Fun Fold Friday - Botanical Layers and Botanical Beauty

 Hello again. As today is my last day for a week, I have gone to town! Using the Botanical Layers stamps, I stamped the four, large floral images several times in; Lemon Lolly, Calypso Coral, Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green and Bubble Bath! It took a LOT of fussy cutting out! I need a break from fussy cutting now!! :) Using the Botanical Beauty stamp, I stamped onto a white mat in a Boho Blue Ink pad. I also cut and embossed a white mat for the centre 2 half panels and the front.. The blue, I cut in half lengthwise and added to the inside of the card on the outer 2 edges and filled in with a piece of the embossed paper in the centres. I took 2 more pieces of Boho Blue card and cut them to 21 cm wide. 1 piece is 6.5 cm high and the other 10 cm high. The latter of which was cut to 10 cm wide. I added an extra 1 cm to each side for the ahesive to go on before cutting. 

Then it was a case of adding the leaves and flowers all over the stands. By making a fold in the centre of each of the stands It will make it stand and fold into the centre easily. Now bear in mind this will not go as standard mail. It will have to large size letter of even hand delivered. Which I always prefer anyway. That was it basically. A simple sentiment on the front and the back completes my cards for this week. 

 

 

A very plain and simple front opening onto a very busy inside. 

 

I hope that you have found some ideas to hopefully inspire you to make your own cards this week. Cary will return on Monday with some more of her designs to share with you.

Until the following week when I return again, please take care, stay safe and 

KEEP ON CRAFTING 

xxx 😍😍  Gill  😍😍 xx

This or That Thursday - Botanical Beauty and Botanical Layers

 Hello on this lovely Thursday. For my cards today using the Botanical Beauty stamp set, I coordinated it along with the Botanical Layers. My first card is obviously THIS...I started with one of Cary's favourite card folds, a tent fold card. I chopped a lump from the front of it and then another piece too! I cut and added some DSP from the Softly Stippled papers. Love them!

 Stamping the image onto white card, I used Calypso Coral. This gorgeous colour is so warm and inviting and made for this card! I cut a small piece of white from the piece that I had stamped out and adhered it to another piece of Calypso Coral leaving a small border. A stamped and fussy cut flower stalk onto the front and one onto the DSP for the inside.and that finished this card.

THIS

THAT

This time for my That card, I have used the beautiful Berry Burst. Now many of you will have remembered that this was a colour from many years ago. In fact it was an In Colour.  Now I knew that I loved the colour of this when it first came out...I still do. I am so glad it has been brought back as it's great!! This time, a standard card shape in C6 or A6 whichever you like to call it. This time after stamping the image onto a C6 piece of white card, I cut it into 2 pieces diagonally. I matched it up with another piece of white and added them to the front and the inside. A lovely sentiment from another of my favourites, Go To Greetings, a few of the stamped and fussy cut leaves and flowers, then my card is complete. 

It's now down to you to decide which is your favourite card. Please let us know?

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Botanical Beauty and Botanical Layers

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today's card is one that I had in my mind last week when it wasn't my turn for the blog but here it is. Another very easy card if you don't mind some fussy cutting! As many of you know...I LOVE it! I started by stamping the Botanical Beauty onto a white mat in lovely shed of green called Shaded Spruce. Then using my trimmer I gutted the centre out of the card and kept it to the side. I left 2cm all around the outer edge and then mounted the paper onto a piece of the gorgeous blueish green of Lost Lagoon which I had first embossed using the lovely Fern embossing folder. 

I stamped the Botanical Layers onto another piece of white card and fussy cut them out. Sadly there are no dies! They were added onto the Lost Lagoon mat over the stamped border. I then adhered all of them to the Shaded Spruce card base. 

Make It Simple Monday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by to see my cards this week. I will be using Botanical Beauty stamp set this week in particular but I will be coordinating it with Botanical Layers and Berry Harvest...possibly! The Botanical Beauty and Berry Harvest are what are called Background stamps and they do make excellent backgrounds too. However, with a little addition they can adopt a different look too which is what I aim to show you this week. 🤞🤞🤞

Today's card is a simplestamping card of course. One ideally suited for the new to stamping, or beginner crafter. It's perfect as all it needs once stamped is a sentiment. Yes, I did add a few extra layers flat onot the previous card layer and then some of the little cut outs from another stamped image. They were stuck to the back of the sentiment. which came from the Botanical Layers stamp set.