This or That Thursday - Changing Leaves

Hello, now is the day for you to choose your favourite card. No pressure of course, that is of obviously dependant on if you like any of them! Using the Changing Leaves dies, embossing folder and stamps today, I started with pieces of A6 white card and a large F sized Stampin' Up! Acrylic Block.

Then for THIS card, using Stampin' Up Marker pens, I scribbled lots of circles and lines and basically just had fun scribbling! Once I had covered the block with ink, I woke it up with a good shower from a Spritzer. I gave it really good soak and the colours all turned into lots of bubbles. Then, I added the pieces of white card on top of the blocks and allowed the paper to soak up all of the colour. I repeated it a several times as I wanted to die cut out all of the pieces of patterned paper. I used my heat gun to dry them all as I'm too impatient to wait! Then I started going to town and die cut all of the small leaves in the die set. They came out really well and using an A4 sheet of white card, I adhered them in a cross shape of North, South, East and West across the paper. When the glue had dried I chopped them all into A6 pieces. So, 10cm by 14.4cm or 4" by 5,13/16th" I am sure that you have different measurements outside the UK so use those instead!

THIS 

Here are all of the first 4 cards

Card 1 above in Granny Apple Green card base

Card 2 in  Garden Green card base.

Card 3 in Pretty Peacock card base.

Card 4 in Lemon Lime Twist card base

All 4 cards for THIS

 

I didn't make the one card as you may have guessed as I got 4 card fronts from the A4 piece. Yes, I made a set of 4 very similar cards and the other card,  my THAT card, is different again.  

THAT

THAT 

So my THAT card is another one this time in a Lost Lagoon card base. I started with an embossed mat in the Changing Leaves embossing folder and a strip of Lost Lagoon about 4cm wide by the length of the white card mat. I stamped 4 of the smaller leaf in memento onto some scraps of white card and then proceeded to use my Stampin Blends to colour them in. I used of course the Lost Lagoon blends pens. I fussy cut all four out and then cut them in down the centre. I adhered each piece to the back of the central bar in Lost Lagoon and added them onto the card base. I did emboss the Lost Lagoon bar too by the way. I stamped the sentiment and die cut it out and added the last leaf to the back of the sentiment bar too. 

That was it. 

Please let me know which you like? Will it be the set of 4 THIS cards or the single THAT card in Lost Lagoon?

 

Fun Fold Friday - Embraced With Love

 Hello and thank you for joining me for the last day this week. I have been using the lovely stamp set called Embraced With Love and I really have had great fun too. Today's of course is a Fun Fold card. It is not my design but one that the lovely Rachel Tessman from Stamp Your Art Out.com has made. 

I used a piece of Winter Meadow DSP (patterned paper) measuring 10.5cm by 30.5cm or in Imperial measurements, 4,1/8" by 12". I scored the paper at 0.5cm from the right hand side and 15cm or 5,7/8", basically in half. The paper piece needs to be the full length of the design, so that when the card opens you will see the image is Portrait...full length. You will see more in the pictures. Of course, you can actually make this so that the design is a landscape design instead.

Rachel calls this card a TWIST CORNER TRI-FOLD CARD. The twist you can see is the piece of DSP that is twisted back on itself on the very front. I used the dies from Unbounded Love for the sentiment mats and the leaves too which were die cut in Pretty Peacock card.

The idea is that as you lift the folded flap up it opens into the long card. I embossed the piece of card which is 10.5cm by 12.5cm or 5" by 4,1/8" I used the Boho Blue card with the spots embossing folders from the 3D Basic Shapes. I love these folders.

Once embossed, I added a white mat which had been stamped with the sentiment already. This mat was 10.5cm by 7cm or 4,1/8" by 2,3/4"

Above is the full length of the paper. I used a piece of DSP from the Winter Meadow papers. It is in beautiful blues and greens.

If you were to use some DSP in landscape position, you would be able to see the card this way and the portrait one would stand this way too but obviously it will be very long lengthwise. The paper was joined to the piece of card at the 0.5cm piece at the edge of your dsp.

 

 

Well, that's it from me for this week, Cary will be back on Monday with some more inspiration for you. Until I return, please take care, look after yourselves but as always.......

KEEP ON CRAFTING 

Thank you again, 

😍😍  xxx  Gill  xxx  😍😍

Watercolour Wednesday - Thoughtful Wishes

 Hello on a very wet Wednesday! Yes, it's here again in the UK. It has barely stopped in 3 days. That's the UK for you we most definitely can have all 4 seasons in the one day! Not fun. Anyway, I'm indoors so able to stay nice and dry so today is Watercolour Wednesday and I have made the cheats version of a watercolour card. Using a piece of Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the Thoughtful Journey set of papers, the stamps from the Thoughtful Wishes set. I cut a piece and added it to the front of a Pretty Peacock card base. I then started stamping and die-cutting some of the lovely leaves from the Thoughtful Wishes set of dies. Once they were done, I added them to the front of the card. A sentiment on the front and inside completes this card. I am sorry there is no water in sight on my card today! I did say it's a cheat's card! :)

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Watercolour Wednesday - Designer Series Paper - Happy Labels

 Today's card is a bit of a cheat to be honest! I took a White card mat, stamped an acrylic block onto Pretty Peacock ink pad and added some water to it. Once mixed up, I sprawled the watercoloured ink over the centre of the mat. I didn't delicately brush it on, I just swirled it over the mat and left it to dry. Once dry, I dry embossed it using the striped mat from the Stripes and Splatters set of 2 folders. I then used a silver marker pen that I had and ran it along the stripes of the embossed mat. It gives it a little sparkle.

I added the mat to a Pretty Peacock card base along with some scraps of DSP from the Delightfully Eclectic, large pack of papers. A few of the scrap flowers from another set of dies and the sentiments from Happy Labels stamp set completes this one. I love the special sentiment on the inside of this one...I just want to hug you... isn't that just gorgeous?