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And finally, the technique that got me looking through my wood-mounted stamps. I have many other stamped flowers using this technique that I have yet to make into cards. I colored the stamp with markers, misted it and then stamped. For this card, I covered it with vellum and stamped and embossed the sentiment - another wood-mounted rubber stamp. This is a gate-fold card.

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Cheery Daisies

Another wood-mounted rubber stamp for this card. Daisies - my fave. Super simple coloring and a sentiment - from Gina K. Some cute dotted yellow patterned paper and some thin black strips completed the card.

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Unicorn Wishes

I got a beautiful Mother's Day card from a friend, reminding me of a long-forgotten technique - markers on rubber stamps, spritz with water and stamp. So pretty!! So, I did some digging through some of my thousands of wood-mounted stamps and picked out some flowers for that technique. But, I also came across other stamps that begged to be used. One was this unicorn stamp from Stampin' Up! I was looking for some whimsical, fantastical or other appropriate patterned paper and came up with these. The sentiment stamps are from Gina K. I cut out the unicorns and mats with Nestabilities.

The unicorns on this paper are silver metallic.

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Paint Sample Un-Wasted

We have several paint samples left from our bathroom remodel, and I don't want to throw them away. So, here is part of one. I used a wood-mounted rubber stamp from ages ago to stamp the flowers and then I colored with two Copic markers. The sentiment is from Gina K. I added silver nail heads to the flower centers.

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Butterflies and Dragonflies

Happy Mother's Day!

The butterflies and dragonflies on these cards are from Gina K. I was experimenting just a little bit with watercolor. For this first one, I wet the butterfly (which had been heat-embossed) and then dropped the paint on it. It's popped up. I used an old Stampin' Up! stamp for the background for the butterfly. The sentiment is also from Gina K. In fact, all of the stamps in this post are Gina K.

This one is also watercolored, with a few white dots added.

The panels on each side of this gate-fold card were done using my gel pad. Haven't used that for a long time. (Almost never!) I watercolored the flower.

And the last card for today. I had used my gel pad to make the cardstock I used to stamp and die-cut these pieces. The background panel was done when I was cleaning off the brayer. Then I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder and added a little extra color. I also added a little Diamond Glaze to the dragonfly and the flower center.

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Stamped Background Thank You

I recently pulled out this "thank you" stamp from Heidi Swapp that I've had for ages. I used a stamped border panel that I've also had for ages. Then I used my newest purchase from Gina K to stamp the background using soft colors.

EDITED TO ADD: The stamping was done with multiple stamps from a stamp set from Gina K with various colors.

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Watercolor - Then Stencil

I watched a video that Mindy Eggen did using watercolor over an embossed image. I thought it was pretty cool, and this is my versions. Her video can be seen here.  Mine is not so impressive, but it was fun and I do like the way it turned out.  The embossing folder, stencils, sentiment with die  are all from Gina K. The sentiment is embossed with gold powder and popped up.

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Blooming Branches - Part Two

The embossing folder from Gina K that I'm using is called Blooming Branches. Here are a couple more cards I've made using it.

For this first one, I brayered a very light lavender ink onto the embossing folder before embossing. Then I embossed and used the coordinating stencils to color the image. I left the flowers white, with just the little bit of coloration from the ink on the folder. I matted the panel. I realize I forgot to add a sentiment, but I can do that later.

FOr this one, I was experimenting with just using the stencils. After I finished adding the colors, I decided I'd like it better if I embossed it, so I did. I added some black spatters, which dried looking gray, so I used gray to mat the panel and added the stamped and die-cut sentiment.

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Debossed and Wood-Grained Birthday

The first two of five new cards done with a Gina K 3D embossing folder. This is from the kit from last month. I love this folder. It also comes with dies, which I did not use. For these two cards, I first lightly dragged a light-color ink pad across the panels, then embossed them. After embossing, I dragged a couple darker ink pads over the debossed side - slightly looking like wood graining. Then I matted them and popped up a Gina K sentiment.

I used light browns for this card, ending with a light turquoise-y color.

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Birthday Wishes

Something a little different from me today. I stamped and heat-embossed (with a sparkly powder) this image in the middle of the blue-ish panel and cut it out. Then I ran the rest of the panel through a 3-D embossing folder and added it to the card front. (The stamps are all from Gina K, as is the folder.) I popped the image up. The sentiments were stamped separately and cut out, also.

I also have five more cards made with my newest embossing folder/stencil set from Gina K. I hope to get them posted soon.

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