Monthly Archives: June 2016

All About Everything

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Happy Thursday! And Thursday means a new challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a sketch.

Stampin' Up! All About Everything

Here’s the banner which inspired my creation.

I don’t tend to put tags on my cards for some reason and I wanted to step outside the box a little by making a rather non traditional tag. As you can see, I’ve done a mirror image of the sketch by having the tag on top of the other shape. The DSP is from Pop of Pink and I made the present box with a 2.5″ by 3″ rectangle and then by trimming off two opposing corners to add a 3D look. To further add to the look of the box, I folder the DSP where the edges of the box would be before gluing it down to my piece of whisper white. The card seemed a little too empty so I added a thin mat of melon mambo to frame the card. The sentiment is from the bonus Paper Pumpkin set from April, All About Everything which I stamped in melon mambo and cropped out with one of the retired oval framelits. As I’ve mentioned before, Paper Pumpkin is a great buy, even if you’re not thrilled with the month’s kit (and that’s rare), it’s worth it for the stamp set. I popped this up with dimensionals to make it look even more like a present tag and added a bow using the also retired cotton ribbon in melon mambo. I tried to use the thick bakers twine but it didn’t have enough oomph or, dare I say, presence, for the present.

Stampin' Up! All About Everything

As I said, Paper Pumpkin is a great deal and starting today (at 5pm MT until 11:50pm MT tomorrow) it’s an even better deal.

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New subscribers can get this month’s kit for just FIVE DOLLARS! That’s the amount of the shipping only. You have nothing to lose – you can put your subscription on hold or cancel at any time, so just go ahead later this evening and click on the Paper Pumpkin button below, use the promo code ONEDAYDEAL and your kit should ship next week.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

 

Sunburst Sayings Swirly Scribbles

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Here’s a card that I made a couple of weeks ago and recently noticed that I hadn’t shared with you.  As you’ll probably guess from the elements used, it was just after I got my preorder and it was my first play with Swirly Scribbles and I paired it with two of the new incolours – dapper denim and sweet sugarplum.

Stampin' Up! Swirly Scribbles and Sunburst Sayings

I cut a number of the scribbles (there are three of them in the set and I used two here) in both dapper denim and sweet sugarplum and played around with them until I had the colours and scribbles where I liked them. Next was to find some sentiments that worked in the insides of the scribbles. Sunburst Sayings was still out on my desk and the Happy Birthday sentiment fit perfectly. I didn’t want two Happy Birthdays on the front though and went looking – the Woo Hoo! comes from the Sale-a-bration set Party Pants. If you missed Sale-a-bration in the first quarter of the year and don’t have that set, I’m sure that there are loads of other options in your collection. Using It’s Your Day from Sunburst Sayings would work although it would be best masked off and made into a two line sentiment. I stamped the sentiments, also in dapper denim and sweet sugarplum before gluing down the scribbles – just in case! Then I used my favourite 2 way glue pen to attach the scribbles – I’ll have to start using the fine tip glue pen soon, I may as well get used to the fact that the 2 way glue pen has retired!

I finished the card off with a dapper denim card base and dry embossed the envelope flap.

Playful Palette DSP stack

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Last night I really felt the need to lose myself in crafting. We’d just taken our father to the airport and the house felt empty and I knew that crafting would help. In one of the Facebook groups that I belong to, there’s a distinct lack of fondness for the new Playful Palette DSP stack, some of the colour combinations are just not to some of the members’ taste. With that in mind, I decided to reach for the new stack and try to get some minds changed!

Stampin' Up! Playful Palette DSP stack and All About Everything

I decided to start with one of the sheets with just two colours and the emerald envy called me. Whilst thinking about constructing the card, sitting there with the piece of DSP and a piece of emerald envy, I realised that I have the new emerald envy ruched ribbon. So the card started to come together with one of my current favourite stamps from All About Everything which I stamped on very vanilla and cut out with my retired ovals collections framelits – I haven’t got the new layering ones. Yet. I intended on cutting out an oval in emerald green as a mat but somehow the card decided that it wanted two strips of ribbon and a bow and that my oval was going to be a present tag. It’s as well not to fight when a card has taken over in my experience!

I carefully cut the DSP a smidge smaller than my usual mat for two reasons. One, I wanted to get a larger emerald envy border and second, I wanted enough left to line the envelope! The envelope needs 2 1/16 inches in depth so instead of a 4″ by 5 1/4″ top layer, I cut it 1/16″ smaller, so just one mark on the stampin’ trimmer, 3 15/16″ and 5 3/16″. The card isn’t really a parcel – I cut two pieces of the ruched ribbon and anchored them behind the DSP with fast fuse. Then I attached my DSP layer to the care base. Next I attached the tag with a glue dot, angling it so that it showed under the bow. And lastly I attached the bow. This has got a fair amount of dimension from the layers of ribbon – I’m thinking this may be a hand delivered card.

Stampin' Up! Playful Palette DSP stack and All About Everything

To decorate the envelope, I used the multipurpose glue to attach the piece I’d reserved and cut around the edges with my paper snips. Easy to do with the envelope guiding you. So there you have it – a card using the Playful Palette DSP stack which, I hope, my Facebook group will like.

I’d like to give a warm welcome to my new email follower – thanks so much for signing up and I hope that you enjoy the fun that we’re having over here. Feel free to comment and introduce yourself or just to ask questions or for any reason at all!

I’d also like to give US and Canadian residents a heads up about an AWESOME almost 31 hour deal coming up for new Paper Pumpkin subscribers – for almost 31 hours from Thursday 9th at 5pm MT to Friday 10th at 11:50pm new subscribers can sign up for their first kit for just $5 USD / $7 CAD!

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This is an outrageous deal – you’re basically getting the kit for just shipping. It’s no risk too since if you decide after your first kit that it’s not for you (you won’t!), you can continue at $19.95 plus tax (free shipping) per month. Just click on the red Paper Pumpkin button above and sign up!

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Don’t forget that this month you can join Stampin’ Up! as a demo for an awesome deal. As usual you can select $125 worth of product for just $99 with free shipping and then, as long as you maintain a $300 sales (including sales to you) threshold you will get at least a 20% on product. But in June, you also get to select TWO FREE stamp sets which, if you pick the most expensive in the catalogue, would save you just over $100. Questions? Just let me know.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Endless Birthday Wishes

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The challenge at CAS on Sunday this time is a word – Sparkle with the encouragement to use bling. I don’t use bling all that often as it evidenced by the fact that I had my red rhinestones already coloured, I think for a card when I was making Christmas cards last year!

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

It also helped with my colour scheme! I’d coloured the rhinestones with a retired cherry cobbler blendability but you could use a sharpie if you don’t have any of those. Or another alcohol marker. So this supremely CAS card uses one of my well used sets, Endless Birthday Wishes and I stamped the cake in cherry cobbler onto whisper white. I also stamped the sentiment from the same set before playing with rhinestones. There are little stars on the candles which I chose to cover up with rhinestones fully intending to use one of the red ones. But I decided that I needed more sparkle! As if someone was blowing out the candles and the sparkle was still showing, hence the stream of rhinestones.

It doesn’t show that well in the photo and it’s not necessary, but I dry embossed the flap of the envelope with a retired embossing folder. I can’t see ever selling my embossing folders, they are so useful for a quick way to add interest to an envelope. And Endless Birthday Wishes is an amazingly versatile set which you need – I’m always using the sentiments either on the card front itself or inside. I’m surprised the the “celebrate” still works!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Gorgeous Grunge with Picture Perfect

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As you know, my cards are clean and simple almost exclusively so Gorgeous Grunge is not a set that I use much. But for my first card for the colour challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week, I decided that I needed it to add in the third colour and to add a little something to the background. In the end, it was not the card that I chose for the Design Team, but it’s still a fun card. And still clean and simple!

Stampin' Up! Gorgeous Grunge and Picture Perfect and All About Everything

I stamped the starfish in blushing bride and rose red – it looks so three dimensional it’s incredible! I snipped it out and then the matter of how to add the so saffron loomed. Some sort of sand made sense and I first tried the lines from Gorgeous Grunge which I’ve never used before but it looked as if the starfish was trying to run which didn’t really make sense! So I used the dots, stamped a couple of times as my background. The sentiment comes from the bonus set in April’s Paper Pumpkin, All About Everything. I love the Paper Pumpkin kits – even if I don’t love the project, there’s always a stamp set and other items to play with. It’s definitely worth the money. I popped the starfish up with dimensionals to give it even more 3D effect. I even added tiny little snippets of dimensionals at the end of the arms. I like the white on white look, it’s very clean but slightly more interesting than a one layer card.

Welcome to my new email subscriber, I’m so happy that you like what you see enough to want it in your inbox. I love making cards and sharing and it feels great when someone signs up!

See you tomorrow,

Liz