Fun Fold Friday - Botanical Layers and Botanical Beauty

 Hello again. As today is my last day for a week, I have gone to town! Using the Botanical Layers stamps, I stamped the four, large floral images several times in; Lemon Lolly, Calypso Coral, Berry Burst, Granny Apple Green and Bubble Bath! It took a LOT of fussy cutting out! I need a break from fussy cutting now!! :) Using the Botanical Beauty stamp, I stamped onto a white mat in a Boho Blue Ink pad. I also cut and embossed a white mat for the centre 2 half panels and the front.. The blue, I cut in half lengthwise and added to the inside of the card on the outer 2 edges and filled in with a piece of the embossed paper in the centres. I took 2 more pieces of Boho Blue card and cut them to 21 cm wide. 1 piece is 6.5 cm high and the other 10 cm high. The latter of which was cut to 10 cm wide. I added an extra 1 cm to each side for the ahesive to go on before cutting. 

Then it was a case of adding the leaves and flowers all over the stands. By making a fold in the centre of each of the stands It will make it stand and fold into the centre easily. Now bear in mind this will not go as standard mail. It will have to large size letter of even hand delivered. Which I always prefer anyway. That was it basically. A simple sentiment on the front and the back completes my cards for this week. 

 

 

A very plain and simple front opening onto a very busy inside. 

 

I hope that you have found some ideas to hopefully inspire you to make your own cards this week. Cary will return on Monday with some more of her designs to share with you.

Until the following week when I return again, please take care, stay safe and 

KEEP ON CRAFTING 

xxx 😍😍  Gill  😍😍 xx

This or That Thursday - Botanical Beauty and Botanical Layers

 Hello on this lovely Thursday. For my cards today using the Botanical Beauty stamp set, I coordinated it along with the Botanical Layers. My first card is obviously THIS...I started with one of Cary's favourite card folds, a tent fold card. I chopped a lump from the front of it and then another piece too! I cut and added some DSP from the Softly Stippled papers. Love them!

 Stamping the image onto white card, I used Calypso Coral. This gorgeous colour is so warm and inviting and made for this card! I cut a small piece of white from the piece that I had stamped out and adhered it to another piece of Calypso Coral leaving a small border. A stamped and fussy cut flower stalk onto the front and one onto the DSP for the inside.and that finished this card.

THIS

THAT

This time for my That card, I have used the beautiful Berry Burst. Now many of you will have remembered that this was a colour from many years ago. In fact it was an In Colour.  Now I knew that I loved the colour of this when it first came out...I still do. I am so glad it has been brought back as it's great!! This time, a standard card shape in C6 or A6 whichever you like to call it. This time after stamping the image onto a C6 piece of white card, I cut it into 2 pieces diagonally. I matched it up with another piece of white and added them to the front and the inside. A lovely sentiment from another of my favourites, Go To Greetings, a few of the stamped and fussy cut leaves and flowers, then my card is complete. 

It's now down to you to decide which is your favourite card. Please let us know?

Watercolour Wednesday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today, using the gorgeous stamp set Botanical Beauty, I really went to watercolour heaven! I stamped the image in Lemon Lolly, one of the last years new colours. It is soft and subtle but can be bright too. I lightly stamped it onto White card and then I started with many of the green inks from Stampin' Up! I used  Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green, Pretty Peacock and a touch of Old Olive. I stamped an acrylic block onto the ink pad and using my fine water brush, started to colour in the leaves and ferns in different ways. I repeated this with all of the colours until I was happy with the depth of each colour. I went on to cut the white stamped mat down to 9.4 cm I left the width at 10.5 cm. 

I then chopped it up randomly from top to bottom at different angles. I added the pieces onto a mat of the Lemon Lolly card. Once the last piece was ready to go I was able to trim the width down to fit my card base. I adhered the mat to a black mat a few mm larger than the yellow which I think has made the colours stand out so well. I mounted it using Dimensionals on the back and added a piece of yellow ribbon from the Sheer Ribbon Combo pack. 3 gorgeous colours in the pack, Lemon Lolly, pink of Bubble Bath  and the bright blue of Azure Afternoon. A sentiment inside and a few extra leaves etc. and I was finished.

Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday - Botanical Beauty and Botanical Layers

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today's card is one that I had in my mind last week when it wasn't my turn for the blog but here it is. Another very easy card if you don't mind some fussy cutting! As many of you know...I LOVE it! I started by stamping the Botanical Beauty onto a white mat in lovely shed of green called Shaded Spruce. Then using my trimmer I gutted the centre out of the card and kept it to the side. I left 2cm all around the outer edge and then mounted the paper onto a piece of the gorgeous blueish green of Lost Lagoon which I had first embossed using the lovely Fern embossing folder. 

I stamped the Botanical Layers onto another piece of white card and fussy cut them out. Sadly there are no dies! They were added onto the Lost Lagoon mat over the stamped border. I then adhered all of them to the Shaded Spruce card base. 

Make It Simple Monday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by to see my cards this week. I will be using Botanical Beauty stamp set this week in particular but I will be coordinating it with Botanical Layers and Berry Harvest...possibly! The Botanical Beauty and Berry Harvest are what are called Background stamps and they do make excellent backgrounds too. However, with a little addition they can adopt a different look too which is what I aim to show you this week. 🤞🤞🤞

Today's card is a simplestamping card of course. One ideally suited for the new to stamping, or beginner crafter. It's perfect as all it needs once stamped is a sentiment. Yes, I did add a few extra layers flat onot the previous card layer and then some of the little cut outs from another stamped image. They were stuck to the back of the sentiment. which came from the Botanical Layers stamp set.

Fun fold Friday Everyday Details

 Yay it's Friday 😃 and here that means fun folds are the order of the day! The fold that I have chosen  for today's card is one of the first fun folds I ever attempted when I first started making cards! Called a stand alone pop up card it is really rather easy. Made using the Everyday Details and a soft colour palette it turned out beautifully. 

The card starts with a piece of cardstock measuring 10.5cm x 29.7cm that is scored at 2.5cm, 7cm and 9.5cm from each end. Then score the center at 14.85cm. You will also need a piece of cardstock measuring 14.85cm x 8.5cm in the same colour and 2 pieces of white cardstock measuring 14.4cm x 10cm. 

Start by decorating the white panels, first marking lightly up 2.5cm . This ensures that your decorations are not hidden inside the fold. Make sure that you don't add dimension to the decorative panels as they will be folded up inside the card when closed. Once completed adhere the decorated panels to the colour panel. 

Next take the card base and fold all the scorelines as mountain folds. Measure in along the 14.85cm scoreline 1cm from both ends. Now cut a slit along the scoreline between the 2 marks. This is where your decorated panel is going to slip through. Check that it slips through easily.

Now place the card base down flat horizontally and fold the first panel over and apply adhesive on to the uppermost area. Next slide the panel through the slot and carefully line it up onto the adhesive. Then fold the left hand first panel and apply adhesive in the same way then close over top of the other small panel sandwiching the decorated panel between them.

Now the card is closed for postage.

When you pull the center panel and push the other parts down the card will stand alone. 

I used the nest for the front of the card and decorated the panels with a soft check pattern paper. 

 

For the reverse I used the vase stamp from the Everyday Details stamps but positioned it so that the vase was below the card base when open.

Well that's all from me for this week. I hope you've enjoyed the sample and have been inspired to create for your self.

Next week Gill will be sharing her creations with us so please pop by and have a peek.

Have fun

Cary xx

This or That Thursday Everyday Details

 Gill and I host several regular monthly card evenings both in person and via zoom. We take it in turns to design the projects that attendees make. The last class we held was last Friday evening and Gill , as always, designed some gorgeous cards. The theme for her selection was embossing folders. Her designs inspired me to create today's samples using the Everyday Details stamps.

It all starts with an embossing folder. The one I've used for today's samples is from a trio of folders called basics 3d embossing folders. This trio has 3 oh so useful textures to add that little something extra to any card.

Gill loves spots and dots so I chose to use this one of the folders for today's cards.

Both samples start of with a basic white mat embossed with the dots. Then take 1 of the mats and cut it into random strips.  There is no measuring for this but do take care to keep them in the order that you cut them. Next adhere them onto a panel of card the same colour as the card base. Now trim the panel to fit on to the card base .

Here is This  version...

The card is finished with the flowers in vase image and the sentiment is die cut out using the coordinating Everyday Details dies. 

For the That version cut the second mat using a trimmer into neat strips starting at 1.5cm, then 2cm, then 2.5cm and so on. Once again place the strips onto a panel of cardstock the same colour as the card base and trim to fit .

Again I've used an image and sentiment from the Everyday Details stamps and dies to decorate this version. 

Which do you prefer 🤔 random This ? Or organised That?