February Color Swap

Here is the card I made for the color swap in my stamping group. The colors are gray and raspberry. I cut the panel on the left with a die. I embossed the right side with a Darice embossing folder. I placed this piece over gray cardstock. The sentiment was embossed with Versamark and mounted on foam squares. It's from Papertrey Ink.

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Sending Birthday Wishes

I have had a bunch of these large flowers in my "stash" for many years. I've always thought they were too big to use on a card, but they have remained in my room anyway. Finally one of them made it onto a card. I cut the ferny leaves with dies and colored them with Copics. The sentiment strip was in my card parts and I do not know what company made it. The matting on the sentiment and the flower center are glitter paper.

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Paper-Pieced Trees

Hey, finally a card that does not use pre-made card parts! LOL!

I used Gina K stamps on this card. The trees are paper-pieced with Bo Bonny patterned paper. The image panel is mounted on foam squares. The stamping is all heat embossed with black ink and clear embossing powder.

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Daisy Bouquet

Another stamped panel from my card parts. I colored this one with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol. The sentiment is from Gina K and I'm pretty sure that the flowers stamp is, too. I used an old Stampin' Up! stamp for the speckles in the background.

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Flower Card Parts

Here are four more cards that I made in my quest to use up my card parts. I will never use up ALL of my card parts, but I am going to continue toward that goal.

I believe that both stamps on this card are from Gina K. It was colored with Copics. I added strips of thin glitter tape along each edge of the image panel. I used a Darice cloud embossing folder for the background.

Again, I think these stamps are from Gina K and again are colored with Copics. I matted with gray cardstock and used patterned paper for the background.

I'm pretty sure this flower stamp is from Stampin' Up! It, too, was colored with Copic markers. I had stamped the background using a Taylored Expressions stamp when I was at a friend's house in early February. The rose image had been colored for years and I realized that it matched the background perfectly. Poof - two card parts used! :) The sentiment stamp is from Gina K.

More Gina K stamps, I think. The image panel is mounted on Dimensionals.

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Wishing You Sunshine and Love

Another card using a piece that I stamped while visiting a friend. This floral stamp is from Gina K, and the sentiment is, too. I colored the image with Copics. I added a strip of glitter tape to the top of my panel. I mounted the panel on Dimensionals.

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Balloon Birthdays

I stamped and die-cut the main pieces of these cards at a friend's house. The balloon stamps and dies are from Taylored Expressions. I did all the coloring with Copic markers. On this first one, I added dots to the three separate balloons with a Copic colorless blender. Those balloons are mounted on foam squares. The sentiment was cut from Bo Bunny printed cardstock.

The sentiment on this card is from the same set as the balloons. I added three scored lines above and below the sentiment. The loose balloons are mounted on foam squares.

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Snowflake Christmas

This card was made with another piece that I die-cut with a friend's die. I think it's from Memory Box. It's supposed to have two pieces coming out the left side, also, but I messed it up. It was too pretty to toss, though. I added it to a strip of blue which I scored with my Scor-Pal along the top and bottom. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn. I cut the panel to 4 x 5.25 and added it to a white card base.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Here are the valentines I made for the grandkids this year. I realized after I was done that I had one of these sets last year in time to use it for their last year's cards. Oops! I don't think they'll mind too much, though. :) The stamps and dies are all from Recollections. The backgrounds were embossed with embossing folders. Simple enough!

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Poinsettia Christmas

I played in a friend's craft room last week, and this is one of the cards I made with my pieces. I used a die set that I believe was from Memory Box/Poppystamps to cut the poinsettia pieces and leaves. I had cut them from white and colored them with Copics after I got home. The background is patterned paper from Gina K. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts set.

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Home Birthday

Well, I finally took some time for card-making. It feels good. I'm not sure how much time I'll spend in my stamping room, but for now at least I have a few cards to share.

I cut these houses and stars with dies. I made the background with some Tim Holtz Distress Sprays that I got on clearance at Michael's when we were in Chicago in December. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. I placed it on a strip of black and mounted on foam squares.

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February Calendar Page

Well, it's February! And here is my calendar page. I used a Recollections Valentine's set for this one. The background was done with an old, retired stamp from Stampin' Up! from the Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set. I sponged pink ink around the edges.

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January Color Swap

Here is the card I made for the January Color Swap in my stamping group. (I missed the sign-up, though, so for me it's just a "virtual swap.") The colors are navy and coral. I die-cut the sentiment out of navy cardstock. I matted with the same color. The patterned paper is double-sided and I folded up the corners and added navy brads.

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Hedgehog Birthday Wishes

More card parts:) Both the image and the sentiment were pre-stamped and in my card parts box. Gone! I colored the image with Copic markers and matted it with black. I trimmed the sentiment way down and matted it with black, too. Then I mounted it on foam squares. I do not know who made either of the stamps.

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Butterfly Hello

Another simple card for today. This stamped image was in my stamp-offs pile. I have gotten rid of most of them, but saved some to color and use. I'm not sure who made this stamp. It MIGHT be Northwoods. I colored it with Copic markers and added black strips under the top and bottom. The "hello" was die-cut four times and stacked.

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Die-Cut Dragonflies - Times Six

I die-cut these dragonflies a couple years ago and finally used them up. I used different colors for each of them with different colored matting and various stamped sentiments.

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Loss of a Furry Family Member

A good friend of mine recently had to put one of her three cats to sleep. Always a sad time. This is the card that I made for her.

The embossed background was made using a Fiskars texture plate. I die-cut the kitty and the sentiment. I added patterned paper on the bottom and a thin strip of black.

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Iris Sympathy

These stamped and die-cut irises were in with my card parts. I decided to color them and add them to a card, finally. I used Copic markers for the coloring. I used black cardstock for a thin border mat. The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.

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Belated Birthday

Well, life has been busy, but I'm finally continuing on with my tradition of posting pictures of the birthday cards that I receive. So, here they are! This first picture is of all of them.

And this second one is of the handmade cards that I got, from left to right, top to bottom, they are from: Lucy, Leslie, Darnell, Harriet, Vicki, Kris, Joyce, Annie and Sheri. Thanks to everyone for the birthday greetings.

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January Calendar Page

I simply colored this image with Copics and then die-cut it with a stitched frame die. The stamp is one I borrowed from a friend and is from Brother Sister Design Studio. Happy New Year to ALL!!

The files for my 2020 and 2021 calendars can be found in the links under my blog title.

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