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Boho Chic embossing folder

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Here is a card showcasing a couple of sneak peeks from the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue which is due to be unveiled next Tuesday.

Stampin' Up! Yippee-Skippee!

It is also using Yippee-Skippee! which is on the retiring list so if you want it, you need to get it asap! I stamped the sentiment on very vanilla in mint macaron (yes the spelling is correct, it’s the meringue type cookie, not a coconut macaroon), one of the new in colours and cut it out with one of the circles framelits. I used the next size up to cut out the mat. The background is made using another new item in the upcoming catalog, the Boho Chic embossing folder. I used a brayer to ink up the side of the folder that does not have the Stampin’ Up! logo on it so that the colour was pushed into the paper. I then matted that with more mint macaron and adhered it to a very vanilla card base. The sentiment is popped up on stampin’ dimensionals.

I’d like to say that I decided to decorate the envelope flap in the same fashion whilst I still had the brayer and embossing folder inked up, but sadly no. That idea didn’t come to me until today, a couple of days after I’d made the card. I was going to make an envelope using the new envelope paper, but it’s in mint macaron and white, not very vanilla. I’m really pleased with how the envelope matches so I’m happy that I didn’t have any paper with mint macaron and very vanilla.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Birthday Bash Specialty Paper

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One of the new specialty DSP packs in the occasions 2015 catalogue is the Birthday Bash paper. I’ve had this piece cut out ready for a card for a while but couldn’t decide what to do next. I’d been planning to use it with crushed curry but as soon as I changed  the card base to pumpkin pie, it all made sense. Sometimes cards take a while to develop.

Stampin' Up! Yippee Skippee

I stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Yippee Skippee set in pumpkin pie on whisper white card stock and then cut it out with the circles collection framelits. I cut out the next larger size from a scrap of pumpkin pie card stock. At this point I decided that I needed something else to anchor the circles and to break up some of the DSP and that’s when I realised that a piece of ribbon with the sentiment would mimic the background. Fortunately I had some pumpkin pie ribbon from a ribbon share last year (I don’t use ribbon very often as you may have noticed so it lasts forever) and after a quick iron to remove the fold from where it was wrapped around a piece of card, I taped the ribbon to the back of the DSP. I then mounted the DSP to the pumpkin pie card base. After that it was simple matter of attaching the sentiment to the card with stampin’ dimensionals. I lined the outside flap of the envelope with a scrap of the same DSP so that it all coordinates.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Bordering Blooms for a one layer card

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My cards are usually simple because I like the clean look, rather than lots of embellishments and layers and clutter. I like to have open space. But they aren’t usually one layer cards – they are almost harder to do since you want enough interest in the card but you’re not using any layers to help. This one uses two sets from the Annual catalogue – the Stampin’ Up! Bordering Blooms and Yippee Skippee sets. The catalogue has a number of stamps with borders – which are easy to skip over – because they discontinued the wheel stamps. People would have issues getting the wheels to move in a straight line; I only tried a few times but I’m much happier now that I’ve “de-wheeled” my wheel stamps and made them into ordinary clear stamps. This card uses the final stamp from the Bordering Blooms set that I referred to recently that hadn’t previously been inked. Since I know that the border sets are easy to skip over, I wanted to highlight one on a card.

Stampin' Up! Bordering Blooms and Yippee Skippee

The base is blackberry bliss, one of the 2014-2016 in colours and one of my favourites. I love the richness of the colour. I used the embossing buddy before embossing the border in gold. This is actually the third attempt – the first two didn’t have the border in the right place so I have some embossed borders to use up on another card or two! I then embossed the sentiment from Yippee Skippee also in gold. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the large polka dot embossing folder, although you can’t see that in the picture. I struggle to photograph the metallics – somehow the top of the card is more blurry than the rest. I’m not sure quite how that happened. But, as the sentiment says, life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful!

 

Yippee Skippee Valentine

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I really liked a Christmas card that my sister and I made at the fall crop last November. I decided to take the same layout and change things up a bit to create today’s card. It’s a simple card, but effective.

Stampin' Up! Yippee Skippee

After using the embossing buddy (which I need to brush off the card before photographing it!) I stamped the upper sentiment in versamark on real red and sprinkled on the white embossing powder. It’s from the Yippee Skippee set. After heat embossing this, I stamped the sentiment from Good Greetings, also in versamark with white embossing powder. This top layer was a 4.75″ by 3.5″ piece of real red. The next layer is a piece of whisper white a quarter inch larger in both dimensions. This is all glued onto a base of real red in the usual half size of card stock which is a half inch bigger than the white and thus gives more interesting layers.