Dragonfly Dreams Swap Card

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Today is the first full day of Onstage Live here in Amsterdam and we’ve been swapping like crazy – little gifts amongst the team and cards and 3D items with the general population. It’s a lot of fun. So since people have already seen it, it’s time to share my swap card which features Dragonfly Dreams. And, you’ll be surprised to hear, emboss resist!

Dragonfly dreams

I started by stamping the detailed bee from Dragonfly Dreams in versamark and then sprinkled in the gold embossing powder and heated. Then I took so saffron, calypso coral and rose red and a full aquapainter and coloured the background. Once it was completely painted and I’d removed the excess color from on top of the embossing, I went over again with more so saffron which softened the look. I originally then matted this on basic black and mounted it on my whisper white card.  But then I made a pillow gift for my sister using a copper bee and decided to use the stitched shapes dies to cut it out. I preferred the look and since I’d only completed construction on one card and just a couple of matted bees changed my mind on the card. Here’s the original look – I much prefer the stitching and a wonder black border. What do you think?

Dragonfly dreams

I finished this off with the sentiment also from Dragonfly Dreams.

See you tomorrow,

I’m off to go and talk all things stamping now,

Liz

 

Sending Love Designer Series Paper Stack

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As you read this, I’m at Onstage Live and we are all having a wonderful time spending time together, playing with new products and drooling over the upcoming catalogue. BUT the catalogue is not yet live and there are loads of great things in the current catalogues to play with. This is a little pillow gift that I whipped up for my sister on Tuesday evening using the Sending Love DSP stack.

sending love pouch

It’s a pretty way to package up a couple of Ferraro Rocher chocolates and I’d been contemplating a way to do this for a week or so. I’m holding a Bingo! And Retiring Party event on April 28th and I thought it would be nice for everyone to get a little sweet surprise on their arrival. They are easy to make – I cut a piece of paper from the Sending Love DSP stack in half and then scored on the long side at 2 1/4″ and 3 3/4″, then I flipped the paper over to the other side and scored at half an inch from both ends. Then I burnished the score lines gently, put 2 chocolates in and the lovely shape just happened magically – due to the scoring on the other side. Then I punched a couple of holes with my 1/8″ punch and threaded the beautiful real red satin ribbon and tied a bow

sending love pouch side

Since this is just a little holder and doesn’t have sides, the chocolates can slide out. I fixed that with a glue dot under each wrapper – it would be sensible to put those there before tying the bow. But if you forget, you can turn it all upside down and poke a glue dot into position with a piercing tool. Yes, it works. I, er, tested that for you!

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 A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). 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

Dragonfly Dreams

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Oh I’m so excited!! I’ve actually finished my swaps and also two pillow gifts for my room-mate (my sister) and I get on a plane later today. I can’t wait to meet up with my sister Caro, her upline Eimear, (who I met almost three years ago at one of her team meetings that she kindly invited me to and has since then adopted me as part of the team), Claire, (who I’ve never met but we talk on FB a lot; she is a genius at emojis), Ali and a few more of Eimear’s downline. I’m really bummed that my best friend Julia had her days off revoked and is missing out, but we’ll make sure that we get all the stuff that she would’ve got – the catalog, the freebies and so forth. Not sure how to bring the camaraderie though. But onto today’s card using Dragonfly Dreams.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Dragonfly Dreams - Bunch of Blossoms

It’s uses another piece of the watercolor paper that I showed on Sunday, this time one that’s got more of the island indigo than bermuda bay. I trimmed it down a little so that I could mat it with Bermuda Bay and then an odd thing happened. I forgot (that’s not the odd part!) that I had used island indigo and grabbed a dapper denim cardbase and I really liked how it looked. Before I glued, I realised my error and pulled out island indigo – and it just didn’t look as good. Fascinating that the addition of water and the merging of colours changed it enough that dapper denim needed to be the card base!

I then used the Bunch of Blossoms for the sentiment which is stamped in island indigo onto watercolor paper. The clear embossing allows the colour of the watercolor paper to show through and so very vanilla just doesn’t quite match. I kept the sentiment small so as not to detract from the fun background. I popped it up with dimensionals so that it didn’t seem too insignificant though!

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 A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). 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

Paper Pumpkin April 2017 – A Sara Thing

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It’s almost that time again. Actually that’s true for a number of things: the retiring list next Monday, going to OnStage Live in Amsterdam tomorrow (yes, it’s a long way from NJ, but I’ll get to meet my sister and some friends) and this month’s Paper Pumpkin. This month is very special, the company turned creative control of the April kit over to CEO, Sara Douglass, and the end result is stunning! Her style is, “bold, vibrant, and artistic—with a little bit of sass,” which is exactly how she described the kit. Sara designed this kit for us all, so we can discover creativity through the eyes of the CEO while having an experience that is uniquely US! Get ready to embrace your inner artist and skip to the fun with Sara.
Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - April paper pumpkin

As if a kit designed by Sara is not reason enough to sign up, there’s more! She’s including a FREE gift inside every April box! It’s a surprise, but you won’t want to miss it.

What do you need to do? Just sign up for Paper Pumpkin by April 10: click here

Need some more details on Paper Pumpkin?

  • Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
  • Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions.
  • Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
  • Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
  • You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
  • A Paper Pumpkin subscription is just $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time. You can also prepay 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time (great gift idea) and save money with the latter 2 options.
  • Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last. Sometimes complete kits are available, at other times, it’s just the consumables so that you can make more.

Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Inside the Lines Colored

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I saw a Facebook Live with the CEO of Stampin’ Up!, Sara Douglass, a few days ago and she was doing an emboss resist card using the Brushstrokes stamp set. Since I seem to be addicted to that technique at the moment, how could I not have a go?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Inside the Lines - Brushstrokes - Bunch of Blossoms

I took a piece of Inside The Lines DSP, which was a paper from Sale-a-bration, and used the versamark and the Brushstrokes stamp before sprinkling the clear embossing powder and heating. I then used the cucumber crush dauber to add some colour to the paper. It really wakes up the paper. Fun. I then added a cucumber crush sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms which I cut out using the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. A little baker’s twine bow in cucumber crush finished the card which was added to a cucumber crush card base.

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 A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). 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