Enjoy Your Birthday

Thanks, Cheryl, for the layout of this card! I used some pretty, shimmery patterned cardstock that I've had for years. (Kris, I think it was from you. Thanks!) The sentiment was in my parts, too. It had been cut from wrapping paper adhered to white cardstock. I also added about four extra layers. The sentiment was embossed with gold and cut out from an old Stampin' Up! Word Window punch - with about four extra layers on that, too.

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Christmas Joy

A friend sent me this die. I love it! (My middle name is Joy. :-) ) I used metallic cardstocks for the die-cutting. I also added the thin metallic strips alongside the green. I'm sure you'll see more of this die soon!

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July Calendar Page

Here is my calendar page for the month of July. Hard to believe that 2025 is half over - incredible! The stamps are from My Favorite Things - including the sentiment. The balloon is die-cut.

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Flowers and Greetings

These have been partly made and sitting on my table waiting for a rainy day - which was Thursday. Such a fun day that was! At any rate, the patterned papers are all from the same paper stack. I added thin cardstock strips or the foily stickers next to the patterned papers. The flowers are all from a Stampin' Up! set that a friend brought over years ago and I had stamped and die-cut a lot of them. This is the last of them, finally. I either added Star Dust Stickles or Diamond Glaze over the flowers. The butterflies were all in my card parts, as were the sentiments, which are all foiled in some manner. The flowers and sentiments are all popped up.

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Sympathy Flowers

I happened across these flowers a while back and put the package on my stamping table to be used soon. Today is the day for three of them. There are more! I stamped the leaves using a Papertrey Ink stamp. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts. I matted the panel and added it to my card base. The flowers are from Crafter's Square - maybe from the Dollar Tree?

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Flowery Congrats and Anniversary

When I get 50% off at Michael's, I have a tendency to buy another 12 x 12 stack of patterned paper. Then I tear out the sheets, cut up the ones that require cutting, and put everything away to hopefully be used some day! I have SO much! Well, these two cards were made from one of those stacks. I cut around the tops of these two pieces and popped them upon to card fronts. The sentiments are from my card parts and have been foiled with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. They are also popped up on foam squares.

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Celebrate Your Special Day

Ah, I had most of today to spend in my stamping room - how awesome! Here is one of the cards that I finished up. The die-cut piece was out on my table - cut from a foiled negative piece. The sentiment is silver embossed and is from My Favorite Things. I matted that piece with white and popped it up on foam squares.

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Hot Foil Christmas Card

Finally, another Christmas card! This card is 6 1/2 inches by 5 inches. I did the image using my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment is popped up. It's from Gina K and is actually silver - done with Gina's foil. There is a thin red strip below the sentiment which was hot-foiled.

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Even More Dies and Foil

I pulled out this die, also, last week. It cuts the open dots. I matted with yellow and added the butterfly and the sentiment, which were both done on the Glimmer Hot Foil system and cut out with dies. The butterfly is on vellum. Both are popped up on foam squares.

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More Hot Foil

These cards were both made with my Glimmer Hot Foil system. The sentiment on this first one is from Gina K. I trimmed down three sides of the image panel. Then I added thin metallic strip stickers around the three edges that I trimmed down.

I wanted some subtle color on this one, so I used my lightest Copic markers.

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Hot Foil and Dies

All of these cards are similar. I used dies to cut the borders. The flowers are all from Gina K that I had made earlier using stamps, stencils and dies. I used my Glimmer Hot Foil system for the sentiments. (Some of the sentiments are from Gina K - stamped and die-cut.) Then I put the pieces together to make these cards.

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More Anniversary Wishes

Same patterned paper as yesterday's. Sentiment from Gina K. Embossing with a Darice folder. I donate cards to our church to help out the library. I noticed we were out of anniversary ones, so I have to replenish the supply. 

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Anniversary Wishes

While I was looking through my supplies for yesterday's embossing folder, I came across this one, so I thought I would use it. It cuts out the center as it embosses the rest. I lightly ink-blended on it. I added patterned paper behind it, with a sentiment from Gina K. The flowers are ancient ones from Michael's that I also ink-blended on. I added enamel dots for the centers.

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Birthday Cattails

I needed a birthday card for my brother, and this first one is the one that he got. Or hopefully will get by his birthday on Tuesday! I don't generally make cards for specific people, but I don't have any masculine cards in my stash. I ink-blended the background. For the sun, I ink-blended it on the cut-out pieces and added them back in. The sentiment is from Gina K.

Edited to add: The die is from Memory Box.

Since I had the die out, I made another card. I embossed the background with a Cuttlebug/Anna Griffin embossing folder. The sentiment is again from Gina K.

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Another Hot-Foil Anniversary

Another card made using my Glimmer Hot Foil system - the bottom part is foiled. The top was embossed with a Darice folder. The sentiment is from Gina K and die-cut. The little flowers are die-cuts, also. The circle is popped up on foam squares. It's really hard to see, but there is a thin strip of black cardstock between the white embossed piece and the foiled piece.

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Hot Foil Anniversary

I keep thinking that I need to sell my Glimmer Hot Foil system. I don't use it much and I don't have much for plates. But, I spent some time making anniversary sentiments and a few other things the other day. Then I ran across a couple seldom used dies and had to try those out, too. So here is the first of my latest creations.

The opening was done with a die. I embossed a piece of vellum with a Darice folder and put it behind the opening. I popped the entire panel up on foam squares. The flowers and leaves were die-cut from scraps of foiled cardstock. The sentiment is popped up on foam squares, also. I have one more card for tomorrow. I hope to get some more time and finish up some more cards very soon. It's summertime - time for golf and pickleball! 

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Congrats, JP!

The son of some of our friends graduated from high school this year, and here is the card that I made for him. I'm quite sure I must have made a card like this before, but this is unique with his colors and initials. :-) I used my JustRite Stamper for the stamped part. Dies for the circles. QuicKutz dies for the hat and diploma. Cuttlebug folder for the embossed background. That's about it.

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June Calendar Page

Oh my goodness, it's June! How did that happen? Here is my calendar page for this month. The image is from My Favorite Things and the sentiment is from Repeat Impressions. I did the coloring with Stampin' Up! chalks. Anyone still have those? :-) That's all there is to it! Happy June!

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More from the Altenew Set

I had these pieces on my table from when I was playing with the Altenew set from a few days ago. I thought I would put them on cards instead of in my card parts book. This first one is a z-fold card.

The embossed bottom piece on this card is from my card parts book from ages ago.

The other half of the ancient embossed piece.

I brayered ink on to the embossing folder before embossing. It wasn't perfect, but I like the looks of it. The sentiment is silver-foiled.

Back to the thought of switching the spare bedroom and the stamping room around. I was actually ready to start doing that!! But, I measured again and realized that there is no way all my card-making supplies would fit into the other room, so now I definitely have to put the idea out of my head. No window, but lots of room. :-)

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Musical Birthday

A very quick card for today. A couple weeks ago, I was looking through my supplies to see if there was anything that I could get rid of. I came across my Stampin' Up! Coluzzle system. Anyone remember those?? It was before dies! I had to try it out, for old time's sake. I cut these two circles with it. (It also cuts ovals.) Of course, I couldn't toss them. One was white, so I used a blending brush to add slight color around the edges and added the purple circle over it. Then I embossed them with a Sizzix folder and mounted on foam squares. The music die cut was in my card parts and I added it on top of the circles. The sentiment is stamped and die-cut with a Gina K set and popped up. I embossed the background piece with a Darice embossing folder.

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More Die-Cut Pieces

Another card using the Altenew set from a couple days ago. I stamped, colored, die-cut and popped up the images for this card. The sentiment is from the same set. I added a couple of scored lines to the center panel, and I also added the black nail head stickers. I have a few more images from this set ready to use. Maybe I'll use them very soon.

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Christmas Folk Art Cards

I got this set from Altenew in January, and I finally used it. There is much more I could do with it, but for now, I'm kind of wondering why I got it! There is a 3D embossing folder, stamp set, stencils and dies. It was really discounted and I couldn't resist it. I'll revisit it at a later date, I'm sure. Because this set had never been used, I am adding it to Darnell's NBUS blog.

For this first card, I stamped with a dark gray ink, then used the stencils to do the coloring. That was a bit of a pain, because some of the stencils had to be cleaned and flipped over between colors. After coloring it, I used the die to cut the top edge and then used the embossing folder over the stamping. Unfortunately, you can hardly see the embossing. I added the sentiment, which was included in the set, and also some Star Dust Stickles in a few places.

A simpler version - just die-cutting the edge, embossing, and matting. Added the sentiment and a few nail-head stickers.

And the simplest of all - embossing a card front and adding it to the card base and then adding a foiled, die-cut sentiment from Gina K, popped up on foam squares.

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Z-Fold with Pop-out Panel

I got a Mother's Day card from an on-line friend. (Thanks, Donna!) I love the layout, so I finally made a "special fold" card. All the stamps, stencils and dies are from Gina K. It's basically a Z-fold card with an extra pop-out in the center. You can pretty much see it in these photos. I made two of them.

It's been great to have some time in my stamping room, but this is all I've got for now.

Oh, I had mentioned switching my stamping room with the spare bedroom in order to have a window in my stamping room. After MUCH deliberation with myself, I decided to scrap that project. It makes me sad, but I'm just not sure I could arrange things to have everything as convenient as I have it now. 

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Hanukkah and Christmas

I came across a present I received from our daughter in 2006. I do know the date, because it's a calendar where each date is a separate page and meant to be reused for scrapbooking. It says to just add a photo to the center and put it in a scrapbook. I decided I better use the sheets, or just get rid of it. Well, it's MUCH too hard to just get rid of something! So, I made 14 cards so far from it - four Hanukkah and ten Christmas. For almost all of them, I cut out the center image and matted it then added foam squares. Then I cut down the background to fit a card front and re-added the image. I'm not going to show all of them, because they are all basically the same thing. The first three cards are A2 size and the last one is bigger. My plan is to add sentiments to them, but I think they would even be fine without them.

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May Calendar Page

Well, May snuck up on me, for sure! Here is my calendar page for the month. The stamp is from Stampendous and I colored it with Copic markers. The patterned paper is from an ancient matstack from Recollections. I really like using that stuff on my calendar pages because it is so thin and the pages fit nicely into the frame. Happy May Day to all!!

I hope everyone is doing well. I am doing well, just busy with so many other things and hardly any time in my stamping room. I am considering a huge project, though. My stamping room does not have a window. We have a guest bedroom that rarely gets used. I'm thinking of switching them around. I would love a window, but I do also love the arrangement of my current room. I've been making diagrams and trying to figure out how it would work out, and it seems as though it might be okay. I guess I'll think about it more and make my decision soon. Wish me luck! :-)

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