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Balloon Celebration

The oldest son of a former colleague graduates from High School this week and Peter, my boss, suggested we take up a collection. We lost Chris to leukemia on Christmas day two years ago and we like to show that we have not forgotten him. He comes up in conversation a lot. So here’s a LARGE card using Balloon Celebration (so that the whole department can sign it) and three of the new in-colors that will be available for you to purchase next Friday – assuming that you haven’t already taken advantage of the early release to get the set of 5.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Balloon Celebration

I folded a piece of blueberry bushel cardstock in half to create a card that is 5.5 by 8.5 inches. Hopefully that’s big enough! The base layer is very vanilla and I punched out balloons from lucky lipstick, blueberry bushel and call me clover. I love these new colours, they are so bright and cheerful and intensely coloured – nothing wishy washy here! I found that it’s easiest to add the bubbles before punching – especially when I was doing the silver heat embossing. For the congrats, I used the multipurpose adhesive sheets on some lucky lipstick before cutting out the sentiment – which is from the Sunshine wishes thinlits dies – which makes is SO easy to adhere. I added a mat of lucky lipstick and the card was complete. Now all I need to do it make an envelope – although it seems impossibly big, I just need a piece 11 by 11 inches and my envelope punch board.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Celebrations Duo TIEFs

I had some fun yesterday playing with my order which has just arrived. The intention was to put together my packets for customers who shopped with me last month (thank you!) and get them in the mail. Unfortunately I’d taken part of it to work to show a friend and left them there. Since unusually I have to go to work today, I’ll be able to pick them up and can hopefully get them in the mail tomorrow. But for today, I’m sharing a card I made with one of the Celebrations Duo TIEFs, the Celebrate one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Celebrations Duo TIEFs - Balloon Celebration

I decided that since I was making a birthday card with the word celebrate, it should have balloons to make the word pop – these are from Balloon Celebration. There’s a bit of a trick to this – if you’re using photopolymer stamps, you MUST use a stampin’ pierce mat or something that has some give. Otherwise you fill in the debossed part of the word. I know this, I did many attempts – I’m blaming the fact that work is currently hard (hence going to the office today) and I was tired. But you do have to be extra careful not to wobble or the edge of your stamp ends up in the word. I used delightful dijon, dapper denim and then for some glitz, silver embossing. I got most of the colour combination from the Global Design Project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 3

Happy Monday! I hope that your week is starting off well – I assume it is if you’re in the UK since it’s a Bank Holiday. For me, a transplant to NJ, I’m off to work, looking forward to next weekend which will be a long one. But first, here’s my Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 3 which was inspired by CAS on Sunday’s theme this week of balloons.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin August 2016 alternate

I took one of the card bases and one of the pockets from the kit and used the Balloon Bouquet punch on them in different directions to get these fun coloured balloons. The balloon strings are from Balloon Celebration and are stamped in island indigo to match the DSP as is the sentiment from Cottage Greetings. I offset the balloons a little so that I could keep lots of lovely clean white space.

Next it was simply a matter of arranging the balloons and then gluing them in place, one at a time, to try to keep the bunch as I’d planned. Three of them are glued and the last two are popped up with dimensionals. A pretty simple alternate although it does use quite a few other products – hopefully you have them or some that will work if you want to try this out.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Balloon Celebration

As you’ve probably noticed, I really love the Balloon Celebration set. This is a bit of a surprise to me – obviously I expected to like it otherwise I wouldn’t have bought it, but I didn’t expect to use it quite as much as I have. I used it so much that a couple of weeks ago my sister Caro (blog here) said that if I did another design card using it, I’d probably get a cheeky comment! I forgot to ask how many weeks I needed to restrain myself before balloons were allowed again… 🙂

This card is using the colour palette from a February challenge where I made a number of balloon cards. It really shows how a card is changed by using a different card base.

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration and Sky is the Limit

Here’s a previous card but on a white background which gives is a totally different feel.

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration and Sky is the limit and Softly Fallling TIEF

So my point today is that it is worth taking the time to try out different card bases to get the look that you want. I almost always try out combinations of different mats and card bases.

To continue with today’s card. To save you looking back, the colours are melon mambo, pumpkin pie and pink pirouette and I stamped the design on each balloon in the same ink as the card

Balloon celebration bubbles

I used the balloon bouquet punch to punch them out and then positioned them over the strings that I stamped in my favourite black, the archival basic black. On this card, the strings came together in one place so they look like an organised bunch (a bow was too much over the top there) whereas on the previous card, the balloons looked as if they’d been let go and were floating off, separating from each other. In my opinion anyway!

The sentiment is from the retiring Sale-a-bration set, Sky is the Limit, but when I checked just now, it’s still available. If you want it, snap it up quickly. The typeface of the sentiments is beautiful. I then mounted the whisper white piece onto a melon mambo card base.

I finished off the envelope by embossing the flap with the elegant dots embossing folder

Elegant dots tief

It’s a very quick and fun way to make a big impact.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Balloon Celebration Save

Firstly – Feliz Cumpleaños a Henry!

When I was making a card for a challenge at CAS Colours & Challenges a few weeks ago, I messed up my stamping and was about to start over when I realised it was salvageable. Not for the sketch challenge that was running at the time, but definitely as a birthday card. I’d stamped the sentiment on my square card and the balloon strings on the left and then blurred some of the strings that were to be on the right hand side. So I cut off the right hand side of the square card going back to a more standard rectangle. And nobody would have known any different. Except, of course, I just published that fact to anyone who cares to read this!

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration and Suite Sayings

The sentiment is from Suite Sayings and I especially love this one. It’s stamped in archival black on whisper white as are the balloon strings which are from Balloon Celebration. Then, because I was also working on a colour challenge and got hooked on the colours, I used melon mambo, pink pirouette and pumpkin pie to stamp the balloon bubbles onto the same colour card.

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration and Suite Sayings

These were then punched out with the balloon bouquet punch which not only matches Balloon Celebration, but is sold in a bundle with it for 15% off. I arranged the balloons and glued them down using the multipurpose glue.

The envelope flap is dry embossed with the spring flowers embossing folder. I think it’s retired now sadly, but it’s a really fun pattern.

See you tomorrow,

Liz