Six by Six One-Sheet Wonder

I was inspired by my friend, Vicki, to do a six by six inch One-Sheet Wonder. Here are my cards. I used a sheet of Gina K patterned paper, my favorite brown cardstock (Soft Suede, retired Stampin' Up!) and dies for these cards. I don't think any more description is needed.

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Fall-ish Birthday

 As I've said in previous posts, I never know where my cards will be headed when I get in my stamping room. I often start out by trying to make things even more organized and then I run across things. In this case, I came across a piece of cardstock with the oval cut in it that had been used for sponging. I thought I would use it again. I also came across this bit of ribbon (I have more for another card) so I used the ribbon to help me choose my ink color. I used a blending brush for the color. The silhouette stamp is from Inkadinkado. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted the image panel with black and put it on a white cardbase.

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Classic Layouts - with Shimmer

Here are two more cards with some beautiful, shimmery/shiny cardstock. They are both done with one sheet of the paper and use some classic layouts. The sentiments (as usual!) are from Papertrey Ink.

Can you believe I actually added a bow! :) It's been sitting around my craft area for years. It's a little crooked in the picture - it actually has two nice loops.

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An Old Technique - Bleach

I've watched a few Gina K videos while walking on my treadmill in the morning, and she recently did one using bleach. So, I thought I would do that. One of the colors of cardstock she used was her "Faded Brick," so I knew that it would turn yellow. (It's amazing the colors that various cardstocks turn when bleached!) The stamps I used (the flower sprig, the butterfly, and the sentiment) are all from Inkadinkado. I matted with black and placed it on a white cardfront.

I made the first card for the monthly swap in my stamping group. But, I liked it so much, I made four more after I mailed it out! Here are the others. I made another one from the Faded Brick cardstock, two from the green and one from the aqua. The colors don't come through so well in the photos, but they are quite pretty in real life.

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June Color Swap - Patriotic Colors

Here is the card I made for the color swap in our stamping group. The colors this month are "patriotic." I didn't want to make a Fourth of July card, though, so I went this way instead. The frame, the flowers and the "hello" are all die-cut. The dotted paper is from the very first matstack I ever bought! I added slightly glittery enamel dots to the larger flower centers and Nuvo glitter drops to the smaller ones.

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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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Rose Heart Anniversary

I think it was last year at our Group Gathering (more about our Gathering later in the post) that I got some sheets of gorgeous paper/cardstock from a friend. I've been hoarding them and it's time to use them! (Or at least some of them.) So for this card, I simply cut down the sheet (which is very shimmery), matted it with purple and black cardstocks and mounted on an ivory card base, and added the sentiment (my favorite, as you can tell since I use it a LOT!) from Papertrey Ink, embossed in black.

Our annual Group Gathering has been cancelled for this year. 😕 So sad - we've been meeting every year in June since (I think!) 2007. We were to meet tomorrow in Ankeny, IA, but obviously it's not possible this year. We will be meeting by Zoom, though!

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Embossing Paste Snowflakes

This snowflake panel has been on my stamping table for while. Not any more! :) I had made it using a stencil, embossing paste and silver embossing powder. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink, is embossed with silver embossing powder, is matted with shimmery silver paper and mounted on foam squares.

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Watercolored Anniversary

I felt like doing a little bit of simple watercoloring, so this I what I made. The flowers stamp is from Gina K. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I love to watercolor. :) The image panel is matted with black,and the cardbase is ivory.

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Masculine Birthday and Anniversary

I saw this technique on one of Gina K's videos. She used stencils for her embossing, but I used Cuttlebug folders. First I did the embossing. Then I used my Scor-Pal to make lines every half inch. For this first card, I dragged ink pads over the back of the embossing. I matted with black and added the die-cut sentiment, which is three layers thick plus shadow. I also brushed a bit of ink on the sentiment piece. This card will be used as an anniversary card for friends.

For this second card, I used the front of the embossing.

