This or That Thursday - Festive and Fun

Today's Festive and Fun cards were exactly that. I really had a great time. The first card or THIS is on Poppy Parade card base with white mats which were embossed with the Stars At Night folder. I love the texture and dimension that an embossing folder can make on a plain mat. It is absolutely stunning! I stamped several of the images onto plain white circles of card using the Deckled Circles Dies. Once stamped, I started colouring, more fun! I die cut some more circles using a larger die but this time I used some of the DSP from the same papers as yesterday, Merry, Bold and Bright. I had made the card a gate fold card base and I added the circles onto the front and one on the inside with a few sentiments it was done.

 

 

THAT

 

The next one is my THAT cardI used the same products again bar the coloured card. I used the fresh bright green of Granny Apple Green.  This is my favourite green of all time I think, it's just so lovely.

The process was also the same except this time I die cut several Deckled Rectangles in white and another piece of the DSP. I made a larger card and made a DL card this time. it's 21cm high by 21cm wide and scored at 10.5cm (8,1/4" by 8,1/4" and scored at 4,1/8" in Imperial). I added a piece of DSP on the front of the card and some matching strips of the paper used for the rectangles too. 

 

 

Now it is up to you to decide which is your preferred one! Please 😍

Watercolour Wednesday - Silly Goose

 Well, as usual, today is for watercolouring but I've added a little extra to today's card. Using the Silly Goose stamp set I stamped the goose that I wanted to use and using the 2 sets of watercolour pencils (I LOVE them)! I dipped each colour into a tiny drop of water. YEP! The pencil itself, no brushes today on these little geese. Once I cut them both out, I added dimensionals to the whole one and put both to one side.

Meanwhile, I found a large Deckled Circles die cut and decided to brush some soft blue of Balmy Blue ink pad and then at the top, a little washed out Azure Afternoon ink pad. I say washed out but it's just some of the brighter blue ink and lots more water so that it's not so strong. I decided to emboss the circle, the card base and the inside mat with the wavy folder from the Cheery Patterns folders. It was perfect!

 

Fun Fold Friday - Children's Cards - Festive and Fun

Well, here we are and it's Friday already. Doesn't time fly when you are having fun? Today's card is one that I fully intend to use for all of my grand-children. It is called Festive and Fun  and I have used this lovely set in full. 

Using an A4 sheet of Shaded Spruce I cut it in half lengthwise that is 10.5cm by 29.7cm long. I then scored it at 14.85cm and 7.4cm on one side only on both of the pieces. I folded the 2 scored panels on each piece to face outwards. I slid the 2, C6 panels together and glued them in position. When I folded the sides into the middle, the centres met and it gave me a shallow and wide, Gatefold card base.  I then cut another piece of Shaded Spruce at 14.85cm by 10.5cm ( a standard C6 mat). This was then attached to the left front on the gatefold card base.

 

I cut white mats to size for each of the green ones starting with the front panel which I obviously embossed first then added fussy cut images and the sentiment onto. 

 

Above is the inside left panel. I added 4 small panels on the insides of the card with DSP from the Merry Bold and Bright range of papers. Aren't they cute?

 

 

the right hand inside panel ....

 

 

The centre panel with all of the images stamped and fussy cut ('cos I love to fussy cut). I added Dimensionals on the sides of the card and using Tombow, I adhered the Rhino to the centre mat.

The finished card complete and from above so that you can see the whole of the layout.

That is it from me for another week. Cary is back from Las Vegas now and will be sharing her creations with you next week so please do pop by and see what amazing things she will be making. 

Thank you as always for joining me this week, I so hope that you have been inspired in some ways to make your own cards. Have a good week and I will be back the following week. Until then ....

STAY SAFE, STAY WELL but as always.......

KEEP ON CRAFTING!

Thank you once again, 

 😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

 

Fun Fold Friday - Time Together

 My fun fold today is one that I have played around with for quite a while and today is the day I've actually finished it. I saw it somewhere a while ago but sadly , I can't remember where it was and on whose site it was on. So I am not going to take credit for it but I will thank everyone who has made this style! Using the Bright and Beautiful DSP, White card mats and a Night of Navy card base I made this one.

 I started with a piece of Night of Navy card 14.85cm high by 29.7cm wide. I scored at 3.5cm, 5cm, 7.4cm from each side of the base and re-enforced the folds really well. The 3rd fold was adhered to the back panel of the card to add some strength. It was then a case of measuring and cutting DSP to fit all of the side panels and the centre panel. The Imperial measurements will have to be adjusted to the length of the cards with a different length as we use in the UK. Sorry. I believe it would be 1,1/4", 1,3/4" and 2,1/2" I believe, You'll have to measure it out on scrap paper first as a guide. 

