New Sale-a-bration items are available

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New Sale-a-bration items are available from today! It’s an exciting time and I can bet that the new glimmer paper will be flying off the shelves. I know some of it is flying my way! Here’s the video that was shown to demonstrators recently announcing the new products

And here’s the link to the pdf showing the new products. Don’t worry, the previously announced items are still available.

Second part SAB

Just as a reminder – during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE item from the now 15 available. It’s a great time to stock up on basics and earn freebies for it as well as picking new product from the occasions catalog. It’s also a wonderful time to save on a 3 month prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription (and get a Sale-a-bration freebie for it!) or, as I’m about to do, a 12 month prepaid subscription and earn FOUR freebies!

I hope you’re as excited as I am about today’s new products. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

Designer Tin of Cards

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I have a card class on Saturday 18th March and I’m already prepping for it! I think that may be a record. The class is to make the Designer Tin of Cards project kit which consists of a tin, 16 cards and tabs to help organise them. I’m guessing you’re wondering just what there is to prep? Well it’s 4 copies of 4 cards and I decided I wanted to make a few alternatives (no surprise, I know!) in case people wanted some extra variety.

I was a bit surprised to notice that when the card is based on the Moroccan DSP, the shape to go on it is whisper white. So I’ll ensure that I have plenty of very vanilla on hand so that people can swap those out. I also decided that I didn’t want to cover up most of the patterned card and have created 2 cards out of the supplies of one with just a few extra basics.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Moroccan DSP - Layering Squares Framelits Dies

The large patterned piece is from the kit and I added it to a delightful dijon card base. Next I laid down a strip of the kit’s washi tape folding the ends to crease it where I wanted to cut and then cutting it off. I know that washi is planned as a rough and ready tape, but I don’t like the ragged edges! I cut a little strip of Moroccan DSP to lay on top of some of the washi – in fact that little strip is where I got the delightful dijon from. To continue the colour scheme, I used delightful dijon for the sentiment from the Designer Tin of Cards stamp set (on very vanilla!) and added a layering piece of early espresso cut out using the layering squares framelits dies. I popped this up with dimensionals.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

 

Moon Baby Watercolor

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I decided to leave my stamped Moon Baby image left over from yesterday to dry overnight so that I could be certain it was really dry and ready for the aquapainter. Of course, I’ve now made two baby cards for girls and I found out this morning that one of the babies on the way is a boy. Good to have extra cards on hand, right?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Moon Baby - Baby Bear

I started by lightly outlining the image with the pacific point pencil to make the image pop but then decided on a blue sky. I was initially going to get darker towards the edges but I liked the watercolour effect with looks of different texture after the first round of colour and left it. I used the daffodil delight pencil for the moon and the star, calypso coral for the face and hand and then melon mambo for the clothing. It’s amazing what a bit of water can do for the colour!

I added a little border (just 1/8 inch larger all round) and used fast fuse to ensure my slightly damp watercolour paper holds fast. There are quite a few baby sentiments in the Moon Baby set but I wanted a longer less deep sentiment, if that makes sense. It was originally a surprise to me that not only do you need a sentiment to say the right thing, it needs to be in a typeface which matches your card AND it needs to be the right shape. At least, that’s how I justify buying more and more stamp sets with sentiments! Baby Bear had the perfect size and shape and meaning for my sentiment. Yesterday, I used daffodil delight as a base because that was the colour of the watercolor pencil. Today I used so saffron – I think I like this better. Which do you prefer?

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

Moon Baby

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A super simple card today playing with a brand new stamp set from the Occasions catalog along with the watercolor pencils, Moon Baby. It’s an adorable stamp set and it caught my eye the first time I looked through the catalog. I was extra happy to hear that two of my colleagues at work are both about to become fathers so that I have an excuse to play with it!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Moon Baby

I re-inked my archival basic black first – I don’t think I remember to do that enough, it was really thirsty. Seeing as it’s used on a high percentage of cards, it probably should be done fairly regularly. I stamped the image and sentiment onto a piece of watercolor paper and then started laying down some colour with the pencils – daffodil delight for the moon, calypso coral for the face, a little early espresso for the hair and a mixture of calypso coral and melon mambo for the clothing. I used the blender pen to pick up the early espresso from the tip of the pencil rather than putting the pencil directly onto the paper. Then I blended all the colour, adding more where it needed it. It was a nice relaxing five minutes. Since I stamped two copies of this, I think I’ll go and have another five minutes with Moon Baby!

Then it was a simple matter of adding a piece of basic black as a mat with fast fuse – my adhesive of choice where watercolour paper is concerned – and then gluing that to a daffodil delight card base. For the final touch, I added a gold metallic star.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

Paper Pumpkin February 2017

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It’s that time of the month when the red Paper Pumpkin boxes are appearing in mail boxes all over the country. If you haven’t received yours yet, here’s what’s coming your way.

As usual, once mine gets here (I’m in NJ so I’m one of the last to get it I think) I’ll be creating alternative projects with the kit contents.

In case you don’t know what Paper Pumpkin is about, here are the details:

  • 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.

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. A 3 month prepaid Paper Pumpkin is currently on sale ($55 instead of $59), so not only do you get almost a 7% discount, you get to select a Sale-a-bration freebie. What more could you ask for?! Just order as normal at my online store – you can put the code 137859 in the search bar and it will take you right there.

Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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 more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz