May Calendar Page

Happy May Day! Does anyone else remember making May baskets, filling them with candy, delivering them to the door, ringing the doorbell and then running away so you didn't get a kiss? :-)

Here is my calendar page for the month. The stamps are from Gina K and I colored with Copics.

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Sending Love and Joy

This card was made with Gina K's incentive stamp set - free with a $75 order. I die-cut the panel and matted it and popped it up. Added it to some matted, patterned paper and used some black nail head stickers.

I'll be away for a few days with some of my lady friends, but I'll be back and will hopefully have some more time to create.

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Completed Card Bases - Installment #3

And the last of my pre-made card bases. Sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Image stamp from Gina K.

Just added a layered die-cut to this one. Could use a little something more. Maybe a black butterfly in the upper right.

Same Papertrey sentiment and three nail-head stickers.

Gina K sentiment. The panels are popped up. I also added the three tiny nail head stickers.

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Completed Card Bases - Installment #2

Four more card bases made into completed cards. The sentiments on this card are from Gina K. The "wishes" is gold-embossed to match the die-cut butterflies.

Simply added a gold die cut, layered "thank you."

Bottom panel embossed with a Darice folder and lightly inked. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is gold-embossed.

More gold die-cut butterflies and gold embossing on the sentiment from Gina K. There is a die to cut out the two-stamp sentiment.

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Card Bases Completed - #1

Okay - you asked for them. Here they are - the first installment. The card bases that I had made are all completed cards now. I had received a defective stamp from Gina K and was sent a replacement immediately after notifying them. So, of course the first thing I had to do was try it out. Stamped perfectly, of course. But, then I had to use it. I remembered seeing this die-cut in my parts so I thought I would trim down the sentiment and add it. It's popped up.

 

The sentiment on this card is also from Gina K, as is the little flower at the bottom. I added an enamel dot to the center of it.

The sentiment on this last card is from Papertrey Ink. I added three matching enamel dots.

Four more completed cards coming tomorrow.

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Beautiful Sketches

I made these cards with one of my new sets from Gina K. This sentiment and the image stamps are from the set, called Beautiful Sketches. I stamped them on watercolor paper and painted them. I die-cut them out and matted them and popped them up. The patterned paper is all from an ancient matstack from Die Cuts With a View.

On this one, I tried to paint it "sloppily." I'm not thrilled with how the flower turned out, but the leaves are okay, I think.

I had originally painted the flower pink, but later made it purple. The pink was just too bright. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Card Bases

I couldn't help myself. I took three more 6 x 6 inch sheets and made these bases. I had tried to follow a short on Instagram to find out the dimensions, and I think that I finally figured it out on my third attempt! I then drew my diagram and used my trial pieces to make these eleven card bases. You may or may not see them completed. Mostly I think I will add sentiments, but who knows how they will turn out.

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Purple Birthday

Another piece from my card parts. Hopefully I'll use some new stuff soon! The "happy" (from Stampendous) had been stamped and colored with Copic markers and patterned with a white gel pen and sat in my parts for several years. I had already cut out around it. I found some matching purple and cut a mat for it. I embossed the white layering panel with a folder from The Paper Studio and matted it with the same purple. The "BIRTHDAY" is from one of Gina's new sets. The "happy" is popped up.

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Birthday Balloons

Finally, another card. And when I had a chance to spend some time in my stamping room, did I use some of my new items? Nope! I went through more of my cards parts and started organizing them. I think at some point in the not-too-distant future, I'm going to just throw some of them out. I'm down to small things. I actually emptied my book and put them in little storage containers.

Anyway, here is my card. I had, at some point, added thin strips to cardstock and die-cut this sentiment out of it. Now I cut two more of the same sentiment from really thick cardstock and glued them all together. Then I added it to layers of coordinating cardstock. I punched out the balloons and popped them up and drew the strings before adding the sentiment panel. It really needed something else, so I brought out my Itty Bitty Background stamp set from Stampin' Up! and used it to fill in a little bit around the balloons. That helped. 

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Four Cards - Plus a Bonus

I just happened to see a post where someone took a 6 x 6 inch piece of patterned paper and made four cards from it. I don't know why I was attracted to that, but these cards are the result. Not exactly like she did, but ... here they are. I don't think there is really any explanation available.

Embossing was done with a Spellbinders M-bossibilities folder. Sentiment by Gina K. I added thin strips of the gold foil cardstock.

Sentiment by Gina K.

Sentiment by Gina K.

And the bonus card. The embossed panel is the other half of one of the above cards. The sentiment was a left-over from my trial with one of the other cards.

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Simple Birthday Wishes

I had this frame left over from another card, so I die-cut the flowers to go with it. Then I used the same die to cut the patterned paper panel. The sentiment is two stamps and a die from Gina K's newest kit. The "wishes" is gold-embossed.

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One Folder - Four Different Cards

This 3-D embossing folder and the matching dies and stencils are from Gina K's newly released kit. I made four cards using them - each of them different. The sentiment is from a different set in the kit. For this first card, I simply embossed the design on white and used the stencils to color it. I stamped the sentiment in a matching color and adhered it directly onto the embossed image. I matted with a matching pink cardstock.