I added a white card base, tent fold style 7.6cm by 14.4cm and trimmed 0.5cm off of the front panel which I embossed with the Splatters embossing folder. This was then adhered centrally onto the inner part of the card. I had stamped the Timer and added numerous flowers and coloured them in using Daffodil Delight flowers and Granny Apple Green for the leaves. I stamped, coloured some more of the flowers and die cut them to decorate the outer parts of the card. 

That's it once again from me. Cary of course will be back on Monday and sharing some of her lovely creations with you. 

Until I return, Take care, Stay safe and as always, 

KEEP ON CRAFTING

😍😍😍 xxx  Gill  xxx 😍😍😍 

Technique Tuesday - Coffee With Friends

Hello again, today once again and all of this week my aim is to make some simple cards that even a beginner can make.  Using the Coffee With Friends stamp set again, I stamped another image onto plain white paper and onto a piece of paper from the Fresh As A Daisy range of papers. 

The first piece was the brown which I used for a quayside or jetty. The second piece of DSP is the blue that looks like sky or water. I coloured the lady in the white paper using my Blends pens. I cut the excess of the lady away from the jetty and then adhered her across the rest of the image on the jetty. 

Once again. like yesterday's post, I used the Double Oval Punch for the sentiment. The darker blue is Misty Moonlight which I used to accentuate the sentiment. Another very simple card that can be easily replicated. Many images can be stamped straight onto DSP and it's always worth while giving it a try too.

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Coffee With Friends

 Hello, I do hope that you have had a great week? This week I am using another of the new stamp sets from the Annual catalogue. It is called Coffee With Friends. It actually isn't one that I would generally go to but like many other sets, this was calling to me! Every time I opened the catalogue, it almost jumped out at me! Do you ever get that with anything? I have lately, weird isn't it?

Anyway, starting with a plain white card base and Basic White mat, I stamped the image of the coffee cups and croissants several times across the mat. It's not always necessary to add a mat but I like to show that there is a single mat on a card. I used Smoky Slate which is a very soft gray ink pad. Then my fun part...I coloured them in using colouring pencils. It needed a background too so I just coloured some light blue/green pencil across the background. I added sentiment onto the ovals punched from the double oval punch to finish. #simplestamping

Make It Simple Monday - Reach For The Stars - Men's Cards

 Hello and welcome back to a gorgeous, lovely, hot and sunny day! I know  always talk about the weather here but it's so nice to see the sun and feel the amazing heat that we have at last! This weekend just gone, Cary and I held a class with lots of our wonderful ladies with the theme of MEN. If you're anything like me I struggle to make men's/male themed cards, I have no idea why but I do! I'm going to try not to use the cards that I've already made but new ones. My first card is, as it's Monday, a very simple one. Using a piece of paper from the Stargazing designer series paper pack, I placed a mat on a plain white card base. Using the Reach For The Stars stamp set which coordinates with the papers, I stamped the astronaut and fussy cut him out. It really is very easy to cut out fortunately. A simple sentiment for the front onto a small circle and for the inside too and the card was complete. #simplestamping

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Fun Fold Friday - Love Cats

 Well here we are already it's Friday and kick off day for Cary and I. Today we leave our homes to go to our retreat for the weekend for lots of fun and crafting. So I have had to get the card for today made a little early. This is a simple fun fold in the form of a Z fold card. Using Sweet Sorbet card, I covered the facing pages with some more of the DSP Country Gingham papers. Just 2 of the cats on this one today but I have really fallen in love with these cats which is crazy as I'm a dog person! 

I used a piece of Sweet Sorbet card 10.5cm by 29.7cm which is basically half a sheet of A4 card cut down the long side. This was then folded in half at 4cm and 14.85cm. I then added DSP on the 2 front panels and a white mat on the inside mat with a strip of the DSP to the right. I added another Sweet Sorbet panel which is 10.5cm by 7.5cm with a white mat and strip of DSP on top. Both of the cats were stamped using the Stamparatus. As they are solid images, you generally need to stamp them a few times to make sure that the whole image is perfect and the Stamparatus is perfect for it.

Well that's it from me for this week. Cary will be back next week to show you some more of her creations, please join her and see what she's been up to. 

I will be back the week after so until then, as always,  stay safe, keep well but more importantly...

KEEP ON CRAFTING!

Love, Gill 

xxx 😍😍😍 xxx

This and That Thursday - Love Cats

Hello on this still very cold Thursday! I am really looking forward to spring and summer this year. I am definitely getting old! 😄 For today's cards using the Love Cats stamp set, I have used the Picture This dies and made 2 similar cards. The first one I used the frame and laid the cats across the frames with a piece of DSP from the Country Gingham papers behind the frame. I embossed the frame with the Brick and Mortar embossing folder. 

On the other card, I have used only the die cut circles from the frame on the Picture This dies. 

So, which one do you prefer? 

Card 1

 

Card 2