Ink on Rubber

Our granddaughter spent an afternoon with me in my stamping about a month ago, and she wanted to try this technique - among other things. So, I found this Rubber Stampede wood-mounted rubber stamp and used markers directly on it and spritzed with water. The sentiments are both from My Favorite Things.

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Sending Loving Wishes

Another card I made on my retreat. (They'll keep coming for a while!) The flower wreath stamp and sentiment were the free incentive set from Gina K. I bought the coordinating die set to bump my total up enough to receive it. Because this was done on my retreat and I hadn't brought any Copics, I colored it with Prismacolor pencils. For this card, though, I didn't use Gamsol - just colored darkly and filled in all the spots. Both the wreath and the sentiment are popped up.

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Sending a Whole Lot of Love

I saw a card with basically this layout on Liz's blog a little bit ago, and this is my version. (Hers was 5 x 7, I believe.) The butterfly stamp and the sentiment are from Gina K. I added a few rhinestones, also from Gina K.

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More Paint Samples

I love the color of this patterned paper, and it matched so nicely with some of our paint samples. I have four more backgrounds ready to finish into cards, but this is what I have for now. This first one features a die-cut paint sample and a Gina K stamp.

The butterfly is another paint sample die-cut. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

These last two are nearly identical - just different flower dies and slightly different color paint samples. The sentiment is from Gina K. I also added a few sequins.

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Marker on Rubber Stamps

Both of these cards use an old wood-mounted rubber stamp. I used markers to color the image, then spritzed it with water and stamped to the cardstock. This first one uses another old rubber stamp for the sentiment. The sentiment on the second one is from Gina K. The patterned papers are very old from my huge stash of 12 x 12 papers.

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Smile

And finally, the technique that got me looking through my wood-mounted stamps. I have many other stamped flowers using this technique that I have yet to make into cards. I colored the stamp with markers, misted it and then stamped. For this card, I covered it with vellum and stamped and embossed the sentiment - another wood-mounted rubber stamp. This is a gate-fold card.

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Butterflies and Dragonflies

Happy Mother's Day!

The butterflies and dragonflies on these cards are from Gina K. I was experimenting just a little bit with watercolor. For this first one, I wet the butterfly (which had been heat-embossed) and then dropped the paint on it. It's popped up. I used an old Stampin' Up! stamp for the background for the butterfly. The sentiment is also from Gina K. In fact, all of the stamps in this post are Gina K.

This one is also watercolored, with a few white dots added.

The panels on each side of this gate-fold card were done using my gel pad. Haven't used that for a long time. (Almost never!) I watercolored the flower.

And the last card for today. I had used my gel pad to make the cardstock I used to stamp and die-cut these pieces. The background panel was done when I was cleaning off the brayer. Then I embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder and added a little extra color. I also added a little Diamond Glaze to the dragonfly and the flower center.

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Blooming Branches - Part Two

The embossing folder from Gina K that I'm using is called Blooming Branches. Here are a couple more cards I've made using it.

For this first one, I brayered a very light lavender ink onto the embossing folder before embossing. Then I embossed and used the coordinating stencils to color the image. I left the flowers white, with just the little bit of coloration from the ink on the folder. I matted the panel. I realize I forgot to add a sentiment, but I can do that later.

FOr this one, I was experimenting with just using the stencils. After I finished adding the colors, I decided I'd like it better if I embossed it, so I did. I added some black spatters, which dried looking gray, so I used gray to mat the panel and added the stamped and die-cut sentiment.

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Sending Love and Joy

This card was made with Gina K's incentive stamp set - free with a $75 order. I die-cut the panel and matted it and popped it up. Added it to some matted, patterned paper and used some black nail head stickers.

I'll be away for a few days with some of my lady friends, but I'll be back and will hopefully have some more time to create.

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Four "Scrap" Cards

I used up four scraps on these cards. Maybe leftovers is a better word, but they were on my table and I wanted to use them up. The heart was the left-over piece for this card. I used a Gina K stencil to add the design to it. I traced around it on the gold cardstock and cut it out a little bit bigger to add the mat. I embossed a piece of white cardstock and matted it with the same gold. The heart is popped up. The sentiment is from Gina K, also, as is the embossing folder.

