This or That Thursday - In My Heart

Hello, Tuesday was my son and daughter in law's 8th anniversary and today is my brother's birthday. I won't tell you how old he is as it will give my age away! Age is just a number right? The traditional gift for an 8th anniversary is Bronze apparently.  It is supposed to symbolise strength and longetivity but the modern idea is for linen and lace. I think I will stick with the bronze as I'm rather old fashioned in that way. Besides...I know Jemma doesn't like lace! Anyway, back to cards... using the In My Heart stamp set, today's choices are 2 cards both very similar and both have some pieces in different colours of the Delightful Floral DSP.

 The design is one that I cased and converted into metric measurements from Susan Campfield. I do love her designs. She is one very talented lady. Thank you Susan.

A basic C6 card shape and a full length piece of white card for the inside at 14.4cm high and 29.7cm wide. I scored at 5.9cm and then every 3 cm until there was the 5.9cm left at the other end. It's so easy and so stylish to make. The Coastal Cabana card has squares on and the Berry Burst has the Spotlight on Nature circles. I made the green card with the little boy on the front and the pink with the little girl on. So I may give then both of the cards, then they can decide which to keep... if I don't decide which one first. They are away for a few days so I have until late tonight to make the final decision. Please help me?

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I do hope that you like them.

This or That Thursday - Magnolia Mood

 Hello, today's 2 cards are very similar this week which is I suppose the idea. Using the Magnolia Mood stamp set, today I stamped the large flower and coloured them both differently. Obviously! One is the Berry Burst all over which is very like my Magnolia Soulangiana Nigra (black), that I have in my garden and the other is the standard beautiful Soulangiana. The first one I mentioned is called black but it truly is the colour of Berry Burst with darker shades in it. I have about 8 magnolias in the garden and they are just starting to bloom. They are so beautiful. 

 However, although I used the same colours they were each used in a slightly different way. The Holographic foils are both different. The foil behind the Berry Burst flower (THIS) is like waves bubbling across the water and the white flower (THAT) is very holographic and shines beautifully in lots of different colours. Apart from the direction of the cards, that's more or less it. It is therefore a case if which colour ways you like the best, or if at all? However, the landscape card I used a strip of retired Bubble Bath ribbon with the silver edging on the outer edges and as always, Stampin' Up! ribbons can be coloured really easily. How cool is that? I used the Berry Burst Stampin' Blends pen to colour this one today. I usually use my Stampin' Write Marker pens but today and for speed for it to dry quickly, it was the Blends  pen. They are both very easy to use and can do similar things too, very cool!

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Do please let us know which version is your preferred one. Thank you in advance. 

Gill xx

Fun Fold Friday - Translucent Florals

Today's card is lovely and bright. I used a piece of Lemon Lime Twist card for the card base and basic white card for the inside card. I kept it simple today and added a piece of DSP from the Bright and Beautiful range of papers onto the front of the card base. I opened up the Lemon Lime card base and using a circle die, I centralised it 2cm from the top and almost the same from the sides. I die cut this circle out. I stamped some of the flowers and leaves from the Translucent Florals stamps onto some Berry Burst card and Lemon Lime Twist card in the same colour inks then die cut them out. 

I used a piece of white 14.4cm by 20.5cm and scored down it in half.  I folded the right hand side of the card into the centre of the white piece and angled this outwards. I adhered the white mat to the back of the green card base leaving a small green border as always. The fold is now centralised in the closed hole of the green card base. Looking from the front, I added some Tombow glue to the part of the white card that was showing through onto the front. I then added the circle back onto that central hole again. I added another smaller circle in white to the centre of the circle. This I embossed using the Stripes and Splatters Embossing Folders. After die cutting the flowers and leaves, I added them onto the circles and the bottom of the card.  I added some more DSP from the Bright and Beautiful papers onto the inside panels of the white card. When the card is opened, it looks like a right hand opening Z fold card. There is many other ways that you could decorate your card from there. As you can see, I did just that. I even added a scalloped circle to the front of the card too. 

This last picture show you clearly the Z fold coming along from the right-hand side. 

That's it from me for this week again, I hope that you have found some ideas and inspiration for your own cards and most of all make sure that you have fun.

Cary will be back once again next Monday, as always until I return... 

Stay Well, keep Safe but most of all 

😍😍 xxx CARRY ON CRAFTING!!  xxx 😍😍

Thank you all so much, 

Gill xxx