Monthly Archives: June 2016

Playful Backgrounds

As promised yesterday, here’s a card using another of my new sets, Playful Backgrounds. As the name says, the set’s purpose is to make fun backgrounds and although I have done that today, I’ve made it the main interest on the card – since this is the first time that I’ve used it.

The colour scheme comes from The Paper Players’ challenge this week – here’s the banner which inspired my choice

The set consists of 4 different patterns and I’ve used two of them to create my fun background using cherry cobbler and dapper denim. The outlines stamp is purposely made not to fit perfectly over the solids. So after making my own DSP, I glued my piece of whisper white to a dapper denim base. For the sentiment, I reached for the set Floral Phrases which was still out on my desk and stamped it in dapper denim. I used the retired ovals collection to cut it out and intended to have a larger oval in cherry cobbler to frame it. It was too big (I need the new layering ovals thinlits) so I used a sponge dauber and added just a hint of cherry cobbler to the edges to soften the look.

To make my envelope match, I used the Playful Backgrounds stamps on the flap as well. Perfect coordination!

Today marks my sister’s 100th blog post and she’s offering blog candy (although only to UK addresses). It would be great to get her a lot of visitors today, so if you have the time, please pop over to see her blog. And yes, for those of you that thought I’m in the states, I am. I’m in NJ. She and are live quite a way apart.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Small detailed floral thinlits

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As I said yesterday, I’ve been continuing to play with the Detailed Floral thinlits dies. This time I took the small floral piece and used it twice, once at the top and once at the bottom of my piece of very vanilla.

Next I took the mint macaron ink and stamped the sentiment which is, yet again, from Watercolor Wishes. I really do have other sets! I glued this onto a cardbase of mint macaron using my 2 way glue pen. I need to find a replacement for this since I like that (unless you squeeze it) it doesn’t come out in globs and it almost never oozes out from under what you’re gluing. It just leaves a layer of thin glue which does exactly what you want – stays in place and holds what you’re gluing. I also use SNAIL, fast fuse and tombow for various purposes, but none of them are perfect replacements for the 2 way glue pen. If you have a recommendation for a glue you love, please let me know.

I wanted to add just a little something to the space and remembered that I still have some leftover mint macaron enamel dots from the last catalogue. Perfect. Take a look amongst your leftover embellishments – you’re sure to find something there if you’re anything like me!

See you tomorrow when I’m using Playful Backgrounds,

Liz

Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies for GDP

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Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies for what? Yes, GDP, it’s not some kind of designer paper, but the Global Design Project which I enter every now and then. I really should enter more often, they have fun challenges.

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

Don’t you absolutely LOVE this DSP? I can see actually running out of it which would be a first! The whole package is absolutely gorgeous – blooms and bliss DSP in case you’re wondering. It’s a fairly fast and CAS card – I cut a piece of the DSP 4″ by 5.25″ which means I can make 6 out of a piece of paper by the way and glued it to a rich razzleberry card base. Both the flower and the sentiment are from the Sunshine Wishes thinlits dies set and they are also in rich razzleberry. I also tried it in sweet sugarplum but it didn’t give me the pop I wanted.

This photo gives you a good look at the envelope – I used the 1.5 inch piece left from my 4 inch strip to cut out a number of butterflies using the same thinlits set. I tried three, but one was the right number for the envelope. So I had some left. Where to use them?

Of course, the inside. For one of them at least! The sentiment comes from the My Hero set which is a set you need. It’s this year’s charity set – when you buy it, Stampin’ Up! will donate $3 to the Ronald McDonald House Charities. I love that they do this and always buy the designated set. It’s good to give back.

If you haven’t got a catalog just email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com and I’d be happy to send one along. The catalog is online (the button’s over there on the left) but it’s nicer to sit with a coffee and a highlighter to make notes. I’d definitely add today’s products to the list. Oh yes, I did!

I’ve been playing with the detailed floral thinlits dies again – come back tomorrow for another example.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Detailed Floral thinlits and the new incolours

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I was so tired after an extremely busy week that I didn’t even make today’s card last night. So this morning after extra sleep, I finally got to play with the contents of the box which UPS delivered on Thursday. I kept coming back to the detailed floral thinlits which were still out from Friday’s card and decided to use the so far unused third piece of the set to make today’s card. I also broke out flirty flamingo, a new colour which I hadn’t used before.

I cut a piece of flirty flamingo a quarter inch smaller than the card base (4″ by 5 1/4″) and carefully placed the floral die on top of it. Then I added the third piece which creates the curvy border and cranked these through the big shot. After a little attention from the big shot die brush to release all the little pieces it was good to go. Before gluing this to my piece of whisper white, I first stamped the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes in flirty flamingo. Actually, initially I was going to use very vanilla but the different look of the flirty flamingo on the vanilla just didn’t quite work with the piece of flirty flamingo that I’d die cut. No worries, I just switched to white. Perfect. After the stamping worked, I glued the die cut onto my piece of white and then attached that to a flirty flamingo card base.

I didn’t much like this colour to start with, but here, I love the look. Sometimes it takes a little time to warm up to some of the new colours. It definitely hasn’t taken me any time to love these new thinlits dies!

See you tomorrow,

Liz