Another Christmas Card

I used friends' dies while I was in Des Moines last summer, and made a card with one of them. The die cuts all the openings that you see here. I matted with red and popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

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Another Ornament Card ... and an Updated Card

For today's cards, I'm sharing the rest of the cards I made with the ornaments I had cut out using Penny Black dies.

For this first one, I used silver and red. The cardbase is dark green. The background is silver and is embossed using a Darice embossing folder. The ornament hanger is a thin strip of cardstock.

Here is the card from Tuesday, updated. I added the die-cut Christmas sentiment, mounted on a strip of matching green. I believe the die is from Impression Obsession, but I'm not 100% certain.

I actually have a few days worth of posts to share with you. Thursday was a good day in my stamping room:)

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Penny Black Ornament Dies

Here are four cards I made with the Penny Black ornaments die set. They are all the same - just subtle differences. On each, I drew the ornament hanger with a silver marker/pen. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I used a gel pen to add the "snow" on this one. The bows were done with dies, also. The backgrounds were embossed with a Darice folder.

Edited to add: Oops - the folder is actually from Cuttlebug, not Darice.

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Christmas Bird Ornament

Several months ago, I brought out my Letterpress - thought I would experiment with it a bit again. I made two pieces like this background. I think it works fine as a background for a Christmas card. I bought a Penny Black die set while I was in Des Moines in June. It comes with four dies - the solid background, this bird, a deer and the word "Joy." I made up two of each several weeks ago using red, green, gold and silver. This is the only one on a card so far. I popped up the ornament on foam squares and added a silver brad and silver cord.

Oh my goodness - only three months until Christmas!! I am so far behind on my calendars - I only have three months of them done so far:( Hopefully I'll have some time soon to spend in my stamping room. Besides taking our trip to Alaska, we also went camping and took a trip to Chicago in September. We've been playing a lot of pickleball, too, and I have taken up golf this summer. Time just flies!

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Shimmery Birthday

Another stamped image from June - unknown company. The sentiment is from The Paper Company. I colored the flowers using Spectrum Noir Sparkle Glitter Brush Pens. It's rather shimmery in real life:)

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Floral Anniversary - Times Three

 Finally - a blog post from me. It's been one thing after another, but I finally have some time for blogging. (Haven't had stamping time yet, though! These cards were done quite a while ago.) The flowers on these cards were all stamped at our June Gathering. I THINK the stamps are from Altenew, but I'm not sure. I used my MISTI for the flowers. The sentiment is an old stamp from PSX. For this first one, I added Wink of Stella to the flowers, and also to the leaves, I think.

I added a few Nuvo drops to this last card.

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Anniversary Birds

I spent a few hours in my stamping room last night, and made a few cards. It felt good. They are not very fancy, but I used up some parts, anyway. We got some stickers in the mail recently. I'm not sure where they were from, but I think Habitat for Humanity. I couldn't not use them. :) These cute birds are one of them.

I cut a scalloped oval with a Nestability to place the sticker on and I mounted it on foam squares. The scrap of dotted paper was on my table and it matched perfectly. I matted it with ivory cardstock to match the card base and I mounted that layer on foam squares, also. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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September Calendar Page

And here is my calendar page for September. The leaf stamps are all from a Hero Arts set. The sentiment is from Stampendous.

I'm hoping to get to spend a little time in my stamping room soon. Perhaps I'll share some pictures with you soon, too, from our trip to Alaska. We left on the 16th of August and returned on the 26th. It was fabulous!!! When we returned, we had one of our grandsons here during the day for three days. That was great, too! :) I feel like we're just about caught up with everything now.

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Color Swap - Dark Green and Rose

The colors for our monthly color swap for this month are dark green and rose. I decided to "virtually" participate in the swap. I used a dark green card base and cut the rose-colored layer with a die. I stamped the rose (from Inkadinkado) on white and colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. After stamping and coloring, I embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder.

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Happy 50th Anniversary, Kris and Ron!

Another member of our little stamping group is celebrating her 50th anniversary. Pretty awesome, I think! Congrats, Kris!

