Fun Fold Friday - Dainty Delight

 Friday is here already and my last card although is a fun fold, it is an easy one. This isn't my design it's one that I saw on Pinterest by Connie Stewart in USA. She called it her Valentine fun fold.  It's brilliant! I made my card base in the lovely Misty Moonlight card that has just been returned to us as a staple colour. It is a mid blue not as dark as Night of Navy but it's going to be used as much as it was too. I am so pleased it's back. I cut 3 white mats. One was 9.5cm by 14.4cm and 2 which are 9cm by 11cm. Using the Dainty Delight stamps, I stamped the largest image onto the largest white mat and each of the 2 other images onto a mat. I have kept the design very simple once again with just a flower and a sentiment on each mat.  

I have made my chart in metric measurements, if you would like them worked out in Imperial (inches) please let me know. I have cut a piece of card portrait style at 29.7cm by 14.8cm, I scored at 4.9c, and 9.9cm from each side landscape. I turned the card portrait again and measured 1.5cm from each side between the 2 score lines and cut them. This was repeated on the other long edge too. I then cut through the score line nearest the centre on each side. I added some DSP on the 2 outer edges and the 4 narrow 1.5cm deep bars at the top and bottom. I cut 2 Balmy Blue mats 9.5cm by 11.5cm and adhered each one to the second of the scored panels on each side so that the edge of the paper goes toward the cut inner part of the card base. I added the 2 white mats onto the Balmy Blue mats and the White mat in the centre I  have since the photos, added a Balmy Blue mat behind that too. 

I knew there was something not quite balanced in my card and only as I was writing about it did I realise what was missing! To err is human I am told and boy ... am I human! 😁😁

 

That's it from me for another week, thank you so much once again for stopping by. I do hope that you have been inspired to make some cards for yourself to give to others too. Today's card will be going to my Daughter in law's mum for her birthday. I do make a lot of birthday cards as I am always sending them out!

Cary will be back to share her creations with you next week so until I return the week after next, please stay safe, keep well and as always, 

KEEP ON CRAFTING.

😍😍 xx Gill xx 😍😍

Below is the link for the Imperial measurements and the video of Connies that I watched. Copy and paste the link below and it will take you straight to it.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=connie+stewart+vaentine+card#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c151e98a,vid:Ojxn9AXlq2M

This or That Thursday - Dainty Dlight

Thursday already! Time is flying again!! So, today is the This and That where you get to decide which card is your preferred one. So as I said on Monday, the set of cards this week are all very simple and today's cards are no expression. I have used 2 of the NEW different In Colours, they are Moody Mauve and Boho Blue. Using a blending brush in each of the 2 colours, I covered a long rectangle with them. Moody Mauve I made a frame to make the rectangle and brushed the colour within the rectangle itself and the Boho Blue, I chose a piece of card to give a smaller rectangle. They were then both stamped in Smoky Slate Ink Pad using 2 different stamps from the Dainty Delight stamp set. Moody Mauve was on a simple white mat then layered onto a Moody Mauve mat. The Boho Blue image I matted and layered several times onto white card then onto a Boho Blue background mat. 

I repeated with the coloured and white mats on the insides to complete both to keep them simple.

 

This                                                     That

 

THIS

 

THAT

Watercolour Wednesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello again. Today's card is a simple watercolour style of card. Using a piece of Fluid 100 watercolour paper, I spritzed it completely with water. Using a large acrylic block I spritzed that too with water and then added several little dots of ink refill from my Granny Apple Green refill. I used a waterbrush and worked the colour through the water on the block and then added the piece of fluid 100 paper on top keeping it moving the whole time. I wanted it to be completely covered with the ink and water. I took a piece of kitchen paper and dabbed the excess moisture up from it then set it aside to dry. once dry, I was able to ink my stamp with Versamark ink and stamped several of the images onto the now coloured paper. I poured White embossing powder all across, removed the excess and then heat set it. Using the coordinating dies, I die cut all of the images out. I used a white card mat with Night of Navy card on top. The front mat was dry embossed using the Painted Posies embossing folder. I stamped a sentiment onto the piece of watercolour paper and die cut it out using a circle die from Stylish Shapes dies. I die cut another in Night of Navy and another in White. It was then a case of simple construction. 

 

Technique Tuesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello again and thank you for stopping by. Today's card is another simple one with a little blending and heat embossing. I started with a strip of card and using Versamark Ink pad, I stamped 3 of the stamps from the set Dainty Delight and poured White Embossing Powder over. Once I had removed the excess powder, I heat set it. Using my blending brushes, I brushed the NEW ink called Lemon Lolly over the top third. Then Fresh Freesia on the centre third. Fresh Freesia is now a permanent fixture in the catalogue. It was an In Colour for the last 2 years but it is now staying. Then last but not least, I used Granny Apple Green ink and brushed it over the bottom third. That's it really except for the Fresh Freesia card base which I embossed using the Fern fry embossing folder.

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Dainty Delight

 Hello and welcome back to 2 Big Girls Crafting on the 1st of May. This week I am going to show some simple projects using the beautiful stamp set Dainty Delight. The set when it first came out had some gorgeous papers to coordinate with it too. They have now retired sadly but I will endeavour to make the best of it. 

#simplestamping is today's project and simple it is. This card is an ideal style of card for a beginner to make with very little product. Whish goes to prove that you don't need to buy ALL of the products to get you started. A stamp set, an ink pad, paper if you can or colouring pencils. That is al I had to make today's card minus the papers.

Fun Fold Friday - Dainty Delight

 Hello, today being my last day this week, I have made a folded card that I recently made for a class. Using the Dainty Delight stamp set and the Dainty Flowers DSP I matched the card of Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry. The main card is in Rich Razzleberry card, 14.85cm high by 15cm wide and scored at 10.5cm. The smaller card in Blushing Bride is 18.6cm wide by 10.5cm high. 

I cut a piece of Basic white card 20cm wide by 14.4cm high and scored it at 10cm. This I adhered to the back of the card base only. I then cut 2 more pieces of basic white card 10cm by 9cm wide. I embossed these with the Fern Embossing Folder and adhered them to the inside of the small card.

I cut a piece of DSP for the front of the small card 10cm high by 9cm wide and adhered it to the front of the card. I then cut a further piece for the front of the base card 4.6cm wide by 14.4cm high. This was adhered to the narrow panel on the base card. I then added the small cards centrally over the DSP panel on the base card. I used the Handmade Tag punch for the main sentiment on the front of the card and stamped several flowers and other sentiments throughout the inside of the card too. 

A little colouring and the card was completed.

Thank you for stopping by this week. Cary will return on Monday to share some of her creations. 

Until I return, please take care, stay safe and

KEEP ON CRAFTING. 

lots of love,  Gill
 

This or That Thursday - Dainty Delight

 Hello. I started with a simple card today that can be easily copied and reproduced. Using the Dainty Delight stamp set, I stamped the largest image and coloured it in using my Stampin' Blends, alchocol Marker pens. I picked a piece of the Silver foiled papers and embossed it using the Twigs and Sprigs gorgeous embossing folder. The detail is stunning! I adhered that to a piece of the Granny Apple Green mat and then to a White Card base. The stamped image was then cut down and adhered to another piece of the green and mounted onto the card using Dimensionals, 3D foam shapes. A simple message and the 2 mats on the inisde and this one was finished. 

As it's this and that Thursday today, I made a similar one this time using the Dainty Flowers Designer Series Paper (DSP) for the background. The papers are stunning and I couldn't decide which to use. So I made 2 more! Made in the same way but without foil this time. 

Please can you let me know which of the 3 cards you prefer?

  

Card 1

  

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                                                                               Card 3

Watercolour Wednesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello. Today's card using the Dainty Delight stamp set, I used the large image stamp and stamped it with Memento Ink pad. Now I know you aren't supposed to use a water based ink when watercolouring but today I did! The reason being is that I wanted to used the water colour pencils but not the water!

I coloured the flowers and background in using the pencils and then chopped the image into 8. I added the small pieces onto a piece of one of the DSP papers called Dainty Flowers which are Free during Saleabration. For every £45 spent, you get to choose a free item from the special brochure. 

I LOVE the stamps and the papers together and apart. Really beautiful! Once they were all chopped up, I added them all to another white mat then onto the Starry Sky card base. I did keep the mat narrow on purpose so cut off the excess card to the right hand side. I didn't use the water brushes as I said but did rub my fingers across the mats to smooth the colours over gently. 

Technique Tuesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. I have changed tack on what I was using for this week as I had forgotten that Cary used the Beautifully Happy stamp set a few weeks ago. I really paid attention didn't I Anyway I am now for the rest of this week, going to use the gorgeous Dainty Delight stamp set.

 Today's card is lovely and bright then cut into 4 pieces. I stamped several of the flowers from the stamp set using Versamark and added them to a white mat. I used White embossing powder and heat set them before I started to blend several different colours across the sheet. I cut it into 2 strips then each one into 2 more pieces. That was it. From there I added the pieces to another mat in a different order to before and then adhered them onto a Granny Apple Green card base.