Monthly Archives: December 2015

Season of Cheer fast card

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Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s another that is fast to mass produce. It also uses fairly minimal product. AND it makes a very small dent in the huge stack of DSP that I have stored. You can get 6 cards from one piece of 12 by 12 DSP and you get two sheets the same in a pack, so here’s another dozen cards that you can make swiftly.

Stampin' Up! Season of cheer DSP and Wonderland

Cut a strip of the DSP at 5.25″ width and then cut it into three 4″ pieces long and then glue a piece of the DSP onto a cherry cobbler card base. If I were making all 12 together, I’d do all of each step at once – it saves a lot of time. Then cut a one inch piece of whisper white and stamp the sentiment which comes from the Wonderland stamp set. The triple banner punch is great for making a banner and also a matting piece as I did here. After I glued the banner and its mat together I popped it up with dimensionals to give me space to attach the reindeer paper clip. I love these clips – I’ve been hoarding them a little but it’s time that they were put on cards and sent to people!

I have another quick and easy card planned for us last minute folks but I also have a class tonight so it may not get finished until Friday. Also my sneak peek order came yesterday (and I had friends over for dinner so I haven’t had a chance to play yet) so it will be hard to resist playing with the new stuff.

I’d like to give a warm welcome to my new email follower – I’m so glad that you joined in the fun.
See you tomorrow,
Liz

Season of Cheer DSP for a fast card

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My friend Julia told me the other day that she has only got one Christmas card (which she made at the crop). Worse than that, she’s busy on Thursday when I’m having a stamp a stack at my house. So I decided to create a few quick and easy cards that will be good for mass production. All we have to do is to figure out when we can make them. My first card was a bit too simple and then I decided to get out my rather large amount of DSP. Specifically the Season of Cheer DSP.

Stampin' Up! Season of Cheer and Mistletoe and Holly

This was exactly what I wanted – I cut the DSP at 5.25″ by 4″ so this means 6 cards from a piece of 12 by 12 and there are 2 of each pattern in the pack. That’s 11 that Julia could make of this design and it’s fast to do. In a production line it would be easy to stamp all the sentiments, cut them out with the ovals dies and cut out the larger night of navy ovals. Then it’s a very simple matter of gluing together the ovals, gluing the DSP to a night of navy card base and popping up the sentiment with dimensionals and placing it on the card.

I then took the scrap left and added a strip to dress up the envelope. Also quick and easy and makes everything coordinate. I find that I love that!

Stampin' Up! Season of Cheer DSP

So if you’re in the same position as Julia, grab some DSP and make some quick cards. I have a few more in the upcoming days to help with last minute “need some more cards” issues.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Hearth and Home

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I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a winner this week. I’m especially happy because it was a sketch challenge and I had to spend many days mulling over how I wanted to do it. I’m glad that it was a success in the end.

I’m not sure what kind of card I’ve made for today – it could be a Christmas card since it has tree, but it could also be a birthday card. I left the inside blank so that I can decide when I need it!

Stampin' Up! Heath and Home and Sleigh Ride Edgelits

I made the background for the scene using the same sponging and spritzing technique that I detailed when posting this card that my sister showed me at the crop. I used the same three colours here – blushing bride, lost lagoon and night of navy. Briefly – you sponge the three colours and then spritz with water a couple of times and this gives the gorgeous sky effect. The window frame and trees are cut out in night of navy using the hearth and home thinlits and the sleigh ride edgelits.

Here’s a tip – when you look at your beautiful sky, do NOT think that it would be a good idea to trim it to the same size as the window frame by also using the hearth and home dies. Of course that would cut out the windows which is exactly the piece that you need! But, if you were to do something that ridiculous, you CAN piece them back together onto another piece of card so that you can make it work. Oops!

So I added my trees between my pieced back together background and the window frame. This done I tried all three sky colours as mats and bases and came to the conclusion that a lost lagoon mat and a night of navy card worked best. It allows the blushing bride sunrise to really pop. I put the window onto the card with stampin’ dimensionals. The envelope is lined with the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds designer series paper.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Delicate Ornament Thinlits

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Today’s card is really unusual in that there is no stamping at all! I made it at the crop and it was yet another card that started with no real idea where it was going. I knew that I wanted to play with the delicate ornament thinlits dies but that was about it!

Stampin' Up! Delicate Ornaments Thinlits

To start with I cut out the fancy ornament in real red card using the precision base plate which makes an enormous difference with intricate dies. I like to use the paper piercing tool (or the pokey tool as it was christened by my 8 year old friend Mara a few days ago) to help remove the pieces as well as to run around the image to clean up little wispy pieces of cardstock. I definitely wanted gold foil to go with this and toyed with cutting out the solid ornament and going from there but I wanted this fancy ornament to be star of the card with nothing in the way. In the end, I went with a mat of gold foil and just glued the cut ornament back into the hole in the real red card that it had been cut from. I thought about a string, a bow, a sentiment but they all seemed to detract from the beauty of the ornament and so I decided that less is more and stopped. I glued the gold foil and ornament onto a real red card base. I lined the envelope using one of my stack of precut liners, this one from the retired brights backgrounds designer series paper.

I’m trying to create a few simple easy to mass produce cards for those of you, including my friend Julia, who are short on time and Christmas cards. I’ll be working on those tonight.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Lighthearted leaves for Christmas

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This week’s challenge at CAS Colors and Sketches is to take any of the colour challenges of the year and make it Christmassy.

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Mistletoe and Holly

I chose Challenge #118 which is to use all greens. Here’s the banner:

I stamped the image from Lighthearted Leaves in the archival basic black and coloured it in with a variety of markers – mossy meadow, pear pizzazz, old olive, wild wasabi and even a touch of always artichoke. I found, though, that the always artichoke was a bit close to mossy meadow and stopped using that one. I then got out the white chalk marker and added a few lines to give a softer effect. The sentiment comes from the latest Paper Pumpkin kit – Mistletoe and Holly and is stamped in mossy meadow. I put the whisper white piece straight onto a mossy meadow card base but now, looking at the card, I think that a skinny black mat may have improved the card.

There aren’t many supplies needed to make today’s card – for a change!
I think I will go and pick another colour combination and see what else I can make for this challenge.
See you tomorrow,
Liz