Sunshine

Looking through my dies led me to this one. I cut it twice out of different color cardstock and layered them. I added two enamel dots for the eyes and drew the smile on it. The sentiment is from an old My Sentiments Exactly set. I added a thin black strip at the top of the image panel.

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Road Trip

I guess I will send this to the first person I know that will be heading out on a road trip:) I came across a few tags and thought I would use one. I had also come across this stamp set from Tim Holtz when I was looking for a specific stamp. All the stamps are from the same set. I added some twine at the top, through the hole. I sponged a bit of the brown ink along the edges, also.

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Washi Tape Thank You

I've had this washi tape for a while and have barely used any of it. I simply used some of each of the rolls. The solid pink and turquoise are glitter tape and the gold is shiny. I used a die to cut the sentiment. It consists of two layers of white and one layer of shiny gold cardstock.

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Critter Birthdays

Last year when we were at Taylored Expressions, I bought a stamp and die set. I used the "critter face" stamps and the dies right away and could never figure out what to do with the finished pieces. The other stamps in the set are all sentiments and none of them seemed to go with the dies at all. (They are nice sentiments - they just don't coordinate with the animals.) There is a fox, a pig, an owl and a cow. The stamps are just the face and the dies cut the shape. I will toss or give away the other two animals that I had made. For this first one, I used a previously die-cut frame. I popped the cow up with foam squares. The sentiment is from a very old Stampin' Up! set.

How is this for retro? I used an old Stampin' Up! corner punch. :) I embossed the green piece with a Darice embossing folder. I matted with white and placed them in the corner-punched piece. The sentiment on this one is from an old SU! set, also.

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Birdhouse Birthday

A very simple card using up more die-cuts. The "birthday" is four stacked die-cuts. The "happy" stamp and the birdhouse stamp are both from My Favorite Things. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I matted with black and called it done.

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Die-Cut Sympathy

Four more "card parts" used up on these cards. Well, actually more, since the sentiments are layered and are two pieces each. The parts on this first card are the sentiment, the die-cut flowers and the background. I sprayed Distress Spray Stain on the flower die-cut because it was done in white and was too stark. Luckily one of my three colors of spray stain matched. The sentiment was cut from a kind of shimmery coppery cardstock. I made the background last year or the year before at our Group Gathering. It's done with alcohol inks and a vellum paper and gold foil.

This one is simply patterned paper (from The Paper Studio) and the stacked die cuts.

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Washi Paper Birthday

The beautiful paper on this card was given to me by my daughter several years ago. She got it when she was in Japan. (Gosh, I guess that means it's about eleven years old!) It's hand-made Washi paper. There is one sheet each of eight designs, and each sheet is shiny/shimmery gold on the backside. I had to try to figure out how to show it off. I simply folded up one corner just a little bit and secured it with a brad. (Yes, I used two brads on this card!) I used a strip that I had cut off and stamped it with a Papertrey Ink stamp, embossed with black.

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Corner Happy Birthday

I have a tall stack of small squares of paper/cardstock that I got MANY years ago from, I'm pretty sure, a former Stampin' Up! demonstrator. (She was a co-worker of my son's and gave me three boxes of very miscellaneous stuff.) I sorted them out the other day and realized there was some patterned paper included. I used two of these pieces, along with two solid pieces, on these cards. I also used two die-cut pieces that I've had in my stash for a few years. Each panel is mounted on foam squares.

This one also uses an embossed background piece from my stash.

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Nine Cards - Penny Black Stickers

I sorted through my "sticker drawer" and tossed a few things and set aside some for a friend to use or toss. I left these two sheets (one full and one partially used) out to use up. They are just finished very simply and I won't go into much detail. This first one used a pre-embossed background and a pre-stamped sentiment. I popped up the sentiment after I cut the ends to form a banner.

For this second one, I used a pre-printed background from Gina K that I had foiled with turquoise foil. The image is matted and mounted on foam squares and the sentiment is one that I did at Taylor's (Taylored Expressions) last summer.

The sentiment is from Gina K. For the background, I used another pre-done background. I think I made this one a long time ago by cleaning my brayer off on it! it matched so nicely.

Another pre-embossed background. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

 For these last five, I used ivory cardstock and the sentiments are all from Gina K. I forgot to use pre-made backgrounds, though!

 

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Four-Step Roses

I love these roses and leaves by Sunny Studio. I made several of them in different colors, since I had the stamps in place on my MISTI. The orange one is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

This is the one I made for our color swap. The colors were honey and purple.

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Die-Cut Flowers

These flower sprigs were all cut from a die and then watercolored. For this first one, I added thin strips of cardstock along the edges. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

EDITED TO ADD: I don't own this die - I cut these at our Group Gathering several years ago. The die is from Memory Box and it's called Bloomington Border.

For this one, I embossed the background with an Anna Griffin Cuttlebug folder and added a die-cut sentiment.

For this one, I simply added the sentiment.

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Die-Cut Birthday

I stamped this background at a friend's house in February. I'm pretty sure it's from Taylored Expressions. I added a strip of white cardstock across the bottom and then added the green ribbon. The flowers and the sentiment are die-cut.

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Holly Christmas

I happened across this brass stencil one day and had to use it. It's from Lasting Impressions. I used some nice holly stickers in five of the six squares. I added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) in the sixth square. I matted with red and mounted on foam tape.

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Another Reverse Stencil

Here is the other card I made using the reverse stencil technique. Again, I brushed Gina K inks onto a piece of cardstock. Then I placed a stencil over that and covered with black ink. It's hard to tell, but there are two colors of blue ink here, along with the purple. I matted the panel with black. The sentiment is from an old Stampin' Up! set. I cut it and the scalloped matting layer with Nestabilities and added three tiny gems. I mounted on foam squares. I also added a thin strip of black.

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Reverse Stencil

I often watch Gina K videos on YouTube while I walk on the treadmill in the morning. That is where I learned this technique - this time from Gina's daughter, Rina. It's pretty cool. First, you cover a piece of cardstock with ink. I used brushes and Gina K inks. I think the cardstock I used for this one is even Gina K. After covering the cardstock, place a stencil over the inked piece and then use black ink. This is what you get. I'll have another card done with this technique on tomorrow's blog post. I matted with black. The sentiment (also from Gina K) is matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The butterfly is die-cut. I think it's from Memory Box. I cut a piece of vellum to place underneath it and glued it to the sentiment panel. 

This card was done with the same stencil, but just the typical way. I stamped the sentiment on vellum and embossed. I folded the edges of the vellum around the panel before matting and then I added thin black strips of cardstock to the top and bottom edges.

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Thanksgiving in July

The card part on this card is the pumpkin. I'm pretty sure it was cut with a QuicKutz/Lifestyle Crafts die many years ago. I had cut the pieces and then sponged a bit of ink on the edges before gluing them together. I mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a Recollections matstack and is matted with my favorite brown cardstock - Soft Suede from Stampin' Up! The sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

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Fruity Cards

Two more card parts cards for you today. I found these bananas already stamped, die-cut and colored in with my parts. I mounted them on foam squares and added them to a previously-die-cut rectangle. I matted with black and added the sentiment. These are from a Recollections set.

Also in with my parts was this pear - stamped and glued together. (It consists of three pieces - the pear, the leaf and the stem.) They are from Technique Tuesday. I added the pear with foam squares to the stitched rectangle die-cut and matted with black. I added the sentiment, which is from the same Technique Tuesday set.

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Wreathy Birthday

Back to card parts for today's card. I die-cut this a few years ago. I had added the green piece back into the negative space on the white card. I added a piece of vellum to the backside and stamped a flower with Versamark on the back of the vellum and embossed with white. The panel is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Vellum Birthday

A very simple card for today's post, and it doesn't even use pre-made card parts! The flower is from Gina K's newest stamp kit. I stamped it on vellum with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I used Copics to color the back of the image. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is also embossed with white. The vellum is attached by folding the top over a piece of white cardstock and adding to the card front.

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Boy and Girl Onesies

These two cute little onesies were in with my card parts. They had been stamped on patterned paper and cut out. I used Copics to color the snaps and the trim pieces. I found a sentiment stamp that I liked and stamped it with matching inks. I used a Copic marker to add the edging. The background was in my parts, too, but not from very long ago - just last fall, I believe. Possibly even this spring - pre-pandemic!

Same thing, but I used an ink pad around the edge of this sentiment panel. The background is from an old Die Cuts With a View matstack.

