Fun Fold Friday - Jolly Words

Hello again, I hope you are all ready for the weekend? I know I need to be! Cary and I are holding an event for World Cardmaking Day on Saturday so I need to make sure that I have all of the kits, equipment etc. etc. ready for then. So another busy day again today.  For the last time using the Jolly Words stamp set this week, I have made an easy fun fold. I made a gatefold card which is basically a rectangle of square of card marked at the centre and the edges folded in to that central point. SIMPLE! It is then just a case of decorating.

I wanted to go completely off piste today for this Christmas card so I have use the strong pink of Melon Mambo and the softest pink called Bubble Bath with a little splash of Silver glimmer here and there.

 

 

I used the dies from Light The Sky dies over the Bubble Bath card and then embossed using the Snowflake Sky embossing folder over the 2 front panels only. I die cut a star explosion from a piece of the Silver and Gold self-adhesive Glimmer paper and die cut out the explosions from it. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut around the 'Tis the Season' and laid it across the silver panel. 

 

After finishing to the state above, I decided to go a little blingy! I used some retired embellishments as the colour is absolutely perfect. They are the Adhesive Backed Stars, they were one of Cary's very favourite embellishments. I did go quite blingy with them too!! :))

Well, that's it from me for another week. Cary will of course be back on Monday so please stop by to see her creations made especially for you. 

Until I return the following week, as always, keep well, stay safe but just as importantly...

KEEP ON CRAFTING!!

XX 😍😍 Gill 😍😍 XX

This or That Thursday - Jolly Words

 For this week's this or that, I have made 2 cards very similar. Using the Jolly Words stamp set I made them both using Night of Navy card mats, Very Vanilla card bases and Shimmery White card. It really is a gorgeous combination. My first is the HO HO HO  design. Using the Nested Essentials frame dies, I die cut 2 of the hexagonal frames in the Shimmery White card and stamped the sleigh etc onto one of them. (they look like coffins to me)! I took a Night of Navy mat and stamped it using the It's in The Stars background stamp over 2 pieces. One was the first image from the stamp and the second mat was with the second image from the stamp.

The next one was embossed using the Snowflake Sky embossing folder. I stamped the words and chopped them out, stamped the elves and decorated them and that was that!

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Watercolour Wednesday - Jolly Words

 Hello again. Today's card started somewhat different to what it turned out. I played for a while with it and in the end, I didn't like so I cut off the edges! I used a Lost Lagoon card base the same size as the C6 card base but I made it wider the higher. I made a blue, pink and yellow sky for the card mat. By adding all of the colours to a large acrylic block and I soaked the watercolour card very well too, and spritzed the ink all over the block too and sploshed it onto the wet card and moved it around quite a bit to blend the colours really well into it. Once I dried it, I stamped the image across and watercoloured the image. I adhered the coloured mat to the white piece of card and then onto the card base. 

 

Technique Tuesday - Jolly Words

 Today, using the Jolly Words once again, I have had some fun. I stamped the image with the JOY in onto a White card mat and had fun colouring it in using my Stampin' Blends pens. Back to the card, I decided that I wanted my traditional colour of Real Red (my favourite). I cut a card base and then some white C6 card mats too. I embossed the front mat using one of the three embossing folders in the 3D basics folders. They are such good value and give really gorgeous images too. I added 2 strips of the white, silver edged ribbon straight down the front and the added the small coloured mat over the top. To change the inside a little, I turned the embossing folder diagonally across the card and got a lovely jaunty angle embossed across the inside. I am rather pleased with it too!

 

Make It SImple Monday - Jolly Words

 Hello and welcome back. It seems so long since I was last here but in truth I know that it was Cary last week. Didn't she do a fantastic job with the Merriest Trees stamps and dies? Brilliant! This week however, I am going for more of a fun vibe. I am using the lovely Jolly Words stamp set and occasionally mixing them in with another sentiment only stamp set. 

This very simple set was crying out for my very simple first card of the week. Only Basic White Card and a Pool Party Ink Pad was all I used!