Fun Fold Friday - Coffee With Friends

Well, here we are already and it's Friday today! For my last card this week, I have done what I believe is called a triple accordion card. I have seen so many of them over the years but never actually made one myself... until today! Using the Coffee With Friends stamp set, Go To Greetings and Charming Sentiments stamp sets, I have made my own version of one. I used the gorgeous new cardstock colour of Bubble Bath and the patterned paper I chose has a Misty Moonlight background. I added Basic White panels on the folds inside and out and Granny Apple Green die cut leaves for the front. The images were coloured in using my Stampin' Blends pens.

It has 3 folds (obviously as it's a triple) which meet just past the centre point and layers of DSP from the Delightfully Eclectic papers. I also coordinated it using the Countryside Corners dies, Sentiments Silhouettes and the Timeworn Type embossing folder to complete it.

 

 

Well, that's it from me for another week. Thank you once again for stopping by this week and I do hope that you have found some inspiration to make your own cards too. Until I return in after next week, Cary will be here to share some of her creations with you.

Until I return, please take care, stay safe but as always...

KEEP ON CRAFTING!

Lots of love and many thanks, 

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

 

This or That Thursday - Coffee With Friends

 Today's 2 cards using the Coffee With Friends stamp set are completely different from each other. I was going to do 2 very similar cards but got carried away and did the opposite. The first card, THIS, I stamped the image onto white paper and coloured them in using my Stampin' Blends pens and then fussy cut them out once more. I added a piece of DSP from the Bright and Beautiful designer series papers and card in the Pretty Peacock shades. I die cut the Grove dies out of the card and adhered the ladies under the trees. Unfortunately, I was about 1cm too far to the left! As I had done that, I cut a branch off!

My second card or THAT card is completely different as I used the Patchwork pieces dies to cut the 2 different papers out. As soon as I saw these dies, I thought that I must have them. Eventually I did buy them too. The papers are from the Countryside Inn suite. I then stamped the image of the lady onto a punched out 2" circle. The next punch was the 2,1/4" in Night of Navy and the biggest again in white. When I laid the pattern out in the papers, I made sure that I left a border between the pieces. The night of Navy mat behind the patterned mat was embossed with one of the folders from the 3D Basics embossing folders. 

Please let us know which you prefer, thank you xx

THIS OR .....

 

 

 THAT

 

 

 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Coffee With Friends

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today, using the amazing Coffee With Friends stamp set I went watercolour crazy! I think  I used about 12 different coloured ink pads! I had a white card base that already been scored and folded into a book fold card. I took a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour  paper and cut it to the measurements for the right hand side of the fold. I did a Granny Apple Green wash across the whole piece using my water painter brush. I then stamped and over-stamped the hills and trees from the Grassy Grove stamp set in Old Olive then washed the colour lightly over again. On another piece of  fluid 100, I stamped and then watercoloured the 2 sets of the one image. Yes, I did the one thing that I love and fussy cut them all out. 

Technique Tuesday - Coffee With Friends

Hello again, today once again and all of this week my aim is to make some simple cards that even a beginner can make.  Using the Coffee With Friends stamp set again, I stamped another image onto plain white paper and onto a piece of paper from the Fresh As A Daisy range of papers. 

The first piece was the brown which I used for a quayside or jetty. The second piece of DSP is the blue that looks like sky or water. I coloured the lady in the white paper using my Blends pens. I cut the excess of the lady away from the jetty and then adhered her across the rest of the image on the jetty. 

Once again. like yesterday's post, I used the Double Oval Punch for the sentiment. The darker blue is Misty Moonlight which I used to accentuate the sentiment. Another very simple card that can be easily replicated. Many images can be stamped straight onto DSP and it's always worth while giving it a try too.

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Coffee With Friends

 Hello, I do hope that you have had a great week? This week I am using another of the new stamp sets from the Annual catalogue. It is called Coffee With Friends. It actually isn't one that I would generally go to but like many other sets, this was calling to me! Every time I opened the catalogue, it almost jumped out at me! Do you ever get that with anything? I have lately, weird isn't it?

Anyway, starting with a plain white card base and Basic White mat, I stamped the image of the coffee cups and croissants several times across the mat. It's not always necessary to add a mat but I like to show that there is a single mat on a card. I used Smoky Slate which is a very soft gray ink pad. Then my fun part...I coloured them in using colouring pencils. It needed a background too so I just coloured some light blue/green pencil across the background. I added sentiment onto the ovals punched from the double oval punch to finish. #simplestamping