May Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for the month of May. The rose is a four-step flower from Sunny Studio. The leaves are three steps. They were all die-cut with coordinating dies. The patterned paper is from an old Recollections matstack. I love this rose - I think it is so very realistic.

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Four-Step Roses

I love these roses and leaves by Sunny Studio. I made several of them in different colors, since I had the stamps in place on my MISTI. The orange one is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

This is the one I made for our color swap. The colors were honey and purple.

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Monoprinting

I'm not exactly sure what monoprinting is, but here is my card from the Spring On-line Card Classes for that lesson. It calls for either a gel plate (don't know what that is, and I don't have one) or a large, background clear stamp. I don't have a large clear background stamp, either. So, I used my embossing mat for my BIGkick. It worked OK. (Except, see below.) I added ink to the mat randomly and then used a brayer to make it cover the mat. Then I used a leaf stamp from Sunny Studio. I tapped the stamp onto the ink and then stamped it onto a piece of white cardstock. I did that repeatedly, wiping the stamp off between stampings, until the cardstock was covered. Then I put another piece of cardstock onto the mat covered with ink, and brayered over that to remove the ink from the mat to the cardstock. There was a section in the middle that I didn't want on this first card so I cut it out. I mounted the top and bottom pieces on foam squares. I added thin strips of black. Then I added the die-cut hello, which is four layers thick.

Here is the cardstock that I stamped with the colored ink. And this card uses the piece that I cut out of the first card. I had tried using some sort of embossing plate with the mat quite a while ago, and I guess it left a permanent indentation on the mat. You can see the design in the sentiment piece. I thought it was okay for this card, though. I stamped a sentiment from Papertrey Ink on it, matted with black and added to the card front.

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Stamped Flowers

These first five cards all use flowers and shaped sentiment panels in my "stash." All of the flowers in this post except the second card use Sunny Studio stamps and dies. I think the second one is from Gina K. I think the patterned paper is all from Die Cuts With a View.

I embossed the top panel of this card with a Darice embossing folder. The flowers are mounted on foam squares. All of these cards are headed up to church for card rack.

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BIrthday Roses

I used up a few more card parts on this card. I had the flowers and the leaves already stamped and die-cut. The rose stamp and die are from a Sunny Studio set. The leaves are from Gina K. I did a kind of a fun technique on the leaves that I learned in a Jennifer McGuire video. I stamped the leaves once, using my MISTI, then took a stylus (previously used for "old-fashioned" dry embossing) and "drew" the center line on the stamp for the second stamping. It's a two-step stamping technique, but only uses one stamp. The front-most rose is mounted on foam squares. I added Wink of Stella to the flowers. I also added a few black dots with Liquid Pearls. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Rose Sympathy

I stamped several of these roses and leaves a while back, so here's another one made into a card. They are from Sunny Studio. The sentiment was stamped and in my pile and I don't remember off-hand who it's from. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug folder.

Edited to add: This embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and is called Matelasse.

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Happy Anniversary, Kris and Ron!

Here is the card that I made for my friend, Kris, and her husband for their anniversary. I saw it this type of card on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube videos. I think it's just called a shadow box card, but I'm not sure. The flowers and leaves are layered stamps and dies from Sunny Studio. I cut out the rectangle with a stitched rectangle die from Memory Box. The corner stamp on the rectangle on the front of the card, along with the sentiment, are from a Papertrey Ink set. The background was stamped with a Recollections background stamp. The "Celebrate" sentiment is from a Hampton Art set.

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Best Wishes

Lots of white space:) The purple layer was done with a small embossing folder by Sizzix for Stampin' Up! I embossed it and then cut it down around the edge. I added a white rectangle stamped with a sentiment by Papertrey Ink. The flower is a glittery sticker and the leaf was layer-stamped with a set by Sunny Studio.

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Another Rose Anniversary

I just love these realistic-looking roses, stamped with layered stamps and die-cut with dies from Sunny Studio. I have several more of them stamped and ready to use. The leaves are stamped and cut with the same sets. The rose on the right is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I had used my Cameo Silhouette to cut out a heart for an earlier card. I used the negative part of the die cut as a stencil, and sponged ink onto the front panel for a background.

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Rose Anniversary

I used a layering stamp set from Sunny Studio for the rose and the leaves on this card. I bought this set at Memory Bound in Ankeny and I also bought the coordinating die set, which I used to cut them out. I mounted the rose and leaves on a stitched circle die-cut that I cut from the card front. I mounted the circle on a fun foam circle. I embossed the background with a folder from Cuttlebug. The sentiment was left over from our make and take at Taylored Expressions. I added a few tiny pink gems.

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