Another Die-Cut Frame

Well, yesterday's WAS my last card, but I made another:) This card uses the same die as yesterday's. It's from Momenta.It cuts the frame and the flowers. I cut it from black and added it to an ivory card base. I colored the flowers and the leaves in with markers. But then I didn't know what else to do! So, I masked off the middle part and covered it with distress inks. Then I added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) and the thin black strips. The flowers and leaves were too bright, so I had to "dull" it down a bit!

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Pink and Gold Birthday

A simple card for today and then I'm out of cards for a while. I do have lots of parts to work with, though! :)

This is one of the pre-printed sentiments from Gina K that I foiled a couple weeks ago. I added just a touch of color to the candle with Copic markers. I matted the sentiment with gold foil cardstock cut with a scalloped Nestability circle and mounted it on foam squares. The frame was die-cut from the same foil cardstock and mounted on pink cardstock. The die I used is from Momenta, and I got it a while back at Hobby Lobby when it was 75% off. I stamped the background with an old stamp from Stampin' Up! from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set.

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Simple, Mass-Produced Christmas Card

I really felt like I was running out of time and have some busy times coming up, so I decided to mass-produce my remaining Christmas cards. I had only gotten 28 done throughout the year, so I needed to do about 50 more. What often happens if I DO mass-produce them is that I end up liking them more than most of my other ones!

Anyway, here it is. The embossing was done with a Darice embossing folder. The sentiment is from Momenta. (Got it at Michael's.) The ink I used is Gumball Green from Stampin' Up! and the cardstock is from Papertrey Ink.

My husband wrote our Christmas letter last night (love it when he does it!), so I still have to edit it and add pictures, print it and get them in with the cards. The envelopes are ready to go, too, so maybe I can still get them done tonight and mailed out tomorrow. That would make me very happy! We have about half of our shopping done and I would like to get what we have already purchased wrapped very soon. Like tonight or tomorrow! I didn't have Wyatt today, and that helped immensely with getting many things knocked off my to-do list. How are YOU doing with your preparations? 

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