Fun Fold Friday - Legendary Ride

 Well, here we are at another Friday is here, time really does fly when you are having fun doesn't it? I have had a blast this week. Being bought up in a family with my brother and dad both riding motorbikes day in and day has had me reminiscing! The piles of greasy, oily and smelly pieces of motors etc on the kitchen floor and table!!! Mum was always getting rather angry! Bless her! Anyway, enough of that... Today I've made a 6 by 6 card in white and covered it using some of the papers from the Countryside Inn papers and also the clouds from the Take To The Sky DSP too. Plus of course a little piece of Silver foiled card. You have to love foil when it's embossed! Legendary Ride was one of my favourite stamps when it first came out as my son too is very keen on his motorbike (much to my disgust or rather fear)! 

A few motorbikes in different sizes and colours plus the extras to finish it off and that's me done for the week. 

 

Well that is me finished for this week, thank you as always for stopping by. Cary will of course return on MOnday with some of her creations to inspire you.

Until I return the following week, 

TAKE CARE, STAY SAFE AND WELL BUT MOST OF ALL

KEEP ON CRAFTING

Lots of Love, 

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

This or That Thursday - Legendary Ride

Today's cards are both rather bright. One has lots of different colours on the DSP (THAT) and the other has only a few very bright colours on. Using the Legendary Ride again today, I had heat embossed the larger motorbike onto a pale pink background wash that I made yesterday for the Watercolour Wednesday but never used. Then I stamped several of the smaller bikes in some of the colours on the Lemon Lime Twist card. (THIS). The colours that I used were Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral and Lemon Lime Twist ink pads. The links here show you the actual colours in more detail than you will see in the ink refil or ink pad.

I wanted to follow the line of the colour wash on the paper. The papers I used today are from the Full of Life pack of DSP.  So very bright but gorgeous! I stamped the bikes in the same colours as the stripes straight onto the DSP and then stamped the motor bikes in the 3 main colours onto white card and die cut them all out. As the paper has diagonal stripes on it was difficult to cut the paper to fit the card but I really don't mine the gaps on some (2) of the corners which I filled up with some of the flames and smaller ones across the card.

THIS

THAT

My THAT card is much simpler. As I had the embossed bike and decided that I wanted some more of the bright colours which along with thousands of others, love this beautiful sheet of paper! I added the motorbike using Dimensionals (foam shapes) to give some dimension as I had done with the first card and the small motorbikes. The only extra thing was on the inside, As I had used a white mat for the inner sentiments, I matched the coloured border from the front onto the edges of the white mat too.

 

Here are the beautiful papers that I used today. Full of Life DSP

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Legendary Ride

 Hello. Today's watercolour was a simple one as I heat embossed the centres of the pink mats with White embossing powder and then using a spritzer, a wide paint brush and the ink pad and lots of water... I managed to cover the whole mat. The pink was my third attempt! I tried with Daffodil Delight, (a lovely strong yellow), then Melon Mambo, (a very bright pink) which obviously turned everything very orange. I haven't thrown it away as you may end up seeing it on Thursday! Anyway, I started by using Versamark ink pad for the image from the large motorbike from Legendary Ride stamp set. I then added the white embossing powder and heat set it with the heat gun. Well pleased with the result! 

I started to add ink by brushing the ink pad across the white stamped mat but...a, the colour was wrong and b, It really wasn't the look that I was going for. I then repeated the process onto white card this time but I stamped the image in the soft pink instead of heat embossing. The pink is called Bubble Bath and is so cute. I layered this onto a white square card base approximately 6" by 6" and I added a piece of DSP from the Flowering Zinnias papers. It is the perfect bright pink of Melon Mambo. I also added a silver foiled card mat which I embossed with the retired embossing folder called Metal Plate.

Motorbike riders are not all men and this one is for my best friend for her birthday in September. She is very tiny but still loves to ride powerful engines such as tractors and the like, huge horses and of course her motorbikes! I know that I'm early but I'll know that it's done. 

 

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Legendary Ride

Hello on a much cooler Tuesday. I know that it's supposed to be a maximum of 16 degrees but to me that's too cool! For Cary..... It's even then too warm! She has her own central heating system! Lucky woman! Mines like a fridge! Anyway, today's card is one that I was inspired to make by my son, I showed him the stamp set and he remembered that it was used for his birthday last year. His response was...I'd just like to fly away on mine sometimes! Hence flying into the clouds! I am calling this one a Z fold card.

I used a piece of DSP from the Take To The Sky papers from this year's new stamp set called Adventurous Sky. It's all about bi-planes. It really is a great looking set and I can't wait to share some cards with you from using them. I have used the dies too today and played around with them to highlight parts of the bike, which I must say looks very like my son's bike too!

 

 

Make It Simple Monday - Legendary Ride #simplestamping

Hello and thank you for stopping by today. This week I will be making some more cards using the Legendary Ride stamp set and dies too later in the week. I thought that as it's nearly Father's Day here in the UK it's an appropriate time to. My first card of the week is a very simple one of course. Using the smaller of the motorbike stamps, I stamped it all over a piece of white card to fit the front of the black card base. I'm a little surprised I chose black but black it is! After stamping the little ones, I took a larger white mat and stamped the large motorbike in Memento black ink which has come out really well thankfully. I trimmed the mat down to just larger than the bike itself and 'walked' the mat onto the ink pad. I made sure that all 4 edges were nicely black to give the impression that it's on a black mat too. A sentiment from the stamp set, I trimmed the front mat down and added the sentiment inside and out and this card was completed.

