While I was looking through my Stampin' Up! stamps a few days ago, this one jumped out at me. I set it aside for future use and Thursday was the day to use it:)
The four rectangles are all one stamp, from a retired set called Sweet Shapes. I stamped it with Going Gray and matted with shimmery pewter. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I mounted the panel on foam squares. The card base is gray.
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A simple sympathy card for today.
I still had my Sizzix/Hero Arts stamp and die set out from a few weeks ago, so I used it for this card. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares. The patterned paper is from K & Co. and I matted with Mellow Moss cardstock. It was fun to have a little time for card-making yesterday. I have a couple more cards to share with you soon.
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I guess I really don't have a "dedicated day" for Christmas cards this year - at least, not yet. So, you get this one today, since I have nothing else to share. After a long streak of making lots of cards, I have hit the end:) I haven't had much time for stamping, and if I've had the time, I've not had the mojo. Hopefully, both will return soon.
This simple card was created with Sizzix embossing folders. I got several last year after all of my cards were finished, so I'm finally using some of them. The small piece is mounted on foam squares. The matting is a dark green, but it looks almost black - even "in real life." Not sure if I can really use this one or not. Possibly if I add some teeny gems to the tree it might be OK. I'm linking this card up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. The challenge is simply to make a Christmas or other winter holiday card. The optional challenge for this week is to use stencils.
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Our grandson, Owen (three and a half years old) had tubes put in his ears and had his adenoids out yesterday. Everything went well and hopefully he will STAY well for a long time. He's pretty much been sick since he started preschool/daycare in January. This is the card I made for him yesterday.
I stamped the background of the pocket with a long-retired Stampin' Up! background stamp called Just Jeans. I stamped the stitching using another retired SU set called Pocket Fun and cut it out. I stamped the frog (from the Pocket Fun set, also), colored with Copic markers, and cut it out. I added googlie eyes. I also added some "rivets" to the corners of the pocket. I mounted the pocket and frog on foam squares. The background was made using a Cuttlebug Diamond Plate embossing folder and silver shimmery paper. I matted with black. The sentiment is from another SU set called Curvy Verses, which I assume is also retired. I matted each piece with black and mounted them on foam squares, too.
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And now it's June??? How did that happen? :) Amazing how quickly the months are flying by.
My June page is quite simple, but it took a while to color fifteen of these images. The image is from Stampin' Up! I colored it with Copic markers. I matted with very thin blue paper. The files for my blank calendar pages can be found near the top of my blog - under the header. Please feel free to use them. If you do, I'd love to hear from you!
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Another Christmas card for my way-too-small stash!
I used a Darice embossing folder and inked it up with a brayer before embossing on a fourth of a piece of cardstock. I knew when I inked it up that the ink had "puddled" a little bit and I thought it might be a cool effect. It's a border folder, so that's all the wider it is. I colored the holly leaves and berries with Copic markers after embossing. I adhered the embossed layer to completely cover the card front. I'm linking this up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. This week's additional challenge is "anything goes."
I was asked about the name of the Hero Arts/Sizzix set that I used for this card. I think it's called Frames With Sprigs and the number is 657775. I did a little search for it and found it at Staples for a good price. You can see it here. I hope you see this, Cheryl. I didn't have a way to contact you to answer your question. (I also saw it on Amazon for less, but the description didn't match the picture. I would guess the picture is right, but ...)
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I can hardly believe our grandson Jonah is a year old already! This is the card I made for him. I guess it doesn't really look like a card for a child, but it's what he got. After making SO many cards, first with the new embossing folders and then with my card parts, I ran out of spare time and mojo, too. Hopefully I'll get more of both soon. I have my second round of embossing folder to start with.
The letters were stamped with a retired alphabet stamp from Stampin' Up! I punched them out with a Martha Stewart punch. I punched the matting using coordinating cardstock and an EK Success punch. I mounted them on Dimensionals. The patterned papers are both from Deja Views.
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Another piece embossed with my Darice embossing folder and left sitting on my desk for a while. I brayered lightly over it with green ink and matted it with matching cardstock. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.
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You get two-fer the price of one today. How lucky are you? LOL!
This first one was actually stamped second, as it uses the second generation stamping of the image. I used a Hero Arts stamp, inked it up with Distress markers and then spritzed with water. The card below was stamped the first time. Then I spritzed it again and stamped this image on white. I added the sentiment from a Papertrey Ink set and mounted on Dimensionals.
For this second one, I added the birthday sentiment - also from the same Papertrey set. I used a Sizzix (Christmas!) embossing folder to emboss the bottom part of the panel. I again mounted on Dimensionals. This one is off-white.
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Just like on yesterday's card, the "celebrate" sentiment was cut with a Memory Box die. The flowers were stamped and cut out with a Hero Arts set. The background was embossed with a Darice embossing folder.
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Only a few more cards left which were made with my card parts. I have officially put the rest of the parts away for now, but still have a couple cards left to share with you.
The celebrate was cut with a Memory Box die. I stamped the flowers with a Hero Arts stamp and markers, cut them out with the coordinating die and mounted them on foam squares. The background was embossed with one of my newest Darice embossing folders.
