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It was so fun to personalize some cards for my daughters to use! You can guess this one was for a drummer!

Linking to the Crafty Catz Challenge – anything goes!

and linking to DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge – anything goes/optional graduation

and linking to Time Out Challenges – playing music!

I’ll link up what I used below. The drum set is from My Favorite Things. No longer open but maybe it can be found searching. I don’t see the congratulations anymore either so I’ll link up a different one, it’s not as long though.

This one was for a vocalist and pianist! So fun!

Linking my piano keyboard card to the Simply Clean & Simple May Challenge – Clean and Simple.

and linking to Cards 4 Guyz – Clean and Simple.

and linking to Try it Tuesday – Keep it simple!

congradulations is another stamp from My Favorite Things…

Keyboard and Microphone are from Spellbinders, linked below.

This one was for a cello player that plays basketball and volleyball too!

The filmstrip is a really old Sizzix or Accucut die!

Linking my old filmstrip die card to the Neglected Stuff Challenge – use at least one old neglected product.

and linking to the Alphabet Challenge – B is for ball

Cap, basketball, words and numbers from Spellbinders. (it looks like the sports set is discontinued)

Stars from Memory Box.

Below, more cards that would work for anyone….

I like the cap on numbers and letters! lol This is the TE Little Bits cap, Quickutz extra Large Blossom numbers, TE layered Star stencil and TE congrats grad sentiment.

Linking my congrats grad card to the Stencil Fun Challenge – stencils are the game!

and linking to the Just Add Ink Challenge – add stencils or dies or both!

and this one…

TE star background stamp and cap die. Quickutz Diesel Numbers. Sub sentiments are from My Favorite Things. I found some other small sentiments and linked them up below…

Last but not least…although it looks like the words didn’t all take the foiling, they did! No idea why it looks black. I made two of these.

TE foiling cards and TE graduation cap.

Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies.

That’s all I think! eek! I had fun making…I hope you’ve been having fun too!

Now back to the regularly scheduled program! haha I have a sympathy card, some birthday cards and baby cards to share!

ttul!

Some shopping links for products that are still current…

Simon Says Stamp CONGRATULATIONS… [ SSS ]	Simon Says Clear Stamp EZ Strips… [ SSS ]	Hero Arts Everyday Sentiment Strips 2… [ SSS ]
Classic Mouse Graduation Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SSS \| SBC ]	Mini Musical Instruments Etched Dies… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]	Classic Mouse Graduation Sentiments… [ SPL \| SBC \| SSS ]

Happy Thanksgiving week! I know, I should be posting something with pilgrims on it! I did love studying about Pilgrims and all they endured to come to American! Amazing! I don’t know that I could’ve been that strong a person. Thankful they were!

Here’s a fun, festive card using dies again… I did something different with them though. I foiled everything! A couple months ago, I needed a new printer so I went ahead and got an HP laser jet, so I could foil of course too! I ‘leaped’ into the beauty of foiling with the mini 6×6 Minc after a friend demoed her’s at stamp club.

Here’s the scoop. If you photocopy the back side of your dies with a laser printer, then run them through the Minc foiling machine, then die cut them, you get this neat edge like you see on this Elliana Ornament. You’ll see it on the next card below too. One trick I figured out though, you have to photocopy your die twice. So when it spits out, just copy again, to get it black enough because the dies are silver… if you can’t figure out which way to put it back in, put a mark on your paper, you won’t use that part anyway. I also found that smoother cardstock works the best. I used Hammermill Color Copy Cover cardstock. I use it a lot for coloring with Copics too.

I really love the look of foil and it really is easy! 😀 I used Heidi Swapp Red Foil on the Ornament… I die cut a piece of vellum with the Drop Ornaments die to put behind the Elliana Ornament die.

and Heidi Swapp Gold on the Poinsettia Ornament and Plush Poinsettia Corner dies. Pine Needle Distress ink sponged on with the ink blending tool. What a gorgeous color. I need to use it more!

Here’s a card I made with the Elliana Ornament last year and some posts with the Plush Poinsettia here.

Linking up to some challenges…
Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes

SSS is also having a one day sale on their brand! YAY!

The Challenge #52 – Create a Christmas Card

Christmas Card Challenges – Anything Goes

Then how about a silver foiled snowflake! This is the Limoges Snowflake die and Lindeman Snowflake die. I photocopied both for foiling.

Can you see how the silver is just on the edges of the cut? That’s because there are holes in the die, so the holes leaves white when you photocopy it. cool. My photos don’t do it justice. Here’s a couple pictures of the parts, photo taken under the ott lite.

I did run these back through the Big Shot to get the embossing too.

I layered the Modern Tile Backgound die cut from white cardstock to a piece of navy cardstock that I’d spattered with white ink and the Ink splatter tool and then to a white top folded A2 card base. The snowflake was mounted with thin mounting squares cut to fit and the center flake mounted with regular thickness mounting squares. The Lindeman snowflake is stuck on with a dot of glue in the center.

Crazy but fun seeing what you come up with! : )

I used the Limoges Snowflake die on a couple cards last year too… here and here. Three different looks between the three cards.

Thank you for stopping by today! I appreciate it! Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Dies and Supplies I used to make these cards… be sure to check out my links for the Big Shot and the Minc machine…great prices @ scrapbook.com. Thank You!