Stylish Stems Framelits Dies

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Today I’m sharing a quick clean and simple card but an effective one nonetheless. It pretty much made itself once I started playing with the Stylish Stems Framelits Dies and, as a bonus, I have a bunch of pieces ready cut out with other dies to play with too.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Stylish Stems Framelits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms

The Stylish Stems Framelits Dies contains some unusual pieces – there’s a die to cut out the flower itself but it leaves it in the card so it’s more peeking through to the next layer. I used another of the dies to cut the edges of my calypso coral flower creating the piece which I could layer. The stem and leaves together are another die and I cut it into the whisper white layer  before carefully layering the flower on top – lining up a piece of the flower to hide the top of the stem. The sentiment is from Bunch of Blossoms (I really love the mixed typefaces in these sentiments) and it’s in pear pizzazz – and stamped before I glued anything down. I then layered my whisper white panel onto a pear pizzazz card base.

I used the silicone mat to add tombow glue to the back of the flower. It’s a really easy way to add delicate die cuts. Just put a splodge of tombow onto the silicone mat and use a sponge dauber to pick up some glue. I then dab the dauber onto a clean part of the mat to take off the excess and then dab it onto the back of the die cut. When the dauber starts seeming to be a little sticky, I know that it’s time to add a little more glue. You need enough to stop the dauber sticking to the delicate die cut, but not so much that you get excess splodging  around it. Be careful not to move the die cut or you’ll likely get glue onto the front.

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.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Beautiful You Watercoloring

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Here’s a thinking about you kind of card using the Beautiful You set and just a single colour – mint macaron

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

I stamped the image using archival basic black ink on watercolor paper and, after giving it time to really dry, used an aquapainter and ink from the lid of my mint macaron ink pad to colour in the girl and her umbrella. Another of the awesome mixed typeface sentiments and then it was a simple matter of construction. I trimmed the watercolour paper so that I could have a basic black skinny mat and still have a 1/4 inch of the mint macaron card base showing – I need to play with different borders more, it’s fun how they change the look of the card. I used some of the mint macaron patterned paper from the Subtles DSP stack to line the envelope flap.

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.

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

Colour is Amazing

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Colour really is amazing; I had a card class last night and we were playing with the Hey Chick stamp set and the watercolor pencils and my friends decided to change up the colours since we were making two of the same design cards. My original chick was coloured with daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and bermuda bay but after Tara had used the calypso coral pencil on one of her cards, I decided to follow suit and change colours on my second card. This led to some hasty cutting out of new background pieces but we ended up with lots of color ways. Here I used real red, calypso coral, pumpkin pie and daffodil delight. The design is still the same as the original, but the dry embossed piece is now calypso coral. The chicken also looked great on Steph’s card with daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and pacific point with a pacific point background – I neglected to get a photo of that. But play around and change up the colours.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hey Chick

Here’s the original – isn’t it amazing what a change in colour will do?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hey Chick

We also played with Beautiful You and made two similar cards, changing sentiments and colours. We also stepped up the second why by doing a little paper piecing using the subtles DSP stack. Here are my two examples. Again, the colour really changes the mood doesn’t it – here we have sweet sugarplum and so saffron. Which do you like best?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You      Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

 

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects. 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.

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

Bookcase Builder

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Here’s a card using the bookcase builder set to make shelving, but just a little shelf. It’s also showcasing the new emerald envy 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon which is so easy going.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder

I wanted to leave enough space for one of the great sentiments in the set and that meant having less as the focal point. A little shelf with a space on the left for a bow was the perfect answer. The shelf is archival basic black and the books and teddy bear are in emerald envy, dapper denim and delightful dijon. Once I’d stamped those and trimmed down the whisper white, I cut a piece of basic black as the mat. Next was the sentiment which I actually embossed in white but rather than using versamark, I used the craft white ink. Not only does heat embossing dry the rather juicy ink, I get much better coverage with the embossing powder because it’s so juicy. I popped the panel up with dimensionals and then added the emerald envy ribbon bow with a glue dot.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project, having such a large border of emerald envy reminds me again what a great colour it is! I’m already into the “oh my, in colours are retiring in 3.5 months” which has me looking more at all the in colors. So you’re likely to see more of the in colors coming up, especially the ones actually retiring this year – I’m really going to miss mint macaron and delightful dijon. How about you? Which ones are you going to miss?

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.

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

Window Box Thinlits Dies again

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I was really pleased with yesterday’s card using the Window Box Thinlits dies, or at least the candles die where I made a pretty subtle card. Actually it was using mostly colours from the subtle collection and sweet sugarplum fits in well. I decided to make another, but this one a lot brighter and louder and therefore I turned to the brights collection and a different in-colour which fits nicely with the brights, cucumber crush.

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

I took a piece of whisper white card stock and lined the candles die up to the corner, and just remembered vaguely the margin around the die. After running it through the big shot, I moved it over, guesstimating how far along and trying to remember what my margin looked like. I was happy that it came out so well – and I got my gap between the 2 sets of candles pretty good. Then came the second row and all I had to guide me was the edge piece – I had to guess on height. Apparently it was my day and it all came out fine.

There wasn’t enough space to add snail like I did yesterday, so instead I got out my silicone mat and a sponge dauber and carefully dabbed a little tombow glue on the back being careful not to let my piece move. It wasn’t perfect – there was some time with the glue eraser, but it was pretty good. Next I took little strips of scrap cut a hair over 1/4 inch wide in cucumber crush,  melon mambo, pumpkin pie and daffodil delight and put them on the back. They didn’t all stick perfectly, but well enough that I could put snail all over the back and glue it to a cucumber crush mat.

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

I debated on sentiments and banners but in the end, everything detracted from the fun. And it’s not as if it’s not obvious that it’s a birthday card! I took a piece of whisper white to get an idea on the size that I wanted which turned out to be 4 1/4 square. Using the envelope punch board, it was simple to create a custom envelope for my square card. And since I’ll likely give this to someone at work, it doesn’t matter that it’s a square envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle for the Bookcase Builder stamp set; 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. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz