Cupcake, Anyone?

My last sweet treats card for a while. I did make up some more parts, but haven't used them on cards yet.

The stamps on this card are all from a My Favorite Things set with matching dies. The patterned paper is from Recollections.

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Happy Birthday, Tim!

Here is the birthday card I made for my brother. It didn't start out to be for him, or I probably wouldn't have used pink in the middle! Oh well.

The background stamp is from My Favorite Things. I inked it up with distress markers and spritzed with water before stamping. I matted with light blue. The sentiment stamp is from My Favorite Things, also. I added some sparkle to the candle in the sentiment. The background piece was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and then matted with the same light blue.

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Ice Cream Bar Thanks

Another "sweet" card for today. I am again using a My Favorite Things stamp and die set. I stamped and die-cut the ice cream bar (with sentiment) and mounted on foam squares. Both sentiment stamps are from the same set.

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Yummy Cards!

I used this card for a swap in my stamping group. (We got to exchange them in person, as we are meeting this week in Des Moines for our annual Group Gathering!)

I used dies from My Favorite Things for the ice cream cone. Love that cone!! It embosses the texture on it, too. I mounted the cone on foam squares. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, also. I embossed the background with a Darice Wire Fence embossing folder.

Another card using the ice cream cone, This time I used Kraft for the cone instead of ivory. And the ice cream is just plain chocolate without the extra topping and cherry:) Again, I mounted the cone on foam squares, but the card is much plainer. The sentiment says, "WHAT'S THE SCOOP" in  case you can't read it.

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Petite Patterns #1 - 4

The Stampin' Up! set I am using today is called "Petite Patterns." It consists of four background stamps. 

This first card uses the hearts. I stamped them in red and matted with red. The sentiment stamp is from Hampton Art and I used markers to ink it up. I matted with a circle cut with a Spellbinders die, and mounted on foam squares.

I'm not quite sure what the pattern is in this next stamp. :) I started with a piece of white cardstock embossed with an Oblong Doily Darice folder. I masked around the inside edges, stamped the image multiple times and sponged some ink around the edges. I matted with matching cardstock and punched some butterflies to match, also. I added gems to the butterflies. The sentiment is from Hero Arts. I sponged ink around the edges and mounted on foam squares.

For this card and the next one, I used metallic shimmery ink pads direct to paper for the colored background. Then I stamped the pattern on them. I matted them. I added Washi tape to this one. 

The sentiment on this one is from Hampton Art.

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Petite Posies

 Here is the card I made using the Stampin' Up! set called "Petite Posies." The set consists of 13 small stamps. I made this card complete. The sentiment is from Hampton Art. 

 I made the image/sentiment panels for six more cards using the rest of the stamps. I just need to glue them on to card bases when I need them. I don't use many thank you cards and I hesitated to finish them all up. When I figure out what I'm going to do with them, I will complete them. (Update on this: I did finish all of the cards and mailed them to the winner of this card. Hope you like them, Nikki!)

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Patterned Pines #5

This card is done with the last stamp (the snowflake) of the Stampin' Up! set called "Patterned Pines." I stamped the background with it using a light blue ink and matted with the matching cardstock. (Baja Breeze) I decided to stamp the sentiment (from Denami) on vellum. I embossed it to keep it from smearing. Then I dry embossed the left edge with a Snowflake folder from Darice. Looking at it in the picture, I think it would have worked to emboss the whole vellum piece, even after stamping.

Edited to add: Thanks for the comment, Wendy. I always use Duck Tape adhesive to attach vellum. You can barely see it - really not at all. I used it in each corner.

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

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Patterned Pines #4

This card uses the little poinsettia stamp from the Stampin' Up! called "Patterned Pines." I kind of feel like these four stamps are pretty much unrelated! (Except that the star can be used on top of the trees.)

I colored the stamp with markers before stamping. I added a tiny gem for the flower center. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I matted with red and mounted on foam squares. The background was embossed with a Sizzix Poinsettia Corners embossing folder.

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

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Patterned Pines #1 - 3

These three cards were made using the trees image from the Stampin' Up! set called "Patterned Pines."

For this first one, I stamped with green and embossed with clear embossing powder. I added the stars in yellow (also from the set) and also embossed them. I matted with matching green and added a die-cut sentiment.

This second one was actually stamped with the "second stamping" of the green. I embossed them with the clear powder, also. I cut them out and mounted them on foam squares. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I love that delicate little stamp!

For this third one, I stamped the trees with Versamark and embossed with detail gold embossing powder. I used the same sentiment and embossed it in gold, also. I think this is my favorite:)

I'm linking this post up to the Christmas Card Challenge blog. The theme this week is "Anything Goes."

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Pocket Silhouettes #1 - 4

These cards are all made using stamps from the Stampin' Up! set called "Pocket Silhouettes." Three of them are identical except for the stamp. I colored each of the stamps with markers and stamped the sentiment over the bottoms of the stems.

This fourth one is very similar, but I used the other sentiment and added several pink gems.

Sorry the pictures are a little washed out - a little too much light, i think!

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June Calendar Page

Oh my goodness, it's June already! Here is my calendar page.

The images are from a Papertrey Ink set. I stamped them on a small piece of white cardstock. I also stamped the frog on the lily pad on two different patterns of green paper. I cut out the frog and lily pad and glued them on the white pieces. I added Star Dust Stickles to the fly's wings and white gel pen to the frog's eyes. I matted with green cardstock.

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Die-Cut Happy Birthday

A few days ago, I posted this card using a messed-up printed photo for the background. Today I'm using another scrapped photo. I die-cut the sentiment (from My Favorite Things) from the photo that was printed with cartridges running out of ink. I also cut the sentiment of out cardboard and glued the layers together for a little more dimension. I added it to a piece of turquoise and then matted with tangerine cardstock. The entire card front was covered with a piece from a Die Cuts With a View matstack.

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Oval All #4

The last card using the Stampin' Up! set called "Oval All." 

I cut the butterfly strip with my Memory Box die from some mottled light blue cardstock and adhered it on the left side of the card base. (Before die-cutting it, I ran the cardstock through my Xyron machine.) I stamped the image in black and colored the butterfly. I added a light blue gem to the butterfly and added gems all around the oval. (The stamp had circles there, so it was easy to place them.) I felt it needed just a little bit more, so I added some hand-doodling around the edges of the mottled blue cardstock.

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Oval All #3

The third card made with the Stampin' Up! set called "Oval All."

I've had this textured navy Z-fold card base in my "card parts" for quite a while. It's finally a card! :) I stamped the Just for You stamp with navy ink on a scrap of white cardstock. I embossed the bottom of the panel with a Darice Small Stars folder to match the stars in the stamped image and added a scored line between the embossing and the sentiment with my Scor-Pal. I sponged some navy ink around the edges. I also added a piece of white on the inside for adding a greeting.

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Oval All #2

This card uses the second stamp from the Stampin' Up! set called "Oval All." I stamped it with Memento black ink and colored it with Copic markers. Then I cut it out and embossed it with a Long Oval Spellbinders Nestability die. The matting was also cut with a Spellbinders die. I added a butterfly which was punched with a Martha Stewart punch and then added a pearl for the body. The sentiment is mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a Recollections matstack.

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Oval All #1

The next set in my Stampin' Up! series is the set called "Oval All." For this card, I used the Best Wishes stamp. I stamped it in an old "In Color" called Vintage Violet, matted it with Vintage Violet cardstock and mounted it on foam squares. I cut a piece of patterned paper from Die Cuts With a View and adhered it to a die-cut stitched rectangle and added the sentiment panel to that. The cardbase and sentiment panel are ivory cardstock.

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Light Blue and Olive Color Swap

I made this card to accomplish two things. One - our stamping group's monthly color swap colors are light blue and olive green. Check. And two, this set was the next set in my quest to use all of my Stampin' Up! sets.

The SU! set that I used is called Marvelous Morning Glory. It contains ten stamps. Believe it or not, I used nine of them on this card! (Two-step large flowers, two-step buds, two-step leaves, flower "holder," stem, curlicue.) The sentiment is from My Favorite Things. I matted with Old Olive.

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Painted Garden

Here are two cards using the Stampin' Up! set called "Painted Garden."

For this first one, I used the flower and the stem with leaves. I stamped on a cheap watercolor paper after misting the stamp. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and the patterned cardstock is from Die Cuts With a View. I added an enamel dot for the flower center.

This second card uses the remaining stamps in the set: the two flowers, the stem (again), the swirl for the background, and the butterfly. Again, the sentiment is from My Favorite Things. The card base and image panel are both ivory cardstock.

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Paint Prints

Another set done! The set I used for this card is called "Paint Prints." I used all six of the stamps on this one card: two sizes of flowers, leaf, flower center, rectangle shadow stamp and "delight." I matted with black. Done! :)

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Happy Second Birthday, Jonah ... and the Card Giveaway

Our second-to-the-youngest grandson, Jonah, will turn two on the 30th. This is the card that I made for him. I am entering it into the QKR Stampede challenge, which is to make a child's birthday card. Great timing:)

I saw this cute little tugboat on the Silhouette pages and thought I should have it. It is mounted on foam squares. I embossed the light blue piece with a Fiskars texture plate. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and is embossed with white. I thought the "2" kind of served double duty!


I'm not sure that everyone who left me a comment on this card wanted a chance to receive it, but I "entered" everyone:) Chosen by random.org, the winner is Comment #1, Nikki Smith. Thanks to all for your comments. Nikki, please contact me with your address and I will get your card in the mail!

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