This or That Thursday - He's All That

 Well here we are on Thursday's this or that projects. I had great fun in the cards today, in fact I made 4 but these 2 my family all love so here they are. Using the He's All That stamp set, I stamped 2 sentiments onto Basic White card then put them aside. I cut several pieces of the DSP, Designer Series Papers from He's The Man papers and the matching cards. I had several scraps of papers anyway so I cut several of them to the same size and different sizes and just played with them. The little cross hatch shapes are from the dies in the set All That. The circle on the right-hand side is also a die from the same kit. This time, lots of paper placing, die cutting and a little stamping. 

 

 

 

 

Card 1  Overlaid Rectangles

 

 

Card 2 Patchwork layer

Watercolour Wednesday - He's All That

Today's card is a little bit pathetic for a water coloured card! I had a scrap of paper and using a clear block, I scribbled some Pacific Point (blue), Sahara Sand (light beige) and Crumb Cake (beige) all over the block and then spritzed it with lots of water. I literally spread it over the scrap paper a few times and then repeated the process until I got the colouring that I wanted. I cut the bottom part of a C6 mat of DSP and added a brown border below to make it look like the side of the river. I stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso a gorgeous rich brownand die cut it out for the front.

 

Technique Tuesday - He's All That

 Today's post is to encourage you to use your papers to the fullest that you can. I have used the stamp set, He's All That on the inside of the card only today but on the outside I've used more of the Designer Series Papers called He's The Man which coordinates with the stamp set. There are 12 sheets of papers, 2 of 6 different designs and each pair of papers has another pattern on. Today's card I used one of my least favourite colours, Cajun Craze. It really isn't a me colour. That's a really strange thing to say because I actually like the card that I've made! I paired it with Very Vanilla card to tone the colour down and added one of the Split Textures Dies over the top of the paper. Included in the pack of papers are 2 sheets of die cut self-adhesive labels and banners etc. which is what I have used on the front of the card.

 

Make It Simple Monday - He's All That

 Hello and welcome back to you all. I hope you had a great week and that Cary was able to inspire you with the gorgeous cards she made last week. They were out of her comfort zone but I think she made an incredible job as always. Anyway, this week, I am going to make some cards using the He's All That stamp set. Like many card makers, I don't often make cards for men other than for my son and family but I am determined to have another go. 

My first card is a very simple one but I have added a mat of the designer series paper and a few simple, stamped images to complete it.

Fun fold Friday Playing in the Rain

Happy Friday 🥳 the weekend starts here! Today is my youngster's birthday day. He's 23 where has the time gone!! So my weekend definitely starys today with cake and takeaway and a movie! Oh happy day! Which rather neatly brings me to my final card of the week showcasing the Playing in the Rain stamps and dies and the Rain or Shine pattern papers.  

Pattern paper is such a useful resource for papercrafters.  It can make a card really quickly, be a background for stamped images or the star of the show! And today it's the star of the show.

I had an idea to make a simplified version of a fun fold called a stepper card. My version is a faux stepper card that is very easy to make.

It all starts with a piece of cardstock measuring 14.85cm x 24cm scored at 8cm, 16cm and 20cm. The scores are then folded as a mountain,  valley then mountain fold.

The second piece is 6cm x 21cm scored at 10.5cm and folded as a mountain. 

I decorated part one before attaching the second panel. The second panel is secured to the back of the card first in whatever position you want it to be. 

The effect is that of a stepper card with out all the tricky cutting and scoring. I decorated my sample with the pretty papers and the bunny.

For the bunny's coat I did a little paper pieceing. I love this technique as an alternative to colouring. It's made easier when the pattern paper is from the same pack . You know they'll all work together. 

A little white ribbon around the bottom step and I was happy.

Well that's it from me I'm off to have a fun weekend celebrating with my boy and the rest.of the family. I do hope you'll all have a good weekend.

Please join me here next week as Gill will be sharing her inspiration with us all.

Have fun

Cary xx

This or That Thursday Playing in the Rain

 How do you start a project? Do you start with colour choice? Card style? Stamped image? There are so many way's!! For today's card I started with the stamped image of the turtle.  I was playing around on how to colour him in. I did various colours until I felt inspired. So really my cards today are inspired by the coloured in stamped image from the Playing in the Rain stamp set.

As I was colouring I was thinking about how to use him and I decided I wanted to keep it fairly simple. But I wanted to use a tool that was sat on my desk a little unloved. Called Artistic mix decorative masks these are a selection of masks that can layer up to create fun backgrounds. 

I decided to layer the 2 check masks and use my blending brush to add colour through them to my projects. I love how easy this is as a way to add texture and interest to a card. You can be as bold or subtle as you wish, use the whole thing or just a part there are so many ways to use them.

I started by looking at my coloured turtle and decided to coordinate my colour palette with him so for my first card I went orange. Called mango melody this is a bright cheerful colour that adds a little fun to every card.

Whilst cutting the circle and mat for the card I wondered what it would look like if I'd gone with the green colour I'd used. Called old olive it's quite a bright mid tone green that is a very useful colour. I also found it amusing that the 2 colours I'd chosen each had food related names.. who knew mango and olives would work so well together 😉🤣

So there you have it from 1 little bit of colouring in 2 cards were created! Which do you prefer?  Mango? Or olive? ( not the foods.. the colours orange? Or green? 🤣)

Watercolour Wednesday Playing in the Rain

 For today's inspiration I've created a sample in a tall slim card using a fun way to create a watercolour background.  I have also used the dies from the Playing in the Rain bundle and just a sentiment from the stamps.

The card starts as a piece of cardstock measuring 21cm x 19.8cm scored at 9.9cm. I then took a piece of thick white card stock measuring  20cm x 18.8cm. This piece is what I used to create my watercolour wash background.

Here's where it gets fun. I popped a drop of tahitian tide reinker onto an acrylic block the added a single drop of water to it. Then O took my clear wink of stella and squeezed several drop onto the block as well. 

Next I used the wink of stella brush as a paint brush and washed the ink all down the piece of cardstock.  I painted and dried then painted again but wasn't very fussy with it.

I  love how the panel ended up . It sparkles beautifully in real life. The shimmer is difficult to capture in a photo.

I then played with the dies from the set and made my kites. I also die cut out the clouds ☁️. 

For the sentiment I stamped it in black onto white cardstock.  I then die cut it using a die from another fun set called Conversation Bubbles. 

I just love these kookie die cuts! And think they work well with this sentiment. 

For the inside I stamped the turtle and coloured it in using the blue and yellow to coordinate with the front of the card. I then took a black marker pen and doodled around the edge.

I like how this card turned out it's a nice mix of shimmer and crisp colours.