Another Strawberry Card

I had this left-over piece of embossed paper and decided to make it into this card. I also had the die-cut, embossed and stenciled strawberry piece that I added on top. Everything is from Gina K.

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Strawberry Birthday and Anniversary

Two more cards made with Gina K's strawberries folder, stencils and dies. This sentiment is die-cut from gold.

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More Wax Paper Technique

These cards are made with panels that I had created using the wax paper resist technique and then stencils. This first one is a gate-fold card. If you look at them closely, you can see the pattern from the wax paper.

This one is embossed and stenciled.

This one is also embossed and stenciled.

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Warm Wishes

I made two cards almost identical to this one (one had a different sentiment) and two cards just like the second one. The stencil and the stamps and dies are all from Gina K. I colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. The image and sentiment are popped up, of course. :-)

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Deer Friend

Both of these cards were made with Gina K products - the stamps, dies and background stencils. The deer and the owl are popped up. The background frames are the last two that I have from AGES ago. 

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Wax Paper Resist Card Fronts

Here are the card fronts that I made by using the wax paper method. It's a really old technique, but Gina K did a video of it very recently. You crinkle the wax paper, unwrap it and then put it between two pieces of cardstock and iron it with a hot iron. Then any ink you put on it will be resisted by the wax. One way she used hers was with stencils, and I really loved the result. Here are the pieces that I did, and I'm excited to make them into cards! I had never done a gray-scale card before (that I can remember!) and I love the way that turned out, too. (You might have to zoom in to see the patterns.)

I'm off to my retreat tomorrow morning. Hopefully I'll have things to share during my stay.

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Watercolor - Then Stencil

I watched a video that Mindy Eggen did using watercolor over an embossed image. I thought it was pretty cool, and this is my versions. Her video can be seen here.  Mine is not so impressive, but it was fun and I do like the way it turned out.  The embossing folder, stencils, sentiment with die  are all from Gina K. The sentiment is embossed with gold powder and popped up.

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Blooming Branches - Part Two

The embossing folder from Gina K that I'm using is called Blooming Branches. Here are a couple more cards I've made using it.

For this first one, I brayered a very light lavender ink onto the embossing folder before embossing. Then I embossed and used the coordinating stencils to color the image. I left the flowers white, with just the little bit of coloration from the ink on the folder. I matted the panel. I realize I forgot to add a sentiment, but I can do that later.

FOr this one, I was experimenting with just using the stencils. After I finished adding the colors, I decided I'd like it better if I embossed it, so I did. I added some black spatters, which dried looking gray, so I used gray to mat the panel and added the stamped and die-cut sentiment.

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One Folder - Four Different Cards

This 3-D embossing folder and the matching dies and stencils are from Gina K's newly released kit. I made four cards using them - each of them different. The sentiment is from a different set in the kit. For this first card, I simply embossed the design on white and used the stencils to color it. I stamped the sentiment in a matching color and adhered it directly onto the embossed image. I matted with a matching pink cardstock.

For this second card, I embossed on a gold cardstock and matted with black. The sentiment was gold-embossed on black and die-cut.

I embossed on white and colored the leaves and stems with the coordinating stencils. I also added a little bit of brown ink to the flower centers. The flowers were embossed with gold and die-cut. They are popped up on foam circles. The sentiment is gold-embossed on white.

This one was an accident. :-) This is the back of the gold cardstock. I embossed it upside down. I really like the way it turned out. I used the stencils for the coloring. The sentiment is embossed with a matching green ink and popped up.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thinking of You in Yellow

The yellow panel on this card was from the card class that I took about a year and a half ago. The design on it was done with some sort of paste. I matted that panel with black. I matted the patterned paper with black, also. The flowers and sentiment are from Gina K. I used the coordinating stencils and die for the flowers. I die-cut the sentiment, also. The flowers and sentiment are popped up.

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More Birthday Flowers

A birthday card using the same stamp, stencils and die as yesterday's anniversary card. It is again popped up on foam squares, as is the sentiment. All are from Gina K. I embossed the background with a Sizzix embossing folder. I added the patterned paper to each side and added thin strips of metallic stickers.

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