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Christmas Snowflake

Another Christmas card for the pile. I die cut the snowflake from masking paper and placed it on white cardstock. I brushed the blue ink around it. Then I mixed some white Perfect Pearls with water and spritzed it on for some pretty sparkle. I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I let it sit for a couple days. I decided to just cut it in a circle and then I cut a scalloped circle to mat it with. I felt it needed a little more, so I added the white dots. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I found some Gina K patterned paper for the background. For some reason, I thought it needed some red! So I used some red and white twine. I've had it for quite a while and I don't know if I've ever used it. (I have a pack of about six colors.) I mounted the circle on foam squares.

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Anniversary Roses

I rarely know what I will end up making when I head down to my stamping room. For my latest session, here is one of the cards that resulted. I used a die to cut four flowers - two from white, one from pink and one from green. I layered the two white die cuts and the green. Then I cut the flowers off of the pink piece and added them to the green stems and leaves. I mounted the flower on some textured, shimmery white cardstock and matted with matching green. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Friends Christmas

I have SO much patterned paper, but I don't use it very often. I left the two boxes of smaller patterned paper pads out on my table so I could TRY to remember to use some! I even sat it on empty boxes to make it higher on my table and easier to see! I grabbed a pad and it happened to be a Christmas stack, so I made four cards just like this one. The patterned paper is from The Paper Studio. I matted it with matching blue. The sentiment strip is part of what was cut off to make it card-sized. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I believe I counted 36 Christmas cards done for this year.

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Monoprinting

I'm not exactly sure what monoprinting is, but here is my card from the Spring On-line Card Classes for that lesson. It calls for either a gel plate (don't know what that is, and I don't have one) or a large, background clear stamp. I don't have a large clear background stamp, either. So, I used my embossing mat for my BIGkick. It worked OK. (Except, see below.) I added ink to the mat randomly and then used a brayer to make it cover the mat. Then I used a leaf stamp from Sunny Studio. I tapped the stamp onto the ink and then stamped it onto a piece of white cardstock. I did that repeatedly, wiping the stamp off between stampings, until the cardstock was covered. Then I put another piece of cardstock onto the mat covered with ink, and brayered over that to remove the ink from the mat to the cardstock. There was a section in the middle that I didn't want on this first card so I cut it out. I mounted the top and bottom pieces on foam squares. I added thin strips of black. Then I added the die-cut hello, which is four layers thick.

Here is the cardstock that I stamped with the colored ink. And this card uses the piece that I cut out of the first card. I had tried using some sort of embossing plate with the mat quite a while ago, and I guess it left a permanent indentation on the mat. You can see the design in the sentiment piece. I thought it was okay for this card, though. I stamped a sentiment from Papertrey Ink on it, matted with black and added to the card front.

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Happy Birthday, Jonah!

Saturday was our grandson, Jonah's, birthday. He turned seven. Here is the card I made for him. I asked his cousin (one of our local grandsons) what video game Jonah likes, and he said "Roblox." So that what I used. Pretty simple, as I needed to get it out in the mail! (It did arrive just on time. Whew!) I found the picture on-line and printed it on the inside of the card. Then I cut an oval in the front of the card that was just the right size for the middle character to show through to the front. Then I cut another oval in some blue cardstock slightly larger than the first oval. I embossed the blue layer with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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June Calendar Page

My June calendar page. The strawberry stamps are from Technique Tuesday I used masking to stamp them. The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. I cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die.

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Woven Window

Well, I finally made another card from the Online Class. It feels good to do a little creating. I cut the circle in a piece of cardstock and then used thin (1/4 inch strips) of colored cardstock to weave from the back. I mounted the panel on foam squares. I die-cut the sentiment several times and stacked them. I'm not really enamored with the card, but it was fun! I think I would like it better if I had placed the strips a little bit further apart.

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Stamped Background

I stamped this background just before I went into "concentrate on Mom and Dad's stuff" mode. I think I actually finished the card shortly after that. But here it is finally on my blog. Hopefully I'll have some more time to create soon.

I happened upon this wood-mounted leaf stamp when I had a bunch of wood-mounted stamps out. (They are all still out, by the way!) It's by Scrappy Cat. I thought it looked kind of pretty. So, I made this background with it. All of the other stamps (flower, flower center, four-dots, and sentiment) are from Papertrey Ink. I used Gina K inks and matted with Gina K cardstock. I used foam squares to mount the panel.

I got all through the boxes of my mom and dad's things. It's at least sorted out. Step one! I will be passing a lot of it on to my brother. I have a BIG box of pictures, though, that I still need to sort out as best as I can and scan them. That is going to take a long time! At least they are all in one place, though.

Our daughter and her family are coming for a visit soon and will be here for a while. I guess my stamping time will be limited then! I'll just create when I can and enjoy the company.

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Friends

This die-cut butterfly piece was sitting on my table and I wanted to get it off. I had already added inks to it, and spritzed it with Perfect Pearls mixed with water. It really is quite shimmery. The sentiment is a wood-mounted stamp from Penny Black. I matted it with striped paper and mounted that panel on foam strips.

I've been thinking a lot about the stacks of boxes I have from my mom and dad's house. It's been weighing on my mind that I said that I would take them home and go through them. Now it's been four years since my dad died and I still haven't done it. I'm going to take a break from everything and get to work on them. I'm sure I won't be able to help myself at times and will create some cards. And I still have over half of my on-line card class left! I'll just have to do that later. So, don't worry about me if I go a while without posting or visiting your blogs. I'm fine:)

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Sympathy Irises

Here is another stamp I ran across last week. I was looking through all of my non-Stampin' Up! wood mounted stamps and found a few I wanted to make sure to use. And also lots more that I would like to use, too! At any rate, I at least used one. It's by Stampa Rosa. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and cut it out. I mounted it on foam squares and added it to a piece of white cardstock matted with black. The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.

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Christmas Blessings

While digging through my stamps recently, I came across this stamp. I'm not even sure where i got it, but I'm thinking it's from a friend who isn't stamping anymore. (Is that right, Lucy?) It's from My Sentiments Exactly. For this first card, I stamped it with Versamark Ink and embossed it with silver embossing powder. I matted with shimmery silver paper. The sentiment is also embossed with silver.

For this second card, I stamped with black, colored lightly with Copics, added shimmer to the stars and matted with blue.

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Five

Day Five of the Spring Card Camp online class was to use shading with stencils. The first example was "vintage" shading. She first used a very light tan over the whole stencil and then used light shades of coloring. I used two shades of green over the tan. I don't really have many stencils, so I've used this same Memory Box stencil. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I matted with black and mounted on a kraft cardbase. I also added a few "nail heads."

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Two-Fer Challenge - Flowers, Repeat Impressions Challenge

The Two-Fer Challenge this month is flowers. How could I pass that up? :) Besides that, I had just come across this old, wood-mounted rubber stamp by Inkadinkado. I think it's so pretty. I had decided to stamp it on watercolor paper and get it painted. This was done before I even remembered the Two-Fer Challenge, but it was perfect timing. Then I saw that the challenge on Repeat Impressions' blog, House That Stamps Built, included one of the Tic Tac Toe challenge lines being flowers and watercolor! I just added a few gems to the second card and it fit that challenge, too! I don't usually do challenges, so it felt good to do two with one stamp. Sorry for the little bit washed out colors on this first photo.

Here is the first card. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. The image panel is mounted on foam squares. I added Wink of Stella to the flowers.

The sentiment on this second card is from Papertrey, also. This one is for the Repeat Impressions Tic Tac Toe challenge. My line includes flowers, watercolor and gems.

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Spring Card Camp 2 Day Four

This is my card for day four of the online card class. After having made it, and looking at the lesson again, I should probably have done things differently! Oh well - I took it as repetition of a sentiment. Actually, I guess it was using scraps of different colors and using the sentiment multiple times. This works for me, though! (I guess I could have at least stamped in different colors.) The "happy" is from Papertrey Ink. The "birthday" was die-cut with a My Favorite Things die out of turquoise and also fun foam. 

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Spring Card Camp 2 - Day Three

Day Three of the Online Spring Card Camp 2 was to use a stencil for embossing. I used a Memory Box stencil. I matted it with black. The circle stamps are from Papertrey Ink and the circles are cut with Nestabilities. The innermost circle is mounted on foam squares.

