Make it Simple Monday Let's Set Sail

 Welcome to #makeitsimplemonday here at 2 Big Girls Crafting 😀 I'm Cary and this week I'll be sharing inspiration using a stamp set called Let's Set Sail.

 I'll be combining this fun set with the fantasic new 2022-24 In-Colors.

These colour are just sooo amazing I thought a whole week of inspiration featuring just this colour palette would be a fun challenge.

I chose the Let's Set Sail stamps because they are just a little bit different and I love a challenge 😉.

So for today's #simplestamping inspiration I have used a direct to paper ink techniques that we call Swinking! This fun way to use your ink pad requires no special skills nor any fancy tools. I'll be sharing how I created today's card in my Facebook Live here at 4pm BST.  I will add a link to the video later for those who can't make it.

So here's the card I created for you.

This is a single layer card that is suitable for any one. The sentiment is such a lovely one.

I've used all the gorgeous In-Colors inks on this card. 

Please join me for the rest of this week as I share more inspiration using these fabulous stamps and inks along with a few other goodies 😉

Fun Fold Friday - Happiness Abounds

Friday already! Wow! That has come around quickly hasn't it? Cary and I have had some fantastic news this week. We have been added to the Making Cards and Papercraft Magazine as a Blog to watch!That's fantastic isn't it? Well, we think so! We are extremely delighted! My last card this week is with another of the new stamp sets and products from the BRAND NEW Stampin' Up! catalogue which was released on 3rd of May, this week. Using today the Happiness Abounds stamp set I've made this really fun fold! It started as a simple gate-fold card and I've just added a few doors to it! The typeset or font of the sentiments is beautiful. I do like a really good font! I started by choosing the card base colour of Fresh Freesia. It's a really lovely pinkish, shade of lilac. This is one of the In Colours for 1 more year before it will be replaced with new colours. 

I took a piece of A4 card and cut it at 14.85cm high by 29.7cm wide. Then scored from each end at 9.9cm, then just under 4.5cm on the 2 outer panels. I burnished the folds really well and cut 2 mats in the Fresh Freesia card of 9.9cm by 14.85cm. I cut 2 white mats 9.5cm by 14.4cm and instead of embossing, this time I used the Stitched Greenery die. It pierces little pin holes in the leaf pattern all over the card. It gives a beautiful background. Add each of the extra panels to each side of the card base on the external panels. 

I cut 2 types of DSP in the Hue of Happiness DSP which matches the stamp set. 2 pieces of each design both 4.5cm by 13.85cm. I had some spare, white, Stitched Greenery mats that I cut down to fit onto the DSP and adhered them to the DSP strips and then onto the inside panels of the card.  I used another piece of DSP to cut out the flowers from. The dies also fit most of the flowers so if you have or buy the dies, you'll be able to save time on fussy-cutting. It was then down to the decorating of my card. I curled the flowers at the outer edges and fixed them by using Dimensionals or foam shapes. I also added the flowers from the edges of the paper and glued them to the edges of the mats too. Waste not, want not! A few sentiments and the card was complete.

Thank you for stopping by this week. I hope you've had some ideas for cards of your own. 

Cary will be back on Monday to share her creations. 

Until I return, TAKE CARE, STAY WELL and KEEP ON CRAFTING!!!

Thank you once again,

😍 xxx Gill xxx 😍

Throwback Thursday - Cup of Tea

Have you ever made a card that tends to stick in your mind? Well, this one is one of mine that I always remember. I made this for my son's birthday several years ago and he loved it, so I guess that's why I often go back and re-make it. Today though, I have used the Tea Boutique Designer Series Papers which co-ordinate with the Cup Of Tea stamp set. 

Instead of choosing stamped images to make a scene, this time I have used strips of the gorgeous papers which have 12 different designs on them. I am using the Orchid Oasis card base which is 14.85cm by 14.85cm or 6" by 6". I embossed a white mat with the Bouquet of Love embossing folder and mounted the paper strips onto card to make them pop. I die-cut one of the cups and stamped my sentiment again using the Orchid Oasis Ink Pad. The dies are called Teacup Dies. The gems are also coordinated with the Cup of Tea Suite and Bundle and are called Glossy Dots Assortments. They are GORGEOUS!

Watercolour Wednesday - Cup of Tea.

Hello again, today's card I really had fun making. I used Cup of Tea again today for this one and also watercolour paper. I did a wet wash across the whole mat in the soft blue of Balmy Blue. Then using 3 different colours each one at a time, I stamped onto a clear block. I dropped several big drops of water and mixed it in with the coloured inks. Loading the water brush up well with the wet ink, I then tapped the brush over my fingers onto the paper to get the spotty effect. 

After the 3 colour drops and allowing them to dry, it took a few minutes to dry and once dry I stamped the cups across the mat. I fussy cut them out as they were stamped very close together. 

Taking a white card mat, I stamped a few flowers across it in Tahitian Tide and Orchid Oasis inks. I embossed the white mat with Hammered embossing folder. Once I had fussy-cut the cups out I adhered them using Dimensionals (foam shapes) and the sentiment was attached using a piece of the new metallic woven ribbon in Orchid Oasis. 

A few sentiments inside and out and the card is complete.

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Technique Tuesday - Happiness Abounds

Today's the day of the NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE being released. If you would like a copy of it and don't have a demonstrator, please drop us a line and we will happily get one in the post to you. We can send to UK and most of Europe. Today though, I am using another of my new stamp sets, this one is called Happiness Abounds. 

I have made a card using a technique that I haven't used in quite a while. It's called the Bubble Wrap technique. It can be done in so many different ways but today's card was made by adding drops of reinker to the surface of a clear block and using a piece of curled up bubble wrap, I dabbed it a few times in the ink and added it to a piece of white card. I smooshed it over the paper a few times and just repeated it in a few different colours. Basically, I had fun with it!

Once dry and using a Memento ink pad, I stamped several of the flowers over the inked area. Then I fussy cut around them. Yes, I have the dies but I didn't want to waste any of the inked imagery! A few leaves, and embossed white mat to lay them on and it's completed. The embossing folder is also new and is called simply, Fern. It gives the most beautiful image once embossed. I used the Tahitian Tide card base to mount the mat and the flowers onto.

 

Here are the blocks ready to play with and the bubble wrap below in the 2nd picture.

The next 2 pictures are the papers I made using the bubble wrap. I used the left hand one for my card.

Make It simple Monday #simplestamping - Cup Of Tea

Hello and thank you for stopping by today. I have just received my new stamps from the new catalogue so I thought that I would show you some cards made with some of them. Using the Cup of Tea stamp set and the matching Designer Series Papers DSP, or double sided papers called Tea Boutique, I have made this very simple card. 

The first piece of DSP from the pack caught my eye. A simple sentiment or 2 later and it's done. How much simpler could that be?