This or That Thursday - Crafting With You

 Hello and here we are already set for the 2 cards at once day. Before I found paper crafting I used to sew as I have said already this week. It was my passion, my daily focus once the children were at school and as I said before I would often be up until the very early hours of the morning making a garment of one kind or another. I have made wedding dresses, bridesmaids dresses, suits for a pop group, uniforms, going out and staying in clothes too. The list goes on but now my new love and passion is making cards especially with Stampin' Up! products. There is no searching around lots and lots of different shops trying tol find card, paper to match, ribbons, buttons, gems etc all again to match. It was an impossible nightmare...Until Cary met someone who introduced us to the Stampin' Up! way of buying craft products. We were hooked! We still are nearly 20 years later. We would have been before but it didn't come to the UK until I believe 2008 or 2009. We became demonstrators within a very short space of time and still feel the same about it to this day. So today's card using the Crafting With You stamp set and dies, I have encompassed both of my passions into 2 different but very similar cards. Using Sticky notes, or Post It notes, I made several masks of both sewing maching and Cut and Emboss machine. I hope that you can choose which you prefer. 

THIS and THAT

  THIS

 

THAT

  

Make It Simple Monday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by to see my cards this week. I will be using Botanical Beauty stamp set this week in particular but I will be coordinating it with Botanical Layers and Berry Harvest...possibly! The Botanical Beauty and Berry Harvest are what are called Background stamps and they do make excellent backgrounds too. However, with a little addition they can adopt a different look too which is what I aim to show you this week. 🤞🤞🤞

Today's card is a simplestamping card of course. One ideally suited for the new to stamping, or beginner crafter. It's perfect as all it needs once stamped is a sentiment. Yes, I did add a few extra layers flat onot the previous card layer and then some of the little cut outs from another stamped image. They were stuck to the back of the sentiment. which came from the Botanical Layers stamp set.

make It Simple Monday - Bamboo Beauty

 Hello again on this very wet Monday. The weather is supposed to be scorching for the UK at the end of this week so I will enjoy seeing the plants and trees fill up on the water as they';ll not get any next week! So, this week is the turn of Bamboo Beauty, a very understated stamp set in my opinion. The simplicity of these stamps is just beautiful. I thought I have done enough of the flowers for a few weeks so I'm going to go down the simple route this week.

Just an C6 tent-fold card base and a white mat is all that I have used for this very quick card. Just by stamping the 2 leaf stamps around the edges of the mat and leaving a space in the centre for the lovely message which brings the meaning perfectly to the recipient. Voila!

 

 

 

 

Fun Fold Friday - Lovely You

Hello again and thank you for stopping by and looking at our blog again this week. For my last card using the Lovely You stamp set from Stampin' Up! I have made a card that we made recently in one of our monthly classes. It is a very simple card with a strap across the front to form a magnetic closure. 

For more information about the stamp set or any of the Stampin' Up! products, please click HERE and it will take you to our shop where you can browse the products, get ideas, look at the clearance rack and all sorts of things. It will open up a new window for you so that you don't lose where you started.   

I started with a white card base 29.7cm by 10.5cm wide. Basically, half a sheet of A4 in the UK cut down the whole length. I scored it in half and then removed 4.85cm from one side only. The piece cut off is to make the band. I used Pale Papaya card for the mats with a touch of Granny Apple Green here and there. I added some texture by using the lovely embossing folder called Tasteful Textile. The front Pale Papaya panel was embossed then I attached a magnet to it before using Dimensionals to secure it to the front of the card. 

I took a piece of white and blended Pale Papaya ink across the centre of this panel using my Blending brush, a few more flowers here and there and then the message. The message was inked using a Stampin' Write Marker Pen in Granny Apple Green for each individual part of it. Happily no marks were made as a result of using the pen.

 I attached the strap to the inside of the card and then added a Pale Papaya mat with some little decorations on. I embossed and cut to size another piece of the card for the strap. At this point, I needed to add the other magnet. I dropped it on top of the other one and it found the correct place. Adding a glue dot to the top of it, I placed the embossed piece of card over it to pick it up. Once fixed to the panel, I added the mat to the strap, a few flowers on top and it's complete. 

 

Thank you once again for stopping by this week, I do hope that you've seen something that may inspire you. I love to create things and share them around so I am delighted that you spared some time to look. 