The center panel on this first card was done while cleaning my brayer from a previous card. I embossed it with a Sizzix folder. I added the thin strip of gold metallic on each side and die-cut the  sentiment from the same card stock.

The patterned paper scrap was left over. I simply matted it and added the die-cut sentiment and shadow - from Gina K. I also added three little embellishments.

The patterned paper on this one is the left-over part. I added it to the left side and then added a thin strip of brown. The sentiment is from Gina K.

I'll probably be absent for a while again. Lots of things going on! I'll be back when I can.

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Simple Thinking of You

Finally, another card! Life has been busy - too busy for card-making. For one thing, we are redoing a bathroom and that requires lots of decisions and shopping and checking out tile, etc. At any rate, I do have a card for today. I still have some card parts sitting out, and this made use of one of them. The oval had been die-cut and I had brushed some green over it. I pulled out my current favorite flower stamp set and stamped the flowers and the sentiment. Then I used the coordinating stencil and colored it. I added some shimmery enamel dots and added them. The background panel was embossed with a 3D Altenew embossing folder.

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Foxy Thinking of You

I think I'll work on my smaller card parts for a while now. This completed die-cut fox has been in my parts for over a year now. I had also recently come across the die that cuts out the dots in circles and I wanted to use it again. Actually, I started with the die on ivory cardstock and then chose the cute little fox to put in the center. He's popped up, of course. I matted with black. I tried several colors behind it and decided that black was best after all - probably mostly because of the little bits of black on the fox. The fox is from Gina K and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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More Simple Embossing Folder Cards

I had these two embossed pieces in my parts, but now they are cards. For this first one, which I actually like better, I simply took a brayer and lightly brayered ink over the embossed image panel. The sentiment was in my parts, also, and I popped it up.

This one is almost identical to yesterday's card. Different folder and different colors, but the same idea. Added color to the debossed side and then brayered over the flat part. This sentiment is adhered directly to the image panel.

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Hummingbirds - On Cards

Well, I actually finished up the cards using the hummingbird dies from a few days ago. I also used up other card part pieces. This die-cut piece was in my parts, again from many years ago. I used a new-to-me stencil from Gina K for the design behind the hummingbird. The sentiment is from Gina K, also. I added the green strip behind the die-cut leaf pattern. All of the hummingbirds are popped up.

I ink-blended the green on the left side under the die-cut leaves. Again, the stencil used behind the hummingbird and the sentiment are from Gina K.

This frame pieces was left-over and I ink-blended to make it the color I wanted. The background was embossed with a Sizzix folder. The sentiment is popped up and is from Gina K.

The same as the second one, but the hummingbird is facing the other direction.

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Sending Hugs

This stamped image has been in my parts book for about seven years. I have another or two, but I don't want to color them! I used Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I cut the image out with a stitched die and matted with black. The sentiment is from Gina K.

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Thinking of You in Yellow

The yellow panel on this card was from the card class that I took about a year and a half ago. The design on it was done with some sort of paste. I matted that panel with black. I matted the patterned paper with black, also. The flowers and sentiment are from Gina K. I used the coordinating stencils and die for the flowers. I die-cut the sentiment, also. The flowers and sentiment are popped up.

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Super Simple Thinking of You

I have a little notepad with ideas for me to use. I don't think I've ever used it! I looked through it the other day and found this super-simple layout. I love simple! :-) I added the patterned paper to the top, added the thin strip of black and then the sentiment - from Gina K. I made two of these.

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You Are There For Me

I stamped the image panel using all Gina K stamps. I used a die to emboss the matting layer on which to add the stamped panel. That's it! I have recently discovered how pretty Gina's ink Moonlit Fog is, which I've had for many years. I just love it! Such a soft grayish-green.

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More Re-Purposing

The flowers (and the little butterfly on this first card) were fussy-cut from a thank you card that we received. I love the colors and they matched so perfectly with papers from a recently received paper pad. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Same papers and flowers and the sentiment is again from Gina K. I added the flowers onto a die-cut oval.

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You're the BEST

The flowers were stamped with an old wooden stamp from Inkadinkado. The sentiment was from another ancient wooden stamp from Studio G. The background on this first one is a wooden stamp from Inkadinkado. I think I'll leave this stamp out for a while and use it again.

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