Together Forever

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her, so I suggested instead that she design it herself. Here is the pretty card she came up with. We started with another of the stamped-frame panels from my parts. (Three left!) Most of this card is die-cut. The "Together" stamp and the "forever" dies are from a Gina K set. The heart and the "Together" are popped up on foam squares. The blue is metallic cardstock and the gray heart is actually glitter cardstock. The "forever" is cut from silver metallic cardstock.

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Anniversary

Using up one of my stamped frame panels. I decided to use the circles die on this one. The flower - stamp, stencil and die - is from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, too.

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Die-Cut Flower Birthday

I had five of these flowers made up, so I made five cards like this one and used them up. The flower dies are from Altenew. I stenciled the middle section using a Gina K stencil and added thin black strips on each side, then matted the entire panel with black. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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Foxy Thinking of You

I think I'll work on my smaller card parts for a while now. This completed die-cut fox has been in my parts for over a year now. I had also recently come across the die that cuts out the dots in circles and I wanted to use it again. Actually, I started with the die on ivory cardstock and then chose the cute little fox to put in the center. He's popped up, of course. I matted with black. I tried several colors behind it and decided that black was best after all - probably mostly because of the little bits of black on the fox. The fox is from Gina K and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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HELLO friend

And ... the last card panel-sized piece from my card parts!! I have small pieces to use, and also a few stamped frames that I'm actually saving. :-) The die-cut pieces are from Gina K, as is the sentiment. The flowers are popped up. I ink-blended the flower matting piece before adhering the black die-cut piece.

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Super-Simple Pet Sympathy

The next-to-the-last embossed background from my parts. I made a super-simple card for the loss of a pet with it. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and is popped up.

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Hummingbird Thinking of You

Another embossed panel from my card parts - two more to go! I die-cut the colorful hummingbird and popped him up. The die-cut sentiment is also popped up. The background was done with a Sizzix embossing folder.

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Die-Cut Heart Anniversary

Another embossed panel from my card parts used up. I die-cut the intricate heart and placed it in the embossed rectangle frame and added the sentiment - from Hero Arts. I also matted the panel.

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Masculine Birthday

I die-cut the square panel with an Altenew die when I had friends over, so I had to use it. I found a piece of patterned paper that I thought it would work with nicely, and then I looked through my dies and found this one. I cut it twice out of black and glued them together and added them to the die-cut panel. The stamped sentiment is from Gina K.

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More Simple Embossing Folder Cards

I had these two embossed pieces in my parts, but now they are cards. For this first one, which I actually like better, I simply took a brayer and lightly brayered ink over the embossed image panel. The sentiment was in my parts, also, and I popped it up.

This one is almost identical to yesterday's card. Different folder and different colors, but the same idea. Added color to the debossed side and then brayered over the flat part. This sentiment is adhered directly to the image panel.

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Debossed Beauty

I had a couple friends over the other day and was showing them all (yeah, right!!!) of my stamping tools and supplies. So, of course I ended up with several card parts. One of them was this embossed panel made with a 3D folder from Altenew. I lightly added color to the debossed side and then used a brayer to add color over the top. I think it looks kind of antique-y. The sentiment was from my parts. (Thanks, Cheryl!) This card is actually going to another Cheryl. :-)

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March Calendar Page

And now it's March somehow! And here is my calendar page for the month. The stamp is an old wooden one from Canadian Maple Collections. I colored it with Copics. The patterned paper is from Recollections from many, many years ago.

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Foiled Leafy Birthday

Two nearly identical cards, but I'll share them both anyway. I have many sheets of Gina K's toner printed sheets for foiling that I bought about seven years ago. I decided to foil part of one. (They are 8.5 by 11 inches.) I made two card-sized pieces and foiled them with a nice spring green color. I matted them with black and added a black strip with a silver-embossed sentiment on each one. Of course, I can't photograph the foil, so you just get to see a little bit of it.

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Gate-Fold Birthday

A gate-fold card for today. The base and the sentiment circle are ivory cardstock. I cut the intricate panels using a Gina K die and shimmery cardstock. The brownish mattings are also shimmery cardstock. The circles are die-cut and the sentiment is from Gina K, also.

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Die-Cut Flower Birthday

Here is another die I hadn't used for a long time - the flower panel. I matted it with a patterned paper. The sentiment is from Gina K. I stamped it on the same patterned paper and matted it with the same shimmery cardstock. The sentiment is popped up. I think it should have been a little bit higher, but it was too late to remove it - it was stuck fast and I didn't want to risk ripping the card base.

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Thinking of You

I pulled out a couple of dies to use that I hadn't used for awhile. Here is the first one. I used ivory for this card. I matted the die-cut panel with green and added it to the ivory cardbase. I used a Gina K stamp for the sentiment and matted with the same color and popped it up. I think this would work for a guy. Pretty simple.

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Turquoise Sympathy

We needed a sympathy card, and here is what I made. Nothing particularly special, but I think it's pretty enough. I used a set from Gina K - polyglaze image and sentiment to foil (with silver), stencils to color the image, and dies to cut them both out. They are, of course, popped up. I added some patterned paper on the left side and a thin strip of silver alongside it. It's really hard to see the foiling, so here is a little bit better view.

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Sweet Friend

I came across this die from Altenew recently and decided to use it. I cut it out of a bright pink and matted with black. Then I had to figure out what to do with it. So, I dug out a set from Gina K that I've had for many years and have hardly used. I used a stencil for the flower petals and stamps for the black areas and the center dot, then a die to cut out the flower. It's popped up, of course. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Cattail Birthday

I used a Sizzix folder and brayered ink on to it before embossing. I was working on a different card, but was not happy with that one, but I salvaged this part of the embossed cardstock. I had already run my brayer over some white cardstock to clean it off as much as possible, and I decided to keep that piece and use it. Of course the two pieces matched exactly. :-) I matted the embossed piece with black and looked through my dies and found this one to use. The sentiment is from Gina K and was in my parts. I blended matching ink over it and popped it up.

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Birthday Roses

The last of this die-cut edged card part. I added some Washi tape over the matching pink cardstock and trimmed it down and added it towards the bottom of the panel. I scored lines on each side of it. The flower image was from Gina K and was colored using coordinating stencils. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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