Fun Fold Friday - Christmas Friends

Hello, it's Friday again already! Using my Christmas Friends stamps and dies today I have made a card cased from another demonstrator. Her name is Einat Kessler. The card she made, she has called a flipping photos card. Here is the link if you would like to case it.                                                     https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/529454499962143725/

It is made with a piece of card 10.5cm by 29.7 cm long. There are a few extra pieces but it is such a great card and it can be made as a C6 sized card too. It will of course be a 15 cm square card or 6" by 6" card. On my card, I used pieces of DSP from the Season of Green Speciality DSP. It's gorgeous as it has gold prints on the reverse of each one. I do like a touch of Gold in my cards and in my jewellery too!

You can see from the photo below that the card opens with a window piece on the front. This is the hinge that will enable opening and the ability to see both sides of the front of the card as you open it. It is really a very cool fun fold card.

 

I hope you enjoy making the card. I haven't included the full metric measurements that I used but I can add them should you want me to. 

That's it for me then for another week. Cary as usual will be back on Monday so please stop by and see what amazing creations the she can inspire you with.

I will be back the following week so until then, take care, stay safe but as always.....,

KEEP ON CRAFTING

xxx😍😍😍 Gill 😍😍😍 xxx

 

This or That Thursday - Christmas Friends

 Hello on this lovely sunny Thursday. For my This and That cards today, I have made 2 similar projects but used different papers and the Christmas Friends stamp set and Dies too this time. 

 

 THIS

For this today I used a piece of the DSP from Winter Meadow DSP adhered to a of Night of Navy card base. I stamped several of the polar bears onto a scrap of White card and coloured them all in. I chose this one as I think it coordinates well with the paper colours. I used a gold gel pen for the decorations and the bow on the wreath around his neck and then die cut a bow from the Silver and Gold adhesive backed card. I also die cut garland pieces and adhered them to a piece of white card that I had stamped my sentiment onto. Once the garland was dry, I fussy cut around it to follow the leaves on the garland itlsef. I added another of the Polar Bears to the inside white mat and another piece of the garland under the sentiment. I used a Sticky note to omit the words from the sentiment... Owl be ...

THAT

My THAT card I used  a piece of patterned paper from the Nests of Winter DSP. This was layered onto a Basic Black mat then onto aGray Granite card base. This time I used the Reindeer for my card. I coloured him in using the Stampin' Blends pens, I made a small cut-out from his mouth and added a present into it. I used some more of the gold glimmer paper from the Silver and Gold adhesive backed glimmer again onloy this time for a bow or 2 and the ribbons for some presents. Very simple cards today so hopefully not too difficult to decide which you prefer.This time thought, I have added the Owl inside adn the sentiment Owl be thinking of you this season. 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Christmas Friends

I really had great fun with today's watercolour card! I started with a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour Card 12.5 cm by 9cm, I knew it was going to be much smaller than a C6 mat and that was fine. Using Versamark ink, I stamped the reindeer from the Christmas Friends stamp set onto the card using my stamp positioner. I inked it up a few times to make sure that the ink was all over. I then poured white embossing powder and heat set it using my heat tool. Then using a watercolour tray, I added some drops of Reinker in 4 different colours and watered each colour well. Then starting with the blue of Balmy Blue, I brushed the colour several times across the piece of card. Then the pink of Bubble Bath, orange of Calypso Coral and finally yellow of Daffodil Delight. The reindeer looked cool but I wanted him to look more realistic. Using the Calypso Coral, watered down ink, I added some of the ink onto the reindeer and the pink of the bubble bath for his skates. I really just played and enjoyed the crazy result too. 

Once it was dry, I added it to a Calypso Coral mat and then onto Balmy Blue card. Inside the white mat was added to Balmy Blue mat and adhered inside the white card base. I stamped the Owl on the inside of the card and coloured in using my Stampin' Blends pens.

 

 

Tips, Tricks, Techniques Tuesday - Christmas Friends

For today's card using the Christmas Friends stamp set I have made a book fold card. A book fold is very simple for those who haven't made one. By simply scoring the centre fold and then another scored line parallel to the centre fold on the front of the card approximately 3cm from the first scoreline. The width of the book fold can vary from card to card, there is no fixed rule. Adhere that scored panel only onto the back of the card will leave you with a front panel approximately 10.5cm high by 11.5 cm wide. Then as I have done, I added some pieces of DSP or Designer Series Paper onto your panels and decorate to your hearts content. You can see where the book fold panel is on my card, it does mean that you will have a smaller inside on the card to write but you can always write onto the back of the card too.

I used the DSP from a Sentimental Christmas, along with some Poppy Parade and a White card base. 

 

Make It Simple Monday #simplestamping - Christmas Friends

 Hello and thank you for stopping by today. This week I am going to play with the NEW set called Christmas Friends. These cute little set are just as I would imagine them if they were to celebrate the Christmas time. 2 cards for the price of 1 today though. I started with a gorgeous soft minty green of Coastal Cabana which I love. I stamped direct to the card base on the one side after protecting it with a piece of Sticky roll and then got stamping. I added a strip of the even softer minty green  Pool Party ribbon. Love it  as it even has tiny little white pom poms on!

I then wondered what it would look like in White, so I tried that too. Now, I couldn't decide which I preferred so I asked the family. Would you believe that out of 6 of them it was half and half!

 

Fun Fold Friday - Changing Leaves

Hello, today is the end of the week's blog posts for me and I have gone with a fold that sort of appeared. Using the Changing Leaves stamp set, I decided to make a simple fold and incorporate a few die cuts and some of the sentiments. My fold really is simple. Using a piece of A4 card, I scored the piece in half lengthwise and widthwise then cut off the top left rectangle. I then scored down the left hand panel to give 2 narrow, identical panels on the left hand side of the card base. I trimmed about 2 mm from the 2 edges of the remaining top rectangle on the right so that the card would close comfortably when the panel is closed down. I burnished all of the folds and started to add some DSP. 

I started by adding some Peach Pie glimmer card from the 2024 - 2026 In Colour Glimmer onto the 2 left hand panels. I then added some of the Vellum DSP from the coordinating Graceful Greenery Vellum on top of the glimmer. It gives a lovely background. I trimmed down the panel that I had cut off to 10cm by 14.4cm and added it to the inisde on the right hand side of the card base. 

I then took a piece of DSP from another coordinating paper called Season of Green and Gold. It's gorgeous!! I added  that to the front of the right hand panel then added a frame that I had made from the glimmer paper. On top of that, I added the white patterened vellum from the Changing Leaves vellums. After chopping a few of the ferns and berried, I added them to the card in different places. 

 

Well that's it from me this week. It has been a very busy one. Trips to the doctors, dentist and more importantly my grandson Theo and Great-Grandson Lucien both started school on Wednesday. They walked off so happily and full of beans in their bright blue jumpers, white polo shirts and grey pressed trousers. Oh bless them! 

Anyway, Cary will be back to share her creations on Monday and I will be back the following week.  Until then and as always, take care, stay well but of course.....

KEEP ON CRAFTING

 😍😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍😍

This or That Thursday - Changing Leaves

Hello, now is the day for you to choose your favourite card. No pressure of course, that is of obviously dependant on if you like any of them! Using the Changing Leaves dies, embossing folder and stamps today, I started with pieces of A6 white card and a large F sized Stampin' Up! Acrylic Block.

Then for THIS card, using Stampin' Up Marker pens, I scribbled lots of circles and lines and basically just had fun scribbling! Once I had covered the block with ink, I woke it up with a good shower from a Spritzer. I gave it really good soak and the colours all turned into lots of bubbles. Then, I added the pieces of white card on top of the blocks and allowed the paper to soak up all of the colour. I repeated it a several times as I wanted to die cut out all of the pieces of patterned paper. I used my heat gun to dry them all as I'm too impatient to wait! Then I started going to town and die cut all of the small leaves in the die set. They came out really well and using an A4 sheet of white card, I adhered them in a cross shape of North, South, East and West across the paper. When the glue had dried I chopped them all into A6 pieces. So, 10cm by 14.4cm or 4" by 5,13/16th" I am sure that you have different measurements outside the UK so use those instead!

THIS 

Here are all of the first 4 cards

Card 1 above in Granny Apple Green card base

Card 2 in  Garden Green card base.

Card 3 in Pretty Peacock card base.

Card 4 in Lemon Lime Twist card base

All 4 cards for THIS

 

I didn't make the one card as you may have guessed as I got 4 card fronts from the A4 piece. Yes, I made a set of 4 very similar cards and the other card,  my THAT card, is different again.  

THAT

THAT 

So my THAT card is another one this time in a Lost Lagoon card base. I started with an embossed mat in the Changing Leaves embossing folder and a strip of Lost Lagoon about 4cm wide by the length of the white card mat. I stamped 4 of the smaller leaf in memento onto some scraps of white card and then proceeded to use my Stampin Blends to colour them in. I used of course the Lost Lagoon blends pens. I fussy cut all four out and then cut them in down the centre. I adhered each piece to the back of the central bar in Lost Lagoon and added them onto the card base. I did emboss the Lost Lagoon bar too by the way. I stamped the sentiment and die cut it out and added the last leaf to the back of the sentiment bar too. 

That was it. 

Please let me know which you like? Will it be the set of 4 THIS cards or the single THAT card in Lost Lagoon?