Butterfly Hello

Here is the deckled rectangle piece that's been sitting on my table for a while - finally used up. I have all the pieces used up now. I do still have several card fronts waiting to be finished, however! I added the butterfly and the sentiment to the top of the image panel. They are from an old rubber set from Hampton Art. I stamped the butterfly onto the image panel and also on a piece of scrap cardstock. I cut out the wings from the scrap piece and added them to the one on the image panel. That way, I could have the wings hang over the edge, but I didn't have to cut out the body or antennae. I colored with Copic markers and added Wink of Stella and a couple black gems. I embossed the bottom of the panel with a Darice folder, scored a couple lines with my Scor-Buddy and sponged some color over the panel. I matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper on the bottom has silver pinstripes and I added a think strip of silver shimmery paper above the black.

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Cheery Thinking of You

Using up another piece from my stamping table. I had die-cut a deckled rectangle from a piece of white cardstock, and still had both pieces sitting around. I used the negative space as a stencil to blend three colors of ink onto the image panel. (The die-cut piece will be on my blog tomorrow.) After doing the ink blending, I stamped the silhouette image and added the sentiment. They are from Gina K. I just matted with black and added to a white card base. Very simple, but it feels so nice to be making cads again. I'll spend time in my stamping room when I can. We have our granddaughter, Amelia, staying with us for a few days, so that's great fun and she likes to spend time in my stamping room with me. We are each working on a never-ending card. :-)

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Birthday Three-Fer

I was using up patterned paper while making these cards. The papers came from a package of 4 x 4 inch paper I got from a friend. (Thanks, Vicki - it's getting close to being gone now!) I used green matting on some and black on some. The sentiments are die-cut from bluish-purplish mirror cardstock.

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Sympathy in Dark Green

I had this large (white) oval on my stamping table for a while and I wanted to get rid of it. So, I added a couple colors of ink to it with blending brushes. Then I used dark green ink to stamp the Gina K image. The sentiment is stamped in black. I cut the scalloped oval with a dark green cardstock. I used ivory cardstock and an old Cuttlebug folder for the background. The card base is the same dark green as the scalloped oval.

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Color Swap - Purple and White

I made this card for the color swap in my stamping group. The colors are purple and white. The die-cut panel was done with an Altenew die and I backed it with purple. I added the die-cut flowers. The sentiment is also from Altenew.

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So Sorry - With Flowers

A very simple card for today. The image and the sentiment are from a Gina K set. I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and matted with black. That's it! 

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Celebrate!

I made the background for this card with a stencil that I bought from a set on Amazon. I used it twice for added "spokes." I cut the bottom at an angle and added a thin strip of glitter cardstock. I matted with purple and added an enamel dot in the center. The sentiment is from Obsession Impression.

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A Baker's Dozen Christmas Cards!

A friend was over to play one day a couple weeks ago, and I went through a little bit of my enormous stack of 12 x 12 papers to give to some friends of hers. I could never in a million years use up what I have. One of the items I went through was a Christmas matstack. I gave away some and kept some. And some of what I retained, I made into cards. I have these to share today, but I still have some to finish up.  I won't get into each of the cards, as there's nothing complex about any of them. I used dies and mirror cardstock and glitter papers, among other things.

I am linking this post up to the Repeat Impressions challenge. This month's theme is "Christmas in July."

I used a Darice embossing folder for this one, brayering on the color before embossing. The sentiment and strips are silver mirror cardstock.

Another brayered embossing folder for this one.

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Two-Fer - Birdies

I made these cards for Darnell's "Two-Fer" challenge - to use the same stamp, stencil, etc. on two different cards. You can use them very creatively, or very simply, as I have done, of course. :-) The theme this month is Birds. You can find the challenge here.

On this first card, the bird is stamped and die-cut (and layered for dimension) and colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. The background paper has some kind of holographic-ness to it, and my silvery stripes along the sides of the white panel are holographic, also. The sentiment is silver heat embossed. I added three Martha Stewart gems.

I changed the orientation on this card and made it a "hello" card. The paper is ancient cardstock from a free pack from Archivers. Remember Archivers?? :-) The bird was stamped directly on the panel once again colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and I added three orange gems and matted with orange.

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Glitter Birthday

I don't even remember how I added the ink onto this card, but I'm pretty sure I used a brayer. I spritzed it with some water, but you can really only see it on the middle color. I added some patterned paper to the top and bottom, thin black strips to the edges of the colored panel, and a sentiment die-cut from glitter cardstock with a black shadow added. I also added a few sequins for fun. I have about a million of them! My mom used to do calendar kits where you sew on sequins and she had tons of them left over. I brought them all to my craft room after she died but haven't used them much at all.

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Embossed Butterflies

I used a Darice embossing folder for this card. I brayered ink onto it before embossing, and then I stamped the sentiment and added it to a white card base.

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Starry, Starry Birthday

For this card, I placed a die-cut piece on a piece of double-sided sticky paper. I added the glitter into the stars and pressed it down well. I matted it with black and added it to a white card base. The sentiment is also die-cut and is two layers thick.

Edited to add: Sorry - I don't know who makes the dies. The star one was purchased clearance at Hobby Lobby over a year ago. I was able to find another card I had made with it, but in that post I explained that I had already thrown the packaging away.

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Never-Ending Card - A2 Size

Hello there! I'm finally back with a blog post. I have spent a small amount of time in my stamping room, but haven't been very productive. I do have this Never-Ending card to share with you, though. I have made a few never-ending cards that were six inches square, but I have never finished one off to actually give to someone. Then I saw a video on how to make one that is "standard' size, so I wanted to make it. I watched this video from Linda Bedinger.

Here are the photos of each "page" when it's opened that way.

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July Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for July. It was done using my Cameo Silhouette, as I usually do for July.

I have actually made a very few cards recently. I hope to be able to have time to upload them before too long. Nothing going on really - just very busy with life! Fun stuff - nothing bad at all!!

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