Monthly Archives: December 2015

Hearth and Home

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Firstly, thank you to the team at Can You Case It? and especially Amy for selecting my card as a Design Team Member pick this week. It was a great start to my weekend to see that I’d been selected.

I had a number of challenges that I was intending to enter but I was distracted with the fun that we had at a class last night and haven’t made the appropriate cards. So here’s one that I made recently, incorporating vellum again.

Stampin' Up! Hearth and Home and Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies

I knew that I wanted to use this pattern from the Winter Wonderland Designer vellum stack and decided that I’d use it behind the window frame but that’s about all I’d decided when I started this card. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in deciding on a single element and building the card around that! I cut the window frame out of early espresso using the Hearth and Home dies and trimmed the vellum to fit behind it. Then I cut out the trees using the sleigh ride edgelits in gold foil to match the dots on the vellum. I guess I’ll pretend that the sun is shining on them or something. I glued the trees to the back of the window frame with the multipurpose glue and then attached the vellum in the same way. This completed, I contemplated the rest of the card and decided that the softly falling embossing folder would work well. I attached the window frame to the card with dimensionals to keep a gap between the vellum and the raised dots. I also ran the flap of the envelope through the big shot with the same folder so that it coordinates.

I decided to use a die cut word on the inside of the card – why not, right? This is using the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and the sentiment that I chose happens to come from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set which is sold in a bundle with the thinlits dies, thus saving 15%. I was going to say that it was coincidental that I chose this set, but I guess there’s a reason why Stampin’ Up! bundle it together.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Greetings thinlits and Holly Jolly Greetings

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Winter Wonderland Designer Washi Tape

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Now this is an extremely unexpected post title, I’m sure. I have ignored washi tape for 18 months, I look at it, admire the colours and then put it away again. Can you relate? How about to this? I was taking my brother to the airport on Monday morning and five minutes before we were due to leave I had an idea for a card and just had to see if it would work. I ended up taking the pieces to work and gluing them together there. Have you done that too?!

Stampin' Up! Happy Hanukkah and Winter Wonderland Designer Washi tape

The lost lagoon central panel is about an inch narrower than the card base and I started by wiping my embossing buddy over the cardstock and then stamping the image from the retired Happy Hanukkah set in versamark. I hurriedly sprinkled on the gold embossing powder and heated it. Martin was gathering his things as I ran the Winter Wonderland Designer Washi tape down both edges of the card base. At this point, I gathered the pieces along with the multipurpose glue, threw them in my bag and off we went to the airport. So it wasn’t until lunch that I was able to put glue the front panel onto the card base and see that I really liked how it had come out. I will have to pull out the rest of my washi tape and see if I can use that too. Or maybe on the envelope. This time, though, I lined the envelope using the envelope framelits and the backgrounds DSP in lost lagoon.

 

Tonight I have a card class where we’ll be making 9 Christmas cards – that should help me get closer to the number of cards that I need!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sleigh Ride Edgelits

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I was making a few Hanukkah cards and I wanted to make something that didn’t use the only Happy Hanukkah stamp that I have. So out came my favourite sleigh ride edgelits which sadly are on the retiring list 🙁

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Happy Hanukkah

I sponged a piece of very vanilla in blushing bride, up to about half way up the card and then sponged so saffron around the pink, blending it in a little. Next up was soft sky covering the rest of the card and blending into the so saffron. Then I took my spritzer and spritzed over the card twice with water. Whilst it was drying, I cut out the houses using the sleigh ride edgelits dies and very vanilla card stock. I also stamped the sentiment (from the retired Happy Hanukkah set) in soft sky on a scrap of very vanilla. I trimmed this and made a mat for it, but it overpowered the card so I just added the unmatted piece, popped up on dimensionals for interest. I then glued the very vanilla to my sunrise background (at least, I was going for a sunrise look) and put that onto a soft sky card base. I’m really pleased with the soft look that the spritzing added to the card, quite different to the effect on the night sky that I got here. I think I need to play around with other colours too.

I cut out a liner using the envelope liners thinlits to match the soft sky base of the card. Here are all the supplies (where available – the Happy Hanukkah is retired) that I used to make the card. It seems like a lot but they are all basics that once you’ve got them, you use them all the time.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Your Presents

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This week I’m entering for the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch challenge. I’ve been doing more sketch challenges lately and they do truly stretch me. This one has been interesting – I’ve been thinking about it for a few days at odd times, and that’s what it’s about, right? A challenge.

Stampin' Up! Your Presents

Here’s the banner for the challenge which inspired this card:

Tricky right? Until you remember that shapes can be changed. And that helps a lot. I’m still in a Christmas mood (more like a panic to get my cards done) and the half circles look like presents to me. I decided on a Christmassy red and green and then added the rather awesome new in color, Mint Macaron to the party. I really like the combo. Feel free to CASE it if you like it.

I started by stamping the sentiment in mint macaron on whisper white so that I could place the presents the way I wanted. I stamped the real red one and then the garden green. I’d earlier tried stamping the bows in mint macaron (and in real red) and it didn’t quite work, bumping into the real red present. So I stamped some more mint macaron bows and then cut them out with my paper snips. A dab of the multipurpose liquid glue and the bows were in place. I glued the whisper white piece to a mint macaron card base. I then lined the envelope with the liner cut out with the envelope liner framelits and the in color designer series paper stack. I think this is the first time I’ve used the stripes side of the paper – it’s been too tempting previously to use the flowers but they just didn’t work here.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Jolly Christmas

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Thank you so much to the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a weekly winner.  And my sister’s too. What fun to win with my sister.

I’m having a hard time with the fact that it’s now December. I’m not even slightly prepared for this month. I have some Christmas cards created but am very happy that I have a few stamp a stacks coming up where I (and the other attendees) will get to create 9 cards. That should help. Now to prepare a gift list…

So it’s rather handy that this week’s inspiration from CanYouCaseIt is perfectly suited for a Christmas card – I love red and gold together.

Stampin' Up! Jolly Christmas and Seasonal Frame Thinlits

Here’s the inspiration banner for this challenge

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First I used the embossing buddy to prevent stray specks of powder sticking and then stamped the image from Jolly Christmas in versamark on very vanilla. After sprinkling on the gold embossing powder, I heated it. I love embossing. And since my style of card making is clean and simple, I don’t use it much. Except at Christmas. I therefore love making Christmas cards! I used the new precision base plate to cut out the falala using the Seasonal Frame Thinlits dies in real red. These come in a bundle but I really didn’t like the stamp set and couldn’t see using it, so I just bought the dies alone. And I haven’t regretted it.

I really appreciate how the new precision base plate makes cutting out the words much simpler – only one trip through the big shot and no markings on the word from the holes in the die where you push out the card from the die. Previously, I’d have to run it through the big shot numerous times and I’d end up with polka dots from the holes. I positioned the falala so that the reindeer is jumping over the word. I then attached my very vanilla piece to a real red card base.

I finished off the envelope by cutting out an envelope liner using the retired brights backgrounds DSP (nope, still haven’t got the new stack) and the envelope liners framelits.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz