Fun Fold Friday - Crafting With You

 Well, I can't believe that it's Friday already! Where has the week gone? Anyway, for my last card this week using the Crafting With You stamps and dies, I have had a ball!! I have really gone to town on this one as it seemed appropriate to go out with a pop!

I made an Easel card with a difference. A standard square card base 14.85 x 29.7cm and scored at 14.85cm again. This is a 5,3/4" square card as I used a piece of A4 card and scored it in half and then made the height the same as the width. I have used a sheet of Stampin' Up! grid paper to cover the whole card back and front and then edged it off with some of the remnants of the Bright and Beautiful Designer Series Papers which have carried over to this years new catalogue fortunately.

 I then went die cutting mad! I have literally almost die cut every shape and image several times and splattered them all over the card. I am chuffed with the final result! It's different but I like it! 😍

Thank you for joining me this week again. Cary will be back on Monday to share her creations. 

Until I return the week after next, please take care, stay safe but as always...

KEEP ON CRAFTING. 

😍😍😍  xx Gill xx  😍😍😍

This or That Thursday - Crafting With You

 Hello and here we are already set for the 2 cards at once day. Before I found paper crafting I used to sew as I have said already this week. It was my passion, my daily focus once the children were at school and as I said before I would often be up until the very early hours of the morning making a garment of one kind or another. I have made wedding dresses, bridesmaids dresses, suits for a pop group, uniforms, going out and staying in clothes too. The list goes on but now my new love and passion is making cards especially with Stampin' Up! products. There is no searching around lots and lots of different shops trying tol find card, paper to match, ribbons, buttons, gems etc all again to match. It was an impossible nightmare...Until Cary met someone who introduced us to the Stampin' Up! way of buying craft products. We were hooked! We still are nearly 20 years later. We would have been before but it didn't come to the UK until I believe 2008 or 2009. We became demonstrators within a very short space of time and still feel the same about it to this day. So today's card using the Crafting With You stamp set and dies, I have encompassed both of my passions into 2 different but very similar cards. Using Sticky notes, or Post It notes, I made several masks of both sewing maching and Cut and Emboss machine. I hope that you can choose which you prefer. 

THIS and THAT

  THIS

 

THAT

  

Watercolour Wednesday - Crafting With You

 Hello on another wet Wednesday. Using the lovely stamp set Crafting With You today, I have gone back to school so to speak! My uniform when at school was exactly the colours I have used here... Black Skirt, Yellow blouse and black or white socks! This was purely by accident until I had finished the card I hadn't realised what I'd done! I think it was the board and easel stand that I suddenly saw my uniform again! Anyway, a semi simple watercolour today. I started by stamping the board and easel onto a plain white mat and then with some cut offs of watercolour paper that I had, I laid them out in the order you see and stamped the image again. It worked!! I used the watercolour from the block technique as it works really well so it was just a case of adding the colour to the flowers and leaves and it was complete. I used Stazon Jet Black Ink for the easel but it looks red here??? How odd! 

Apologies for the wrong pictures to start off with. Here are the correct ones!

Tech 4 Stampers blog hop

 Hello and welcome to this month's Tech 4 Stampers blog hop. The theme this month is no images just words! As you can imagine it certainly got us all thinking outside the box! 

Having a challenge is a great way to get the creative juices flowing and a blog hop is a great way to see how differently we all create when given the same guidelines. 

The first 2 cards I'm sharing are simply sentiment stamps, ink and white cardstock. 

Whilst creating these cards I realised that they are fab for those tricky card recipients... men and teenagers!

If you'd like to see how these cards came together then please watch the video below.

The next card is a little more stepped up. It used lots of coloured ink, coloured cardstock mats and a few sparkling rhinestones. 

If you'd like to see how this one came to be please watch the video below.

Well I hope that these 3 cards have helped to inspire you to think out side the box and have a go at creating cards using no images just sentiments 😀 

Please hop over to the next person in the blog hop and remember to leave comments as you go. ( as creators we really do appreciate it when you comment )

Tips Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Crafting With You

 Hello and thank you for joining me again. Firstly , I must apologise. I am sorry but I thought that Cary had made some projects using the Crafting With You stamp set before. It turned out it was me! The second thing is that Cary has now decided to buy the set too!! 😁😁 Anyway, today's card is a techy one as it folds and holds together with just a simple flower spray. Before I found crafting, I was an avid sewing nut! I loved to sew and you would always find me up until the very early and late hours of the morning making or altering something for me or someone else. Sadly, my hands don't work well enough so I stick with my second love, Crafting. 

I made a card base half the full length of an A4 piece of card and 10.5cm wide. It is a side fold card but landscape style instead of portrait. I added another smaller piece of card to the right and made a small fold then attached it to the main card base.  I used some of the papers from the new In Colour series of papers. I chose the peachy colour. It's gorgeous. I stamped a sewing machine in Smoky slate and fussy cut it out. I had a few die cuts from an old set of dies which have retired and used them. They were from the Stitched Nested Labels. I embossed the front one with the Fun Patterns folder again another retired one. I must take all of my retired ones out!

Make It Simple Monday - Crafting With You

 Hello and thank you for joining me today. I loved the submarines or airships that Cary made last week, weren't they cute? Today, I am doing something completely different of course. I am working with the Crafting With You stamp set this week and today being #simplestamping is the perfect thing to use. Now I know that Cary used them some while ago but I think it's time I put my hands to it too. 

My very simple card has 3 stamped images on the front and 2 on the inside. Sound simple enough? I hope so. I kept to Memento black for the sentiments and the yellow for the flowers and plumb colour for the easel and canvas. I did use an ink pen to go over the leaves. They looked a little silly in yellow!

Fun fold Friday Submarine Life

 Happy Friday everyone 😀 and welcome to my final post for this week using the fab Submarine Life stamps and coordinating punch. Today as always on a Friday it's a fun fold and I had this one in mind as soon as I saw the stamp set!

Called a diorama card this version is very easy thankfully! It all starts with 2 pieces of cardstock measuring 10.5cm x 14.5cm and another piece measuring 12.5cm x 10.5cm.

Take both of the longer pieces and score at 1cm and 2 cm in from each end on the long side.  Next you'll need to create an appature in the center of one of these pieces.  Then a slightly smaller appature in the center of the smaller piece of cardstock. These appatures can be any shape you can use dies, punches or cut them yourself. 

Now I suggest that you gather all the item you wish for the scene you'll be building within the card. I chose to fussy cut a lot of the elements from the submarine Life stamps as they are just too cute 😍.  Once you have the pieces fold the score lines on the 2 larger pieces of cardstock starting with a valley fold then a mountain fold on all four sides. You are then going to sandwich the 3rd piece in-between the folds to create the diorama. But don't adhere anything until you are happy with the scene adding any stamped or texture to the panels in advance. When your happy adhere the sides together sandwiching the center panel so that it resembles the image below. 

The great thing about a diorama card is that you get to create a real 3d scene out of 2d materials!

Achieve the look by adhering your details at different levels within the appature.  I have used a small scrap of acetate so that the submarine appears too be floating through the sea! It's great fun to create 😀

You can add a panel measuring 10cm x 10cm on the back to give you a place to write your message and another area to decorate of course 😉 

Now don't worry the card will still fold flat for posting and with the dimensions given will fit a standard C6 envelope. 

Well that's  all from me this week but don't panic Gill will be here next week sharing her inspiration with us all. So please remember to pop by 😀

Have a great weekend and..

Have fun

Cary xx