Die-Cut, Stencils, Embossing Paste and Glitter!

For a simple card, this card has quite a few different products. The snowflakes on the bottom are die-cut. The sentiment was done with a stencil. I used embossing paste with it and then sprinkled it with glitter. Quite sparkly in real life. I matted with red and put the panel on a white cardbase.

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Christmas - 2022

Gee, seems like Christmas was just here, but I have five more Christmas cards to share with you. This first one uses a beautiful tag that was on one of my gifts, and I just could not throw it away. I matted it and placed it on some whitish glitter cardstock. Around the edge of the glitter cardstock, I added thin foil sticker strips. The sentiment is a strip from Gina K. I foiled it and popped it up on foam squares. The tag came with the ribbons.

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More Winter Snowflakes

For this wintery birthday card, I used a snowflake stamp from Gina K in two corners. I embossed it with white on white cardstock and then ink-blended the light blue over it. The sentiment is from Stampabilities. I added a thin strip of black on each side of the sentiment and matted the panel with black.

I have uploaded my calendar file for 2023. You can find the link in the "Calendar Files and Instructions" tab under my blog title.

Also, I have NOT created lots of cards with my new stamps like I had hoped! Life is still pretty busy. Hopefully soon. Hope all is well with everyone.

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Birthday Flowers

The stamped floral image was the card part for this card. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added some glittery washi tape across the center, then used a sentiment piece, also from my card parts. It's a rub-on, and I mounted it on foam squares.

There - that ends my card parts cards for a while!!! Hopefully by the time this posts, I will have used LOTS of my newer items and will start sharing them.

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Embossed Oval

The card part for this card is the embossed panel done with a Darice folder. I used a cut-out oval to mask off everything except the center, then I added the color with a blending brush. I used a stamp from Inkadinkado for the floral image.

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Wishing You a Wonderful Day

This stamped image panel was in my card parts. It was done with marker direct to rubber stamp and then misted, I believe. The panel and cardbase are ivory. I matted with matching cardstock and added the sentiment, from an old Gina K set.

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January Calendar Page

Wow, another year of calendar pages! Happy New Year!!

I found this cute snowman in the on-line clipart. I colored him with Copic markers and placed him on some Recollections paper.

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year - welcome to 2022!! Hopefully this year will be better than the last couple! I wish everyone good health and happiness. 

I guess I shouldn't post this today, but it's close enough. I'll do my calendar post tomorrow.

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Grateful Butterfly

I got this Gina K butterfly stamp, die and stencil bundle quite a while ago, and so far this butterfly is about the only thing I've made with it. I think I may have a couple more butterflies and a few leaves, but that's it. The die-cut sentiment is from the same bundle. The butterfly and sentiment are mounted on foam squares. I believe the background was done with a cut-and-emboss folder. I added a few scraps of tie-dye glitter paper behind the openings.

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Die-Cut Anniversary

Once again, the card part for this card is the die-cut piece. I added the gold glitter cardstock behind it and also a couple scored lines. I thought I'd use a turquoise sentiment on this one for something different.

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Glittery Thinking of You

This die-cut heart was in my card parts. I added gold glitter cardstock behind it. I also added two thin strips of gold glitter cardstock and a "Thinking of You" sentiment. The main panel is mounted of foam squares.

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Tie-Dyed Flowers

The card part for this card is the die-cut panel. I matted it with some of my last "tie-dye" glitter cardstock and added the popped up sentiment. It's kind of weird how the colors look so much brighter and bolder in the photo than in real life. I like the slightly subtler colors better!

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Birthday Poppies

This stamped image came from my card parts. I added the sentiment to the panel. I matted it with the striped paper and then added thin black strips beside the white panel. I'm pretty sure these must be poppies, but far from certain!

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Merry Christmas!

Wishing all of my blog readers who celebrate Christmas a very Merry Christmas. Safe travels to everyone who travels, and stay well!

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Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve to my Christian friends! Per tradition, I am posting a picture of our Christmas tree. It looks just about the same every year, but here is a picture from this morning.

Safe travels to everyone who is traveling, and I hope everyone gets to spend some time with family and loved ones. We will be heading off to church this afternoon (where I will be playing bells) and then we will be hosting our kids and grandkids for dinner and gift opening. What a wonderful day for us!

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Cut-and-Emboss Folder

The card part for this card is basically the whole card front. I do believe it was cut and embossed at the same time using a folder. I simply added some bright pink cardstock behind the opening and heat embossed the sentiment. I also added a few sequins.

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Ink Blending

The card part on these two cards is the stamped flower. One was on white and one was on ivory. They had been heat embossed in white. I simply ink blended over them and added the sentiments. I also added a few gems to this first card.

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Starry Birthday

I have SO many new things to use, but I don't seem to be motivated to use them - it seems like I don't have enough extended time in my stamping room. So, last week I pulled out several pieces from my "card parts" book. I now have 13 cards to share. I'll be sharing them over the next several days.

The first cards use these cover plate die-cut pieces. I had two in white and one in black. I rotated the white piece so that the two pieces did not line up. I added a small drop of Star Dust Stickles to the centers of the black "stars." The sentiment was printed from my computer and is popped up on foam squares.

 

This second card uses just one white die-cut piece. I again used the Stickles and a popped-up sentiment.

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Winter Birthday

For this wintery birthday card, I randomly stamped the snowflakes in Versamark and embossed them with clear embossing powder. Then I ink-blended with two colors of turquoise ink and used watered down white guache to splatter on it. I always like when others use the splatter technique, but I'm not sure if I've ever done it before! The sentiment was printed on my laser printer, foiled with turquoise foil and mounted on foam squares.

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Happy "Bird-day"

A card for our daughter-in-law. She likes punny things. The bird stamp and the sentiment stamp are from an old Stampin' Up! set. I used Copic markers and also added some Diamond Glaze to the balloons. I added thin sticker strips to the tops and bottoms of the panels. I also splattered some paint on each panel. The top panel is mounted on foam squares.

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