Soft Anniversary

More card parts from years ago. I'm quite certain the stamp I used for this card is from Penny Black. It was colored with markers, misted, and then stamped on to off-white cardstock. I matted it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted and mounted on foam squares.

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Birthday Fishes

I came across this background in a stack of extra parts. I think it was maybe from a card that I planned on 're-purposing." I added Wink of Stella to the "waves" which were embossed with a Darice folder. I found a fishy stamp (from Stampin' Up!), stamped it on watercolor paper and die-cut it with a stitched square die. I "messy" water-colored it and added it to the background with foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Birthday Balloons

More pieces cut from the Brusho piece I made in May. I cut the sentiment and backed part of it with black and mounted on foam squares. I cut the balloons from a different section of the Brusho paper. I drew the strings on the background, then embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder. The balloons are mounted on foam squares, also.

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Thinking of You

Several years ago at our Group Gathering, a friend chose three pieces of my patterned paper, stacked them up, and cut them into three pieces. I had added them to card bases almost right away, but had never finished them up. It was time! To each of them, I simply stamped the sentiment on off-white cardstock, gently drew the edges across the ink pad, and mounted them on foam squares.

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Die-Cut Birthday Wishes

I cut these three pieces with a die in June. I'm happy to have them on cards already! :) For this first one which is cut from blue foil cardstock, I added it to a piece of "tie-dyed" glitter cardstock. (Thanks, Georgia!!) I embossed the background with a Darice embossing folder.

It's hard to see the color of this second card, but it's actually a deep purple. I added the white die-cut at an angle and added white dots with my gel pen.

I added the third, gold foil die-cut to some dotted patterned paper.

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More Die-Cut Birthday Flowers

More flowers and leaves left over from previous die-cutting. I colored them with Copics and made this card with them. The grass was cut from a die (possibly My Favorite Things??) many years ago. I drew the stems with a marker. I added Liquid Pearls for the flower centers. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Vellum Overlay

Two cards for today that are pretty much identical. They were both done with a Penny Black flower stamp and coloring the stamps with markers before stamping. I covered them both with vellum and did the sentiments with Versamark and black embossing powder.

For this first one, I adhered the vellum with eyelets. I heard when we were in Ankeny, Iowa in June that they were coming back, so I dug some out:) The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

For this second one, I cut the vellum with about an inch or so hanging over the left side. I scored it and put it behind the panel that the flower was stamped on. Then I added the panel with the vellum to a card base. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!

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Flower Eyelets

It's seems I'm almost constantly trying to clean, organize, use up, etc.! One of my drawers has about a half a million eyelets and "studs." (I'm not sure what they are actually called, but they get set like eyelets do, but they are solid on top and kind of end up looking like enamel dots.) Anyway, I had recently come across this stamped image of stems and leaves and then happened upon these flower eyelets. The combination became this card. :) I added regular eyelets in the center of the flower eyelets, and also Wink of Stella to the stems and leaves. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The image panel is matted and mounted on foam squares.

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Birdy Birthday

I used a friend's die in June to cut out this branch with birds. I sponged the color onto it. I had the die-cut letters left over from a couple months ago. I stamped the "HAPPY" to go along with them. I used glitter tape around the edges. Happy Birthday, Gloria! :)

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Rainbow Dots

I used the same stencil as yesterday for this card. For this card, though, I used Deco Foil Transfer Gel with it. On top of the transfer gel dots, I used rainbow foil and my laminator. That is SO hard to photograph! I did the transfer gel directly on the cardfront, after masking off the area with the die-cut circle. I used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the dots on the card front. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, stamped on a thin strip of cardstock and mounted on foam squares.

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Stenciled Dot Background

I did the background of this card with a stencil that I had out for a different card. Might as well use it twice! :) I simply brushed ink over the stencil. The flower and leaf are from a Gina K set. I stamped them with Versamark, embossed them with detail black ink, and water-colored them on watercolor cardstock. I die-cut the circle  and cut another out of the green cardstock and inset it into the white. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The flower is mounted on foam squares. I also added three enamel dots of varying sizes.