I decided to make a stair-step card for them. The image is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I embossed the image with detail gold embossing powder. The gold cardstock is shimmery. I embossed the front with a Darice embossing folder. The numbers were cut with some old Cuttlebug dies.

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Sunflower Birthday

A very simple card, but at least it's a card and I had a little fun! The flower stamp is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with brown cardstock and mounted on foam squares. I added green to the stem with a marker, and also Wink of Stella on the petals. I used sparkly Nuvo drops on each end of the sentiment.

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Kaleidacolor Flowers

 Wow, I had some time in my stamping room! There ARE advantages of waking up at 3:00 a.m.:)

For both of these cards, I used a stamp from Inkadinkado and sentiment stamps from Papertrey Ink. I also used two Kaleidacolor ink pads. On this first one, I also used an unbranded die to cut the frame.

For this second one, I added a frame drawn with a marker one-half inch from the edge.

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Watercolor Class Card - Finished

Because I have nothing else to share, and no time to spend in my stamping room, I will post this card:) You've already seen the main part, but I've added the hand-written sentiments. This will go to our granddaughter, Amelia, on her next birthday in March - if I can remember by then! I do wish I hadn't done the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" slanted. I would have preferred it more straight up and down. Oh well!

We went camping for a couple days - left Sunday and came back yesterday. We had a camper cabin at Glacial Lakes State Park. It was totally awesome! We got in lots of relaxing and also lots of hiking. More fun stuff coming up - our daughter and her family from Chicago will be arriving on Friday night and will stay until Tuesday.

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Canning Jar Birthday Wishes

I have had very little time in my stamping room, and will have almost no time for the whole month of August. I'm a little sad, but have lots of fun things planned! At any rate, here is a card. I'm sharing it becuase I have nothing else to share! I bought this Recollections stamp and die set in early June and this is the first time I've used it. The jar and the jar topper are stamps and dies from the set, which includes other stamps as well. The sentiment is a miscellaneous stamp I've had for a very long time and I have no idea who made it. The hearts were cut with a die and the bottom was embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder. I colored a shadow under the jar and popped the jar up on foam squares. Have a great August, my friends! I'll be here when I can.

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August Calendar Page

Here is my August calendar page. The dies and the sentiment are both from My Favorite Things. I love this die - it looks so real! Happy August to all:)

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Gold Thinking of You

I guess I should try getting a better picture of this card, but I'm a rather lazy blogger. 😉 I was given a couple sheets of this ivory paper with gold lines around the edges. I cut it down to place on a normal-size card. All I did to finish it up was to stamp the sentiment (from Stampin' Up!) with Versamark and emboss with detail gold embossing powder.

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Black and Cream Wedding

I used a die to cut the black piece on this card, then cut a piece of ivory to fit. I embossed the ivory part with a Darice embossing folder and added a coule scored lines on each side of it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is matted with black and popped up on foam squares. I think it would make a fine wedding card, or perhaps even an anniversary card.

Edited to add: I broke down and ordered a few more dies from China. :( I thought I wouldn't do it again, but I couldn't resist. This is one of those new dies. I don't honestly know if it's a rip-off of some other company's die, but I'm assuming that it is.

Edited to add - again: For Doublemindt: This die is from China. I ordered it from AliExpress.com.

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Simple Sympathy and Thank You

I stopped at Hobby Lobby the other day and picked up some much-needed patterned paper. LOL! I couldn't resist it, though, at 50% off. The stack I got is from The Paper Studio. I added it to black cardstock and put white on the bottom. The sentiments were both cut with dies. Super simple.

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One (Last?) Card Class Card

I thought yesterday's card was going to be my last card from the Online Card Class, but I made another one:) For this one, I just looked at the sketch, but I didn't trace it. And the sentiment is my writing.

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Online Card Class Card

A drawing was provided for this card, too. I used the drawing and also painted my card the same as hers. Well, not exactly, of course - I don't have the talent for that! I just did my best. It was a fun class. I'm excited to do more watercoloring now.

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