Monthly Archives: March 2016

Cupcake Party

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This isn’t really the card I should be making seeing as I’ve put on weight so far this year with a cold, bronchitis and now my sprained ankle (improving a lot) but perhaps I should look at it as this is the only cupcake I should  be seeing! I used the sketch from CAS on Sundays again but you can only enter once so this one is just for us.

Stampin' Up! Cup Cake Party and Have a Cuppa DSP and cupcake builder punch

I’d decided that I wanted to use the Cupcake Party set and that drove the selection of the cupcake paper from Have a Cuppa DSP stack. I trimmed it down carefully ensuring that I had enough left over from the 6″ by 6″ piece to line the envelope. Perfect. Since I planned to mat the piece of whisper white on wisteria wonder before putting it on a cherry cobbler card base, I had to cut back the whisper white from my standard 5 1/4 by 4 which ensured that the DSP was absolutely right to the edge of the card stock. I then stamped the sentiment in cherry cobbler along the line of the DSP. Next I played with the Cupcake Party cupcakes and the punch until I decided on an all red cupcake. I glued the cupcake together and then popped it up with dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Cup Cake Party and Have a Cuppa DSP and cupcake builder punch

I then matted the whisper white on the wisteria wonder and glued that to the cherry cobbler card base. I got the colour combination from the colour coach ignoring the addition of pink pirouette. I tried to add it in, but it just didn’t work. The envelope is lined as planned with the remainder of the Have a cuppa DSP.

I love symmetry so this is an odd card for me, but I really like this sketch.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Going Places DSP stack

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I meant to make some masculine birthday cards at the weekend, but as you’ll have presumably noticed over the last few days, they seem more feminine. I did have some success though and here’s one of them. I love the Going Places DSP stack.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

I selected a piece of DSP from the stack and then pulled the rest of the colours from that – mossy meadow and hello honey. The paper is beautiful but with a black background it’s rather dark so I wanted a big banner. This one is 2 inches tall which made it perfect for using with the triple banner punch. I cut out the happy from Hello Honey using the Hello You dies and once I’d figured out the placement, stamped the birthday from Endless Birthday Wishes in the archival basic black. After I’d stamped it, I glued the happy onto the banner using the 2 way glue pen. I love that it doesn’t ever ooze glue when I press it down. I matted the DSP with a piece of mossy meadow and glued that to a hello honey card base.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

The banner is popped up on dimensionals and the tail of it extends slightly over onto the hello honey. It really is a super sized banner! For the envelope, I embossed the flap with the Lucky Stars TIEF.

I’m taking this card to work to add to my stash there. On Friday I had lunch with one of our fairly new hires and during the course of the conversation about weekend plans, he said that Friday was his birthday. I was so happy that I had an appropriate card to give him. That’s happened to me twice so far this year so I feel that I need to get a few more just in case cards ready.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Grateful Bunch

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One thing I’m grateful for today is the sketch that Jane gave us over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week. Yesterday I shared a card inspired by the sketch and one of the entries into the challenge, here’s another. I’m sticking with yesterday’s floral motif, but today I’m using Grateful Bunch.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

The embossed square was first cut out and then embossed with another retired folder, Spring Flowers. I love this one – it creates such a happy look, I often use it on envelope flaps for birthdays. I stamped the flowers in blushing bride on the same colour card stock and punched them out with the blossom bunch punch. The stamp and punch are awesome in that they do three flowers at a time in three different sizes. In the event, the smallest flower was too small to have a dot, so I stamped and punched another medium sized flower which was just right (are you thinking of Goldilocks too?). Whilst I had the ink out, I stamped the sentiment, from Rose Wonder and also the #Imbringingbirthdaysback onto the envelope.

Then it was construction time – I used fast fuse to securely fix the embossed piece to the card and then added very vanilla enamel dots to the centres of the flowers. These were from the Holiday catalogue and I hadn’t used any of the cream dots before. Actually I think I’d only used one dot at all before this card! I attached two of the flowers with glue dots and then popped up the lower one on dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Spring Flowers TIEF and Rose Wonder

I completed the envelope with a liner cut out with the envelope liner framelits and using the subtles family backgrounds DSP. I have the new DSP but apparently I haven’t lined many envelopes with blushing bride.