Cary is on holiday next week but has prepared some amazing projects to inspire you. Please stop by and see her creations. 

Until I come back, please keep well, stay safe and keep on CRAFTING. :) 

Gill xxxxx

 

 

  

Fun Fold Friday - Kits

Friday is here all ready and it's time for me to show you my last few cards of this kit. I say last but I still have enough to make another 5 or 6, so I will keep going to complete the set.

Using the very underrated kits from Stampin' Up! I have so far made 15 cards with a kit complete to make 10 cards. Even the envelopes are able to be used for decorating the cards. The cards in the kit at 11 by 8.5cm are not very large so in our group at the weekend, we made them into C6 cards. We included 10 A4 sheets of card stock including 2 white, a length of ribbon and C6 envelopes. It has been a really amazing way to use the kit. As I said yesterday, I use them all of the time. They are so very useful in so many ways, not just to make my own designs or style of cards but to make them as intended. Simply and very easily. 

 I always treat myself to the card kits every time they are issued. I just love the ideas and designs Stampin' Up! come up with. Perfect! 

Only 1 fun fold today and it's a simple Z fold with a mat and turned vertically! I used Forever Blossoms for the images and messages on this one and the last card is Darling Donkeys one of the amazing FREE Saleabration stamp sets.

The new Stampin' Up! catalogue will be coming out at the beginning of MAY, so if you live in the UK, please contact us for a catalogue HERE

It will open up a new window for you so that you don't loose your page. If you look there now, you will get to see the Last Chance Products, Clearance rack but more importantly all of the current products in the catalogue. Stop by again on MAY 4th and you can see ALL of the new gorgeous things that are going to be available. 

Thank you for joining me this week. I hope that I have inspired you to give the card kits from Stampin' Up! a look at. Don't by pass them, you will be so pleased that you don't.

Cary will be back on Monday with some amazing ideas from her cards and projects so please stop by and see what she has been creating. 

Til I return, please take care, keep safe, stay well and KEEP ON CRAFTING.

 Lots of love, Gill  xxxxx  😍😍😍

 

 

Throwback Thursday - Kits

Hello again, today's cards are carrying on from this week's posts on using a Stampin' Up! card kit. This is the Sweet Little Valentine Cards and More kit and at under £10 was an absolute bargain. The card and colours are beautiful and so very versatile. Just perfect!

Stampin Up! have made several kits over the years and I personally love them. Whether it is for inspiration to make something so special for that special someone or any other occasion that you would need a card for. These kits are incredible in value, quality, content in fact...everything! I just LOVE them all. 

As I make card so regularly for all sorts of events, I sometimes get confused in what to make. I say that I've lost my mojo or I can't think of anything to make. I take a kit and within a short space of time I am changing things, thinking outside of the box as they say. They really do inspire me in so many ways. Cary isn't a kit kind of person but over the last couple of years even she has found such great pleasure in using them and getting so much from them. Please give them a try and look out for them in the NEW and updated catalogue coming out in MAY! Not long now 😁😁😁 

Live in the UK? Please contact us for your own copy of the catalogue as soon as it's available.

 

 

The card above shows where I cut of the corners off a whole card. The centre to the outer corners were removed and I added the mats and a piece of gold foiled card and a piece of Pool Party sheer ribbon to decorate.

 

 This one above, I've used a card front and cut it in half. I added it to the sides of the and added the pretty, printed, message mat to add a flower and a simple message to complete it.

Wednesday wonders - Kits

Hello and welcome back. I know that I'm supposed to be watercolouring today but I'm not going to this week. I know, I'm being rather naughty and going off piste! However, following on from Monday and Tuesday's posts I'm continuing to show some of the cards that I made with the Sweet Little Valentine cards and more kit. It is the most inexpensive kit I have seen but it's so very versatile. We ALL made completely different cards at the weekend and everyone was really enjoying themselves doing them.

First is a picture of the actual kit. At under £10 for the whole kit, all we added was 10 A4 sheets of card including white and we were all sorted. Sadly, they are now all sold out but please don't flip past kits in the future, they are absolutely amazing and very well worth the investment however much they may be!

Here are today's makes.

 

On some I have included the mats as they come in the kit and this last one, I actually placed the whole card on the front and popped a little Ladybug trinket that I had to hold it closed. I love those little ladybirds. That's what we call them in the UK.