Stamped Background Thank You

I recently pulled out this "thank you" stamp from Heidi Swapp that I've had for ages. I used a stamped border panel that I've also had for ages. Then I used my newest purchase from Gina K to stamp the background using soft colors.

EDITED TO ADD: The stamping was done with multiple stamps from a stamp set from Gina K with various colors.

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Simple Thank You

The stencil that I used to ink up the background for this card is from Picket Fence. I got it for 60% off. :-) I had it matted and added to a card front for a few weeks and it was finally its turn to get made into a card. I simply added the "thank you" sentiment that I had recently dug out. I may have never used it before. It's from Heidi Swapp.

I get my stitches out this morning at 10:00 CST. I can't wait! I'm pretty sure I will need some PT on my hand, though. I can't bend one of my fingers and I can't totally straighten out another. It'll all be good, though.

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Honeycomb Friends

I finally spent some time in my stamping room yesterday. It felt great. It feels like a long time since I made anything in there, but maybe it was just over a week. Or maybe it was two weeks. Time is kind of strange lately. Again, though, I was using up card parts. Some of the parts were not very old, but they were pre-made, nonetheless.

I recently had watched a Jennifer McGuire video about using stencils, embossing paste and glitter, so that's what I had done on the background of this card. You can't really see the glitter, though. The stencil is from Heidi Swapp. I trimmed the yellow piece down a bit and matted with black. I added a strip of gingham ribbon. The sentiment is from an old Stampin' Up! stamp set. You also can't tell this, but I colored in the open parts of the letters with a yellow marker, which is darker than the yellow cardstock.

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Merci #4

My last card with the Stampin' Up! set called "Merci."

I started by sponging two shades of yellow ink through a Heidi Swapp honeycomb stencil. I stamped the three bees and colored them with markers. I added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink), matted with black, and added Star Dust Stickles to the bees' wings.

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A Valentine

I am having a hard time getting back into stamping. Seems like it's been a long time and I have too many new things! So, back to my scrap pile. :)

The ribbon for this card was "re-purposed" from a Christmas gift. (Heaven knows it wasn't from me - my presents rarely even get bows!) Isn't it beautiful? The stamp and the chipboard hearts were from a very fun gift I got (bought it myself!) from Tuesday Morning. It was a tote and it was filled with things. I think one day I'll post about it. It had stamps, chipboard, ghost shapes, etc. I may not use many of them, but it will be fun to try. (The tote and everything in it was only $20.) I used Versamark and silver embossing powder for the stamp. I rubbed the heart in Versamark and used the same silver embossing powder. For the other heart, I used red ink and thick clear embossing powder.

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