Throwback Thursday  

Hello, for throwback Thursday I've remembered that it will be Father's Day in June in the UK.

The card that reminded me was an eclipse card. You've probably seen an eclipse card before and the 1st, 2  pictures are ones that I made a few years ago.

My card for this year I made using the Noble Peacock Speciality Designer Series Paper. (DSP).

I absolutely adore these papers and it's taken me a long time to actually cut them up but cut them up I had to do! There really is no use in having papers and never using them! (I'm still trying to convince myself on that one)!

Anyway, I cut the 1st layer out of the DSP and then 5 more for each letter in Whisper White card. 

I could have die cut them from Blueberry Bushell but I wanted the small contrast with the blue and white. Once each layer was stuck together, I added the blue die cut onto the top. You can see that I also added the centres of the letters after I had fixed the daddy into place.

The image is from A Good Man, Happy Father's Day is from Well Said (51 Stamps in the set) and the border on the message is from Layered With Kindness stamp sets. 

More information HERE, HERE and HERE. The letters were cut from the Hand Lettered Prose set of alphabet dies. More information on the dies HERE.

there are 43 dies in the set of these too. Lots of usage in all of the sets of stamps and dies used today.

 

 

These are the 2 original ones that I made all of those years ago. as you can see, it's not so easy to see the letters.....

Here is the new card. I really like the way the white highlights the letters in 'daddy'.

I finished it with a white gel pen to dot and stripe the hearts.

Watercolour Wednesday  

Well, as it is actually Wednesday today I have strangely enough been watercolouring!

That's my 'funny' for today! More than 1 a day from me is far too many!!

Anyway, I started by using a stamp set that I hadn't used but really liked the images and works on. It is called, Winds of Change. I have always liked Windmills since I was little and when I saw this, I had to have it. 

This was a different way for me but I stamped a background stamp first onto a Balmy Blue C6 card mat. Then onto a white mat, I stamped the windmill and started my water colouring. Why I wanted a different background, I have no idea but I think it worked. I then stamped the Thank you out of the watercoloured mat and they were both mounted using Dimensionals.

 Once watercoloured I did something I really HATE doing! 

I TORE THE PAPER!!! EEEK!! 

I don't know why but I really do hate tearing paper but for some reason, I believed that it needed it. 

What do you think? To Tear or not to Tear? 

The background stamp is called Handwritten. More Information HERE

and HERE

 

I  do hope that I did the right thing by tearing it. 

Please let me know your feelings about tearing paper.

Tips Tricks and Techniques Tuesday. 

Hello, today I've made some cards using one of my favourite techniques. 

It's the spotlighting technique. Several years ago, Stampin' Up! made a stamp set that had a field of poppies on and I just loved it. It was a perfect image to do this technique with, as is the following cards that I've made.

It's very simple really. I know I keep on saying that but it really is.  Stamp 2 images of the same stamp onto 2 different card mats, colour one of them in. You can use Marker Pens, Blends, Watercolour Pencils or any other colouring medium that you have or want to use. 

Once done, using a punch to make the spotlight, punch one or several areas of the coloured in stamp. You then lay the image you've chosen to spotlight over the un-coloured area. You can put a small mat behind it or edge the punched shape with ink too.

My first card I used Good Morning Magnolia stamp set. More Info HERE

It comes in 2 boxes as the large image is just that, it's very large and it needs a box on it's own!

 

The next card I have used a new stamp set called Ornate Style. In fact, Cary used the same set last week. So please have a look at what she has made too.

I used the same technique but this time I use a 1" circle punch and a small die for the black mat below it and as you can see, I spotlighted a few areas of the flower spray.

I used the coordinating stamp set called Ornate Thanks for the messages on this one.

More information on the stamps HERE

and HERE

 

Using the same technique can give you different results each time. 

Make It Monday #Simplestamping 

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Are you one of those people who never has a suitable card ready for an unexpected birthday or celebration? I used to be! That is before I started making cards with Stampin' Up! products. 

