Monthly Archives: November 2015

Square Pillow Box Thinlit Dies

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Yesterday I shared a mini treat bag which I’d used to dress up a gift for my Secret Pal at this weekend’s crop. Here are a few more gifts this time wrapped up using the Square Pillow Box Thinlit Dies.

Square Pillow Box Thinlit Dies and A Little Something

As before I used some retired DSP since it’s a great way to use it up. This is fun paper but so busy that it never made its way onto a card. The Square Pillow Box Thinlit Dies are really fun – and there are lots of extra pieces that I haven’t used yet. Some of these would be good for adding to cards too, I may play with this some more at the weekend.

Square Pillow Box Thinlits Dies by Stampin' Up!

Construction is easy, you just cut out two of the main piece, glue them together on the tabs – I used fast fuse on one and the new tear tape on the other. The tape was slightly easier but they both worked well. Then you push in the ends to finish the box.

I stamped the sentiment using the A Little Something set (one in garden green and one in lost lagoon) and punched them out and attached it using a glue dot to some ribbon from my stash. Definitely fun.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Mini treat bag

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I was reading the blogs that I follow this morning and Simple Stampin’ mentioned a Share Handmade Kindness challenge at Jennifer McGuire’s blog. This may be the push I need to actually send some of the cards that I have piling up. But it also coincides with me wrapping up some gifts for a Secret Pal exchange at this weekend’s upcoming crop. I got a bit carried away and I have quite a few things (and I’m short on time with an opera trip tonight and dinner out on Friday) so it’s handy to have some dies that make packaging look great quickly. Here’s some easy packaging made using the mini treat bag thinlits dies.

Stampin' Up! Mini Treat thinlits dies

I cut out the two parts of the bag using retired DSP (great use for that large pile of DSP) and glued them together using fast fuse. I then used some of the extra pieces included in the mini treat bag thinlits dies and cut the banner in garden green and the for you in real red and glued them on with tombow. I put the stickers in the bag and that gift is ready to go!

So this sort of fits in with Jennifer’s challenge, but it feels like a cheat because I was doing it anyway and I didn’t make the stickers. So I will go through my card stack and pick one out to send to someone for no reason at all.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

More Watercolor Words

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I made this card on Sunday when I was stamping with my sister at my very over crowded kitchen table. My father was suggesting that he needs to make me a bigger one – perhaps just some organization and tidying will do it. If we can stop making cards long enough to do so. This is using a stamp set, Watercolor Words, which my sister owns and I do not. There was a phone call before Caro flew to NJ to compare what we have so that she could fill in gaps. She’s here for ten days so I need to concentrate on the new to me stuff!

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Words

This card uses two of the stamps from the Watercolor Words set. I started by stamping the sentiment in watermelon wonder and then filled in the corner gap with a flower stamp. After that I worked my way across the card, making sure the flowers weren’t in a regular zig zag. The very vanilla piece was then mounted on a watercolor wonder cardbase.

Unlike recent posts, I actually possess the new designer series paper stack in this colour. I really love the words paper – and of course it felt right with this card.

I passed over this stamp set in the catalogue because I thought that if I wanted words in a watercolour like way, I could use my aquapainter and write them myself. Completely forgetting that I’ve never actually hand written on a card! But I may get out my aquapainter and play with this stamp set this upcoming weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Thankful for Acorny Thank You

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The more I use the Acorny Thank You set, the more I like it. I wanted to make a card for this week’s remix challenge at TGIF and also the Paper Players and this set was begging to be used.

Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank you

Here’s the Paper Player’s banner

The idea of the remix challenge is to take at least two of the month’s challenges and combine them. Here are the two challenges that I chose:

This is the first time that I’ve used all these cool patterns from this set – I didn’t think that they were going to fit my style, but I’m really pleased with how this card came out. I’m also thrilled that the retired itty bitty framelits fit the thankful banner AND that my sister has them and is visiting. She has her own blog, by the way – check it out.

The acorns are stamped in old olive with their tops in Pumpkin Pie on very vanilla. I am beyond thankful for the punch that cuts these out. I stamped the thankful banner in rich razzleberry and then placed it so that the curve matched the curve on the acorn. Having all the parts punched out made it easier to work on placement – but I first glued the tops onto the acorns (snipping off the very vanilla stem first) so that there were less moving parts. The central acorn is popped up with dimensionals. I mounted my very vanilla piece onto rich razzleberry and lined the envelope to match using the retired backgrounds DSP in the same colour. I really must order the new replacement stack in brights – I have it in everything else.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Watercolor Words

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My sister arrived on Friday bringing with her a stash of stamp sets that I don’t own. The kitchen table is covered in more stamping stuff than usual – and that’s saying something! I can’t believe that I glossed over the Watercolor Words set in the catalogue, it’s a really fun set.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Words

I first tried this as a horizontal card and used the happy birthday sentiment from this set, but it was just too busy for my planned clean and simple card. So I switched orientation and went for a smaller sentiment. I stamped everything in melon mambo on whisper white. I added a slim mat of melon mambo before mounting this onto the extra thick whisper white card stock. I found that I had a melon mambo envelope liner already cut using the envelope liner framelits and the bigshot. This is the retired DSP – the new patterns are even better than the old ones.

I must go and look through the other sets that she brought with her!

See you tomorrow,

Liz