Kids' Birthday

I made these cards for my friend, Cheryl, to donate to the thrift store she volunteers at - and makes tons of cards for! The stamps are from Penny Black and I used assorted patterned papers for them. 

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Fall Cards

Cards using some fall papers. This first one and the last one are nearly identical, but different enough that I'm sharing both. The sentiment panel was one that I cut out from one of the sheets that came with the paper pad. The apple basket stamp is from Repeat Impressions. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and it's popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

The circle piece was also from the paper pad. Hard to see in the photo, but it says, "Thankful for You" in gold.

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Hedgehog Birthday in Pink

This stamped image has been in my card parts for MANY years! I finally colored it up and cut it out with a Gina K die. I sponged a bit of black around the edges and popped it up on foam squares. The background paper is very ancient Stampin' Up! The sentiment is another Mrs. Grossman's sticker. I only have a few left of those, too.

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Penguins in Blue

I don't like this one so much, but I have people on my list that don't really care, so one of them got this one! The stamps are from a Penny Black set that I've had for ages and have possibly never used. The background was done while cleaning my brayer. I rolled it on a baby wipe and then put a piece of white cardstock on top of it and brayered it some more. I colored the letters with a very light blue Copic marker. 

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Penny Black Christmas

I checked back, and in 2018 I shared a card made with these stamps and said at that point that I had stamped them "a few years ago." I still have more after this one! And I gave a few of them away. I have the stamp set from Penny Black that includes the image and the sentiment, but thought I would stamp about 20 of them at the time. They are too tedious for me to color - not my thing! But, they are in my card parts and now there is one less of them. I think I have five or six left. I colored with Copics and matted the panel. I placed it at a slight angle on the card base.

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Oops - Four More Christmas Cards - and Two "Bonus" Cards!

I really thought it would be awhile before I posted any more Christmas cards - but here I am, with four more. After my friend, Vicki, did this blog post, it just called to me - as did my Christmas papers. I die-cut the white circles with Penny Black dies (thanks, Darnell!) and the matting circles with Nestabilities. The sentiment panels are popped up on foam squares. 

And here are the two "bonus" cards I promised you. I post nearly every card that I make, so I felt I should share these, also, even though they are nearly identical to yesterday's card and didn't deserve their own post. The main pieces were already done and I got them with the die from Darnell. I ink-blended color on a circle to place them on. I added the sentiment across the middle. I used a die plate to make the background.

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Kids Teddy Bear Birthday

I made thirteen of these cards. They will all be donated somewhere. The stamps are from Penny Black. These are for a second, third, fourth or fifth birthday. Each of them has an identical layout, but have different colored bears and patterned papers. I embossed the left side of the image panel with a Darice embossing folder and added scored lines with my Scor-Buddy. The bears are popped up on foam squares.

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Another Die-Cut Birthday

Here is the other die-cut I got from my friend, Cheryl, last week. It's from In Love Art Shop. i used my blender brushes to color the die-cut and then I added Star Dust Stickles to the flowers. I matted with green, popped it up on foam squares, and added it at an angle to the card front which I had covered with patterned paper. The sentiment is from Penny Black. You will see it again tomorrow.

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Heat Embossing with a Stencil

I made this card for the CAS Mix-Up challenge - using stencils and heat embossing. My stencil is a NBUS from Penny Black. The sentiment is also NBUS from Altenew.

I first used the stencil with Versamark and turquoise embossing powder. Then I rotated the stencil and used a brush and ink for the purple. I die-cut the panel and used white ribbon colored with a Copic marker. 

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Sending Joy

Another Christmas card for today. It's not that I've planned to make so many Christmas cards, it's just what has happened. The image stamp is from Penny Black. The sentiment stamp is one of many that I got for Christmas. I embossed all with silver embossing powder. I matted with shimmery silver cardstock.

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Birthday in Purple

Another piece from my "stash." I didn't even color this one myself - someone did it for me at our Group Gathering last year. i think it's quite gorgeous! :) I believe this stamp is from Penny Black. The stamp was inked up with markers before stamping. I couldn't bear to cut any of it off, so the finished size of this card is 5 x 7 inches, or thereabouts. I stamped the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) on to vellum and placed it across the bottom of the image panel and wrapped it around the edges before matting. The sentiment is embossed with black embossing powder.

