Watercolour Wednesday - Lifetime of Love

 Hello on yet another wet Wednesday! Yes, it's pouring cats and dogs once again here! We really should all have webbed feet, we would all get around much easier! Anyway... today's watercolour card is a very simple one. Using the same type of die cut as I did yesterday from the Thoughtful Expressions set, I stamped several flowers and watercoloured them in. Very straightforward and simple but mostly though it was fun.  I added a mat of DSP (Designer Series Paper) to the card blank from the Subtles range of papers. A sentiment from the stamp set of Lifetime of Love onto one of the Natures Prints dies completes today's card. 

Thoughtful Expressions - Fun Fold Friday

 Hello for this fun fold Friday card. This is the last one from me for this week and I have been inspired by a Christmas card I had from a lady in my team. Her name is Lynn Beatty and she makes the most beautiful cards as well as gorgeous wreaths, table decorations, gift packaging, bags, boxes, the list goes on. A very clever and lovely lady. Using the Thoughtful Expressions, I stamped several of the large flowers and the small flower too. I started by cutting 2, A6 card bases and then trimmed one of them, in this case a white one down by 0.5cm on the top and the side. The Real Red card is the C6 card and the smaller white one, was adhered to the inside of the card base on the right hand side of the base card. I have just received a pack of the Most Adored DSP which is another SABand has just been added in to the free items. We have another lot of Saleabration items bought in including current stamp sets, Stampin' Write Marker pens, the colour core collection too. Remember for every £45 order from the catalogues you get to chose a free item from the Saleabration catalogue too! What a great deal it is!

 

 

Above is the card from Lynn I had at Christmas and below is a picture of the gorgeous coordination dies that go with the matching stamp set of the same name as the stamp set.

 

 

Below is the Most Adored DSP that I used. 

I used 2 different mats of the DSP which is pink, red or white patterned on one side and gold patterned on the other side.I folded the right hand side of the White card base in half straight down and it was there that I adhered the red die cut mat to.

I used the dies to cut the centre panel out once I had stuck the 2 pieces of DSP on.  I didn't add Tombow to the centre of the DSP's. As you can see, I used the red mat of the card base for the inner fold.

 

 

Once the central mat was on, I started to decorate the rest of the card. I added a few fussy cut flowers from another piece of the DSP to the inside too. I love it!

 

That is it from me again this week, I will return the week after next as Cary will be sharing some of her fabulous creations with you next week. 

As always take care, stay safe and keep well but as always,

😍😍xxx KEEP ON CRAFTING xxx  😍😍

 Gill xx

This or That Thursday - Thoughtful Expressions

Well hello again for this lovely Thursday. I say lovely as we have been forecasted to get some very cold weather and snow in the coming weeks so today is lovely! Today's 2 cards using the beautiful Thoughtful Expressions are very similar, obviously but with the slight differences of papers and embellishments. The papers are from the Perennial Lavender suite, another set that is equally beautiful as the stamp set. 

The 2 cards were cut as A6 cards and half of the front of the card base was removed from both. I cut 2 pieces of DSP from the lavender papers and cut an A6 piece of paper 10cm by 14.4cm then cut it in half at 5cm. One of each halves was placed on the left and the other half obviously on the right. I was intending to leave it white but thought better of it.

 

 THIS

For this one, I used the beautiful hummingbird. My colouring isn't the best but I think it's my interpretation of it. Whether it is or not, I have no idea but that's one of mine! I die cut the circular patterned shape from the Thoughtful Espressions dies, added the sentiment, flowers and bird.

 

THAT

My that card I have obviously made in the different paper but no bird of this one. Just flowers and leaves.

 

 

 Now it's your turn to say which is your preferred card, if there is one. 

Watercolour Wednesday - Thoughtful Expressions

 Hello on a very wet Wednesday! Today's watercolour card was great fun to make. I started by cutting a strip of watercolour paper 14.85cm long by approximately 7cm wide. I thoroughly soaked it with water from the spritzer and then using my re-inker bottles, lightly I scribbled the ink across the card. I repeated it a few times with different colours and once I was happy with the them, I put it aside to dry. Prior to me stamping using the Thoughtful Expressions stamp set, I cut a tent fold card base which is 29.7cm long, scored at 14.85cm and 10.5cm wide. I then cut a white mat with the dies from the Around The Bend. It gave a really lovely curve across the card which was what I wanted. 

I cut the coloured mat to 14.4cm as I left it slightly longer than I wanted and just trimmed the ends down. Once I had positioned it onto the front of the card, I could mark the mat where I needed to trim it. I positioned the now 2 pieces onto the card base and adhered more or less centrally to the card. I adhered the die cuts to the top and bottom of the card base and then played with the scraps of inked watercolour card. I stamped some of the flowers and die cut using some of flowers and swirls from the Thoughtful Expressions dies.

The rest as you can see is easy. I just placed them onto the mat and then adhered them into place.

Here you can see the finished mats before they were die cut and stamped on. I really had fun today. Not a messy one like like Cary had on her LIVE on Monday but fun nonetheless. :))