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Beautiful You with Watercolor Pencils

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Here’s another version of the image that I shared from Beautiful You recently, this time coloured with the new watercolour pencils that are coming out in the new catalog (along with Beautiful You).

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

I first stamped the image using the archival basic black and then the sentiment also from the same set in pacific point. Once that was all completed without mishap, I got out the pencils. I coloured using rich razzleberry, pacific point and old olive and then added a tiny hint of calypso coral to her skin. I then used a blender pen and this was the really exciting part – all the lines that were showing from the colouring just blended away as if by magic! I think that this set and the pencils are going to be a big hit – if you get the wood mount, you already earn a free Sale-a-bration item. If you go clear as I did, you’re only $6 short of the free item. A set of blender pens for $10 might be just the item you need!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Up and Away Thinlits Dies

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One of my brother’s team, Gabe, is moving on. It’s been a hard year with too many projects with too tight deadlines. I don’t blame him. He joined a year ago so all he’s known here are death march projects (they’ve worked the last three weekends) and his new job is a 3 minute commute instead of 90. But we’re going to miss him. He joined just before I got my welcome stamp set so although I missed welcoming him with a card, I’ve got a good luck card for him to leave.

I can’t find a good luck sentiment so balloons seem appropriate. The new Up and Away thinlits dies along with the Lift Me Up stamp set seem perfect. And wow, are they fun?! The thinlits dies have five shapes that make up the colours behind the balloon. How fun is that? And there are smaller balloons which are stamped using the Lift Me Up set and then can be cut out with the thinlits.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Up & Away Thinlits Dies- Lift Me Up

So I made this massive card without pre-planning the colours – I cut out a number of the five shapes in night of navy, cherry cobbler, silver foil and marina mist and then glued them behind my two big balloons pretty much at random. I found that tombow onto the back of the detailed balloon die cut worked perfectly for attaching the backgrounds. I used dimensionals to make the balloons float on what is a complete sheet of card stock folded in half. We’re going to need a lot of room to write messages to Gabe. I then used the stamp set for a few of the smaller balloons and cut them out with the Up and Away thinlits dies. Since I didn’t pop them up, they could easily have been stamped straight onto the card, but it’s fun to play with new toys isn’t it?!

Talking of using full sheets – the envelope used almost a full piece of DSP. The envelope punch board makes it easy to make different envelopes – especially the table on the front which tells you the paper size that you need. In this case, it was 11 by 11 and I used the floral boutique DSP.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Beautiful You

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I made a set of cards using the will-be-released-in-3-weeks stamp set, Beautiful You back in November a week after I went to Onstage. My friend Julia was lucky enough to win it as a prize patrol gift and when we were stamping together the following week, she brought it with her. Okay, I packed her bag for her to ensure that we had it! She was focused on Christmas cards, like most November stampers, but I couldn’t resist playing with it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

Not only does this set have three great images, but the sentiments are awesome and I love the fonts used too. I stamped this image in archival basic black onto watercolour paper and then used my aquapainter and the lid of my sweet sugarplum ink (see – I do have inks that aren’t red! It feels like all I’ve used lately are reds). Just a little splash of colour. I added a mat of basic black to make it pop – LOL – minor typo as I was writing this and I put that I added a moat of basic black. I guess it’s sort of a moat. Any, I used fuse to add the mat/moat which has the side effect of ensuring that the watercolour paper is perfectly flat if you’ve used loads of water (back to the moat again!). The card base is of course sweet sugarplum.

I looked in my stash of DSP that I had handy and found the perfect matching paper in Blooms & Bliss for the envelope flap. Beautfiul isn’t it?

I love this set so much that I’m going to be featuring it at two upcoming classes – January 14th and February 5th. Details coming soon.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Mediterranean Moments

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Here’s a sneak peek at a set coming up in the new Occasions catalog that will be live from January 4th. As a demonstrator, I’m able to buy from the catalog tomorrow but I also had an opportunity to order from a selected list when I went to Onstage recently. This set, Mediterranean Moments, was inspired by Susan Nygaard, one of the recent million sales achievers. It consists of four images made for watercolouring.

Mediterranean Moments

I stamped the image in the archival basic black and then used a handful of regals – cajun craze for the bricks, garden green for the chairs and plant, crushed curry for the table cloth. I also used sahara sand for the paving stones and the edges of the chalkboard and a touch of delightful dijon for the lamp. I varied the amount of water that I used to give me different tones of the same colours. So the wood on the chalkboard and the paving stones are both sahara sand, but in such different strengths that they look totally different.

Once I’d finished watercolouring, I cut a piece of basic black a tiny bit larger than the watercolour paper and then mounted it on a delightful dijon card base. It was a lot of fun to do and a refreshing break from the sparkle of Christmas cards. I love making Christmas cards but it’s nice to do something else occasionally.

Get ready to shop! From tomorrow, there will be a Year-End Closeouts sales – a selection of retiring Holiday product, clearance and high inventory items will be discounted up to 60% off. Some will be whilst supplies last so get ready!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is MSJ9ZMGN (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. Don’t forget to keep track of what you spend with me – once you get to $400 you get to select $40 for free. Check my Customer Loyalty Program tab for all the details.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sweet Cupcake Photopolymer Bundle

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Today’s project is another massive card – our recruiter at work has taken a job elsewhere and we’re going to miss her and I knew that a regular sized card would not be enough to hold all the good wishes from the IT department. So it’s a complete sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 inches folded in half.

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

Tara is quite a fan of my baking; she can frequently be found in my cube checking to see if the red box that contains my baking is there and complaining if it is missing for too long. So the sweet cupcake bundle seemed the perfect set for her card.

For the top of the cakes I used blushing bride stamped off once for the first image – the one that covers pretty much the entire cake. Then I used blushing bride for the next detailed image and sweet sugarplum stamped off once for the most detailed. I made all three cake tops the same and then cut them out with the cupcake cutouts framelits. The bases are from the 2015-2017  in colour DSP stack in tip top taupe again cut out with the framelits. The sweet word is also part of the framelits and of course I cut it out in both sweet sugarplum and blushing bride before deciding on the latter for the card. Then it was simply a matter of sticking everything down and raising a couple of the cakes up with dimensionals. I also added a very skinny tip top taupe mat to the card.

I saw a tip on Facebook yesterday from Simply Simple Stamping (although it didn’t originate there) about how to glue intricate die cuts, including words. The key is the silicone craft sheet. You place your die cut onto the craft sheet and also squirt some tombow onto the sheet. You pick up the glue with a sponge dauber (Connie used a sponge but I didn’t have a clean one handy) and, holding the die cut still, dab the glue onto the it. Actually you could do this on paper because you don’t want the diecut to move (or you’ll likely get glue on the front) but this is more forgiving – and easier to clean up. I marked my sponge dauber as “glue” so it’s always ready for service. This gives a much better result – there’s no oozing or issue with it not sticking really firmly. It’s a fabulous tip – this is the first time I’ve tried it and it’s a keeper.

I finished the card with enamel shapes in blushing bride and sweet sugarplum. And I made an envelope using the envelope punchboard using almost a sheet of the Subtles DSP stack in blushing bride.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz