Simple Birthday Wishes

A simple birthday card that I like a lot. I made four of them. I die-cut the opening and added some blue cardstock behind it. The daisy was cut with an ancient Sizzix die - the REALLY thick ones from years ago. The sentiment is from Gina K. The panel with the hole in it is popped up on foam squares. I added Star Dust Stickles to the flower center.

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Happy Birthday Jonah!

Our second-to-the-youngest grandchild turns eleven on Thursday. He is an excellent drummer!! So, this is the card he gets. The "movie reel" die cut is an ancient one from Sizzix - the thick thick die that was used by the really old die-cut machines. I happened across them last week and was inspired to make this card for Jonah. It actually works with my Spellbinders Platinum 6.

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Banana Leaf Birthday

A very simple card - maybe I should make a couple more of this one. I brayered ink on the debossing side of an Altenew folder before embossing. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Washi Tape Birthday

I was inspired to use up a little Washi tape, hence this card. I only made one like this so far, but I think I'll make two or three more. Even the glitter strip is Washi tape, but the self-stickiness was gone so I had to glue it down. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Die-Cut Flowers Birthdays

Two very similar cards. I used a die for the flowers. On this first card, I placed the metallic green die-cut into the black die-cut opening. I placed this over the pink cardstock. I also cut the flower centers with the die using yellow cardstock. The sentiment is from Gina K.

The opposite colors on this one, except for the pink showing through for the flowers. I also added the green metallic cardstock to the flower centers.

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

My friends, Cheryl and Vicki, both had a card using this layout on their blogs on the same day! I didn't look at the videos that they linked, but instead just looked at the pictures and winged it. The sentiment is from Gina K. I used part of a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the embossing on the image panel. The background is a shimmery, metallic-y cardstock.

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Three-Flower Birthday

And the card with the left-over three squares. The flowers were die-cut from white and had ink brushed on them and an enamel dot added to each center. The sentiment is from a very old Inkadinkado set. But, the flower die cut three flowers of varying sizes, so now I have six flowers left over to use! LOL!

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Birthday Flowers

So, here is the one with the three-hole die-cut. I used Gina K stamps to stamp in the windows. I also used a Gina K stamp to stamp the panel, which is mounted on foam squares.

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Sympathy Flowers

My cards just "evolve" on their own, quite often. I came across this background piece that I had made a while ago by misting a piece of dark green cardstock with bleach. (I have two more.) I cut it, and the backing, with Waffle Flower dies. On the same magnetic sheet was my three-square holes die, that you will see used on tomorrow's card. Then the following day you will see a card made with the left-over squares from that card. :-)

I was trying to figure out what to make with the bleached piece and thought a sympathy card might be a good idea. I found this sympathy stamp from Paper Inspirations and stamped it in black and embossed it. Then I decided that a flower would be nice, so I used this die and cut it from black shiny cardstock and layered it to make it stand out more.

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Mother's Day

A friend came over this week and she had wanted to make Mother's Day cards. As it turned out, we didn't make any. But, I had taken out my very few Mother's Day stamps so I thought I would use one. This card will probably go to Cheryl for her thrift store for next year. :-) The stamp is an old wooden one from Michael's when they used to have their dollar bin. The image panel is mounted on foam squares. I added some black Gina K sequins for added interest.

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More Gold Die-Cuts for Christmas

I cut these pieces out the same time as yesterday's cards. I also added extra dimension to them. And the sentiments are again from Paper Smooches and are gold-embossed.

Sorry the sentiments are so hard to see. Here are better pictures of them.

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Gold Die-Cut Christmas

I had a few scraps of gold foily cardstock on my desk and decided to do a little bit of die-cutting with them. Here are the results of that. The sentiments are from Paper Smooches and are gold-embossed. I cut all the die-cuts out of thick card and glued them with the foil for added dimension. I also added a thin strip of the gold foil between the patterned paper and the white background.

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"Inchie" Birthdays

Looking through my stamps, I came across this set by Inkadinkado. It includes several "inchie" stamps. Remember them? I made these eleven cards, all using the same layout - just different stamps, colors, sentiments and backgrounds. The sentiments are all by Gina K. The image panels are all popped up on foam squares. Edited to add: I forgot the main thing!! I had a whole bunch of 1.25 inch squares that I happened upon, from MANY years ago. That's what started me making these cards.

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Christmas - Patterned Paper

Super simple Christmas card. I still had three sheets of this patterned paper. I used one of the sheets to make six cards. Only two more sheets to go. LOL! I sponged the edges of the patterned paper, which is from Recollections. I sponged the edges of the sentiment panel, also. I added sequins from Gina K scattered around the background in the snowflake centers, and also three more on the sentiment panel. 

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Purple Birthday Flowers

It's possible I've posted a card just like this one before, but this is my latest one. I was looking through my stencils and grabbed this set to use. The stencils and also the sentiment are from Gina K. Oh, the sequins are from Gina K, too. I made three of these so I could give away two.

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Watercolor Tulip

I woke up really, really early last Sunday and went to play in my stamping room. For some reason, I went for my watercolors. Not very smart, though, that I didn't use watercolor paper, but instead used mixed media paper. Oh well. Maybe next time! At any rate, I played around a little bit with leaves, then decided to add a flower. Then I decided to make it into a card instead of tossing it in the trash. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I used Nestabilities for the ovals. The background paper is from Die Cuts With a View.

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Cheery Birthday

A cheery card made on a very gray, rainy day. The image stamp is from Inkadinkado. I colored it lightly with Copic markers. The sentiment is my last sticker from Mrs. Grossman's. The patterned paper is from BoBunny. I added thin black strips along the edges of the white panel.

I am entering this card into the Double "D" challenge, which is to use flowers.

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May Calendar Page

My calendar page for May. The stamped flowers are from Image Tree and I colored them with Copic markers. The patterned paper is from a very old matstack from Recollections. I really like using it on my calendar pages because it's paper and therefore thin so my page still fits in my calendar holder.

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