HELLO friend

And ... the last card panel-sized piece from my card parts!! I have small pieces to use, and also a few stamped frames that I'm actually saving. :-) The die-cut pieces are from Gina K, as is the sentiment. The flowers are popped up. I ink-blended the flower matting piece before adhering the black die-cut piece.

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Super-Simple Pet Sympathy

The next-to-the-last embossed background from my parts. I made a super-simple card for the loss of a pet with it. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and is popped up.

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Hummingbird Thinking of You

Another embossed panel from my card parts - two more to go! I die-cut the colorful hummingbird and popped him up. The die-cut sentiment is also popped up. The background was done with a Sizzix embossing folder.

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Die-Cut Heart Anniversary

Another embossed panel from my card parts used up. I die-cut the intricate heart and placed it in the embossed rectangle frame and added the sentiment - from Hero Arts. I also matted the panel.

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Masculine Birthday

I die-cut the square panel with an Altenew die when I had friends over, so I had to use it. I found a piece of patterned paper that I thought it would work with nicely, and then I looked through my dies and found this one. I cut it twice out of black and glued them together and added them to the die-cut panel. The stamped sentiment is from Gina K.

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More Simple Embossing Folder Cards

I had these two embossed pieces in my parts, but now they are cards. For this first one, which I actually like better, I simply took a brayer and lightly brayered ink over the embossed image panel. The sentiment was in my parts, also, and I popped it up.

This one is almost identical to yesterday's card. Different folder and different colors, but the same idea. Added color to the debossed side and then brayered over the flat part. This sentiment is adhered directly to the image panel.

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Debossed Beauty

I had a couple friends over the other day and was showing them all (yeah, right!!!) of my stamping tools and supplies. So, of course I ended up with several card parts. One of them was this embossed panel made with a 3D folder from Altenew. I lightly added color to the debossed side and then used a brayer to add color over the top. I think it looks kind of antique-y. The sentiment was from my parts. (Thanks, Cheryl!) This card is actually going to another Cheryl. :-)

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March Calendar Page

And now it's March somehow! And here is my calendar page for the month. The stamp is an old wooden one from Canadian Maple Collections. I colored it with Copics. The patterned paper is from Recollections from many, many years ago.

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Foiled Leafy Birthday

Two nearly identical cards, but I'll share them both anyway. I have many sheets of Gina K's toner printed sheets for foiling that I bought about seven years ago. I decided to foil part of one. (They are 8.5 by 11 inches.) I made two card-sized pieces and foiled them with a nice spring green color. I matted them with black and added a black strip with a silver-embossed sentiment on each one. Of course, I can't photograph the foil, so you just get to see a little bit of it.

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Gate-Fold Birthday

A gate-fold card for today. The base and the sentiment circle are ivory cardstock. I cut the intricate panels using a Gina K die and shimmery cardstock. The brownish mattings are also shimmery cardstock. The circles are die-cut and the sentiment is from Gina K, also.

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