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 - Poised Peony

For my last day this week, I have made my one of my favourite types of card, a fun fold. I do get great pleasure in making fun folds as they are generally different from just a piece of card folded in half. Saying that though, any hand made simple card fold is generally really beautiful and I've seen many a gorgeous card made by some really talented people. Very clever people! Anyway I have had fun playing with the Poised Peony stamp set this week and although it hasn't any coordinating dies ...it's not been a problem. One of the reasons that I love peonies if that my mum used to have a huge Peony plant just beside her front door. It was a deep red, sort of Cherry Cobbler meets the retired Rich Razzleberry colour. Gorgeous!

Anyway, I made 2 cards for today, one landscape and I have tried one portrait! I believe it's called a centre, stepper fold card. I started making the Petunia Pop card first and really enjoyed the process so as I had a piece of the Peach Pie card also on my desk, I made another but this time a protrait one.

I used the new In Colour DSP on the Petunia Pop card and the Full of Life DSP for the Peach Pie card.            2 amazing bundles of gorgeous, unctious designer series paper!

Both cards were finished in a similar way and I have really had fun playing this week. Cary will be back on Monday so please stop by to see what she has been making.

Thank you so much for stopping by, I will be back in just over a week so until then, please take care, stay safe and as always....

KEEP ON CRAFTING

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

 

Make It Simple Monday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by to see my cards this week. I will be using Botanical Beauty stamp set this week in particular but I will be coordinating it with Botanical Layers and Berry Harvest...possibly! The Botanical Beauty and Berry Harvest are what are called Background stamps and they do make excellent backgrounds too. However, with a little addition they can adopt a different look too which is what I aim to show you this week. 🤞🤞🤞

Today's card is a simplestamping card of course. One ideally suited for the new to stamping, or beginner crafter. It's perfect as all it needs once stamped is a sentiment. Yes, I did add a few extra layers flat onot the previous card layer and then some of the little cut outs from another stamped image. They were stuck to the back of the sentiment. which came from the Botanical Layers stamp set.

Fun Fold Friday - Magnolia Mood

 Hello for the last time this week. I have made a very quick and easy fun fold for you today. I know that I say that a lot but it really is true. The card today is still a standard A6 or C6 whichever is what you want to call it. It is made from half a sheet of A4 and scored and folded with some little extras. I started by stamping the small flowers from Magnolia Mood stamp set onto Highland Heather card in the same colour Ink pad. I then cut the images out and also die cut the large floral image too. In fact I die cut 3 of the large flower. I used Granny Apple Green, Bubble Bath and Highland Heather card. I wasn't sure which colour I wanted to show but by cutting each colour out and removing the leaves from 2 of the die-cuts I then added each one using Tombow multipurpose glue and finished off with the purple flower on the top. I rather like the light edge that you can just about see by having the pink beneath the purple. 

 Please see the layout below. I recently made one of these versions last week for my grand-daughter's 25th birthday as an A5 card. The only difference was the measurements on the outer corner as well as obviously the card base. If you want to make an A5 or C5 card base, the score marks on the corners should be at 7cm where it shows 5cm on each area.

Once the card base was made, I chose some DSP from the Perennial Lavender papers. I love the colours used in them, including the Crumb Cake background of some of the papers. Anyone who knows me knows that my least favourite colour of card is beige or Crumb Cake! YUK! That sounds terrible for me to say but I love all of the other colours just not that one! Sorry!!

As I wrote on the layout, the mats for the front and inside of the card is 14.4 cm wide by 10 cm wide. I then marked the paper at 5cm the same way as on the card base and trimmed those triangles off. For the inside, I cut 2 mats in the same papers and another smaller mat in White card for the sentiments. I love the way that the white pops off the page with the purple shades behind it. 

 

 

 

Here is the completed inside view. The triangles that I cut off from the original rectangle were used to fill in the inner corners but had to be trimmed down a couple of ml or very small fractions of an inch.

I decorated the edges with small circles of DSP adhered to slightly larger circle of Glimmer papers and the flowers that I stamped at the beginning were adhered to them.  They do look a little like Mickey Mouse ears but they arent!! The large die cuts were fixed to the front of the card using Dimensionals to add some more height.

Below is a picture of my Grand daughter Olivia's A5 card.  If you didn't know that's half a whole sheet of A4 folded in half.

 

Well, that's it from me for another week, thank you for stopping by once again. I hope that you have found something to trigger you into making some cards. Hand crafted cards are truly the best gift you can give. 

Cary will be back next week so please stop by to see what she will be sharing. 

Until we return from Rotterdam, stay safe, keep well but most of all...

KEEP ON CRAFTING

xxx 😍 Gill 😍 xxx

 

 

 

Technique Tuesday - Magnolia Mood

 Hello again. My card today is a very easy one. Using the stamp set Magnolia Mood, and a mat 7cm by 10.5cm white mat and placed it in the centre of a White mat 10.5cm by 14.4cm then stamped an image on both opposite corners of the mats. As you can see, they overlapped the corners. I then stamped 2 more to go to the actual outer corners. There will be a small gap where the images were stamped because of the thickness of the card. That's not a problem as the next thing to do is to adhere the small mat onto a matching piece of coloured card. This would be approximately 0.5cm larger than the actual card mat. 

I added it to the card front and coloured the flowers all using my Stampin' Blends pens. 

That was it.