Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper

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The Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper, and especially this pattern, is one of the best papers in the Occasions catalog in my opinion. It’s also running out (it’s hit the low inventory marker on the status report) and on sale at $6.60 down from $11. A steal. I had a different layout in my head but apparently my hands weren’t in the know and they cut the paper differently!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper - Paper Pumpkin October 2016 - Season of Gratitude

And once I had my piece of  Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper cut, it was a matter of looking for the right sentiment. It needed to be the right size and a single line. I eventually found a stamp that’s been sitting out since I couldn’t figure out where it came from – I eventually decided that it had to be from a Paper Pumpkin set and a quick look through the Paper Pumpkin pinterest boards revealed that it’s from the October 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit, Season of Gratitude. At least now I can put it away! I stamped it in mint macaron to match the DSP and used a mint macaron card base.

I hope that you’re feeling inspired to pull out some designer series paper and actually make some cards with it. It’s quite liberating cutting it up!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Stylized Birthday

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I’m really having fun pulling out Designer Series Paper and actually using it. Rather than pulling it out, looking at it and putting it back, it’s being made into cards which will be sent and shared with people. Such an idea! At Onstage last month, Sara was talking about “make a card, send a card” because it’s a bit of a demo habit to have cards in boxes, unsent. Which means that we’re not sharing what we’re creating. Such a shame. So I’m embracing the making AND sending of DSP cards, egged on by Eimear, my sister’s upline in the UK. Her challenge to her team this month is to create ten cards using up old DSP and send them. Want to join us? Today’s card is a simple one featuring the Stylized Birthday stamp.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Stylized Birthday - Serene Scenery DSP

I wasn’t sure about the stamp set, Stylized Birthday, – it’s just a single stamp with a wooden block for $10. I wasn’t sure it was very versatile, but I’ve used it loads since I’ve got it. It’s just as useful inside the card as on the outside and here, it adds just the right touch to this beautiful bokeh piece of designer series paper. I heat embossed it in gold and it makes a really classy birthday card. The base is old olive and I left just a tiny border. After heat embossing, I like to use fast fuse to attach the paper – it usually ends up a little warped even though I put some heat onto the backside of the paper which flattens it out a little.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello You Thinlits Dies

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I am really sad that the Hello You Thinlits Dies are retiring – I often reach for them for the finishing touch for a card as can be seen here. If you imagine the card without the hello, it’s nothing much. Add the lovely copper foil word and there’s fun.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hello You Thinlits Dies

I’m continuing on my quest to make cards using DSP so as to make room for the new beautiful DSP coming our way soon! This beautiful patterned paper comes from the Fruit Stand DSP (currently still available and on sale for $8.80); I love the soft watercolored look. I’ve just cut a rectangle of the DSP ( 4 1/2″ by 3 1/4″) and then matted it with a piece of peekaboo peach that is 1/8 inch larger so that there’s a tiny 1/16 inch border all around. This is then put onto a card base of thick whisper white. I can’t wait to get the thick very vanilla that’s in the new catalog!

Then I cut out the hello from the Hello You Thinlits Dies in copper foil and used the silicone craft mat, a dauber and tombow to glue it on. You put glue on the dauber and then dab most of it off so that you’re only dabbing a little onto the back of the sentiment. As long as you don’t allow the sentiment to move, there’s no glue on the front and no oozing from the back.

Here are a few other cards I’ve made with the Hello You thinlits dies

Stampin' Up! Festive Birthday DSP and Hello You thinlits Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Avant Garden - Hello You thinlits dies - emboss resist Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You framelits Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Many Manly Occasions

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP

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Today I wanted to highlight one of my favourite papers in the Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP pack – indeed one of the papers which make this pack a Specialty one. It’s the night of navy with copper foil embossing and it’s beautiful. It’s also on sale right now at $5.20 instead of $13.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Petals and Paisleys Specialty DSP

The big flower was towards the edge of the remaining piece of the DSP and I decided to use that as my focal point. After I’d trimmed it down, it was an odd size – too big to easily add a sentiment, too small to really carry the card on its own. So I added a copper border so that it almost looks as if the design is carved into the night of navy cardstock to allow the copper to show through. I then added another night of navy layer with more copper foil. If I’d designed this up front, I could’ve cut the smaller rectangle from the larger which would have been more economical. But I think this DSP deserves the extravagance!

My adopted upline challenged her team to make 10 cards with DSP and actually send them. In looking back at my recent cards, there has been an unusual amount of DSP – now all I need to do is SEND them!

Maybe you could help me out – if you would like a new 2017-2018 catalog, contact me and I’ll send you one (when they arrive) along with a card showcasing DSP!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Eastern Palace DSP and Acorny Thank You

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I know that every blog around is talking about the newly released Eastern Palace suite so I decided to be a little different. No surprises there, I know! The difference isn’t  that I’m massively late in posting, even though it may seem that way – I’m late because I’m still fighting off a nasty upper respiratory infection. So the difference to which I’m referring is that I’m highlighting just the Eastern Palace DSP at the moment along with sets that are retiring that, in my mind, you need to grab as fast as possible. Once they are gone, they are gone. The Acorny Thank You stamp set with the matching Acorny Builder punch are just such products – I didn’t think that I needed this to begin with, not seeing much call for acorns, but once I’d ordered them after a glass of wine, I found that I used them quite a lot. They are really fun – and on sale! The punch is $12.60, down from $18 and the stamp set is only $15. Yes, I’m an enabler, but I do it to myself too – that’s presumably why I have 2 orders currently in transit!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Palace DSP - Acorny Thank You - Acorny Builder Punch

I used the punch to cut out acorns and hats from the DSP sheets that I used yesterday and then inked up the gorgeous tranquil tide for the sentiment. Since the Eastern Palace DSP has very vanilla (a major bonus in my book) I used that as the layer. I then cut off the stalks from the whole acorns (because they are fiddly to layer and I’d punched them the other way) and glued the gold and vanilla tops on. The middle one is popped up with dimensionals. The whole layer is on a card base of tranquil tide.

Here are a few of the cards that I’ve made using the Acorny Thank You stamp set and builder punch:

Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank you   Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank You and January 2016 Paper Pumpkin   Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank You   Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank You and Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I have today’s and yesterday’s cards propped up on my desk next to each other and the two together make me think of the in colors that went out last year – blackberry bliss and lost lagoon. I mourned those colours but I think I like these better. Tranquil Tide is more intense, more deeply green and makes lost lagoon (which I loved) seem almost a little pale, if not insipid. And Fresh Fig is more purple – blackberry bliss was sometimes almost too dark so as to appear black. And excitingly, the two bundles that are available to customers right now, include these 2 colours plus lemon lime twist. Or, if you join the Stampin’ Up! family, one of the perks is being able to pre-order and anything on the pre-order list is available to be put into your Starter Kit.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). 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.

See you tomorrow (hopefully at a more normal time!),

Liz