Another Daisy Birthday

Left over from Friday's card were these three black squares, along with a rectangle. I thought I would get rid of the squares right away. I had also taken these flowers out of my sticker drawer, so they got used, too. They are by Martha Stewart. I used some coordinating paper from a matstack that I got a few years ago at Michael's and matted it with black. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. What a classic layout:)

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Happy Birthday, Georgia!

Another previously-stamped image. I colored with Copic markers and cut it out. Then I used Versamark ink to cover the entire image. I used Kaleidoscope embossing powder on it. Then I covered with Versamark again and used ulta-thick embossing powder over that. You can kind of see what it looks like. The sentiment is a sticker. I'm continuing to try to use things up! Happy Birthday, Georgia!!

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Sympathy Butterfly

I promise - I'm getting close to using up the stamp-offs that I've had for years. At least for a while, anyway. I may just put a few away again:) This butterfly was stamped with black dye ink and embossed with some sparkly embossing powder. I matted with black and mounted on foam squares. I added a wide strip of black and the sentiment, which is from Kaisercraft.

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Just "Bee" Cause

One more ancient stamp-off:) I had the image and I had the sentiment already stamped. I colored the image and the sentiment, then I cut the sentiment into three pieces and mounted them on foam squares. I cut the frame out of black with an unbranded die. I was looking for some patterned paper and I happened across the perfect sheet! 

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Happy Day

I used another pre-stamped image for this card - I don't know who made it. I colored with Copic markers and added some doodling around the edges. The bow was made from cardstock using dies. The image is mounted on foam squares. The image panel and the cardbase are ivory.

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Button Flowers

In with my stamp-offs, I had several (six, I think) of these flowers. I believe they were from Papertrey Ink. For this first one, I used it the way it was meant to be used - I used buttons for the flowers. The sentiment I added is from Gina K. I also drew smiles on the buttons:)

For this one, I punched circles for the flower centers using the same patterned paper as the bottom layer. The sentiment is from Papertrey.

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Christmas - With Foil and Patterned Paper

I now have tons of foil and printed sentiments and backgrounds that I need to use. I have a few sheets of these Merry Christmas ones, so I made up three cards with them (but only used up two of the printed ones, since one was the negative!) Most of the products I used on these cards are from Gina K - the patterned paper and the laser-printed sentiments. The foil is from Thermo Web. I cut the sentiments with rectangle stitched dies.

For this second card, I used the left-over part of the foiled sentiment. I used my ATG gun tape to adhere the left-over foil to white cardstock, then die-cut it.

 Same card - different patterned paper.

 For the last two cards, I simply matted the strip of paper left from the 6 x 6 sheet and added the sentiment - which is from Papertrey Ink.

 
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April Calendar Page

Well, we have arrived at April! Here is my page for this month. Seems like I have lots of pages this year that are just stamped and colored, but that's OK:) I do like a little more variety, though. At any rate - the image is from My Favorite Things. I colored with Copics. I also added some hand-doodling around the edge. The end! 

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Card Parts Birthday

Another card using up some more "card parts." This stamped image has been in my stamping room for many years. The stems and leaves are one stamp, and you have the option of using buttons for the flowers. I chose, however, to use Prima flowers. I'm pretty sure the stem/leaves stamp is from Papertrey Ink. I do know that the sentiment is from Papertrey. The brads I used are a dark chocolate, so I used chocolate ink for the sentiment and dark brown cardstock for the matting.

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Love and Thanks

I've had these stamp-offs for many, many years. I finally colored them up. I also went through all of my stamp-offs, picked out a few of them to color and use, and gave the rest to a friend who is going to bring to her retreat to share. I hope they all go to good homes! :) It feels good to have them gone. I'm not really sure, but I think these may be from Stampin' Up! I colored and matted them. I added some white dots with a gel pen to a couple hearts, and also some Nuvo drops to the center heart and the flower center. I matted the image panel and mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a Recollections set.

This one is simply colored, matted and glued to the card front.

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Simple Sympathy and Birthday

I used a friend's Stampin' Up! set to stamp these flowers and sentiments. Then I very simply colored and matted them all. Even though they are all the same, I am sharing the variety of colors.

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Leaf Punch Sympathy

Here are two more sympathy cards I made that are similar to those that I mailed out. I used an EK Success punch for the leafy border. For this first one, I matted with glittery paper. I also scored double lines on each side of the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink.

I used plain cardstock to mat this card and only scored a single line above and below the sentiment, which is from Stampabilities, I believe.

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Wild Flower Sympathy

I've needed a couple sympathy cards in the past week:( My supply was already depleted by a friend. I forgot to take pictures of the two cards that I gave, but I made a couple more that were similar, and I will share them.

The background for the flowers (Hero Arts) was done with a Kaleidacolor pad and a stamp from My Favorite Things. The sentiment is from the same set as the flowers. The image panel is not matted, and is just an eighth inch smaller on each edge than the card base.

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Wild Roses

I ordered a whole set of ink pads from Gina K and they arrived on Wednesday of last week. I'm so excited to use them! They are all labeled, organized and ready to go. Along with them, I got this free stamp set. 

For this first card, I stamped on white cardstock and used Copic markers. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. After stamping and coloring, I used a Darice embossing folder to emboss the whole panel. I matted with Gina K cardstock.

This card just "happened." I wanted to stamp the first time on scratch paper, clean the stamp, and then I figured it would be ready to use. However, I couldn't get myself to throw away the first one! :) I had stamped it on a piece of kraft-ish cardstock. I colored the flowers with metallic colored pencils. The sentiment is from the same set as the flowers. I cut it with a die, matted it with black, and then a dark green. The card base is 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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Masculine Birthday

Oops, I forgot to get this written up and posted. So, a little late, here is my next card. Just a simple one, but it was nice to get a couple cards made.

I started with a kraft card base. The patterned paper is from Gina K. I've had some twine for quite a while, but I had never used it, that I can remember. The sentiment is an old Stampin' Up tag set and punches. That's it:)

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Finally!

Finally I had some time to make a card. Actually, I have three new ones to share - one at a time.

I'm sending this to a friend from our stamping group. I used Gina K stamps and dies for the leaves and flower. The sentiment is from Stampabilities. I mounted the flower on foam squares. I used some copper Glimmer Mist over the flower and also over the image panel. I matted with coordinating cardstock.

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Pink Daisies for Nancy

Today is the birthday of a woman in our stamping group. She lives in Florida and we've never had the pleasure of meeting her in person. Here is the card I sent to her.

I cut the four smaller diamond-shaped pieces out of white, then temporarily taped them together. I stamped the images (two separate stamps) and colored them with Copic markers. I added some "specks" with an ancient Stampin' Up! stamp. I cut a large diamond out of black, separated the four smaller diamonds, and added them to the large diamond. The sentiment is from a different unbranded set.The diamonds were cut with QuicKutz dies.

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Anniversary Celebrations

Paper piecing! I haven't done this for quite a while. I stamped the flowers and leaves on patterned paper and cut them all out. I added embellishments for the flower centers and popped the flowers up on foam squares. I added the leaves directly to the patterned paper layer. The flowers are from a new-to-me unbranded set and the sentiment is from Maya Road. Oh, and I drew in the stems with a fine point black marker.

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March Calendar Page

Wow - now it's March!! Here is my March calendar page.

I used a digi image, which I colored with Copic markers. I cut the image out using a stitched square die. The matting is done with paper brought to me from Japan. I used the same set of stitched squares to cut it out.

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