This or That Thursday - Silly Goose

 Today's the day for 2 cards and my cards are no exception once again using the Silly Geese stamp set. My first card is a simple folded card with a little taken off from 1 end. I stamped the Geese onto a white mat and added it to a Poppy Parade mat then onto the DSP covered card base. I used the DSP called Merry, Bold and Bright. They are really bright and fun festive papers.

My second card base I have used the gorgeous Granny Apple Green card. I have folded the card base into 3 and added more papers onto the card base. I really had a great bit of fun making these two today. 

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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 - Happiness Abounds

 Hello again, thank you for joining me again today. Today's fun fold is a simple folded card plus a slightly smaller one. I started with a regular sized C6 card mat and took some of the paper from the Hues of Happiness DSP then added it to the front of the card. Once that was on, I took another card mat and trimmed it down to 14.4cm high by 20cm wide than scored it at 5cm and10cm. I adhered it to the card so that it opened the opposite way to the card base with the fold folding outwards. Using the Happiness Abounds stamp set, I stamped several of the flowers on the inside of the card base in Smoky Slate ink. I prefer to use the lighter ink now as it's not so pronounced as black ink.

I then took my largest stitched circle and die cut from the centre top of the card front. As I hadn't glued all over the inside of the DSP, I was able to have the 2 circles cut out for me. All I needed was the White circle. I then stamped the sentiment on the inside middle of the card before adding some flowers from the papers and then colouring in the stamped flowers using my Blends pens. I used Daffodil Delight in light and dark and also Granny Apple Green light pen.

The fussy cut flowers were slightly curled with a ball tool and I added 2 rows of dimensionals in the centre of each flower to make it stand out.

Well, that's it from me this week. Thank you for stopping by and seeing what I have made. I do hope that you've found some inspiration to make your own cards.

Cary will be back on Monday so please stop by to see what she has been making. Until I come back, please stay safe, keep well but as always...

KEEP ON CRAFTING

😍😍xxx😍😍

Gillxx

Throwback Thursday - Cottage Rose

 Hello, today's card was inspired by a card that I made for our retreat back in March of this year. I believe that it's called and book fold, I may be wrong but it looks very like it to me too. Using the Cottage Rose stamp set and the coordination papers called Abigail Rose, I cut a piece from the patterned papers and started to cut it right down. Bella continued to fussy cut it for me as I was unable to complete it. As I mentioned earlier in the week, I have carpal tunnel and I am finding it quite restricting, to say the least! 

I coloured in the piece using my Stampin Blends pens and once finished, using Tombow multipurpose glue, I glued it to a piece of Smoky Slate card and gently cut around leaving a small border behind. Before I fixed the book fold down, I tied a piece of the Gray Granite ribbon around it and used some of the Stampin Up! Tear 'n Tape to seal it.

 I used some more of the DSP on the card base, picking one of the other patterns of DSP in the same Smoky Slate and the 2 pieces were attached to the card base. I added Dimensionals to the back of the flowers to adhere to the card front. A few sentiments later, and this card is completed.

 

Fun Fold Friday - Jar of Flowers

Here we are already it's Friday! Where does the time go? Well, weather wise, we have had a glorious week of beautiful sunshine but sad to say all good thing must come to an end! It's due to rain all weekend!! Oh Well, we can't have it good all of the time can we? Anyway, today's card using the Jar of Flowers stamp set is another easy fun fold. I've made a larger version, A5 this time as it's for another friend. I coordinated it once again with the sentiments from Celebrating You stamp set. To make this I started with a whole sheet of A4 white card for the base and scored and folded it at 14.85cm by 21cm. Then on both sides of the front, I cut 4cm in right up to the score line and adhered them to the card.

I chose to use the gorgeous 2022-2024 In Colour Designer Series Papers for the inside and front panel and the stunning 2022-2024 In Colour Glimmer Papers. I really love all of the new colours which have just come in don't you? What's your favourite? Do you have a favourite? I don't! I can't chose as I love them all! Anyway... I added a strip of glimmer paper 3.5cm wide by 14.4cm long to both sides of the card. Then added a piece of the DSP into the centre of the card 13cm by 14.85cm. 

The top of the card was then scored at 7.4cm across the centre to form the Easel for the front panel. I took a piece of the Tahitian Tide card and 14.85cm by 13cm and added a piece of DSP 14.4cm by 12.5cm to the front of that. This was then adhered to the lower part of the white card base, as the easel. 

I took some time to colour the images in and then just for a change, I fussy cut them all out! A simple message here and there and the main card is completed. I wanted to add a little extra so I die cut some Glimmer Paper using the Delicate Edges Dies. OMG!!! Do I like them! They are really beautiful. Just to have a little or larger details along or around the card just finishes things off for me. 

 

 

Well, once again, this is the end of the week again. Thank you so much for stopping by to have a look at my cards this week, please feel free to leave me a message or ask any question you may have too.

It would be lovely to hear from any of you. 

Cary will be back next week with her projects to inspire you so please stop by to see what she has made. 

Until I return, please stay safe, Keep well but most of all 

KEEP ON CRAFTING. 

Thank you, 

😍😍   xxx  Gill  xxx   😍😍
  

Throwback Thursday - Jar of Flowers

Hello on this gorgeous hot Thursday. It really does make a change to be able to say the here in the UK. Today's card using the Jar of Flowers stamp set is a shaker card. I didn't set out to make a shaker card but it just had to be done! I stamped the jar and the flowers then coloured them all in using several of the Blends pens. Now I love my Blends pens as much as I love my Stampin' Write Marker Pens AND my Watercolour pencils but today was just Blends. I decided to make it a shaker card as all of my vases have crystals at the bottom to help hold the flowers together so I felt that had to be done. 

The sentiments once again are from the stamp set called Celebrating You. It is a perfect collection of lots of different everyday sentiments. It's the ideal stamp set to have for that sentiment that you need.

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Awesome Otters

My tip for Tuesday this week is add some texture. With the Awesome Otters and Special Moments (also a FREE stamp set from Saleabration) I used and embossing folder called Tasteful Textures to emboss the soft green mat of Pool Party card. It seems to add a litle ripple in the water behind the circular mat with the otter on. I'm really pleased that they coordinate really well. I had a previously die cut scalloped circle from the Layering Circle Dies and then stamped the little otter in the water so decided to die cut the image from another circle. I used the Label Me Fancy punch for the sentiment and mats.

A little colouring, this time using my Stampin' Blends pens and its completed.

 

Throwback Thursday - Happy Hedgehogs

Today's card just takes me back to childhood! Strange thing to say I know but that is just what it reminds me of!! Using the Happy Hedgehogs stamps today I only used the plant and the mushrooms/toadstools. I stamped another on a scrap of white card and fussy cut around it. I added the little butterflies and the sentiments from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set. I used blends pens to colour the images in and generally had lots of simple fun with it. 

Technique Tuesday - Seasons of Fun

 Today I've been playing with an old technique, it's called the masking technique. The stamp set this week was calling for it! Using the Host sets called Seasons of Fun and In Your Words I started by stamping the little child onto the top of a post it note, not the sticky side I hasten to add! I peeled off 3 sheets of post it at the same time and fussy cut the image out. the child  was pulling a cart but I only inked the stamp up using a Stampin' Write Marker Pen. So now I have 3 little children...just in case! I then took a piece of Basic White card and stamped the 1st image onto it. Once it had dried, I added one of the post it note children over the image. Fortunately, I stamped the first image in the centre so I was able to stamp either side of that post it note, lining the hands up so it looked like the children were holding hands. Job done! I then started to colour each child in individual colours. Triplets are cute but they all have to wear different colours to show that they are all different. 

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Once I had coloured them all in, Yep... I fussy cut them all out, still holding hands too! I'm really pleased as they all came out really well too.  Using a few pieces from the Beauty of The Earth Designers Series Papers and a small strip of the lovely soft blue of Balmy Blue card, I then used a die from the Inspiring Canopy dies, that gave me the trees and the sloped hills . I stuck the mats all to the Basic White card base landscape, added wet PVA glue, Tombow to the back of the trees then placed them where I wanted them. While they were all drying, I added Black double sided foam, Dimensionals to the back of the children. I used black ones as the images of the papers and children was quite dark, I thought it would be better and not show as easily. They worked too! A few sentiments from the In Your Works, Host stamp set  and the card was completed.