This and That Thursday - Love Cats

Hello on this still very cold Thursday! I am really looking forward to spring and summer this year. I am definitely getting old! 😄 For today's cards using the Love Cats stamp set, I have used the Picture This dies and made 2 similar cards. The first one I used the frame and laid the cats across the frames with a piece of DSP from the Country Gingham papers behind the frame. I embossed the frame with the Brick and Mortar embossing folder. 

On the other card, I have used only the die cut circles from the frame on the Picture This dies. 

So, which one do you prefer? 

Card 1

 

Card 2

 

This or That Thursday - He's All That

 Well here we are on Thursday's this or that projects. I had great fun in the cards today, in fact I made 4 but these 2 my family all love so here they are. Using the He's All That stamp set, I stamped 2 sentiments onto Basic White card then put them aside. I cut several pieces of the DSP, Designer Series Papers from He's The Man papers and the matching cards. I had several scraps of papers anyway so I cut several of them to the same size and different sizes and just played with them. The little cross hatch shapes are from the dies in the set All That. The circle on the right-hand side is also a die from the same kit. This time, lots of paper placing, die cutting and a little stamping. 

 

 

 

 

Card 1  Overlaid Rectangles

 

 

Card 2 Patchwork layer

Technique Tuesday - He's All That

 Today's post is to encourage you to use your papers to the fullest that you can. I have used the stamp set, He's All That on the inside of the card only today but on the outside I've used more of the Designer Series Papers called He's The Man which coordinates with the stamp set. There are 12 sheets of papers, 2 of 6 different designs and each pair of papers has another pattern on. Today's card I used one of my least favourite colours, Cajun Craze. It really isn't a me colour. That's a really strange thing to say because I actually like the card that I've made! I paired it with Very Vanilla card to tone the colour down and added one of the Split Textures Dies over the top of the paper. Included in the pack of papers are 2 sheets of die cut self-adhesive labels and banners etc. which is what I have used on the front of the card.