Sweet Friend

I came across this die from Altenew recently and decided to use it. I cut it out of a bright pink and matted with black. Then I had to figure out what to do with it. So, I dug out a set from Gina K that I've had for many years and have hardly used. I used a stencil for the flower petals and stamps for the black areas and the center dot, then a die to cut out the flower. It's popped up, of course. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Cattail Birthday

I used a Sizzix folder and brayered ink on to it before embossing. I was working on a different card, but was not happy with that one, but I salvaged this part of the embossed cardstock. I had already run my brayer over some white cardstock to clean it off as much as possible, and I decided to keep that piece and use it. Of course the two pieces matched exactly. :-) I matted the embossed piece with black and looked through my dies and found this one to use. The sentiment is from Gina K and was in my parts. I blended matching ink over it and popped it up.

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Birthday Roses

The last of this die-cut edged card part. I added some Washi tape over the matching pink cardstock and trimmed it down and added it towards the bottom of the panel. I scored lines on each side of it. The flower image was from Gina K and was colored using coordinating stencils. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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Birthday Wishes

These two stenciled background pieces came from my card parts book. I simply trimmed them down a tad, added the thin black cardstock strip and the sentiment - from Gina K. I love that font!

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Birthday Wish

Another couple of card parts used up. I really am making progress. I had thought I would never reach the end of them, but now I can actually foresee them being gone! The butterfly and the die-cut panel were the parts for this card. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I added shimmery cardstock under the die-cut area on the edge of the card.

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Hello

The last of my leafy die-cut card parts! I added three score lines above the leaves with my Scor-Buddy. The "hello" dies are from Gina K and are popped up.

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Thankful For a Friend Like You

The stenciled panels on each side of this card were in my parts from several years ago. I added them to the card base and then added the white panel in the middle and two thin metallic strips on the sides. The image and sentiment stamps are from Gina K. I colored with Copics.

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Pop-Out Card

I really like special fold cards, but it seems I rarely do any. This one came from Cheryl's blog - this post. The butterfly came from my parts and is popped up. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

Here is how it looks opened up.

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Hummingbirds - On Cards

Well, I actually finished up the cards using the hummingbird dies from a few days ago. I also used up other card part pieces. This die-cut piece was in my parts, again from many years ago. I used a new-to-me stencil from Gina K for the design behind the hummingbird. The sentiment is from Gina K, also. I added the green strip behind the die-cut leaf pattern. All of the hummingbirds are popped up.

I ink-blended the green on the left side under the die-cut leaves. Again, the stencil used behind the hummingbird and the sentiment are from Gina K.

This frame pieces was left-over and I ink-blended to make it the color I wanted. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is popped up and is from Gina K.

The same as the second one, but the hummingbird is facing the other direction.

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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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