Oops - More Christmas Pieces

Several years ago there used to be a theme - What's on Your Desk Wednesday. Well, here's what's on my desk on Friday! LOL! I think that I said a month ago that I had all the Christmas cards that I needed for this year. But, I happened across these dies again and just had to use them! So, here are more card parts for me to make into Christmas cards for next year. The square ones are made with dies. The holly ones are made with a punch. I used the corner punch to make a border. One piece is not for Christmas - the gold one in the upper right. It was done with a left-over foil piece on black toner paper. I cut out a black piece to put as a shadow. I'm not sure if this will get used or not. It's awfully dark and hard to see the floral image. Just thought I'd share what I've been working on.

Update on my hand. The surgery sites are basically all healed up now. At this point, I'd say that my hand is back to the way it was before the surgery - not better. I guess it probably WILL take the several months that I was told!

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Warm Birthday Wishes

My hand is healed up enough to golf now, so my card-making has taken a back seat. Golf, and other things like getting ready for winter and Thanksgiving and Christmas.

These cards are both made with Gina K foilable sheets and stencils and dies. On this first one, I added very thin metallic, scallopy stickers alongside the white panel. The flowers and the main sentiment are popped up.

I happened across some pre-made card bases from many years ago, and I used one for this second card. It's a tri-fold card with a hole in the front. One panel just folds over the holed panel. I added a piece of patterned vellum behind the hole. The image and sentiment are from the same Gina K set as the first card.

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November Calendar Page

What - November??? Here is my calendar page for the month. The background was stamped with a stamp from My Favorite Things using multiple ink colors. The pumpkins and the sentiment - from Gina K - were stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with gold. Happy November!

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Repurposed Thank You

Often when we receive a thank you card, I will "repurpose" it. This one was simply the silver Thank You on a white card. I looked for some patterned paper that I had that had silver in it and came up with this pattern. I cut out the opening with a die that has x x x around the edges and then I matted with silver cardstock. I also took my turquoise and purple blending brushes and added slight color to the sentiment piece with the ink that was already on the brushes.

Update on my hand: the surgery site is healing amazingly well. The surgery was not quite three weeks ago and the stitches were removed just six days ago. It's practically all healed up already. However, I think it's going to take a long time for the full range of motion to return. I'm just hoping that it DOES! I'm actually going out golfing this morning. Wish me luck! LOL!

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Baby Boy

These scraps of blue plaids were also on my table. I matted each of them and thought they would work for a baby boy card. I dug out a set from Inkadinkado from forever ago. I colored the cute little teddy bear with Copics and popped him up on an oval. The sentiment is from the same set.

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St. Paddy's Day - in October???

Another piece that was sitting on my table. It's left over from my calendar pages. (You'll see it again in March. :-) ) I stamped, colored and matted the image and popped it up on foam squares. I found another piece of green patterned paper and matted that for another layer. I printed the sentiment out on my computer.

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Simple Thank You

The stencil that I used to ink up the background for this card is from Picket Fence. I got it for 60% off. :-) I had it matted and added to a card front for a few weeks and it was finally its turn to get made into a card. I simply added the "thank you" sentiment that I had recently dug out. I may have never used it before. It's from Heidi Swapp.

I get my stitches out this morning at 10:00 CST. I can't wait! I'm pretty sure I will need some PT on my hand, though. I can't bend one of my fingers and I can't totally straighten out another. It'll all be good, though.

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White on White Birthday Wishes

A white on white birthday card - always nice, I think. The butterfly is five layers of die-cuts. I dipped it in Versamark and added some iridescent sparkle. The background is embossed with a Gina K folder. The sentiment is also from Gina K - stamped and die-cut.

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Season's Greetings

Another Christmas card - only because this "Joy" ornament was on my table. It's mounted on foam squares. I used a piece of patterned Christmas paper down the middle, with thin metallic strips on each side, and one more metallic strip for the ornament string.

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Simple Pleasures

The sentiment and the chair stamp are both from Repeat Impressions. I fussy-cut the chairs for all the cards after stamping them on patterned papers. I added a little bit of shading with Copic markers and popped them up. For this first card, I just added it to a die-cut square. This is one of my favorite simple layouts.

For these other two, I took a piece of white card stock, scored it with a score board and then dragged a few colors of ink across it. I thought I would look like wainscotting, but it looks more like flooring. Whatever! I used Gina K stencils for the background on the tops of them, with a thin strip of brown in between.  I matted the sentiment on this card.

Different paper, different stencil and different placement of the sentiment. Otherwise the same thing. :-)

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