Card Bases Completed - #1

Okay - you asked for them. Here they are - the first installment. The card bases that I had made are all completed cards now. I had received a defective stamp from Gina K and was sent a replacement immediately after notifying them. So, of course the first thing I had to do was try it out. Stamped perfectly, of course. But, then I had to use it. I remembered seeing this die-cut in my parts so I thought I would trim down the sentiment and add it. It's popped up.

 

The sentiment on this card is also from Gina K, as is the little flower at the bottom. I added an enamel dot to the center of it.

The sentiment on this last card is from Papertrey Ink. I added three matching enamel dots.

Four more completed cards coming tomorrow.

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Beautiful Sketches

I made these cards with one of my new sets from Gina K. This sentiment and the image stamps are from the set, called Beautiful Sketches. I stamped them on watercolor paper and painted them. I die-cut them out and matted them and popped them up. The patterned paper is all from an ancient matstack from Die Cuts With a View.

On this one, I tried to paint it "sloppily." I'm not thrilled with how the flower turned out, but the leaves are okay, I think.

I had originally painted the flower pink, but later made it purple. The pink was just too bright. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Card Bases

I couldn't help myself. I took three more 6 x 6 inch sheets and made these bases. I had tried to follow a short on Instagram to find out the dimensions, and I think that I finally figured it out on my third attempt! I then drew my diagram and used my trial pieces to make these eleven card bases. You may or may not see them completed. Mostly I think I will add sentiments, but who knows how they will turn out.

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Purple Birthday

Another piece from my card parts. Hopefully I'll use some new stuff soon! The "happy" (from Stampendous) had been stamped and colored with Copic markers and patterned with a white gel pen and sat in my parts for several years. I had already cut out around it. I found some matching purple and cut a mat for it. I embossed the white layering panel with a folder from The Paper Studio and matted it with the same purple. The "BIRTHDAY" is from one of Gina's new sets. The "happy" is popped up.

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Birthday Balloons

Finally, another card. And when I had a chance to spend some time in my stamping room, did I use some of my new items? Nope! I went through more of my cards parts and started organizing them. I think at some point in the not-too-distant future, I'm going to just throw some of them out. I'm down to small things. I actually emptied my book and put them in little storage containers.

Anyway, here is my card. I had, at some point, added thin strips to cardstock and die-cut this sentiment out of it. Now I cut two more of the same sentiment from really thick cardstock and glued them all together. Then I added it to layers of coordinating cardstock. I punched out the balloons and popped them up and drew the strings before adding the sentiment panel. It really needed something else, so I brought out my Itty Bitty Background stamp set from Stampin' Up! and used it to fill in a little bit around the balloons. That helped. 

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Four Cards - Plus a Bonus

I just happened to see a post where someone took a 6 x 6 inch piece of patterned paper and made four cards from it. I don't know why I was attracted to that, but these cards are the result. Not exactly like she did, but ... here they are. I don't think there is really any explanation available.

Embossing was done with a Spellbinders M-bossibilities folder. Sentiment by Gina K. I added thin strips of the gold foil cardstock.

Sentiment by Gina K.

Sentiment by Gina K.

And the bonus card. The embossed panel is the other half of one of the above cards. The sentiment was a left-over from my trial with one of the other cards.

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Simple Birthday Wishes

I had this frame left over from another card, so I die-cut the flowers to go with it. Then I used the same die to cut the patterned paper panel. The sentiment is two stamps and a die from Gina K's newest kit. The "wishes" is gold-embossed.

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One Folder - Four Different Cards

This 3-D embossing folder and the matching dies and stencils are from Gina K's newly released kit. I made four cards using them - each of them different. The sentiment is from a different set in the kit. For this first card, I simply embossed the design on white and used the stencils to color it. I stamped the sentiment in a matching color and adhered it directly onto the embossed image. I matted with a matching pink cardstock.

For this second card, I embossed on a gold cardstock and matted with black. The sentiment was gold-embossed on black and die-cut.

I embossed on white and colored the leaves and stems with the coordinating stencils. I also added a little bit of brown ink to the flower centers. The flowers were embossed with gold and die-cut. They are popped up on foam circles. The sentiment is gold-embossed on white.

This one was an accident. :-) This is the back of the gold cardstock. I embossed it upside down. I really like the way it turned out. I used the stencils for the coloring. The sentiment is embossed with a matching green ink and popped up.

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More Sanded Daisies

Sorry for a card that's so similar to my last card, but it's what I've got. :-) When I was putting away my last daisy embossing folder, I came across this one and wanted to use it. So, it's basically the same. I embossed on blue, white-core, textured cardstock. Then I used a sanding block to remove the color from the embossing. I colored the flower centers yellow. The sentiment (from Gina K) was in my parts. I brushed on the yellow. It's a little bright, but it works okay, I think. It's popped up. I matted with white and yellow and black.

I received my new Gina K kit on Saturday, so I'm hoping to get to play with it soon. Most of the bathroom remodel decisions and been made and the purchases completed. Now the work just needs to get done!

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter to my friends who celebrate. I hope you get to spend time with family and friends.

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