Hello, as soon as I saw this stamp set and dies, I knew that I was going to have fun with it. I really love this one too! Lifetime of Love... it sums it all up really doesn't it? Well! It is nice to dream too! Today's card using the stamp set. I could see as soon as I saw it. Soft fresh colours over white to share and show th love. I also love my blending brushes! Today's technique is brushes and blending.
Well here we are once again and it's Friday already! Time flies when you're having fun doesn't it? I have really enjoyed working with this stamp set this week and I really do wish that I had played with it much sooner than now! Anyway, using the Everlasting Beauty stamp set, I've made my final card, a fun fold. I cut a piece of A4 along the length of it at 14.85cm or 5,7/8" and scored it at 10.5cm, 15.5cm and 16.5cm or in Imperial measurements... 4,1/8", 6,1/8" and 6,1/2". The last piece on the left hand of the card is cut down to measure 10cm high or 4,15/16".
Once that extra piece was removed it's now for a case of DSP and coloured card. I iused the beautiful NEW Softly Stippled DSP. It's part of a really beautiful suite of products which you'll be able to see more of them in just a few weeks. To enhance the beautiful papers, I have layered them onto Pebbled Path card mats. I wasn't sure that it would work but I'm pleased to see that it really does.
Well, thank you once again for stopping by this week and I hope that my cards have inspired you to make some even better than mine.
Cary will be here next week and I will return on the following week, (Christmas week).
Until then and as always, take care, keep well, stay safe and
Hello again. This week I am using the Silly Goose stamp set. I love this set and bought it quite a while ago but I have never gotten around to doing anything with them! Todays' technique to me is the simplest one of repeat stamping to make the background. I love the simple and quick ways of making a card as well as the more fiddly ways of creating. I stamped the Goose all over the white mat and stamped him again on a scrap of white card then fussy cut him out. It wasn't difficult or fiddly very straightforward in fact. I wanted him to match the card base so I coloured the Thanks in using the beautiful bright blue of Tahitian Tide Blends pen. I punched a circle out of the blue using the 2,3/4" circle punch and using Dimensionals (foam shapes) I raised him up.
Hello again. Today's card is similar to Monday's card in that I used the same stamps from both sets again but placed them slightly differently. This one has the Joy To You stamp on the front which was stamped and added to a deep red piece of card called Cherry Cobbler. I then decided to chop it up! So using the Patchwork Pieces dies, I used the simple curvy shaped one on this. Now using the dies was not necessary but I like the texture that it has. Once the pieces were back together, I placed them onto a Cherry Cobber card base which I embossed with the gorgeous Christmas Tidings Embossing Folder. It embosses Christmas words all over in different directions and sizes. I love it.
I then stamped the Hot Chocolate cup onto a white mat and used my blends pens to colour this one in.
The cards for today are using the technique of using Vellum cardstock. It's called cardstock vellum as it's quite weighty in comparison to something like greaseproof paper which looks very similar but is not as beautiful to work with as the vellum is. Using the Translucent Florals stamp set, I stamped the images of the flowers in a water based ink and/or Memento Tuxedo Black. Most of what I have done is in coloured inks as the stamps show so much of the whole image. The first card is white on white with a little added colour. This was based on some elements that one of the demonstrators were using on Sunday. I had a scrap, strip of the spotted vellum and added a small white mat over it which had been embossed using the Splatters embossing folder. It is one of 2 folders in the pack called Stripes and Splatters. I die-cut the petals from some more of the spotty vellum from the Vellum Basics papers.I added some Calypso Coral Blends pen to the back of the smaller flower and some of the individual leaves using the Granny Apple Green, both in the dark shades. The sentiment was die-cut from the Deckled Rectangles dies and the little flower centres were also di-cut from the scrap of coloured vellum.
The second card is on a Fresh Freesia card base with another of the Deckled Rectangles die cut in white card. I embossed another of the pieces of white with the Splatters folder once again and added the sentiment landscape this time across the card. A simple spotty, clear, vellum, flower and some leaves, complete this one.
The reason that I am doing cards for men again is a, I never have any idea what to make and b, it is Father's Day here in the UK on Sunday 17th June. This weeks this or that are 2 cards that I got carried away with! The first, This, is an Z fold card and the That card is a Double Z fold card. I used the Beside Me stamp set as I think it relates to dads in so many ways. Apart from the fact that I like it anyway.
My first the Z fold is a simple one in that I used a strip of paper from the Stargazing DSP for the 1st 2 mats, Tahitian Tide for the inside and front mats and the lovely image of a dad figure teaching a little boy to ride his bike.
The papers this time are from the Countryside Inn DSP which again are gorgeous. A simple Happy Birthday from the Phrases For All again and that is completed too.
The decision now is which do you prefer?
Friday is here already and my last card although is a fun fold, it is an easy one. This isn't my design it's one that I saw on Pinterest by Connie Stewart in USA. She called it her Valentine fun fold. It's brilliant! I made my card base in the lovely Misty Moonlight card that has just been returned to us as a staple colour. It is a mid blue not as dark as Night of Navy but it's going to be used as much as it was too. I am so pleased it's back. I cut 3 white mats. One was 9.5cm by 14.4cm and 2 which are 9cm by 11cm. Using the Dainty Delight stamps, I stamped the largest image onto the largest white mat and each of the 2 other images onto a mat. I have kept the design very simple once again with just a flower and a sentiment on each mat.
That's it from me for another week, thank you so much once again for stopping by. I do hope that you have been inspired to make some cards for yourself to give to others too. Today's card will be going to my Daughter in law's mum for her birthday. I do make a lot of birthday cards as I am always sending them out!
Cary will be back to share her creations with you next week so until I return the week after next, please stay safe, keep well and as always,
😍😍 xx Gill xx 😍😍
Below is the link for the Imperial measurements and the video of Connies that I watched. Copy and paste the link below and it will take you straight to it.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=connie+stewart+vaentine+card#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c151e98a,vid:Ojxn9AXlq2M
Hello on this bright Thursday. Today' this or that cards are 2 very simple ones. I used images on the right of the card on the first and the second card has words and one simple image. They are both very easy to see how to do so I won't bore you with the details but suffice to say they were good fun to make. Now sentiments can be easily changed and as I have lots of BIRTHDAY cards to send each year that's what I generally end up using so I apologise.
Now it's your decision as to which you prefer, THIS or THAT
Card 1 THIS
Card 2 THAT
