WLS July#1 - Summertime

Good Morning everyone

Its the first sunday of the month so time for a new challenge over at We Love Stamping and the theme this month is very apt for June

SUMMERTIME

So anything that makes you think of summer.  For my first card this month Ive gone with some lovely juicy oranges and paired this studio light stamp with full on fruity paper from carta bella

White Card size 5.5x6.5"

I first stamped the orange branch onto white card and again onto an orange and lilac paper from the pad.  On the white version I coloured the leaves and branch with alcohol markers and then cut out the oranges and flowers from the paper and paper pieced onto the main image.  I die cut this into shape and matted onto a larger die cut from dark green pearlescent card, in between the white and green layer i added a little tab of the lilac paper die cut using the smallest die in the nesting set, cut it in half and adhered behind the white layer, just to add some interest, to this i added 3 orange glitter gems.

I matted the background paper onto the green pearl card and added to the card front - as the card is 6.5" wide and the paper is 6" it was slightly too narrow so i cut it down the middle and covered the gap with a strip of the orange paper which matches the oranges.

Just a close up of the oranges, i added a little white pen highlight to the oranges and flowers.  I know that orange blossom is usually white but the palest paper in the pad was this lilac one.  It is funny, as most of you know I hate colouring in especially when its really small and fiddly like this as i just can't stay in the lines yet i can cut out using scissors no problem and find that relaxing. 

Items Used:

Studio Light stamp set #427 'lemon squeezy' 

Clearly besotted 'seasonal sentiments' stamp set

Carta Bella Paper pad 'fruit stand'

Alcohol markers

Sizzix framelits die set 658204

CraftUk Ltd smooth white card

Green pearl card

Papermania Orange glitter dots

 

We have a lovely prize from Lavinia for the lucky winner so hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and be in with a chance of winning

Id love to enter the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2026/06/ellibelles-garden-party-no-16-anything.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/07/summer-season-july-2026.html

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https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2026/06/sos577-youre-so-sweet.html

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https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/07/crafty-catz-challenge-717-anything-goes.html

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https://creativefriday.blogspot.com/2026/07/creative-friday-415-neu.html - new - my paper pad is new and first time using

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https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2026/07/atg-love-those-pretty-papers-july-2026.html

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Creative Creases

Good Morning everyone

Im honoured today to be guest designer over at Creative Creases which is a fabulous challenge that celebrates fancy folds

Ive gone with a new to me fold, no idea what its called as I found one picture on pinterest but it wasn't linked to the original poster and no end of searching I couldn't find the original to credit them...If it was you thankyou😀 

 I tweaked it to easily fit on A4 card.  Its a lovely way to use up some of an old patterned paper pad which went perfectly with my little lemon girl aall&create stamp to make a fun summery card to brighten a grey wintry day🍋

This shows the front of the card and it opened out inside.  For want of a name Im calling it the triangle pop out for now!

Approx size closed is 3.5x5"  After making my card from white card I matted a lemon paper onto green paper and added to the front.  I used a strip of the same paper used inside and added across the front, a die cut white oval and then my lemon girl which id stamped and watercoloured with distress inks.  I added her on a wobbler for extra fun.  Stamped the easy peasy lemon squeezy from another stamp set onto white and cut out.  Glitter glue highlights and yellow enamel dots to finish the front.  

The inside, I used more papers from the same pad and matted onto green.  I add a white oval to the right side to write the greeting on and a stamped sentiment to the right which reads 'wishing you a day full of happiness' which i die cut into a circle and matted onto a larger inverted scalloped circle die cut from yellow to give the effect of the sun

Its def been the year of the wobbler for me, but they add such a fun element and ideal with a fun character too....plus its a pack of 50 so plenty to use! 

and showing the outside & back of the card, i used the same papers on the back as the front.  This is a good fold that stands up nicely for display purposes too - nicely balanced.  The hardest bit i found was cutting the mats and layers for the triangular folds which are far from perfect and is why i decided not to decorate the back folds as well🤣

 

Instructions for the fold

Cut a piece of A4 card to 12.5cm ( 5.5") wide.  So to limit measuring etc for those of us who use A4 in the UK which is an odd length I found it easier to first score the A4 in half using my score board A5 line, then from that centre score line mark 3cm either side and 6cm out either side.  Then score on the diagonal the 3cm marks out from the centre - fold these as mountain folds.  Score & fold the 6cm out from centre marks as valley folds.  The centre fold is also a valley.  Hope that makes sense. 

If not using A4 cut your card to 28cm long and mark at 8cm, 11,14,17 & 20cm and fold the lines as above.  

Items Used:

aall&create stamp #1021 'lemon'

LOTV circle sentiment stamp (very old)

Studio Light stamp set #427 'lemon squeezy' 

Studio Calico 6x6 Paper pad 'lemonlush'

Spellbinders oval, circle & inverted scallop circle dies

Distress inks - squeezed lemonade, twisted citron, lucky clover, hickory smoke

altenew enamel dots

CraftUk ltd smooth white card

Please do hop over to Creative Creases for more inspiration and join in with your fancy fold projects.  I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Emmax

Id love to also enter the following:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2024/11/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper.html

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https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/Challenge-179.html - lots of layers

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https://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-480.html

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https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/11/krafty-chicks-challenge-741-stamps.html

 

Fruity girls

Good Morning all

My 2nd card for Charlotte's 5th birthday is this fruity rocker card.  We are all fruit bats in my family and eat a wide variety daily so when i saw this fruit background and lemon girl from aall&create in a sale I thought they would be ideal. 

approx 6x6" I made my rocker card from dark green card - i know it looks black in the photos but it definately green!  I worked out what size circles i wanted for the little girl and then die cut circles from the green card & my coloured background(see below)  I adhered them together and added a small white circle to the middle to help my little lemon cutie stand out.   She was stamped and watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out.  I added her to the front with a wobbler so as the card rocks she also dances which i think Charlotte will love. 

I die cut number 5 from white, an inverted scallop from the green and a larger plain circle from white and adhered together.  I added glitter over the 5 and a little glitter on the lemon flower in her hair too. 

Showing it side on, the wobbler gives quite alot of dimension too 

My background,- the first mistamp (top right) is because i was too lazy to prime the stamp!  I multiple stamped the A7 stamp onto white A4 cardstock, rotating the stamp each time and then watercoloured with inktense pencils - i don't find colouring in particularly relaxing so this was a bit of a labour of love - keeping inside the lines😁  I did 2 A4 backgrounds like this so could make the batch of cards below. 

I decided to turn the little lemon girl into an orange girl and a lime slice girl just by changing the colours to make these 3 cards.  Again the photos aren't great as I used very dark green card for my base and mat layers rather than the black it looks like in the photos. 

Approx size A6 (6x4")  I die cut my base card from green card and a smaller mat layer from my fruity background.  I die cut a small white layer big enough for my little fruity gals and another mat from the dark green and adhered together.  I added the girls on with a wobbler for a bit of fun and dimension.   A small dab of stickles glitter glue on the flower to finish.  I made all 3 like this, just changed the colour of the fruit slice.

Showing how they stand up side on and the dimension the wobbler gives

and lastly I just had to use all the off cuts from the 2 background sheets

6x7" card  I die cut the off cuts from the background using a small nesting die from a DL die set with a stitched edge, i layered these onto dark green cardstock leaving equal gaps and then mounted onto a white base card.

I took an oval die big enough for 3 girls and cut a white oval which i then used an embossing folder on, matted onto a larger green oval and then the cardfront.  I then added the 3 girls, the outside 2 with glue gel and the middle one with another wobbler.

Just a close up of the fruity trio.  As you can tell i had great fun with this little stamp set, something a bit different for me which as been refreshing - good to get away from the animals and flowers now and then.

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #1033 smoothitastic & #1021 lemon

Spellbinders circle dies XL & standard

Spellbinders oval die

Tag shaped die

Creative expression embossing folder (very old)

Derwent inktense pencils

Craft UK ltd white card

Dark green card

Wobblers

Ranger stickles 'crystal & frosted lace'

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emmax

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2024/09/make-it-colourful.html

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https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2024/09/september-monochromatic.html

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https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/311-rainbowslots-of-colours.html

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https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/09/challenge-102-circles.html - for my rocker card i used XL circles for the rocking base and small ones for all the mats and layers

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/Challenge-174.html

 

Oranges & Lemons

Good  Morning everyone

I treated myself to this lovely oranges & Lemon stamp set from Studio light as i don't have anything like them in my stash and saw it in a sale.  Nice to go with a fruity theme in the summer

A6 white cardblank.  I stamped the orange image onto white card and die cut with Xstitch banner die which id decided to use on its side.  I watercoloured with inktense pencils, adding a light wash of the blue just around the image and stamped the 'sunshine is the best medicine' sentiment in the bottom corner.  

I stamped the image a 2nd time, coloured and cut out the oranges and flowers to decoupage onto the base image

I coloured up 2 smaller banner die cuts with the same colour inktense pencils i used for the image, so one with the oranges and one with the greens.  As these are nesting banner dies they weren't long enough for what i wanted so i cut them in half and added behind my topper in descending size and added to the card front with foam tape.

Just a close up

version 2

approx 5x7" in size.   I stamped & coloured the image and die cut into shape, I stamped the its summertime sentiment in black in the bottom right corner.   I then multi-generation stamped 'its summertime' & 'fun in the sun' over the background with grey ink.  Once again i stamped extra to decoupage the oranges, flowers & a couple of the leaves.

Made a cardblank from white card and dry embossed with a swirl embossing folder.   I found the next size up die from my topper was too big on this occasion so drew around the inside of it onto white card and cut out with scissors, this i then coloured with the same inktense pencils i used on the image.  

and onto the lemons

2nd stamp in the set.  

card 6x4"  I stamped the image onto white card and die cut into a Xstitch tag and watercoloured with inktense pencils, decoupaged the lemons and flowers and stamped the 'easy peasy lemon squeezy' sentiment from the set with grey ink over the background.

Matted onto green and yellow card and then a white base card, using my guillotine to cut the top corners to match the tag 

and version 2

Made the same way just using a different tag shape.  After matting onto yellow i punched a hole and added green, yellow and orange ribbons tied together with a little orange twine. I then mounted onto the shaped base card with 2mm foam tape

So far this summer we haven't had too much orange & lemon growing weather in Cornwall, hopefully we get an Indian summer and lovely September😀

Items Used:

Studio Light stamp set #427 'lemon squeezy' 

Clearly besotted 'seasonal sentiments' stamp set

Various tag dies

Derwent Inktense pencils

Swirl embossing folder

CraftUk Ltd white card

Yellow & Green card

Thank you all for popping by and all your comments which i really do appreciate.  Emmax

Id love to enter the first card:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2024/07/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-summertime.html

  

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/inspiration-station-august-2024.html

Inspired by the oranges and lemons

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-279-anything-goes-with.html

https://farmquesthomestylekitchenchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/08/fqhskcb-8-anything-food-related-goes.html

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/august-2024-anything-goes-summer.html

https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2024/08/august-challenge.html

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/08/challenge-269-ibw-its-always-summer.html