Monthly Archives: August 2015

Remarkable You

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When I was looking at challenge sites at the weekend, I found that the TGIF challenges site was doing a remix – you take the last few challenges are make a project that satisfies at least two of them. The four challenges to choose from are colour, sketch, clean & simple and brand new. I decided to do all but the sketch. Here’s my card:

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and You've Got This

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired it, including the colours:

I was planning to use the flower from the set Remarkable You as my brand new item but actually this was the first time that all three stamped images were inked up. I started with the background stamp from You’ve Got This, stamping off once first to get a muted island indigo image on the smoky slate base. I then used smoky slate embossing powder for the flower from Remarkable You – I really love this set. It’s one of the more expensive ones, but it’s so worth it. This is the fourth card I’ve made in a week with it.

After embossing the flower, I used blackberry bliss ink and a blender pen to colour in the petals and then stamped the sentiment, You’ve Got This, from the stamp set of the same name. A small mat of island indigo on the blackberry bliss card base really pulled this clean and simple card together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

TGIF Challenge Throwdown

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I was browsing some of my favourite challenge sites looking for inspiration when I found a completely new kind of challenge on the TGIF Challenge site – a throwdown challenge. Apparently it runs all month so I’m just getting in before the July challenge finishes. The idea is that there is a list of basic items that you can use and then a monthly basket from which you have to use a certain number of items. Sounds like fun.  So here’s my entry:

Stampin' Up! Delightful Dijon Bravo

Here’s the challenge banner

and the basket of items:

As you can probably see, I used the black cardstock, the balloon thinlits, the Bravo stamp set and the Delightful Dijon ink. I cut out the balloons out of very vanilla and then sponged them with the delightful dijon. Actually to start with, I stamped them with delightful dijon but you can’t see that because that’s the side that’s now stuck onto the card! So after sponging, I stamped the sentiments from the Bravo set in black which I liked much better. I was going to use the white baker’s twine which I pulled through the delightful dijon stamp pad but decided that it was too much for the card. I stuck the two balloons on to the very vanilla piece and then popped up the third with stampin’ dimensionals. I matted this with a thin piece of basic black and then mounted that on a very vanilla card base.

It’s not part of the  challenge – there aren’t any envelopes in the pantry – but here’s the card with a coordinating envelope.

Stampin' Up! Balloon thinlits Bravo

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Thanks for waiting

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I’ve been missing in action for 8 weeks, but I’m back now. I started a new job at the beginning of June and I love it; I’m actually excited to go to work and get things done and the people are really nice. They are also very kind; after the third day in my new job, my mother had a stroke and there was no problem with me jumping on a plane and flying to the UK. Tragically my mother died a few days after my brother and I got there and then there was the funeral to arrange and masses of other things to do. It seems to take a while to organise a funeral in the UK and it was on a Friday at which point I’d been in the UK for two weeks. I didn’t feel that I could leave my father immediately after the funeral and my boss had no issues with me taking another week. Really good people. Exciting work. And a 15-20 minute commute. It doesn’t get much better than that. Of course a new job is exhausting and with the effort of that and the mourning, I just didn’t feel like making cards because it  allows for too much time to think. And I was just too tired. And Mum loved my cards and so not being able to share them with her is hard. But last weekend I went to a weekend crop and had a great time reconnecting with my fellow cardmakers and scrapbookers and of course making cards. And today would be my mother’s 77th birthday so it seems a good day to restart my blog. And with the new annual catalogue that came out a month ago and the holiday one available in a month (although as a demonstrator I can order this coming week) there are a lot of new exciting products to play with. Perhaps I could actually send my brother in law a birthday card, it’s only a month late. At least my friend Jen’s card is only a week or so late.

So here’s today’s card:

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings

This is using the Stampin’ Up! set Watercolor Wings that is in the new annual catalogue. I didn’t do anything clever to get all the colours on it – it’s a three step stamp. So I did the first in crushed curry and then the second stamp using pumpkin pie and the final stamp just does the edges of the wings and that’s in melon mambo. A really beautiful effect and very easy. The set also includes a stamp for the body which I’ve done in memento black ink. The sentiment comes from the same set as well. I matted my piece of very vanilla with a thin amount of black to make it pop and coordinate with the butterfly body. This is then put onto a melon mambo card base. I used last year’s backgrounds DSP to line the envelope – I already have a lot of them cut. When I need an envelope liner I cut 8 at a time so that I have spares.

Happy carding and see you tomorrow,

Liz