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I made this card for a color swap in my stamping group. The colors are rose and green.
I used embossing paste and a stencil from Darice. (I have a tutorial on using embossing paste here, if you are interested. I made it a few years ago - definitely amateur! But, it shows how to do it.) I stippled the ink through the stencil, added the embossing paste and then the ultrafine glitter. The pink panel and the rose panel are mounted on Dimensionals. The green patterned paper is from My Minds Eye.
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This piece of matted patterned cardstock has been in my card parts box for years. The embossed "smile" was done with one of my recently-purchased Darice embossing folders and had been sitting on my table for a few weeks. I matted it with the same green as the patterned cardstock was matted. I happened across the embossed circle when I was getting out the green cardstock, and decided to throw it on there for fun:)
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I believe the "swish" on this card was done with a stamp and watercolor crayons, directly on a card front. I then stamped the sentiment over it. And then it sat for almost a year. I wasn't happy with the spacing of it. Finally, I decided to trim it down and mount it on foam squares, and now I like it much better:)
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More card parts. The parts for this card were the die-cut birthday (Memory Box, I think) and the blue piece with just the horizontal lines embossed. I'm pretty sure that embossing was done with an embossing folder.
I used a Sizzix Christmas embossing folder (that I got last year after all of my cards were finished) to emboss the top part and the bottom part. I mounted the birthday die cut on pieces of foam squares. I stamped the HAPPY using a Papertrey stamp.
Thanks, Donna, about the heads-up regarding my calendar files link. Not sure what the problem is. I changed things up and added a new link, but I don't think that is the solution, either, as I think you have to sign in for that. I'll keep trying.
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The anniversary card I made for our daughter and son-in-law. I'm still working on my "card parts."
I'm not sure why I had them, but the three little blue squares, the two tiny pink flowers and one of the green leafy things were in my card parts. The flower got set on top of the green piece and I thought that worked pretty well, then I set them on the blue and I figured that would work, too. I just had to cut one more green piece and then the matting squares. I originally had them all as diamonds, but decided to put the side ones as squares. I mounted each of them on Dimensionals. The sentiment is from Papertrey. The background panel is a die cut I did last summer at our Group Gathering. It was cut with a Spellbinders die, I believe. I mounted that on Dimensionals, also.
I made this one a few days after the first one, but the post hadn't gone live yet, so I decided to add this to the same post, since it uses the same die cut and kind of the same layout. (Oh, my - what a long sentence!) I punched the circles with an EK Success punch. I sponged ink around the edges of the circles and also the edges of the die cut. The sentiment is from Stampendous. I mounted the main panel on Dimensionals.
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This will probably end up going to guy:)
The die cut was made with a Memory Box die. I cut a piece of blue cardstock narrower than the die cut. I stamped the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) on the bottom, then scored two lines above it. I adhered it to the card base and added the die cut.
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I've had two packages of Penny Black stickers for a few years now. Just before my mom went into the hospital, I was supposed to have the week off from babysitting. This is what I had started on - using up those stickers. It's been on hold for nearly three months, but I finished them off. You get all of them in one day, since they are all relatively similar. I will briefly comment on each of them.
The stamp on this first one is from Rubbernecker. I stamped and matted with Midnight Muse ink and cardstock.
The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped in Soft Suede ink.
Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped in Soft Suede. The butterfly is from Penny Black, also. The sticker panel is matted with white and mounted on foam squares.
Sentiment from Kaiser Craft and is stamped in Midnight Muse.
Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped in Midnight Muse. The entire panel is mounted on foam squares.
I scored the lines around the image with my Martha Stewart scoring board. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday and is stamped in Soft Suede.
Sentiment is from Kaiser Craft and is stamped in Midnight Muse. This is the only card on white. The rest are ivory. The image panel is mounted on foam squares.
Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped with Soft Suede. I cut the line across from the sheet with the stickers. The butterfly is also from the same package.
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As promised, here is another card using my new Memory Box butterflies border die. I love it! (I sure need to use it many times to justify the cost, though!)
For today's card, I used the die on white. I scored two lines near the edge of the die cut and then embossed the rest with a Sizzix folder. I matted with Pale Plum cardstock. The sentiment has been stamped and on my table for a while. It's from Verve. I matted with plum and mounted on foam squares. The butterfly on the sentiment is also from Memory Box.
Edited to add: Donna, you probably won't return here for your answer, but I have no other way to reach you. This die does not cut all the way to the left edge - it cuts just like this with no modifications. It's called "Kensington Border" and you can see it here.
The embossing was done with a folder from a Sizzix set called "Birthday Set 2."
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Ah, a non "card parts" card! Well, that's not quite true. I very recently purchased this Memory Box butterfly border die and had to try it out. So, I guess this WAS a card part, since the test cut was sitting on my desk for a few days! :)
I simply cut the piece using the die and scored a line near the edge. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Stay tuned for another card using this die tomorrow.
Edited to add: In response to the comment from "Anonymous:" There is no embossing folder on this card. The die-cut was done with a Memory Box die called Kensington Border. Gosh, I'm not sure what cardstock I used, but it is probably Stampin' Up! Perfect Plum.
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