Technique Tuesday - Silly Goose

 Hello again. This week I am using the Silly Goose stamp set. I love this set and bought it quite a while ago but I have never gotten around to doing anything with them! Todays' technique to me is the simplest one of repeat stamping to make the background. I love the simple and quick ways of making a card as well as the more fiddly ways of creating. I stamped the Goose all over the white mat and stamped him again on a scrap of white card then fussy cut him out. It wasn't difficult or fiddly very straightforward in fact. I wanted him to match the card base so I coloured the Thanks in using the beautiful bright blue of Tahitian Tide Blends pen. I punched a circle out of the blue using the 2,3/4" circle punch and using Dimensionals (foam shapes) I raised him up. 

This or That Thursday -Men's Cards - Beside Me

 The reason that I am doing cards for men again is a, I never have any idea what to make and b, it is Father's Day here in the UK on Sunday 17th June. This weeks this or that are 2 cards that I got carried away with! The first, This, is an Z fold card and the That card is a Double Z fold card. I used the Beside Me stamp set as I think it relates to dads in so many ways. Apart from the fact that I like it anyway. 

My first the Z fold is a simple one in that I used a strip of paper from the Stargazing DSP for the 1st 2 mats, Tahitian Tide for the inside and front mats and the lovely image of a dad figure teaching a little boy to ride his bike. 

 

This and That cards together below

The That card is similar in style obviously but this time I stamped the image from Beside Me and cut our around it so it looks like they are all sitting on a bench and not fishing. I cut the fishing rods off.

The papers this time are from the Countryside Inn DSP which again are gorgeous. A simple Happy Birthday from the Phrases For All again and that is completed too.

The decision now is which do you prefer?

 

Technique Tuesday - Men's cards, Phrases For All

 Today's card is a very simple one in that I stamped the phrase Happy Birthday several times over a piece of Basic White card. Using the Phrases For All stamp set, I repeat stamped the words in rows but off setting the next row against the previous. I used Tahitian Tide Ink pad and then I stamped the sentiment in Starry Sky Ink and place it over the rest. I used a piece of the Holographic Foiled paper to add some shine.

Technique Tuesday - Happiness Abounds

Today's the day of the NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE being released. If you would like a copy of it and don't have a demonstrator, please drop us a line and we will happily get one in the post to you. We can send to UK and most of Europe. Today though, I am using another of my new stamp sets, this one is called Happiness Abounds. 

I have made a card using a technique that I haven't used in quite a while. It's called the Bubble Wrap technique. It can be done in so many different ways but today's card was made by adding drops of reinker to the surface of a clear block and using a piece of curled up bubble wrap, I dabbed it a few times in the ink and added it to a piece of white card. I smooshed it over the paper a few times and just repeated it in a few different colours. Basically, I had fun with it!

Once dry and using a Memento ink pad, I stamped several of the flowers over the inked area. Then I fussy cut around them. Yes, I have the dies but I didn't want to waste any of the inked imagery! A few leaves, and embossed white mat to lay them on and it's completed. The embossing folder is also new and is called simply, Fern. It gives the most beautiful image once embossed. I used the Tahitian Tide card base to mount the mat and the flowers onto.

 

Here are the blocks ready to play with and the bubble wrap below in the 2nd picture.

The next 2 pictures are the papers I made using the bubble wrap. I used the left hand one for my card.