Monthly Archives: March 2015

Thoughts and Prayers with sympathy

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Sadly my friend Julia told me that not only does she need a baby card, but she also needs a sympathy one. She does have a stash of cards that she made herself, but it’s not large enough to cover all eventualities. Yet! I have a couple but decided to make a new one so that she has as much choice of these as she does with the baby cards.

Stampin' Up! Work of Art and Thoughts & Prayers

The swoosh is from the Stampin’ Up! Work of Art stamp set and is stamped in crumb cake, soft suede and then early espresso stamped off once on very vanilla card stock. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes but I know a lot people prefer to do it freehand. I love the stamp-a-ma-jig, it’s one of the tools without which I couldn’t stamp. I then stamped both the tree and the sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers in early espresso. The card stock is then mounted on a crumb cake base. Stampin’ Up! sells crumb cake envelopes (also whisper white and very vanilla) so this was a perfect time to pull one out. I lined it using the envelope liner framelits to cut out the liner in the backgrounds DSP in crumb cake.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Zoo Babies for a baby card

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My friend Julia told me that she needs a baby card for a coworker who has just had a boy. Of course, I don’t have any in my stash – this surprised me, I have so many cards in various boxes that I’d have thought I could cover any situation! But no. So here’s one of a few that I made, hopefully one of them will fit the bill.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

I stamped the elephant from the Stampin’ Up! Zoo Babies set in marina mist on whisper white card stock and added the sentiment underneath. It’s from the same stamp set in case you were wondering. I then cut out my stamped images with one of the circles collection framelits. I stamped another elephant on whisper white and snipped around his ear and then popped this up on a little piece of stampin’ dimensionals (a good time to use a piece from the edge of the dimensionals) for some added interest.

I ran a piece of marina mist through the texture boutique in the Alphabet Press embossing folder – so far, I only seem to use this folder for baby cards, I’ll have to issue myself a challenge to use it for something else! I originally intended to mat the embossed card with something else, possibly white, but it drew attention away from the elephant. So I just mounted it on the marina mist card base.

I lined the envelope flap with the Backgrounds DSP in marina mist –  I cut a 6″ by 2.25″ piece and trimmed it with my paper snips after I glued it on.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hand Stamped Sheltering Tree

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The Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge blog has an interesting colour challenge this week and I decided to try to use the colours without adding anything other than very vanilla.

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

Now I adore blackberry bliss, it’s such a deep, lush colour, but I haven’t tried pairing it with the other two before. But the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree was calling, heck, I haven’t used it in a few days. So the tree itself was stamped in blackberry bliss. I then tried an idea that I saw on a recording of a presentation from Leadership. I inked up the stamp with the leaves backwards! Yes – I mounted the stamp on the block backwards, inked it up with wild wasabi and after stamping it off once, stamped it over my tree. After cleaning the stamp and mounting it the normal way, I inked it in wild wasabi and stamped it over my tree image. What a brilliant idea!

I then left the card (whilst I prepped dinner) to dry before rubbing the embossing buddy over the card and stamping the little flowerhead stamp in versamark. I then used the blushing bride embossing powder and heated it up for a spring like effect. Because I truly hope that spring isn’t too far away!! Here in New Jersey, at 1200 feet, we still have more than a foot of snow on the lawn – and that’s in the parts where it hasn’t been piled up clearing the driveway. So spring seems a long way away. But, I digress!

I made a little hillock out of wild wasabi using the appropriate stamp and then also stamped the flower stems. I stamped the flowers themselves in blackberry bliss after stamping off once to give some variation from the tree itself. The sentiment, also from Sheltering Tree, is stamped in blackberry bliss as well. I mounted the very vanilla onto a base of wild wasabi and lined the envelope with the wild wasabi shade from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Endless Birthday Wishes

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Last week I shared a card that I made for a Spring challenge. I really enjoyed playing with a window in the front of the card, so I did it again. This time I’m using the Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set, so called because there are masses of mostly single words which can be put together to form many many sentiments.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

I used the circle framelits to cut out a window in the very vanilla and then cut two small frames out of pear pizzazz using same size framelit – once with the next larger and once with the next smaller. I then stamped the image in pear pizzazz through the window in the card although it would have been better to have stamped it after I’d attached the frame (but that wasn’t planned initially).

I put little dots of the multipurpose glue around the larger frame and glued that to the outside of the card. Then I did the same with the smaller frame and, with the card closed, glued the smaller frame to the inside of the card through the window. Here’s a view of the card open.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

After that I stamped the greeting in pear pizzazz. As on the previous card, the frame on the inside not only adds to the design, but gives a very clear indication of where you shouldn’t write! And here’s the inside:

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes

The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the Backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sheltering Tree for Spring

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My grandmother always told me not to wish my life away, but the frigid weather we’ve been having lately in NJ is making me long for spring. So I decided it was time to make a spring version with the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree stamp set.

Stampin' Up! Sheltering Tree

I got the colour combination of pear pizzazz, blushing bride and early espresso from the color coach and started by stamping the grassy swoosh in pear pizzazz on whisper white. I then stamped the tree in early espresso. After giving it a moment to be sure it was dry, I swiped the card with the embossing buddy before stamping the blossom in versamark and then using the blushing bride embossing powder. I love how the embossing powder allows you to have pale colours on top of the dark tree. The card seemed to need a bit more, so I stamped the flower stalks in more pear pizzazz. I decided to emboss the flowers since one at least would be over the tree and if it wasn’t embossed it would just disappear into the tree trunk. So after more embossing buddy, I added the flowers using the cherry cobbler embossing powder. I’m really pleased with how this card came out.

The envelope’s flap is lined – or maybe that should be covered – with the backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz. I just glued on a piece with the tombow glue and snipped along the edges.

See you tomorrow,

Liz