Deckled-Edge Rectangle

Awhile back, Wanda did this post. It looks great with the scenic paper behind it, but I just used "regular" patterned paper. LOL! I made four of them with this deckled-edge rectangular die. I will have several more tomorrow with a different die.

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Sending Hugs

I came across these dies a couple days ago and wondered why I hadn't used them for a long time. I remember that I HAD to have them. I cut out the flowers from patterned paper and the leafy section from green. Then I colored the leaves with a Copic marker and added the patterned flowers to the green piece. The rectangular background is a die-cut piece from my card parts book. The sentiment was in my parts, too, and is from Taylored Expressions and mounted on foam squares.

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You Are Amazing

I used half of this sheet of patterned paper for a different card - to come later. It's not actually finished yet. But, I had this half sheet left, plus the matting panel. I die-cut the flowers and colored them with Copics. I also added some enamel dots to the flowers and to the "i" of the sentiment, which is from My Favorite Things. The sentiment panel is popped up on foam squares - and looks crooked - dang!

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Sending Love

The middle section of this card was done with a die from Altenew, I believe. I embossed with it and it cracked the paper into two pieces. I didn't want to toss it, so I separated the two pieces onto black matting. I think it looks pretty cool. I ink-blended some light colors on each piece. I think it would have probably looked better if I had done the colors continuously down the page instead of doing the same pattern on each piece, but ... The stamps are from a Gina K set that came with my SCT kit. I think I've pretty much used the pieces from the kits, other than the patterned paper that came with it. I may add some coloring to the butterflies later.

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With Love and Prayers

The stencil for the flower and leaves was in the kit I got from SCT. The sentiment stamp was from a Gina K set that was also in the kit. I matted with a darker brown and popped up the image panel on foam squares. The patterned paper background was also in the kit.

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Valentine's Day in July

I'm continuing to use items from the little kit that I recently received from SCT. The top panel was just black and white and then I colored the hearts with three different colors of Copic markers. I simply matted it with black. The sentiment had been sitting on my table. I got the stamp from somewhere and had tried it out and let it sit out. I matted that, also, and popped it up on foam squares.

I am very seriously thinking about stopping blogging. My cards are all so simple and it seems like I'm always just trying to "use up something." The thing about blogging, though, is that it keeps me in touch with a few people that I worry I would lose contact with. Life is so busy, especially in the summer with golf and pickleball and now biking. And of course family and friends. I will probably keep sharing, but maybe not EVERYTHING like I do now. We'll see. :-)

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July Calendar Page

And now it's time for the July calendar page. Here it is! I used my Cameo Silhouette for this month. I drew a black line around the edge of the heart to highlight the edges. Happy July!

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Hello There

After a good streak in my stamping room, I have been absent for awhile again. I finally got a chance to make another card, and here it is. I ordered a kit from SCT (Scrapbook and Cards Today) quite a while ago. It was a June kit, so it just arrived last week. I didn't know what was coming and I was slightly disappointed, but I guess it was okay for the cost. Included in the kit was the die that cut this sentiment. It is from the SCT Signature Collection.I tested it out, and of course I had to use the test piece! I decided to color the leaves. I glued it to a scrap that was on my table from my covering of a box. It was a nice size for the sentiment. I matted that panel with white and mounted it on foam squares. I embossed a full-sized card panel with a Cuttlebug folder for the background and glued it to a card base.

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More "Tile" Stickers

Well, I did it - I used up all 35 of the tile stickers that I got. Here are the rest of the cards. Some are very similar, but no two are the same.

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Stick-On "Tiles"

All of these little stick-on squares came in a package of 35 of them. So far, I have used up 12 of them on these three cards. I hope to use up the rest of them VERY soon. The sentiments are from Papertrey Ink and Gina K.

Here is a closer-up picture of the tiles. I used mirror cardstock and black cardstock for the matting layers.

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More Card Parts

These die-cut pieces have been in my card parts for many years. But not any more. Both image stamps are from Gina K, as is the sentiment on the first one. The second sentiment is from Kaisercraft. I also used up a few scraps of patterned cardstock.

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Butterfly Stickers - Used up!

I bought this package of butterfly stickers in January and I have already used them all up on these cards. Yay me. 😊 I used various papers and sentiments.

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Gold Hello

I bought a package of these gold rub-ons in April at a huge warehouse. Now I need to use them up! Here is the first one - of many. I put it on black cardstock, then shimmery gold and then another layer of black. I added the sentiment with gold embossing powder. The image panel is mounted on foam squares.

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Flower Birthday in Yellow

Oh, you've seen cards like this from me so often! Sorry. I post everything I make, though, so here it is again - not quite the same as others. I love this stamp from Inkadinkado. I had these rectangles on my table from previous cards and I wanted to get rid of them without tossing them. I found the scrap of yellow cardstock that matched the size I need almost exactly. I rounded the corners on it. The sentiment is from Gina K. I was not happy when I stamped it a second time to get a darker inking and didn't push it quite up to the edge. It kind of looked intentional, though, so I just colored the open areas!

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Sending Hugs

More card parts panels. They were already paper-pieced. I just added the sentiment and did a little coloring. Then added some matting.

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Thinking of You Flowers

Another image from my card parts book. I colored it with Copic markers, added the sentiment and black gemstones to the tiny flower centers, matted it with black and mounted it on foam squares. The sentiment is from Gina K. I also added some tiny black dots to the larger flower centers.

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Happy Retirement

The embossed background, the foiled butterfly and the foiled sentiment were all in my card parts and they came together nicely enough to make this retirement card, which I think will go to my sister. The butterfly was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment was printed on my laser printer and then foiled with my laminator. The butterfly and sentiment are popped up on foam squares, and the background and sentiment are matted with gold metallic cardstock.

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Hello Sunshine

You will be seeing this again next March - on my calendar page. The old Sizzix die that I used cut out the sun and the rays. I used a Gina K stencil on the background piece. The sentiment is also from Gina K. Thank goodness for my MISTI or I never could have gotten the sentiment placed perfectly on the center piece sixteen times!

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Thinking of You

I went over to a friend's house to play, but we only had a short time. So, I had to figure out what very limited items to bring over there to use. I went through my card parts book and chose a few images to color, backgrounds to use, and pieces to put together - along with a few Copic markers. I also planned out a calendar page and brought all I needed for that. We had a very nice time! And, you will be seeing several cards in the next few days that I made using those limited supplies.

I've had this image for a long time and I'm happy that it finally made its way onto a card. A very simple card for sure. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Feel Better Soon

More scraps - the pink pieces were saved from the trash by using them on this card. The image and sentiment stamps are both from Gina K. The image panel is popped up on foam squares.

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