Die-Cut Thanks

I found this pre-stamped blue piece in my card parts box. You can barely see the stamping on it, and I have no idea who makes the stamp, but I liked it and so this card came into being. I added the flowers and "thanks" die cuts, which were also in my box. I believe they were both cut with Memory Box dies. The card base is kraft.

I'm submitting this for the CAS on Sunday challenge. This week's challenge is to make a card with a flower/flowers on it.

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Christmas Sunday

 Six more cards done for this year - total of 48 finished so far. I do kind of feel like I'm "cheating" when I make multiples, but it's helping me get them done:) I'm linking them up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. Edited to add: I am also submitting this to the Addicted to CAS challenge, which is the theme word "Holiday."

For each of them, I started with a die-cut sentiment that I cut while I was in Des Moines at our Group Gathering in June. I had two in navy, two in olive and two in "Christmas green." The patterned paper I used is from a Recollections seasonal matstack. I also added a strip across the top of each of them, embossed using a snowflake border embossing folder by Cuttlebug.

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Birthday Rose

The white squares were in my card parts box for some reason, and I just couldn't throw them out:) I stamped the rose (from an Inkadinkado set) on them and colored with Copics. I matted with green. The sentiment is from Hero Arts and is matted with the same green and mounted on foam squares.

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"Gold" Anniversary

The two-step flower was already stamped and matted with shimmery gold paper in my Card Parts. The stamps are from a retired Stampin' Up set called Heartfelt Thanks. The outlines were embossed with detail gold embossing powder. I used a shimmery gold piece on the right that I embossed with a Stampin' Up folder. The sentiment is from Stampendous and is also embossed with gold. The card base and image panel are ivory.

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Flutter By Wednesday Sketch

Today's Flutter By Wednesday challenge is this sketch by Kathy, a design team member. We'd love to have you join the challenge this week - just use Kathy's sketch and be sure to use a butterfly or fairy! Then link up to the Flutter By Wednesday challenge blog.

I've been trying to use up some of my "Card Parts" and that's how this card started. The stamped circle and sentiment were already to use. I rounded the corners and matted with black. The butterflies were punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The strip down the middle was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. The patterned paper is from a Recollections stack.

I can't wait to see what you all come with using this great sketch.

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Butterfly Birthday

This butterfly has been in my Card Parts box for a couple years. It was sent to me by my friend, Annie. I don't know what company made it. I added the tiny gems to the wings. I put glue only on the body and antennae so the wings would be "free." The sentiment (Hero Arts) layer is a textured ivory cardstock. I matted with black and use a kraft base.

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Christmas Sunday

I had five of these already-stamped images to work with, and I made them all the same. 

The image is from Northwoods. I colored with Copics. I matted with white, but I sponged red ink partially around the edge first. I am entering this into the Christmas Card Challenge blog. (The specific challenge is week is to use evergreen trees, but the main challenge is just to make a Christmas card.)

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Oh My Gosh - Halloween???

I had two of these completed tags in my "card parts" box, and I didn't want them around any more so they became cards:) They will be for our two new baby grandsons.

The tags were stamped and punched with Stampin' up! products. I added a brad and googly eyes and mounted on a foam square. The paper and sentiment are from Recollection.

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Young Boy Birthday

The colored image was in my "card parts" box. It's from Repeat Impressions. I scored a line under it with my Scor-Pal, added the sentiment (from Papertrey Ink), added another scored line and then added the patterned paper, which is from a Die Cuts With a View matstack called Nana's Nursery Baby Boy. (Probably long retired.)

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Total "Card Parts" Card

In my "card parts" box, I came across the stamped background for this card, and also the vellum stamped with "Happy Anniversary." All I had to do was trim them down, mat them with green cardstock, and adhere to a card base. I'm pretty sure the roses were stamped with a multi-step stamp set from Kitchen Sink, and I'm also pretty sure the sentiment is from Verve.

