Tuesday Trio - New Horizons In The Moment #3

Third and last in my In the Moment, New Horizons & Welcoming Windows series... plus the round up shot...

Note that Welcoming Windows is retiring soon.... but is still available when I just checked... Oh and note that buying the 2 parts separately is cheaper than buying the bundle... Stamps here... Dies here...

Thanks to Tamara Bertram for her inspiration for this card... I love Tamara's more monochromatic card... but had to try out a night scene with shiny stars... 

Saturday Serene Scene...

The last of my In The Moment Grassy Grove & New Horizons cards... for now...

A simple little serene scene... of which a couple of details may be hard to spot... 

As she is dipping her toes into the water... almost literally...

And look... no coffee cup for a change..

Simple Diorama Card fold instructions  here…

Thursday Trio - In The Moment scene...

Here are some more of my cards using the triple combination of the Grassy Grove die-cut, New Horizons papers and In The Moment stamps... 

This first one also combines Paper Piecing for the shirt... with Baby Wipe Swoosh (or Swipe) for the background

Whereas the other 2 have the images coloured using Stampin Blends alcohol markers... and have a sheet of the New Horizons as the background...

All on a Simple Diorama card that can be used for all occasions... Click HERE for the card tutorial...

All just so.... peaceful...

And do be sure to have a close look at the images... as my trusty Paper Snips scissors have been busy cutting away parts of the images I didn't want on these occasions...

Be In The Moment... #1

A few of these to share with you!  But just keeping it simple for today... as it is Sunday after all... 

So here is a simple standard sized Tent Fold Card (opening at the side)...

Combining my favourite papers ever... New Horizons.... with my favourite die cut ever, Grassy Grove... with In The Moment...

Which I didn't realise when I bought them... but I absolutely love used this way with the Grassy Grove tree canopy ... 

So much so that I now have a few more stamp sets to buy... namely A Good Man and Beautiful Moments... though I think I may have to be quick about buying before the Retiring List comes out ... 

Merry Monday - Tidings of Christmas Round Up

A quick round up of the 4 cards shared over the past week in my series of Focus on Using 6x6 Papers... featuring Tidings of Christmas along with the Merriest Moments stamps for some Christmas makes...

Have to admit that this mini series has proven a very popular class....

So wait there's more! Be sure to return tomorrow for more on a "paper focus series"... 

Thursday Tidings of Christmas #2 - Multi Layer Card - with some tips...

Another in my series of Focus on Using 6x6 Papers... featuring Tidings of Christmas along with the Merriest Moments stamps for some Christmas makes...

This card is a great way to use the scraps left from another card....

But before I start... remember that today  is the last day you can order with the Sale A Bration promotion offers available to you.... In brief... a free gift for every £45 ordered... a free stamp set (In  Your Words) for orders over £275... AND wow! A free extra bundle when joining (see pg 19) our Stampin Up! family ...

Bit of a back story with this card... as it is a re-worked or CASEd version of a card I made 8 years ago for a Male Card series using Dapper Dad and Parkers Patterns... and that has been sitting on my "re-make me as I'm great" pile ever since... So now I have... though I changed the sizes of the top mat and papers to suit my leftovers from a card I will share soon!

And I couldn't resist decorating the inside with another of my paper scraps...

And a few tips for you....

(1) Reduce the amount of ribbon/thread you use when you are just going to cover it up... hopefully the picture says 1000 words....

(2) Feel free to "gut" the centre of your paper square... again hopefully the picture says 1000 words... I went round lining up and cutting at 3cm on all 4 sides... so I now have a smaller square of paper to use on another card...

(3) The poinsettia is a small flower layered (using a 3d foam Stampin Dimensionals pad) over a larger flower!

(4) The poinsettia leaves are from the large poinsettia flower inked up in the green! (Evening Evergreen in this instance) Perfect finish!

14.8cm Square Card Blank Cheery Cobbler

Paper 14.3cm Square mat (Gut centre out at 3cm all round  - or not!)

Striped Paper 14.8 x 3.8cm. 

Cherry Cobbler mat 10.3cm Square with White 5.3cm Square panel plus 4 paper panels 7.5 x 2cm.

Tuesday Biggest Thanks...

Taking something I made earlier...

And making something even simpler! 

And cleaner... 

And loving it!

Using Biggest Wish and In Blooms bundle... more details here

And don't fo rget... tomorrow is the last day for the Jan to June catalogue Sale & Last Chancers...

Wednesday Watercolor Shapes... #2

Another trio of cards for you today... featuring my must have sets... Watercolor Shapes for the base... with Biggest Wish for the greetings...

Starting off with the simple Watercolor Shapes rectangular shape... in Balmy Blue... with THANKS stamped over in Mint Macaron and Soft Succulent... 

And Evening Evergreen marker partially inked and stamped "So Much" from the In Bloom bundle... part of the the "You mean so much to me " greeting... see top left...

Then adding plain Pierced Blooms dies stitched die cut flowers in Coastal Cabana and Pool Party ...

Or finally... Pierced Blooms dies stitched die cut flowers from stamped Watercolor Shapes shapes in Highland Heather and Polished Pink (first and second stampings - ie ink up and stamp one of the shapes... and then stamp again without re-inking)  

For all you pink and purple fans... 

