Foily Birthday

I finally got a chance to use a few of my new things from Gina K. I think these are from my previous order and not my most recent. Too many new things, so little time! I used Gina's Poly-Glaze and foil for the images and sentiments, along with the coordinating dies and stencils. The sentiments are glued directly to the card base, and the flowers are popped up. I used a stencil from Picket Fence from my SCT class for the background.

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Dazzling Dahlia Birthday

I was playing with my new stencils from Gina K and made this flower, and then I needed to use the card right away, so I just slapped on a pre-die-cut sentiment. The sentiment was another one that I made using wrapping paper. I adhered it to card stock and then cut it out. Next time I use the stencil set, I'll try to be more creative! :-)

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Valentines for the Grandkids

Finally, I got to make some cards! I've actually been working on my calendars for  2026 and 2027. And, this first one was made with a leftover from a calendar page. I cut the background pieces with a Gina K die. Then I used one to stencil the backgrounds on my February 2027 pages. I figured - why throw it out after using it as a stencil when I can use it on another card so I made sure it had ink all over it. All of the images and sentiments are from the same Gina K set. I made two of the last one.

I hope I have more time to make more cards. I have a decent amount of new stuff and I even ordered more from Gina K that will arrive on Wednesday. 😀

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Christmas Thank You

We needed another thank you for a Christmas gift. I used Gina K's poinsettia stencils and made this card real quickly and matted it with gold. The "THANKS" was in my card parts. I had made it using some Christmas wrapping paper and a die.

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Happy New Year - January Calendar Page

Happy New Year to everyone!! Here is my first calendar page of the year. The snowman is from Gina K. I doodled around the edges and mounted it on patterned paper.

My calendar files are available under my blog heading. If you would like to print out your own blank pages, please help yourself! Some people have problems with them, so you can also contact me via email if you're interested.

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Birthday Cards

I forgot to open my birthday cards on my birthday!! I opened them all last night. Here is a photo of all the ones that I received. 

They are all very special and I appreciate them all! Here is another photo - this time of the handmade ones. Thanks to everyone.

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Holly Thank You

I'm in the handbell choir at our church. Our director gave us each a Christmas gift, so this is the thank you card that I made for him. Not much explanation needed: embossed background, die-cut sentiment and a couple holly stickers.

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Blessed Hanukkah

Here is my one Hanukkah card for the year. I used a set from Altenew. The silver is heat-embossed. Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!!

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Poinsettia Thanks

We received a gift that needed a thank you note. Here is what they will get.

I used a Gina K stencil set for the poinsettia. There are three kinds of shine/shimmer on the card. The veins were done with Versamark ink and shimmery, sparkly embossing powder. The matting layer is gold foil paper. The sentiment was done by gluing some very pretty, foil paper on cardstock and die-cutting it. It's popped up on foam squares.

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Joy to the World

And the last of these trees. These two cards are quite similar. I used a shimmery spray on each of them. The first one has the oval cut out of it because I forgot that I was just going to use the mask and ink blend right on the card front. LOL!

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