Monthly Archives: November 2015

So You

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This post is very late today; I think it’s due to playing too much pool last night with my brother which meant I was slow to get out of bed this morning. We’re very lucky to have a pool table in the house, but I should’ve prepared this post before going to bed. Or before the pool! Anyway, here’s a card that I made at the recent crop using one of the sets that my sister brought with her, So You.

Stampin' Up! So You

The set is retired now but it would definitely be possible to use one of the greetings thinlits for the word and many sets have stars for the background. I first stamped the sentiment in rich razzleberry first and then used the bigger star in pear pizzazz and the smaller in rich razzleberry and amazingly the first attempt had them spaced nicely. I think it’s important to have the stars falling off the edge of the very vanilla piece. I matted this with a piece of pear pizzazz before mounting it on a rich razzleberry card base. This card was very unusual in that it fell together, almost by itself, in no time flat. I often spend a lot of time playing until I find a card design that I’m happy with. I lined the envelope using the envelope liner framelits and the retired Backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow – hopefully a bit earlier than today!

Liz

 

Embellished Ornaments Part 2

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At the weekend I was working on a card for this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches which was a colour challenge incorporating watermelon wonder, lost lagoon and metallic silver. I was playing with the embellished ornaments stamp set and a water spritzer and made a number of ornaments with this colour combination. Or so I thought!

Stampin' Up! Embellished Ornaments and Mistletoe and Holly

I used sponges and dabbed the watermelon wonder and lost lagoon randomly around the stamp and then spritzed once with my water spritzer before stamping onto a piece of very vanilla. Each ornament came out differently and, unless I spritzed too much water, beautifully. I added a sentiment to this card, using this month’s Paper Pumpkin set, Mistletoe and Holly in watermelon wonder and mounted my piece of very vanilla onto a base of watermelon wonder. I was just about to declare it ready for entry into the challenge when I realized that I was missing the metallic silver. Oops. For my challenge card, I added some silver but on this one I decided to add a few rhinestones. I wasn’t certain if rhinestones meet the metallic silver criteria and so this card was a nice side benefit of the challenge but wasn’t entered. I added a liner using the new designer series paper stack in watercolour wonder.

I made some more ornaments in the same way but dabbed on metallic silver also – totally different effect. I’ll share some of them soon.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Scenes

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I was looking for challenges this weekend and found TGIF’s White Christmas challenge. Since I appear to be a little behind in my Christmas card production, that seems like a grand idea. I suppose that if I made some multiples, I’d be in better shape but I keep coming up with new ideas.

Stampin' Up! Happy Scenes and Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Hearth & Home Thinlits

Here’s the challenge banner that inspired my card

This card looks better in person – I took at least 4 photos and this is the best. Apparently it’s doomed to not look its best. I started off by embossing a piece of whisper white with the softly falling TIEF – I love this embossing folder. I then cut out the trees using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies and mossy meadow. I did contemplate adding something to look like snow on the trees but figured it would just look untidy, so left them as is. Which I’m happy about now that the card is finished – I like the mossy meadow background to the card. Although now that I’m done with the card I realize that it would have been much easier to have cut out the trees on the white and used the negative space to show the trees. Apparently I wanted to do it the hard way! Then I used one of the new in colours, tip top taupe to cut out the window using the hearth and home thinlits dies. After some fast fuse use, the window was constructed. This was when I decided that I wanted a sentiment. In white. What better than Let it snow? This is from the Happy Scenes set and I heat embossed it onto the mossy meadow card base. The envelope liner was cut using the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds DSP.

I think I’ll make another of these cards and this time, I’ll make it the easy way. One less piece to put together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Square Pillow Box Thinlits dies

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I’ve been pushing myself lately to do more sketch challenges – normally when a challenge site offered a sketch, I’d skip off to another site to find a colour challenge. But it’s rather rewarding to wrestle with a sketch and come up with something that feels right. Both for you and the sketch, that is. So the sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts has been percolating in my brain for a couple of days. I wanted to really include the sketch in the design rather than adding three somethings almost as an extra.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Greetings Thinlits and Square Pillow Box Thinlits and Endless Wishes

Here’s the sketch that inspired my card – as you can see, I flipped the sketch.

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I remembered that the square pillow box thinlits dies has three trios of images including these trees. The dies are retiring at the end of the year, so grab it now! I cut them out of the very vanilla cardstock and liked how the mossy meadow looks peeking from behind. Martin said he would prefer a different green – apparently he’s not as addicted to mossy meadow as I am. I then bypassed my much used merry die from the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and went with jolly which I cut out of the gold foil. The Christmas sentiment is from the retired Endless Wishes set – I like how it nestles in between the j and the y. I know that there’s a technical term for the parts of the letters below the line but I can’t remember what it is. And it’s not important! This would really be an easy card to mass produce. Even with lining the envelope – I tend to cut out two liners at a time since the DSP is a lot thinner than card stock. That was you build up a stack of liners which makes dressing up your envelopes very quick.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Embellished Ornaments

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I set some time aside today for some crafting fun and looked at some challenges for inspiration. I started with CAS Colours and Sketches where I found an intriguing combination of colours. I don’t think it’s one I’d have put together anyway.

Stampin' Up! Embellished Ornaments and Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Mistletoe and Holly

Here’s the banner which inspired the card

I started by using the Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Mistletoe and Holly set that was still out from a couple of days ago but it was going in just an “only alright” direction. So I started again. A few days ago on Facebook’s group Create with Ronda, I’d seen Holly Obier post a card using sponging and spritzing of this ornament and I thought that lost lagoon and watermelon wonder would work really well. So much so that I made two cards and stamped the sentiment on each (from the Mistletoe and Holly set) and declared them done. Until I realized that I was missing the metallic silver part of the challenge. Oops.

I got out my blender pen and my refill bottle of versamark watermark ink and carefully added the ink to two rows on the bauble before sprinking on the silver embossing powder and heating. Here’s a close up showing the silver embossing gleaming a little more.

Stampin' Up! Embellished Ornaments and Paper Pumpkin Mistletoe and Holly

The very vanilla piece was then added to a lost lagoon card base. It’s funny that lost lagoon was one of this week’s colours – I’d been thinking a few days ago that I’ve been neglecting this beautiful colour. I lined the envelope with the retired backgrounds DSP in lost lagoon.

I’m also entering this card in the Global Design Project challenge this week where it’s a theme challenge of Christmas. Just sliding in under the wire since the linkup closes in about an hour!

See you tomorrow,

Liz