Monthly Archives: April 2015

Painted Blooms and Painted Petals

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I just got back from another crop weekend hosted by my upline Jen and a couple of her friends. My best friend Julia and I have spent the last two days making cards, laughing, meeting new people, talking to old friends, somehow getting covered in glitter (and none of my cards have glitter) and making more cards. It was a lot of fun. They provide a good bag and there were a number of sheets of the Painted Blooms DSP in there which is very pretty. I used about a sixth of a sheet to make this card. I’ve seen a number of people make a set of 6 cards using this paper and it seems like a pretty good idea. I decided to use different coloured bases for mine rather than having them all match.

Stampin' Up! Painted Blooms and Painted Petals

The sentiment is from Painted Petals and a favourite thank you of mine. I love the typeface and the neatness of the sentiment in a block. I stamped it in mossy meadow (although the DSP doesn’t have mossy meadow in it) on whisper white and cut it out using the circles framelits. I then cut up the next size from mossy meadow and glued them together. I popped the circle up using stampin’ dimensionals on the DSP which was adhered to a mossy meadow base. I think it’s rather effective and I’m thrilled to have used some of my DSP so promptly! I should add that Julia managed to use her whole sheet of this one. I’m not quite there yet.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Moon Lake Watercolouring

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I was looking forward to using the Stampin’ Up! Moon Lake set ever since I’d used it at a card class at Jen’s house. I knew it was waiting for me on my return from Barcelona and I planned to do some more watercolouring. This card took more work than expected – it was originally going to be horizontal and with mats etc. but it didn’t want to play that way.

Stampin' Up! Moon Lake

I used the oval framelits to cut out a template from a spare piece of card and used that to create the water coloured background in marina mist. I squeezed the ink pad to get some ink on the top of the case and using the aqua painter (with very little water in it) diluted the ink and coloured the oval. After allowing it to dry I used night of navy to stamp the image on top. After many many attempts with mats, DSP etc, I finally decided to make this a vertical card and thus I needed a sentiment. I turned to the A Dozen Thoughts set with what is probably my favourite sentiment – I love the typeface of the just because. This is also stamped in night of navy. My new purchase of fast fuse is great for adhering the watercolour paper to the card. I’d better get a refill since I seem to be on a bit of a water colouring kick at the moment.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello Life Advice!

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This is another of the stamp sets which arrived whilst I was away – Hello Life. My brother was wondering what was going on because half a dozen Stampin’ Up! packages arrived whilst I was in Spain – the order was being sent in many packages. The sentiment is made for a clean and simple card in my opinion; I didn’t want to add much to detract from it. It seems like a good thing to strive for although currently that would mean me getting back on a plane! It also seems like a good sentiment to post on Lorie’s birthday – hope it’s a good one, Lorie.

Stampin' Up! Hello Life

I stamped the sentiment in perfect plum on whisper white cardstock and then added one of the hearts from the same set in rose red. I mounted the whisper white onto a base of perfect plum.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Thanks for waiting!

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I got home from Barcelona yesterday and have been reunited with my paper, stamps and ink. I’m not thrilled to be home; I miss my friends and learning to speak Spanish, wandering around the city and eating good food. And let’s not forget sitting around drinking wine. It felt that with just a few more weeks, I’d be a lot more fluent. But it’s nice to have my crafting supplies handy. And some new ones arrived whilst I was away including the sale-a-bration set, For Being You.

Stampin' Up! For Being You

I’ve been looking forward to playing with the water colour paper some more so I decided to combine the two. I got the colour combo from the colour coach – it’s blushing bride, calypso coral and hello honey. I used the aquapainter to create the three stripes and blended them together a little where the colours changed. The Thanks is stamped in calypso coral. I then tried various combinations of cardstock to complete the card but nothing was quite right. Looking at my overly large stash of DSP I decided to actually use some. I used my new fast fuse to fix the water colour paper to the piece of Best Year Ever DSP and then mounted that on a base of calypso coral. I used the same DSP to line the envelope flap.

 

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Where am I??

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Firstly, Happy Birthday to my friend Rebecca.

I have been in Barcelona for the last couple of weeks learning more Spanish and having a fabulous time. I was pleased that I managed to schedule posts for every day that I was away finishing about two minutes before leaving for the airport! The recent lack of posts is because circumstances changed and I extended my stay. Sadly I didn’t have more posts scheduled nor do I have any carding supplies with me.

I will be reunited with my ink and paper on the afternoon of Wednesday 15th so please stop by then or Thursday at which time normal service will resume. If you want a reminder, you can sign up to get new posts by email.

Happy carding in the meantime!

Hasta luego!