Fun Fold Friday - Beary Christmas

 For my last card this week, I have made a fun, half accordion, folded card. I started with a basic C6 card base in White card and added a C6 mat onto the inside of the card and added a rectangle of white for the writing to go onto. Using the Beary Christmas DSP once again, I cut a piece of the dark blue paper and folded it in half. I fussy cut the polar bear and the Christmas tree and using dimensionals,  added him to the front of this panel. I used some scraps of DSP for the reverse side of the dark blue and fussy cut another polar bear and baby bear and added them to the reverse. I then scored the front of the card base at 2.6cm, 5.25cm, 7.87cm and 10.5cm which is the centre fold . I fan folded them all starting with the first one a mountain fold then valley and mountain. Once completed you will have a W fold on the left and a flat half card on the right. I cut 2 pieces of DSP and added them to the front-facing, folded panels. I then adhered the dark blue panel over the first and 4th panels just fixing the edges of the paper to the card base. Just to finish it off, I added another strip of the Balmy Blue sparkle ribbon to the inside of the card. A really quick fun fold card this week.

 

 

Well, that's all from me for this week. 

Cary will be back again next week with some gorgeous cards to inspire you. 

Thank you for stopping by this week. Until  I return the week after, Take care, Stay safe but as always...

😍😍 xx KEEP ON CRAFTING xx 😍😍

This or That Thursday - Beary Christmas

This week for my This or That cards I have made 2 completely different cards. I have had so much fun working with this fun stamp set and I didn't want to do any more in a similar fashion. So making THIS card, I used the Beary Christmas papers alone. I cut the glaciers out of one last piece of the sheet of paper. Having used all of the glaciers from the bottom of the DSP and as the top is all sky, I cut a C6 mat from the sky or ocean that was left and placed the cut shapes onto the paper then arranged them as I have.

 I also fussy cut the polar bears with the glaciers too and randomly added them over the mat. All that left me then was a sentiment.

 

 

THAT

My That card, as I said earlier is completely different!

This one is a fun fold. I used a long piece of card at 29.7cm by 10.5cm high and scored it 11cm and 25.5cm long the whole width of it. I added some mats of the DSP on the front 2 sides and placed a strip of card across to a large, retired, stitched circle die cut. This then became the focal point for the centre of the card. I stamped and die cut the polar bear, tree and the presents which are from the DSP once more. These papers are so amazingly versatile! A piece of White card in the centre with another sentiment and some more presents finished this one. 

Watercolour Wednesday - Beary Christmas

Yesterday's card is a similar card to yesterday's. I took some scraps of watercolour paper and washed them with Balmy Blue ink using my waterbrush. Once they were dry, I started to pencil some shapes across the paper and added some more colour onto the edges to accentuate the edges and shading of the glacier pieces. I placed adhesive onto the back of the 'glaciers' and once on the card base, I used a white gel pen and added some lines to show some movement on the water. I stamped the polar bears using a Smoky Slate ink pad. I like to use a lighter colour when working with a very light item. 

I added a little fun by stamping the hats and scarf in different colours and adhering them to the bears.

 

 

 

Technique Tuesday - Beary Christmas

 Hello, today's technique is making a plain simple card look more interesting by embossing a plain background. We all know that embossing a mat gives an amazing texture anyway but this card has some of the gorgeous Textured Shimmer Paper and a plain white mat. I used a C6 card base in Night of Navy and with the white polar bears on top of the white mat just looked lost. I embossed the white mat with the new Snowflake Sky 3D embossing folder. I think it gives just the right effect, I hope you do. 

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Beary Christmas

 Welcome back for this week's projects. Cary as always made some gorgeous cards again last week didn't she? This week I am going to show you some projects made using the gorgeous Beary Christmas stamp set and double sided, Designer Series Papers. Using a C6 mat of DSP is how this card was so very simple. I chopped up some of the parcels from 1 of the sheets of dsp which is covered in parcels.