Starry Birthday

Another foiled piece done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. I did it awhile back, but finally used it. I matted it with blue cardstock that matched some of the stars. The sentiment is gold heat-embossed and is from My Favorite Things. This card is about 5.25 inches by 6.5 inches.

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Foiled Snowflakes

I was looking through my book of foils, and realized how many pre-printed sheets I have from Gina K that need to be foiled!! I made a few of these snowflake backgrounds using some really fancy silver foil. I made three of these cards. The sentiment was cut from silver metallic cardstock and also white cardstock and layered, then placed on some white cardstock and matted with more of the silver.

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Happy Fiftieth!

Happy 50th anniversary to my friend, Patti!! It was actually last week, but I wanted to make sure the card arrived before I posted it. I hope you had a wonderful day.

I cut the background with a cover plate from Gina K. I matted it with a gold glittery paper, leaving a white border around the very edge. The sentiment was also die-cut, and layered many times. I cut my own shadow layer underneath it and mounted it on foam squares. I realized after taking the picture that I had mounted the heart layer crooked. I was able to take it off and glue it on straight!

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With Love and Prayers

I took out my stencil basket a few weeks ago to remind me to use them. At the front were three die-cut shaped negatives that I had saved to make a card such as this. I ink-blended through the opening, then added the stamping. The trees and sentiment are both from Gina K.

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More "Left-Over" Cards

These three cards are all like the one from a few days ago. The sentiments are the "negative" from foiled sentiments from yesterday. Each of the center matting layers are done with the cardstock from cleaning off my brayers, and each of them has different patterned paper on the bottom layer.

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More 3D Embossing - with Color

 

I liked the brayered inked embossing so much, I made three more cards like that with my new folders. I added the same sentiment, also, and matted each sentiment with the cardstock I cleaned off the brayer on. The sentiment is pre-printed from Gina K and I used my laminator to foil them.

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Flowery Birthday Wishes

I was left with a rather thin strip of patterned paper from the backside of yesterday's card, so I cut it in half and added it to the sides of this card front. Then I cut a panel to fit in the middle. The image and sentiment are from a Gina K set. I colored the image with Copic markers. I also added thin metallic stickers to each side of the image panel. You can't tell in the picture, but I added just a teeny bit of a glittery gel pen to the flower centers.

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A "Leftovers" Card

This card was made from leftovers. I had this green layer piece leftover from cleaning my brayer. The foiled sentiment was the leftover piece from the card I shared a couple of days ago. I matted each of them with black. I used patterned paper for my bottom layer, and you will see the leftover from that piece on a card soon - perhaps tomorrow. I thought this would make a nice "guy" card.

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Lovebirds Anniversary

And here is the last of the new 3D folders that I got from Altenew. For this one, I used ink and a blending brush over all of the embossing. The sentiment is from My Sentiments Exactly.

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Embossed Birthday

Another one of my new Altenew 3D folders. On this one, I added some color with ink and blending brushes. I trimmed down the panel and matted it. I stamped the sentiment and matted that, also, before mounting on foam squares.

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White on White Embossed Birthday

I love the look of white-on-white, but perhaps I should have added a little bit of color to this one. The embossing was done with one of my new Altenew folders. I trimmed down the panel and used foam tape to give it some dimension. The sentiment is from Gina K. I stamped it with a gray, instead of stark black. I cut it out with a die and mounted it on foam squares.

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Banana Leaves Birthday

I finally got myself some 3-D embossing folders! It was about time, I thought. Altenew had some on sale and had  free shipping on over $29 so I figured it was meant to be. For this first one (you'll be seeing more in the next few posts) I inked up the folder using a brayer before embossing. The sentiment was pre-printed from Gina K and I foiled it with my laminator and cut it out with a die. I matted it with part of the piece I had used to clean off my brayer. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares.

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April Calendar Page

April has rolled around, so here is my calendar page. The image and sentiment are from My Favorite Things. I colored with Zig Clean Color markers. I sponged some ink around the edges. Happy Spring! I hope it feels like spring in your neck of the woods! LOL.

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Birthday Remake

Another card like one I've made in the past. I saw a picture of it and wanted to do it again. So, I made two of them. The branch and bird stamp are from Hero Arts. I fussy cut the branch and bird after coloring them with Copic markers. The sentiment is from Gina K. The holes were cut out with a Papertrey Ink die, and I mounted the panel on foam tape. The patterned paper underneath is from Bo Bunny.

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Patterned Paper Christmas

The sentiment was from my card parts. I believe it was done with an ink cube direct to paper and probably a Papertrey Ink stamp. I simply mounted it on foam squares and added it to a cardbase covered with patterned paper from The Paper Studio.

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Stenciled Christmas

More stenciled Christmas cards. Not much explanation needed. The sentiments are all from my card parts.

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Anniversary Flower Trio

We have an Amazon Show, and it pops up pictures of photos from this date in years past. Sometimes pictures show up of cards I've made, and I think to myself that I like them and should make them again. Here is one of those cards. I used Papertrey Ink stamps for the flowers and a Gina K stamp for the sentiment. The cardbase is a linen-y cardstock. I made three of these.

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Penny Black Christmas

I checked back, and in 2018 I shared a card made with these stamps and said at that point that I had stamped them "a few years ago." I still have more after this one! And I gave a few of them away. I have the stamp set from Penny Black that includes the image and the sentiment, but thought I would stamp about 20 of them at the time. They are too tedious for me to color - not my thing! But, they are in my card parts and now there is one less of them. I think I have five or six left. I colored with Copics and matted the panel. I placed it at a slight angle on the card base.

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'Tis the Season

I'm still using up cards parts and had some for Christmas. The card parts for this card are the gold snowflake piece and the matted sticker. I embossed the background with a Darice folder. The snowflake is mounted on foam squares.

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Christmas Ornaments and Holiday Cheer

I thought I would get some Christmas cards made. I'll be sharing a few with you in the next few posts, taking a day off here and there with something else. I had pulled out my stencils for a different reason, but thought I would use a couple Christmas ones first. I added red gems to the top of each ornament. The sentiment is done with an old wood-mounted set from Hero Arts. I matted it, and added a couple gems to that, too. I made three of these.

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