Make it simple Monday Just My Type

 Hello, Hello,  Hello 👋 and welcome to a week of inspiration using a fun set called Just My Type.  This is a great set made of photopolymer which means it's see through.  This allows for easy placement great for beginners and those who want to have fun with layers or making lots of quick cards. It's  a fun combination of sentiments and images that work alone or together so lots of bang for your stash

As always I'm starting the week of with a #simplestamping project or 3 😉 I got a little cardied away with this one 🤣 I don't know about you but sometimes I start at point A then go through a dozen others turns to get to point B rather than the straight A to B I was anticipating 🤣. That's  what happened for today's inspiration. 

It all started with a single stamp and a5 ink colours... I  was quite happy with this colour combo. Zesty yet gentle soft purple, pink and yellow with a brighter blue and green.....

Then I thought ohhh what about second impressions 🤔.... I inked the stamp once then stamped it twice. This give you 2 shades of 1 colour a geeat way to stretch your stash!

  

Then my mind went to ombre.... so I chose 2 different colours a mid and a dark tone of the same sea green and used the same 1 ink multiple stamping technique...

I love how each of these #makeitsimplemonday cards came out. Proving to myself once again that stamps, inks and paper are the best way to start my creativity.

Fun Fold Friday - Coffee With Friends

Well, here we are already and it's Friday today! For my last card this week, I have done what I believe is called a triple accordion card. I have seen so many of them over the years but never actually made one myself... until today! Using the Coffee With Friends stamp set, Go To Greetings and Charming Sentiments stamp sets, I have made my own version of one. I used the gorgeous new cardstock colour of Bubble Bath and the patterned paper I chose has a Misty Moonlight background. I added Basic White panels on the folds inside and out and Granny Apple Green die cut leaves for the front. The images were coloured in using my Stampin' Blends pens.

It has 3 folds (obviously as it's a triple) which meet just past the centre point and layers of DSP from the Delightfully Eclectic papers. I also coordinated it using the Countryside Corners dies, Sentiments Silhouettes and the Timeworn Type embossing folder to complete it.

 

 

Well, that's it from me for another week. Thank you once again for stopping by this week and I do hope that you have found some inspiration to make your own cards too. Until I return in after next week, Cary will be here to share some of her creations with you.

Until I return, please take care, stay safe but as always...

KEEP ON CRAFTING!

Lots of love and many thanks, 

😍😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍😍

 

This or That Thursday - Coffee With Friends

 Today's 2 cards using the Coffee With Friends stamp set are completely different from each other. I was going to do 2 very similar cards but got carried away and did the opposite. The first card, THIS, I stamped the image onto white paper and coloured them in using my Stampin' Blends pens and then fussy cut them out once more. I added a piece of DSP from the Bright and Beautiful designer series papers and card in the Pretty Peacock shades. I die cut the Grove dies out of the card and adhered the ladies under the trees. Unfortunately, I was about 1cm too far to the left! As I had done that, I cut a branch off!

My second card or THAT card is completely different as I used the Patchwork pieces dies to cut the 2 different papers out. As soon as I saw these dies, I thought that I must have them. Eventually I did buy them too. The papers are from the Countryside Inn suite. I then stamped the image of the lady onto a punched out 2" circle. The next punch was the 2,1/4" in Night of Navy and the biggest again in white. When I laid the pattern out in the papers, I made sure that I left a border between the pieces. The night of Navy mat behind the patterned mat was embossed with one of the folders from the 3D Basics embossing folders. 

Please let us know which you prefer, thank you xx

THIS OR .....

 

 

 THAT

 

 

 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Coffee With Friends

Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today, using the amazing Coffee With Friends stamp set I went watercolour crazy! I think  I used about 12 different coloured ink pads! I had a white card base that already been scored and folded into a book fold card. I took a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolour  paper and cut it to the measurements for the right hand side of the fold. I did a Granny Apple Green wash across the whole piece using my water painter brush. I then stamped and over-stamped the hills and trees from the Grassy Grove stamp set in Old Olive then washed the colour lightly over again. On another piece of  fluid 100, I stamped and then watercoloured the 2 sets of the one image. Yes, I did the one thing that I love and fussy cut them all out. 

Technique Tuesday - Coffee With Friends

Hello again, today once again and all of this week my aim is to make some simple cards that even a beginner can make.  Using the Coffee With Friends stamp set again, I stamped another image onto plain white paper and onto a piece of paper from the Fresh As A Daisy range of papers. 

The first piece was the brown which I used for a quayside or jetty. The second piece of DSP is the blue that looks like sky or water. I coloured the lady in the white paper using my Blends pens. I cut the excess of the lady away from the jetty and then adhered her across the rest of the image on the jetty. 

Once again. like yesterday's post, I used the Double Oval Punch for the sentiment. The darker blue is Misty Moonlight which I used to accentuate the sentiment. Another very simple card that can be easily replicated. Many images can be stamped straight onto DSP and it's always worth while giving it a try too.

Make It Simple Monday - #simplestamping - Coffee With Friends

 Hello, I do hope that you have had a great week? This week I am using another of the new stamp sets from the Annual catalogue. It is called Coffee With Friends. It actually isn't one that I would generally go to but like many other sets, this was calling to me! Every time I opened the catalogue, it almost jumped out at me! Do you ever get that with anything? I have lately, weird isn't it?

Anyway, starting with a plain white card base and Basic White mat, I stamped the image of the coffee cups and croissants several times across the mat. It's not always necessary to add a mat but I like to show that there is a single mat on a card. I used Smoky Slate which is a very soft gray ink pad. Then my fun part...I coloured them in using colouring pencils. It needed a background too so I just coloured some light blue/green pencil across the background. I added sentiment onto the ovals punched from the double oval punch to finish. #simplestamping

Fun fold Friday Rhino Ready

 Wow how fast can a week go by? I can't believe it's Friday already and time to share my last post using the super fun Rhino ready stamps and dies!!! I  have loved playing with these critters and hope they have given you some inspiration. My final post with them is of course a fun fold one.

This fold is nice and simple and gives lots of space to share these adorable rhinos. I'm  not sure what it's called but it's certainly fun to do 😀 and I'm  going to call it a fun gatefold card!

Start with  3 pieces of cardstock. 1 measuring 14.85cm x 10.5cm,  the second  10.5cm x 8.5cm and the third 10cm x 6.5cm . Scoring the second at 1cm along the 10.5cm edge and the third at 1cm along the 10cm edge. 

Adhere piece 2 and 3 to panel 1 by placing adhesive to the 1cm panels. I positioned piece 1 to the right and 2 to the left but either way works. Now fold panel 2 onto panel 1 then panel 3 over top. This is your card base .

Next cut white mats measuring 14.4cm x 10cm, 10cm x 7cm and 8.5cm x 6cm . Then pattern paper measuring  9.5cm x 13.9cm, 9.5cm x 6.5cm and 8cm x 5.5cm. Adhere the dsp to the corresponding white mats. These are then adhered to the front facing parts of the card base. 

Now cut 2 further white mats. 1 measuring 7cm x 10cm and another measuring 8.5cm x 6cm . These are adhered to the inside panels of the 2 arms of the card.

As you can see I decorated my sample throughout with these of so happy rhino's and sentiments for a friends birthday. 

Here's  a short video of how it all goes together...

Well that's it for me for this week of Rhino Ready goodness. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have 😃

Please join me here next week for Gill's creations and as always...

Have fun!

Cary xx