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 or That Thursday! - Joyful Flurry

 Cary and I have changed the Throwback Thursday to This and That Thursday. I rather think it's fun! So for this and that today, using the Joyful Flurry stamps and 2 dies from the Frosted Flurry dies, I made a card similar to one that I made several years ago. I used a piece of  White Glimmer paper and embossed it with the Wintry embossing folder. I found a piece of Window Sheet or acetate and cut it to a C6 sized mat and after wiping the embossing buddy across it, I used 1 of the snowflakes to stamp in Versamark ink along one edge and poured Silver Embossing Powder over it before heat setting it with the heat tool. You have to be careful with acetate, you don't want to make it too hot! I added the piece to white glimmer paper from the Real Red and White glimmer paper pack and embossed it using the Wintry Snowflakes folder. Then I added it to the Sweet Sorbet card base, I die cut a snowflake out of the Silver Foil Speciality pack, popped the spikes up and added that using Dimensionals. A sentiment or two and that is complete. 

Then as sit's This and That Thursday, I made another. Exactly in the same way but this time in Tahitian Tide, the gorgeous bright turquoise blue and instead of silver powder, I used the Copper embossing powder and copper foiled paper. 

Ok, so now it's a case of which do you all prefer? Please let me know?

First the Sweet Sorbet  

   

    

Now for the second card.

Now the side by side

So the question is ......Red with silver or Blue with copper???