EMBOSSED LADY BUG

Using this Lasting Impressions stencil meant embossing the pieces with different colors and adding them together.  The only thing I don't enjoy is the fact that these pieces have to be fussy cut by hand instead of using a die.  But it was good to play with them again.

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USING THE SAME STENCIL AS YESTERDAY

MY ROOTS OF MAKING CARDS

I am in Des Moines this week with six of my friends who meet each year in June.  We will be spending a lot of time sharing our toys, shopping,learning new techniques, laughing and eating.  The store where we meet is so generous to let us spread out our supplies and have fun there for several days.  Since we only see each other once a year it is a real treat to spend this time together.  We met yesterday and will be together until we all head home on Thursday.  I am scheduling cards to appear here while I'm gone.

Recently one of my friends who comes to "play" at my house asked about what I meant by dry embossing.  She has embossed with folders but hadn't seen embossing with brass stencils.  It was actually fun to get out my light box and a variety of stencils to show her and it was a way for me to get a little more (very little more) of the large stash of Lasting Impressions papers used.

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It doesn't look like it in the picture, but both the random dot paper and the tiny dotted papers are from the same color category. 

After Carol was gone, I left the light box and some papers on the table to have some more fun so you will be seeing more cards in the next few days.

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IMPRESSION OBSESSION DIE - Bird on a Branch

This card is going to be used for a swap with the ladies I am meeting on Sunday, so I have instructed them NOT to look at my blog today. 

I saw a card on Pinterest that used two die cuts similar to the two white ones I have used here as the backdrop for the bird.

The Bird on a Branch design was cut two times.  I used the entire thing  first and colored the branch and leaves with Copic markers.  I tried using chalk to the color the bird but wasn't happy with it at all.  When I cut the second piece, I trimmed it down using just part of the branch and using the second bird to glue over the first one.  The second branch was colored with Copics as well but using slightly lighter brown and green colors.

Overall I like the card but wish I could have done better with the bird......it's not quite a Robin.

I'll be away Sunday through Thursday but I have posts scheduled for all of next week so I hope you'll be back.  Thanks for coming by!

2 CARDS - DAISY PUNCH and BUTTERFLY DIE

Between all of the 12 x 12 designer papers I have and the smaller paper pads, I really am trying to use some of them.  Lining envelopes has been a help but only a small dent.

The daisy was cut with the SU punch and the leaves were made from the SU Botanical Builder Framelets.  The two pictures below show it partially opened and then opened all the way.

While I had the paper pad out with this floral design, I made one more card and lined the envelope.  This one used a die cut butterfly.

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SU DAISY using LASTING IMPRESSIONS PAPERS

First I embossed a piece of white card stock measuring 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and added it to the card base.  

From the days when I was selling Lasting Impressions products, I have way too much paper left so I have found that they are very useful even if I'm not dry embossing with them. I added a piece of the Petal Pink plaid card stock to the front.  The solid piece of Petal Pink card stock was punched on both edges and then attached.  I punched the Daisy with the SU punch three times and layered them.  

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STAMPIN' UP! - Cardstock & DP

The card stock is So Saffron and Wild Wasabi.  The DP was from Botanical Gardens.  I think the corner die cut is from a Memory Box Distressed Collage set.  I'm sorry I don't know what company the die cut flowers are from.

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