Perfectly Plaid...

For my final Perfectly Plaid  card this week I have decided to share a card that isn't christmas. Again its one of card ideas that jumped out at me when I first saw the set.
If you're a regular on our page you'll know that I'm  rather partial to a rainbow and getting messy! Todays card fulfills both! I used the embossing resist technique to create the background.  I stamped the trees in versamark then heat embossed them in clear embossing powder and heat set them. I then used sponges to apply ink in a rainbow colour over the top. As I covered a tree in ink I huffed on the tree and using a piece of kitchen paper to buff the ink of the trees.  I kept the rest of the card nice and clean with a simple white base and black stamped sentiment. 
On the inside I had a little fun. I cut a small strip, 0.5cm, from the front and stuck that down. I then got small strips of coloured card stock that are the same as the inks I used.  (These strips are 0.5cm wide too.) I them stuck them in order onto a piece of copier paper. Then using the clear embossing powder again I heat embossed the tree image. I then punched it out using the pine tree punch and stuck it in.
Well that's it from me.  Gill will be sharing with us all next week. Have a nice weekend wherever you are.
Have fun
Cary xx

Perfectly Plaid...

Does your family have any strange or daft superstitions? Do they come from the older generation but you know find yourself repeating them? Well mine sure does and I sure do!! 🤣🤣🤣 .
One well used one in my family comes from my grandmother who would not have green coloured anything and always said " Blue and green should never be seen unless theres a colour in between!!" My Nanna believed that green was a very unlucky colour!! 
That silly rhyme was running through my mind as I made todays sample.
The card is night of navy with shadef sprouce and call me clover with the saving grace of gold!. Lol. The colour way was inspired by one of the plaid patterned paper from the Wrapped in plaid dsp.
The trees on the background are a 2 step process so the outline of the trees are stamped in shaded spruce  and then the leaves a filled in with another stamp inked with the lighter call me clover. The sentiment is stamped in the new Delicata Golden Glitz ink .
So all in all I think I'll  buck superstition for this card and say I like blue and green together 😉

Perfectly Plaid....

Today we're  back to chritmas!! But a modern contemporary Christmas.  Shades of blue , white and silver are very wintery to me, all crisp and clean.
The blues I've  used are night of navy and balm blue. The silver sars in the background may look grey in the photos but in real life have a lovely silver shimmery shine to them. 
The ink used is one of the new Delicata inks from the autumn winter catalogue. The colours available are Silvery Shimmer, Celestial Copper and Golden Glitz. These are water based pigment inks so not only can you stamp with them, they do need time to dry as they don't dry quickly or use a heat tool, but you can also watercolour with them!! Oh the messy background ideas are running around my brain now...but back to todays card.
Do you like contemporary or traditional christmas cards? I like a stamp set that I can make both with and Perfectly Plaid set certainly does that in my mind.

Perfectly Plaid...

So this week I'm showcasing a Christmas stamp set, Perfectly Plaid,  but when I saw it, I straight away saw that it would work all year  round.  

The card I'm sharing today is one of the ideas that jumped out at me. Does that happen to you? 

You see a stamp and a card idea just pops straight into your mind??? 

Well this is what came to my mind! The colours I've  used are Costal Cabana, Shaded Spruce. 

To create shades and depth of colour, I used my favourite technique of generational stamping and sponging. 

I chose green shades because they are calming and peaceful and in my mind are appropriate for a condolence card.

Perfectly Plaid...

Well autumn has certainly made it's presence felt this last few days here in our part of the world which is really rather appropriate since the Stampin' Up! Autumn Winter catalogue has launched filled with seasonal goodies!!
For me that is a direct sign that Christmas is on its way!! So this week I  will be sharing one of the lovely Christmas sets from  the catalogue called Perfectly Plaid.
Its a lovely set with a more tradition vibe to it but in an updated way if that make any sense!!
The stamps have a coordinating punch which is always a bonus in my book.
Oh and the designer series paper that is part of the suite is just yummy!! The colour palette is rich and scrumptious. Its all so evocative of warm winter fires,  snuggling up with a warm cup of cocoa, or a snifter 😉, . ..
So for todays sample I've  gone traditional,  in a contemporary way and taken the strong rich colours and run with them. So here is my first Christmas card for 2019....

Punches - Day 5 

For my last card this week, I have used one of my new favourite punches. 

The Medium Daisy and the leaf punches. It had to be done!

 I cased this card from one made by the lovely Pauline Barnfather.

I used Thick Whisper White card and a few pieces of paper from the Magnolia Lane DSP.

I stamped and punches the daisies and a few of the leaves from the Leaf punch.

The stamps were from Daisy Lane, more information HERE

      

I finished off by adding Smile Friend to the front and the lovely message inside.

I used Mossy Meadow card for the leaves and ink pad for the messages. 

Then Petal Pink for the daisies.

Thank you all for joining me this week. 

Please stop by next week to see what creations Cary has made to help inspire you. 

Thank you again, 

Gill, :)

Punches - Day 4  

Hello. I decided to go punch crazy with this one today. 

The most popular punches in my opinion are the circle punches. Not only do they start at a very small 1/2"  they go all the way up to 2, 1/4". So on this card I used many of the circles.

 

I started with the 1, 1/2" circle then the 1", 3/4£ and 1/2". The good thing about doing it that way 

is that you can put the smaller punches through the holes from the larger ones so you can get inti the centre of the card too.

I decided that this was going to be a fun card so I used Dino Days stamp set and the matching papers, 

Dinoroar DSP. They're great! For more information on the stamp set, click HERE

It also comes as a bundle with dies, click HERE For the DSP, please click HERE 

You can even get the whole lot plus more, click HERE !

 After punching the circles, I used Dimensionals to mount the 'frame' then fussy cut the dinosaurs 

from a piece of DSP. I know a lot of people don't like fussy cutting but I find it so relaxing.

 The paper I chose has a Pretty Peacock background so I used the Ink pad and a piec of card for 

the message mat messages.