Birthday Balloons

Finally, another card. And when I had a chance to spend some time in my stamping room, did I use some of my new items? Nope! I went through more of my cards parts and started organizing them. I think at some point in the not-too-distant future, I'm going to just throw some of them out. I'm down to small things. I actually emptied my book and put them in little storage containers.

Anyway, here is my card. I had, at some point, added thin strips to cardstock and die-cut this sentiment out of it. Now I cut two more of the same sentiment from really thick cardstock and glued them all together. Then I added it to layers of coordinating cardstock. I punched out the balloons and popped them up and drew the strings before adding the sentiment panel. It really needed something else, so I brought out my Itty Bitty Background stamp set from Stampin' Up! and used it to fill in a little bit around the balloons. That helped. 

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Four Cards - Plus a Bonus

I just happened to see a post where someone took a 6 x 6 inch piece of patterned paper and made four cards from it. I don't know why I was attracted to that, but these cards are the result. Not exactly like she did, but ... here they are. I don't think there is really any explanation available.

Embossing was done with a Spellbinders M-bossibilities folder. Sentiment by Gina K. I added thin strips of the gold foil cardstock.

Sentiment by Gina K.

Sentiment by Gina K.

And the bonus card. The embossed panel is the other half of one of the above cards. The sentiment was a left-over from my trial with one of the other cards.

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Simple Birthday Wishes

I had this frame left over from another card, so I die-cut the flowers to go with it. Then I used the same die to cut the patterned paper panel. The sentiment is two stamps and a die from Gina K's newest kit. The "wishes" is gold-embossed.

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One Folder - Four Different Cards

This 3-D embossing folder and the matching dies and stencils are from Gina K's newly released kit. I made four cards using them - each of them different. The sentiment is from a different set in the kit. For this first card, I simply embossed the design on white and used the stencils to color it. I stamped the sentiment in a matching color and adhered it directly onto the embossed image. I matted with a matching pink cardstock.

For this second card, I embossed on a gold cardstock and matted with black. The sentiment was gold-embossed on black and die-cut.

I embossed on white and colored the leaves and stems with the coordinating stencils. I also added a little bit of brown ink to the flower centers. The flowers were embossed with gold and die-cut. They are popped up on foam circles. The sentiment is gold-embossed on white.

This one was an accident. :-) This is the back of the gold cardstock. I embossed it upside down. I really like the way it turned out. I used the stencils for the coloring. The sentiment is embossed with a matching green ink and popped up.

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More Sanded Daisies

Sorry for a card that's so similar to my last card, but it's what I've got. :-) When I was putting away my last daisy embossing folder, I came across this one and wanted to use it. So, it's basically the same. I embossed on blue, white-core, textured cardstock. Then I used a sanding block to remove the color from the embossing. I colored the flower centers yellow. The sentiment (from Gina K) was in my parts. I brushed on the yellow. It's a little bright, but it works okay, I think. It's popped up. I matted with white and yellow and black.

I received my new Gina K kit on Saturday, so I'm hoping to get to play with it soon. Most of the bathroom remodel decisions and been made and the purchases completed. Now the work just needs to get done!

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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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