This or That Thursday - Botanical Beauty and Botanical Layers

 Hello on this lovely Thursday. For my cards today using the Botanical Beauty stamp set, I coordinated it along with the Botanical Layers. My first card is obviously THIS...I started with one of Cary's favourite card folds, a tent fold card. I chopped a lump from the front of it and then another piece too! I cut and added some DSP from the Softly Stippled papers. Love them!

 Stamping the image onto white card, I used Calypso Coral. This gorgeous colour is so warm and inviting and made for this card! I cut a small piece of white from the piece that I had stamped out and adhered it to another piece of Calypso Coral leaving a small border. A stamped and fussy cut flower stalk onto the front and one onto the DSP for the inside.and that finished this card.

THIS

THAT

This time for my That card, I have used the beautiful Berry Burst. Now many of you will have remembered that this was a colour from many years ago. In fact it was an In Colour.  Now I knew that I loved the colour of this when it first came out...I still do. I am so glad it has been brought back as it's great!! This time, a standard card shape in C6 or A6 whichever you like to call it. This time after stamping the image onto a C6 piece of white card, I cut it into 2 pieces diagonally. I matched it up with another piece of white and added them to the front and the inside. A lovely sentiment from another of my favourites, Go To Greetings, a few of the stamped and fussy cut leaves and flowers, then my card is complete. 

It's now down to you to decide which is your favourite card. Please let us know?

Watercolour Wednesday - Inspirational Sketches

 Wednesday already. Wow! Ok, stop panicking girl and get on with it! Well, today I have fun again only this time watercolouring. This stamp set is really beautiful and I've fallen in love with it. So, using the Inspirational Sketches again, today's card is the flowers. I have used the ink pads and my water brush to colour the image which I stamped using a retired, silver, pigment ink pad. I tried with the Stazon but it was too deep and dark for me on this one. I wanted a soft image of the almost black-eyed Susan or Rudbeckias I think they are called. Anyway, I had fun colouring in with the fine water painter brush that I used. I did add a fine line of pencil in some places to accentuate the flowers a little more. 

Adding a few strips of DSP from the Softly Stippled range of papers and a mat inside of Pool Party card for the inside finished my card off. 

 

Fun Fold Friday - Everlasting Beauty

 Well here we are once again and it's Friday already! Time flies when you're having fun doesn't it? I have really enjoyed working with this stamp set this week and I really do wish that I had played with it much sooner than now! Anyway, using the Everlasting Beauty stamp set, I've made my final card, a fun fold. I cut a piece of A4 along the length of it at 14.85cm or 5,7/8" and scored it at 10.5cm, 15.5cm and 16.5cm or in Imperial measurements... 4,1/8", 6,1/8" and 6,1/2".  The last piece on the left hand of the card is cut down to measure 10cm high or 4,15/16".

Once that extra piece was removed it's now for a case of DSP and coloured card. I iused the beautiful NEW Softly Stippled DSP. It's part of a really beautiful suite of products which you'll be able to see more of them in just a few weeks. To enhance the beautiful papers, I have layered them onto Pebbled Path card mats. I wasn't sure that it would work but I'm pleased to see that it really does.

 

Well, thank you once again for stopping by this week and I hope that my cards have inspired you to make some even better than mine. 

Cary will be here next week and I will return on the following week, (Christmas week).

Until then and as always, take care, keep well, stay safe and 

KEEP ON CRAFTING

Thank you, 

xxx😍😍 Gill 😍😍xxx