Category Archives: Christmas

Baby Bear with a Jolly Hat

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Here’s another Christmas card using a non-Christmassy stamp set – this time, Baby Bear along with the Jolly Hat builder punch to add the Christmas to the card. Technically, the hat is a little small for the bear, but it was too adorable not to do it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Jolly Hat builder punch - Christmas pines - Baby Bear

The bear is stamped in soft suede first for the most detailed layer and then crumb cake for the next detailed and crumb cake stamped off for the least detailed layer. I like to do it backwards so that it’s easy to see the darker layer for lining up purposes. The final piece of stamping came from Christmas Pines, a set that I love but have only recently started to use – fortunately it’s carrying over. Do you ever do that? Buy something that you love and it just sits on your desk amidst all the other sets and it gets ignored for a while?

I punched out the hat in real red and whisper white and added the festive touch to my bear! What do you think?

I just noticed that today is the deadline to guarantee Christmas delivery.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on (including the jolly hat builder punch) and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies for a CAS(E)

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I haven’t done any challenges in ages – I’ve been playing with whatever was to hand without needing a starting point. Sometimes the focus on a sketch or collection of colours is helpful and sometimes you don’t want to be tied down. But I do find that challenges often push you to make cards that you wouldn’t have made otherwise and if it’s a challenge that you find tricky, and you persevere, it can give you a card that you’re really proud of. So I decided it was time to pick a challenge and I found CAS(E) this Sketch has a fun sketch which allowed me to use my Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies and a sneak peek of an upcoming set, Beautiful You. The sneak peek is a very little peek!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies - Beautiful You

I used my Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies to cut out the gorgeous ornament in gold foil and a solid one in cherry cobbler. After putting these together using my sponge dauber and the silicone craft sheet, I took out the gold baker’s twine from the trio pack but it was a bit too insubstantial for this ornament. I tried a few other ribbons but nothing looked right, so I went back to the gold baker’s twine, cut three lengths and braided it. I used my paper piercing tool to hold the knot to my eraser and weighted that down with a punch to hold it steady whilst I braided. I tied off the ends with simple knots. Fuse was handy for securely fastening the braid and knot to the underside of the ornament and I popped the ornament up on dimensionals to hide the knot. I used fuse on the underside of the very vanilla piece and firmly pressed the braid to the fuse and then cut off the knot. The whole very vanilla layer was then added to a cherry cobbler card base.

I bet you’re wondering about the Beautiful You sneak peek? It’s just the sentiment. There are 6 or 7 other sentiments in this set as well as some fabulous images – I’m guessing that it’s going to be be extremely popular.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Vertical Greetings

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So what do you do when you have a lot of Christmas cards to make and you’ve overused your Christmas stamp sets? I say, pull out Vertical Greetings. I was planning to add a hat to the tree, but it was too big and wasn’t giving quite the look that I was going for.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Vertical Greetings - Lucky TIEF

I inked up the tree in old olive and real red on a piece of whisper white. The stamping (or rather inking up) wasn’t perfect but I fixed that by adding the gold metallic enamel shapes! Amazingly I’d managed to keep the real red on the pot and the old olive on the tree – if you notice one end of the ink pad is curved, one is straight; it’s easier to partially ink a stamp using the straight edge. But I’d already planned a little bow and the gold baker’s twine from the trio in the holiday catalogue was the perfect little accent.

Of course, the vertical greetings set wasn’t planned as a Christmas set and thus doesn’t have a matching holiday greeting. I decided to leave off the sentiment and put one inside and highlighted the gold stars by running another piece of real red through the big shot using the Lucky stars embossing folder. Putting the tree panel (matted with old olive) to one side meant that the stars were more emphasised and stopped the card being too symmetrical. Although I did a maths degree and LOVE symmetry, it doesn’t work so well in cards!

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

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So, have you finished making your Christmas cards yet? Or even writing them? I’m not sure if I’ve made enough, I haven’t been terribly organised in counting them up. And I haven’t started writing them – Martin had a brilliant idea of writing one per day from the beginning of November, it was a great idea, but hasn’t happened! So, in case I’m short of cards, I decided to come up with a fast card – and when I’m looking for that, DSP is a life saver. And with the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack to hand, I decided to use that one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Star of Light - Triple Banner Punch

I pulled out a sheet of paper and cut it down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ – this gives enough left over to line the envelope flap and with a mat (cherry cobbler) just 1/8″ inch bigger, gives a nice wide border between the mat and the card base – here it’s crumb cake. It would be easy to pull out a framelit (especially one of the stitched shapes that I’m so fond of) but I wanted to also feature the gorgeous mini pinecones. If you cut the strip at exactly one inch, it’s a tight fit into the triple banner punch, so I cut a strip of crumb cake just a 1/16 inch under one inch wide and stamped the sentiment from Star of Light in cherry cobbler. I cut a strip of cherry cobbler 1/4 inch bigger for matting and assembled that together – amazingly I remembered that I wanted to add the pine cones and left space for them. I tied them up with the cherry cobbler twine that was part of the baker’s twine trio pack and attached them with a mini glue dot that I rolled a little to stop it showing. Looks like this is a card that I’ll be hand delivering!

It would be easy to mass produce these – you could cut strips of the crumb cake and cherry cobbler at 4 1/4″ and get two across a regular sheet of card stock. Stamp and then cut them up and assemble. You could easily put together 20 banners pretty quickly after which it’s pretty fast to put together the cards.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Totally Trees for Christmas

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I mentioned that I’m sad that Totally Trees is retiring. It’s such a versatile set – it can make (and has) birthday cards, thank you cards and Christmas cards. I think I could make it into a Valentine’s one too. But today, Totally Trees is making a Christmas card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Totally Trees - Wonderful Winterland - Paper Pumpkin - Paper Pumpkin November 2016 - Confetti Stars Punch

I stamped the basic tree in always artichoke and then coloured some of the splodges in cherry cobbler, always artichoke, daffodil delight and the gold wink of Stella. Next I cut it out with my current favourite, the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. I love that the stitching adds a border that means you don’t need another mat. So easy.

I used the November Paper Pumpkin, Wonderful Winterland, for the sentiment which I stamped in cherry cobbler and then popped up the oval on dimensionals. The tree needed a little something and although I tried stamping a star using Totally Trees again and using the dazzling diamonds embossing powder, it wasn’t enough. I instead pulled out the retired confetti stars punch and punched out a gold foil star which worked perfectly.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here – this subscription kit is so much fun, what do you have to lose?

See you tomorrow,

Liz