Fun Fold Friday - Christmas Friends

Hello, it's Friday again already! Using my Christmas Friends stamps and dies today I have made a card cased from another demonstrator. Her name is Einat Kessler. The card she made, she has called a flipping photos card. Here is the link if you would like to case it.                                                     https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/529454499962143725/

It is made with a piece of card 10.5cm by 29.7 cm long. There are a few extra pieces but it is such a great card and it can be made as a C6 sized card too. It will of course be a 15 cm square card or 6" by 6" card. On my card, I used pieces of DSP from the Season of Green Speciality DSP. It's gorgeous as it has gold prints on the reverse of each one. I do like a touch of Gold in my cards and in my jewellery too!

You can see from the photo below that the card opens with a window piece on the front. This is the hinge that will enable opening and the ability to see both sides of the front of the card as you open it. It is really a very cool fun fold card.

 

I hope you enjoy making the card. I haven't included the full metric measurements that I used but I can add them should you want me to. 

That's it for me then for another week. Cary as usual will be back on Monday so please stop by and see what amazing creations the she can inspire you with.

I will be back the following week so until then, take care, stay safe but as always.....,

KEEP ON CRAFTING

xxx😍😍😍 Gill 😍😍😍 xxx

 

Tips, Tricks, Techniques Tuesday - Christmas Friends

For today's card using the Christmas Friends stamp set I have made a book fold card. A book fold is very simple for those who haven't made one. By simply scoring the centre fold and then another scored line parallel to the centre fold on the front of the card approximately 3cm from the first scoreline. The width of the book fold can vary from card to card, there is no fixed rule. Adhere that scored panel only onto the back of the card will leave you with a front panel approximately 10.5cm high by 11.5 cm wide. Then as I have done, I added some pieces of DSP or Designer Series Paper onto your panels and decorate to your hearts content. You can see where the book fold panel is on my card, it does mean that you will have a smaller inside on the card to write but you can always write onto the back of the card too.

I used the DSP from a Sentimental Christmas, along with some Poppy Parade and a White card base. 

 

This or That Thursday - Silly Goose

 Today's the day for 2 cards and my cards are no exception once again using the Silly Geese stamp set. My first card is a simple folded card with a little taken off from 1 end. I stamped the Geese onto a white mat and added it to a Poppy Parade mat then onto the DSP covered card base. I used the DSP called Merry, Bold and Bright. They are really bright and fun festive papers.

My second card base I have used the gorgeous Granny Apple Green card. I have folded the card base into 3 and added more papers onto the card base. I really had a great bit of fun making these two today. 

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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 AND THAT 

Technique Tuesday - Time Together

 Today's card using the Time Together stamp set is in one of my favourite colours, Poppy Parade, RED!!

This time I only used the lower half of the timer stamp. I inked up to the centre point in the soft blue of Balmy Blue ink pad. From there, I added lots of the pretty little flowers. The larger flower to the top and a few XOXO hearts and it was complete. I mounted the white mat onto a piece of the Poppy Parade card and both were added to the card base which now has a white embossed mat using the Metal Plate embossing folder. A sentiment onto the banner which I fussy cut out and the card was complete.

This or That Thursday - Translucent Florals

 Both of my projects for today are partially from the weekend of crafting with Stampin Up demonstrators from all over the world. It was great fun. Mine are not as they were meant to be as I changed them quite a lot. We used the Translucent Florals stamp set, Gray Granite card and Very Vanilla card. The first is the Congratualations card that I stamped the small seeded plant 3 times across a mat of the gray and then using the vanilla card, I stamped the big leaves in Old Olive ink and die cut it out. I don't have any of the new ribbon as yet so I used the gorgeous silky Gray Granite ribbon. Each of the mats were die cut with the Deckled Rectangles dies. I used the Fern embossing folder for the front panel once I had stamped all over it.

My first card is THIS 

 

 

My second card is You're The Best, made in Poppy Parade and Basic White card. Simply stamped 2 of the flowers in Poppy Parade, the stalks in Old Olive and the 2 sets of leaves in Old Olive too. I also stamped the leaves onto a piece of vellum and fussy cut them out. The vellum was curled over a ball/embossing tool to add some dimension to the leaves. I stamped the flowers aross the red card base and it seems to add more interest to the card base. Another of the Deckled Rectangles, a sentiment and adding the leaves with a glue dot to hold them in position.

My second card is THAT

So that is my 2 cards for this and that today. Which is your favourite?

Technique Tuesday - Adorable Owls

 Well, we have actually had rather a lot of snow here! YAY! Today I have been using one of the stamp sets from the Saleabration catalogue coming out in January... only a few weeks away! I am using Adorable Owls which are extremely cute. I made a trellis of strips of paper on one side of the card and an embossed mat of red card on the right of the card to cover the edges. A label from the Designer Tags dies and a punched pair of ovals using the ovals duo punch. I stamped the little owls in Smoky Slate, a very light gray and coloured one in with the blends pen and the darker one in with the Stampin' Write Marker pen.

Which owl do you like the best?

 

Make It SImple Monday - Cheerful Basket

Hello and thank you for stopping by. This week I have decided to use the Cheerful Basket stamp set with the occasional use of the dies. My first as always is a very simple card. Of course I have used my grand-daughters pencils for colouring but this time I have used the lovely bright red of Poppy Parade and Basic White card. The cards on Monday's from both Cary and I are aimed at the beginner crafter. This is quite an important thing as let's face it, we all started somewhere and followed others to get ourselves started with card making. We used to spend hours and hours trawling the internet and talking to other card makers to get advice. So we know how overwhelming it can be. 

Going back to today's card, I cut a piece of A4 card in half, lengthwise and then folded it down in half again to make the card base. I had a scrap of white in my offcuts pot that was wide enough to just add a panel across the centre. Before adding that to the card, I stamped the hearts from the stamp set twice starting roughly in the bottom centre of the panel. Then using ordinary colouring pencils, I coloured it in. The sentiment was added above the hearts and another sentiment for the inside of the card mat (the white mat). A mat is used to add layers of different sizes and colours if you want to add dimension to your projects. 

That was it really. I used multipurpose wet glue to the backs of the white mats to adhere them to the card base and this was completed.