markers. I had stamped the background using a Taylored Expressions stamp when I was at a friend's house in early February. The rose image had been colored for years and I realized that it matched the background perfectly. Poof - two card parts used! :) The sentiment stamp is from Gina K.

More Gina K stamps, I think. The image panel is mounted on Dimensionals.

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Speedy Recovery

Our daughter-in-law's father recently had quadruple by-pass surgery. (He's doing quite well, from what I hear.) This is the card we sent him. I used a die for the timepieces. I placed it on an ivory panel and matted with black. The sentiments are from a Verve set. The card base is Papertrey Ink kraft.

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Purple-Flowered Get Well

Another very simple card - my favorite kind:) I was going through a large folder of stamped images a couple weeks ago and pulled out some to color and use. This is one of them. I simply colored the flowers and leaves with Copics. I added lines on the sides of the image panel instead of matting - it matches exactly that way! I have no idea who makes the stamps. I also added tiny, clear gems for the flower centers.

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Speedy Recovery, Wyatt!

Our grandson, Wyatt, had surgery on Tuesday to try to correct his lazy eye. This is the card that I made for him.

The turtles are soft, puffy stickers from Sandylion. The letters are chipboard which I colored with Copic markers. I colored the matting cardstock, too, with the same markers. I mounted the matted layer on foam squares. Here is what I put on the inside, printed with my computer.

Wishing you

a speedy recovery …

much faster than

these turtles!!!

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Sweet Stems - #1 - #3

I'll be running out of posts soon, if I can't find any stamping time! :) I guess I have a few to share yet, though.

My cards for today use the Stampin' Up! set called "Sweet Stems." It consists of four simple flower stamps. On this first card, I used two of them. The portion of the flower on the bottom is one of the stamps. I used another stamp (and my Stamp-a-ma-jig) to stamp the upper two pieces. I make very few of them, but this is a one-layer card. I colored with Memento markers. I added small gems to the lower flowers, the dots on the sentiment and to the butterfly. The butterfly was punched out of glittery cardstock with a Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I also rounded the corners on the right side.

A single flower stamped and colored with Copic markers.  I added gems to the petals. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!'s "Sincere Salutations."  I added a piece of Washi tape above the sentiment. And that entitles me to submit this to the QKR Stampede challenge to use Washi Tape!

Again, stamped and colored with Copics. And again the sentiment is from "Sincere Salutations." I added gems, matted with bright orange, and placed it on the side of the card front.

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Delight in Life - #3 and #4

Here are my last two cards using the "Delight in Life" set from Stampin' Up! Cross another one off my list! :) (I am on a mission to use all of my retired SU! sets. I'm taking a stack of 7 - 10 sets and using them before I move on to the next stack. I'm finally making progress again.)

For this first one, I stamped the small flower three times on a piece of white cardstock. I colored them with markers. I added gems on each side of the flowers and matted with Crushed Curry cardstock. The sentiment is from another set in my stack of stamp sets to use, "Curvy Verses." I'm thinking that I am not going to make myself use all of the sentiments that I have, but I'll use several. This set consists of eight sentiment stamps.

For this second card, I stamped the flower petals using Brilliance ink. I don't use it very often, but I do really like the shimmer - which of course you can't see in the picture! The stem is from my little scraps beside my paper trimmer. I intentionally added a curve to it, but I think I should have done more of a curve so it just doesn't look "crooked." Oh well! I added a home-made enamel dot for the flower center. I stamped the sentiment using another stamp from the "Curvy Verses" set. I matted with Old Olive and added a small piece for the ground under the flower. (I had to cover up a small smudge!) 

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