Monthly Archives: May 2016

Hexagon Punch and It’s My Party

Here are two things which are retiring in a couple of weeks – the hexagon punch and the It’s My Party DSP stack. Both, as of this morning, are still available. The punch is extremely useful for cutting the ends of banners or, as in this case, for using up scraps.

The DSP scraps are all from the It’s My Party DSP, a very happy stack. I punched out about 10 in various scraps as well as a couple in crushed curry. I stamped the sentiment on one of these also in crushed curry ink. I’d tell you where the sentiment is from, but I can’t find it – I’ve sorted out my sets into current, retired but I’m keeping and retired and a quick look through this morning hasn’t helped. It is a very similar sentiment to one in the Sale-a-bration set, Party Pants. I eventually will locate the set and I’ll update this. Edit: I located the stamp set – it’s Sunburst Sayings.

Then comes the fun piece – take a piece of whisper white and start arranging the hexagons. For this arrangement I decided that I wanted them falling down the page. Once I had them laid out, I started at the bottom right and worked up one. Then I started at the top left – hoping I’d got my placement pretty close – and worked down. I’ve noted before that the hexagon isn’t totally perfect so I like to pop up at least one of the hexagons to disguise this. I did this again today, popping up the sentiment one. Here’s a better view of that.

And that’s it – a quick and easy card which uses up scraps. What more could you ask for?

See you tomorrow (at 8am because it’s a Thursday and I align my posting with the challenge thread),

Liz

Just three weeks to go to the new Stampin’ Up! catalog

Garden in Bloom

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Challenges are good – they stretch you and lead you in a completely different direction. The challenge this week at CASology (actually I’m sliding in under the wire here) is MOVE and I decided to use the bee stamp from Garden in Bloom.

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

I decided that the bees were busily buzzing in a circle and thus moving. I stamped them first opposite each other and then filled in the gaps. Originally I had just four bees until Martin commented that he thought that bees were usually hexagonal. This worked much better. After stamping the bees from Garden in Bloom with the archival basic black, I coloured the stripes with my Stampin’ Write hello honey marker. I then cut out a piece of basic black about 1/16 inch larger than the whisper white piece and glued it on to give a narrow border.

To give the bees something to buzz about, I took a piece of hello honey and dry embossed it with the retired spring flowers embossing folder. I glued this to a hello honey card base and then popped up the bees with dimensionals.

To jazz up the envelope, I cut out a liner using the retired backgrounds DSP in hello honey and the envelope liners framelits. I love that it’s so easy to coordinate but I can’t believe that the envelope liners framelits are retiring.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline to sign up in order to receive this month’s Paper Pumpkin and, unusually, this month we got a sneak peek. Check out my post from last week showing it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home

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Apologies for the late post, I’ve been fighting with my computer again. The Home IT desk thinks it might be the motherboard, so I’d better get myself set up on one of the other (numerous) computers! I’ve been playing with Happy Home again – I’m sad it’s retiring. Right now, the Happy Home set and the matching framelits come in a bundle. The framelits aren’t retiring but there’s nothing in the new catalogue that they match with – I’m guessing that something to match is coming out at Christmas or next year, but I’m not giving up this stamp set!

I decided that I’d join another two of the scenes together for the Paper Players challenge today and when I went looking for my watercolour paper, I found the shimmery white paper first. So I’m using that instead – I usually forget that I have it.

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I stamped the image in wisteria wonder which gives it a lovely soft look and then used my aquapainter to put a wash of colour for the ground in pear pizzazz. I purposely made it not a uniform green to avoid the impression that it was completely flat. Then I used my pink pirouette stampin’ write marker to colour in the shirt, added a little more wisteria wonder to the shorts and coloured the kite and flower in so saffron. The greeting, also from Happy Home, is stamped in pear pizzazz. I contemplated adding an extra mat to the card but it didn’t fit with the hand drawn look of the card, so I just glued the shimmery white paper onto a so saffron card base.

See you tomorrow,

Liz