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Floral Boutique DSP

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I was having some fun carding this weekend, but I kept making Christmas cards so I moved all my Christmas sets to one side and decided I was making a non Christmas card. They tried to creep back in as I looked at the sketch at the Pals Paper Arts this week, but I resisted and kept my eyes firmly on the Floral Boutique DSP which is beautiful, but for some of the patterns, I can’t envision a really large piece on a card. It would take over. So it was perfect for this challenge.

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Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

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The reason that this post came out so early is that I’m off to New York for a 2 day conference and I figured it would be best to be certain that I’ve entered it in the challenge rather than struggling from a hotel room. So I cut a strip of the Floral Boutique DSP and added it to my whisper white layer. I knew I wanted a bright pop of colour and tried to use anything but melon mambo but in vain! I love it with the night of navy. So I cut a piece of whisper white slightly under an inch so that it would fit easily into the triple banner punch and created my flag. I popped it up with dimensionals but decided something was missing. That something apparently was some enamel shapes in melon mambo which, I think, finished it off perfectly.

Don’t forget that this is the midway point of the World Card Making celebration at Stampin’ Up! It ends on Wednesday. What with that and the buy 3 get 1 free DSP offer, this is a good time to put in an order. I’m off to put one in myself right now!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO. The World Card Making deals last until tomorrow and the “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Merry Medley for FMS

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As I mentioned yesterday, I embossed the Merry Medley image in copper embossing powder on night of navy and then cut it up into ten or so separate sentiments. Here I’m using another of them.

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I was inspired by the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches which is:

I don’t think I’ve ever covered the card front completely in DSP before, it definitely gives a very clean look. This is a piece from the Floral Boutique DSP. To tie the copper embossing into the rest of the card, I added a piece of copper foil as one of the sketch’s elements, it’s very rich looking.

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And to finish off the card, I popped up the sentiment. Truly a very quick and easy card – once you’ve got a pile of ready embossed sentiments in front of you anyway!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Floral Boutique DSP

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I started my card for today by deciding that I really should use some DSP and there was a scrap of the Floral Boutique DSP in my folder. I have a plastic hanging box which takes 12 by 12″ hanging files and I use those to hold my DSP – scraps of a stack are put at the front of the file. Actually this piece was wider and it wasn’t until I was almost done with my card that I realised why it was bothering me and trimmed down my DSP to be an accent rather than trying to take over the card! And that was a good thing, because after I’d stacked my DSP on my piece of whisper white and ensured that the edges were perfect, I was removing an extra spot of glue and managed to push the DSP so that it was wonky. And I didn’t notice until the wiggle room time was up. I usually love that the multipurpose glue gives you adjustment time, but very occasionally, I’ll mess something up because I was done but the glue wasn’t. So I just trimmed off the wonky edge and that’s a second, very easy way, to get your edges lined up perfectly!

Stampin' Up! Floral Boutique DSP and watercolor wishes

I love the navy and white together but I decided that I wanted another pop of colour – and that it wouldn’t be melon mambo, just for a change. I had the watercolour wishes happy birthday sentiment still mounted on a block from yesterday’s card which explains the choice of sentiment. I stamped in sweet sugarplum on a piece of scrap and cropped it out with the layering ovals framelits dies, I also used them to crop out my sweet sugarplum mat. Incidentally, if you don’t have these layering dies, they are on special this week until the 21st, for only $26.25. That’s a great bargain. Just click on the Shop Now button and they can easily be yours – don’t forget to use the hostess code to start amassing your loyalty points. For more details on my loyalty program, click the button on the left.

Then it was just a matter of construction – I put the DSP right up to the edge of the whisper white (and adjusted as previously mentioned!), added a little layer of sweet sugarplum and put that onto a night of navy base. I popped the sentiment and it’s mat up on dimensionals.

Every time I use the Floral Boutique DSP,  I wonder why I haven’t used it more recently. So I hope you like this stack, I have a feeling I’ll be playing with it at the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Floral Boutique DSP for Freshly Made Sketches

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Yesterday I was playing with the Detailed Floral Thinlits dies and I flipped to the catalog showing the Floral Boutique suite and was reminded how beautiful the Floral Boutique DSP is (that’s Designer Series Paper in case you’re wondering). So when I saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, I decided to use this paper.

Stampin' Up! Floral Boutique DSP and Botanical Builders thinlits dies

Here’s the banner from the challenge sketch which ends today:

I decided to follow the sketch pretty much to the letter. I first cut a piece of the Floral Boutique DSP 2 by 4.5 inches and then a piece of whisper white just 1/8 inch larger for the mat. After gluing that panel to my night of navy card base, I made my flower. I cut out two flowers using the botanical builder framelit dies, one in night of navy and one in whisper white and layered them. I attached them together in the middle with glue dots and pushed the petals up so that there is a lot of extra dimension. Happily I have the new enamel shapes in regals and there of the larger circles were perfect as my flower centre.

Even more happily, I’d first cut my DSP at 2.5 inches wide and decided it was too big and so removed a half an inch. And this leftover strip made a perfect decoration for my envelope to make it match my card.

Stampin' Up! Floral Boutique DSP and Botanical Builders thinlits dies

I’m really not sure why I used to be so nervous of sketch challenges – they are my preferred type these days! I encourage you to have a go if, like I used to be, you move on rapidly when you see that a challenge is a sketch.

See you tomorrow,

Liz