Color Swap - Dark Green and Rose

The colors for our monthly color swap for this month are dark green and rose. I decided to "virtually" participate in the swap. I used a dark green card base and cut the rose-colored layer with a die. I stamped the rose (from Inkadinkado) on white and colored with Copics. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. After stamping and coloring, I embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder.

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Happy 50th Anniversary, Kris and Ron!

Another member of our little stamping group is celebrating her 50th anniversary. Pretty awesome, I think! Congrats, Kris!

I decided to make a stair-step card for them. The image is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I embossed the image with detail gold embossing powder. The gold cardstock is shimmery. I embossed the front with a Darice embossing folder. The numbers were cut with some old Cuttlebug dies.

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Sunflower Birthday

A very simple card, but at least it's a card and I had a little fun! The flower stamp is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with brown cardstock and mounted on foam squares. I added green to the stem with a marker, and also Wink of Stella on the petals. I used sparkly Nuvo drops on each end of the sentiment.

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Kaleidacolor Flowers

 Wow, I had some time in my stamping room! There ARE advantages of waking up at 3:00 a.m.:)

For both of these cards, I used a stamp from Inkadinkado and sentiment stamps from Papertrey Ink. I also used two Kaleidacolor ink pads. On this first one, I also used an unbranded die to cut the frame.

For this second one, I added a frame drawn with a marker one-half inch from the edge.

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Watercolor Class Card - Finished

Because I have nothing else to share, and no time to spend in my stamping room, I will post this card:) You've already seen the main part, but I've added the hand-written sentiments. This will go to our granddaughter, Amelia, on her next birthday in March - if I can remember by then! I do wish I hadn't done the "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" slanted. I would have preferred it more straight up and down. Oh well!

We went camping for a couple days - left Sunday and came back yesterday. We had a camper cabin at Glacial Lakes State Park. It was totally awesome! We got in lots of relaxing and also lots of hiking. More fun stuff coming up - our daughter and her family from Chicago will be arriving on Friday night and will stay until Tuesday.

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Canning Jar Birthday Wishes

I have had very little time in my stamping room, and will have almost no time for the whole month of August. I'm a little sad, but have lots of fun things planned! At any rate, here is a card. I'm sharing it becuase I have nothing else to share! I bought this Recollections stamp and die set in early June and this is the first time I've used it. The jar and the jar topper are stamps and dies from the set, which includes other stamps as well. The sentiment is a miscellaneous stamp I've had for a very long time and I have no idea who made it. The hearts were cut with a die and the bottom was embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder. I colored a shadow under the jar and popped the jar up on foam squares. Have a great August, my friends! I'll be here when I can.

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August Calendar Page

Here is my August calendar page. The dies and the sentiment are both from My Favorite Things. I love this die - it looks so real! Happy August to all:)

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Gold Thinking of You

I guess I should try getting a better picture of this card, but I'm a rather lazy blogger. 😉 I was given a couple sheets of this ivory paper with gold lines around the edges. I cut it down to place on a normal-size card. All I did to finish it up was to stamp the sentiment (from Stampin' Up!) with Versamark and emboss with detail gold embossing powder.

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Black and Cream Wedding

I used a die to cut the black piece on this card, then cut a piece of ivory to fit. I embossed the ivory part with a Darice embossing folder and added a coule scored lines on each side of it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is matted with black and popped up on foam squares. I think it would make a fine wedding card, or perhaps even an anniversary card.

Edited to add: I broke down and ordered a few more dies from China. :( I thought I wouldn't do it again, but I couldn't resist. This is one of those new dies. I don't honestly know if it's a rip-off of some other company's die, but I'm assuming that it is.

Edited to add - again: For Doublemindt: This die is from China. I ordered it from AliExpress.com.

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Simple Sympathy and Thank You

I stopped at Hobby Lobby the other day and picked up some much-needed patterned paper. LOL! I couldn't resist it, though, at 50% off. The stack I got is from The Paper Studio. I added it to black cardstock and put white on the bottom. The sentiments were both cut with dies. Super simple.

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One (Last?) Card Class Card

I thought yesterday's card was going to be my last card from the Online Card Class, but I made another one:) For this one, I just looked at the sketch, but I didn't trace it. And the sentiment is my writing.

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Online Card Class Card

A drawing was provided for this card, too. I used the drawing and also painted my card the same as hers. Well, not exactly, of course - I don't have the talent for that! I just did my best. It was a fun class. I'm excited to do more watercoloring now.

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Leaves and Flowers from the Online Card Class

Two more cards from the Online Card Class Watercolor Class. This first one is all free-hand, using the video as a guide.

A sketch was provided for this one, and I used it.

I'll have one more card from the class to share with you tomorrow, then I'll be back to stamping and die-cutting. I sure hope I use some of what I've learned in the class, though!

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More Card Class Projects

Here are four more projects from the Online Card Class I am taking - watercolors. I need LOTS more practice, but I thought I would share these anyway. I didn't actually make these four into cards - they are just the front panel. 

It's been fun to play with watercolors and learn some techniques. I'll be sharing more soon, I hope.

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More Card Class Cards

Here are two more cards from the On-Line Card Class I am taking. They are from Day 4. I haven't done any from Day 2, 3 or 5 yet. I'll work on that:)

The sentiment on the first one is written with a marker.

The sentiment on this one is a die cut.

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Wildflower Thanks

A card I made with parts that I had on hand. I stamped the image (I don't know who it's by) when I was in Des Moines last month. I colored it with Copics. The sentiment was stamped and die-cut a few years ago, also in Des Moines. I colored the background of it with a Copic, too. I matted with light purple and called it done - and pretty:)

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Bleach Technique

I watched a video of Gina K doing this technique and decided to give it a try. It's really quite simple. Ink up a background stamp and stamp on a piece of white or ivory cardstock. In both of my cards, I also spread another color of ink over the stamped image to color the white spots. Then stamp a line image over the background with Versamark and emboss with detail black embossing powder. Get yourself some bleach and "color" the image with it. It will remove the ink that you put on the card.

For this first card, the background is from Darcie's and the images are from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, also.

The background on this second card is from Recollections. The stamps are from Gina K.

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Watercolor Class Cards

I am taking an on-line watercoloring class. It's my first time ever taking an on-line class:) I'm a bit behind, but here are the three cards that I made for the Day One lesson. All three cards were done with no stamps or dies - just watercoloring and markers.

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Tiny Flowers

A simple card using die cuts, sticker, gems, stamp, markers and punch:) The image panel was a left-over die cut. I stamped the green with a Gina K stamp. The flowers were punched out of white and colored with three colors of Copics. I added gems for the centers. I cut a white mat and used a Copic to color the edges of it. I added anther die-cut layer with a stitched square die. The card base and layers are ivory.

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Die-Cut Flower Silhouettes and Sticker Sentiments

I received a set of flower silhouette dies and have used them all on today's cards. They are unbranded. When I was in Des Moines, I bought a package of Mrs. Grossman birthday sentiment stickers. I like the fonts on them. There were three sheets in the package and each sheet consists of two sets of the same sentiment fonts. I have used up one complete set so far ... five to go!

The image panel on this first one is mounted on foam squares.

For this second one, I embossed the background with a Darice Wire Fence folder and scored a line between the embossing and the sentiment. Then I added color with the matting.

I had this die-cut (almost) square laying on my table from a short while ago, and also the punched butterfly had been on my table for a long, long time. I added black gems for the butterfly's body and mounted the panel on foam squares. I also added a thin strip of black.

I added two of the die cuts to this card.

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