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Nine Cards - Penny Black Stickers

I sorted through my "sticker drawer" and tossed a few things and set aside some for a friend to use or toss. I left these two sheets (one full and one partially used) out to use up. They are just finished very simply and I won't go into much detail. This first one used a pre-embossed background and a pre-stamped sentiment. I popped up the sentiment after I cut the ends to form a banner.

For this second one, I used a pre-printed background from Gina K that I had foiled with turquoise foil. The image is matted and mounted on foam squares and the sentiment is one that I did at Taylor's (Taylored Expressions) last summer.

The sentiment is from Gina K. For the background, I used another pre-done background. I think I made this one a long time ago by cleaning my brayer off on it! it matched so nicely.

Another pre-embossed background. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

 For these last five, I used ivory cardstock and the sentiments are all from Gina K. I forgot to use pre-made backgrounds, though!

 

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Puppy Birthday

Well, not really a "puppy," but "dog birthday" didn't sound as cute:) Another image I've had in my stash for many, many years. It could very well be from Penny Black, but I really don't know. I colored it with Copics and matted. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I cut it as a banner and mounted it on foam squares. The background was from my stash, also. I embossed it last fall. It was done with something I've never seen before, courtesy of a friend. It was almost a wire-like mesh, as I recall. But I could be wrong! (Thanks, Bonnie.)

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Wispy Flower Birthday

Yet another stamp-off. I'm pretty sure the flower is from Penny Black, but I'm not 100% sure. I had stamped it with Versamark and embossed it with white embossing powder. I colored the panel with distress inks and cut it down and matted it with white. I added the sentiment, from my new Gina K Stamp TV kit, in white embossing. I often threaten to put the images at an angle but rarely follow through. For this card I actually did it! :)

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Friends

This die-cut butterfly piece was sitting on my table and I wanted to get it off. I had already added inks to it, and spritzed it with Perfect Pearls mixed with water. It really is quite shimmery. The sentiment is a wood-mounted stamp from Penny Black. I matted it with striped paper and mounted that panel on foam strips.

I've been thinking a lot about the stacks of boxes I have from my mom and dad's house. It's been weighing on my mind that I said that I would take them home and go through them. Now it's been four years since my dad died and I still haven't done it. I'm going to take a break from everything and get to work on them. I'm sure I won't be able to help myself at times and will create some cards. And I still have over half of my on-line card class left! I'll just have to do that later. So, don't worry about me if I go a while without posting or visiting your blogs. I'm fine:)

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Stamped Card Parts

 

I stamped these flowers at our Group Gathering in June. I have SO many card parts to use up, but I'm very slowly whittling them down. For this first one, I started with a white embossed flower on white cardstock. I used distress inks and spread over the entire panel. Then I sprinkled it with water. I used Versamark and white embossing powder for the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink.

For this second one, I simply added a sentiment (from Papertrey Ink, also) and a few black pearl drops, along with a matching mat.

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Soft Anniversary

More card parts from years ago. I'm quite certain the stamp I used for this card is from Penny Black. It was colored with markers, misted, and then stamped on to off-white cardstock. I matted it. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. It's matted and mounted on foam squares.

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Vellum Overlay

Two cards for today that are pretty much identical. They were both done with a Penny Black flower stamp and coloring the stamps with markers before stamping. I covered them both with vellum and did the sentiments with Versamark and black embossing powder.

For this first one, I adhered the vellum with eyelets. I heard when we were in Ankeny, Iowa in June that they were coming back, so I dug some out:) The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

For this second one, I cut the vellum with about an inch or so hanging over the left side. I scored it and put it behind the panel that the flower was stamped on. Then I added the panel with the vellum to a card base. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!

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Celebrate Today

Well, this is the last card that I made while at our Group Gathering in Ankeny, Iowa. I'm quite sure the flower stamp is by Penny Black. I colored it with markers before stamping.

We had a great time this year. I still have many pieces to use on future cards!

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Christmas Joy

I bought a few clearance sets of Papertrey Ink stamps and got them delivered to me by a friend in Ankeny. There was a garage sale for stampers and scrappers while we were there, too, so I bought a few things. One thing I bought at the garage sale was this Penny Black poinsettia stamp. I combined it with a stamp from a new-to-me PTI set. For the first one, I used markers direct to the stamp. For the second one, I misted with water before stamping. Actually, the top card may be the second stamping of the bottom card:) 

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