Embossed Backgrounds

Looking for an embossing folder the other day, I came across this one from Darice and thought I would make a few more masculine cards. For this first one, I rubbed a kraft-ish ink pad over the embossing. The sentiment had been hot foiled and was in my card parts.

For this one, I embossed it on some mirror cardstock. The sentiment is from Gina K and was foiled.

And for this last one, I embossed black cardstock and rubbed some white ink over it. Again, the sentiment is from Gina K.

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Christmas and Hello There

I had a few scraps laying around so I used them to die cut some sentiments. The two sentiments on this post were some of them. The ornament on this first card was also laying around. It was a partial from a couple weeks ago. I cut around it. The sentiment and the bow were cut from the negative hot foil piece. I matted with white and popped up the panel.

This sentiment was also die-cut from a scrap. I colored the leaves with a white pen and then used a Copic marker to make them green. I matted the sentiment on some white cardstock and used patterned paper to cover the cardfront.

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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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Even More Card Pieces

Here is the other frame that I had sitting on my table, which was done with the Glimmer Hot Foil system. The dandelion (?) is a rub-on. The sentiment stamp is from Gina K. I snipped off the lower right corner, to match the image panel.

This little light purple piece was just laying around. I added a rub-on to it, then matted with gold metallic cardstock. I added a few gold sequins because I messed up the rub-on. The background was embossed with a Spellbinders M-Bossibilities folder. Not sure where I got that!

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Using Up More Parts

I had two Glimmer hot-foiled frames sitting on my table - two different sizes. Here is the first one, finally used up. The flower is a stencil set from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, also, and is stamped, die-cut and popped up on foam squares.

And, here is another. I had done this flower on thin cardstock, just to test it out. But, of course, I couldn't throw it out! So, I cut around it loosely, taped it to a panel, stamped the sentiment (from Concord and 9th), and then embossed with a Darice folder. Then I matted it and added it to the card base.

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Two More Christmas Cards (Actually Three)

I've been working on using up some pieces that have been on my table for a while. I'm happy to say they are all now gone, and you'll be seeing them in the next few days. That is NOT to say that my card parts are all gone. Far from it! They are just filed in a book and now I have started putting some in little cases - the kind that fit photos and then the cases go into a storage box.

This Glimmer hot-foiled piece was what I was trying to use up on this first card. I had the frame, also. I used a new-to-me set from Gina K to stamp and die-cut the sentiment. It's one that stamps several at one time, and then cuts them all out with one pass through the die-cutter. Both the image panel and the sentiment are popped up on foam squares.

Very similar, but the stamps are from Echo Park. I added Versamark over the tree image and then clear embossing powder over that. I made two of these cards.

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Card Parts Anniversary

I used two left-over pieces of shimmery patterned cardstock from a previous card for both of these cards. The sentiment on this first card is from Gina K and is embossed with gold powder. The flower is from Gina K, also, and is a foiled negative. I added a thin strip of cardstock above the patterned paper and also some gold sequins.

 This one is basically like the first one, but with different card parts. The vellum, foiled butterfly and the foiled sentiment were in my card parts book. They are both popped up on foam squares.

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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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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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Hot Foil Christmas Card

Finally, another Christmas card! This card is 6 1/2 inches by 5 inches. I did the image using my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment is popped up. It's from Gina K and is actually silver - done with Gina's foil. There is a thin red strip below the sentiment which was hot-foiled.

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Even More Dies and Foil

I pulled out this die, also, last week. It cuts the open dots. I matted with yellow and added the butterfly and the sentiment, which were both done on the Glimmer Hot Foil system and cut out with dies. The butterfly is on vellum. Both are popped up on foam squares.

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More Hot Foil

These cards were both made with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment on this first one is from Gina K. I trimmed down three sides of the image panel. Then I added thin metallic strip stickers around the three edges that I trimmed down.

I wanted some subtle color on this one, so I used my lightest Copic markers.

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Hot Foil and Dies

All of these cards are similar. I used dies to cut the borders. The flowers are all from Gina K that I had made earlier using stamps, stencils and dies. I used my Glimmer Hot Foil system for the sentiments. (Some of the sentiments are from Gina K - stamped and die-cut.) Then I put the pieces together to make these cards.

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Another Hot-Foil Anniversary

Another card made using my Glimmer Hot Foil system - the bottom part is foiled. The top was embossed with a Darice folder. The sentiment is from Gina K and die-cut. The little flowers are die-cuts, also. The circle is popped up on foam squares. It's really hard to see, but there is a thin strip of black cardstock between the white embossed piece and the foiled piece.

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Hot Foil Anniversary

I keep thinking that I need to sell my Glimmer Hot Foil system. I don't use it much and I don't have much for plates. But, I spent some time making anniversary sentiments and a few other things the other day. Then I ran across a couple seldom used dies and had to try those out, too. So here is the first of my latest creations.

The opening was done with a die. I embossed a piece of vellum with a Darice folder and put it behind the opening. I popped the entire panel up on foam squares. The flowers and leaves were die-cut from scraps of foiled cardstock. The sentiment is popped up on foam squares, also. I have one more card for tomorrow. I hope to get some more time and finish up some more cards very soon. It's summertime - time for golf and pickleball! 

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Embossed Flowers

Again, the embossed panel and the sentiment were from my card parts. The folder is from Altenew. I very lightly colored the embossing with blender brushes and I popped up the sentiment (which was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system).

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Stenciled Anniversary - Part Two

Here is another anniversary card using a different stencil set from Gina K than yesterday's card. Same thing, though. Stencils, Waffle Flower matting layers, hot-foiled sentiment from my card parts - popped up on foam squares.

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Stenciled Anniversary - Part One

I had two new stencil sets from Gina K that I had not used yet, so I was working with them and decided that they should be anniversary cards. Here is the first one. I used Gina K inks for it. I used Waffle Flower dies to cut the image panel and the matting piece. The sentiment is popped up on foam pieces. It was in my card parts. It was done with my Glimmer Hot Foil system.

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Glimmer Hot Foil Shine

Well, here is another card for next year. I wanted to play with my Glimmer Hot Foil system again. I don't really have the best luck with it. But here is the card that I made. I realized that I took the picture before I added a sentiment, but it still works. This card is 6 1/4 inches by 3 1/2 inches. I have twelve more card bases done for more Christmas cards for next year. They are mostly the same layout as the last two posts, so I may not even show them on here.

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Gina K-Designed Cards

Gina K made some cards like this on one of her recent videos. So simple and pretty. You mask off the stripes around the edges and then use stencils and ink-blending. The sentiments are from my parts and were done with the Glimmer Hot Foil system. They are popped up, of course. I added three really old Martha Stewart gems to each card.

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