Ancient Vellum

When I first started stamping back in about 2002, there was a dollar store fairly close to me (close enough for it to be worthwhile to drive there!) that had lots of card-making supplies. I used to buy 8 1/2 x 11 inch booklets of paper from Fiskars for $1.00. Some of these booklets had vellum with printed paper that coordinated with it. At some point, I separated them. Not sure if I still have the patterned paper or not! At any rate, I used up some of the vellum on these cards.

For this first one, i first glued a piece of purple cardstock on the cardfront and then added the vellum over that. I decided to use one of the Taylored Expressions flowers that I just love, and also a pre-stamped and die-cut sentiment from Gina K.

These two cards were made from one sheet of the vellum. I added some tannish paper underneath it. I stamped the sentiment and then used clear embossing powder on it.

These four cards were made from a single sheet of the vellum. Since the leaves and their placement is different on each one, I thought I'd share them all. The sentiment is from Gina K. I didn't emboss these - I just let them dry.

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Sending Love

I have no idea where this stamp came from in the first place, but I pulled it out of my trash a couple days ago while I was looking for something else. 😁 It had the word "June" in the middle and I had no use for it! (Oh, in hindsight, I guess I could have used it on my calendars!) I was able to cut that out and use the stamp. I colored with Copics and matted it with some white stock which I had ink-blended to match the coloring. I added a few Disco Ball sequins from Gina K. The sentiment is from Gina K, also. The pink piece is vellum, which I embossed with a Gina K folder.

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Hello Friend in Gray

Well, I went through several card parts that were not filed away, and made a few cards with them. I also put away the Christmas parts that I had and am hopefully done sharing Christmas cards with you for a while! All of my card parts are back to being organized in a book.

This stamped and embossed butterfly and the piece of vellum were in my pile. I'm pretty sure the butterfly is from Inkadinkado, but not positive. I added a tiny sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I embossed the vellum with an Impressabilities plate and added a piece of black behind it. The patterned paper background is from an old Recollections matstack. It does feel good to be making progress with my unused stamps and my card parts, and also more organizing of my tools and supplies.

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CAS Mix Up Stencil Challenge

I made this card for the CAS Mix Up Challenge. The challenge is to use a stencil and rainbow colors. I made the background as per the challenge. The round stamped images are from an old Gina K set. I stamped them with Versamark on vellum and embossed them with gold detail powder. I added very thin gold foil strips to the edges of the vellum. The sentiment was also embossed with gold embossing powder. It's from Papertrey Ink.

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Mother's Day

I met a friend for lunch on Wednesday (Cheryl) and gave her about seventy cards for the thrift store she volunteers at. I don't usually make Mother's Day cards anymore, but I thought I should add a couple of those. Should have been more, but our meeting came up very suddenly and I didn't have time for more. Here is what I came up with. Both used patterned paper from Die Cuts With a View. You can't see it in the photos, but each pattern has parts that look heat-embossed. The sentiment on each is from Verve. I made two of the second one.

For this first one, I stamped the sentiment on vellum and embossed with silver. I wrapped the vellum around the patterned piece before attaching to the card front. I also added thin shimmery silver strips to each edge of the vellum.

For this one, I stamped the sentiment on slightly textured ivory cardstock and embossed with gold. I colored the tiny flower with an orange marker. I added a piece of gold tape between the patterned layers.

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More Christmas

Well, I have three more Christmas cards to share with you today! Not sure what's up with that. :) Actually, I love making Christmas cards, and this year I know that I can make extras and donate them to the thrift store that a friend works at!

So, after I made yesterday's card, I put the snowflake Impressability away. But, I decided that I would use it again, so I got it out and I made these cards. For this first one, I inked up the Impressability with soft silver ink, then embossed. I matted with shimmery silver cardstock. I added a strip of vellum towards the bottom. Then I added a die-cut sentiment, which I cut from silver glitter cardstock, and also three times from white, and layered them together.

For this second one, I used it like a stencil and used blue ink. I matted with blue. I stamped the sentiment, from Lawn Fawn, with black ink on vellum and embossed with black embossing powder.

This third card is a combination of the first two - same technique as the first card and same sentiment as the second one.

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Two-Layer Die-Cut Butterflies

I found these die-cut, layered butterflies in with my card parts. So pretty! I don't know what company they are from - I've had them cut for a while. I simply added them to a kraft panel and matted with black and added them to a kraft card base. The sentiment was in with my parts, also. I believe it's from Gina K. I had embossed it with black on vellum.

