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Embellished birthday

Here’s the final birthday card for this month – it was for my sister from my brother and I somehow missed posting it earlier. I wanted it to be completely different from my card for Caro. I used the Stampin’ Up! Embellished Events and embossed the image in silver on a piece of scrap blackberry bliss. I then used the oval framelits to cut it out and used the next size up to cut out an oval in silver foil. Then came the tricky part – the sentiment. I messed with the words from Memorable Moments until I had them lined up correctly – the grid paper was invaluable there. On my first attempt despite measuring and measuring, I managed to have the words too far to the left but the second worked properly. I then glued the ovals together and onto the card.

As usual, the backgrounds DSP finished off the envelope in the coordinating blackberry bliss shade.

Embellished Events for David’s birthday

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I made this card at the beginning of the month and it spawned a couple of others – I just changed colours, DSP, ribbon, stamps and shapes and they became totally different cards, but the basic layout is the same. It’s amazing how different they look. The other two can be seen here and here.

I decided that I really needed to actually use my DSP instead of just looking at it and started with one of my favourites – the All is Calm DSP from the Holiday catalogue which has just disappeared from the clearance rack. Sorry about that, but as you can see from the other “copies” of this card, you can use any DSP. I tried the DSP on the bases of all of the colours in the DSP and decided that it looked best on lost lagoon. Then I used my stampin’ write markers in lost lagoon, soft sky and pear pizzazz (still hooked on this combination!) to colour in the image from the Stampin’ Up! Embellished Events set. I originally cropped the image as a square but I was struggling with the layout. My sister (knowing my issues with ribbon) suggested trying ribbon but it wasn’t until I changed the square to an oval, that I really liked it. I think that perhaps the square was just a few too many more vertical and horizontal lines. After matting the oval in lost lagoon, I turned to the ribbon. I tried both pear pizzazz and lost lagoon but you can see that lost lagoon one. I tried to tie a bow but it seemed a bit too girly so I just did an overhand knot and fixed the ends of the ribbon under the DSP with glue dots. I found that it was easier to figure out the placement if I adhered the ribbon before the image.

Sale-a-bration DSP

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Sale-a-bration DSP is only available for a short time and it’s exclusive to the promotion – it won’t be turning up on the clearance rack later on. Some of us seem to collect DSP. I like to take it out of my 12 by 12 file folders and look at it, consider making a card and then put it back. So I haven’t bought any of this year’s SAB or Occasions new DSP because I am getting quite a stash! I wasn’t a demo during Sale-a-bration last year (I wasn’t even making cards) but my sister joined towards the end and had an extra Sweet Sorbet pack which she gave to me.

I tried to make a card with DSP for a friend’s birthday at the end of January but there was something missing. Caro, after viewing it on Skype, gave me an evil grin and suggested ribbon. I don’t use ribbon either – but I do like to look at it and put it back! – so the thought of DSP and ribbon was causing her quite a lot of mirth. I played with the design some more and did in fact incorporate ribbon and DSP – I’ll show it after his birthday. As Susan Itell says, once you have a keeper of a layout, why reinvent the wheel. Good point. So I decided to make another card with the same sort of design but in different colours, different DSP and different shapes and that was Caro’s birthday card from Tuesday which I really loved. Actually the only similarities, as you’ll see at the end of the month, is that there is DSP for the background, there’s a matted shape on the right and there’s ribbon on the left. I was so pleased with Caro’s card that I decided to make another variant.

The base is crisp cantaloupe with a piece of the sweet sorbet DSP on top. Before adhering the DSP, I wrapped a piece of the crisp cantaloupe baker’s twine around the DSP, just long enough to tuck behind the DSP and be glued down with glue dots. I then used stampin’ dimensionals to ensure that the DSP wasn’t lumpy where it was over the twine. After that it was a simple matter of cutting another small piece of twine and tying a bow around the first piece of twine. I stamped the image also in crisp cantaloupe from the Stampin’ Up! Embellished Events stamp set and cut it out using the second windows frames die and matted it on a piece of crisp cantaloupe cut with the third one. I then glued the matted image to the DSP. Although it would’ve been easier to glue the image before popping up the DSP, it made it easier for the placement of the image once the twine was in place.

Now that I’ve used some DSP, I think I can let myself buy some of the new packs. And they are beautiful!

Larger than Life gift tags

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Here’s another thing that I’ve done with the Stampin’ Up! Larger than Life stamp set – gift tags. This will be the last Christmassy themed post for now; apparently I couldn’t just quit them cold turkey. Last, that is, until the Merry Monday challenges start up again next month!

My paternal grandparents used to give us money for Christmas and when we were small, our parents would spend it for us. To ensure that there was something to unwrap, my grandparents would buy what they called “under the tree” presents. We’ve continued that tradition, getting small Santa presents for each other – usually masterminded by my sister and myself. We had some Santa tags that we’ve used for years that originally came from Crate & Barrel; amazingly we’ve managed to keep the full set rather than losing some to the pile of wrapping paper that gets recycled. This year, whilst I was making gift tags, I decided to make some new Santa tags.

My sister Caro had mentioned that she was using the Larger Than Life set to make some monogrammed tags and I decided to go the same way. But rather than having a “from” on the back, I turned to the Embellished Events stamp set.

Doesn’t this just yell “from Santa”?! They are real red on whisper white and then matted on more real red. I didn’t have any real red ribbon but the cherry cobbler baker’s twine seemed to work rather well.

In case you’re wondering why there isn’t a C tag, my sister Caro didn’t celebrate Christmas with us this year (it was the in-laws’ year) but she has already checked that I’m intending on make her a C tag for next year and a B for Ben. Absolutely.