Monthly Archives: March 2017

Sweet Cupcake Glimmer Paper

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I was playing with the glimmer paper at the weekend and figured it would work really well as a cupcake paper. So I had a go with the Sweet Cupcake set and the matching Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Sweet Cupcake - Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

I used just sweet sugarplum for the cupcake which is made up of three separate stamps. The least detailed was stamped off twice, the next one was stamped off once and the most detailed was full strength sweet sugarplum. I cut that out with the Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies and also cropped a piece of the glimmer paper for the base and the sweet sentiment.

For the construction, I used a sponge dauber on the silicone craft mat to get glue on the back of the sentiment without getting too much. The top of the cupcake is glued to the whisper white layer with the gorgeous glimmer paper liner popped up with dimensionals. I added all of this to a sweet sugarplum base and that was it. Easy peasy.

Don’t forget that you can only earn the glimmer paper freebie through the end of this month.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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. 

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Avant Garden, a bower

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Having finally started playing with the Avant Garden set, I continued! This time I created a veritable bower of flowers to frame a sentiment from Suite Sentiments, a set which has 11 incredibly versatile sentiments.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Avant Garden - Suite Sentiments

I inked up the flower stamp in daffodil delight and lightly touched a real red sponge dauber onto the middle before stamping. This meant cleaning the stamp off each time so as not to get real red onto my daffodil delight ink pad, but worth it. I stamped a few extra ones on scrap paper to test whether I needed the stamens, but they detracted from the look. Right, no stamens!  I then realised that since the colours had merged to make more of an orange, a real red sentiment was going to be jarring but a daffodil delight one would be too pale – so I inked up the sentiment and grabbed the sponge dauber again and added some real red to the sentiment before stamping. I really like how this came out.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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

Avant Garden

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Today I’m sharing a card made with one of the Sale-a-bration sets, Avant Garden. I really love this set and it was one of the first free products that I ordered in January but for some reason it didn’t get inked up until this past weekend.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Avant Garden

I took inspiration from Eimear, my sister’s upline in the UK – she posted a video earlier this week and I really loved how a dab of a sponge dauber in the middle of the flower looked so beautiful. I had to have a go myself. If you want to check out Eimear’s video (which includes showing how to extend the stitched shapes square framelit into a rectangle so I really recommend you do view it) click here.

I’ve got a bit of a sweet sugarplum thing going at the moment, so decided to use that for my flowers with a little dab of perfect plum into the centre of the stamp before I stamped onto the whisper white card. Incidentally, I found it easier from a placement perspective to do the stalks (pear pizzazz) first and then the flowers. The sentiment is also from Avant Garden and is in perfect plum as are the stamens. I need to play with some other colour combinations too.

I really like the sponge dauber effect – here’s a close up. The whole thing really looks like a watercolor painting! I cannot imagine why this set sat uninked for so long.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Avant Garden

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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

 

Celebrations Duo TIEF

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As long as I got this right, this is the first post to be published to my new Facebook page, My Elegant Cards so a big celebrate seemed in order by way of the Celebrations Duo TIEF. If you’re reading this on Facebook, welcome to my new page.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator -Celebrations Duo TIEF - Totally Trees

I read on Facebook yesterday that answer to an issue I’d been having with the Celebrations Duo TIEF – the paper kept cracking after I dry embossed it. The secret is apparently to use the thick whisper white cardstock rather than the regular. I tried it and yes, it works perfectly. I then took a round stamp (mine came from Totally Trees but there are many that would work) and added circles of soft sky, mint macaron and island indigo. A quick trim  to give more interest by not having completed circles all over the piece and then a mat of island indigo before adding it to a soft sky card stock. The final touch – a bow using the mint macaron linen ribbon attached with a glue dot.

To celebrate the creation of the My Elegant Cards page, I’m going to “do a Shannon” (West). She started the #ImBringingBirthdaysBack movement last year and sent a birthday card to anyone who asked for one. So, if you’d like a card sent around your birthday, leave me a message either here or over on my new page with your birthday and send me an email with your address at lizbaileycards@gmail.com.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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

Hey Chick with watercolor pencils

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I was in the mood for some relaxation yesterday, so out came my watercolor pencils. I’ve been meaning to do a card with one of the hens on top of another for a while and it seemed like the perfect time.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hey Chick

I stamped my cute images in archival basic black onto shimmery white cardstock – it has a delicate shimmer on both sides and is perfect for watercolouring, although here I used a blender pen, rather than strict watercolouring. After leaving it to dry for a while, I used the early espresso pencil for the bottom hen and feet of the top one. Then daffodil delight, blending into calypso coral blending into real red on the top hen. I added a little early espresso ground as well.

And with a basic black mat and onto a calypso coral card base, there you have a quick, relaxing card!

If you haven’t snapped up the Hey Chick stamp set yet, time is running out! It’s available whilst supplies last up to and including March 31st. After that, it’s gone. It’s one of the free sets available during Sale-a-bration.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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