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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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Reverse Stencil

I often watch Gina K videos on YouTube while I walk on the treadmill in the morning. That is where I learned this technique - this time from Gina's daughter, Rina. It's pretty cool. First, you cover a piece of cardstock with ink. I used brushes and Gina K inks. I think the cardstock I used for this one is even Gina K. After covering the cardstock, place a stencil over the inked piece and then use black ink. This is what you get. I'll have another card done with this technique on tomorrow's blog post. I matted with black. The sentiment (also from Gina K) is matted with black and mounted on foam squares. The butterfly is die-cut. I think it's from Memory Box. I cut a piece of vellum to place underneath it and glued it to the sentiment panel. 

This card was done with the same stencil, but just the typical way. I stamped the sentiment on vellum and embossed. I folded the edges of the vellum around the panel before matting and then I added thin black strips of cardstock to the top and bottom edges.

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Wreathy Birthday

Back to card parts for today's card. I die-cut this a few years ago. I had added the green piece back into the negative space on the white card. I added a piece of vellum to the backside and stamped a flower with Versamark on the back of the vellum and embossed with white. The panel is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Vellum Birthday

A very simple card for today's post, and it doesn't even use pre-made card parts! The flower is from Gina K's newest stamp kit. I stamped it on vellum with Versamark and embossed with white embossing powder. I used Copics to color the back of the image. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is also embossed with white. The vellum is attached by folding the top over a piece of white cardstock and adding to the card front.

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Holographic Hello

Hey - a card that's not from a "card part!" LOL! I started with the stencil from the newest Gina K kit - so pretty. I used two colors of ink on it. You can't see the design very well in the first picture, but I think the second picture shows it all right. I added a piece of vellum over the top of it - connecting it by folding a flap of it over the top of the stencil piece. I used a thin strip of matching cardstock and a die-cut "hello." The "hello" has two layers of white and one layer of a sort of holographic cardstock. It's from Crayola and I have searched for it and it appears they don't make it any more. I did see some on eBay. I got it almost twenty years ago at a dollar store.

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White Anniversary

Another card with two pieces of "card parts." The embossed image was done who-knows-when with a small Cuttlebug folder. I matted it with silver paper and a strip of vellum with white stripes and mounted it on foam squares. The background piece was also in with my parts, but only since last fall.

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Anniversary Heart

As I visited a few blogs last week, I took a couple notes of what I wanted to do. I haven't done a challenge for quite a while and there were a couple that seemed interesting to me. So, here is my card for those challenges. The first challenge is: Let's Craft and Create Challenge #160. This challenge is to use a punch. My punch is an "anywhere" punch from Martha Stewart. It's been so long since I've used it, I had to look on-line and see how to do it! :) The second challenge is CAS mixup. It is to use embossed vellum and stamping. I embossed my vellum with a Darice folder. My sentiment is popped up on foam squares and is from Hero Arts. I added a bit of twine, too.

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Butterfly Special Day

Another sheet of the gorgeous paper I got from a friend - very shiny and shimmery. I added some dies - the butterfly and the sentiment with shadow. The shadow was cut from vellum, as was the top layer of the butterfly. I cut the sentiment and the bottom layer of the butterfly from a light pink cardstock, but I decided I wanted it darker, so I colored them with a Copic marker. I added some Martha Stewart gems to the body of the butterfly. I'm pretty sure the butterfly die is from Memory Box.

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Printed Vellum

While digging for some vellum or acetate recently, I came across this already-cut piece of printed vellum. I decided to use it up right then and there! :) I simply stamped and embossed (in gold) the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink. I added a thin strip of gold foil to the left side.

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Die-Cut Window Birthdays

I die-cut these window pieces at our Group Gathering. I used some very fine mesh tulle for this first card. The flower is one of the Brusho flowers I shared a picture of on yesterday's post. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

The window on this second card is light purple vellum. I used another of my Brusho flowers and two of the leaves. The sentiment is again from Papertrey.

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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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Left-Over Foil - Part 2

This card was made from the left-over foil piece from this card. It's rose gold foil. I used double-sided sticky paper for it. I placed the foil right onto the sticky paper, which was stuck to white cardstock. However, it was really hard to remove the foil from the snowflakes areas. I used ultra-fine glitter over the entire piece - to add sparkle to the snowflakes and to also cover the sticky. The sentiment (from Papertrey Ink) was stamped with Versamark on vellum and embossed with "Winter Wonderland" embossing powder - a white powder with glitter in it.

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More Foiled Snowflakes

Using the same snowflakes - with a few additions and changes - as my friend and I used a few days back, I made another foiled card. This time I used pewter foil. But, this time I printed the snowflakes on vellum. I placed the vellum on white cardstock and matted with black. I mounted the panel on foam squares. I added several pink gems among the snowflakes and also by the sentiment. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I embossed it with pewter embossing powder. Very shiny in real life, but not so much in the picture:)

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