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Flutter By Wednesday #247

Flutter By Wednesday returns today with everyone's favorite challenge - any winged creature! We are sponsored this week by Inky Impressions. Create your card or project, making sure you include something with wings, and link it up to the Flutter By Wednesday blog! There will be a prize of a $10 gift certificate from Inky Impressions awarded to one lucky random winner.

The design team was given three images to choose from. I chose this Wishing Well image. I colored it with Copic markers and added some Star Dust Stickles to the bird and to the water in the pail. I matted with black. The border along the left side and the sentiment were both cut with dies. I made them while I was at our Group Gathering in Des Moines in June. The sentiment is from Memory Box (or at least I'm pretty sure it is) and the border die is from Papertrey Ink.

We'd love to have you join the return of Flutter By Wednesday! Can't wait to see what you all come up with.

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Super Simple Birthday

The stamped image was from my "card parts." It's from Paper Inspirations. I added the sentiment (from Hero Arts), matted with brown cardstock and used a kraft base.

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Simple Embossed Bird

I got this embossed piece from my friend, Kris, in June. I rubbed an almost-dry white ink mini pad over the embossing to highlight it, and then matted with black. The sentiment - from Hero Arts - was embossed with pewter embossing powder. The card base is gray.

EDITED TO ADD: The folder is from Cuttlebug and is called Bird On Branch.

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Christmas Sunday

 Two more Christmas cards. I think I'm about half done - 37 finished.

Both of today's cards have snowflakes from my "Card Parts" box. They were cut using a Quickutz die. I added Star Dust Stickles. This first one has patterned paper from a Recollections stack and the sentiment (from Hero Arts) is stamped in black.

This second one is made using a textured blue card base. The sentiment is embossed with pewter embossing powder.

I'm linking these up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog.

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More Die Cuts

Three simple cards using some card bases I cut at our Group Gathering in June. I believe it was a Memory Box die I used. For this first one, I cut a circle, put the butterfly sticker on it, and glued it under the die cut. Then I mounted it on dark purple cardstock and adhered it to the card base. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.

For this one and the next one, the stickers are on the inside of the card. The sentiments are both from Hero Arts.

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Gray Birthday

I'm really liking using gray for my cards:) For this one, I just punched the border along the bottom of the main panel with a Martha Stewart border punch. Then I used my Martha Stewart scoring board for the raised lines. The flowers are some I've had around forever and I put them together with a glittery brad. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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August Calendar Page

Here is my August calendar page. The watermelon is a Repeat Impressions stamp, colored with Copics. The "Happy Summer" is from Repeat Impressions, also. The background paper is from a Recollections pad. That's it! If you're interested in making your own calendar, please feel free to use my files. You can find them under my blog header.

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Great Day

A member of our stamping group lives in Canada and hasn't been able to make it to our Group Gathering, but she is so sweet and sends some die cuts and stampoffs. Thanks so much, Annie!

This card was made with one of those die cuts - the coneflower. I used Copic markers to color it and foam squares under the flowers. The Swiss Dots background came from my "Card Parts" box. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares, also, and is from a Hero Arts set.

Speaking of "card parts" - I have spent a couple days going through ALL of my card parts. I threw away TONS of them - cardstock scraps that shouldn't have been in there, images I knew I would never use, etc.  Even images that were already colored, that I knew I wouldn't use. I still have more work to do - to try to figure out how to organize what's left. But, it feels good to have gotten that much done so far.

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"Embedded" Die Cut Flowers

I love the technique of "embedding" die cuts into a background piece with an embossing folder. On this first card, both the flowers and the sentiment were cut with dies - both Memory Box, I believe, but I'm not 100% certain. I glued the sentiment to the kraft cardstock and then embossed with a Stampin' Up folder. Then I added the flowers and matted with red.

For the second card, I attached the flowers and then embossed. I printed the sentiment on the computer and cut it with a Spellbinders label die and matted with black. Both cards have kraft bases.

