Limited Supplies Birthday

I made this card with more "card parts."

The flower was stamped and colored already. I do not know the maker of the stamp. I believe this is how it was done: (It's been a long time since I did it!) The flower is a solid image stamp. It was stamped in white and then colored over with colored pencils. Sorry if I'm giving you mis-information. I added white dots around the edge of the flower and doodled around the edge of the black piece.  The sentiment was also die-cut and in my card parts pile. The patterned paper is from Recollections.

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Nature's Wonders #3

Normally, I take one picture of my cards and if it doesn't turn out, I will take another. For this card, I wasn't sure which angle to photograph it from, so I did it four times. Then I couldn't decide which one showed it best, so you get three of them! :)

I used the last two stamps from the Stampin' Up! set called "Nature's Wonders." Another off my list! I'm very slowly making progress. Life is just too busy! I stamped the images with Versamark ink on black. Then I embossed them with detail silver embossing powder and trimmed them down. I matted them on shimmery silver paper. I added a strip of Washi tape under the images and matted with black. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.

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Embossing Paste Anniversary

Here's a card "letting the paper do the talking." :)

I was looking through my brass stencils one day last week, and came across this Happy Anniversary one. It had been a while again since I'd used embossing paste, so I decided to get it out again. For this card I used white glossy embossing paste. The stencil is from Dream Weaver. I scored two lines on the top and two on the bottom using my Scor-Buddy, matted with white and mounted on foam squares. Then I didn't know what to do with it! It was kind of big. I looked through my neglected patterned paper and found this piece from Die Cuts With a View Cafe Mediterranean matstack which coordinated very well with my sentiment and finished up the card very simply.

I had such a nice time yesterday. An "on-line" friend came over to stamp. So awesome! It was fun exchanging ideas and techniques. Hope we can do that again! Hi, Deb! :)

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And Yet Another Sympathy Card!

Even though this is officially a "Thinking of You" card, it was made to send to a church member who just lost her mother.

I used the other image stamp from the Stampin' Up! set called "Thoughts and Prayers." And since I have now used both of the images and four of the sentiments (two outside and two inside) I think I will consider it done when I finally come to it during my mission to use all of my SU stamps. I inked up the branch in brown, the leaves in green and the flowers in purple - using markers. I matted with green. I embossed the white layer with the same Crackle Darice folder. I added "pearls" to the flower centers with my Viva Pearl Pen. That is so awesome for making whatever size pearls you want.

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Another Sympathy Card

I needed two more sympathy cards, so I made them both the same. (Parents of friends. I guess I'm just at that age.)

The two stamps that I used are from the Stampin' Up! set called "Thoughts and Prayers." I colored the tree stamp with a brown and a green marker, then misted with water and stamped it on a piece of white cardstock. I matted that piece with dark brown. The bottom layer is green. I embossed it with a Darice folder called "Crackle." I matted the sentiment and mounted it on foam squares. (On the other card, the sentiment was stamped right on the same layer as the tree. I stamped this sentiment crooked, so this was the solution to that!) 

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Nature's Wonders #2

My fall-to layout for a square image - stamp three times and line up on the card front. This is card #2 using the Stampin' Up! set called "Natures Wonders." I used SU! Sahara Sand to stamp my images and also the sentiment, which is from Papertrey Ink. The sand dollars are all mounted on foam squares.

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Nature's Wonders #1

The first of my cards using the Stampin' Up! set called "Nature's Wonders."

Someplace I had seen someone stamp on colored cardstock and emboss with white and then color the image. I thought it was very cool! So, that's what I did with this card. The flower is from the Nature's Wonders set. I stamped with Versamark and embossed with detail white embossing powder. I colored with Distress markers. The sentiment is from Stampendous.

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Celebrate

I recently came across my Letterpress plate by Sizzix and thought I would use it again. I inked it up with Stampin' Up!'s ink called Summer Starfruit and used a strip of white cardstock. I added it to a layer of Summer Starfruit cardstock. I stamped the sentiment, from Scrappy Cat, on a strip of the starfruit cardstock in Versamark and embossed with detail white embossing powder. I scored a line on the top and bottom and mounted the sentiment strip on foam squares.

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Happy Anniversary, Lucy and David!

Happy Anniversary, Lucy and David! Lucy is one of my oldest friends ... well, make that our friendship is one of my oldest! :) This is the card I sent Lucy and her husband for their anniversary, which was yesterday.

I used a friend's die set when she was here to stamp with me a couple weeks ago. (Thanks, Bonnie!) It's by Sizzix through Stampin' Up! The papers are SU! also. The die cut flower border is from my stash from our Group Gathering last summer. The stamps are from Verve. I would not normally choose to sponge black ink around the edges. However, that was my solution after somehow rubbing the card on my black ink pad after it was finished! Oops. The butterfly was cut using a Memory Box die.

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Thinking of You

I made this card for a friend who lost her husband a year ago.

The die-cut border I cut at a friend's house recently. I made the card around it, coordinating the colors. But when I was putting it together, I decided that I wanted it a little darker - so I used an ink pad and rubbed on it. Now it matches perfectly, since it was the same ink! :) The flowers were stamped using an Inkadinkado stamp. I inked it up first with the green ink, rubbed the ink off the flowers and added the purple with a marker. I also added two different sized gem-like stickers to the flower centers. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up!

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Happy Birthday, Dad!

I had things to be done yesterday, but I took a break to spend some time in my stamping room. I decided to check out the challenges at SplitCoastStampers and chose to do the Technique Lovers' Challenge.

This week's challenge is "Negative Glitter." You die-cut an opening and add glitter underneath using double-sided tape and colored glitter. I used quarter-inch Scor-Tape on a white card base and put three strips of it across the card, positioned under where the opening would be. I removed the backing on one piece of tape and sprinkled the glitter on it. I cleaned off the excess glitter, removed the paper from the second piece of tape and added the second color of glitter. Then I repeated the process and added the third color of glitter. When I was in Omaha, I had used Sheri's die to cut this front panel from Papertrey Ink's Terra Cotta Tile cardstock, and it had been sitting on my table, waiting to be used. I finally had the perfect use for it! I stamped the loon (from Repeat Impressions) on the card front and then the sentiment (from Hero Arts.) It was lacking a little something, so I used a fine-tip marker to add the hand-doodles around the edges. Then I adhered the card front to the card base.

This card is for my dad, who will be 90 on Friday. We're having a party for him and I sure hope it's well-attended!

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Love Ya Bunches #3

OK - this finishes off another Stampin' Up! set. This is "Love Ya Bunches" and is the third card with that set. There were two sentiments that I did not use - "love ya bunches" and "of all the gifts life could send - the best is knowing you're my friend."

I stamped the image with Memento black ink and colored with Copics. I stamped again on scrap cardstock and colored the wheelbarrow. Then I put two coats of Deep Impressions embossing powder for a thick coat of gloss. I cut out the wheelbarrow, put a couple foam squares near the top, and then glued down the rest of it, to give it a sort of wheelbarrow shape. I added tiny black gems to the flower centers.

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Love Ya Bunches #2

I woke up early and couldn't get back to sleep, so I gave up and headed down to my stamping room this morning.

This is the second card using the Stampin' Up! set called "Love Ya Bunches." It took much longer than it should have!! I sort of planned it in my head, which I do very rarely. In my head, I used my pine branch border punch and green cardstock. The pine branch was much too heavy for the small image. I switched to a different border punch, but still used the green. Another mistake. I needed something brighter and cheerier. (It was a pine green, and too dark.) I went with Pacific Point and the border punch. Any border just seemed too heavy, so I trimmed off the scallops and went with a VERY thin border of the blue. I stamped the image with Memento black ink, planning on coloring with Copics. Then it hit me that I sure couldn't use Copics with the image stamped directly on the card front! So, I dug out some other markers and colored the birds and the balloon. Whew - at least I realized before I used my Copics:) I added some Diamond Glaze (same as Crystal Effects??) to the birds and the balloons. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! :)

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"Windy Flowers" Birthday

More "card parts." I WILL get back to my Stampin' Up! project, but I'm kind of stuck on card parts right now - when I have time to anything at all.

These flowers have been stamped for a couple years, also. I think they should be more straight up and down, but they are stamped with multiple stamps and when I stamped the first ones, I didn't realize which direction they were. So, these are blowin' in the wind! I mounted the image panel on Old Olive cardstock. I embossed the end with a Cuttlebug border folder and embossed three lines with my Scor-Buddy. The sentiment is from The Paper Company.

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Another Simple Sympathy

Another simple sympathy card for today's post. It's VERY similar to last Friday's post. Sorry. Not a lot of stamping time lately:( I did have to use the one I posted last week, and I need to use this one, too. A neighbor died last week, and a friend from church lost her father this week.

Again, I'm using card parts. These poppies have been stamped and in my pile for a couple of years, I think. The "With Sympathy" is die-cut. When I stamped the flowers, I "thumped" them with a darker marker after inking them up with the lighter color.

Today completes week seven without having Wyatt here. Time sure flies!!! I have been busy, and will continue to be busy for most of the last four weeks. My dad will be flying home with my sister on Tuesday, after being in Atlanta for two months. He is doing VERY well and I'm sure he'll be happy to be back in his own home again. However, he's had very good care down there and now he'll have to start doing his own cooking again:) I think he'll have some doctor appointments soon, so we'll find out if the cancer is gone. Sure hope so! His 90th birthday party will be a week from tomorrow, so we'll be celebrating. Hopefully we can get our skydiving scheduled soon, too!

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Happy Birthday, Jim!

It was my husband's birthday last Friday. This is the card I made for him - very quickly!

I cut the grass and golf balls on tees with my Cameo Silhouette - once from green and once from white. I ripped off the balls and tees from the green one and glued the grass onto the white one. I drew the lines with a fine marker and embossed the balls with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I mounted that piece on foam squares. The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

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Happy Birthday, Georgia!

A white birthday card for Georgia - have a great day!

I cut the two pieces with dies from Spellbinders. I sponged some light blue ink on the smaller piece before removing from the die. The sentiment and the flourish are from Verve. I added the "pearls" with a Viva Pearl Pen. I mounted the sentiment panel on foam squares.

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Love Ya Bunches #1

Next in my series of using my retired Stampin' Up! sets.

The image is from the SU set called "Love Ya Bunches." I stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copics. I hand-doodled around the edge. The matting was cut with a Spellbinders die. I mounted the panel on foam squares. I embossed the background with a Quickutz folder and matted with black.

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Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate this joyous event!

This is the only Easter card that I made. When I was in Omaha with friends, I stamped and die cut several images from an Easter set from WPlus9. (Thanks, Sheri!) I colored several pieces with Copic markers, but never got time to make them into cards. I quickly put this one together. I matted the sentiment, and I mounted the basket on foam squares. The inside includes a bunny that I colored, also.

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Daisy Hello

More leftovers:) The daisy is the very last one of several that I had. (I thought they were long gone, but one more showed up!) The stem and leaves were from the same sticker set from Elizabeth Craft that I used yesterday. The yellow panel was cut with a die. I love the "stitched" dies. The background was embossed and in my pile. I matted the layers with black.

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Card Parts Sympathy

This flower image has been in my card parts pile for a couple years. I did the multiple colors by "thumping." I added a gem to the center. The sentiment was die cut, and was also in my card parts. I matted with black.

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"Leftovers" Birthday

I made this card with "leftovers." The leaves are stickers that were left from a package from Elizabeth Craft. I stuck them on the page and then colored with a Copic marker. The flowers are the last two from a Martha Stewart package. I added the sentiment, trimmed down the image panel, attached it to a card base, and poof ... it was done:)

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April Calendar Page

My April calendar page.

The tulips are from Penny Black and are colored with Copics. The sentiment is from an old miscellaneous holiday sentiment set. I doodled-around the edges.

If you are interested in making your own calendars, please feel free to download my files, which can be found under my blog title. I'd love to hear from you if you use them!

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