 

 

Fun Fold Friday _ Legendary Ride

 Well, it's Friday again already! Time really does fly when you're having fun doesn't it? Sunday was my oldest son's birthday and we didn't go out for it like we usually do, we went out for an ice cream lunch! Oh my! It was amazing!!! Waffles and ice cream are a match made in heaven. As I had used the Legendary Ride stamp set for Jonathan's birthday that's the reason I have used it all of this week. It's not just a set for the man in your life but as Tuesday showed, it can also be used for ladies too.

My card for him is a Twist and Pop card. He loved it thankfully too!

I started off making an A5 size card rather than the normal A6 sizes. For the A6 size, you need a piece of card, 10.5cm by 29.7cm (the full height and half the width of an A4 piece of card) This was scored in half at 14.85cm.  I cut a mat in Granny Apple Green card 10cm by 14.4cm and embossed it using the Metal Plate embossing folder before adding it to the card front. I repeated this for both of the inside panels to add a little more detail. Obviously, this was optional.  

 

  

  

Then it was onto the long piece and the mechanism for inside the card. I cut another mat 10cm by 29.7cm and scored it at 7.4cm from each side and 14.85cm for the centre decorative piece. Then another piece which is 20cm by 8cm or 8" by 3,1/4". I then scored along the centre in horizontally and vertically. I marked the panel using a pencil at 6cm or 2,3/8" from each of the 4 corners. I scored between each of the opposite side marks so the piece looked like below.

 Now there are 2 crosses in the centre of the mat. On the top right and bottom left, I marked 2.5cm along from the outside edge and removed a triangle of card from this point to the centre of the long, horizontal fold. To fold it, I pushed the 2 long folds togetherand folded one side back and the other side folded forward. This now shows the centre triangles, one on each side. Holding the bottom of this long piece, I pushed the 2 triangles down into the centre of the panel. Then seperated, the 2 sides to show this shape a little like a house. As the embossed piece of card has been added to the card base, the triangle of the piece below is covered in adhesive. Wet glue or tape, it's your choice. Then open the card and place the top of the triangle onto the centre point, just below the score line, on the bottom of the card base. Repeat this with the upper triangle and this time close the card down onto the piece. Here is your mechanism now. 

 

 

I decorated my panel before adding it to the mechanism. Once it's been added, it will look like this below and when closing the card, it will twist the card arounf to go into the centre and fold away. 

That just left me to add sentimenents and images onto the rest of the card, As my son is into his motorbike, it was an obvious choice for him. I will be using it again later in the year for my best friends birthday as she would love to be able to ride her motorbikes again!

 

Thank you for joining me again this week. Until I return, take care, stay well but as always

KEEP ON CRAFTING! 

Don't forget too, that this is the last few days to get the fantastic offer to join Stampin' Up! as a demonstrator or just because you llove to craft. £99 gets you £170 to spend on yourself from the current catalogues. The £125 you get the same £170 worth of products plus the option to have a Mini Cut 'n Emboss machine in either white or the NEW BOHO BLUE one for half price!  It truly is a fantastic offer. 

Lots of love

😍😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍😍

 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Legendary Ride

 Did I have fun with today's card!!!! I really did too. I took 3 ink pads all in shades of blues and one by one, I swiped them across a cello bag in different directions. I then spritzed the bag with lots of water to make sure that all the ink was soaked. I then place a white mat across it and made sure that it was well soaked. I even had enough ink for another mat which I will use another time. Then, using Legendary Ride stamps and Pacific Point ink pad, I stamped another motorbike. The image is so crisp and clear. With the bike laying across the watercoloured mat, it looks like it's flying. a few sentiments and then matted onto Pacific Point card and a white card base to complete this one. 

I added a smaller motorbike to the centre of the card and placed a sentiment mini card over the top.

Technique Tuesday - Legendary Ride

 Today I really had a very fun time making this one. Only 2 colours and black ink and it was completed very quickly. Using the stamp set, Legendary Ride and Memento Ink Pad, I stamped the sentiment across the centre of a piece of white card. I did use my Stamparatus for this one as it has the hinges on the plates which you can move along. That's what I did. I placed the mat onto the platform and added the flame stamp on the edge of the white card mat. I placed the plate down on top of the stamp, picked it up and then started inking with the Mango Melody. I repeated the same with the other side. Once the Mango Melody was completed, I moved the stamp a little to be in-between the yellow flames and then started to stamp using Granny Apple Green. 

That was it. Very quick and very simple. 

Make It Simple Monday - Legendary Ride

 Hello again, that week has really flown past hasn't it? Cary and I are both in full swing of getting ready for our annual retreat so it's really crazy at the moment. Yesterday was my son Jonathan's birthday and I used Legendary Ride stamp set for his birthday card. As it was still on the desk, I decided I will try to make more. 

The first one is a very simple or #simplestamping card, a little stamping and it's completed. I used Memento ink pad for the motorbike and some marker pens just added to the stamp to add a splash of colour.