Thank You From the Bottom of My Heart

This stamp set is from Gina K - the images and the sentiment. I also have the dies. I colored the pieces with Copics and popped the flower and leaves on foam squares. I added thin-striped patterned paper to each edge.

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Monochromatic Anniversary

I used a Gina K set to make this card. I thought about coloring it, but decided to try it stamped in plum. I like the way it turned out. The image is stamped on the top and bottom of the panel, with the sentiment stamped in between. I added four thin strips - one on each side of the images.

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Thanksgiving

I had this set from Gina K out on my desk, thinking I might use the pumpkins on my calendar. However, I decided it would be just too time-consuming to color 15 of them. So, I put these two on Thanksgiving cards. The sentiment stamps are both from Gina K, also. I colored the images with Copic markers. The pumpkins are popped up with foam squares.

I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the background on the top of this card. I die-cut the image and punched out a scalloped circle with a punch. The image panel is also mounted on foam squares.

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Thanks So Berry Much

When my friend, Leslie, posted a card using this die set, I knew that I just had to have it. That was at the end of June. I almost immediately made up a bunch of the die-cuts and colored them up. I used mixed media cardstock for them. And then they sat and sat. I finally used them up by making these five cards. (I should have looked at Leslie's card again to get a better arrangement of them! My cards in no way can compare to Leslie's beauties.) The die set is from Elizabeth Craft Designs. The sentiment is done with four separate stamps from Technique Tuesday.

And here are the five cards I made. A couple of the cards have some extra pieces inside of them.

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Another Simple Lovely Birthday

I stamped this sentiment on a scrap of cardstock to try to match the card I blogged yesterday. Of course, I had to keep it and use it. I matted it, added some sequins and popped it up on foam squares. The background was done with a Gina K stencil.

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Lovely Birthday

Seems like forever since I've had any amount of time to spend in my stamping room! I finally did - little bits at a time, though. I based this card on one that came up in my photo memories. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I actually have more cards to share with you in the next couple days. And, hopefully I can spend some more time in my stamping room, as it's supposed to be terribly hot here again today.

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Thanks For All You Do

I got to spend some time in my stamping room yesterday, but a lot of it was refilling some Copic markers. I just ordered some refills and they arrived yesterday. Sure seems like I have to change my nibs a lot, since they get too dried out. Does anyone else have that problem? At any rate, later in the afternoon I made this card. The image and sentiment are from Gina K. I colored with Copics. I punched out the sentiment with an old Stampin' Up! word window punch. (Thanks for the idea, Leslie!) I colored the punched-out piece with a Copic marker and added the little bit of black around the edge and then popped it up on foam squares. I added some Liquid Pearls to the centers of the tiny flowers and Gina K sequins around the flowers.

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Digital Images

I have a book of digital images that I accumulated many years ago. I decided to check them out. I found these two that I wanted to use. They are from Sweet 'N Sassy. Not even sure if they are around anymore! So, I printed them out, colored them with Copics, cut them and the matting out with Waffle Flower dies and then added the sentiments.

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CASing Myself

I haven't had much time at all in my stamping room for the last month or so. I did make these cards very recently, copying one I've made in the past. The silhouette pieces were done with dies. The sentiments are both by Gina K.

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August Calendar Page

Here is the page I made for August. The stamps are from Repeat Impressions. I colored the dragonfly (damselfly?) with Copic markers, added Star Dust Stickles to the wings and then spritzed with Glimmer Mist. Enjoy August!!

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Birthday Daisies

I've seen cards like this in a few places. One of them was on my friend, Vicki's, blog. I hadn't looked at hers since I first saw it, so I was doing it from memory and I like hers better! But, I did mine the easier way. I simply added the square/diamond in the middle and then added the black strips. I colored with Copics and added some Star Dust Stickles to the flower centers. The flowers are from Sheena and the sentiment is from Stampendous.

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Spritzed Bleach

One of our local grandsons had a summer school class last week on "aliens." Sounds pretty cool to me, but also beyond me! They had to invent a new planet and creatures for the planet and show their evolution and climate and all sorts of things. But, one really cool thing was the shirt he made. They had black t-shirts and they spritzed bleach on them. It looked like it had galaxies on it! So, I took a piece of black cardstock and spritzed it with bleach, and also a piece of olive-ish cardstock, to show him that I could do that with cardstock, too. And, of course, I could not just throw them out! So, here they are. I stamped a sentiment from My Favorite Things, matted it with black and popped it up before adding it to the bottom layer.

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Patterned Paper Birthday Wishes

I've had this patterned paper for MANY years. It's an odd size - 8 x 8 inches and not on my radar to use. I came across it last week and decided to use some of it. It also included some punch-out pieces, which I mostly threw out. I do like the papers and hope to use them again soon. The square/diamond shapes on the left were a few of the punched-out pieces that I kept.

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Re-Purposed Flowers

Some friends of ours recently celebrated their 50th anniversary! Congrats, Tom and Becky. Their invitation had such pretty flowers on it that I just had to do some fussy-cutting and use them on a couple cards. Here is what I came up with.

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Shimmery Daisies

 I embossed these flowers with a folder and then painted them with metallic paints. I also embossed the panel on the left side of the card.

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Easy Patterned Paper Cards

I was near a Michael's a few weeks ago and thought I'd stop in and see if there might be anything I'd be interested in. I found a matstack that had some very pretty patterns in. (I later got a $5 gift card from them and went to a different Michael's and found another one for $5, so that one was free! I'll have some of that to share eventually.)

Anyway, the first thing I did was go through and take out the sheets that had multiple patterned panels on them. I used a lot of them, set a few aside, and tossed some. Here are the cards I made with those panels. I made three of each of these cards. I used sentiments from various companies on them.

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Loss of a Pet

This is the card I made for my friend, Leslie, who lost her beloved Lulu in June. The embossed paw print background was in my card parts book. I used a photo of Lulu from Leslie's blog to make the card. The sentiment stamp is from Waffle Flower. Thank goodness for wonderful memories.

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Celebrate - with Stencils

And one last card I made at the retreat. The stenciled flower is from Gina K, as is the stencil I used on the background. The sentiment is from Maya Road and was in my card parts book. It's mounted on foam squares. I used thin, decorative gold sticker strips along the image panel and all four sides of the sentiment.

Edited to add: The flower stencil is a part of the stencil set from Gina K that includes the lattice from yesterday's cards, found here.

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"Lattice" Stencil

Two more pieces I ink-blended using stencils before I left on my retreat. The stencil is from Gina K. On this first card, I used Gina K ephemera to decorate. The anniversary stamp is from Hero Arts. The two larger purplish flowers are mounted on foam squares. Edited to add: Lisa - I emailed you, but the stencil is a part of this set from Gina K.

The stamps and dies used on this card are from Stampin' Up! I borrowed a friend's set quite a while ago. I think I probably still have several of these left.

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Pinkish Poinsettia

The stenciled poinsettia is from Gina K. I used Versamark on the center dots and then used gold embossing powder. The sentiment is embossed in gold, also, and is from Lawn Fawn.

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