Take a look over at CAS Colours & Sketches to be inspired by the rest of the design team and the challenge entrants.

Happy Pi Day.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Botanical Builder Framelits Dies

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This week at CAS Colours & Sketches it’s an ultra simple sketch – I encourage you to pop over and check out the inspiration and entries and to have a go yourself. It was hard to do because there was so many options with it but now I find I’ve made a couple more cards using it. I really love Chrissie’s card with the square having texture and between the sketch and her version of it, I was inspired to make this card.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builders framelits dies

I knew that I wanted to use the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies so it seemed appropriate to use the Vine Street embossing folder so that I had leaves to go with the flower. Vine Street is sadly retired, but I’m sure that you have something that will work. I cut out the square using one of the squares collection framelits and then I carefully placed it in the embossing folder so that it was lined up as I wanted it. The lining up would be easier if I’d embossed a full piece of paper and then cut it out, but I didn’t want to squash the embossing whilst cutting out the square. I first stamped the celebrate in melon mambo (yes, again, but the enamel dots only come in a few colours!) and then fixed the embossed square onto the very vanilla base with fast fuse. Next, using the Botanical Builder Framelits dies, I cut out two flowers, one in very vanilla and one in melon mambo. They are attached together with glue dots just in the middle of the flower. I used SNAIL all over the back of the melon mambo flower to keep it in place on the card so that the melon mambo really shows through.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and Endless Birthday Wishes

The three small It’s My Party enamel dots were the perfect centre for the flower. I lined the envelope with the retired backgrounds DSP in melon mambo using the envelope liners framelits.

The challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches runs through Wednesday at 6pm east coast time and 11pm UK time. However since Jane is the hostess this month and she’s located in the UK, I’m guessing that in the US we have until 7pm having just sprung forward. The UK won’t do that until the end of the month. Best not to leave entering to the last minute though, just in case!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Picture Perfect Hummingbird

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There’s quite a lot of stamping on today’s card which just used the Picture Perfect set – the hummingbird is 4 steps and the flowers and leaves are three. And then there’s all the fussy cutting – all the stamping meant that it was a lot safer to cut out the pieces. I didn’t want to have the final stamping mess up the whole card. So the flowers are completely in melon mambo – I stamped off twice for the first stamping, once for the second and used full strength ink for the final stamp. I then added some glitter with the Wink of Stella on the darkest parts.

Stampin' Up! Picture Perfect

For the leaves I used mint macaron stamped off once, then full strength and finished the stamping off with cucumber crush. I discovered that stamping off onto a piece of grid paper that had some rich razzleberry stamping off on it wasn’t a good idea. It took me a while to figure out why I had slightly off coloured leaves since I wasn’t looking at the grid paper when stamping off! I cut out my leaves and flowers last weekend and then worked on something else. Today I cut out the hummingbird so the fussy cutting didn’t seem too arduous and it’s only as I sat down to type this post that I realised that everything on this card was fussy cut. The colours used for the bird are cucumber crush, melon mambo, old olive and mossy meadow. Oh and there’s a little more wink of Stella there too.

Next was construction! I’d advise stamping the sentiment first although I didn’t do that. I started by placing the flowers and leaves and then gluing the leaves where I wanted them. Next I added the flowers that are falling off the edge and finally popped up the whole flower. I also popped up the hummingbird to give him more of a sense of movement.

Finally I lined the envelope with the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits. This whole card feels very Spring like and happy and this liner continues that. I showed the card to my brother telling him that I didn’t think he’d like it. He didn’t. I’ve yet to make a card combining pink and green that he likes – for some reason he just doesn’t like them together. I do though, so that’s okay!

Somebody submitted a Stampin’ Up! order naming me as their demonstrator yesterday (thank you very much), but checked the No contact box. This means that I can’t send you a thank you card. So if it was you, please reach out to me so that I can thank you properly with a card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz