Category Archives: Birthday

Window Box Thinlits Dies Candles

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When I made the box using the window box thinlits dies recently, I really liked one of the dies that is designed to add a pattern to the side of the box. I thought it would be perfect for a birthday card so that’s what I’m sharing today. I wanted a really clean, mostly white card to really show this off. I intended to have all my candles the same size to start with but that morphed into three different colours.

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

I started by running the die through the big shot with a piece of whisper white and then started cutting strips of coloured card about 1/4 inch wide. The flames are so saffron and about 1 1/2 inches long whereas the candles are just over an inch long. I’ve got pear pizzazz, sweet sugarplum and calypso coral on the card. I used snail to add glue around the edges of the white card since they don’t need to be firmly stuck down, just held in place long enough to get the pieces onto the card base. Here’s what the back looks like – as you can see, there’s nothing holding down the tops of the candles:

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

I stamped the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in pear pizzazz and then used more snail over the back of the candles to glue it down. Here’s a close up showing the candles a little better

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

It’s definitely a fun die to play with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, 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. To get a free Sale-a-bration product, an easy way to spend the $50 is to order a prepaid 3 month paper pumpkin subscription at $55 instead of the regular price of $59. Already a subscriber? It doesn’t matter – you can buy a prepaid and once that runs out you go back to your monthly subscription. Personally, I like to buy a 12 month subscription because it’s $2 cheaper per month AND it gets me 4 Sale-a-bration items!

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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Firstly, I’d like to thank Valentyna at The Paper Players for selecting my card as A Cut Above in last week’s challenge. It is fun playing with challenges and to be selected for an honour is the icing on the cake. You can see my card here.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Celebrations Duo TIEF - Festive TIEF

Today’s card is due to an entirely different challenge. As I mentioned there was a hair cut yesterday, and that operation is known in my family to take a really long time. Eight hours kind of time! But the hair cut is just the start – my buddy Julia and I go together and then have lunch and solve the world’s problems.  Or try to. Then there’s something we need to buy or a project at one of our houses that needs attention or even a pedicure as happened yesterday. And then we ended up at my house and Julia was looking at some of the product that I have on my table. The Celebrations Duo TIEF caught her eye and she started playing with it. Could she, she wondered, use a melon mambo watercolour pencil to add color to the debossed part? Yes you can but we didn’t like the result. The blender pen didn’t give what she was looking for. Next she wondered about a see through glitter kind of thing on top – I pulled out the dazzling diamonds glitter and a fine tip glue pen. She was happy with the piece and handed it to me as a “starter piece” and challenged me to make a card with it. Here’s a shot showing more of the sparkle.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Celebrations Duo TIEF - Festive TIEF

I pulled out the Festive TIEF and ran through a whisper white layer and attached that to a thick whisper white card base. I trimmed down the celebrate piece (necessary because it was done on a piece of scrap with a hole cut out of it!), rounded the corners with the project life corner rounder and popped it up with a lot of dimensionals. It seemed a little too white so I added some melon mambo enamel dots. Julia was home by the time I did this, so I sent her a photo. She approved and I hope that you also like our collaboration card.

If you’re placing an order, thank you very much – 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

Stylish Stems for Norma

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I’ve been giving out birthday cards at work for a year now; I don’t manage to make them for the entire department (I don’t even know some of the people) but I’m enjoying the joy that someone feels when they get a handmade card. Last year, someone jumped up and hugged me and said I’d made their day. It’s an enormously touching response to my hobby that I enjoy for its own sake. So here’s a card I’ve made for Norma, whose birthday is today. It’s also for the Paper Players current challenge – it’s about time I entered a challenge; when I “entered” one lately, I forgot to go to the challenge site and actually enter!

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

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I really love the Special Reason bundle which includes the stamp set and the Stylish Stems framelits dies. The dies are unusual in that it includes shapes to cut around the stamp set images and dies that create a shape that allows a paper or coloured image to show through. They are really versatile. I took a piece of watercolor paper and used the watercolor pencils to lay down color – rich razzleberry and melon mambo – using darker, more intense colors in the centre and fading outwards like a peony, creating that effect with a blender pen. I used the stylish stems framelits dies to cut out the front part but once I’d glued that to the watercolor paper, I needed to trim it. That didn’t go too well! I ended up using my carl trimmer because the stampin’ up one wavered and couldn’t make straight lines through the double thickness. I should’ve made the watercolor smaller and used dimensionals. But now that both pieces were the same, I added a border of rich razzleberry. This was then added to a whisper white card to which I’d added a sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams.

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

Candle Border Punch

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Here’s a clean and simple birthday card using the new Candle Border punch. The border punches are a lot of fun to play with and perfect for a quick card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Candle Border Punch - Window Shopping

Here I simply put a piece of very vanilla into the punch – doesn’t have to be at the edge – and punched. Then you slide your card along so that the picture shows through where you’ve already punched which tells you that you’re lined up. Then you punch again and repeat until you’ve completed the card. Easy! Next was the stamping from Window Shopping in tangerine tango and then a simple matter of constructing the card. I did cut out a stitched shape (the dies are back in stock if you missed them last time around) for later use from the middle of the gold foil before gluing it all together. The multi purpose glue slides a little on the foil so I like to use snail or fast fuse. Attaching this to a tangerine tango card base and I was done!

I’m going to need a lot of birthday cards this year; I’ve mentioned that I give them out at work and I’m part of a large IT department, but I also send them to people who come to my classes. Inspired by Shannon West’s #ImBringingBirthdaysBack movement last year, I’ve also decided to offer them to my blog readers and those who know me on facebook. So, if you’d like a birthday card around your birthday, email me your birthday and address and I’ll send you one.

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

Celebrations Duo TIEFs

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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.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project with the Celebrations Duo TIEFs. 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