Friday, 16 May 2025

You are Remarkable Happy Birthday Card - Monochromatic Insta Hop - Mossy Meadow 2025

 Good Afternoon Everyone,

Today I'm taking part in the Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Insta Hop and our colour this week is Mossy Meadow. I love this deep, dark tone of Green and it's a pretty versatile colour.

I've used the You are Remarkable Stamp set & Labeled with Love bundle to create a lovely birthday card - keep reading to see how I made the background. It's quick & easy and a great way to add texture to your card.






Measurements

Mossy Meadow Card Stock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

1pc - 2 3/8" x 4"

Basic White Card Stock

2pc - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2"

1pc - 2 1/2" x 3 7/8"

1pc - scrap

----------------------------

Take the Mossy Meadow card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add one of the Basic White pieces to the inside.

Bring in you Simply Scored ( or you could use your trimmer - I just found it easy and quicker in the score board).

Line up the remaining larger piece of Basic White into the top left corner, the score all the way across every 1/4". The Rotate the card stock 90degrees and score along this length at 1/4" again. This gives a very tight grid effect.

Flip the card over so the score lines are raised, then using your blending brush cover the whole piece with Mossy Meadow ink. I wanted to create lighter and darker sections, so in some places I added more ink than others. 

Once happy with the coverage, I added this panel to the card front.

Ink up the flower from You are Remarkable in Mossy Meadow ink and stamp into the centre of the 2 1/2" x 3 7/8" piece of Basic White, then colour the stem and leaves with the dark Mossy Meadow Stampin Blends.

Layer this to the Mossy Meadow Mat layer and add it the card front. I sat mine slightly off to the left, I put in two squares from the left and had 3 squares top and bottom - yes, I know - a very technical measurement haha).

On the scrap of Basic White stamp the outline image and sentiment in Mossy Meadow, then cut out using the coordinating punch or die (depending on which you have). Then take the dark Mossy Meadow Stampin Blend and colour around the edges up to the stamped border. This gives the illusion of a matting layer, without the bulk and it means the border is perfectly equal all the way round. To soften the white a little, I used my blending brush to add a little colour to the cut out.

Pop the sentiment up on dimensionals and add to the card front. 

I hope you have enjoyed my card today - I loved creating it! If you have a minute of too - why not head over to my Instagram page to check out the hop. You are sure to find a whole host of inspiration using Mossy Meadow


Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List

 





If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon 

Vickie 

Xxx


Thursday, 15 May 2025

The Project Share Project - 15th May 2025

 Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Thursday and welcome to The Project Share Project. Every Thursday we will all share an individual blog post sharing one project from each of the other creators - maybe an inspiring card, a very fancy fun fold or simply a project that made us smile.



Verity Pursglove

Verity has created this gorgeous CAS (Clean and Simple) card with lots of textured white space and a pop of colour - it looks fabulous. head on over to her blog for more details  -








-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Heather Forgan

Heather has created a fabulous card using the Notes and Totes bundle. Looking at this makes me really want to visit the seaside. Head over to her blog for more details on the card









------------------------------------------------------------------

Craft with Jayne

Finally we have Jayne, who created these fabulous gift bags showcasing the beautiful Florals in Bloom DSP - Head over to her blog for more details






I really do hope you have enjoyed this post today. I enjoyed taking a closer look at these ladies' project and picking a favourite to share with you! If you have a moment or two, please head on over to their blogs. Check out these projects and see what else they have created too.


If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon 

Vickie 

Xxx


Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Beautiful Gallery Thank You for Everything Card. Touches of Ink Blog Hop - May 2025

 Good Evening Everyone,

Today I'm blog hopping with the fabulous Touches of Ink ladies. We hop each month, and although we don't have a set theme we are encouraged to stay with a suite or bundle. 

You may have realised already, but the Beautiful Gallery Suite is a firm favourite of mine from our brand new annual catalogue. I decided to try my hand at a CAS (clean and Simple) card today. Sometimes it's great to have layers and layers and a lot of embellishments and processes involved - but other times, simple is the way forward and I love how my card turned out. 

What do you think?







Measurements

Blackberry Bliss Card Stock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 3/4", scored at 5 7/8"

1pc - scrap

Basic White Card Stock

2pc - 5 5/8" x 3 7/8"

1pc - scrap

--------------------------------------------

Take the Blackberry Bliss card stock and fold along the score line to create your card base. Add one of the Basic White pieces to the inside.

Ink up the corner flower cluster in memento black ink and stamp in two opposite corners.

Colour in using your Stampin Blends. I used the Light Blackberry Bliss for the flowers, Dark Daffodil Delight for the flower centres and Dark Old Olive for the leaves.

Once coloured, adhere this panel to the card front.

On a scrap of Basic White, stamp the 'scribble' in 2nd Generation ( stamped off once to give a lighter shade) in Daffodil Delight. Stamp the sentiment in memento ink directly over the 'scribble' image and then cut out using the 2" circle punch. Cut a 2 3/8" circle from Blackberry Bliss card stock. Layer these together with dimensionals and add to the centre of the card front, again with dimensionals.

I love the simplicity of this design, and its a great card to batch make, you could do all sorts of colour ways and even leave off the sentiment circle and just have these to hand - adding a sentiment as you need it! 

Please take a few minutes to continue through our hop. We have some incredibly talented ladies in the group and you are sure to get a tonne of inspiration. Janice Thomson is up next, be sure to start there and see what she has created first.

        ROLL CALL

  1. Simone Kleine - derdiedasKleine bastelt 

  2. Iris Philipps - iriStempelt

  3. Angela Köber - Stempelfamilie

  4. Karina Ruppert - Stempelpapillon

  5. Liane Gorny - Jungle Cards

  6. Tatjana Niederberger - gittisgiftcorner

  7. Vickie Littlewood - Vickie Lou Designs (UK)

  8. Janice Thomson - jazzledazzlecraft with Janice

  9. Heather Forgan - Stamp With Nellie



Here's a list of supplies I used in today's project, click on the images to head over to my online store Product List

 





If you are on Facebook, why not pop over and check out our community group Craft & Banter. If you have a passion for paper craft, are brilliant at baking or a super talented seamstress then we would love to see you there. We share all types of crafting, run challenges and giveaways & generally have a right good natter.

See you soon 

Vickie 

Xxx


You are Remarkable Happy Birthday Card - Monochromatic Insta Hop - Mossy Meadow 2025

  Good Afternoon Everyone, Today I'm taking part in the Crafty Collaborations Monochromatic Insta Hop and our colour this week is Mossy ...