Rainbow & Clouds Happy Hello Card

After making a rainbow card a few days ago I had some Basic White CS rainbow arc shapes left over.  I got out several ink pads and some blending brushes and got busy to make a second rainbow card. I love the contrast of the black and white against the pop of bright colours! Here's the card and envelope together.

Here's the card.  I applied Pumpkin Pie and Real Red inks to the first arc, Daffodil Delight and Mango Melody inks to the second arc, Bermuda Bay and Granny Apple Green inks to the third arc and Highland Heather and Misty Moonlight inks to the fourth arc.  I die cut the rainbow from a piece of Mother of Pearl Specialty Paper and then inlaid the inked rainbow arcs - nestling them in from the back and taping them in place. I glued the Mother of Pearl panel onto the Basic Black card base, stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, cut it out with a label die and  popped the label up.  The Mother of Pearl paper is so very pretty!  I punched and die cut several clouds, inked the edges with Pool Party ink and popped the clouds up.  To complete the card front I added some Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels.

Some cheery rainbow striped paper decorates the inside of the card and the envelope.

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Sunny Sentiments' set

CS: SU! Basic Black & Basic White

Patterned paper: SU! 'Sunshine & Rainbows' 6" x 6" DSP, 'Mother of Pearl' Specialty Paper

Ink: SU! Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, Mango Melody, Misty Moonlight, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie & Real Red, VersaMark

Tools: SU! 'Brilliant Rainbow' & 'Hippo & Friends' die sets, SU! 'Cloud' punch, Poppy Stamps 'Fancy Clouds' die set, Memory Box 'Puffy Clouds' die set, blending brushes

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! white embossing powder, Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Dimensionals

Ruth

Sun, Clouds & Rainbow Card

The SU! 'Brilliant Rainbow' die set from the Jan - June 2022 Mini Catalogue strongly appealed to me and I just had to get it.  I want to send a close friend some happy mail while she goes through some health issues and the dies are perfect for creating bright and happy cards - plus they go really well with other items I have in my stash!

Here is the card and envelope together.

Here's the card.  The card base is made from Granny Apple Green CS and I used Pool Party and Basic White CS for the clouds.  I also used some blue 'Supple Shimmer' specialty DSP for a punched cloud - it's a gorgeous sparkly Pool Party colour.  I die cut the rainbow from the Basic White panel, adhered the rainbow striped DSP behind the white panel and glued the whole thing to the card base.  I stamped the sun from the 'Sharing Sunshine' set in Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie inks and popped it up along with the clouds.  I stamped the 'a little sunshine for your day' sentiment from the 'After the Storm' stamp set in Misty Moonlight ink, cut the piece to size and popped the sentiment up.  To finish off the card front I sprinkled on a few Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels which are beautiful!

Here's the inside of the card.  I stamped the sentiment, cut it out with the Cloud punch, inked the edges with Pool Party ink and glued it to the white panel.  I added a Pool Party cloud border, a small rainbow, a sun and a small cloud at the bottom of the white panel.

Here's the envelope with a sun and a couple of clouds.

This 'Brilliant Rainbow' die set is such a lot of fun to work with and the 'Sunshine & Rainbows' 6" x 6" Sale-A-Bration DSP goes so well with it!  I had the Basic White CS positive rainbow shapes left over from cutting out the shape from the white layer panel. After finishing this card I got inky with those pieces straight away to make a second rainbow card which I'll share next time! 

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'After the Storm' & 'Sharing Sunshine' sets

CS: SU! Granny Apple Green, Pool Party & Basic White 

Patterned paper: SU! 'Sunshine & Rainbows' 6" x 6" DSP, 'Supple Shimmer' Specialty Paper

Ink: SU! Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Misty Moonlight, Pool Party & Pumpkin Pie 

Tools: SU! 'Basic Borders' & 'Brilliant Rainbow' die setts, 'Cloud' punch, Poppy Stamps ''Fancy Clouds' die set 

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! Iridescent Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Dimensionals

Ruth

Flowers Of Friendship Bay Window Card

This is the second fancy fold card I made for Lesley and Wendy to make during our crafty day.  I've seen these bay window cards popping up all over and was keen to have a go myself.  I watched this fab video from Lisa Curcio to get the instructions and I then tweaked the measurements slightly to better suit UK A4 sized CS.  This blog post of Lisa's shows several designs of bay window cards - you'll see I CASEd Lisa's Flowers of Friendship card!

Here's the card and envelope together.  I used two patterned papers from the 'Pattern Party' DSP pack, the beautiful yellow floral damask and the pretty rainbow stripes.  Such a nice touch to add patterned paper to the envelope flap!

Here's the card folded flat ready to go in an envelope.  I love a dimensional fancy fold card that folds flat!  I used Stampin' Blends alcohol markers to colour in the flowers and leaves.  I used the matching 'Flowers & Leaves' punch to cut out the small flowers and leaves but I fussy cut the large floral image.  I popped all the images up and added rhinestone jewels to the flower centres and added two of the Brushed Brass Butterflies embellishments to the centre panel.   

Here's a side view.

Here's a front view.

Here's another side view.  The black square is popped up on Dimensionals and the lip of the card flap tucks underneath that so the card can be displayed with the bay window shape.  It's similar to an easel card mechanism where you have a 'stop'.  I placed more rhinestone jewels on the sentiment circle to add extra sparkle.   

Here's the inside of the card.  I used Flirty Flamingo CS for the sentiment rectangle.

Here's a view from the top.

We had a lovely day together and have already scheduled dates in for February, March and April!  It's so easy to arrange get togethers now I'm not working in retail and I don't have to work weekends!

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Flowers of Friendship' & 'Peaceful Moments' sets

CS: SU! Basic Black, Flirty Flamingo & Basic White

Patterned paper: SU! 'Pattern Party' DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends Light & Dark alcohol markers

Tools: SU! 'Stitched Shapes' & 'Stitched Rectangles' die sets, circle punch, paper trimmer with scoring blade

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! Brushed Brass Butterflies, Basic Rhinestone Jewels, Dimensionals

Ruth

Hello Friend Pinwheel Tower Card

Last weekend Lesley and Wendy came over for a crafty day and I made two fancy fold cards for them to make.  The first was a Pinwheel Tower card featuring Sale-A-Bration goodies you can get for free with a qualifying SU! purchase - the 'Friendly Hello' stamp set and 12" x 12" DSP.  Here's the card and envelope together.

Here's a view from the top so you can see the pinwheel tower construction.  I have Pinwheel Tower Card instructions on my Tutorials page.

Here's the first pinwheel panel.  I used Petal Pink, Pool Party and Granny Apple Green Stampin' Blends alcohol markers to colour in the stamped images.  I fussy cut the flowers and leaves and popped them up.  I also fussy cut and popped up the Hello friend sentiment.  I used a Stampin' Blends marker to colour the dot above the i black.  It doesn't show up in the photo but the flowers are really shimmery because I added clear Wink of Stella to the petals.

Here's the second panel.

Here's the third panel.

Here's the last panel for the sentiment.  I coloured the small flowers with a Pool Party Stampin' Blends marker.

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Friendly Hello' set

CS: SU! Basic Black & Basic White

Patterned paper: SU! 'Friendly Hello' DSP

Ink: SU! Granny Apple Green, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends alcohol markers

Tools: SU! 'Stitched Rectangles' die set, paper trimmer with scoring blade

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! clear Wink of Stella pDimensionals

Ruth

Leafy Simple Fancy Fold Friendship Card

Julie Davison made a simple fancy fold card using patterned paper on one of her wonderful videos and I loved it and had to make my own version.  Here's the card and envelope together.

Here's the card which is made from a long strip of double sided patterned paper with a contrasting pattern piece folded back.  I cut the patterned paper to 4 1/8" x 12", scored at 5 1/2" and 11",  folded the 1" flap back and glued it flat.  I used fancy labels from the 'Hippo & Friends' dies and used stamped and die cut leaves with some gold foil elements.  I tucked some Garden Green ribbon behind the labels, popped up the labels and added some Garden Green glitter dots. 

Here's  a closer look at the leafy labels element.

Here's the inside of the card and the envelope.  It's lovely to see the reverse pattern of the paper on the inside.  I needed to give two cards to friends so I made two cards to this design.

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Forever Fern' & 'Sunny Sentiments' sets

CS: SU! Garden Green & Basic White

Patterned paper: SU! 'Forever Greenery' DSP, 'Forever Gold' laser-cut specialty paper & 'Expressions in Ink' Ephemera Pack

Ink: SU! Garden Green

Tools: SU! 'Hippo & Friends' & 'Forever Flourishing' die sets

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! Garden Green ribbon, Toile Tidings Glitter Enamel Dots, Dimensionals

Ruth

Snowflakes Thanks Snow Much Fancy Fold Card

After taking a long break I'm back to blogging again.  I'll share a few cards over the next couple of days and then posts will become more regular in February hopefully.

I love snowflakes and it's great to be able to use them after Christmas. Here is the fancy fold thanks card together with the envelope.

I used Pacific Point and Basic White CS with some 'Snowflake Splendor' DSP and some vellum.  When you emboss vellum with an embossing folder the design goes white which is a fab effect.  I added sparkly elements using the 'Be Dazzling' specialty DSP.

