Window Box Thinlits Dies Candles

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When I made the box using the window box thinlits dies recently, I really liked one of the dies that is designed to add a pattern to the side of the box. I thought it would be perfect for a birthday card so that’s what I’m sharing today. I wanted a really clean, mostly white card to really show this off. I intended to have all my candles the same size to start with but that morphed into three different colours.

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

I started by running the die through the big shot with a piece of whisper white and then started cutting strips of coloured card about 1/4 inch wide. The flames are so saffron and about 1 1/2 inches long whereas the candles are just over an inch long. I’ve got pear pizzazz, sweet sugarplum and calypso coral on the card. I used snail to add glue around the edges of the white card since they don’t need to be firmly stuck down, just held in place long enough to get the pieces onto the card base. Here’s what the back looks like – as you can see, there’s nothing holding down the tops of the candles:

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

I stamped the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in pear pizzazz and then used more snail over the back of the candles to glue it down. Here’s a close up showing the candles a little better

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

It’s definitely a fun die to play with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; 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. To get a free Sale-a-bration product, an easy way to spend the $50 is to order a prepaid 3 month paper pumpkin subscription at $55 instead of the regular price of $59. Already a subscriber? It doesn’t matter – you can buy a prepaid and once that runs out you go back to your monthly subscription. Personally, I like to buy a 12 month subscription because it’s $2 cheaper per month AND it gets me 4 Sale-a-bration items!

Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Beautiful You Paper Piecing

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Beautiful You was one of the first sets on my must have list and I made 8 cards with it the weekend after Julia won the set during Prize Patrol. I didn’t want to have all 8 post on my blog in a row, but I think maybe I’m spreading them out a bit too much! Beautiful You is a really versatile stamp set; with three beautiful images and eight sentiments it’s able to handle almost any occasion.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

I picked out calypso coral for this card and used the colour and my aquapainter to colour in the girl’s dress which was stamped on watercolor paper. One reminder on this – the archival basic black is great, but give it a little time to really dry or your colouring ends up a little grey! I also find it easier (unless I’m doing a big watery wash) to keep very little water in the brush – it’s more controllable. Whilst the dress was drying, I stamped the top of the image again onto the flower design of the calypso coral sheet from the Subtles DSP stack. After snipping around her hat, I glued that in place to give her a fun hat which I matched by covering the envelope flap in the same paper.

Then it was a simple matter of adding a slim basic black mat with fast fuse – a strong adhesive is needed to ensure that the watercolor paper is perfectly flat after it’s been absorbing water. And finally gluing it all onto a calypso coral card base.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; 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. That could be a 3 month prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription which is currently on sale! 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 Time

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It’s the 9th of the month which means that it’s almost your last chance to sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get this month’s kit. Here are the alternative cards that I made with January’s kit which was actually about treat bags. Apparently I got completely side tracked by the stamp set in the kit!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 4 - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 5 - Adoring Arrows - Love Notes Framelits dies - Sealed with love Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 3 - Adoring Arrows Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 2 - Adoring Arrows Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 - Adoring Arrows

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 3 options.
  • There’s a special on the 3 month prepaid subscription – $55 instead of $59. And since it’s over $50 you earn a FREE sale-a-bration item.
  • 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 hostess code to enter the raffle; 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

Bookcase Builder

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As I mentioned when I introduced my giveaway this month, I’m going to be showcasing the Bookcase Builder set. There are a couple of colleagues at work whose wives are expecting babies in May and for once, I’m trying to be prepared! Neither knows what they are having, so I need two of each type of card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

This was a fun card to make – just enjoy making your own DSP. I used only the ABC blocks image and dapper denim and randomly stamped onto a piece of very vanilla ensuring that some were off the edges of the card. Then I trimmed down my “usual” size piece of 5 1/4 by 4 inches by 1/4 inch so that I could add a skinny mat of delightful dijon before adding that to the dapper denim base. It’s not quite a traditional pale blue baby card, but unmistakenly a baby card – especially with the congratulations stamped inside and another teddy bear. The typeface of the sentiments in Bookcase Builder is especially beautiful in my opinion.

To finish off the card, I stamped the delightful dijon teddy bear onto very vanilla, cut it out with my favourite stitched shapes dies and then popped it up with dimensionals.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; 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

Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 5

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With just a couple of days to go before the deadline to be on the list for the February paper pumpkin, I’m up to my Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 5. This one is the thank you card that I sent out to my January customers and it combines the January Paper Pumpkin, Adoring Arrows and the Sealed with love bundle.

- Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 5 - Adoring Arrows - Love Notes Framelits dies - Sealed with love

Using sweet sugarplum ink, I stamped the sentiment all over my background layer, ensuring that some fell off the edges. Then I stamped off once and added a little layer of hearts onto a piece of scrap before cutting it out with the Love Notes framelits dies. I then stamped the thank you sentiment again on the middle of the note. The dies includes one to make a little envelope and I cut this one out of the Sending Love glassine sheets; it’s easy to assemble especially since the die adds score lines. I put it together with a glue dot and topped that with an enamel shape and popped it up with some dimensionals. It was fun making them and surprisingly quick too. Just use a piercing mat to ensure good coverage when using the photopolymer stamp and you’re good to go – just don’t forget some scrap to cover the mat when you’re stamping off the edge.

- Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 5 - Adoring Arrows - Love Notes Framelits dies - Sealed with love

Just a reminder about the customer loyalty programme this month. I decided to have some fun and this month it’s a raffle for a stamp set – Bookcase Builder. For each order using my hostess code, Y3JVQ4Q7, you get an entry into the raffle to win a free stamp set. There will also be a little something in the mail for people who don’t win the stamp set.

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