Technique Tuesday - Seasons of Fun

 Today I've been playing with an old technique, it's called the masking technique. The stamp set this week was calling for it! Using the Host sets called Seasons of Fun and In Your Words I started by stamping the little child onto the top of a post it note, not the sticky side I hasten to add! I peeled off 3 sheets of post it at the same time and fussy cut the image out. the child  was pulling a cart but I only inked the stamp up using a Stampin' Write Marker Pen. So now I have 3 little children...just in case! I then took a piece of Basic White card and stamped the 1st image onto it. Once it had dried, I added one of the post it note children over the image. Fortunately, I stamped the first image in the centre so I was able to stamp either side of that post it note, lining the hands up so it looked like the children were holding hands. Job done! I then started to colour each child in individual colours. Triplets are cute but they all have to wear different colours to show that they are all different. 

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Once I had coloured them all in, Yep... I fussy cut them all out, still holding hands too! I'm really pleased as they all came out really well too.  Using a few pieces from the Beauty of The Earth Designers Series Papers and a small strip of the lovely soft blue of Balmy Blue card, I then used a die from the Inspiring Canopy dies, that gave me the trees and the sloped hills . I stuck the mats all to the Basic White card base landscape, added wet PVA glue, Tombow to the back of the trees then placed them where I wanted them. While they were all drying, I added Black double sided foam, Dimensionals to the back of the children. I used black ones as the images of the papers and children was quite dark, I thought it would be better and not show as easily. They worked too! A few sentiments from the In Your Works, Host stamp set  and the card was completed.

Fun Fold Friday - Tasteful Touches

Hello and thank you for stopping by. For my last card this week it has to be a fun fold. Well, Fun fold it is but I added a little extra! I made a C6 sized Gatefold card but I've added extra card to the front on each side to give the circular effect. A standard gatefold is a very simple card to make and this, I guess if I had read the measurements somewhere maybe it would have been easier but I like to push my self out of my comfort zone. I started by making a standard wide Gatefold using Thick Very Vanilla card. I then decided at this point to make it longer. I needed a circle that was the same size as the depth of the card which is 10.5cm or 4,1/8". There are no circular dies that size so I looked around and discovered my Tear n' Tape roll was the right size thankfully. I took a piece of vanilla cardstock which was bigger than I needed it to be. I drew around one side of the circle of the tape on both ends of the card. I then cut it with my snips very carefully and using an emery board, I smoothed the edges. After cutting the mat in half I had 2 half circles but they each had a longer sides to form a stretched out D shape. I needed them to be longer to add them to the card base I had made. It worked as you can see in the first lot of pictures. 

I then took some Pretty Peacock card and repeated these steps again and made an elongated Gatefold card. Using some Very Vanilla card I made all of the mats in the same way as before but single panels and smaller to show off the lovely green of the card. I stamped the feathers and some of the little branches and fussy cut them all out. That's why it took so much longer than it should have done. However, many of you know me and the fact that I love to fussy cut. So it had to be done!

I used the Tasteful Textures, Tasteful Label Dies and the lovely Wrapped Texture dual Embossing Folder. The inks I used were Bumblebee and Pretty Peacock. A very simple colour palette which is what I prefer to do. I hope you like it.

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The picture above shows where I added the extra D shaped piece on each side. I attached it with about a 1cm overlap on each piece and below an overhead view with both of the pieces on. 

The picture below shows the whole of the finished card from the front. I added a label on each side to conceal the way the feathers were placed. I also added an extra mat behind the labels and consequently this will need to be posted as a large letter because of the depth with the foam pads or Dimensionals.

I added pieces of the Good Taste designer series double sided papers behind the semicircles.

To add a little more texture to the inside, I used the lovely Wrapped Texture embossing folder. They are a really good deal as you get 2 folders for the price of 1.

Yes as you can see, I fussy cut the leaves and added each one using Tombow multipurpose Glue.

It's brilliant glue!

 

In this view from above you can see that I used the Black Dimensionals for the darker coloured card. It works really well as if I had used the white ones, they would stand out quite a lot.

Thank you for joining me this week and I hope you have enjoyed looking at my projects and they've possibly inspired you to make some cards for yourself too. 

 

Please take care, stay safe and KEEP ON CRAFTING :))

Gill

Cary will be back on Monday ready to show you her creations.

 Please stop by to see them xxx