Birthday Roses

The last of this die-cut edged card part. I added some Washi tape over the matching pink cardstock and trimmed it down and added it towards the bottom of the panel. I scored lines on each side of it. The flower image was from Gina K and was colored using coordinating stencils. The sentiment is also from Gina K.

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Washi Tape Birthday

I was inspired to use up a little Washi tape, hence this card. I only made one like this so far, but I think I'll make two or three more. Even the glitter strip is Washi tape, but the self-stickiness was gone so I had to glue it down. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.

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Turquoise Christmas

Another Christmas card for today. It came about because I noticed my Washi tape on my table and saw the snowflakes on the turquoise and thought I should use it. Also, I came across the "swoosh of paint" stamp and wanted to use that, also. The swoosh and the sentiment are from Gina K. The ornament and branch stamp is from Inkadinkado. I wish I had stamped it slightly lower, but it will do.

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Celebrate!

I'm surprised that I'm still making card parts, but it happens. LOL! I had taken this Washi tape and placed it on the strip of turquoise cardstock a few weeks ago and it had been sitting on my table ever since. I finally decided to combine it with the scrap of patterned paper, since I thought it went together quite nicely. I embossed the "Celebrate" from Impression Obsession with detail silver powder and called it done.

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Birthday Flowers

The stamped floral image was the card part for this card. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. I added some glittery washi tape across the center, then used a sentiment piece, also from my card parts. It's a rub-on, and I mounted it on foam squares.

There - that ends my card parts cards for a while!!! Hopefully by the time this posts, I will have used LOTS of my newer items and will start sharing them.

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Sunny Flower

A cheery birthday card for today. I've had the completed flower sitting on my desk while I was working on the prayer shawl cards, but it didn't get used for them. So, instead of putting it away again, I added it to a card. I THINK the flower is from My Favorite Things, but I'm really not sure. I drew the stem and leaves and colored them with Copic markers. I embossed a white panel with a Sizzix embossing folder and added it to the left side of the card. The yellow panel's bottom was cut with a die. I added a strip of Washi tape down the edge of the emobssed piece. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is matted and mounted on foam squares. The flower is popped up, also.

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Washi Tape Birthday

I keep seeing my Washi tape, but it goes unused. I finally put some of it on a card. I simply added the Washi tape diagonally across a panel of ivory cardstock. Then I added that panel to an ivory card base. I cut the sentiment using a die. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares.

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Washi Tape Thank You

I've had this washi tape for a while and have barely used any of it. I simply used some of each of the rolls. The solid pink and turquoise are glitter tape and the gold is shiny. I used a die to cut the sentiment. It consists of two layers of white and one layer of shiny gold cardstock.

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Leaf Punch

A subscriber of my blog wanted to buy this EK Success leaf punch from me a few weeks ago, so I used it to punch a few pieces of cardstock before shipping it off. Here are two cards that I made with the "punch-offs." I used a Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder for the top part of the purple and also used my ScorPal. The sentiment is a Mrs. Grossman's sticker placed on a thin strip of olive cardstock and then popped up on foam squares.

I used some lightly-patterned paper for the leaves, a sticker for the sentiment, my Scor-Pal and some Washi tape to finish off this card.

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Butterfly Birthday

Here is a simple card using another of my Martha Stewart butterflies. I took out some Washi tape a couple weeks ago, and had put this piece of glittery tape on the white cardstock. Then I had to figure out how to use it. I decided to emboss the bottom of the panel with a Cuttlebug border embossing folder. Then I realized that this butterfly matched quite well, so, step #2 done. I've had the birthday stickers out, too, so I used one to complete the card. I trimmed the panel down to leave a sixteenth inch border.

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More Daisies

The last two daisies from my Martha Stewart package! Feels good:) I will miss them, though - they are so pretty. The paper is the left-over from a few days ago. It's from The Paper Studio. The washi tape has gold in it, so I used gold embossing for the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink. The leaves, and the dies to cut them, are from Gina K.

