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Falling in Love DSP notebooks

I had a launch party for the new catalog last night and we had so much fun. We had snacks – hummous, cheese, grapes and chocolate chip cookies (two of them home made, I’ll leave you to figure out which two!), a free raffle, a little gift for everyone AND we made three cards. It was a good night. I’ve previously shared the make and takes, but here are the little gifts – covered notebooks decorated with Falling in Love DSP. This are extraordinary for me because they are neutral – in fact just sahara sand and very vanilla and I love them. The neutrals collection is my least used, I’m not fond of grey and brown isn’t really me either, so these are a surprise. The Falling in Love DSP is absolutely gorgeous – here’s a selection of the leftover notebooks.

Covering a notebook is easy – you just need a ruler. My notebooks are 3 inches wide (apart from the ones that are 3 1/16 – they weren’t cut with precision apparently) so that set the width of my card stock. I added 1/8 inch to the front (which measured 4 15/16 inch) to create a little lip to make them easy to open, 3/16 for the width and 1.5 inches for a piece on the back which meant a 6 3/4 piece of card which I scored at 5 1/16 and 5 1/4. I applied fast fuse just to the piece that goes on the back and carefully lined up the notebook with it’s cover. Then it was a simple matter of stamping the sentiment from the SAB freebie, Designer Tee, in more sahara sand (!) and cutting it out with the layering circles and creating a scalloped border to go around it. I didn’t pop anything up because I didn’t want anything coming off the notebook if it was thrown in a purse.

I got carried away and made more than I needed – and then sickness got in the way and a few people couldn’t make it – so I have extra extra. I’ll throw one in with my thank you card to anyone who orders from me this month whilst they last. So if you want one of my remaining notebooks, order quickly!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy New Year

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As 2016 draws to a close, I thought I’d take a look back at my most pinned projects from the year. I notice that a lot of them are Paper Pumpkin alternates which I was going to remove from my list since people it suggests that people specifically look for alternates, but they are still cards that I made and were very popular. I was also interested to see that projects I made with the Detailed Floral Thinlits dies featured highly bearing in mind the number that I’m showing. Starting with the least pinned of my most pinned we have one of my personal favourites, a card I made for my brother’s birthday featuring the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies. Click on any of the photos to go to the original posts.

Then we move to some of the Paper Pumpkin alternates

Here’s one that I put together pretty quickly, I really liked the simplicity of it and it appears that a lot of other people did too.

Fun with another Paper Pumpkin

And the very popular floral thinlits dies

The final three all have been pinned over 600 times, which is humbling and amazing to me.

And here’s my most pinned card, currently with 691 pins. This was using supplies from March’s paper pumpkin.

I hope that you enjoyed the parade of pictures and hopefully one or two of them are your favourites too.

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.

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 to start another year of fun projects and sharing,

Liz

Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP

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In case you haven’t guessed, I’m on vacation this week which ought to mean that I have extra carding time and I’m more efficient than usual. Not so. I seem to be posting later and later. My sister is visiting and although we’ve planned days of carding, today is the first day of actual doing rather than just talking!

I wanted to showcase not only a carrying over item but also one on the clearance rack. The Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP is currently still available and is 30% off but the stamp set in the same suite, Paisleys and Posies is carrying over. There are matching framelits which are also carrying over but if you want the bundle of framelits and stamp set, you need to get it by January 3rd because the bundle pricing is going away.

Here I cut a piece of the copper embossed DSP (it’s one of the sheets which make this paper collection specialty) and amazingly had a piece of copper foil leftover to match. It required just a half inch trim off the length and it was perfect. I tried (again) to pull in a copper foil embellishment which I’d cut with the matching framelits but it was not working – this one had been on my leftovers pile for a while! Instead, I used the sentiment from Paisleys and Posies and heat embossed it in copper and then cut it out with the stitched shapes framelits – love the effect the stitching gives. Often the stitching is enough but this is such a flashy card, it needed another oval, this time of copper foil. It’s a fairly simple layout, but with all the copper shining, it’s a pretty special card.

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

Fancy Frost Specialty DSP

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Well I’ve gone for all the catalogs today – the annual, the soon to be retired Holiday and the upcoming Occasions! After playing with the Hey Chick stamp set yesterday, I wanted to make another card and sometime last night I thought of the window framelits and having the chick peeking in the window. I was wondering what to do for wallpaper when I thought about texture which led me to the Fancy Frost Specialty DSP which is retiring and currently 20% off at $10.80.

I took a piece of the fancy frost paper and used the Hearth & Home thinlits to cut out the window. Then I did the same with a piece of so saffron and continued the colour by lightly using a sponge dauber onto the textured paper. Next I stamped my chick with archival basic black and then used the same two watercolour pencils as yesterday, daffodil delight and pumpkin pie but added some rich razzleberry to the ends of the chick’s hairdo.

To construct the card, I placed everything where I wanted it and then removed the window frame. I added glue to the back and then put it back in its spot. This meant that I had the chick stuck to the window frame in the right place and could just add the wallpaper around the frame. Easy. After adding this all to a rich razzleberry card base I felt that there was something missing. I’d wanted to add the sentiment but it wasn’t going to work over the texture until I remembered the classic label punch. A quick stamp and the addition of an enamel shape and it was perfect.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hey, Chick Sale-a-bration freebie

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Here’s one of the freebies from the Sale-a-bration sets and it’s really fun. It’s the one most requested in my December give-away. So, now that we’re past Christmas cards and tags, I felt it was time to pull out the new sets. But I also want to pay more attention to the product in the annual catalog since there are some awesome things there, so don’t run away expecting that I’m only going to show product that you can’t order yet!

This chick from the Hey, Chick set is so adorable, I suspect that you’re going to set the image all over the place. I stamped using the archival basic black which holds up pretty well for this and then coloured it using the new watercolour pencils (love them!) in daffodil delight and pumpkin pie using a blender pen to move the colour to hide pencil strokes and to blend the colours together. It’s really fun. I love that I don’t have to use stazon and then the different cleaner. However, I have noticed that when you use your stamp-a-ma-jig and the archival ink, it’s best to clean fairly promptly or you need the stazon cleaner to get the ink off the plastic sheet. I was going to cut this image to a smaller square and mat in various colours, but I liked the simple look here. I like to start with the basics when using a new stamp set.

See you tomorrow – a fun day since my sister’s coming to visit. You can bet that we’ll be spending a good amount of time crafting!

Liz

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