Watercolour Wednesday - Cheerful Daisies

 Hello again, I am so pleased that I chose the Cheerful Daisies this week as the weather has been so very lovely here, it's been what I call lovely smiling weather. Today's card is one that I have seen done several times but I never had the luck of making it turn out right. I started by choosing 3 similar colours. The first is Fresh Freesia, then it's Highland Heather and finally Gorgeous Grape. I first of all spritzed the piece of Fluid 100 water colour paper in water really well. Then starting with the lightest, I stamped a Stampin' Up! acrylic Block C onto the ink pad and made sure it was covered in ink. I spritzed the block with water and placed it onto the paper. Where I had gone wrong before was that I lifted the block off. I shouldn't have. I tipped the block lightly from side to side and top to bottom so that the ink on the block covered the whole of the square that I wanted covering. I repeated with the other 2 colours but as the Gorgeous Grape ink is quite strong, I didn't over ink it. All 3 blocks were overlapped and dried really well. 

I stamped the large and small line images and inside colours onto white paper then die cut them all out. I mounted the small daisies using Dimensionals and the centres of the flowers were rounded/stretched a little and added with Dimensionals too. The whole of the mat was placed on Adhesive foam sheet so that it straightened out and laid flat well before placing them all onto the Fresh Freesia card base.

Technique Tuesday - Wisteria Wishes

Here we are on a Tuesday already, where does the time go? Well, today's card is another style that I like to make but this time using the Wisteria Wishes stamp set, I stamped the stalks and leaves a few times randomly over the white mat using the gorgeous green of Pear Pizazz ink pad and then went in with the pale purple of Highland Heather for the beautiful fronds of the flowers themselves. I added an extra layer of the flowers with the darker purple of Gorgeous Grape. Then, I chopped it all up into rectangles! It was that simple. Each of the rectangles were then adhered onto the Pear Pizazz card to show the definition between the layers. A few sentiments later and it's all complete. I hope you like it.

Make It Simple Monday- #simplestamping - Wisteria Wishes

Hello and welcome back on this #simplestamping Monday. All of this week I will be making some card to show you using the gorgeous stamp set called Wisteria Wishes. Today's card is literally a very simple one too. I used only 2 colours, a gorgeous purple and my old time favourite green.

 

Throwback Thursday - Love of Leaves

 Well, the weather forecast for this week was rain, rain and more rain. It hasn't let us down either!! Rain, rain go away, come again another day. Do you remember ditties like that from your childhood too? There are soooo many I can remember. Anyway, enough reminiscing! Today's card with the Love of Leaves stamp set is yet another very simple one. I know that I've said that every day this week but they seriously are simple! Today's is similar to Tuesday's in as much as it's an aperture with paper below. This time I used a piece 10cm by 14.4cm of the Simply Elegant Speciality Designer Series Paper and added to the Gorgeous Grape, purple card base. I then cut a White matt 9 cm by 13.4 cm and die cut the large maple leaf from the centre. I then embossed the matt on it's own using the Parisian Flourish Embossing Folder. I chose this one as the pattern matches with the pattern on the DSP. The mat was fixed to the DSP using Dimensionals and the leaf that was die cut earlier was added in the same way. Another simple 'Hello' completes this card today.  

Watercolour Wednesday - Love of Leaves

Hello for this lovely to be a very wet Wednesday! Very apt really as this is Watercolour Wednesday! My card this week is another very simple card. Not true to watercolouring in the normal sense but still lots of water was involved! Using the largest leaf (I think it is supposed to be a Field Maple) from Love of Leaves stamp set, today I inked up the stamp in lots of ink and then using my spritzer, soaked it with water. Once done, I stamped it straight onto the white mat that I had beside my work. Now I hadn't planned on the next thing that happened but I'm so pleased it did. As I spritzed the stamp with the ink on, the ink sprayed onto the white mat! I repeated the inking and spritzing with all of the colours.

I used, Pacific Point (bright blue), Gorgeous Grape (strong purple), Melon Mambo (bright pink), Granny Apple Green (bright green) and Mango Melody (bright yellowish/orange). I wouldn't normally put all of those bright colours together but it just seemed the right thing to do for this card. The spritzing of the colour all over the card I'm really pleased with as it turned out, lucky me! 😀

It took a while to dry so I went away for about an hour and when I came back I loved the way the lines of colour had spread over the sides of the images and how the spots really look so cool! I love it! Ok, so once it was dry, I decided to chop it into rectangles or gutted the mat several times. By cutting the inside at 1.5cm inside the outer edges I was left with a frame. I continued to do this twice more and the last one was just left as it is. Adding these rectangle frames onto a piece of the bright coloured card and trimmed all round before mounting each layer using Dimensionals or foam adhesive shapes. Another simple sentiment inside and out by colouring each of the letters using a Stampin' Write Marker pen in the exact colours.

 

Fun Fold Friday - Tulip Fields

 Hello, today's card is one that I found on another blog. More details nearer the end of my post. I saw this shaped card and kept going back to it. The measurements weren't in the right size so I had to work it out for myself. Having folded a piece of card in the measurements, I discovered it was a little flimsy so I adhered 2 pieces of white card together after both had been scored. It now stands up perfectly. I have used papers from the coordinating range to the Tulip Fields stamp set and are called Flowering Fields. I used these papers for the outer 2 layers of the card. The other DSP I have used in the centre is a set of DSP patterned Papers called Simply Marbleous. The colours blend so well with the tulip papers that I just had to use them. 

Once I had decorated the 6 front panels, I used the coordinating die set called Windmill Fields. I die cut 2 of each of the pieces in the purple, Gorgeous Grape and 2 background of the windmill. I glued the sails of the windmill to a piece of white and fussy cut them out. I used some of the little Round and Square Brads and pierced holes through all layers and added the sails to the windmills before adding them to the card base using Dimensionals (foam pads). Another sentiment from the Special Moments and Saleabration stamp set inside and on the front completes this last card from me this week. 

 

Here is the measurements from the post that grabbed my attention. The post I saw it on is by Lavonne Schwendeman. As you can see there are other names on the sketch too but whoever designed it, I love it so thank you for sharing it with the world.

 Thank you for stopping by this week, I am truly grateful to you all. 

Cary will be back on Monday to share her projects with you. 

Until I return, stay safe, keep well and 

😍😍😍  KEEP ON CRAFTING  😍😍😍