Fun FOld Friday - Count On Me

Well, hasn't the week gone quickly? Not quick enough as far as this Covid bug is concerned though! Nearly 2 weeks and I am still positive and feeling rubbish! Never mind, making cards this week has really helped take my mind off of it. For the last time this week, I have used the Count On Me stamp set. This time I have made a card similar to one that I made for our all-day class last Saturday. Below is one of the cards I made like today's one....

Taking a piece of A4 card in Calypso Coral I cut it portrait at 14.85cm which is nearly 6". The next is to score the card in third's along the long length or landscape. As I am using metric and our card is 29.7cm long, I have scored mine at 9.9cm from each end of the card. Using a pencil to measure and mark, mark lightly at 2.5cm or 1" down on the 2 outer edges and 2.5cm or 1" across the bottom edge of the card on both sides. Put your card into your trimmer and remove/cut off the triangles you have just marked. That is the base of your card completed. You may need to trim back the outer sides when you go to fold them in as it may be a fraction too wide to fold properly. 

It's now down to the decorating. I used the papers called Happy Forest Friends again, they are ideal for this stamp set. I started by cutting a C6 mat of 9.5 by 14.4cm, I laid it under the 1st of the sides and pencilled the shape on the paper. As I wanted the opposite side to be the reverse of the toadstools, I laid the 1st piece on top of the 2nd layer and cut them both out. I then had 2 pieces which faced the same way. Perfect! I turned the 2nd piece over to show the Calypso Coral side. Once again, I stamped all of the animals onto scraps of paper using Memento and coloured them in using my Blends pens. Yes, as usual, I fussy-cut them out! I also fussy cut some of the printed animals and flowers from the DSP.

 

With the length of card that I cut off at the beginning, I made a Belly-Band for the card. I cut it down to 22cm long and 2.5cm wide. The rest was used for the sentiments. I added a length of the white Frayed Ribbon over the top of the belly-band and frayed a small length of it and made a faux bow!

 

 

Well, once again that's me done for this week. Thank you for stopping by to see which stamp set I used and the cards I made using it. 

Cary will be back on Monday to show and inspire you with some more of her creations. 

 

Until I return the following week, please keep well, stay safe but most of all....

 

KEEP ON CRAFTING!

😍😍  xx  Gill  xx 😍😍   

Throwback Thursday - Count On Me

  Well! It has to be Koalas, they are so very cute to look at! I don't know if they are in reality but they look quite gentle and this image from the Count On Me stamp set, well, cuddling each other, they clearly are very cute aren't they? I used another piece of the Happy Forest Friends paper for this one. The DSP mat I chose, has 3 branches sticking out on the trunks which were crying out to be perches for the koalas so that's why I stamped 3 lots of them. I coloured them all in very lightly using my Smoky Slate Blends pen. I needed only to use the light pen as that gives enough colour for the creatures. 

I took a piece of Granny Apple Green card and embossed it using the Elegant Eucalyptus Embossing Folders duo, it was perfect enough to give me the leaves for the card. Once embossed, I fussy-cut several of the them out and trailed them down the length of the tree trunks! A sentiment here and there and this card was complete. 

 

                                                                              

 

 

      

Watercolour Wednesday - Count On Me

One of my favourite dies I like to use when I have multiple images and don't know which to use is The Picture This duo of dies. Count On Me stamp set is the perfect set to use this with. I started by stamping all of the animals in the set onto some Basic White card. I used Stazon Jet Black ink pad as I was going to be watercolouring. It's always wise to use an alcohol based ink pad when watercolouring and you can use a water based ink pad for other kinds of colouring. For example, using Alcohol Marker pens like Stampin' Up! Blends pens or Stamp n' write double-ended Marker Pens. I started by die-cutting some circles slightly larger than the holes in the die of Picture This. I then die cut the holes from the piece of Granny Apple Green card and also used the Stitched Greenery die all over the piece of card. 

I stamped all of the images with Stazon and then began colouring them in using the ink pad and block technique. I used a Water Painters and coloured all of the images in. Once they were all dry, I started to position them over some circles I had drawn through the green mat. Once they were all in the correct position, I added adhesive to them and added the mat using Dimensionals to add some dimension. A few sentiments to top it all off and the card was completed. 

 

 

Technique Tuesday - Count On Me

 Today's card was a slight accident! I caught the edge of the card in a drawer and tore it but I cut the damaged part off and worked with it. I cut off 5cm, almost 2" from the front edge, then I added some Old Olive card mats. I have chosen to use some DSP from the Happy Forest Friends papers which go perfectly with the theme of animals I have chosen for this week. Using the bear this time, I stamped and coloured the bear in on a spare oval die-cut that I had hanging around. Adding that onto another die-cut oval along with a lovely sentiment or two from the Count On Me stamp set and this was completed. So accident or not, it turned out to be a happy accident in the end!

 

 

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Count On Me

 Hello and welcome back this week. On Saturday just gone, we held an all-day class at our usual rooms and it is so good to be back in there. Well, it would be if I had been there! Unfortunately, I came down with the dreaded Covid last week so had to stay home on Zoom! Never mind, it kept everyone else safe! This week, however, I am going to continue making animal cards. I have chosen one set that I didn't use and that is called Count On Me. 

The all-day class was based on which ever creature stamp set the attendees wanted and Cary and I made cards that could be adapted for any kind of animal stamps. It would appear to have been a good idea as everyone enjoyed being able to choose their own stamp set. Bonus! The cards on a Monday are all simple cards and this is no exception. An image and a sentiment, a squiggle with a colouring pencil and it's completed.