Monthly Archives: March 2016

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – December

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Here’s the final month in my perpetual birthday calendar. For this one, I wanted to emphasize snow – and the snow flurry punch and some silver glimmer paper helped me do that.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I started by stamping December in night of navy and then added the December images from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set in night of navy and marina mist. I cut out a number of snowflakes using the snow flurry punch and decided that the larger one looked best – I used fast fuse to firmly adhere the heavy silver glimmer paper. It still needed a little more sparkle so I grabbed the confetti stars punch and punched out little stars. I fixed these on with the multipurpose glue which worked okay after it was really dry. Until that point, it seemed to be easy to knock them off.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

Most of my class didn’t get this far – other  priorities like making dinner and ferrying children around interfered. I suppose that 5 hours for the total calendar speaks to how much fun we were having – and how many trips to the cookie rack were incorporated into the fun. The up side is that we’ll have another class to finish off soon although the later months aren’t really needed quite yet.

I’ll do a round up with pictures of all the months in one place soon – and will also show the changes that I made to a few of the months during the class.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Memories in the making

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Yesterday I had computer problems as in, nothing would open. The reboot didn’t work either – I’m opening a ticket with the HIT desk – i.e. the Home IT desk, my brother. There’s clearly an issue with my computer – I’m hoping it behaves long enough for me to write this post. Because here’s my design team card for the new challenge at CAS Colour & Sketches and you need to check the challenge out!

It’s almost Pi day. As in March 14th. I’m a mathematician, or at least I majored in maths so I feel that it’s important. And obviously, there had to be a circle on the card. Here’s a card you can share with your geeky friends.

Stampin' Up! Memories in the making

I hand wrote the pi symbol since there’s no stamp for it (definitely a lack!) in cherry cobbler on very vanilla and then attached it to a window sheet from the Memories in the Making set that is a Sale-a-bration freebie. I attached this with glue dots to the back of a piece of cherry cobbler where the window was cut with the squares framelits collection. This was then glued to a cherry cobbler card base.

This was fun to make – especially using items that are made for memory keeping. We can definitely repurpose!

 

Happy Pi Day.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – October

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As I mentioned yesterday, on Sunday I finished off my Perpetual Birthday Calendar with some friends. The October stamp is differing sizes of circles and I decided to use one of my favourite colour combinations – lost lagoon, pear pizzazz and pool party.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I started by stamping the month in lost lagoon and then added the circles first in pear pizzazz, then pool party and finally some lost lagoon. The lost lagoon star out of the kit just didn’t work for me and I hit upon pulling a piece of lost lagoon and white from the now retired Moonlight DSP stack since it was already out to make banners for March for those of the class copying what I’d done last year. I then coloured an O using the Stampin’ Write marker in pear pizzazz – I did this, rather than pat it onto an inkpad so that it wouldn’t get too dark. Once it was dry, I stuck it onto the banner. It needed a little something else so I went over the O with the clear wink of Stella. It adds the perfect finishing touch.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar close up

For $16 (plus postage and tax) it’s a really affordable kit – although you need the stamp set ($24) too if you want to follow the directions. Of course you could use another set if you had one for the months and decorate differently. An afternoon (or two) with friends making these kits is really fun, I recommend it. And if there are just two of you, the two kits plus the stamp set would be enough to get a Sale-a-bration freebie, always a good thing!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Perpetual Birthday Calendar

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Yesterday I had a card class in which we played with the Perpetual Birthday Calendar kit – it was originally scheduled for Friday evening but due to a couple of unexpected birthdays, we moved it. The irony of this was not lost on us! As usual, we had a great time, glitter appeared on faces and clothing which has become our measure of a successful crafting time. I had done most of my calendar ahead of time so that I was available to help some of my more novice crafters but I had three months to go. We started with January because it’s the first year, but in retrospect we should’ve started with March since January and February aren’t terribly useful at the moment. But we’ll finish our other months soon (apart from Nicole who finished her entire calendar yesterday afternoon). Here’s my September page.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar

I first stamped the September in rich razzleberry and the leaves (both from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set) in pear pizzazz and mossy meadow. I used the two greens to cut out a leaf using the botanical builder framelits dies and glued them down. For the S, I cut out a rough square around the S and then pressed it onto the rich razzleberry ink pad. Once it had dried, I added that on top of my leaves.

We learned a few things during this class. It takes a long time to do the calendar because everyone has their own ideas and takes time to think about each month. Jacquie decided my beach like colours for March were better for August and switched. She also, along with James, wanted raindrop shapes for April – and they found what they could use in the Flower Fair framelets set. There was a lot more glitter and sequins on other people’s calendars than on mine  (although some of my pages had sequins added to them yesterday). The Wink of Stella clear pen was very popular for adding a little sparkle here and there. All in all, our calendars were all different although we used the same colours as each other for each month – the colour choice is the hardest part apparently. And this has set us up for birthday card classes so that we can actually have the cards available to send!

It fits in beautifully with Shannon West’s movement, the one to actually send real cards. Her #Imbringbirthdaysback stamp is back in stock and only $12. Mine arrives in a couple of days and it will be adorning my envelopes from now on.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sky is the Limit

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I’ve been trying to avoid the pun that it’s my head, but it’s no use! I have to say that it took a while for me to get off the ground with this stamp set. There. I said it! 🙂 The Sky is the Limit set is one of the Sale-a-bration sets that was guaranteed until February 15th but it’s still available as of the time of writing. I wouldn’t wait much longer if you want it though – it’s free with an order of $50 (not including postage and tax).

Stampin' Up! Sky is the limit and Endless Birthday Wishes and Sweet Li'l Things DSP

I love the typeface of the sentiments (although I didn’t use them here – they didn’t fit) but I wasn’t expecting to use the plane much. But the stamp has been used quite a few times. I was inspired by the sketch challenge at CAS on Sundays and I actually had a totally different plan, but the plane insisted that it be used again.  Especially as I wanted a male birthday card. Here’s the sketch banner:

I started by selecting the DSP which is from Sweet Li’l Things and cut it to the right shape and then stamped out the aeroplane in basic black. This seemed to harsh so I tried early espresso which was much better. The sentiment needed to be fairly concise and that’s the beauty of the Endless Birthday Wishes – you can mix and match and fill all sorts of different spaces. I stamped this in early espresso and then snipped out my plane. It’s not a big deal but I wouldn’t fancy making a dozen of this design! I originally intended to use a very vanilla card base but, as I usually do, I tested a few more colours and early espresso was the clear winner. I decided to match the envelope liner to the pool party colour of the DSP.

I rather like this sketch and definitely intend to go back to my original idea – as long as the plane doesn’t get pushy again!

See you tomorrow,

Liz