Fun Fold Friday - Cheerful Basket

 My last card this week using the Cheerful Basket stamp set, I've made a standard Z fold card with a little extra. Now yellow isn't usually my go to colour, although I do like yellow but it's quite a strong colour and wasn't quite sure if it would work. I think it does, I hope you do too.

I took a piece of Thick Basic White card and cut it at 29.7cm by 10.5cm. Basically, that's half a sheet of A4 cutting straight down the middle when you hold it in a portrait style. I scored it in half when I turned it to landscape direction and then one side in half again. That's it! It is as simple as that. The rest is decoration. 

I wanted to make apricots and not apples with the stamps this time. I don't know if it looks like apricots, yellow peaches or what but I stamped several images of the 'apples' stamp and one of the basket. The rest was colouring in. Now you know that I love my Stampin' Blends pens so that's what I used in several shades and different colours. Pinks, oranges and yellows just on the fruit. If you don't have the Blends, use any colouring medium that will give you the shading that you want. It works even with colouring pencils.

The yellow card is Daffodil Delight and the other is Soft Suede for the mats. I embossed all of the  Daffodil Delight mats with the Leaf Fall embossing folder. It gives a really detailed effect on the papers. It's really lovely. 

The extra part is the little strip of card that was cut at 2xm by 9cm and scored every 2cm and then glued using multipurpose glue. As I had folded the strip in half all I had to do was to add adhesive to one of the squares before adding it to the position I wanted it to be in. Once in position, I added glue to the piece on the left and folded the card down to ensure fixing in the correct position. I opened it up and added a piece of Soft Suede 4cm by 5cm. This was then where I added the basket and fruit. When the card opens, so does the basket. It just pops out.

I finished off the card by using one of the sentiments from the stamp set and another from Celebrating You stamp set.  

Thank you for stopping by this week, I really do hope that you have some inspiration to get your crafting hat on and make some cards too. 

Cary returns on Monday and will aim to inspire you with her creations too. 

Until I return the week after, please take care, stay safe but just as importantly...

😍😍  KEEP ON CRAFTING. 😍😍

Thank you again, 

Gill xx

Throwback Thursday - Cheerful Basket

 Well here we are again with the Cheerful Basket stamp set. I was going to make a One Sheet Wonder card to follow on from Cary's LIVE on Monday but it's not so easy with the images in this set. However, saying that, I have had fun. I cut my mat to make sure I didn't have to cut any excess card off and then the fun began. Using Smoky Slate Ink I stamped the hearts in the middle of each of the 4 sides. I use Smoky Slate quite often to give a much lighter image when I'm using lighter colours. I used a sticky note and stamped another onto it then took 2 pieces off and fussy cut around them. I laid them on the 2 adjoining sides so that when I stamped the hearts again on the corners, I didn't mark the hearts I had already stamped. A bit long winded but I hope you get what I'm trying to say. 

 I coloured the hearts in using my Stampin' blends pens in several shades of pinks and reds.

This card sums me up. Since I started paper crafting, it helps me in so many ways. It's my stress reliever, my therapy, my peaceful time. It has helped me stay sane on so many occasions and it has become my passion.

 

 

 That's exactly how crafting makes me feel too! 😍😍

Watercolour Wednesday - Cheerful Basket

Here we are again on a Wednesday for the water-colouring. Now water-colouring isn't really my thing but I am trying really hard to learn as much as I can. Today's card was one that I knew how I wanted it to look but wasn't positive that it would work so with the Cheerful Basket stamp set I stamped the apples in Saddle Brown Stazon ink and the apples in Tuxedo Black Stazon ink. Then I had fun. I started by die-cutting the corner from a C6 white mat using the Split Card Textures die and got my son to choose a base colour. He chose Granny Apple Green. (Love It)!

I decided to emboss the green mat with one of the retired Meadow Moments Embossing Folders and added it to the Basic White card Base. I mounted the White die-cut mat on top of the green using Dimensionals to add another layer. After that I started to colour the apples and basket in. I like to use a block to add the ink to and by adding a few drops of water on top, mixed it and used it for colouring. I used 3 different colours for the basket with Crumb Cake, Early Espresso and Soft Suede. The apples were a little different in as much as they are made up of so many different colours. I used, So Saffron, Granny Apple Green, Calypso Coral and Sweet Sorbet. That is a lot of colours but I think they look better in a multitude of colour. What do you think?

 

Here's my working on the apples, only problem is that I wasn't paying proper attention! Hearts instead of apples!!

Technique Tuesday - Cheerful Basket

Hello again. Today's card using the Cheerful Basket stamp set, I have gone mad with the cats! I had a circle shape already die cut out from the Layering Circle dies in Daffodil Delight so I have used it like a moon behind the cats. My technique this week is repeat stamping. I was going to place a mask over each one but opted for the individual cats. I stamped 7 cats to start with and made a litter of them in the basket. Some similar colours but generally many litters come like one parent or the other which is how these are. I stamped the basket too and then started the process of colouring them all in. I used my Stampin' Blends pens but they could have been coloured using any kind of colouring tool. I do love my Blends though, very much! The coverage is just perfect and by just adding layer after layer, you can get a very different look about them all. Great!

I added the 'moon' to the Night of Navy card base and then embossed both layers with the Into The Clouds embossing folder. It's not a heavy, deep image but leaves a lovely effect of clouds across the whole card. I then started to add the cats one by one until I was happy with the whole effect. A simple sentiment at the top and another on the white mat inside and the card was completed. 

Make It SImple Monday - Cheerful Basket

Hello and thank you for stopping by. This week I have decided to use the Cheerful Basket stamp set with the occasional use of the dies. My first as always is a very simple card. Of course I have used my grand-daughters pencils for colouring but this time I have used the lovely bright red of Poppy Parade and Basic White card. The cards on Monday's from both Cary and I are aimed at the beginner crafter. This is quite an important thing as let's face it, we all started somewhere and followed others to get ourselves started with card making. We used to spend hours and hours trawling the internet and talking to other card makers to get advice. So we know how overwhelming it can be. 

Going back to today's card, I cut a piece of A4 card in half, lengthwise and then folded it down in half again to make the card base. I had a scrap of white in my offcuts pot that was wide enough to just add a panel across the centre. Before adding that to the card, I stamped the hearts from the stamp set twice starting roughly in the bottom centre of the panel. Then using ordinary colouring pencils, I coloured it in. The sentiment was added above the hearts and another sentiment for the inside of the card mat (the white mat). A mat is used to add layers of different sizes and colours if you want to add dimension to your projects. 

That was it really. I used multipurpose wet glue to the backs of the white mats to adhere them to the card base and this was completed.