Simple Flowers

Remember when I got some stamp sets from a friend - back in March? Well, one of the sets was these flower stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions. I made these up shortly after getting the set and now I have used them up. I had stamped them with black ink and embossed with clear embossing powder - or maybe black. I don't remember. I colored them with Copic markers and die-cut them. The sentiment stamps are mostly from Papertrey Ink, but the Mother's Day one is from Verve. I used the same patterned paper on each of them and added thin black strips along the sides. I used up a full half-sheet of a 12x12 piece of patterned paper! LOL! Only about 10000 to go! Or maybe more??

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More Daisy Birthdays

I made ten of these daisies while I had the die out. I used them all up now, making seven of these cards with different papers. The papers are MANY years old. About fifteen years ago, a co-worker of my son gave me three or four boxes of "stuff" which I went through VERY carefully - sorting it out and tossing the junk. I think she must have been a Stampin' Up! demo because a lot of it was SU! things. I have a stack of samples (?) this size. Some of them are patterned and most of them are solid colors - some with textures. I came across them and thought I could use up a few of them for backgrounds for the daisies. I'm not showing you all of them, because they are the same except for the dp. The sentiment is from Gina K, as is the stem and leaf stamp. I did a little coloring with Copic markers. The flowers are popped up on foam squares.

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Faux Embossed Christmas - and One More

Not sure how this will come across in a photograph, but it's "faux embossing" done with white pigment ink and die ink. The stamps are from Gina K. I added rhinestones to the centers of the snowflakes and also near the sentiment. I made four of these.

And one more just blue-on-white. Sames stamps. A little Star Dust Stickles on the snowflakes. Five more Christmas cards made.

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More Sympathy

Three more sympathy cards for me and my church and maybe for the thrift store Cheryl volunteers at and makes cards for. The stamps are from an old Stampin' Up! set. i embossed the side panel with an old Cuttlebug folder. I also added some Liquid Pearls to the flower centers on this first one, which I made two of. For the stamping of the images, I used markers directly on the rubber stamp.

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Sympathy

I was in need of some sympathy cards and so is our church, so I made several nearly the same - just different colors and papers. The stamps are from Hero Arts. The image panels are popped up on foam squares. The "splotch" behind the flowers is from My Favorite Things.

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A Valentine ... in June

Not really the right time for a valentine, but here is one anyway. :-) I watched some of Gina K and Jennifer using white and ivory pigment inks, and it inspired me to do a couple things. For this one, I used a Gina K stencil set. I first used pink ink and then I used white ink for the second layer. I used dies to cut the matting and the image panel. The sentiment is an old wood-mounted one from Judi-Kins that I got from someone, and is popped up on foam squares.

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June Calendar Page

Goodness - I almost forgot to share my calendar page with you ... again! Whew, I remembered. I used a die to cut the butterflies out of gold shimmery/sparkly paper. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions and is embossed with gold powder. I tore a piece of paper and used it as a stencil with a blender brush to make the clouds in the sky. Happy June to all!

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Simple Birthday Wishes

A simple birthday card that I like a lot. I made four of them. I die-cut the opening and added some blue cardstock behind it. The daisy was cut with an ancient Sizzix die - the REALLY thick ones from years ago. The sentiment is from Gina K. The panel with the hole in it is popped up on foam squares. I added Star Dust Stickles to the flower center.

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Happy Birthday Jonah!

Our second-to-the-youngest grandchild turns eleven on Thursday. He is an excellent drummer!! So, this is the card he gets. The "movie reel" die cut is an ancient one from Sizzix - the thick thick die that was used by the really old die-cut machines. I happened across them last week and was inspired to make this card for Jonah. It actually works with my Spellbinders Platinum 6.

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Banana Leaf Birthday

A very simple card - maybe I should make a couple more of this one. I brayered ink on the debossing side of an Altenew folder before embossing. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Washi Tape Birthday

I was inspired to use up a little Washi tape, hence this card. I only made one like this so far, but I think I'll make two or three more. Even the glitter strip is Washi tape, but the self-stickiness was gone so I had to glue it down. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Die-Cut Flowers Birthdays

Two very similar cards. I used a die for the flowers. On this first card, I placed the metallic green die-cut into the black die-cut opening. I placed this over the pink cardstock. I also cut the flower centers with the die using yellow cardstock. The sentiment is from Gina K.

The opposite colors on this one, except for the pink showing through for the flowers. I also added the green metallic cardstock to the flower centers.

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

My friends, Cheryl and Vicki, both had a card using this layout on their blogs on the same day! I didn't look at the videos that they linked, but instead just looked at the pictures and winged it. The sentiment is from Gina K. I used part of a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the embossing on the image panel. The background is a shimmery, metallic-y cardstock.

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Three-Flower Birthday

And the card with the left-over three squares. The flowers were die-cut from white and had ink brushed on them and an enamel dot added to each center. The sentiment is from a very old Inkadinkado set. But, the flower die cut three flowers of varying sizes, so now I have six flowers left over to use! LOL!

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Birthday Flowers

So, here is the one with the three-hole die-cut. I used Gina K stamps to stamp in the windows. I also used a Gina K stamp to stamp the panel, which is mounted on foam squares.

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Sympathy Flowers

My cards just "evolve" on their own, quite often. I came across this background piece that I had made a while ago by misting a piece of dark green cardstock with bleach. (I have two more.) I cut it, and the backing, with Waffle Flower dies. On the same magnetic sheet was my three-square holes die, that you will see used on tomorrow's card. Then the following day you will see a card made with the left-over squares from that card. :-)

I was trying to figure out what to make with the bleached piece and thought a sympathy card might be a good idea. I found this sympathy stamp from Paper Inspirations and stamped it in black and embossed it. Then I decided that a flower would be nice, so I used this die and cut it from black shiny cardstock and layered it to make it stand out more.

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Mother's Day

A friend came over this week and she had wanted to make Mother's Day cards. As it turned out, we didn't make any. But, I had taken out my very few Mother's Day stamps so I thought I would use one. This card will probably go to Cheryl for her thrift store for next year. :-) The stamp is an old wooden one from Michael's when they used to have their dollar bin. The image panel is mounted on foam squares. I added some black Gina K sequins for added interest.

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More Gold Die-Cuts for Christmas

I cut these pieces out the same time as yesterday's cards. I also added extra dimension to them. And the sentiments are again from Paper Smooches and are gold-embossed.

Sorry the sentiments are so hard to see. Here are better pictures of them.

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Gold Die-Cut Christmas

I had a few scraps of gold foily cardstock on my desk and decided to do a little bit of die-cutting with them. Here are the results of that. The sentiments are from Paper Smooches and are gold-embossed. I cut all the die-cuts out of thick card and glued them with the foil for added dimension. I also added a thin strip of the gold foil between the patterned paper and the white background.

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"Inchie" Birthdays

Looking through my stamps, I came across this set by Inkadinkado. It includes several "inchie" stamps. Remember them? I made these eleven cards, all using the same layout - just different stamps, colors, sentiments and backgrounds. The sentiments are all by Gina K. The image panels are all popped up on foam squares. Edited to add: I forgot the main thing!! I had a whole bunch of 1.25 inch squares that I happened upon, from MANY years ago. That's what started me making these cards.

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