Happy Musical Birthday

I am having fun using up card parts again. The dies cuts (Butterflies and musical birthay) were in my parts. I used a piece of pink shimmery cardstock for the background. First I embossed it with a Cuttlebug Anna Griffin embossing folder.

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Pinwheel-ish Birthday

Bonnie, a friend and neighbor, gave me a birthday card with a design like this on it. So, of course I had to figure out how to do it myself! On each side of the background patterned paper, I added thin metallic strips. The sentiment (from Gina K) is stamped and die-cut and popped up on foam squares. I added an enamel dot in the center of the "pinwheel."

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Happy Birthday - Recycled

I think this was a Christmas card that we received. I just couldn't stick it in the closet, never to be seen for many years! The image is pearly and embossed. I trimmed it down and matted it and stuck it in the lower left corner. Then I stamped and die-cut the sentiment (from Gina K) and popped it up. I used ivory for the card base and the sentiment.

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Birthday Wishes

More card parts. The embossed background (Gina K folder on shimmery white), the flower and leaves (Altenew) and the sentiment (also Gina K) were all in my parts. I think they went together quite nicely. I matted the embossed panel with black and popped up the flower and sentiment with foam squares.

I got an ink pad storage unit for my birthday and I love it. Included as a little gift was what I'm thinking is a stand for displaying cards that I've been using for my photos. It works very well!

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Sending Love

Here is the other card I made with the same image as yesterday's card. It's from Gina K and the sentiment is from the same set. I again colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added a little butterfly from my card parts. It was just a little bit too open in that space.

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With Love & Prayers

I was thinking about using this image for my April 2027 calendar page, but decided it was just too big. I had stamped it a couple of times, so of course I had to color them and put them on cards. Here is the one that is finished so far. The image and the sentiment are both from Gina K. I colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I fussy-cut around the bottom of the image and popped that panel up on foam squares. Then I added the thin strip of black above the sentiment and matted with black.

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Birthday Flowers

Two more flowery birthday cards for today. Both of the flowers and the sentiments are from Gina K. The flowers used stamps, stencils and dies. The flowers and sentiments are all popped up with foam squares.

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You Are There For Me

I stamped the image panel using all Gina K stamps. I used a die to emboss the matting layer on which to add the stamped panel. That's it! I have recently discovered how pretty Gina's ink Moonlit Fog is, which I've had for many years. I just love it! Such a soft grayish-green.

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Glittery Christmas Greetings

Also included in Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas box were three small bottles of glitter - gold, silver and clear. I used a brass stencil and some double-sided sticky paper to add gold glitter through the stencil and then removed the stencil and added the clear glitter. I matted with gold mirror cardstock. I had already used a die to embossed the rectangle on the panel. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Flowery Birthday Wishes

The stencil set used to make these flower and also the sentiment (with dies) were from Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas box. I die-cut the flower panel and matted it with matching pink cardstock. I also added three black "nail head" stickers.

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