This or That Thursday - Changing Leaves

Hello, now is the day for you to choose your favourite card. No pressure of course, that is of obviously dependant on if you like any of them! Using the Changing Leaves dies, embossing folder and stamps today, I started with pieces of A6 white card and a large F sized Stampin' Up! Acrylic Block.

Then for THIS card, using Stampin' Up Marker pens, I scribbled lots of circles and lines and basically just had fun scribbling! Once I had covered the block with ink, I woke it up with a good shower from a Spritzer. I gave it really good soak and the colours all turned into lots of bubbles. Then, I added the pieces of white card on top of the blocks and allowed the paper to soak up all of the colour. I repeated it a several times as I wanted to die cut out all of the pieces of patterned paper. I used my heat gun to dry them all as I'm too impatient to wait! Then I started going to town and die cut all of the small leaves in the die set. They came out really well and using an A4 sheet of white card, I adhered them in a cross shape of North, South, East and West across the paper. When the glue had dried I chopped them all into A6 pieces. So, 10cm by 14.4cm or 4" by 5,13/16th" I am sure that you have different measurements outside the UK so use those instead!

THIS 

Here are all of the first 4 cards

Card 1 above in Granny Apple Green card base

Card 2 in  Garden Green card base.

Card 3 in Pretty Peacock card base.

Card 4 in Lemon Lime Twist card base

All 4 cards for THIS

 

I didn't make the one card as you may have guessed as I got 4 card fronts from the A4 piece. Yes, I made a set of 4 very similar cards and the other card,  my THAT card, is different again.  

THAT

THAT 

So my THAT card is another one this time in a Lost Lagoon card base. I started with an embossed mat in the Changing Leaves embossing folder and a strip of Lost Lagoon about 4cm wide by the length of the white card mat. I stamped 4 of the smaller leaf in memento onto some scraps of white card and then proceeded to use my Stampin Blends to colour them in. I used of course the Lost Lagoon blends pens. I fussy cut all four out and then cut them in down the centre. I adhered each piece to the back of the central bar in Lost Lagoon and added them onto the card base. I did emboss the Lost Lagoon bar too by the way. I stamped the sentiment and die cut it out and added the last leaf to the back of the sentiment bar too. 

That was it. 

Please let me know which you like? Will it be the set of 4 THIS cards or the single THAT card in Lost Lagoon?

 

Fun Fold Friday - Seasonal Branches

Thank you for joining me here once again today. Using the Seasonal Branches stamp set and dies today for the last time this week I have made an easy fun fold called a twisted gate fold card. It is as easy as any other gatefold except that this is slanted at an angle. I have again used  a Basic White card base and scored the front panel from top right to bottom left. That's it! I added another C6 mat on top of that and some DSP from the Delightfully Eclectic papers, I cut 3x 4.5cm squares from Garden Green card  or 3x 1,3/4" squares. I cut 3x white squares in white and embossed them using the Exposed Brick embossing folder. 

They were all added to the card using Dimensionals to add height and an oval duo punch with the birthday wishes on. Again, this was also added using Dimensionals. Inside, I added a Garden Green mat and a white mat over the top and centralised several flowers and leaves over it. The final touch was another Oval sentiment shape, on Dimensionals for the front of the card to stand up against. That's it! simple enough?

 

Well, once again that's it from me for the week. Cary will of course be back next week and sharing her card makes with you. 

Until I return, stay well, keep safe but as always.....

KEEP ON CRAFTING

It really is the best thing since sliced bread!! 

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

Throwback Thursday - DSP - Tea Boutique DSP

 Today's card is very like the cards that Cary made on her live yesterday. She made 4 beautiful cards and I decided to follow her same design but just changed this one a little. I had some strips of paper left from other projects just as Cary had earlier yesterday. This time I have used the Tea Boutique designer series papers from Stampin' Up! I started by cutting the strips of paper to the correct size and added them to White mats. Trying to decide what colour to use was tricky. I knew I didn't want any more yellow or even a plain white card base but I ended up with one more that I rarely use surpringly. I chose the strong Garden Green for the card base and I'm pleased to see that it works well. I added a strip of the white crinkled ribbon threaded around the centre panel, knotted and stretched across the outer two panels. A few simple sentiments and a few more lemons on the inside to complete it.