Deer Friend

Both of these cards were made with Gina K products - the stamps, dies and background stencils. The deer and the owl are popped up. The background frames are the last two that I have from AGES ago. 

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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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Sweet Friend

I came across this die from Altenew recently and decided to use it. I cut it out of a bright pink and matted with black. Then I had to figure out what to do with it. So, I dug out a set from Gina K that I've had for many years and have hardly used. I used a stencil for the flower petals and stamps for the black areas and the center dot, then a die to cut out the flower. It's popped up, of course. The sentiment is from a different Gina K set.

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Birthday Wish

Another couple of card parts used up. I really am making progress. I had thought I would never reach the end of them, but now I can actually foresee them being gone! The butterfly and the die-cut panel were the parts for this card. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I added shimmery cardstock under the die-cut area on the edge of the card.

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Thankful For a Friend Like You

The stenciled panels on each side of this card were in my parts from several years ago. I added them to the card base and then added the white panel in the middle and two thin metallic strips on the sides. The image and sentiment stamps are from Gina K. I colored with Copics.

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Butterfly Hugs

Included in Gina K's 12 Days of Christmas box was some "splatter." I splattered it on some black cardstock, and decided to just add some butterflies from my parts. I added a die-cut "hugs" cut from the same mirror cardstock as the butterflies. I also matted the black panel with the same mirror cardstock.

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De-Bossed Daisies

Here is the first of the now 22 cards I have to post. They won't all be singles, though!

A friend sent me this embossed panel, and here is the card that I made with it. The paper she used was kind of shimmery. I double-matted it. The sentiment actually matches much better in real life, but it's not perfect. Thanks, Annie!

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Sending Hugs

Another die-cute layered flower from Altenew. The frames were left-overs on my table. The sentiment is from Gina K. The patterned paper is from a matstack from Michael's. They sent me another $5 voucher (even though that's the only money I ever spend there!) so I had to get something.

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Simplicity

Four more cards done with one sheet of patterned paper, stamps, and in the case of this first card - some card parts and stencils. The stamps and stencils are all from Gina K.

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Same Stamp, Different Color Schemes

Another stamp set from Gina K that I had to have when Gina had her great sale. I did it in three different versions - color-wise. Here is the middle colors. All the stramps are from Gina K. I used a thin metallic sticker between the image layer and the patterned paper.

Here is the bright one. I used a thin black cardstock strip on this one. Also, the image panel is mounted on foam squares.

And the pastel one. Again, a thin metallic sticker, and the panel is mounted on foam squares.

EDITED TO ADD: I got the stickers on Amazon. They are "Paper Wishes - Dazzle Stickers."

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Sending Love

I have no idea where this stamp came from in the first place, but I pulled it out of my trash a couple days ago while I was looking for something else. 😁 It had the word "June" in the middle and I had no use for it! (Oh, in hindsight, I guess I could have used it on my calendars!) I was able to cut that out and use the stamp. I colored with Copics and matted it with some white stock which I had ink-blended to match the coloring. I added a few Disco Ball sequins from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, also. The pink piece is vellum, which I embossed with a Gina K folder.

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Flowers and Greetings

These have been partly made and sitting on my table waiting for a rainy day - which was Thursday. Such a fun day that was! At any rate, the patterned papers are all from the same paper stack. I added thin cardstock strips or the foily stickers next to the patterned papers. The flowers are all from a Stampin' Up! set that a friend brought over years ago and I had stamped and die-cut a lot of them. This is the last of them, finally. I either added Star Dust Stickles or Diamond Glaze over the flowers. The butterflies were all in my card parts, as were the sentiments, which are all foiled in some manner. The flowers and sentiments are all popped up.

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More Patterned Paper

These three frames were cut from patterned paper and matted with gold foil and stuck into my card parts quite a long time ago. I used Gina K sentiments and ephemera to decorate them up. I stamped a sentiment on the inside of this first one that says, "friendship is about who came and never left your side."

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Card -Part Frames

These cards were all made with die-cut frames from my card parts, partnered with patterned paper. The sentiments are all from Gina K.

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Taylored Expressions Flowers

I really love these flower and leaves stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions, so I stamped, die-cut and colored several of them. Here are four of the cards I made with them. Two more of them to come tomorrow. The sentiments are all from Gina K. Some are stamped directly on the card and some are die-cut and popped up. I used the thin, metallic stickers between the white panel and the patterned papers.

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Card-Part Flowers

All of these flowers and leaves were in my card parts book, but they are all gone now. I believe they may be from Altenew, but I'm really not sure. The sentiments are all from Gina K. The sentiment on this first one is stamped directly on the card front. The others are stamped, die-cut and popped up on foam squares. On each one, the front flower (or only flower) is also popped up on foam squares. I used a thin metallic sticker along the sides of the patterned paper.

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SCT Class - Gina K Designs

Ahh, I am doing the SCT classes in order, and I finally reached Gina K. I really do love her cards. She was so generous with supplies for the class. There was a full-sized stamp set with dies, the oval stencils, and also the background stamp. We used the "kissing" technique with the silhouette stamps and the background stamp.

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SCT Class - Ranger/Simon Hurley

These four cards are from the SCT (Stamping and Cards Today Crop and Create) class that I took starting in September. Lucky for me that the classes are all on YouTube, as I was not able to do them live. I finally finished three more classes. Maybe I'll have more of them done before this post publishes.

This class was Simon Hurley for Ranger. Most of the cards are identical to the class cards. The kit consisted of the stamps and dies, stencils and AstroPaste.

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