Happy Anniversary, Vicki and Gary!

I made this card back in April, but had to save it for today. Happy Anniversary, Vicki!

Our grandson Wyatt was over at that time and we made a birthday card for a friend whose party he was going to the next day. We used paint and a gel plate. His favorite colors are red and blue, so that's what we used. (I forgot to take a picture of the card he made.) This piece was left-over so of course I had to use it! I thought it would be good for a July 4 anniversary. I matted it with red and stamped a Gina K image with Versamark and used white embossing powder. The image looks kind of pink, though, with the colors coming through from behind. The sentiment is from Gina K, also.

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Gel Press - Three Times

I asked for (and received!) a set of acrylic paints for Christmas. I wanted to use them with my gel press. I finally did, but I had kind of forgotten how to use them and I put quite a bit paint on the gel plate. Oh well - I still used the pieces. Can't toss them, you know! So here are the cards I made with them. I had used some ivory-colored, lightish paper. For this first one, I used glitter paper and dies to cut out the scene and the thanks. I also matted the panel with black.

All of my panels were cut with my Waffle Flower rectangle dies.

I used a die to cut the sentiment and then some off-white paper for the backing for it. I matted this one with black, also.

I used Altenew dies for this sentiment, and also some ferns. The die-cuts are all three layers thick and the top layer is glitter cardstock again. The card base on this one is white - the others were ivory.

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Simple Anniversary

And one more anniversary. I guess we know several people with September and October anniversaries! This die-cut piece was in my card parts, as was the background piece. I'm pretty sure I used a gel plate to make the background. I simple combined the two pieces and added the sentiment, stamped in gray, from Papertrey Ink.

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Let's Craft and Create - Purple and Green Challenge

I'm entering this card (and I guess the second card qualifies, also) into the "Let's Craft and Create" challenge. You can find it here. The challenge is to use purple and green. 

I was going to try to convince a friend (who asked about a gel press) to get a gel press. I just can't do it. I'm not very successful at it! But I have a few pieces that I'm going to use, nonetheless. I used the gel press on both of these cards. First I had stamped and white heat-embossed the image, from Gina K. I used the gel press about three times, I believe. Then I added the dots - from Altenew. The "Hello" die is from Altenew, also. I matted with black and added a few green and purple gems.

Same technique on this card. I matted it with a black piece that I die-cut a few weeks ago. The sentiment is from Hampton Arts. I used a black Perler Pen for the "pearls."

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