Flowery Birthday

In one of my hot foil plates sets, there were a few tiny dies - not for foiling. They cut out these tiny flowers and leaves. I cut them from white and colored them with markers. I added several of them to a panel and drew in the stems and grass and matted with green. I added the yellow dotted paper to the card base and added the sentiment, which is from Stampendous. I also added some white dots to all of the flowers.

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Fall Birthday

For some reason, Michael's gave me a $5 gift card. So, of course I had to spend it. I hadn't been in a Michael's for quite a long time. I found a 12 x 12 matstack that was on sale for $4.99. Perfect! They didn't even charge me tax on it. It had many pretty fall patterns in it, plus some solid colors. The piece I used on this card was part of a "cut-apart" sheet. This particular section was the area outside the gold foil. Inside the gold foil frame were some gold lines - perhaps for journaling?? At any rate, I carefully cut the lined section out. Then I found a patterned sheet in the matstack that I liked in the center. I foiled a piece of ivory cardstock with gold, creating the sentiment which I popped up on foam squares.

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Silver Foil Anniversary

Here is the "positive" foiled piece from Thursday's card. Again, the image and the sentiment were done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. I colored the flowers with light colors of Copic markers. I matted with black and mounted the sentiment on foam squares.

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Birthday Wish for a Friend

Another Glimmer Hot-Foiled piece. The flowers were done with the Glimmer. I colored them with Copic markers and matted. The sentiment is gold heat-embossed and is from My Favorite Things.

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Silver Foiled Anniversary

More pieces done on my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The part on the left was done with the negative piece and the sentiment is popped up with foam squares. I chose to mat with black.

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Starry Birthday

Not a very good picture, but ... The stars area was done with the negative space from a hot-foiled piece. I added gold metallic sticker strips to the edges of that panel. The sentiment was also done with my hot foil system. You will be seeing a few cards done with new card parts - I was busy making more parts with my Glimmer system.

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Birthday Wish for a Friend

Another version of Saturday's card. This time I put the cut piece over the stamping and coloring. The floral stamp is from Inkadinkado and I colored it with Copic markers. I stamped the background with an Altenew stamp. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

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Large Flower Thanks

More patterned paper - I simply trimmed down this piece to fit the card, and I matted it. The sentiment is a Stampin' Up! embossing/die. I cut four of them and layered them up. I made two more of these cards but stamped the sentiment on them.

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Tri-Square Thinking of You

I watched a Jennifer McGuire video with "spotlighting." I didn't like the way mine was turning out, so I went back to this version - similar to some I've done in the past! The stamp is from Inkadinkado and I colored it with Copic markers and cut it with a Papertrey Ink die. Each square is three thicknesses. I added them to the cardstock that they were cut out of, after trimming it down. The sentiment is from Altenew.

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Patterned Paper Thinking of You

Another simple card using up patterned paper. I have SO much!! I simply added a metallic sticker strip across the bottom of it and stamped the sentiment, which is from Altenew. The card base is ivory. I remembered to make three of these - two to give away and one for my stash.

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Flower Garden Birthday

I used up several of the flowers and leaves from the Stampin' Up! set that were in my card parts. The leaves are glued to the embossed panel and the flowers are mostly mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is a Mrs. Grossman's sticker. The background was embossed with a Gina K folder.

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Patterned Paper and Card Parts

Just a super-simple card for today. Patterned paper on the bottom, a thin strip of black cardstock and card-part sentiments.

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Sending Birthday Wishes

More card parts - these are from Stampin' Up! I added them to card bases that were in my card parts. The flowers are mounted on foam squares.

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Sending Smiles

A friend brought over a Stampin' Up! set quite a while ago and I made LOTS of card parts with it. There are flowers and leaves and words. You'll be seeing a lot of them coming up! The background for this one was in my card parts. I'm determined to make a dent in them! I don't even remember how it was created, but it has some sparkle to it. I'm pretty sure it was done with a stencil - possibly from Gina K. The sentiment strip is mounted on foam squares.

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More Christmas and More Card Parts

Some more Christmas cards for this year. The card bases had been created and were in my Christmas stamps bin. I simply matted the sentiments and added them to the completed bases. The sentiment on this card is from Gina K. The other sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink. I made a total of six cards similar to these.

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Green Christmas

The main image on this card was in my card parts, but not for very long. I made it with my Glimmer Hot Foil machine and plates. I trimmed it down and added it to a 5 x 7 inch card base. I used thin shimmery stickers on each side of the panel. The sentiment is from Gina K and was embossed with green embossing powder, matted with green and mounted on foam squares. I also added just a few red gems.

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March Calendar Page

Well, it's March!! So, here is my calendar page. The kite is from Stampin' Up! and the sentiment is from Inkadinkado. I did the tiny bit of coloring with Copics and added the white dots with a white Posca pen.

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Another Valentine?

This stickers have been in my stamping room for a long time. (Ever heard that before?? LOL!) I added them to a white panel and then also added some thin metallic stickers on each side of the panel. I will need to add a sentiment, once I'm sure what it will be used for.

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Celebrate Today

The flowers, leaves and sentiment were all in my card parts. One flower had been lightly brushed with ink, so I inked up the second one, also. The sentiment was matted on black, as was the patterned purple paper. The sentiment is from Maya Road and is mounted on foam squares.

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Foiled Christmas

Two more Christmas cards for this year. And nothing from my Card Parts! I used my Glimmer Hot Foil machine for these. The sentiments are stamped with shimmery gold ink using Bo Bunny stamps.

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