Happy Anniversary to our Son and Daughter-in-Law

Here is the card I made for our son and daughter-in-law for their 16th anniversary. The background has been done for a long time and was in my parts. It had been done with my Letterpress. I keep thinking I should use it again, but every time I get it out to use it, I remember why I don't like it! LOL! I matted it, added an embossed strip across the bottom, and added a layered, die-cut sentiment. This card is 5 1/2 inches square.

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Letterpress Thanks

One more Card Parts card. I love digging in my book of card parts and getting some of them used. This piece was also done on my Letterpress - with gold and purple paint. I added lines above and below the purple dots with my ScorPal. The panel is mounted on foam squares on an ivory card base.

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Letterpress Christmas

From my card parts book - I dug out these two pieces that were done on my Letterpress. They were done with gold paint. I matted each piece with gold shimmery paper. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares.

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Letterpress Thank You

I am leaving my Letterpress out on my table until I've had my fill of it. So, here is another card using it. I plan on using ink pads instead of paint, though. Maybe I'll be willing later to give paint another try - time will tell. :-)

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And One Last Christmas Card (Until Next Time!)

Here is my last (probably) Christmas card for this year. I actually had a lot of fun making these last ones. If I get a chance, I might sit down and start on next year's cards. But for now, I'm done. 

I used my Letterpress for this one. I had used it a few times before and told myself "never again." But, here we go. It went pretty well this time, so I may give it another try soon. I used ink instead of paint, and maybe did things differently. I used Versamark for the sentiment and then gold embossing powder. 

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Christmas Bird Ornament

Several months ago, I brought out my Letterpress - thought I would experiment with it a bit again. I made two pieces like this background. I think it works fine as a background for a Christmas card. I bought a Penny Black die set while I was in Des Moines in June. It comes with four dies - the solid background, this bird, a deer and the word "Joy." I made up two of each several weeks ago using red, green, gold and silver. This is the only one on a card so far. I popped up the ornament on foam squares and added a silver brad and silver cord.

Oh my goodness - only three months until Christmas!! I am so far behind on my calendars - I only have three months of them done so far:( Hopefully I'll have some time soon to spend in my stamping room. Besides taking our trip to Alaska, we also went camping and took a trip to Chicago in September. We've been playing a lot of pickleball, too, and I have taken up golf this summer. Time just flies!

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Fall To Layout #39 - Take Two

I made this card for Natasha's Clean and Simple Stamping Fall to Layout challenge #39, Take Two.

When a friend was over a couple weeks ago, I got out my Letterpress. I made the green-inked background using it. This is half of one of the two pieces that I made. I used gold shimmery cardstock for the matting and the strip across the bottom of the letterpressed piece. For the bottom tiny-scalloped edge, I used a decorative scissors! :) Anyone else have any of them left? I embossed the gold strip with a Cuttlebug border folder. The sentiment is embossed with detail gold embossing powder, and is from Papertrey.

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Elephant Birthday Wishes - and an Update on my Dad

Another card made up almost entirely of "card parts" from my box.

I found the little elephant, cut from chipboard of some kind with a Cuttlebug die, the white panel embossed with my Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder, and the patterned pink part, done with my Letterpress. I just put them together, added gems for the elephant's eyes, the sentiment from Hero Arts, and a piece of pink ribbon. Oh, and I also first sponged on some gray ink on the elephant.

It's been a while since I've mentioned anything about my dad. He is doing GREAT!! He has his taste back already and can eat whatever he wants with no problems! The weather down in Atlanta hasn't been the greatest, but it's been better than Minnesota:) He'll be back home in about a month or so, and we'll celebrate his 90th birthday with an Open House.

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Flutter By Wednesday #217

Time for a new Flutter By Wednesday challenge. Thanks to everyone for their participation last week! This week's challenge (and ALL of the December challenges!) are open - anything goes as long as you have included your butterfly or your fairy. This week's challenge is sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads. There will be a $10 gift card awarded to one random winner.

My card uses another of the pieces I did with my Letterpress a few weeks back. (I think I only have one more piece left to use.) I used a background plate and embossed a piece of shimmery ivory paper with no ink. I brayered over it with olive ink. I used Old Olive cardstock for all of my matting. The card base and the main image panel are ivory, also. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The border was punched with a Fiskars punch and the butterfly was done with a Martha Stewart punch. I added a small swirl of gems for the butterfly trail. The image panel is mounted on foam squares.

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Happy Anniversary, Annie and Ray!

Today is my friend Annie's anniversary. Happy Anniversary, Annie and Ray!

I made their card using another piece I did with my Letterpress a few weeks ago. I used the plate with no ink to give a nice white letterpressed background. I scored the lines on the front side to continue the "debossed" theme. I matted with red cardstock. The sentiment is from an Inkadinkado set. The butterfly was punched out of shimmery white with a Martha Stewart punch and I added three black gems to the body.

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Anniversary Rose

This card is for our next-door neighbors. Their anniversary is today.

This is another piece that I did with my Letterpress a couple weeks ago. The purple was done with the Letterpress. I scored the lines beside the debossing with my Scor-Pal. I cut out the inside of the oval. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. I mounted the main panel on foam squares. The rose is on the card base. It's a stamp from Inkadinkado and is colored with markers.

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Baby Elephant

A cute little baby card I made with a new stamp, just for fun:)

The background was done with my Letterpress. (Just for the record, I'm not really very fond of the Letterpress, and don't want anyone rushing out to buy it because of something they've seen on my blog! It's kind of fun to play with once in a while, since I got it for free, but not something that I would buy after having tried it out.) The elephant stamp is from an Inkadinkado set. I paper pieced her with a patterned paper from Recollections, and matted with the same paper. I added a little coloring with Copic markers and mounted on foam squares. Not sure if I'll add a sentiment on the front, or if I'll just stamp something on the inside.

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Flutter By Wednesday #214 - Thanks!

Today is the start of a new challenge from the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog. The challenge for this week is to make a card with the theme "Thankful/Giving Thanks." Thanks for joining us last week, and we hope to have you join again this week!

I was playing around with my Letterpress a few weeks ago, and had this piece still laying on my table. The dashed wavy lines and the "thanks" were inked and pressed with the Letterpress on Letterpress paper. I cut it down to just less than the size of a card front and sponged some purple ink around the edges. The butterflies (gray and patterned purple) were punched with a Martha Stewart punch. I added clear gems to the butterfly bodies.

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Pink and Brown Color Swap

I made this card for a color swap in our stamping group - pink and brown. I also used some "card parts."


In my card parts box I found the Letterpressed piece (the main piece of the card) and also the punched (Martha Stewart) and scored pink piece. I added sticker "gems" to the center of the daisies. I also added the ribbon and brown matting. The matting is Soft Suede from Stampin' Up! and the sentiment is stamped in Soft Suede, also. It's from a Papertrey Ink set.


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Fairy Birthday

Quick card - quick post! I've had this image in my card parts box for a long time, and it finally made it on to a card:) I pretty sure I got the embossed image (embossed with white embossing powder with silver sparkles) from my friend, Annie, a member of our stamping group. I matted it with a Nestability-cut circle and mounted it on Dimensionals. The patterned cardstock on the left was done quite a while ago with my Letterpress. The sentiment is from Gina K and is stamped with Memento London Fog.


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Letterpressed Anniversary

Quick card, quick post. I got this Sizzix Letterpress plate on Oh My Crafts for really cheap. I used Versamagic ink on it, both for the design and the stamped sentiment. I also scored the lines on both sides of the pressed design. That's it!


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Letterpress Thank You

Here is the other Letterpress (from Lifestyle Crafts, formerly Quickutz) that I promised you.

Today's card uses plates from the Flourish set.  It's hard to tell in the photo, but I used gold ink for the flourishes, and the matting is also shimmery gold.  This card would be very easy to mass produce.  The pearls add a touch of elegance.

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Letterpress Thinking of You

I did a little more playing with my new Letterpress (from Lifestyle Crafts, formerly Quickutz) last week, and came up with this card and another I'll share with you tomorrow.

For this card, I used the Blossoms plates.  There is a very large background plate that I used for the piece on the left side.  I also punched the butterfly out of part of it.  The sentiment is from the same set.  I  added some pink rick-rack and pearls to the butterfly.

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Letterpress Thank You

 

I finally got another Letterpress card done.  I'm excited to make more, but my mojo seems to be missing!  I'll keep working at it.

At any rate, here is a simple card that I think would make a great wedding Thank You card to be mass-produced.  (That's the beauty - well ONE of the beauties! - of the Letterpress.  Once you get it set up, you just brayer the ink on the plates, and run it through your die cutting machine.)  I combined three plates.  The scrolly flourish is from this set.  The sentiment and straight-line flourish are from other sets.  The color I used is Dark Purple.  I added a small pearl to the straight-line flourish.  The Letterpress de-bosses and inks.  Pretty cool!  The Letterpress Starter Kit is available here.

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My First Letterpress Card

The Design Team members of Creating Memories in Time received Letterpresses from Lifestyle Crafts.  I'm so excited!!  I've been waiting for mine since I saw it demonstrated at CHA and was told I'd be getting one.  It came yesterday.  However, I'm now babysitting our newest grandson, and don't have as much crafting time as I used to!  (It's wonderful, though - I love it!)

Anyway, I took a few minutes last night and made this card.  What the Letterpress does is to "de-boss" the design and put the ink in the debossed area.  It's great for mass production, too, as you place the design pieces (the "plates") where you want them and stick them in place.  Then you add the ink and run it through your die cutting/embossing machine.  (I'm using my BIGkick.)  I know that's not much explanation, but I'm hurriedly doing this post.  I hope to have something more to share with you tomorrow.  For now, this will have to do.  The flowers and the sentiment are both done with the Letterpress.  I added the ribbon and the matting, which is from Papertrey Ink.  I just used regular cardstock, but the starter kit comes with thicker, plusher paper.  I was just kind of experimenting quickly.  You can find the Starter Kit in the Creating Everlasting Memories eBay store, here.

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