Fun Fold Friday - Sale-a-bration - Sunny Days DSP

Hello again on another cold and wet Friday. My card today is a slight follow on from Cary's post last Friday. Cary's card last week was an easel card and mine is a twisted easel card. There are many different types of easel cards around so it's always just a case of chosing which design you like to make. My sale-a-bration today is the beautiful DSP Sunny Days. It has some really beautiful designs in the papers as well as the gorgeous colours too!

I started by making a basic white card base and cut a green mat 21cm x 10.5cm and scored at 14.85cm. I cut a Shaded Spruce mat 10.5cm x 14.85cm and put it aside for a few minutes. I laid the white card base face down on the trimmer and on the right hand side of the card, scored between the top right corner and the bottom centre. 

see the picture:  

 

 

The picture above shows the route of the adhesive with the score line directly above the diagonal tape. 

 
This image above shows the angle of the card base before the separate mat is adhered to it.

 

 

This image shows moments before the mat is to be adhered to the corners of the triangle on the right hand side of the card base. After adding adhesive around the edge of the triangle, place the seperate mat on top of the scored triangle, match up the outer corners and fix into position. That is the version of my card that I made today. Here it is for real.

I used the Countryside Corners Dies for the Blueberry Bunches stamps, the Double Oval Punch for the raised stand and my Stampin Blends for colouring the blueberries in Blueberry Bushell ink colour.

 

 

That's it from me for the week. Thank you once again for joining us this week, I do hope that you have found some thing to inspire you to make yourself some cards this week.  

Cary will of course return on Monday with more projects to inspire you. 

Until I return the following week please take care, stay well and as always....

 

 😍😍 xxx KEEP ON CRAFTING xxx 😍😍  

Technique Tuesday - Sale-a-bration -Softly Sophisticated

 Hello again and thank you for stopping by. Today's stamp set is the pretty Softly Sophisticated. As I said yesterday, I really do love the Designer Series Papers DSP that are in the Sale-a-bration SAB catalogue this month. This set is really so delicate and can be used for many different style of cards especially when pairing it with the gorgeous DSP's. That is one of the most interesting things about what crafters do, we mix and match with all sorts of products. It's great isn't it? The paper I used today is called Sunny Days 12" by 12".

Anyway, my technique this week is using up some of the scraps on my table. I'm sure that we all have those bits and pieces somewhere waiting to be used and Oh! Boy! Do I have a load of them! I used my black and red colours today, which is another of my favourite colour combinations. I started by embossing 3 pieces of the coloured card using the Softly Sophisticated embossing folder. Once embossed, I started to play with layering them, placing one piece under and over another until I got the combination that I was happy with. I cut a narrow gap down the centre of the black and red mats and taped the piece of plain white through the slot onto the back of the mats. I stamped the images in just black (Memento) and the gorgeous red of Poppy Parade and added the sentiments inside and out.