Make It Simple Monday #simplestamping - Christmas Friends

 Hello and thank you for stopping by today. This week I am going to play with the NEW set called Christmas Friends. These cute little set are just as I would imagine them if they were to celebrate the Christmas time. 2 cards for the price of 1 today though. I started with a gorgeous soft minty green of Coastal Cabana which I love. I stamped direct to the card base on the one side after protecting it with a piece of Sticky roll and then got stamping. I added a strip of the even softer minty green  Pool Party ribbon. Love it  as it even has tiny little white pom poms on!

I then wondered what it would look like in White, so I tried that too. Now, I couldn't decide which I preferred so I asked the family. Would you believe that out of 6 of them it was half and half!

 

This or That Thursday - In My Heart

Hello, Tuesday was my son and daughter in law's 8th anniversary and today is my brother's birthday. I won't tell you how old he is as it will give my age away! Age is just a number right? The traditional gift for an 8th anniversary is Bronze apparently.  It is supposed to symbolise strength and longetivity but the modern idea is for linen and lace. I think I will stick with the bronze as I'm rather old fashioned in that way. Besides...I know Jemma doesn't like lace! Anyway, back to cards... using the In My Heart stamp set, today's choices are 2 cards both very similar and both have some pieces in different colours of the Delightful Floral DSP.

 The design is one that I cased and converted into metric measurements from Susan Campfield. I do love her designs. She is one very talented lady. Thank you Susan.

A basic C6 card shape and a full length piece of white card for the inside at 14.4cm high and 29.7cm wide. I scored at 5.9cm and then every 3 cm until there was the 5.9cm left at the other end. It's so easy and so stylish to make. The Coastal Cabana card has squares on and the Berry Burst has the Spotlight on Nature circles. I made the green card with the little boy on the front and the pink with the little girl on. So I may give then both of the cards, then they can decide which to keep... if I don't decide which one first. They are away for a few days so I have until late tonight to make the final decision. Please help me?

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I do hope that you like them.

This or That Thursday - Sneak Peak Week - Winterly Tree Tops

Hello on the double take card day. Today is your time to decide which card do you prefer. My first card is a landscape style card in Coastal Cabana and using one of the little stamps which I believe is a twig with fresh buds on. I have used it as coloured lights. My son has just put up some garden lights which look very like these. I stamped them onto a white mat and then coloured them in using my Stampin' Blends pens. I then embossed it with the NEW folder called Birch Wood which goes beautifully with this set of stamps and dies. I stamped and die-cut out the birds before colouring them and then coloured in the buds or lights as I see them. A simple message of thanks and thinking of you for the inside completes this one.

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My next card is another that I have used a mat of DSP but this time, I have added a mat of the Three Colour Glimmer papers beneath it. The colour of the Glimmer is Pretty Peacock and the DSP is Pool Party. Don't they go well together? This time a portrait style card with a sentiments across the lower part and I added a rectangle of the Glimmer paper again and added the stamped and coloured birds to the door. Beneath the door is another bird. Believe it or not but my birds started off as a very pretty yellow of Lemon Lolly! These are my tropical birds!

Throwback Thursday - Heron Habitat

 Another fun card with the Heron Habitat stamps again today. I have found them so much fun and very easy to work with. They are great! This time, using the stitched circle dies from the Stylish Shapes dies, I die cut the circles out from a piece of Coastal Cabana card mat.  I used another of my retired DSP's for this card and they are called Waves of the Ocean. The link will take you to the stamps and dies in the catalogue. Stunning shades of blues, greens, yellows, pinks and oranges. So easy to match the papers with the card too. The stamps and Dies are still available but sadly the papers aren't. I added a piece of the DSP to the back of the die cut holes using Dimensionals then stamped the heron and the bull-rushes before die-cutting them out. A sentiment and die-cutting them out and this was completed. 

 

 Above are the beautiful Waves of the Ocean DSP. You can see all of the amazing colours used within them. 

 

 

Technique Tuesday - Christmas

Hello again, this week I am using several random stamp sets to show that you can use any set to replicate one of the cards that I make as you can with most peoples. Today is the Be Jolly stamp set. I love the simplicity of the Be Jolly, not just because of the drawings but for the simple sentiments. The technique however, is slightly a different one. The other week I used the technique of mats, lots of layers. Today is very similar but I used a card base in Coastal Cabana card and cut off a large section on the front to just give a 4cm wide strip all the way down. Inside, instead of a mat, I added a slightly smaller card base

. Using the cut off piece of Coastal Cabana, I cut it to 6.5cm by 10cm. I then cut a white mat 0.5cm smaller on 2 edges, stamped Santa and coloured him in using my Stampin' Blends. A simple sentiment to the bottom and that part is mostly complete. I cut a mat 0.5cm smaller than the 4cm front of the card and embossed it with the gorgeous Wintry embossing folder. It has 2 folders in the set, one has snowflakes and the other Conifer branches. Once embossed, the mat was added to the front of the card and the Coastal Cabana mat with Santa on was then added to the left hand panel on the front of the card.

I then stamped another image, the tree onto another mat of white and Coastal Cabana and placed that in position on the inside of the white card base. The sleigh is on the next level with another sentiment and a few robins which completes this card.

 

For more information on today's stamp set, plese click HERE for the link to the product.