Simplefor Sunday - New Horizons In The Moment

New Horizons meets In The Moment meets Welcoming Windows (retiring)... 

Love this simple restful little scene... 

And what a fabulous way to use your scrap strips from other cards...

Note that I have actually used it "upside down"... on purpose...

Sorry for being so brief... but technology is not on my side... I think my PC is now groaning at me from overwork over the years!!

Friday Five Panel Card - Sailing Home & New Horizons...

A simple Five Panel card today ... also known as a Bridge Fold without the Bridge... a card design which first came about totally by accident one day!! Click HERE for a quick tutorial...

A perfect little scenic match... New Horizons papers meets Sailing Home stamps... the latter sadly now being sold out and discontinued... though you can still get the Smooth Sailing dies with £6 discount...

Which leads me to a funny story! I have spent many a happy night fussy cutting these yachts on both card and acetate... as well as lighthouses and anchors... Yup... guess who forgot she had some dies to do the work instead!!! And cough... so sorry class ladies!! Oh well... the set is definitely a keeper for me... so I will remember in future!

And hopefully the next 2 photos will show how the papers were cut... 

This version being specifically sized to suit 6" wide papers... and bear in mind that I die cut and stuck the 2 sets of mountains across first... and then chopped the 5 panels using a guillotine...

Friday Fun Fold - For The Guys Diorama Card

Well we loved this card with the card blank and pieces from the For The Guys  card kit... 

Such depth to the scene...

But I must dash today...

So I will be back with more details for you another day...

Fun Fold Friday - For The Guys Bridge Fold Trio

Finished off some alternatives for the samples made as I "tweaked along"... so one became three....

But first apologies as I have still not "turned off the Feedburner blog notification feed"... I will as soon as I find out what to do! Or they may turn it off first at this rate!! 

But please ensure you subscribe to the follow.it feed if you still wish to see my blog posts.... Add button/form down the right hand side of this blog if there isn't an obvious button within the emails... Thank You...

Click HERE to see the original and for more information...

But basically the Thank You one has wider panels and front stuck on to create the scene... which would have meant some trimming in class... so I decided to change that...

The Happy Birthday one has narrower panels and front... so there is more gapping (vanilla space!)

So I decided on the in between for the final version... ie the Happy Anniversary one shared here

Simple for Saturday Share

Carrying on the For The Guys card kit alternatives series... co-starring Sailing Home...

A simple standard A6 card (US A2) ...

Using the scraps as templates...

Friday Five Panel Fun Fold Card

Another alternative card using scraps of the For The Guys card kit... Click HERE for a quick Tutorial...

Searched the internet for a name and other creations for this simple little fold... to no avail... much to my surprise... 

So I will simply call this what it is... a Five Panel card... 

Though I did have a few more names... but  I will keep one of those for a special series one day!!

And I have to admit that this came about due to a mistake making my Bridge Fold card... 

Especially as we all preferred this fold... so you will no doubt be seeing a few more from time to time... along with a tutorial as I actually tweaked the final measurements for class to make things neater... but I forgot to re-take new photos!

And I wonder if you can guess what the "initiating mistake" was!!? 

Note that I am sharing 2 versions for you today... for those that think that may be seeing things! One with and then one without the Sailing Home yacht...

Simple on Saturday - alternative For The Guys kit card

Just a slightly different alternative layout from the standard For The Guys kit supplied design...

I don't think it will be of any surprise to my long term followers that this is my favourite Kit - probably of all time!

And that I have thoroughly enjoyed designing alternatives... so many more to come...

Fun Fold Friday - alternative For The Guys Bridge Fold Card

Quick share of an alternative make using the For The Guys kit... 

But before I start today... if you have not already done so... please click and accept the follow.it service if you still wish to be automatically notified when I post on this blog... as I will be turning the "old" Google Email notification of a blog post off very shortly... 

A(nother) bridge fold card.... For The Guys card kit used along with my old faithful stamp set, Sailing Home... but back another day with more details... as I am afraid I really must dash!

Wednesday Wideo - Mountain Air

Getting to the end of the latest releases of product videos.... but one of my favourites featured today... the Mountain Air bundle...

Perfect for our little scenes... which is right up my "street"... as my long term blog followers will know... as I do love to create a scene or two! But I was resisting the set... though my resolve has now gone after a quick 5 minutes searching on Google... one for my next order! You have been warned...

Click on the image below for the product video...

And for those of you that prefer the "one-shot-shows-all" approach... let me show you...

The Mountain Air stamps...

Majestic Mountain dies...

And with the 10% off... the Mountain Air Bundle...

Classic Garage Convertible!

Snip a bit off the top of the car cut from the Classic Garage papers and here you go... a convertible (aka cabriolet... soft top... open top!)  to make many a man happy! And quite a few ladies too ...

Hardtop version shown below! With more details here...

Or stamp & snip... this one looks more like my silver Mercedes CLK a few years back! Always miss that car on a lovely sunny day!

Oh and the eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted that I have changed my road production method!! 

I still sponged to start off with... but then I also used Gray Granite and the "thin straight" in the Waterfront stamp set... to create more definition... inking up...stamping... stamping again, inking up and so on...

Motorbiking!

Another quick idea for you! For the motorbike enthusiast in your life...

And remember Trimmer Blades (126995) go back on sale for us in Europe at 6pm tonight! Don't be late! Online Store link here...

Waterfront meets Enjoy Life... meets Classic Garage papers...meets En Route stamps... which is going to be a keeper for me... love it!

And yes we have been having such fun with this simple DL sized card!

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