Watercolour Wednesday - Poised Peony

Hello on another warm Wednesday here. Today's card using the Poised Peony, I have made a faux watercolour card, ok...a cheats watercolour card! I did watercolour the peonies though! I wanted to use the round die that comes with the Charming Duck Pond dies, I love the effect that it gives and I also die cut some of the reeds to add to the inside and on the outer edges too. Using the lovely Pretty Peacock card for for the whole thing with a splash of white here and there.

Yes, it's a very simple card today and I embossed the WHOLE card using the gorgeous new embossing folder called So Swirly. It's swirly like the clouds are sometimes and also like the swirl of the water too. I thought it works really well. What do you think, any good? 

 

 

 

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

Make It Simple Monday - Poised Peony

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. This week I am going to use a new stamp set called Poised Peony. This very simple but lovely set was not seen would you believe! I can't believe I didn't see it or take any notice of it! Anyway, I have joined it with the paper pack called Frames and Flowers. This set has 3 sheets of 12" x 12" die cut papers and 3 lots of patterned paper. It's great. 

Fun fold Friday Simply Sparkling

 Wow where does the time go? This week has flown by! It's Friday already so it's the final post using the Simply sparkling dies and stamps. But because it's Friday it's Fun Fold Friday 😀

Today's Fold is a type of pop out card. What would you call it? I've got no idea 🤣 I just liked a picture I saw while surfing the web and decided to have a go!

It starts with a piece of thick white cardstock measuring 10.5cm x 28cm scored at 8cm, 14cm and 20cm.  Next mark at You then score diagonally between the 11cm and 17cm both top and bottom. Next score diagonally between the 11cm and 17cm marks top and bottom. This creates a diagonal cross over the center scoreline. 

To Fold the card valley fold on the vertical scorelines and mountain fold the diagonal ones. The folding will become more obvious when you see the pictures below 😉

When all folded shut the card looks like this..

Looking from the top down you can see the top of the pop out folds..

Now the fun part....

The center pop out is made using a little strip of cardstock measuring 1cm x 8cm and scored at 1cm, 2cm and 3cm from each end. Fold the scorelines as a valley,  mountain,  mountain from each end. Adhere the center portion to the back of the sentiment panel. Then adhere the first 1cm panel to one side of the center point of the fold and repeat on the other side. Now your sentiment panel will fold flat when closed but pop out when open.

I have to say I'm loving the cherries on this card 🍒 as well as the Sweet pink and red colour palette.

Well that it from me for this week. Using the Simply Sparkling stamps and dies has been such fun . Please join me here next week when Gill will be sharing her creations with us for more cardmaking inspiration. 

Hope you get to make time to craft this weekend but most of all...

Have Fun

Cary xx

PS. Sadly the Simply Sparkling stamps are no longer available here in the UK but the dies still are.

 

This or That Thursday Simply Sparkling

 Today's This or That is a question about shades of colour. Are you a bright and bold person? Or a soft and subtle one? Both are made using the fantastic Simply Sparkling dies. 

The first sample is the This card. Made using a soft shade of peachy orange called , rather appropriately, Peach Pie.  It features the cute peach die cuts.

The  background is made using a lovely 3d embossing folder called Distressed Tile.  Overall this card has a soft delicate feel that reminds me of a perfectly ripe peach 🍑 warm and fuzzy.

The That card is made using a far bolder shade of orange called Pumpkin Pie. The feel of this card is bolder and in someways Mediterranean. 

The zesty fruit and the bright bold colours certainly make it one that stands out!

Both This and That will suit different people that's for sure. But which do you prefer? 

Watercolour Wednesday Simply Sparkling

A softer colour palette and cleaner lines make for a very different card using the amazing Simply sparkling dies . The card starts with a smooshed watercolour background. 

Watercolour smooshing is a fun technique to add ink to paper. All you need are waterbased ink pads, paper, water spritzer and a place to dab and spritz your ink. You can dab the ink pads onto your glass cutting mat , a silicone mat or even just a cello bag! Then just spritz water over the ink and dab your paper into the wet ink. The colours will smoosh together and create beautiful backgrounds. For today's card I used a light lilac colour and a turquoise colour.

Next die cut using the bubble 🫧 die from the Simply Sparkling die set cut twice from a mat of white cardstock measuring 14.85cm x 10.5cm. This panel is going to cover the entire front of the card. 

Move the now dry watercolour background around behind the appature until you get a pleasing result. Then adhere the 2 pieces together. 

Now decorate!  I due cut several more of the bubbles and adhered them together . Then inserted them into the appature. 

Using the circles that come out of the die cut and small dabs of adhesive add further texture and interest to the card front.

 

A simple sentiment on a strip of white cardstock popped up on 3d foam and the card is complete.

Tips tricks and techniques Tuesday Simply Sparkling

On this wet Tuesday here in my small corner of the world I just needed some brightening up and today's project does just that! Bright zesty colours and the coordinating Dies to the fun Simply sparkling stamps make for just such a card!

The dies not only cut out the images from the Simply Sparkling stamps but also have stand alone dies as well which is always extra fun!

The brights colour family from Stampin' Up!  Are just what they say in the title bright 🌞 so prefect for a sunny card. I chose to use bright yellow, bold green a basic white to creat this crisp zingy colour palette. 

To create a texture for the background panel I used the citrus slice dies in the same shade as the panel and adhered them randomly all over. I call this a faux embossed technique. You can use any dies the same way just die cut from the same colour cardstock. 

The second technique used on today's card is an oldy but goodie.  Called paper piecing it's where you stamp an image onto pattern paper then fussy cut it out . Stamp the original image where you want it then adhere the fussy cut piece back over the image. Top tip use a marker the same colour as that which you stamped the image in and run it around the edges of the fussy cut piece. This stops any unwanted white bits showing. Also always work from the back of your piece so if the pen slips it doesn't mar the front 😉

So there it is a bright and refreshing card to bring a little taste of summer sunshine to you 🌞