More Purple Flowers

I believe this completes my use of items from my friend Cheryl's (Paper Panacea) visit. :-) She brought over this flower die set for me to use. The sentiment was foiled with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. It's actually silver, even though it doesn't look like it in the photo.

The sentiment on this one is from Taylored Expressions and came from my sentiment box. The embossed background was done with one of Cheryl's embossing folders.

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Letting the Paper Do the Work

I've had this 12 x 12 sheet of patterned paper with flocked flowers for about fifteen years. I recently came across it and thought it was time to cut it up, while I had it out. Otherwise it may have been buried for another 15 years! Each of these three cards fit into a legal size envelope. They are 4 x 9.25 inches. The sentiments all came from my parts. I think this first one is from Gina K. It was cut out with a Stampin' Up! Word Window punch. (I think that's what it's called.) I added a light touch of ink over it with a blending brush. In real life, it matches the pink wonderfully. I had also cut several extra layers for dimension.

The sentiment on this second one had been printed on my computer and then foiled with a laminator and matted with gold foil cardstock. It's popped up on foam squares.

And the sentiment on this third one had been done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. It's mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper was the left-over and I matted it with a matching cardstock and placed it toward the left side of the card.

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Flowery Congrats and Anniversary

When I get 50% off at Michael's, I have a tendency to buy another 12 x 12 stack of patterned paper. Then I tear out the sheets, cut up the ones that require cutting, and put everything away to hopefully be used some day! I have SO much! Well, these two cards were made from one of those stacks. I cut around the tops of these two pieces and popped them upon to card fronts. The sentiments are from my card parts and have been foiled with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. They are also popped up on foam squares.

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Congratulations Butterfly

A super-simple congratulations card. The patterned paper and metallic strip were already on this card front. I added the die-cut metallic butterfly and the "Congratulations" sentiment. The sentiment was already die-cut. I rubbed an ink cube over it to coordinate with the paper.

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SCT Class - Concord and 9th

Here are the three cards from Concord and 9th from the SCT class. The kit included the cover die, other dies, stencils, stamps and four small ink pads. 

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Graduation Congrats

Someone at the scrapbooking (stamping for me!) retreat asked me if I could make a graduation card for her. Not having all my supplies here, I did the best I could. Someone had the sticker that I used - I added it to a piece of cardstock and trimmed it down. I die-cut the sentiment out of thick white card and also some silver cardstock and layered them together. I embossed the bottom of the card with a Darice folder, scored a couple lines with my ScorBuddy, and matted the panel with silver. She was pleased enough with it.

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Congrats In School Colors

I really AM on a quest to use up card parts! I pull some out sometimes knowing that I want to use them soon, and then they sit and sit. I just finished up one of those piles on Thursday when I had a friend over to "play." Just to be clear - I have no delusions of EVER using them all up - I just want to at least make progress!!

The blue swirls on this card were cut out at our Group Gathering in June. The piece was actually larger, but this is all that would fit on a standard card. I believe it was part of a layering die set and there were problems with this layer, so of course I had to try my hand at getting it to cut nicely. :) At any rate, it's been sitting out since June and here it is. I did not know what to do with it. I was looking through my small stamp sets and found one from Technique Tuesday that had this little stamp. I decided to stamp it in yellow and make the card the school colors of our local grandsons. The older of the two was recently accepted into the gifted and talented program so I added a Congratulations and will send it to him.

Of course I couldn't send to one of them and not the other, so I used up another card part on this card! :) I had gone to Hobby Lobby in the past month or so and picked up a few things that were 75% off. One of them was the die that cut the stars for this background. I immediately put the die in my die storage and threw away the packaging and I don't remember who it is from. Sorry. I had cut it in silver. I matted it with yellow and then blue. Then I used the blue to cut out some stars to add to it. I used a Cuttlebug alphabet die set to cut the letters. Go Wyatt!

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Simple Retirement

Surprise - not a Christmas card today! :) I still have more to share, though.

A friend retired a few weeks ago, and there was a party for him on Friday. I realized I hadn't made him a card yet, so this is the card I made. It was easy because it's such a classic layout and I've used it before. The patterned paper is from a stack by 7 Gypsies. The sentiment is die-cut. The card base and plain cardstock is ivory.

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Congrats on the New House ... and a Link

A friend of mine bought a new house at the end of November and I finally got around to making her a card! And, actually, this card was created because I brought a bunch of cards home from church that I had donated a couple years ago and they had not sold. I replaced them with newer ones. Some of the cards I disassembled and made into new cards. This is one of those cards. 

The panel with the house was already done. I had stamped on various colors of cardstock and paper-pieced it. The house is from Fiskars.The "Congrats" and the border around it are from Clearly Wordsworth. The house is mounted on foam squares.

I really, truly love to answer questions that people leave me. It seems like most of the time I get questions, though, it's from an "anonymous" commenter and I have no way of contacting that person, except through my blog. So, here is a reply to a comment that I got yesterday about this card. Here is a very simple tutorial I did on that technique. I hope you find this reply!

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Congratulations, Andrew!

Our oldest grandson, Andrew, tried out for the traveling baseball last time we were down in Chicago. And, he made the team! So happy for him.

When I was putting my stamping room back together, I ran across this embossing folder "out of place."  I still hadn't put it away, and thought that maybe I should use it! Hence, the card:) Quite a long time ago, I bought the die and embossing set from Cuttlebug. Together, they cut and emboss the hat, the bat and the ball. I mounted the ball and the brim of the hat on foam squares. I embossed the "congrats" with a small embossing folder, also from Cuttlebug, and I mounted that piece, matted with a dark blue, on foam squares, also. The card is done with ivory cardstock. I used the same dark blue to mat the main panel.

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Congrats

I've been having quite a bit of time in my stamping room lately, and I love it! I've been going through card parts, stickers, etc. and pulling things out to use soon. I have several of these wonderful frames by Rubbernecker stamped and ready to use. (Thanks, Vicki!) So, here is one done:)

The sentiment was previously done using a Darice die. I thought it looked nice with the stamped frame. Hmmm ... what else to put on it? Oh! I've got some Penny Black stickers that I bought last summer in Des Moines at our Group Gathering. I bet one of them would work nicely. I trimmed it down and matted it with black. The butterfly is from the same sticker set. 

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Congrats

Our former next-door neighbors' son received his Eagle Scout badge in April. We were not able to attend the ceremony and life has been too hectic for me to even get a card to him until now. This is the simple card that I made.

The embossing was done with a Sizzix brass stencil in a folder. I used gold foil cardstock for embossing it. I matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The bottom layer was also matted with black. The card base and bottom layer are both off-white cardstock.

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Hip Hop Hooray

Such a simple card, but I like the way it turned out. The frog is a sticker. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted the sentiment with green cardstock to match the frog. I trimmed down the main panel smaller than the card front and mounted it on foam tape.

Julie - you left me a comment yesterday and I had no way to get a hold of you. I hope you check my blog! The folder with the daisies that I used on this card is from a Cuttlebug border set called "With Love."

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