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Jolly Hat Builder Punch

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Need a few extra quick Christmas cards? Look no further than your jolly hat builder punch. In fact, whilst making this card, I cut out a few other pieces and so have the makings of another card. Or a tag.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Jolly Hat Builder Punch - Oh What Fun

I used the jolly hat builder punch on red, silver (and gold actually) glimmer paper before deciding on a red hat with silver trim. Whilst I used the liquid glue for the main part of the hat, I used fuse to attach the trim – liquid glue doesn’t stick well to glimmer paper and tends to slide around. Fuse holds everything VERY firmly!

For the simple sentiment, it’s real red ink and Oh, What Fun – a set full of greetings made for tags but perfectly at home on cards too. I cut down my layer a quarter inch to enable a thin mat of real red to echo the redness of the rest of the card, popped that onto a thick whisper white card base and I was done. These could be mass produced very easily – I may be doing that later on today since my brother needs cards for people at work. I can multi-task – make cards whilst cooking dinner. We’re eating late these days because he’s working late. It’s never a problem to make cards is it?! And glitter is so Christmassy – it’s currently over my grid paper and punch. In fact, I’m probably wearing it!

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF

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I took supplies to the dentist’s office yesterday and we had an evening party making Christmas cards. Here’s one of the easy ones that we made – an embossing folder really adds an amazing detail to a card and the new Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF (Textured impressions embossing folder) really goes one step further. It gives a really deep impression – more so if you spritz the card lightly with water first. I also used it on the envelope flap which looks beautiful.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF - Stitched Shapes Framelits dies - Oh, What Fun

So this uses a piece of cherry cobbler which we ran through the big shot in the embossing folder and then added this to a cherry cobbler card base. I then showed the girls heat embossing in metallics – gold here – and they loved it. There was extra heat embossing for the insides of cards and the back of envelopes. It really is a fabulous technique. There would be questions – “how long do I heat it” and I’d respond that they’d know when they were done. Then there’d be the squeals of delight as the powder melted and the beautiful shiny metal showed up. It was really a fun evening.

After using the Oh, What Fun set for the sentiment, we cut out the oval using the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and that produced more oohs and aahs! We glued that to a piece of gold foil and then popped it up with dimensionals. Popping things up was another popular thing to do on a card.

It really was a great evening – if you’d like to do something similar and you’re somewhat near to Randolph, NJ, get in touch and we can organise something for you.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Gift box punch board

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Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone. I’m rather more organised than this time yesterday morning and have only one more gift to wrap. Fortunately in my family we don’t open gifts until after brunch which comes after Martin’s motorbike ride (if it’s warm enough – and it is this year) and my run. So there’s time. I was too busy making dinner last night to finish off.

I had a few pieces of paper to wrap (tickets to shows etc) and I wanted to make them less obvious and more substantial and so I got out my gift box punch board. Every time that I use this, I’m grateful to Jill who bought it for me as a Secret Pal gift last year.

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

I wanted to use a tag from the Oh What Fun tag kit that I made last week and went hunting for a DSP with mint macaron. I found the perfect paper in the It’s My Party DSP. I agree it’s a large box for a voucher. There may or may not be some paper towel and walnuts in there just to confuse the recipient. My sister was delighted to see that I was using the tag that she designed (in the middle) and that went perfectly with paper from Merry Moments DSP and some retired mossy meadow ribbon. The sentiment is embossed in white and is from Flurry of Wishes.

The final box is also using Merry Moments DSP but this one is upside down so that the box closure is on the bottom. This made the top cleaner and I decorated that with a bow made with the bow builder punch out of real red that was already dry embossed with stars using the Lucky Stars TIEF. Here’s a closer look at that

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

For details on the tags, please see my post from last week.

I really like the gift box punch board – I have three examples of different sizes, the board has instructions on it for 15 different sizes (in both cm and inches) so it’s really versatile. Really easy too.

I’d love to stick around and write more and put off my run, but I’d better get moving. I hope that your day is filled with love and fun and joy.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Oh what Fun

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A couple of my friends came over to dinner this week and to make some tags. I had the Oh What Fun tag project kit all ready but because Nicole hasn’t stamped ever before, I decided to add a couple of extra tags to show her some of the fun things that we can do with ink and paper.

Stampin' Up! Oh What Fun tag project kit

We did them pretty much to the instructions although we used mint macaron ink for all the green rather than garden green for some. Apparently I was having too much fun to read the instructions! And then after we were finished we decided to upgrade the thin bakers twine to metallic cording trim or real red cotton ribbon or even metallic gold thread since it matched the bow so well. On the back we stamped the to and from which is also in the set that accompanies this tag set (and the kit is on sale at the moment). Sometimes I confess, it was difficult because we’d already finished the tag with bows or dimensionals before stamping. Definitely challenging.

Stampin' Up! Oh What Fun

Once we’d each completed the 10 tags in the kit, it was time to move on to the extras. First we started with the bow builder punch and the merry moments paper and numerous glue dots. My sister designed this tag when she was here last and I know that Julia likes this punch. Then we took the precut 2 inch strip of cherry cobbler and made the top pretty (and made a hole for the twine) with the scalloped tag topper punch. Then it was time to impress Nicole with the heat embossing – it’s a shame that it’s in white since the metallics really pop but she was wowed anyway.

The last tag was using my favourite sleigh ride edgelits dies which I cut out of a real red circle the same size as the base of the tag. This way the curves match up. The textured whisper white piece is the next size down in the circles collection and we then dry embossed it with the softly falling textured embossing folder. This wowed Nicole also. It’s really fun showing people what you can do with paper and ink and tools.

See you tomorrow,
Liz