Designer Tee

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It’s a slow day here today; I’m not sure if that’s because it’s snowing or whether I’d be moving slowly anyway! But it’s taken me all morning to get organised and blog writing. I decided to feature the new Sale-a-bration set, Designer Tee which I hadn’t yet inked up. The images are sized to fit on the t-shirts in the Custom Tee stamp set (which comes as a bundle with framelits) but I wanted to show an alternative use.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tee - Lucky Stars TIEF - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

The image is stamped in real red and then cut out with what is becoming rather predictable – the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. The sentiment is from the same set. Once I had these two elements set, I wanted to add some texture, hence the lucky stars TIEF band along with a real red border. I contemplated ribbon or enamel shapes but it was getting a bit too much so I stayed clean and simple. I attached the image to the banner with dimensionals – it seems to work best for attaching to texture, just make sure you push fairly firmly on them to start with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get five 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hey Chick Happy Day

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It’s funny how your opinions of stamp sets change – I was on the fence about getting Hey Chick, but I’ve been having so much fun with it and the new watercolor pencils. I’m so glad that I got it. Especially as it was free – and can be for you too. It’s one of the Sale-a-bration products which means that it’s one of the items you can select every time you spend $50 (before tax and shipping) during Sale-a-bration which started earlier this week and goes on until the end of March.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hey Chick

I again used the watercolor pencils and a blender pen after stamping the image with the archival basic black. One tip that I have for you is that you must give it time to dry before using the blender pen or you get a chicken tinged with grey. No need to discuss how I know that! You could use the heat gun but I actually left mine overnight – not on purpose, it just happened that way. I used the daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and bermuda bay pencils, first laying down some colour and then using the blender pen to move the colour around to erase the pencil lines (I love watching that happen) and then blending where the colours change. I added more colour where I felt I needed it and repeated until I was happy. There’s something very therapeutic about this process.

The rest of the card is also easy (luckily since it’s my third make and take at my launch parties) – cut out the image with the wonderful stitched shapes dies, dry emboss a piece of bermuda bay with the Seaside TIEF, stamp a sentiment from the same set on daffodil delight and make it into a banner using the triple banner punch and then construct. I like to use snail or fuse (or a mixture) to adhere dry embossed pieces. And I used dimensionals to pop up the chick – I think she deserves it.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. Don’t forget that buying a prepaid 3 month subscription not only saves you money, it gets you a free Sale-a-bration item!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Beautiful You Watercolor Wash

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The new set, Beautiful You, is perfect for the new watercolor pencils and perfect for practicing prowess with an aquapainter. It’s actually incredible how little skill is needed to achieve a great look.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

For this card, I stamped the image and sentiment, both from Beautiful You, in archival basic black onto shimmery white card stock. By the way, if you’re using your stamp-a-ma-jig, clean it up quickly after using the archival inks. With a little extra effort it cleans right up but if you let it really dry, it won’t come off without the stazon cleaner even though it’s not alcohol based. After letting it dry, I took the daffodil delight watercolor pencil and laid down some colour around the image and then blended with the aquapainter. After that had started to dry, I coloured in the rest of the image using pumpkin pie, melon mambo, old olive, calypso coral and then a combo of the first two on her hat.The calypso coral was just a hint to stop her limbs being stark white. Then as the drying permitted (to avoid bleeding the colours together) I blended the rest of the colours, adding more colour afterwards as necessary – specifically extra melon mambo on the folds of the skirt.

The paper was not quite as flat as when I started so I used fast fuse to attach it to the basic black mat to flatten it completely. More fast fuse to attach this to the daffodil delight card base and the card was complete. I love this image and am really happy with the result here – it looks as if she’s bathed in sunshine and just so happy, celebrating the joys of spring. At least, that was my intention!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. And that reminds me – there’s a deal on a 3 month subscription to Paper Pumpkin going on currently, instead of $59 it’s $55 (137859) priced perfectly to get you a free Sale-a-bration item. Even if you’re a monthly subscriber, you can buy a 3 month subscription and use that and then go back to the monthly subscription afterwards. You’d save money AND get a free product. There’s no downside!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Dragonfly Dreams

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Whilst we’re waiting for the servers to come back up, how about another sneek peek – and in fact another of the make and takes that we’ll be making at my launch parties. This one uses both parts of the dragonfly bundle – dragonfly dreams and the matching Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits dies.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Dragonfly Dreams - Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies

I started by stamping the beautifully dragonfly in versamark and sprinkled on the gold embossing powder and then heated it. I love this technique and am excited to share it at my upcoming parties. I DID use my embossing buddy but didn’t notice a little stray powder because it was hiding on the island indigo paper and then decided that I didn’t want a one layer card as I was planning. So I cut out the dragonfly which made the card more fun AND removed the embossing powder glitch. Perfect! The lovely sentiment comes from the same set – stamped in island indigo on very vanilla and then added to the island indigo cardbase.

One important tip – I thought I could use snail on the body of the dragonfly and apply it with the dragonfly on the silicone mat to mop up the extra glue. Nope! The snail is too strong and ripped layers off the card stock, so don’t try that! There you go, I’ve saved you a ruined dragonfly. Instead I used the sponge dauber and multi purpose glue and dabbed it onto the body leaving the wings free to move.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one will be updated as soon as the site is back (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.

I’ll post again when the servers are back up.

See you later,

Liz