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Celebrations Duo TIEF

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As long as I got this right, this is the first post to be published to my new Facebook page, My Elegant Cards so a big celebrate seemed in order by way of the Celebrations Duo TIEF. If you’re reading this on Facebook, welcome to my new page.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator -Celebrations Duo TIEF - Totally Trees

I read on Facebook yesterday that answer to an issue I’d been having with the Celebrations Duo TIEF – the paper kept cracking after I dry embossed it. The secret is apparently to use the thick whisper white cardstock rather than the regular. I tried it and yes, it works perfectly. I then took a round stamp (mine came from Totally Trees but there are many that would work) and added circles of soft sky, mint macaron and island indigo. A quick trim  to give more interest by not having completed circles all over the piece and then a mat of island indigo before adding it to a soft sky card stock. The final touch – a bow using the mint macaron linen ribbon attached with a glue dot.

To celebrate the creation of the My Elegant Cards page, I’m going to “do a Shannon” (West). She started the #ImBringingBirthdaysBack movement last year and sent a birthday card to anyone who asked for one. So, if you’d like a card sent around your birthday, leave me a message either here or over on my new page with your birthday and send me an email with your address at lizbaileycards@gmail.com.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, 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

Totally Trees

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As I’ve mentioned before, the set Totally Trees is retiring in a few days. It’s still available as of this morning and I wanted to play with it a little more when it was fair to share it with you. I stamped the tree in versamark and heat embossed it with the gold embossing powder. Next I used one of my new watercolor pencils in old olive to colour in the leaves and then a blender pen to soften it a little. I was so struck by the beauty of the image that I simply matted it with gold foil and put that onto an old olive card base. I think I’ll play a little more with Totally Trees this afternoon!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Totally Trees

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

Totally Trees for Christmas

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I mentioned that I’m sad that Totally Trees is retiring. It’s such a versatile set – it can make (and has) birthday cards, thank you cards and Christmas cards. I think I could make it into a Valentine’s one too. But today, Totally Trees is making a Christmas card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Totally Trees - Wonderful Winterland - Paper Pumpkin - Paper Pumpkin November 2016 - Confetti Stars Punch

I stamped the basic tree in always artichoke and then coloured some of the splodges in cherry cobbler, always artichoke, daffodil delight and the gold wink of Stella. Next I cut it out with my current favourite, the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. I love that the stitching adds a border that means you don’t need another mat. So easy.

I used the November Paper Pumpkin, Wonderful Winterland, for the sentiment which I stamped in cherry cobbler and then popped up the oval on dimensionals. The tree needed a little something and although I tried stamping a star using Totally Trees again and using the dazzling diamonds embossing powder, it wasn’t enough. I instead pulled out the retired confetti stars punch and punched out a gold foil star which worked perfectly.

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 – this subscription kit is so much fun, what do you have to lose?

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

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When I got home last night, my latest order had been delivered from Stampin’ Up! And this one contained the brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies released early on November 1st. Stitching has been a trend for a while and I was thrilled that these have been released because whilst I’m not about to start actually stitching on a card, I do love the look of the stitches.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Fancy Frost Specialty DSP - Christmas Greeting Thinlits - Totally Trees

Also in my order was the Fancy Frost Specialty DSP which was brought to my attention by my adopted upline, Eimear. Actually Eimear is my sister Caro’s upline but that UK based team has kindly let me be part of their fun and are encouraging me to go to the Live Onstage event in Europe with them next April. You can’t split up sisters now can you?! And yes, I double dip – I’m going away this weekend to MY upline’s cropping event, one that my sister has gone to as well. The stamping community is very friendly. Anyway, back to the card…

I very lightly sponged the fancy frost specialty DSP in always artichoke using a sponge and glued that to an always artichoke card base. I stamped one of my favourite trees from Totally Trees onto whisper white and cut it out with my brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and created an always artichoke mat using the layering ovals. The merry comes from the Christmas Greetings thinlits and it’s been cut out in cajun craze. To tie it all together, I used an enamel shape in the same colour. Since I was going to have the sentiment overlapping the image, I glued everything down flat. I look forward to playing some more with the stitched dies tonight.

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

Totally Trees

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I think I mentioned that I’ve been making birthday cards for people at work. Of course, working in a big IT department means that eventually I’ll be giving out 250 per year but I think I can manage that. If I plan!  Wednesday is Fred’s birthday – he’s on one of my three teams and his buddy asked for a large card. Or two of them. He’s been working at our company for a decade or so and therefore has a lot of friends. So I took a piece of card stock and folded it in half for the card. And realised that it’s hard making a large card – our stamps are not made expecting there to be such an expanse of card. It was a toss up between cup cakes and trees. And as you can probably guess, taking in mind the title, Totally Trees won out.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Totally Trees - All About Everything

I started with the ground which I bent a little on the block and then stamped in the middle in old olive. I added more to get to the edges of the card and then used the grass stamp to add a little texture. I then stamped a selection of trees in soft suede and added their splodges in various fall colours. The trees are turning here in New Jersey so it made sense to me to use cherry cobbler, pumpkin pie and crushed curry. My card is “not a patch on New England”, to quote my sister Caro, who coincidentally also used fall colours on her blog today but definitely fall based.

Having stamped my trees the really tough part of the project was looking for the right sized and shaped sentiment. Everything looked too small in the expanse of white space or as if it were trying to take over the card. Hence I’ve used a paper pumpkin stamp from April and nestled it in amongst the trees. The crushed curry enamel dots came about by accident but they improve the card. I had a smudge of ink there and they saved my card!

As I was slightly intimidated by the size of the card, I made my top layer and inch smaller and added a cherry cobbler layer. It makes the card more special, really frames the main part of the card and reduces the available stamping space! A win-win.

This card really started with the envelope size. I checked how large an envelope I could make and realised that by folding a piece of 8 1/2″ by 11″ card stock in half I would need 11″ by 11″ for the envelope. Obviously the DSP is 12 by 12 so I could have gone slightly larger, but that would have meant cutting up a 12 by 12 piece of cardstock for a not much larger card. This is perfect – and uses up a piece of retired designer series paper (Confetti Celebration from 2 years ago if you want the specifics) which happened to be in the right colours.

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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month – just a week to go!

See you tomorrow,

Liz