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Christmas Sunday

Another Christmas card done. Yippee! Again, I'm linking this to the Christmas Card Challenge blog.

The main panel is gray, the matting is red and the base is white. The snowflakes are also gray and are covered with Star Dust Stickles. I punched the snowflake border with a Tonic punch and scored lines on both sides of it. The sentiment is again from katie & co.

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Sympathy

A friend spent the day with me last Friday. She did some scrapbooking and I did some stamping. She said she was in need of sympathy cards, so I quickly made these for her. For the first one, I stamped the green squares with a retired shadow stamp from Stampin' Up! The flower and sentiment stamp are from a Hero Arts set.

For the second one (which I made first:) ) I used an ink cube from Papertey Ink and stamped it directly on the cardstock. Both cards are made with ivory cardstock with black matting.

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Double-Challenge Card

I really like Natasha's sketches for her Clean & Simple Stamping blog.  I don't do them often enough:) But, yesterday I managed to use the one from this week and combine it with the Christmas Card Challenges blog. I normally post my Christmas cards on Sunday, but then I never can play along with the optional challenge. So, this week you get it on Friday! The challenge this week is to use snowflakes.

I punched the gray strip with a Martha Stewart punch. I scored two double lines in the center. The ribbon is from Martha Stewart, also. The little snowflakes were punched with a Tonic punch and I added Star Dust Stickles to them. The sentiment is an old one from Katie and Co. It's matted with red and mounted on foam squares.

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Cameo Silhouette Links

In case it would be helpful for me to link to the files I have used for the Cameo Silhouette, I will try to remember to include a link.

The doily/Lattice Flower Circle on yesterday's card can be found here. The butterfly can be found here. Hopefully that helps.

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Twentieth Anniversary

A friend of ours had seen this card on my stamping table and asked me if I would make one similar to it for her dad and step-mom for their 20th Anniversary. Here is what I made for her.

The butterfly and lacy circle were cut with my Cameo Silhouette. The pink circle was cut with a Nestability. I added Star Dust Stickles to the butterfly. I printed the sentiment out on the computer and cut it with a Spellbinders die. The background was embossed with a Swiss Dots folder. The lacy circle, butterfly and sentiment are all mounted on foam squares. 

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Sunshine

This stamped, colored and scored image had been in my "Card Parts" box for years. It was finally time for it to become a card:)

The image is a dollar stamp from JoAnn's. After coloring it, I scored the pattern around it with my Scor-Pal. Then I simply added the Star Dust Stickles to the sun and mounted it on some blue cardstock. The finished card is 4.25" square. 

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Wishing You Sunshine

I have many "card parts boxes" out on my table right now, and this image was near the top of one of them. I wanted to send a cheery card to a friend of a friend with health issues, so this is what she got.

I'm pretty sure the image is Penny Black, but I'm not quite certain. It was a stampoff from several years ago, I'm afraid. I colored it with Copics and cut it with a Nestability. The matting was also cut with a Nestability, out of New Leaf cardstock from Papertrey Ink. I mounted it on foam squares. I added Star Dust Stickles to the flower centers, Diamond Glaze to the lady bug and Liquid Pearls to the matting. The bottom layer was embossed with my all-time favorite embossing folder - Swiss Dots. The sentiment is from a Stampendous set.

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Die Cut Flowers

Another simple flowery birthday card for today. It's fun to be using some of the "card parts" I made while I was at our Group Gathering.

The flowers and stems were cut using a Memory Box die. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. The main panel was embossed with a Sizzix folder and matted with green.

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Pink Birthday Flowers

All the digital images out there got me thinking about some clip art CDs that I've had forever. I checked them out and found many images that I could color and use for cards. That's where this image came from.

I printed it and colored it with Copics. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! and is stamped with Soft Suede. The matting is also Soft Suede. That's all there is to it!

