Christmas with Frames

These frames were a set from last year's Twelve Days of Christmas box from Gina K. I cut them out of Christmas colors so I could add a couple more cards to my stack. The green one is glitter cardstock. I embossed the background with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is an old wood-mounted one from Hero Arts. The image is from Hampton Art. I colored with Copics and added some white dots with a gel pen.

The image on this card is from Stampin' Up!

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Whales Birthday Wishes

Well, I'm working on my parts that I made with last year's Gina K's Twelve Days of Christmas. I got out all of the pieces and thought I should use them once they were out, and then I made parts with all of them. I've used quite a few and should have them done before this year's box comes. But, I'm taking an Online Card Class that starts on Monday, so I hope I have lots of time in my stamping room! (My calendar says otherwise, though!) The parts on this card are the image and the sentiment. They are both popped up. The tan matting piece in the middle is left over after using one of the dies from the box.

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Anniversaries

I needed three more anniversary cards this month, so I made these three very similar cards. I used all Gina K items on them. The flowers and sentiments are the foiled pieces that I made. I combined two of her stencils to make the backgrounds. On the second one, I also used the oval stencil to draw a border. On this first one, after stenciling the oval, I used the stencil to stencil around the oval that I had already done. The sentiment on the first and third cards is an old wood-mounted stamp from My Sentiments Exactly.

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Split Card

My friend, Vicki, posted a card with a layout like this a little white ago, and I thought I would do this again. I used a die to cut the curved edges. I just put patterned paper into my empty space. The sentiments are from Gina K - foiled, die-cut and popped up.

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Bubble Wrap Inking

Another card done with some of my foiled pieces. The image and sentiment are both popped up. I had a piece of bubble wrap packaging that I hadn't tossed, so I inked it up to make this background. An old technique, but fun once in a while.

Edited to add. The image and sentiment are both from Gina K.

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Card Parts

I thought I would share a photo of the pieces that I made with stamps, dies and stencils from last year's Gina K's Twelve Days of Christmas. I pulled them all out last week and decided to use at least one thing from each set. I'm looking forward to this year's box!

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Sympathy

I dug out all my things from Gina K's last year's Twelve Days of Christmas last week to show a friend, so I thought I should use the items while they were out. I haven't turned much of it into cards - just made more parts. Hopefully I will get them used soon. (Much sooner than I will use up all those foiled pieces that I recently made!)

The item on this card from Gina's box was the Spatter Paint. I took a piece of black cardstock and spattered the white Spatter Paint on it and cut it in half. I used some of my foiled pieces to complete these cards. I used the coordinating stencils to color the images.

You can't really tell, but I also used a Copic marker to add a little shading to these flower. The flowers and sentiments are popped up.

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November Calendar Page

Well, somehow it's November and Thanksgiving will be here before you  know it! Then Christmas - oh my!!

I went very easy with this one. The pieces are ephemera from an old Gina K set. I forgot to write down what I used for this month's page, but I'm pretty sure the stamps are from Gina K, also.

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Foiled Pieces

Gina K often has poly-glaze sheets to foil to match her stamps and dies sets. I sat down one day (or maybe a couple days) and foiled all the images and sentiments in this set. Then I spent a lot of time die-cutting them. I used rose gold, pewter and black foil for these. You can't really tell by the picture, but there are a lot of pieces here! I will use the stencils to color them, as I use them up. I actually used some before I took this photo. Those cards will be coming soon.

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Halloween Cards for the Grandkids

I really don't have a lot of supplies for making Halloween cards - not my favorite thing. But we send them to our grandchildren, so I have to make something to hold the "pocket money," as my mother-in-law used to say. So, here is what they got.

This first one uses an image (made by AI) that I got from my friend, Cheryl. The sentiment (on all of them) is from Repeat Impressions.

The stamps are from Gina K. I embossed with black embossing powder and colored in the eyes.

These last three were embossed with an embossing folder, and then I rubbed the design with black ink. Simple - but they work.

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