Make It Simple Monday - Embraced With Love

 Hello and thank you for joining me today. This week I am going to be making some cards using a stamp set from the new seasonal mini catalogue. Today's is Embraced With Love. This little estamp has sat in my drawer for a few weeks and now it's time to share some cards with it. 

A very simple card as it's #simplestamping day today. I stamped the polar bear/bear and rabbit with Memento black ink and using my cheap colouring pencils, coloured it in. My idea of the animals is that they are a winter rabbit and a polar bear. You could call them what you like but that's my name for them. A simple colouring in with pencils and a little very light blue to 'ground' the image on the page a little better. 

Make It Simple Monday - Sketched Butterflies

 Hello and thank you for joining me. It's been a chaotic week here for me and a busy weekend for Cary and I. I had my cataracts removed on Tuesday last week and I'm still getting my eyes straight. Cary and I went to a meeting a few hours from home on Saturday and returned only a short while ago. So I am haviing difficulty seeing things close up but distance is great! Cary very kindly made today's card to share with you to help me out and I am aiming to make tomorrow's one myself. My chosen stamp set this week is the gorgeous Sketched Butterflies so along with the dies, this is what I aim to show you this week. 

The card that Cary made is gorgeous and simple. She has stamped several of the butterflies on the card base and coloured them in using the watercolour pencils. No water...just pencils. Aren't they beautiful?

 

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

 

Make It Simple Monday - Crafting With You

 Hello and thank you for joining me today. I loved the submarines or airships that Cary made last week, weren't they cute? Today, I am doing something completely different of course. I am working with the Crafting With You stamp set this week and today being #simplestamping is the perfect thing to use. Now I know that Cary used them some while ago but I think it's time I put my hands to it too. 

My very simple card has 3 stamped images on the front and 2 on the inside. Sound simple enough? I hope so. I kept to Memento black for the sentiments and the yellow for the flowers and plumb colour for the easel and canvas. I did use an ink pen to go over the leaves. They looked a little silly in yellow!