Fun Fold Friday - Christmas Friends

Hello, it's Friday again already! Using my Christmas Friends stamps and dies today I have made a card cased from another demonstrator. Her name is Einat Kessler. The card she made, she has called a flipping photos card. Here is the link if you would like to case it.                                                     https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/529454499962143725/

It is made with a piece of card 10.5cm by 29.7 cm long. There are a few extra pieces but it is such a great card and it can be made as a C6 sized card too. It will of course be a 15 cm square card or 6" by 6" card. On my card, I used pieces of DSP from the Season of Green Speciality DSP. It's gorgeous as it has gold prints on the reverse of each one. I do like a touch of Gold in my cards and in my jewellery too!

You can see from the photo below that the card opens with a window piece on the front. This is the hinge that will enable opening and the ability to see both sides of the front of the card as you open it. It is really a very cool fun fold card.

 

I hope you enjoy making the card. I haven't included the full metric measurements that I used but I can add them should you want me to. 

That's it for me then for another week. Cary as usual will be back on Monday so please stop by and see what amazing creations the she can inspire you with.

I will be back the following week so until then, take care, stay safe but as always.....,

KEEP ON CRAFTING

xxx😍😍😍 Gill 😍😍😍 xxx

 

Make It Simple Monday #simplestamping - Christmas Friends

 Hello and thank you for stopping by today. This week I am going to play with the NEW set called Christmas Friends. These cute little set are just as I would imagine them if they were to celebrate the Christmas time. 2 cards for the price of 1 today though. I started with a gorgeous soft minty green of Coastal Cabana which I love. I stamped direct to the card base on the one side after protecting it with a piece of Sticky roll and then got stamping. I added a strip of the even softer minty green  Pool Party ribbon. Love it  as it even has tiny little white pom poms on!

I then wondered what it would look like in White, so I tried that too. Now, I couldn't decide which I preferred so I asked the family. Would you believe that out of 6 of them it was half and half!

 

This or That Thursday - Embraced With Love

I have really had fun this week with this stamp set. I've even had the family smiling and falling in love with them too! I have been using Embraced With Love stamps and today I have added a few more stamps and the dies from the Charming Duckpond and dies from Winterley Tree Tops too. Quite a mish- mash of stamps etc but if they work, then why not?

My THIS card I started by using a Granny Apple Green mat and die cut the frame from the Winterley Trees dies. I wanted to make it so the bear and rabbit were deep in the forest hiding as the bear was poorly. I guess even bears get poorly too, don't they?

THIS

   

My THAT card is in the same colours more or less as the THIS card but this time I have used the frame dies from the Charming Duck Pond. I coloured in some of the bullrushes and have given the bear a really bright blanket and added a few frogs to cheer him up. They may even sing the frog chorus to him to make him feel better!!! You never know? Stranger things have happened!

Fun Fold Friday - In My Heart

Hello, WOW! It's Friday already! Where has the week gone? My family have all been away this week with the children on a short holiday so I've been home with the 2 dogs and it's been very quiet here! Just to let you know that I chose the Coastal Cabana card from yesterday for my son and daughter-in-laws wedding anniversary card. They loved it too so that was good. For today's card, I have been playing with a few bits of paper and have made a multi layer card using the In My Heart stamp set.

 

I started off  with a standard C6 card base and removed one triangle from the right on the front panel. I then added a 10cm by 11cm wide white mat which I scored at 1.5cm on the left and added it on top of the card base. The triangle, I cut off was given a fold at 1cm and adhered around at the back too. I had recieved a special,demonstrator only, pack of pink DSP for a challenge a few months ago. It is called Countryside Rose. It's identical to the Countryside Inn DSP except for the colours. Fortunately, I love both the blues and the pinks. I used simple pieces of DSP for this card and a mat of Melon Mambo card to go on the inside with a white card mat on top for the sentiments and images. 