I love making cards and I've always a card for everyone in the family when they call out for one.

However, today's card is not for a Birthday, it's of course for Easter.

For those of you who celebrate it have a very Happy Easter.

I used Breathtaking Bouquet stamp and inked in Night Of Navy, I stamped the beautiful flowers onto a C6 card mat. Then using a long strip, I added a chick from Welcome Easter stamp set, followed by a smaller panel with Happy Easter and some flowers all over that.

Very #simplestamping.

I did add an extra though in that I coloured a few Rhinestones with a Night of Navy Blends pen and placed them across the panels. 

More information on the stamp sets HERE

and  HERE

A very simple card for a special celebration.

Fun fold friday...

For today's fun fold friday I'm sharing another simple fold. This fold was the first fun fold I did way back when I was a newbie papercrafter. ( oh my that's nearly 20 years ago 😱)
Take a piece of cardstock , I  have used a piece  that is the right dimensions to create a standard A6 card here in the UK.  Then fold it in half. I then folded the left hand side in half again. ( see the photo for a visual)
I then cut a piece of white cardstock slightly smaller than the card base piece. This will become the background peices for my finished piece. Using the Ornate Style stamp set I stamped all over in memento black ink. I then took my light Pool Party  Stampin Blend alcohol marker and coloured around the images. Next I cut my card in half. Then I took one piece and cut that in half too. In total creating 3 panels to adhere to my card blank.
Afer adhering the background peices to the card base I folded the card. With the smaller panels on the left hand side I folded them in a concertina fashion, mountain, valley. (See photo)
Now it's time to decorate! I used some of the coordinating dies, Ornate Layer dies, (from  the Ornate Garden suite) and the Ornate style  and Ornate Thanks stamps to create my focal points.
I adhered the panel so that it was centered when rhe card base was folded closed. Remember to only apply adhesive to half the panel😉
So that's it from me this week. I do hope you all stay safr and are following the advice for your own area and situation.
Join us next week when Gill will be showing us what she has created.
Have fun.
Cary xx

Throwback Thursday..

Do you like designer series paper ( pattern paper) ?
Do you buy it often?.....and then just lovingly admire it?
Do you have a stash of beautiful pattern paper?
If you can answer yes to any 1, or 2 or if you're like me all 4, of those questions then you are going to like today's Throwback Thursday card!!
For today's inspiration I've used a piece of my lovingly stashed DSP, (designer series paper). The paper is from thw 2018/19 annual Stampin Up catalogue.  It's called Best Route and is a great travel inspired collection of papers that work well for more masculine or gender neutral projects as well as travel ones.
The colours are Blueberry Bushel, Mango  Melody, Pineapple Punch, Gray Granite,black and white. The blueberry and pineapple are both soon to be retired 2018/2020 In-Color's.
The stamps are from the Ornate Thanks set which are a sneek peek from the upcoming 2020/21 annual catalogue from Stampin Up.
So the moral of this post is dig out that lovingly stashed paper and enjoy creating gorgeous projects.. . Don't save it for best the best is Now!! 😁😁😁

Watercolour Wednesday...

Hands up who's a gardener?  ... not me!! But my mum on the other hand has won prizes for her beautiful garden!.
 So I hear say what's that got to do with a papercrafting post??? Well it's where the colour inspiration for today's card came from!
Mum sends me pictures of her garden and she was particularly pleased with the colour combination of the tulips in the photo below. And I sure agreed with her it's stunning and I just couldn't resist using it 😁
So how did I bring it into a watercolour card....I created a watercolour wash background.  I then stamped the bouquet image in versamark and heat embossed it using white embossing powder.  I then fussy cut the image out.
Whilst I had the ink on a block and my aquapainter out I decided to create an ombre effect tassel embellishment. It's very easy just dab the ink on with your aquapainter and leave to dry!
I also created my own background by placing some of the smaller sentiments from the Ornate Thanks set onto a large block and stamped them as one.
So where do you get inspiration for colour choices?