Monthly Archives: April 2017

Dragonfly Dreams

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Oh I’m so excited!! I’ve actually finished my swaps and also two pillow gifts for my room-mate (my sister) and I get on a plane later today. I can’t wait to meet up with my sister Caro, her upline Eimear, (who I met almost three years ago at one of her team meetings that she kindly invited me to and has since then adopted me as part of the team), Claire, (who I’ve never met but we talk on FB a lot; she is a genius at emojis), Ali and a few more of Eimear’s downline. I’m really bummed that my best friend Julia had her days off revoked and is missing out, but we’ll make sure that we get all the stuff that she would’ve got – the catalog, the freebies and so forth. Not sure how to bring the camaraderie though. But onto today’s card using Dragonfly Dreams.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Dragonfly Dreams - Bunch of Blossoms

It’s uses another piece of the watercolor paper that I showed on Sunday, this time one that’s got more of the island indigo than bermuda bay. I trimmed it down a little so that I could mat it with Bermuda Bay and then an odd thing happened. I forgot (that’s not the odd part!) that I had used island indigo and grabbed a dapper denim cardbase and I really liked how it looked. Before I glued, I realised my error and pulled out island indigo – and it just didn’t look as good. Fascinating that the addition of water and the merging of colours changed it enough that dapper denim needed to be the card base!

I then used the Bunch of Blossoms for the sentiment which is stamped in island indigo onto watercolor paper. The clear embossing allows the colour of the watercolor paper to show through and so very vanilla just doesn’t quite match. I kept the sentiment small so as not to detract from the fun background. I popped it up with dimensionals so that it didn’t seem too insignificant though!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin April 2017 – A Sara Thing

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It’s almost that time again. Actually that’s true for a number of things: the retiring list next Monday, going to OnStage Live in Amsterdam tomorrow (yes, it’s a long way from NJ, but I’ll get to meet my sister and some friends) and this month’s Paper Pumpkin. This month is very special, the company turned creative control of the April kit over to CEO, Sara Douglass, and the end result is stunning! Her style is, “bold, vibrant, and artistic—with a little bit of sass,” which is exactly how she described the kit. Sara designed this kit for us all, so we can discover creativity through the eyes of the CEO while having an experience that is uniquely US! Get ready to embrace your inner artist and skip to the fun with Sara.
Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - April paper pumpkin

As if a kit designed by Sara is not reason enough to sign up, there’s more! She’s including a FREE gift inside every April box! It’s a surprise, but you won’t want to miss it.

What do you need to do? Just sign up for Paper Pumpkin by April 10: click here

Need some more details on Paper Pumpkin?

  • Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
  • Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions.
  • Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
  • Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
  • You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
  • A Paper Pumpkin subscription is just $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time. You can also prepay 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time (great gift idea) and save money with the latter 2 options.
  • Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last. Sometimes complete kits are available, at other times, it’s just the consumables so that you can make more.

Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Inside the Lines Colored

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I saw a Facebook Live with the CEO of Stampin’ Up!, Sara Douglass, a few days ago and she was doing an emboss resist card using the Brushstrokes stamp set. Since I seem to be addicted to that technique at the moment, how could I not have a go?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Inside the Lines - Brushstrokes - Bunch of Blossoms

I took a piece of Inside The Lines DSP, which was a paper from Sale-a-bration, and used the versamark and the Brushstrokes stamp before sprinkling the clear embossing powder and heating. I then used the cucumber crush dauber to add some colour to the paper. It really wakes up the paper. Fun. I then added a cucumber crush sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms which I cut out using the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. A little baker’s twine bow in cucumber crush finished the card which was added to a cucumber crush card base.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Dragonfly Dreams

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I had so much fun playing with emboss resist and watercolor paper last week, that I decided to have another go, this time with a more masculine palette. So I grabbed island indigo and bermuda bay along with the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Dragonfly Dreams

I started by using the embossing buddy all over the watercolor paper and then started stamping the dragonfly in versamark. Since it’s virtually impossible to see, I sprinkled the clear embossing powder onto the paper frequently so that I could see where I’d been. I didn’t actually heat emboss until I’d finished the sheet though. Once the watercolor paper was cool, I filled an aquapainter and got part of the paper very wet and then brushed on some island indigo. I let that dry and then wet another section and brushed on bermuda bay. I continued playing with this until I was happy – adding more water, more colour wherever I wanted. It’s a load of fun and you’ve now got your own DSP to cut up and use as you choose.

This one became a full sized background for a thank you card where the sentiment was also from Dragonfly Dreams stamped on a scrap of watercolor paper and made into a banner. A bermuda bay card base and a sprinkling of the bermuda bay enamel shapes finished this off nicely.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Beautiful You Duet

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I haven’t played with Beautiful You lately; the retirement of the Sale-a-bration items as of today meant that I wanted to play with them as much as possible before losing them. But back to one of my favourite sets now.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

I stamped two of the three images in the archival basic black onto watercolor paper and then used an unusual for me colour combination of tempting turquoise and tangerine tango. It’s good to shake things up a bit. I used an aquapainter to add the color to the ladies and then added the sentiment. The aquapainter is a bit intimidating to start with – I find it’s best not to have too much water in it to start with. It’s easier to control then – unless you’re trying to do a background and spread loads of water.

This card then sat in the box that I made to hold a number of these cards and it just felt slightly unfinished. Fast forward to this morning when I stamped the umbrella onto a scrap of watercolor paper and colored it in using an aquapainter. I cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals. I am really happy with this extra piece – the umbrella now seems so much more lifelike since the girl’s head really is inside the umbrella. I framed this with a skinny mat of basic black and put all of it onto a tempting turquoise card base.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz