Fun Fold Friday - Artistically Inked

 Here we are and it's already Friday! Today's card is similar to one that I cased from another demonstrator, Susan Stampfield. I made one similar to Susan's card for our retreat but tomorrow is my daughter in law, Jemma's birthday so this will be for her. I have still used the Artistically Inked stamp set and Artistic Dies and decorated by adding some DSP from Hello, Irresistible 6" by 6" DSP. 

 Susan's called her card a Flying Seagull and is only 10.5cm high or 4,1/8" but this time I have made mine from 1 sheet of A4 White card. I cut the sheet in half at 14.85cm by 21cm.  I then had 2 pieces the same size and scored each piece at 5.7cm, 10.1cm and 15.8cm. (2,1/4", 3,15/16" and 6,3/16")I burnished each of the score lines and then turned the right hand one upside down. This now means that the outer panels are both 5.7cm. I cut another piece of White card  at 10cm by 14.85cm (4,1/8" by 5,7/8") This panel will now be adhered to the 2 inner panels that measure 5.2cm or 2,1/16" wide. I suggest using Tear 'n Tape or Tombow, one side at a time. Susan advised fixing the other side of the panel by turning it over once the first half of the panel is glued. There is no other fixing for this card. Once the single panel is glued to the 2 panels/card base, it should measure approximately 32cm or 12,1/2". 

I used 2 different designs of the papers, one is in a lighter shade of Flirty Flamingo and the other is the Soft Sea Foam. I used the same ink pad colours too. When I stamped the flowers, the colour was a little too strong so I stamped over the stamped images with my Whisper Ink pad. I softened the colours down perfectly.

My completed card standing up. I like the 2 colours together, they seem to complement each other nicely. What do you think?

The card laid out in full length.

Measurements for each piece of the card

You should be able to see how the panels are adhered in the centre. The folds from left to right should be Mountain, Valley, Valley. The 2 edge pieces are standing up together facing you. This will be the front of your card. The next folds are Valley, Valley, Mountain.

This picture shows the 2 centre panels that the single piece will be adhered to. You literally push both folds together, glue one side, turn it over and glue the other side up tight to the fold. You will notice a small gap at the sides of the front, floating panel. That is to allow the cars to fold without bulking the card out.

Once the panel is glued onto the card bases it is now time to decorate. I did not decorate the 2 panels below the centre one as they are not on show at all. I added a sentiment to the centre back of the card so there is somewhere to add my message for Jemma. The sentiment is from Celebrating You stamp set. I used some left over strips of the DSP and some flowers and leaves to make it a little more interesting.
 

 Here we are and it's already Friday! Today's card is similar to one that I cased from another demonstrator, Susan Stampfield. I made one similar to Susan's card for our retreat but tomorrow is my daughter in law, Jemma's birthday so this will be for her. I have still used the Artistically Inked stamp set and Artistic Dies and decorated by adding some DSP from Hello, Irresistible 6" by 6" DSP. 

 Susan's called her card a Flying Seagull and is only 10.5cm high or 4,1/8" but this time I have made mine from 1 sheet of A4 White card. I cut the sheet in half at 14.85cm by 21cm.  I then had 2 pieces the same size and scored each piece at 5.7cm, 10.1cm and 15.8cm. (2,1/4", 3,15/16" and 6,3/16")I burnished each of the score lines and then turned the right hand one upside down. This now means that the outer panels are both 5.7cm. I cut another piece of White card  at 10cm by 14.85cm (4,1/8" by 5,7/8") This panel will now be adhered to the 2 inner panels that measure 5.2cm or 2,1/16" wide. I suggest using Tear 'n Tape or Tombow, one side at a time. Susan advised fixing the other side of the panel by turning it over once the first half of the panel is glued. There is no other fixing for this card. Once the single panel is glued to the 2 panels/card base, it should measure approximately 32cm or 12,1/2". 

I used 2 different designs of the papers, one is in a lighter shade of Flirty Flamingo and the other is the Soft Sea Foam. I used the same ink pad colours too. When I stamped the flowers, the colour was a little too strong so I stamped over the stamped images with my Whisper Ink pad. I softened the colours down perfectly.

My completed card standing up. I like the 2 colours together, they seem to complement each other nicely. What do you think?

The card laid out in full length.

Measurements for each piece of the card

You should be able to see how the panels are adhered in the centre. The folds from left to right should be Mountain, Valley, Valley. The 2 edge pieces are standing up together facing you. This will be the front of your card. The next folds are Valley, Valley, Mountain.

This picture shows the 2 centre panels that the single piece will be adhered to. You literally push both folds together, glue one side, turn it over and glue the other side up tight to the fold. You will notice a small gap at the sides of the front, floating panel. That is to allow the cars to fold without bulking the card out.

Once the panel is glued onto the card bases it is now time to decorate. I did not decorate the 2 panels below the centre one as they are not on show at all. I added a sentiment to the centre back of the card so there is somewhere to add my message for Jemma. The sentiment is from Celebrating You stamp set. I used some left over strips of the DSP and some flowers and leaves to make it a little more interesting.
 

Below is the original card that I made for the retreat that is 10.5cm high.

Well, that's it from me for another week so thank you for stopping by. I do hope that you have found some ideas to get you crafting too. I am absolutely hooked on it, I just can't get enough of making cards! 😀😀

Today is Good Friday and I wish you all well for the Easter weekend. 

Cary will be back on Monday with some more of her creations waiting to share with you.
Until I return, Stay safe, keep well but of course....

KEEP ON CRAFTING!! 

😍😍 xx Gill xx 😍😍

This or That Thursday

 Well it has been a very busy day already as I have both my 3 year old grandson Theo all day and almost 3 year old great-grandson Lucien too! They certainly do keep me on my toes!! So for today's cards I have played with an idea I saw on google which I rather liked except for some of the little details. My first one using the Artistically Inked stamp set and the Artistic dies, I have made using Orchid Oasis card and Ink pad. The second card is in the really pretty Polished Pink. Both of the colours are In Colours but sadly the Polished Pink is retiring at the end of the month to make way for some more In Colours. We have a new set of 5 colours waiting in the side lines ready to come on board but that means we are losing the In Colours from 2 years ago. The picture I saw was made by someone called ......ing ink spots. If you know who they are please let me know as I love their card and I would love to thank them in person. 

I stamped the large flower stamp 3 times on the white mat, I die cut some labels from Painted Labels dies and tinted the edges of them with the ink. A few die-cuts of the flower, leaves and the large sprig of leaves were all built up together to make my card.

Can you let me know which you prefer? Pink or Blue or Cary will ask, This or That.

  

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Atristically Inked

 Do you ever have one of those days when you have done so much but when you look back at what you managed to do you realise that you haven't done the 1 main thing you wanted to do? That's me today. I set out to today's card and did so many other things but not the card!! Crazy isn't it? Anyway, I have now made my card for today! In actual fact, I have made 2! It started with a piece of watercolour paper and an acrylic block. I soaked the watercolour paper by spritzing it with cold water. I stamped the block onto a Fresh Freesia Ink Pad and just blobbed it all over. While it was still wet, I added Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green and Bermuda Bay inks in the same way as before. I then spritzed it again and  dried it with a heat gun. Using the large and small flower stamps from Artistically Inked stamp set, I stamped the flowers in Melon Mambo repeatedly across the paper.

Using the Artistic dies, I then die-cut the large flower and leaf out of the watercolour paper. I embossed the mat which was now dry using one of the trio of Embossing Folders called Basics 3D folders. I used some black dimensionals to mount the flower and leaf to the 2 mats and completed both cards with a simple sentiment stamped onto the strip of card that I removed from the watercolour mat. 

Below is the mat before it was die-cut. It looks very odd I know but I am rather pleased with it.

 

                                                                            2nd card

Make It Simple Monday - Artisitcally Inked

 Hello and welcome back this week. I loved Cary's fun fold on Friday, did you? I love all of those type of cards as they really are fun to open and receive too. Back to now, I have decided to use a stamp set that will be carrying over into the New Catalogue which comes out in a few weeks time. We are all so excited to be able to order some of the new products when we can. Not soon enough for me though. I don't much like waiting. I know, everything comes to he who waits..... I'm still waiting! So as I said, I have made a very simple card for today using the gorgeous Artistically Inked stamp set. I stamped the smaller flower across the centre of the card, adding a few leaves and a sentiment. Yes, I have used 3 colours but this can be done in just the one colour and maybe add some colouring around the images. Even simpler! I used the amazing bright In Colour ink pads called Tahitian Tide for the flowers, Parakeet Party for the leaves and the Memento ink pad for the sentiments. A lovely, simple card to start the week.