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

 

 

 

Thus or That Thursday - Gift of Giving and Joy To You

 Well...it really is going to be a very wet day today. We have a storm heading our way called Ciaron and it's due to be a doozy! I do hope that it won't be as bad as predicted though. However, trying to keep focused...my cards today are similar but different in as much as one is quite pale and the other bright and Christmassy. My first card is the soft purple of Highland Heather and is an easel card. Very simple and straightforward but some added dimension as I used the lovely circles from the Cheery Patterns embossing folders. 

My That card is traditionally bright red and fun. I stamped the same gift boxes as above but coloured them in very bright colours and added some of the parcels from a piece of paper from the Beary Christmas DSP. 

The Merry Christmas is taken from another stamp set called Brightest Glow.

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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