This or That Thursday - Christmas Friends

 Hello on this lovely sunny Thursday. For my This and That cards today, I have made 2 similar projects but used different papers and the Christmas Friends stamp set and Dies too this time. 

 

 THIS

For this today I used a piece of the DSP from Winter Meadow DSP adhered to a of Night of Navy card base. I stamped several of the polar bears onto a scrap of White card and coloured them all in. I chose this one as I think it coordinates well with the paper colours. I used a gold gel pen for the decorations and the bow on the wreath around his neck and then die cut a bow from the Silver and Gold adhesive backed card. I also die cut garland pieces and adhered them to a piece of white card that I had stamped my sentiment onto. Once the garland was dry, I fussy cut around it to follow the leaves on the garland itlsef. I added another of the Polar Bears to the inside white mat and another piece of the garland under the sentiment. I used a Sticky note to omit the words from the sentiment... Owl be ...

THAT

My THAT card I used  a piece of patterned paper from the Nests of Winter DSP. This was layered onto a Basic Black mat then onto aGray Granite card base. This time I used the Reindeer for my card. I coloured him in using the Stampin' Blends pens, I made a small cut-out from his mouth and added a present into it. I used some more of the gold glimmer paper from the Silver and Gold adhesive backed glimmer again onloy this time for a bow or 2 and the ribbons for some presents. Very simple cards today so hopefully not too difficult to decide which you prefer.This time thought, I have added the Owl inside adn the sentiment Owl be thinking of you this season. 

 

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

Fun Fold Friday - Designer Series Paper - Traditions of St Nick DSp - Merriest Trees

 Well, it's Friday once again and today's card is another of my favourites. I haven't made it for about a year so I have really enjoyed making it again. I started with a 10.5cm wide piece of card by 29.7cm long and scored it at 14.85cm. I marked the centre point on the centre fold and pencilled a small mark 7.5cm down on all 4 sides from the centre fold. Starting at the centre pencil mark, I scored down to all 4 of the 7.5cm marks and then again to the 4 corners of the card. The DSP I used today is the Traditions of St. Nick DSP and Silver and Gold Adhesive Glimmer Paper. The stamp set is Merriest Trees

The piece of card in Imperial measurements is actually half a sheet of A4 card lengthwise. In the UK, that would be 8,1/4" by 11,3/4" that would mean that the piece of card will be 4,1/8" by 11,3/4" and scored at 5,7/8". The pencil marks on the sides will therefore be at 3".You will need another piece of card measuring 6cm by 10.5cm. score 1cm on both of the long sides and another along the centre of the length. Fold this on both of the 1cm measurements in a valley fold and the centre one, fold as a mountain fold. These 1cm folds attach to the inside of the card base on each side providing you with the stand. To prevent it showing along the outside, trim the centre of the stand into a V shape.

The folds are as written on the diagram, the 7.5cm score lines are all valley folds and the ones to the corners are all mountain folds. When you go to fold the edges in, start by folding the 7.5cm ones first. Push those in but not the top, centre edge. Burnish all of the folds really well.

 

 

Above, the cutting and scoring chart and Below is the sample card where you can see how the folds go into the centre. I added the DSP to the front and Gold glimmer paper to the inside folds. I also made a star from a scrap too. I fussy cut a Santa from the Traditions of St Nick DSP

 

 

That's it from me for the week. Cary and I are holding our 1st Christmas class of the Season tomorrow so it's an early start in the morning. 

Thank you so much for joining me this week and I hope that you have been inspire in some way to make your own projects. 

Until I get back, as always, STAY WELL, KEEP SAFE but as always....

KEEP ON CRAFTING. 

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