Monthly Archives: February 2016

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate

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I was looking at the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 kit, Hello Sunshine, last night and it hit me that there are four of all the main decorative pieces and only three cards for each. So I could play with leftovers. Of course they aren’t technically leftovers since I haven’t made the kit up yet – I’m saving it to do it with my friends next week. There’s a gold squiggle that you peel off the shiny gold foil and that leaves behind lots of pieces of foil and I thought it would be a crime to waste them. So I didn’t.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate - Hello Sunshine

I carefully peeled a piece of gold foil (with it’s backing) leaving a hole where it had been in the cut foil. I lay this down on the card and, after peeling off the backing, stuck my piece of foil where it’s supposed to go. And continued that way. There were a few mishaps – the thin paper between the pieces was torn, so I had to approximate. Some had to have glue added but I’m thrilled with the overall effect and I love it on the cherry cobbler. I matted this with a piece of basic black and then decided it was a birthday card. This sentiment is also from the Hello Sunshine kit and I embossed it in gold. After doing this, I attached the matted piece and popped it up with dimensionals. I lined the envelope with a precut envelope liner but looking at the two together, I’m going to switch out this envelope and save it for later and line another with some DSP with gold on it.

And after doing this, I still have the gold squiggle from this, my leftover embellishment. I’ll finish my card with that soon and post it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Remarkable You and Hello Sunshine

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It’s Thursday and thus another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a colour challenge. Here’s what I made

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Hello Sunshine

and here’s the colour banner which inspired it

I hope that you’ll come and play. I used the beautiful set Remarkable You and embossed the image in silver on watercolour paper. And then I was determined to use the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 set (Hello Sunshine) which just arrived. Okay, I actually asked my brother to go to the mailbox to get the red box playing my “I have a sprained ankle” card again. He’s very nice that way. So I had to open the box and look at everything and then use one of the new sentiments for my card which I stamped in elegant eggplant. After that I used my aquapainter (filled with water by my brother) to watercolour the flower in elegant eggplant and wisteria wonder. The piece of watercolour paper looked good on an elegant eggplant base and I adhered it using fast fuse which is great for the watercolour paper.

I lined the envelope using the big shot and the envelope liner framelits in elegant eggplant to match the card base. The watercolour paper isn’t white or very vanilla but somewhere between so it doesn’t matter which way you go!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perfectly Artistic DSP

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As I mentioned the other day, we have three new Sale-a-bration free items to replace the three that are retiring. But when I checked last night, they are still retiring and not retired. So you may still have a little time to snap them up. Here’s a non-pink card that I made at the weekend using two of the retiring freebies

Stampin' Up! Perfectly Artistic and Sky is the Limit

I fully intended to use the other side of the Perfectly Artistic DSP  – the side that looks as if it belongs on the endpapers of an old hard backed book but when I decided to add the biplane from the Sky is the Limit set it occurred to me that there was part of the paper that looked like smoke. So I added clouds in craft white ink (there are two sizes of clouds in the Sky is the Limit set) on the watercolor side of the Perfectly Artistic DSP and switched from tempting turquoise swirls to soft sky on the watercolor side. I used the heat gun to dry the craft ink a bit but even then, left it over dinner to let it really dry. I then stamped the beautiful happy birthday sentiment from the same set (the other sentiments are in the same gorgeous typeface) in archival basic black and the plane onto a scrap of whisper white. I cut it out using my paper snips and popped it up with dimensionals. The whole piece was put onto a soft sky card base. The envelope is lined with a piece of retired soft sky backgrounds DSP cut out with the envelope liners and the big shot. I really like making the envelopes interesting. I had thought in a sexist manner that only females would notice them but one of the guys at work noticed a lined envelope at Christmas. So really, all envelopes need to be decorated.

My today’s order is still picking so it will be a week or so before I can share cards with the new Sale-a-bration items. I look forward to it but for now, I’m happy playing with the previous freebies.

See you tomorrow,
Liz

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 – Hello Sunshine

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My Paper Pumpkin for this month is on its way. In fact, I think it’s in New Jersey already. Here’s the Stampin’ Up! Youtube video showcasing this month’s kit.

In case you don’t know about Paper Pumpkin, here are the details:

  • Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
  • Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions – everything but adhesive.
  • Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
  • Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
  • You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
  • A Paper Pumpkin membership is $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time.
  • Just click on the Paper Pumpkin button on the left hand side to join up.

During Sale-a-bration, the 3 month prepaid subscription is on sale for $55 (normally 59.85) and better than that, if you buy it you also get a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. I’ve taken advantage of that myself.

I’ve started a class on (usually) the last Friday of the month to get together and put together the kits. I’m also including an extra project. If you’re local to Randolph, NJ, sign up and come on by for some fun.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin January 2016 Alternate 2

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Here’s the last Valentine’s card for this year. I meant to post it yesterday of course but I’ve spent the last two days elevating my ankle as often as possible. It aches if I sit in a chair – presumably two days in the office in a row were a bit too much. It’s lucky that I can work from home.

Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank You and January 2016 Paper Pumpkin

I made this during my melon mambo phase at the crop and it was liked so much that I had to make a spare one for a fellow cropper. It’s a pretty good feeling when someone really wants one of your cards. It was also a pretty good feeling when Acorny Thank You made it to the list of continuing sets and I wanted to combine it with the Paper Pumpkin January 2016 set, Cute Conversations, to make a Valentine’s card. I carefully used the acorn builder punch to cut out an acorn as far away from the edge as possible. Then I stamped the dotty acorn hat and the sentiment and cut out both of these with the punch. I then layered the whisper white piece over a square of melon mambo cardstock, popping it up on dimensionals. The dotty hat was then added through the hole to ensure that I got it in the right place. The right hand acorn was then carefully glued only on one side and then added. I figured out the placement and then stamped the XOXO which comes from the January 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit. Then, after that was safely stamped, I glued down the square of melon mambo.

I lined the envelope with the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds DSP from the brights collection.

Today’s the last day that you can be guaranteed to be able to get the three limited time freebies from the Sale-a-bration catalogue and it marks half way through what is the best sale of the year! It’s also half way through your opportunity to join Stampin’ Up! and get $155 worth of product for $99 with free shipping. There’s no risk because if you like, that can be the last time you ever buy anything. That’s a lot of free product…

See you tomorrow,

Liz