Here's the card slightly open.

Here's the card fully open.

Here's the front of the envelope.

Here's the back of the envelope.

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Snowflake Wishes' set

CS: SU! Pacific Point, Basic White & Vellum

Patterned paper: SU! 'Snowflake Splendor' DSP, 'Be Dazzling' 6" x 6" Specialty DSP

Ink: SU! Pacific Point 

Tools: SU! 'Snowfall; 'So Many Snowflakes' & 'Hippo & Friends' die sets, circle punches, SU! 'Winter Snow' embossing folder

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! Dimensionals

Ruth

Painted Christmas Wallet Of Six Cards

Lesley and Wendy visited me on Saturday for a crafty get together and as usual we had a wonderful time!.  Last time they saw this card wallet I'd made and they suggested that as our next project.  I've used the absolutely beautiful SU! 'Painted Season' suite of products to make a wallet that holds six cards.  I added in a couple of Christmas sentiment sets, the 'Wintry' set of 3D embossing folders and some embellishments.

Here's the wallet filled and tied up ready to give as a gift.  I used Real Red CS for the wallet and matted the patterned paper panel onto Pear Pizzazz CS.  The large label is Evening Evergreen which is embossed with the spruce folder from the 'Wintry' embossing folder set.

Here are the six Christmas cards I made to go inside the wallet.  I really enjoyed making three each of two designs.

Here are the two card designs with their matching envelopes.

Here is the holly jolly Christmas card.  The card base is Pear Pizzazz and the large label is Evening Evergreen which is embossed with the spruce folder from the SU! 'Wintry' set of embossing folders. I used Pear Pizzazz and Evening Evergreen inks to stamp the holly leaves and the berries are stamped in Real Red ink. The white label is popped up on Dimensionals.  The red ribbon is a lovely festive embellishment.

 

Here's the inside of the holly jolly card.

Here's the Be of Good Cheer card.  The card base is Crumb Cake and the large label is Real Red which I embossed with the snowflakes folder from the 'Wintry' embossing folder set.  I used  Crumb Cake and Soft Suede inks to stamp the pine cones, Pear Pizzazz ink for the foliage at the top and Pear Pizzazz and Evening Evergreen for the leaves at the bottom.  The white label is popped up on Dimensionals - and I placed it lengthways on this card whereas it's widthways on the holly jolly card design.  The festive embellishment for this card is three red rhinestone jewels.

Here's the inside of the Be of  Good Cheer card.

Here are the six envelopes.

Here's the wallet ready to be filled with the cards.  To make the wallet I trimmed a Real Red A4 piece of CS to 11", scored the long side at 5" and 6" and scored  the short side at 6 3/4" and 7 1/4".  I cut slits to make the fold up tabs and as they only measured 1" and I wanted them to be deeper I cut two 4 1/2" x 2" pieces of CS, rounded the top corners and glued them to the smaller tabs.

Here's the cards inside the wallet.  This size is perfect for six A6 cards and envelopes where one layer of Dimensionals has been used on each card.  If you didn't make dimensional cards you could fit eight cards and envelopes inside - maybe up to ten even.  I like my Dimensionals too much though!

Here's a view from the side.

Here's a closer look at the label on the front of the wallet.  I stamped a foliage background on the white label using stamped off once Pear Pizzazz ink and stamped the sentiment in Evening Evergreen ink.  I popped up the Evening Evergreen label, the white label and the holly berries.  I added gold holly leaf embellishments and red rhinestone jewels as a final finishing touch.

This was such a lovely project to work on, I really enjoyed spending some time in my craft room creating and prepping while on a week off from work!  I'm going to have a hard time giving this wallet of cards away!

Following my week off I've started a new job, a part time Customer Service role working in an office on the phones.  For the past six years at Wilko I've worked weekends and not always had a set schedule.  I'm excited that I won't be working weekends now and I have a set pattern of work days and shift times - how lovely!  Arranging crafty days with Lesley and Wendy will be SO much easier and I'll have more crafty me time as well, what a result!

Supplies:

Stamps: SU! 'Christmas Season', 'Christmas to Remember' & 'Holly Jolly Wishes' sets

CS: SU! Crumb Cake, Evening Evergreen, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red & Basic White

Patterned paper: SU! 'Painted Christmas' DSP

Ink: SU! Crumb Cake, Evening Evergreen, Pear Pizzazz, Real Red & Soft Suede 

Tools: SU! 'Seasonal Labels' & 'Tailor Made Tags' die sets, 'Wintry' set of 3D embossing folders, Crop-A-Dile, corner rounder punch

Embellishments & Accessories: SU! Real Red Double Stitched Satin ribbon, Red Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Gold Holly Leaves, Dimensionals

Ruth