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Pink Birthday

We had one of our grandsons here a couple days this week. One day we went into my stamping room for just a little, tiny bit. He picked up my brayer and was playing with it and asking what it was. I showed him one thing it was good for was brayering color on an embossing folder. That was about as much interest as he had! :) But, of course, I then had to use the piece that I had just made, so that was the basis of this card. The folder I used was by Darice - "Chicken Wire,"  I believe - my favorite. I added two layers of Washi tape and matted it with black. The lady bug is from a new-to-me Hero Arts set. (I think I have used butterfly stamps from it on my blog already, and you will be seeing more of them in the next few days.) I stamped and cut it out using a die from the set. The sentiment panel is mounted on foam squares.

For the inside sentiment, I printed the words on my laser printer and used foil. I got lots of foil for Christmas, so I really need to use some of it up!!

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Daisy Warm Wishes

I think this is one of my favorite recent cards. I cut and pieced the daisies while I was in Des Moines. The die-cut rectangle was a left-over from another die. The rectangle and the uppermost flower are mounted on foam squares. I added patterned paper to the card base, and also a bit of Washi tape. The sentiment is from a Gina K set.

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Special Day

Another new-but-unused die for today's card. Not sure if I like this one very well, but here it is! I used a "mottled" light blue and ivory cardstock. I added a "nail head" to the center of each of the flowers. I used Washi tape, too. The sentiment is from Stampabilities. I matted with black.

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Happy Birthday, Lucy!

This card is for a friend who I've known for fifty-three years! Hope you have a wonderful birthday, Lucy!

The butterflies were cut from a new die several weeks ago. I thought it was time to use them. The bottom of the panel has a strip of Washi tape on it. The panel is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from a new-to-me stamp set from Bo Bunny.

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Thank You

The other day when I was looking through some books and folders, I came across a few cards (purchased ones that I had received) that I had wanted to try to recreate in some fashion. Here is a card that I made based on one of those cards.

The card base is ivory. I had a terrible time trying to get the pale stripes to show up on the right, and this was the best I could do. The card opens from the left side. The card front is cut off one inch from the right edge. I added a piece of Washi tape along the edge of the right side of the card front. The pale-striped patterned paper is actually on the inside of the card. The sentiment is from a Stampin' Up! set and is stamped with a bluish gray ink. The sentiment was cut and embossed with a Memory Box stitched rectangle die.

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Repeat Impressions Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

I created this card for the Repeat Impression's challenge. The challenge is to choose three items from a Tic-Tac-Toe board. I chose the line across the middle: patterned paper, Washi tape, and black and white. Sorry I did not use a Repeat Impressions stamp on this card. (I did, however, use all RI stamps on the Halloween cards for the grandkids. :-) )

The sentiment is a die-cut. The bottom patterned paper is from The Paper Studio. I used Washi tape across the top of the patterned paper. Tic-tac-toe! :)

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Tiny Birthday Flowers

A card using scraps - not even "card parts!" The white rectangle and the little black squares were left over from die-cuts and were sitting on my table. I told myself I either had to use them or throw them away, so here they are. To each black square, I added a small flower from The Paper Studio. The sentiment is from Stampabilities. I added some Washi tape underneath. It matches better "in real life." I did my matting with black.

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Cheery Flower Birthday

Just a simple card to share with you today, to celebrate spending some time in my stamping room! Actually, I had a friend over to stamp yesterday, and we had a great time. She got LOTS of cards done, and I watched - and found her some things she needed. I made this card last week, I think, and made a couple Christmas cards yesterday.

All of the stamps on this card are from a Gina K set. I added a strip of Washi tape across the top and matted with matching cardstock. I mounted on foam squares and added the image panel at an angle on the card front. The image panel and card base are ivory.


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Washi Tape Birthday

Another simple card for today - my favorite kind:)

I simply added strips of Washi tape diagonally across a piece of cardstock, and then a birthday sentiment from Papertrey Ink. I matted with black and mounted on a white cardbase.

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