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Spring Card Camp - Day 1

Day One of the On-line Card Class Spring Card Camp was masking. I masked off the oval and used Gina K inks to fill in the oval. The sentiment stamp and the flowers are both from my favorite Hero Arts sympathy set. I think I'll make another card using the reverse oval and stamp or ink up the piece except for the oval. Hopefully soon. I had to make two quick sympathy cards. I was out. My last uncle passed away last week, as did a member of our church. Our church member died of Covid-19.

Well, I DID make another card, and even in time to put it in the same blog post. Mother's Day was a good stamping day for me:) I placed the die-cut oval on the white cardstock and brushed ink over it, around the rest of the piece. I used another oval die to add the black oval line inside the white oval. I think it would have been better without it, but oh well! I used the same stamps as the first card.

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Online Spring Card Class - Day Two

I signed up for the Online Card Class Spring Camp 2 that started on Wednesday. I finally got a chance to make a couple class cards! I watched the videos very, very late Friday night when I couldn't sleep. Then late afternoon and early evening yesterday I got these cards done. I was thinking that this theme was from Day One, but it was from Day Two. Oh well! :)

As you can probably tell, the "theme" was stripes. I taped off areas of my card fronts and brushed inks on them. For this first card, I used all Gina K inks. You really can't see it at all in the picture, but I also stamped on three of the stripes with stamps from the old Stampin' Up! set called Perfect Plaids. The flower image is from Gina K. I stamped it with Versamark and embossed with black embossing powder. The sentiment is a very old wooden stamp from Hero Arts. It is also embossed. I matted with black and mounted on a white card base.

The stripes on this one were done with distress ink. I forgot to add any stamping on them. The image is from Impression Obsession and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Water-Colored Birdies

I do really like doing watercolor, but I'm not so great at it and don't have much imagination. But, I wanted to do a little bit of it and so I created this card. I stamped an image from Inkadinkado several times on watercolor paper to fill the page. Then I used two colors of paint on each little birdie. Some of them turned out well and some not-so-well! But, here they are. I matted with black. The sentiment, from Papertrey Ink, is stamped on shimmery ivory cardstock and heat-embossed. It's also matted with black and is mounted on foam squares.

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White Roses

An online friend, Bonnie, recently posted a card using a technique she had learned from a  Gina K video. I guess I had missed that one. (Her post is on April 26.) The technique is to stamp with black on kraft cardstock and then color with only white colored pencils. It looks great on Gina's card, but I agree with Bonnie - mine didn't look so great with only white, either! So, I added green to the leaves. I thought I could stamp the image again (using my MISTI) after I used the colored pencils, but I found out that colored pencil doesn't take ink real well. But, I still like the way this turned out and I think our daughter and son-in-law will get this card. The finished card measures four inches by just shy of nine inches. The flowers are by Inkadinkado and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I added Wink of Stella to the flowers and a few "nail head" enamel dots and I matted the image panel with black.

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Thinking of You Note Cards

I came across a package of these note cards by Amuse the other day, and decided it was time to get them out of my stamping room! This is a good time to let people know we are thinking of them, so this is what I came up with. There were ten cards, with envelopes, in the package. They are 3.5 x 5 inches and the dots and the insides are ivory. I die-cut the butterflies from ivory cardstock to match. The sentiment is from Inkadinkado. Now I have to figure out who to send them to. I'm thinking of all of you in these strange times - please know that! Stay safe and stay well.

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Leaf Stencil Two Ways

It's a two-fer today:) I used a die to cut out these leaves. At least, I think they are leaves! I used them as wheat last week on a sympathy card to North  Dakota, though. They also look like feathers to me. At any rate, that's what I used for these cards!

I cut a piece from thick cardstock and used it as a stencil. For this first card, I used embossing paste over the stencil. After removing the stencil, I added emerald pearl lustre embossing powder over the paste and heated it. It makes a cool bubbled texture. I matted with dark green. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and is mounted on foam squares.

For this second card, I used Deco Foil Gel and then foiled it with my laminator. The sentiment is from Inky Antics. I cut it out using a Spellbinders die.

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