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Black and White Wedding

Two more card parts on this card - the image and the background. The image was already stamped and matted and had Wink of Stella added to the flowers and the gown. I mounted it on foam squares. The sentiment is from the same set. I remember embossing the background piece at our Group Gathering last year, but I don't remember who makes it.

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Gray Sympathy

I'm not even sure how this piece was originally made - it was just in with my parts. I'm guessing that maybe I used some chalk or something on black and then stamped with Versamark??? At any rate, I matted it with black and mounted on foam squares. I stamped the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) on gray and then embossed with an Anna Griffin folder by Cuttlebug.

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Sympathy

I'm pretty sure that these card parts actually came off of a finished card at some point. And here they are again. They are from an old Stampin' Up! set. I placed them on a square of ivory and matted with black. the sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set.

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Holographic Hello

Hey - a card that's not from a "card part!" LOL! I started with the stencil from the newest Gina K kit - so pretty. I used two colors of ink on it. You can't see the design very well in the first picture, but I think the second picture shows it all right. I added a piece of vellum over the top of it - connecting it by folding a flap of it over the top of the stencil piece. I used a thin strip of matching cardstock and a die-cut "hello." The "hello" has two layers of white and one layer of a sort of holographic cardstock. It's from Crayola and I have searched for it and it appears they don't make it any more. I did see some on eBay. I got it almost twenty years ago at a dollar store.

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A Valentine??

I did it! :) I got my card parts all gone through. I made eleven cards one day a couple weeks ago and used up the last of my un-filed ones. I sorted them all out, threw some away, and put the die-cut pieces and other small pieces into card sleeves. I have four-pocket sheets for storing my embossing folders and had some extras. I used those for my stamped and embossed and other background pieces. There were several pieces that I just didn't want to put anywhere, so it was either use them or toss them. So, for the next many days you'll be getting more card-part cards.

The card parts for this card are the heart (die-cut and matted), the sentiment (from Taylored Expressions, and the background. I'm pretty sure the background was done by inking up a Fiskars texture plate before embossing with it. It's a pale pink, but you can't see that very well, There were also a few red gems on the finished heart.

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Padded Butterfly Hello

As much as I'm trying to use up card parts, I still make a few more along the way. :) I cut this circle for a template for cutting out stamped circles that I had, and of course I couldn't throw it away! So, I inked it up with some Gina K ink to match a piece of paper that I got from a friend in Ankeny last year. (Thanks, Vicki, for those little packs of paper!) The butterfly and the ribbon were on my table. The butterfly is the last one from a package from Martha Stewart.

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One Die - Three Cards

I've had these three die-cut pieces in my stash for a few years. No more! I made two of them into Christmas cards and one into an anniversary card. The paper for this first one was from Fiskars. I got it twenty years ago!! It came in a book of 8 1/2 x 11 inch papers with printed vellums - eight sheets of double-sided paper and eight sheets of printed vellum. I took all the books apart (I had four or five) and separated the papers from the vellum. I keep trying to organize more and more to make things easier to remember to use.

The paper for this second one was a scrap that I had.  This was the paper that first led me to make two of them into Christmas cards.

I got this paper from Michael's about six years ago, I think. All of the sentiments are from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Anniversary, Vicki and Gary!

July Fourth is the anniversary of my friend, Vicki. Sometimes I make her a card in patriotic colors, and that's what I did this year. I had made a card for our group Color Swap (Patriotic colors) and had some of these pieces left over - the flowers and the blue squares. I added enamel dots to the flower centers and the squares were placed on a white panel and popped up on foam squares. I also added some twine and a small strip of striped paper. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped in navy ink. Hope you had a great day, Vicki!

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Happy Fourth!

Wishing you a safe and happy Fourth of July!

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Poinsettia Christmas

This card base was in my card parts stash, also. The finished card is 3 3/4 x 6 inches. The oval is cut through the front and it's a tri-fold card but the front is actually double - I glued the very front to the middle section. I hope that makes sense! I added green cardstock behind the open oval. I stamped the poinsettia directly on the green and colored with a Copic marker. Then I stamped the poinsettia on white cardstock, cut it out with a die, and colored it. The poinsettia is mounted on foam squares. The poinsettia stamp and die, and the sentiment stamp, are from Recollections. Oh, I also embossed the front with an embossing folder, probably from Cuttlebug, but I'm not sure.

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