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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Birthday Window

The die-cut window frame and the embossed background were in my card parts book. I'm determined to keep whittling away at that book and not make any more parts! I added some flower patterned paper behind the window and also a birthday sentiment from Gina K. Actually, the sentiment is a newer addition to my parts, too. I stamped and die-cut several of them a while back.

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Colorful Birthday

This stamped image has been in my card parts book for several years. I finally chose it for a card. I colored it with Copic markers. That takes a long time! I have another one of these stamped images, but I might just toss it. Or save it and hope that I color it some year! I guess if I colored it the same colors, it would at least save me the time of figuring out what color to color each little bit! The sentiment is from Gina K.

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More Four-Panel Cards

I liked this layout from Cheryl's blog, Paper Panacea. This first one features a little bird house from my parts - from Gina K. The sentiment is also from Gina K. (Can you tell I love Gina K?) The birdhouse and sentiment are on foam squares.

I was so smart when I cut these pieces to line up after they were matted. But, of course they can't! LOL! At any rate, they are sort of close to lining up. Once again, the sentiment is from Gina K. It's matted and popped up on foam squares.

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February Calendar Page

February already!!  Here is the newest calendar page. I used an old wooden stamp from Hook, Line and Inker. I stamped on various patterned papers and then cut out the hearts and adhered them. I matted with a different patterned paper.

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One Design - Four Variations

I came across a card I had made previously using this layout, and wanted to use up some papers to do it again. I cut four sheets of patterned paper to the same dimensions and added them to a matting layer. Then I stamped the sentiment, dragged the edges on an ink pad, and popped them up.

Edited to add: The pieces measure: 4 x 2 3/4, 4 x 1, 1 x 2 3/4, 1 x 1 inches. Start with a 5 x 3 3/4 inch piece. Cut a one-inch strip and then cut that into the 1 inch piece and the four inch piece. Cut the remaining piece (2 3/4 x 5) at one inch for the two remaining pieces.

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