For this second card, I embossed on a gold cardstock and matted with black. The sentiment was gold-embossed on black and die-cut.

I embossed on white and colored the leaves and stems with the coordinating stencils. I also added a little bit of brown ink to the flower centers. The flowers were embossed with gold and die-cut. They are popped up on foam circles. The sentiment is gold-embossed on white.

This one was an accident. :-) This is the back of the gold cardstock. I embossed it upside down. I really like the way it turned out. I used the stencils for the coloring. The sentiment is embossed with a matching green ink and popped up.

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More Sanded Daisies

Sorry for a card that's so similar to my last card, but it's what I've got. :-) When I was putting away my last daisy embossing folder, I came across this one and wanted to use it. So, it's basically the same. I embossed on blue, white-core, textured cardstock. Then I used a sanding block to remove the color from the embossing. I colored the flower centers yellow. The sentiment (from Gina K) was in my parts. I brushed on the yellow. It's a little bright, but it works okay, I think. It's popped up. I matted with white and yellow and black.

I received my new Gina K kit on Saturday, so I'm hoping to get to play with it soon. Most of the bathroom remodel decisions and been made and the purchases completed. Now the work just needs to get done!

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Happy Easter

Happy Easter to my friends who celebrate. I hope you get to spend time with family and friends.

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Birthday Daisies

When I came across this folder recently, I was thinking about doing this card. I finally got it done. I used the folder (from Darice) on white-core, blue textured cardstock. After embossing it, I used a sanding block to sand off the color from the embossing. Then I left the daisies white and colored the flower centers and leaves and stems with markers. The sentiment is from Gina K and is white embossed. The blue panel covers the whole card front.

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April Calendar Page

April First - no fooling! 😁 Here is my calendar page for the month. All of the stamps are from Gina K and the coloring was done simply with Copic markers. Hope you all have a great April!

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Fancy-Fold Birthday

I saw this card on Cheryl's blog a while back and wanted to make one like it. I made a little variation on it. I really meant to stamp the two panels differently, but then I forgot and stamped the same image on both! LOL! I just added the sentiment to the hidden panel. I stamped the images in color, them stamped over them with Versamark ink and clear-embossed them. I added my image panels as squares instead of diamonds.

Here is what it looks like when it's opened. I just realized that I didn't put my card on a panel, either. (I did add a black panel to the completed card, but didn't take a new photo.)

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Double Gate Fold Card

I saw this card layout on Liz's blog awhile back - very cool. I asked her for the link to the instructions and she sent me this link. Thanks, Liz! I finally got around to making one. The flower on the belly band was from my parts (dies by Altenew) but I changed the flower center to match the card better.

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Four "Scrap" Cards

I used up four scraps on these cards. Maybe leftovers is a better word, but they were on my table and I wanted to use them up. The heart was the left-over piece for this card. I used a Gina K stencil to add the design to it. I traced around it on the gold cardstock and cut it out a little bit bigger to add the mat. I embossed a piece of white cardstock and matted it with the same gold. The heart is popped up. The sentiment is from Gina K, also, as is the embossing folder.

The center panel on this first card was done while cleaning my brayer from a previous card. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder. I added the thin strip of gold metallic on each side and die-cut the  sentiment from the same card stock.

The patterned paper scrap was left over. I simply matted it and added the die-cut sentiment and shadow - from Gina K. I also added three little embellishments.

The patterned paper on this one is the left-over part. I added it to the left side and then added a thin strip of brown. The sentiment is from Gina K.

I'll probably be absent for a while again. Lots of things going on! I'll be back when I can.

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Simple Thinking of You

Finally, another card! Life has been busy - too busy for card-making. For one thing, we are redoing a bathroom and that requires lots of decisions and shopping and checking out tile, etc. At any rate, I do have a card for today. I still have some card parts sitting out, and this made use of one of them. The oval had been die-cut and I had brushed some green over it. I pulled out my current favorite flower stamp set and stamped the flowers and the sentiment. Then I used the coordinating stencil and colored it. I added some shimmery enamel dots and added them. The background panel was embossed with a 3D Altenew embossing folder.

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Wedding in White

Our niece just got married and this is the card I made for them. The embossing was done with an Altenew folder. I simply brayered my new favorite color ink (Moonlit Fog from Gina K) lightly over it. The sentiment is also from Gina K. I added three silver nail heads around the sentiment.

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Thank You

I needed a quick thank you card, so I went for my favorite flowers, which are of course popped up. The stamp, stencils and die are from Gina K. I added enamel dots from Pink and Main for the flower centers. The sentiment is from Avery Elle. I used a gray for the stamping. I also added thin metallic stickers along the edges of the image panel.

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Together Forever

A friend asked me to make a wedding card for her, so I suggested instead that she design it herself. Here is the pretty card she came up with. We started with another of the stamped-frame panels from my parts. (Three left!) Most of this card is die-cut. The "Together" stamp and the "forever" dies are from a Gina K set. The heart and the "Together" are popped up on foam squares. The blue is metallic cardstock and the gray heart is actually glitter cardstock. The "forever" is cut from silver metallic cardstock.

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Anniversary

Using up one of my stamped frame panels. I decided to use the circles die on this one. The flower - stamp, stencil and die - is from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, too.

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