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Brusho Birthday

When my new friend, Cheryl, was here at the end of May, she brought a few things to play with. One of them was Brushos, which I had never used. (Never even seen, actually.) I made a whole piece using them, and am still trying to use it up. I had die-cut this sentiment out of it, and had backed it with black and mounted on off-white cardstock matted with a thin border of bright blue. Here it is, finally on a card. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug folder using bright green cardstock.

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Punched Border Birthday

Super Simple today. Sorry I forgot to "Publish" this one, so it's a little late. I punched this "chain" border years ago and ran it through my Xyron machine. It had been sitting in a box ever since. Believe me - I'm trying hard to use up those kinds of things! Some end up in the trash, but most get used. I also have a large stack of half-sheet cardstock. This blue/periwinkle sheet happened to be at the top:) I added the punched border, scored some lines with my Scor-Pal above and below it and stamped the sentiment, from Technique Tuesday, with Versamark ink. I used clear embossing powder on the sentiment, as well.

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Rose Sympathy

I stamped several of these roses and leaves a while back, so here's another one made into a card. They are from Sunny Studio. The sentiment was stamped and in my pile and I don't remember off-hand who it's from. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug folder.

Edited to add: This embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and is called Matelasse.

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Happy Anniversary, Kris and Ron!

Here is the card that I made for my friend, Kris, and her husband for their anniversary. I saw it this type of card on Jennifer McGuire's YouTube videos. I think it's just called a shadow box card, but I'm not sure. The flowers and leaves are layered stamps and dies from Sunny Studio. I cut out the rectangle with a stitched rectangle die from Memory Box. The corner stamp on the rectangle on the front of the card, along with the sentiment, are from a Papertrey Ink set. The background was stamped with a Recollections background stamp. The "Celebrate" sentiment is from a Hampton Art set.

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Holly Jolly Christmas - in Foil

This is one of those cards that is so much shinier in real life! The background was done with a snowflake stencil and Deco Foil Transfer Gel with silver foil. The sentiment is from a sheet of laser-printed sentiments from Gina K that I foiled with red. I cut it out with a Memory Box stitched rectangle die, matted with red and mounted on foam squares.

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Hearts Anniversary

I finally had some time to spend in my stamping room again! I spent most of yesterday in there. I was again working on using up some pieces that I have handy, to get me moving. I had these die cuts done and ready to use, so I made these two cards. The first one will go to our niece and the second one will go into my "stash." I found a large pile of half-sheets of cardstock that I had gotten from somewhere, so I used two of the sheets for these cards. For this first one, I stamped the sentiment (from PSX) with Versamark and embossed it with detail white embossing powder. I added the dots in the hearts with a white gel pen. You can't see them, but I also added several lines towards the bottom with my ScorPal.

The card base on this one is gray, with tiny speckles. I stamped the sentiment with dark gray ink. I also added white hearts back into the pink openings.

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Foiled Flowers

Finally - a card! Time is flying by, for sure. I actually made most of this card quite a while ago, but I finally finished it. I hope I remember how I did it. The flowers were cut with a die. I cut another piece with the same die, and then I used that piece as a stencil to apply Deco Foil Transfer Gel. I added foil to that and then I used Copic markers to color the foil. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. I added double-scored lines above and below the flowers and also below the sentiment.

I have another card that is finished, but no more time for blogging right now. Someday I'll have more time:) I hope everyone is enjoying the flying-by summer.

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August Calendar Page

Well, a bit late, but here finally is my August calendar page for this year. We were camping and I forgot to schedule it. 

I used a Repeat Impressions stamp for this page. I colored it with Copic markers and cut it out with a Memory Box stitched rectangle die. That's it!:)

I had a good run of posts - posting nearly every day for two months. I've reached the end, though! I have nothing more to post and no time for spending in my stamping room. Maybe I'll post a couple pictures of our camping trip to northern Minnesota - Tettegouche State Park. The weather was great and the views were awesome:) I have some projects that I need to get done around the house, but I'll be sure to share any stamping that I find time for. I hope you are all having a great summer so far.

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