Butterflies and Dragonflies

Happy Mother's Day!

The butterflies and dragonflies on these cards are from Gina K. I was experimenting just a little bit with watercolor. For this first one, I wet the butterfly (which had been heat-embossed) and then dropped the paint on it. It's popped up. I used an old Stampin' Up! stamp for the background for the butterfly. The sentiment is also from Gina K. In fact, all of the stamps in this post are Gina K.

This one is also watercolored, with a few white dots added.

The panels on each side of this gate-fold card were done using my gel pad. Haven't used that for a long time. (Almost never!) I watercolored the flower.

And the last card for today. I had used my gel pad to make the cardstock I used to stamp and die-cut these pieces. The background panel was done when I was cleaning off the brayer. Then I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder and added a little extra color. I also added a little Diamond Glaze to the dragonfly and the flower center.

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Stamped Background Thank You

I recently pulled out this "thank you" stamp from Heidi Swapp that I've had for ages. I used a stamped border panel that I've also had for ages. Then I used my newest purchase from Gina K to stamp the background using soft colors.

EDITED TO ADD: The stamping was done with multiple stamps from a stamp set from Gina K with various colors.

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Watercolor - Then Stencil

I watched a video that Mindy Eggen did using watercolor over an embossed image. I thought it was pretty cool, and this is my versions. Her video can be seen here.  Mine is not so impressive, but it was fun and I do like the way it turned out.  The embossing folder, stencils, sentiment with die  are all from Gina K. The sentiment is embossed with gold powder and popped up.

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Blooming Branches - Part Two

The embossing folder from Gina K that I'm using is called Blooming Branches. Here are a couple more cards I've made using it.

For this first one, I brayered a very light lavender ink onto the embossing folder before embossing. Then I embossed and used the coordinating stencils to color the image. I left the flowers white, with just the little bit of coloration from the ink on the folder. I matted the panel. I realize I forgot to add a sentiment, but I can do that later.

FOr this one, I was experimenting with just using the stencils. After I finished adding the colors, I decided I'd like it better if I embossed it, so I did. I added some black spatters, which dried looking gray, so I used gray to mat the panel and added the stamped and die-cut sentiment.

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Debossed and Wood-Grained Birthday

The first two of five new cards done with a Gina K 3D embossing folder. This is from the kit from last month. I love this folder. It also comes with dies, which I did not use. For these two cards, I first lightly dragged a light-color ink pad across the panels, then embossed them. After embossing, I dragged a couple darker ink pads over the debossed side - slightly looking like wood graining. Then I matted them and popped up a Gina K sentiment.

I used light browns for this card, ending with a light turquoise-y color.

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Birthday Wishes

Something a little different from me today. I stamped and heat-embossed (with a sparkly powder) this image in the middle of the blue-ish panel and cut it out. Then I ran the rest of the panel through a 3-D embossing folder and added it to the card front. (The stamps are all from Gina K, as is the folder.) I popped the image up. The sentiments were stamped separately and cut out, also.

I also have five more cards made with my newest embossing folder/stencil set from Gina K. I hope to get them posted soon.

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Sympathy

I finally had a little time and made these simple cards with my newest Gina K kit. For this first one, I used an oval stencil and ink-blended the background. Then I stamped the silhouette stamp on it. I used a stitched border die to cut out the panel and matted it with black. The sentiment is from the same set and was stamped and die cut and popped up.

For this one, I thought "why not just cut out the oval from some patterned paper." So, same card but with the die-cut oval. I stamped the image on the panel first, then added the oval and stamped again.

Hopefully, I'll get to have more time for creating, but it's not looking great. I had a great time with friends, though, on our getaway. I'm still catching up!

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May Calendar Page

Happy May Day! Does anyone else remember making May baskets, filling them with candy, delivering them to the door, ringing the doorbell and then running away so you didn't get a kiss? :-)

Here is my calendar page for the month. The stamps are from Gina K and I colored with Copics.

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Sending Love and Joy

This card was made with Gina K's incentive stamp set - free with a $75 order. I die-cut the panel and matted it and popped it up. Added it to some matted, patterned paper and used some black nail head stickers.

I'll be away for a few days with some of my lady friends, but I'll be back and will hopefully have some more time to create.

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Completed Card Bases - Installment #3

And the last of my pre-made card bases. Sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Image stamp from Gina K.

Just added a layered die-cut to this one. Could use a little something more. Maybe a black butterfly in the upper right.

Same Papertrey sentiment and three nail-head stickers.

Gina K sentiment. The panels are popped up. I also added the three tiny nail head stickers.

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