Never-Ending Card - A2 Size

Hello there! I'm finally back with a blog post. I have spent a small amount of time in my stamping room, but haven't been very productive. I do have this Never-Ending card to share with you, though. I have made a few never-ending cards that were six inches square, but I have never finished one off to actually give to someone. Then I saw a video on how to make one that is "standard' size, so I wanted to make it. I watched this video from Linda Bedinger.

Here are the photos of each "page" when it's opened that way.

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Black Magic Birthday

This technique has been around for a long time, but Gina K did it fairly recently and I tried it again. It's called "Black Magic." You stamp a solid image with white pigment ink on a black/dark cardstock and then color it with colored pencils. My image is from Paper Inspirations. I used Prismacolor pencils. I cut the ovals with Nestabilities and mounted on foam squares. I did the background with a stencil from Memory Box, first doing the leaves in green with the stencil and then adding blue over that. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Five

Day Five of the Spring Card Camp online class was to use shading with stencils. The first example was "vintage" shading. She first used a very light tan over the whole stencil and then used light shades of coloring. I used two shades of green over the tan. I don't really have many stencils, so I've used this same Memory Box stencil. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with black and mounted on a kraft cardbase. I also added a few "nail heads."

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Three

Day Three of the Online Spring Card Camp 2 was to use a stencil for embossing. I used a Memory Box stencil. I matted it with black. The circle stamps are from Papertrey Ink and the circles are cut with Nestabilities. The innermost circle is mounted on foam squares.

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Glittery Leaves

This card front is totally covered with glitter - so sparkly. I used a Memory Box stencil and Couture Creations Diecut 'n Bond. I first covered the stencil with green glitter, then removed the stencil and added the light blue glitter. For the sentiment, I cut the sentiment also using the sticky paper, then covered it with the green glitter. The sentiment shadow has no glitter.

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Stenciled Leaves

These flowers were the last of the "card parts" that were out on my table. I certainly have a lot more, but they are filed away. It feels really good to have used the ones that were just laying around. (Although, as I type this, I have just spent some time in my stamping room and have gotten more parts out!) At any rate, the flowers were pre-made and came off of another card. I mounted them on foam squares. The leaves were done using two colors of green ink and a Memory Box stencil. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. After seeing the picture, I notice I should have used a much larger font:(

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Elegant Embroidery #2 - #6

A short while ago, I posted a card that I made with the Stampin' Up! set called "Elegant Embroidery." I said at that time that it would probably be the only card I would post with it. Well, I was wrong:) I still had most of these pieces sitting on my table and just couldn't throw them away, as usual. So, here they are. Several of them are very similar. This embossing folder is an Anna Griffin by Cuttlebug. The stamped image is matted and mounted on foam squares. I stamped it with a Kaleidacolor pad.

This image was colored with markers before stamping.

The lacy-stamped panel is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey.

I stamped the leafy design  five times, lining it up with my Stamp-a-ma-jig. I scored the lines with my Scor-Pal. The sentiment is from Papertrey. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

This image was also colored with markers before stamping. And there you have them!

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Happy Hello

This card makes me happy and was fun to make:) Not a lot to it, but it was just a "because" card and not some pieces or stamp set that I felt that I HAD to use.

I cut the design out with a Memory Box die and backed it with textured pink cardstock that just happened to be out on my table from making Valentines. I mounted the panel on foam squares. The sentiment - in two pieces - is from Papertrey Ink and is stamped with matching pink ink, along with black.

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Bicycle Birthday

Again - card parts! This bicycle image has been in my card parts for several years. It was from a friend in our stamping group from Canada. Thanks again, Annie!

I don't know what company makes the stamp, but it was stamped on black and embossed with white sparkly embossing powder. I wish you could see the glimmer! Also on my table was this die-cut panel. It uses another die from the Distressed Addington Collage die set from Memory Box. I put some black cardstock behind the cut-out. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I mounted the entire panel on foam squares. Enjoy!

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Simple Sketches - #1 and #2

Another Stampin' Up! set done:) This one is called "Simple Sketches." I'm pretty sure there are more stamps in the complete set, but I wanted the butterflies pretty badly and bought them, along with these two sentiments, on eBay. And then I hardly ever used them!

For this first one, I stamped the butterflies and sentiment and cut them into squares. Then I matted them with a single piece of Crushed Curry cardstock. I mounted that panel on Dimensionals. The patterned paper is from a Die Cuts With a View matstack.

This second card uses the same butterfly stamps. It's really hard to see, but the third layer of the butterfly (the squiggly lines) and the sentiment are embossed with gold embossing powder. I scored two lines between the butterfly and the sentiment and then I added a very thin strip of shimmery gold cardstock. I matted that layer - and the bottom layer - with the gold cardstock. The bottom layer was created using a Memory Box leaf stencil and a Darice Wire Fence embossing folder. The butterfly panel is mounted on Dimensionals.

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Sparkly Thanks - and Happy Fourth!!

Happy Independence Day to my American readers!

I die-cut this "THANKS" piece in Des Moines and finished it into this card. The die cuts all the black that you see. I cut the white piece to fill the space.

I used a Memory Box stencil for the leaves and a Memory Box die to cut the flowers out of sparkly cardstock. The centers are sparkly enamel dots. I didn't have any small enough for the small flowers, so I cut some with a die.

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Hi there!

I stamped this butterfly while I was in Des Moines, using Kitchen Sink stamps. I added gems to the body. I cut it with a circle Nestability and added the black scalloped mat which was also cut using a Nestability die. I mounted on foam squares. I stenciled the leaves with a Memory Box stencil. I matted with black. The corner was cut years ago using a Sizzix die. I added a few pearls to the corner piece.

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Daisy Sympathy ... and Sky Diving!!

I needed another sympathy card, so I made this one. I just purchased the Martha Stewart daisies last week, and I actually used three of them! :) There are three each of five different colors, so I still have four colors left.

I stenciled the leaves using green distress ink and a Memory Box stencil. The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set. I matted with black, and the card base and image panel are ivory.

We actually did our sky diving on Saturday!! We just assumed it was off again, as the weather forecast was for thunderstorms. However, we got a call about 9:30 that it was on! Kind of changed our plans for the day:) What an awesome experience! If you are interested in seeing the videos, you can find them on my YouTube. Here are the links:

The Descent – from the Ground

Preliminary

In the Plane – Starting Down the Runway

The Takeoff

Last Minute Instructions

Coming Down!

Edited to aded: Maybe I hadn't said this, but my dad was not able to go with us:( The prostate cancer that he had many years ago reappeared, and has spread to his bones. It would have been too dangerous for him to jump. He wasn't even able to watch us, as he hadn't quite returned from his cruise.

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