Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day, my friends! A couple quick ones to share. I used dies to make them both. I did this one first, and then used the left-overs to make the second one. I'm really trying to use up my parts and to NOT make more! :-) I used a Darice embossing folder on this first one. I believe the "friend" die is from Gina K.

Along with left-over parts, I die-cut the pink "friend" and I used a stitched rectangle die for the image panel.

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Influenced by Leslie

Influenced by Leslie again. :-) She posted this card, and I knew that I had the same dies, so I made this card. The sentiment is from Gina K and is popped up with foam pieces. The dies are from Spellbinders.

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Hummingbirds - Now, What to do With Them!

I've had this set of hummingbird dies for a couple years, I think, but this is the first time I've cut them out of colored cardstock. (I had cut them out of white and glued them together to make samples.) Now I have to figure out how to use them on cards! Thought I'd share them anyway. One per card, as they are not tiny.

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Purple Birthday Flower

Another stamped image I've had for about seven years. I again used Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added the purple on the sides and also the black strips. The sentiment is from Gina K. I also added a few black "nail heads."

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Sending Hugs

This stamped image has been in my parts book for about seven years. I have another or two, but I don't want to color them! I used Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I cut the image out with a stitched die and matted with black. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Birthday Butterfly

The circle die-cut pieces were on my table. I guess I haven't used the insides yet. The butterfly was in my parts, also. The square pieces are popped up and the sentiment is recessed. The background was an embossed panel from my parts, also. I brushed some gray and some purplish inks over it, to try to get it to match the layer in the circle. The sentiment is unmarked.

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Thinking of You in Yellow

The yellow panel on this card was from the card class that I took about a year and a half ago. The design on it was done with some sort of paste. I matted that panel with black. I matted the patterned paper with black, also. The flowers and sentiment are from Gina K. I used the coordinating stencils and die for the flowers. I die-cut the sentiment, also. The flowers and sentiment are popped up.

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Lovely Birthday

The embossed panel was in my card parts book, as was the die-cut piece. I stamped the sentiment on it and brushed a little ink around the edges and popped it up. I matted the panel with black.

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Flower Warm Wishes

More card parts. The die-cut pink layer was in my book. I embossed it with an Anna Griffin Cuttlebug folder, added the score lines with my Score-Pal and then added the green strip at the bottom. I used a Gina K set for the flower and the sentiment, and another Gina K set for the circles. I stamped, stenciled and die-cut the flower. The flower and the sentiment are popped up. I made two of them and used up the pink die-cut pieces. I think I still have some in white and maybe ivory.

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Letting the Paper Do the Work :-)

This paper has been in my possession for many years. Such a simple card - trim it down to fit a standard card and add the matted sentiment - from Gina K! I made two of them.

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