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Christmas Sunday

Two more Christmas cards done! (Actually four more, as I made three of this first one, in various shades of blue.) Both cards use Memory Box dies. For the first one, I scored lines around the die cut and added the sentiment with a Katie & Co stamp.

For the second one, I simply added the sentiment, from a Hero Arts set.

I am submitting these to the Christmas Card Challenges blog. The optional challenge this week is embossing. It's also for the CAS on Sunday challenge, which is Christmas in July.

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Flowers and Circles and Dots

A "card parts" card. The embossed pieces were both left over from a project.

I embossed the white main piece three times with a small Cuttlebug folder. I also scored a couple lines on it. The flowers are Primas and are attached with white brads. The green layer was embossed with a Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. I matted that layer with white and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey ink and is stamped with Green Galore to match the matting and flowers.

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Butterfly Birthday and Anniversary

These cards were all done with Stampin' Up! Swallowtail butterfly stamp. Someone had it at our Group Gathering and I made these cards with it. For all of them, I stamped the image with Versamark and used different colors of embossing powder.

On the first one, I brayered on the color using a Kaleidacolor pad. I stamped the sentiment after the brayering and embossed with white. I matted with white and used a colored card base.

For the second one, I embossed with gold powder and sponged the color on. The sentiment is from Inky Antics and is also embossed with gold.


The third one was sponged with one color - So Saffron. The sentiment was stamped with So Saffron, also. I matted with Crushed Curry and used a white card base.

This fourth one was sponged with Distress inks - Weathered Wood and Dusty Concord, matted with black and the sentiment stamped in black. 

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Simple Peony Birthday

Another card made with "card parts" from my Group Gathering. The peony and the sentiment were both cut with Memory Box dies. It's hard to tell, but the orange part of the peony is cut from patterned paper. The background is patterned paper from a Recollections pad.

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Christmas Sunday - Finally!

I had a little stamping time a few days ago and made four cards similar to this one. They all used stamps from a Hero Arts set. I stamped with black ink and colored with Tim Holtz Distress markers. I added tiny clear gems to the snowflakes and also the snowman's eyes. For this one, I also added Start Dust Stickles to the snowman.

I'm entering this in the Christmas Card Challenges blog. (This week's specific challenge is "Stockings," but the main challenge is just to make a Christmas card.)

Edited to add: I'm also entering this in the CAS on Sunday Challenge. This week's challenge is "Christmas in July."

I'm so excited - I finally did my January 2014 calendar page! Now I'm only six months behind:)

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Happy Anniversary, Vicki and Gary!

Yesterday was the anniversary of a friend of mine from my stamping group. This is the card I made for them.

I used Inky Antics stamps. I used honeycomb paper for the bell on the inside. I colored with Distress markers and used a silver pen for highlighting.

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Sweet Card:)

Flutter By Wednesdays is taking a break for the month of July. We'll be back in August with a new challenge for you!

A friend gave me this image to color. Isn't she sweet? She is from Funky Kits - a Simply Adorable Digital image. I colored her with Copics. I cut her and the mat with Nestabilities. I colored some plain gems with a purple Copic marker to add to the scallops. I mounted the circles on foam squares. I embossed the pink strip down the middle with a Sizzix folder. The background is from a Recollections pad.

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Guy Birthday Card

A birthday card for a friend. The lighthouse stamp is from Impression Obsession. I stamped it with Soft Suede. I colored it with the lightest Copics I had, for some subtle color. I also added some Star Dust Stickles to the sun. I matted with Soft Suede and mounted on foam squares. The band across the right side is Soft Suede, also - embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and scored with my Score Buddy. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The base and the image panel are ivory.

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July Calendar Page

My July calendar page. I guess that means I'm already seven months behind in making calendars for next year, as I haven't even started yet!

The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions on a label cut with a Spellbinders die. The star and border were cut with a Lifestyles Crafts dies. The stars and stripes papers are from a Recollections pad. The star border is shimmery navy blue.

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