Happy Easter

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

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Birthday Daisies

When I came across this folder recently, I was thinking about doing this card. I finally got it done. I used the folder (from Darice) on white-core, blue textured cardstock. After embossing it, I used a sanding block to sand off the color from the embossing. Then I left the daisies white and colored the flower centers and leaves and stems with markers. The sentiment is from Gina K and is white embossed. The blue panel covers the whole card front.

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April Calendar Page

April First - no fooling! 😁 Here is my calendar page for the month. All of the stamps are from Gina K and the coloring was done simply with Copic markers. Hope you all have a great April!

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

I saw this card on Cheryl's blog a while back and wanted to make one like it. I made a little variation on it. I really meant to stamp the two panels differently, but then I forgot and stamped the same image on both! LOL! I just added the sentiment to the hidden panel. I stamped the images in color, them stamped over them with Versamark ink and clear-embossed them. I added my image panels as squares instead of diamonds.

Here is what it looks like when it's opened. I just realized that I didn't put my card on a panel, either. (I did add a black panel to the completed card, but didn't take a new photo.)

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Double Gate Fold Card

I saw this card layout on Liz's blog awhile back - very cool. I asked her for the link to the instructions and she sent me this link. Thanks, Liz! I finally got around to making one. The flower on the belly band was from my parts (dies by Altenew) but I changed the flower center to match the card better.

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Four "Scrap" Cards

I used up four scraps on these cards. Maybe leftovers is a better word, but they were on my table and I wanted to use them up. The heart was the left-over piece for this card. I used a Gina K stencil to add the design to it. I traced around it on the gold cardstock and cut it out a little bit bigger to add the mat. I embossed a piece of white cardstock and matted it with the same gold. The heart is popped up. The sentiment is from Gina K, also, as is the embossing folder.

The center panel on this first card was done while cleaning my brayer from a previous card. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder. I added the thin strip of gold metallic on each side and die-cut the  sentiment from the same card stock.

The patterned paper scrap was left over. I simply matted it and added the die-cut sentiment and shadow - from Gina K. I also added three little embellishments.

The patterned paper on this one is the left-over part. I added it to the left side and then added a thin strip of brown. The sentiment is from Gina K.

I'll probably be absent for a while again. Lots of things going on! I'll be back when I can.

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Simple Thinking of You

Finally, another card! Life has been busy - too busy for card-making. For one thing, we are redoing a bathroom and that requires lots of decisions and shopping and checking out tile, etc. At any rate, I do have a card for today. I still have some card parts sitting out, and this made use of one of them. The oval had been die-cut and I had brushed some green over it. I pulled out my current favorite flower stamp set and stamped the flowers and the sentiment. Then I used the coordinating stencil and colored it. I added some shimmery enamel dots and added them. The background panel was embossed with a 3D Altenew embossing folder.

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Wedding in White

Our niece just got married and this is the card I made for them. The embossing was done with an Altenew folder. I simply brayered my new favorite color ink (Moonlit Fog from Gina K) lightly over it. The sentiment is also from Gina K. I added three silver nail heads around the sentiment.

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Thank You

I needed a quick thank you card, so I went for my favorite flowers, which are of course popped up. The stamp, stencils and die are from Gina K. I added enamel dots from Pink and Main for the flower centers. The sentiment is from Avery Elle. I used a gray for the stamping. I also added thin metallic stickers along the edges of the image panel.

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Together Forever

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her, so I suggested instead that she design it herself. Here is the pretty card she came up with. We started with another of the stamped-frame panels from my parts. (Three left!) Most of this card is die-cut. The "Together" stamp and the "forever" dies are from a Gina K set. The heart and the "Together" are popped up on foam squares. The blue is metallic cardstock and the gray heart is actually glitter cardstock. The "forever" is cut from silver metallic cardstock.

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