Fun Fold Friday - What A Year!

Well, what can I say? What A Year Memories and More cards are amazing! I have had a real blast this week making cards with them. Today's card has been has been really fun to make too. This whole week I have been using the cards to make greetings cards instead of journalling or scrap booking with them. They are so very versatile. The cards that I've made, I am very pleased with and if I want to, I can still do some scrap booking with the many cards that are left over. 

The pack contains 52 different cards and 4 sheets with peel off stickers on too. There are 26 each in 2 different sizes of which the small ones are 7.6cm x 10.2cm or 3" x 4" and the larger ones are 10.2cm x 15.2cm or 4" x 6". They are all double sided too so you get to choose from 104 different images plus the peel off stickers too. There are 46 images and 26 different 'weeks of the year' ones too. I have included picture of these at the end. Stampin' Up! also do the journalling pockets in the smaller size of 6" by 8" they call them Photo Pocket Pages

Today's card is and easel card. Once again I have used 2 more of the cards and cut into 2 others for the sentiments and one of the peel off sentiments too.  This card was made with a Polished Pink C6 card base 21cm by 14.85cm and scored at 10.5cm and 5.25 on one side and then was folded in half to form the 'hinge'. I cut another C6 mat 10.5cm x 14.85cm this is to become the 'board' on the easel. I added adhesive to one of the long edges on the board and onto the 2nd fold nearest to the edge on the main card. You can see how they go together best in picture 3 below. By adding adhesive on opposite edges of the 2 different pieces, they attach together very easily. Then I had the fun of decorating the card. As I mentioned before, I cut the 2 large sentiments from 2 other cards and mounted them onto some more of the Polished Pink card scraps. They were both added to the card using foam pads(dimensionals). I completed the card with some more of the gorgeous Artistry Blooms Sequins. 

I do hope that you find something to celebrate and enjoy the moment.

If you have ever wondered about becoming a demonstrator with Stampin' Up! now is the perfect time to join our amazing team of people. For this November only the JOINING fee is only £75 a saving of £24 on the normal cost. For only £75 you get to select a whole kit worth up to £130! ALL of your own choice, no one to tell you that you must order this or that. It's all chosen by YOU alone. On top of the £130 worth of products you will receive free of charge, a full kit of catalogues and all the paperwork you will need if you want to sell to your own customers. It really is an amazing offer! If you live in the UK or Europe, please consider joining our amazing team. We have, we believe the best group of people ever. Everyone is unique, individual and amazing in everything they do. There are no compulsory meetings or trainings whatsoever and once you have your kit, it's YOURS to keep. No further charges or persuading you to sell more. It is all run at your own pace. We believe you should demonstrate YOUR WAY

    Thank you for joining me this week and I do hope that I have been able to give you some ideas to make your own cards too. Cary will be back next week to share her amazing creations with you once again, please pop by and join her too. 

Until I come back, please take care, stay safe and well but most of all .....

KEEP ON CRAFTING 😍😍😍

Throwback Thursday - What A Year

Today I have done what I always find so very relaxing. I fussy cut out the pieces for not 1 card but 2! Taking a piece of paper or in this case, one of the cards from the What A Year Memories and More cards and cut it to pieces! The first card was in lots of little pieces too. I found one of these amazing cards that has Hello Sunshine printed on and added it to a Basic White C6 card base.The other card that I cut into had a swathe of flowers and leaves from one side, curving down along the bottom and slightly up to the other side. As you'll see I even cut the tiniest of leaves! Using the foam pads (Dimensionals) I stuck each piece back onto the new card. I added a few of the Artistry Blooms sequins once again, onto this time, the centre of the flowers and die cut sentiment from another of the smaller cards to complete this one.

Nothing complicated once again but the pleasure that I get from fussy cutting and making a card is just so rewarding, it's an amazing feeling.

Another amazing feeling is the buzz I get from being part of our amazing crafting family. For this November only, Stampin' UP! are offering a JOINING special offer of only £75 for your choice of £130 worth of product! That is such an amazing bargain! Just imagine the pleasure you can have by choosing your own kit, joining an brilliant team of crafters and most importantly sharing the love of making cards with friends and family. 

There is nothing better than giving or receiving a hand crafted card.   

In addition, from today until 18th November, there is a fantastic sale too! Just imagine stocking up on cardstock at 10% off, 15% off Ink Pads and a whopping HUGE discount of 20% off of Dies. ALL of the discounted products are in the ANNUAL Stampin' Up! catalogue. If you don't have one, contact either Cary or me and we will happily send you one. The quicker way to take benefit of the sale is to go online to this link HERE and see the annual catalogue in all its glory. GO ON, treat yourself...you know that you want to!

 

  

Below is the 2nd card that I made. Again, I used my scissors to cut the houses out and this time I raised some of the houses onto foam pads and the other 2 between them were fixed flat with Multipurpose glue. The What A Year cards also have several sheets of peel off labels and sentiments one of which was added to the front. On the inside, there wasn't a phrase to add so I cannibalised the letters from some of the days of the week on one of the cards and made the sentiment.

Watercolour Wednesday - What A Year

Well, I am supposed to be showing you a watercoloured card today but I'm not perfect!! I cheated! As you may be aware, I am using the Memories and More cards this week and today's card reminds me of a watercoloured card. Using the What A Year cards I found that some of the cards have an image that looks like it's been watercoloured so I have used one of them. These cards are so varied and fun, pretty and strong, simple and vibrant, they are just brilliant! I have done a little scrap booking in the past but it's not something that I have ever kept up but thankfully I have kept all of the photos of the family and I hope that one day, I can sit and journal or scrap. The beauty of these cards too is that you can make greetings cards with them as I have here. I started with the misty sky background and placed it onto a C6, lovely soft grey colour of a Smoky Slate card base. To me it was calling out for the birds and one of the smaller sized cards had just that. I started cutting 1 or 2 of them and ended up with several ready to add to some of the cards. I used foam dots to raise the birds but I curled them first to give a softer effect. 

Another card was once again cannibalised for the 'Always' and I added a piece of the beautiful Pool Party Sheer ribbon over the centre. I was lucky too as there was another card that I was able to use for the inside to complete the card. Using the Artistry Blooms Sequins once again, I completed this one.        Not a stamp set in sight!!!

 

 

Technique Tuesday - What A Year

Today's card is not really a technique, it is a very simple, quick card with a little added extras. Using the What A Year Memories and More cards, today I have used the gorgeous dark grey of Basic Gray as my card base and this beautiful card in the soft muted green of Pool Party and lots of bees. The added extras are the 2 hearts. These were both punched out using the brilliant Heart Punch Pack, a set of 2 heart punches. One has scalloped edges and the other is slightly smaller but has plain edges. They were also cut out in the Basic Gray and Pool Party card stock. 

In the pack of Memories and More cards are a number of sheets of die cut, adhesive labels ready to peel off and add to a card as I have done with the Hi Friend and the inside one of Lovel You So. There are many more shapes, sentiments and images, all ready to peel off and add as you want to. 

To complete this card, I added another of the double-sided cards to the inside before adding the peel off sentiment. Yes, that's the added bonus, ALL of the cards are double-sided! 2 for the price of 1. Some more of the lovely coloured sequins were randomly added to give a little sparkle to the card.

 

Make It SImple Monday - What A Year

Hello and welcome back. This week Cary and I attended our team training and we were using the What A Year Memories and More cards. So as I had started to make some of them, I thought that I would continue for the rest of this week and show you what can be made using them. Yes the cards are originally made for journalling or scrap booking but they are equally as brilliant for making some amazing greeting cards. The cards come in 2 different sizes. 10.2cm by 15.2cm or in imperial measurements 4" x 6" are the larger cards and the smaller ones are 7.5cm by 10.2cm.

My first card is of course in red. Poppy Parade to be precise. Those of you who know me know that red is MY favourite colour of all time. It doesn't matter what colour red, I just love all reds! Ok, I digress! 

All I have added to the kit is my own card stock to make the card bases. There are cards and envelopes to go with the card images and messages but I don't have them. YET! All I have done is taken one of the smaller mats and added foam pads (Dimensionals) to the back of the card. I had a strip of White Glittered Organdy ribbon hanging around so I cut it in half and added a strip to the top and bottom of the card mat. A few sequins from Artistry Blooms and another mat was 'cannibalised' for the Happy on the inside. 

That's was it finished. The card took me only a few minutes to put together which shows that anyone can make a card quickly and simply and send to someone else.