Simply lovely... 

Though I could have used the In Bloom stamps and had more solid inked colour flowers... 

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Wednesday Watercolor Shapes #1

Starting off a new series with the fabulous "must-have" Watercolor Shapes stamp set... 

Now I know that some of my ladies will LOVE these stamps... especially as it will stop them having to use the Stamped Acrylic Block technique in the future (which proved to be a very "marmite" technique  - 3/10 crafters hating it!!)

Have to admit that this could be a long series as my mind is awash with ideas... but starting off simply today...

So just a simple little scene... using the large rectangle stamp in the Watercolor Shapes set...

Balmy Blue sky... over-inked at the bottom with Soft Succulent for the grass... and stamped on a Whisper White panel...

Then I grabbed the Mountain Air trees and birds... 

Inking up the trees with Evening Evergreen and Early Espresso trunks and Early Espresso birds...

And finished it all off with a Biggest Wish greeting inked up using Evening Evergreen... another "must have" stamp set for me... 

Some mounted on a Balmy Blue card blank... and some on Evening Evergreen... just in case you were wondering...

Shiny Slimline card for Sunday aka Evergreen Forest #3

Or should I say Wrapped in Christmas with Evergreen Forest  #3... though I don't think these photos do this card justice....

Now the main feature of this card was actually a bit of a mistake! I wanted to highlight the front trees... and decide that my trusty Wink of Stella glitter pen was the tool for the job...

But it hadn't been used for a long while... and so it was running a bit dry... so I gave it a good squeeze... and out loads popped straight onto my embossed panel!! So I swooshed it all around (just using the Winkie brush tip) and out those 3 front trees popped! Amazing!

And finished off with a few of the new Adhesive Backed Snowflakes ...

All set on a Slimline Card... which are "all the rage" at the moment....

This used to be called an A6L card (or A6 long in full) back in the day... Two from a piece of A4 card ... just in the other orientation!  Cut your A4 card in half (ie Landscape at 14.8cm) and then score in half (ie Portrait at 7.4cm)

And before I go... I do have to note the amount of experimentation I seem to be doing nowadays...

(Very sadly) Gone are the days of creating projects for and running face to face classes... so I can afford the time to just play... try things out... and for things to go wrong... as indeed they do!

And as I always say... we actually learn a lot more from our mistakes than we do from getting everything "right" all the time... which is my excuse for sharing all my mistakes with you....

Or as my (or rather Joseph Chilton Pearce's) favourite craft saying says...

Just SO true!

And here are the full Evergreen Forest  with Wrapped in Christmas trio... though rest assured I haven't put the embossing folder away yet... 

Scroll back 2 days/posts for the other two...

Simple on Saturday - Evergreen Forest #2

Think I should call this the Double Inked Embossing technique (oh dear that's DIE for short!)

Another simple card with amazing textural relief... albeit such a flat card...

This time I inked up the raised trees on the back face of the Evergreen Forest embossing folder with the Gray Granite ink pad....

Then I cleaned off any ink off the top flat part of the back face - with just a tissue...

And then I inked up the top flat part using Mist Moonlight ink and a Sponge right at the top and then a Finger Dauber around and in the tree line...

Then I embossed my piece of card...

You can then neaten off as desired using the sponge and or dauber... I just had a part between a couple of the trees that was still white... so I quickly applied a bit of ink using the side of the dauber...

And a hand cut snow bank to finish... again stamped with another lovely greeting from Wrapped in Christmas

But part of the experiment went wrong with the snow bank... though you may not be able to see in the photos...

I daubed the top of the snow bank with Gray Granite... as that added some extra definition... So all good so far...

And then I applied some Shimmery Crystal Effects... which then dried... well a sad glossy grey! So a bit of extra definition but not so nice to my eye! Think I should have used a pale blue instead to make it warmer... Any of Seaside Spray, Balmy Blue or Pool Party would have worked...

Daisy Lane #3 - Punched Flower alternatives for 3D Thursday

So I realised that I could use the Daisy punches in a few different ways... and so get a few alternative flowers...

These are both using the medium size... but note that you can use both the Medium Daisy or (Large) Daisy Punch in the same way...

Which I added as a decorative panel to a couple of boxes we can easily purchase and just make up!!  As I am all for a simple life at the moment...

The larger Bakers Box actually fits in our 10.5cm Square Card blanks ( though not any co-ordinating envelope!) so it would make a nice gifting method for a pack of greeting cards... Click here for details for super CAS card shown

First Up... the Mini Pizza Box one... Really easy to do... 

Punch a daisy aperture in a white panel... Then go back with the punch an slightly offset to one side... 

 Punch again... and voila...

And second up the Bakers Box one... again simple to do...

Punch a daisy aperture in the white card panel... Punch a separate Gray Granite daisy...  And a 3D'd punched Daisy Lane daisy centre (as described here). Adhere white mat to Gray Granite mat... 

And Gray Granite daisy over the Gray Granite aperture...

Finish off with 3Dd Daisy Centre...

Adhere to Bakers Box Lid... 

And then I worked out a few more... but more on that another day!

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