Fun Fold Friday - Slim Sayings

For my last card this week. I really have had fun making this one. This very easy fun fold is made using only squares of card or Patterned Paper if you want to as that will work too. Slim Sayings stamp set has no images only sentiments but that hasn't stopped me at all this week. I have really enjoyed playing with this stamp set and the dies too. 

I started with 3 pieces of Night Of Navy card 14.85cm by 14.85cm or just under 6" by 6" in Imperial measurements. I then scored each piece at 7.4cm horisontally and vertically and once diagonally across from point to point going through the centres of each square. See below.

By holding the corners that were scored diagonally and pulling them together towards you get a beak like shape. Well, that's what someone called it last week! 😂 Following the folds and the direction that they go, the square will be folded into a quarter of it's size.

This can be made in almost any card size as long as it's a proper square. It can also be as long or as many panels as you want too! Once all 3 of the squares are scored and folded, make sure that the folds are burnished in both directions. That way the edges have both been stretched and will crease beautifully when the pieces are glued to each other. 

The top of the folded card above and below are side views when closed.

 

Below is the1st page once opened.

 

Above and below are pictures of the whole card when opened. You will see when folding your card, (should you decide to make one) that the 2 outer pieces will fold forward at the diagonals and the centre set will fold backwards. 

Another way of making this card is to use it as a brag book or memory album. Instead of adding sentiments you can add photographs or drawings. 

The shape is so versatile. When I decorated the card I used the mosaic pieces that come from the other large die. I can use the frame on another project but meanwhile the inner pieces are on this card. 

The papers that I used are from the Simply Elegant Speciality papers and Beauty of The Earth designer series paper. Both sets of these double sided papers are really gorgeous and so versatile in so many ways too.

 

 

 

Above is the stamp set and the dies that are Slim Sayings and the Slim Card Dies. As I said at the start of today's post I really have had great fun with the stamps and dies this week. Should you decide to buy them and I highly recommend you do, I am sure that you will be very impressed with them. 

 

Thank you for popping by this week. Cary will return next week with some more of her creations.

 

I will be back the week after Cary as usual but the weekend of the 19th and 20th March, Cary and I are holding our 1st annual retreat in person since lockdown 2 years ago and we will both be extremely exhausted when we return.

 Will we post on the blog when we return? Who knows? Hopefully we will be here in spirit if nothing else! 😂

 

Until I return, please stay safe, take care and be well but most of all.....

 

😍😍😍  KEEP ON CRAFTING!!!   😍😍😍

 

Throwback Thursday - Slim Sayings

Today's card is a special one. Many years ago Stampin Up had a set of dies called Layering Alphabet Edgelits dies. The card today reminds me of just that one. Using the Slim Sayings and the Slim Card Dies, I made my Grandson Jayden's 13th birthday card in a similar way. 

Stampin' Up! no longer sell the Layering Alphabet dies but the dies in this set reminds me of Bella's card which you can see at the bottom of the page. 

Using 4 different colours plus white card, I die cut several of the wavy shapes and layered them in a similar way to Bella's card. I did use a few other retired things on his card which I'm sure many people still have but I just love the way that the lines of colour and waves are perfectly elegant. So yet another technique to use those lovely Slim Card dies for. 

Watercolour Wednesday - Slim Sayings

For today's card with the Slim Saying stamp set I started with some watercolour paper or Fluid 100 paper as we call it. Using a spritzer, I sprayed it well with water and put it to the side while I made the coloured base. Using some re-inkers in several colours, I dropped randomly all over a cello bag some Melon Mambo, Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight and Flirty Flamingo. I then spritzed it with water and as it was mixing the colours up, I laid the Fluid 100 paper on top of it. Leaving it for a few moments to soak up the colour before I lifted and inspected it. I was hoping that the pink was going to be stronger but no, It's mostly shades of yellow. That's great as I like the yellows too! 

The message was stamped with Mango Melody ink and then I kissed the edges of Melon Mambo ink pad. I love the way you get the different tones of colour throughout. Both pieces of paper were added to coloured card and mounted onto the White card base using Dimensionals or foam adhesive shapes.

  

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Slim Sayings

Today you have 2 for the price of 1. Using the dies called Slim Card Dies that go with the Slim Sayings stamp set, I die cut 2 pieces of card. One in Daffodil Delight and the other in Mango Melody. There are 4 dies in the set and are brilliant for making cards look so different. This is the Chevron shaped die and all I did was to swap the pieces over from each coloured mat. I have then 2 cards for 1. I then decided to emboss both of the colours to add a little texture. I used another of the cards shaping dies for the edge of the card and used a marker pen to pop a little matching colour on the edges.

Adding a strip of the coordinating colour on the inside makes the edges stand out more. All of the sentiments were stamped using a Memento Ink Pad.

 

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Slim Sayings

 Hello and welcome back on this cold Monday morning. Didn't Cary make some gorgeous cards with the Daffodils last week? I love them! Today I am starting some projects using the NEW stamp set called Slim Sayings. As the name suggests they are aimed for tall cards or as is the fashion at the moment, DL shaped cards. Saying that thought, they are just as simple to use for the standard shaped or even square cards too.

My #simplestamping card is very that. I used my Marker pens to colour the stamps and as you can see from the pictures, I literally brushed a strip along each part of the stamp. I stamped this onto a plain white mat and then just edged the piece with one of the pens. For the inside, I repeated the same technique with the marker pens only this time, across the stamp. Adding a white card base underneath it completes the first card of the week.

Stampin' Write Marker pens are brilliant as you can buy them in 1 set as a whole lot. That is a set of 40 pens which includes the strong carry case or in a smaller set of a set of 10 pens. You can then add each of the other sets as and when you want to. The bonus is that you can also buy the In Colour pens to go with the sets too. They are a really good investment too as I've had my pens for over 11 years now and they are still going strong. If they start to dry out, you can just top them up with the re-inker bottles in each colour.