 

 

I then stamped and coloured all of the images once more and then punched them out using the Stampin' Up! circle punches in one size for the images and a slightly bigger one for the Melon Mambo cards for the pink behind them.

I added the tree to the inside and this once again tells the story of boy meets girl or girl meets boy and how life changes from there.

Well that's it from me for this week once more. Thank you for stopping by this week and I hope that you have been inspired to make yourself some cards too.

Until I get back, Cary will be here next week but as always...until I return,

KEEP SAFE, STAY WELL  but as always

KEEP ON CRAFTING

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx😍😍

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - In My Heart

 For today's card using the In My Heart stamp set, I have gone blue. Afternoon Azure blue to be precise. It is such a vibrant blue, I love it. I added a piece of the blue card to the front of a white card base and then cut off the corners of a sheet of Designer Series Paper. I used the lovely Brights DSP and only 2 pieces of the Afternoon Azure. I place the corners in different directions and adhered them onto the blue card then having cut up several white strips of 0.5cm card, I added them to the edges of the shapes. I believe that this is called a fractured card as it  is in lots of pieces. Though I may well be wrong!!

I measured the centre that was left and found a square die from the Stylish Shapes dies and die cut one out. I then cut it down along one side to make it into a rectangle. It's very easy as you just add the die over the shape and trim off the part you don't need. Once that was done I repeated the same with a piece of white card for the image to be stamped onto. I stamped the little boy reading and then using my Stampin' Blends, coloured him in. I attached them both together using Dimensionals and placed them onto the card base. I then went on to adding some 0.5cm strips of the Azure Afternoon card next to the white strips to complete it. 

Make It Simple Monday - In My Heart

Well, Cary has once again surprised me by making a stamp set that I don't like, much more favourable! Another one that I now need to buy! This week I will be working with a lovely stamp set that I kept looking at in the catalogue but didn't buy until very recently. So I need to make an effort and see what I can make with it. The set is called In My Heart and is a set of 9 stamps that are really pretty. Please let me know what you think?

A simple image stamped in a light grey onto a white mat and then just using some ordinary colouring pencils to colour the image in. I even made a border with a green pencil to edge the mats!

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Poised Peony

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today, using the Poised Peony stamp set I have once again co-ordinated it with the Frames and Flowers Designer Series Papers. Using a basic white card base, I added some mats in the rich green of Shaded Spruce. I had a piece of DSP left over from another card and it was too small for a card mat so I sliced it up equally and added the strips down the page. I stamped 2 of each of the medium and small flowers and fussy cut them out. 

My theory is that you don't have to just emboss a whole sheet, even little circles like I have used can be embossed too. I used one of the new embossing folders called Dotted Circles and added the circle to the centre each time. It just adds a certain something, I stamped the flowers and coloured them in using my Stampin' Blends pens.

 I rather like the effect it gives. What do you think?

  Frames and Flowers DSP

Watercolour Wednesday - Sketched Butterflies

Hello. Today's card has had me going around in circles. Literally! Each time I started to make something, I went off in another direction, constantly going around and around in circles! That was it...I needed circles! Using the Sketched Butterflies stamps today, I started with several differerent sets of images in lots of different colours, even throwing many away! In the end, I decided on some pretty Boho Blue ones I had watercoloured and restamped over the images. 

I then remembered that I had bought the dies to go with the Spotlight On Nature stamp set, (the stamp sets are out of stock 😢). That was what I needed. So rumaging through my order that arrived on Monday, I found them. I die cut a circle from a piece of DSP from the Thoughtful Journey Designer Series Papers and then several different sizes of circle in the same design onto white card. I took a card base in Boho Blue, a gorgeous In Colour from last year and embossed the whole card with another new embossing folder called Dotted Circles. It suits it just perfectly. I hope that you agree with me. My first thought was it reminded me of the planets in the universe! Oh well!! 

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Sketched Butterflies

 Hello and thank you for joining me today. With the Sketched Butterflies stamp set today, I have made a semi-easy card. I started by stamping 3 images of the mid-sized butterfly and coloured them in using the gorgeous yellow of Daffodil Delight and the lovely soft, orange tone of Peach Pie in my Stampin' Blends Pens. After fussy cutting them out, I put them to the side. I cut a strip of 7cm wide white card and embossed it using one of the 3D Basics embossing folders, although any folder will do. I added this mat to the left hand side of the card front and then using Tombow Multipurpose Glue, I adhered the butterflies to the right hand side of the embossed, smaller, top mat. I fussy cut out the right hand side of the butterflies only where they were overlapping the edge of the mat and the middle of the card base. Yes, through both layers of card and it wasn't difficult.

I added some butterflies on another white mat for the inisde of the card and stamped a sentiment inside and on the scrap of card that I cut from the card front. With another piece of the card scrap and my Peach Pie Blend, I coloured across the white to make my own background to go behind the front sentiment mat and trimmed them both down. 

Make It Simple Monday - Sketched Butterflies

 Hello and thank you for joining me. It's been a chaotic week here for me and a busy weekend for Cary and I. I had my cataracts removed on Tuesday last week and I'm still getting my eyes straight. Cary and I went to a meeting a few hours from home on Saturday and returned only a short while ago. So I am haviing difficulty seeing things close up but distance is great! Cary very kindly made today's card to share with you to help me out and I am aiming to make tomorrow's one myself. My chosen stamp set this week is the gorgeous Sketched Butterflies so along with the dies, this is what I aim to show you this week. 

The card that Cary made is gorgeous and simple. She has stamped several of the butterflies on the card base and coloured them in using the watercolour pencils. No water...just pencils. Aren't they beautiful?

 

Fun Fold Friday - Sneak Peak Week - Winterly Tree Tops Bundle

 Well, here we are again on a Friday already. Today's card is a basic Landscape, Gate Fold Card in White. Well, it started with a white card base 29.7cm wide and 14.85cm high (11,3/4" by 5,7/8"). I scored this at 4.9cm and 9.9cm (1,7/8" and 3,7/8") from each side and after I burnished each fold line really well. I started adding some strips of the DSP from Nests of Winter DSP. These were each 4.7cm wide by 14.4cm high (1,13/16th" by 5,7/16th"). The other sides of these papers are lots of birds so it's been difficult trying to decide to use it! The colours of the DSP to me look like Petal Pink or even the New Basic Beige or even a combination of the 2. Very soft colours which is why I chose them. I cut a white 9.5cm by 14.4cm mat for the centre (3,15/16th" by 5,7/16th") and embossed it using the Birch Wood embossing Folder and I stamped the sentiment onto white and added it to another strip of the DSP. Lots of fussy cutting on this one as the birds are much smaller but still gorgeous nonetheless. 

I made a belly band for this card from the piece of card that I cut off from the A4 sheet of white card and working in 10 cm wide or 4" strips, I die-cut along the bottom edge and then repeated it until it was all cut out. You have to make sure that the piece you don't want die-cut, i.e.the upper edge remains above the die or the die will end up cutting the sides of the band too. I repeated the same for the top of the band. 

Nothing is wasted if I can help it as you can see, I used the white die-cut out pieces for the front 2 panels of the card. I stamped a pair of the boughs, coloured them in and die-cut them out. I was able to join the 2 pieces together at the back on the sides using a Dimensional, then adhered it to the front of the belly band along with the pair of beautiful birds and berries. 

I am unable to send you a link to the new products until they have been released but do watch out for them in just over a month. 

 

 

Well, once again, that's it from me for this week. Please take care and stop by next week as Cary will be sharing some of her creations for you. 

I will be back the following week as always but until then ..... 

Stay safe, Keep Well, but .....

KEEP ON CRAFTING 

😍😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍😍