Monthly Archives: July 2016

Moroccan DSP for a set of cards

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I was having fun at the recent crop and made a few boxes to fit some cards. Which meant that I needed to make sets of cards! For one of them I turned to the Moroccan DSP which is gorgeous and reminds me so much of some of my trips to Spain, in particular the Alhambra which is beyond words stunning. Having mentioned the Alhambra, I feel a bit odd introducing just a card, but the patterns really do fit.

Stampin' Up! Moroccan DSP and Endless Birthday Wishes

I cut a strip, a fairly random width and then a piece of early espresso 1/8 inch larger so that I got a really thin mat. After I had that glued together I put it onto a very vanilla card base for positioning and then stamped my sentiment in early espresso. It’s from Endless Birthday Wishes and it’s always sensible to stamp the sentiment early in case of issues. This way you can recover. At it happens, it was perfect and I could glue the paneled piece onto the card base.

I cut another piece of the DSP 2 1/8 by 6 inches so that I could glue it to the envelope flap and snip off the excess. And there we have it – a masculine birthday card and one, moreover, that isn’t just navy and brown! The Moroccan DSP is going to be very useful for birthday cards for the IT department. 🙂

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Penned and Painted

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I was away at a crop retreat this past weekend with my best friend Julia and we had loads of fun. Julia ran a production line and made 20 anniversary and birthday cards and had another dozen almost completed in between talking, laughing, meeting new and old friends, and just relaxing (the margaritas may have helped). I had a list of current card challenges to help in case I was feeling creativity free and I did struggle on Saturday. It took a while for things to gel – which was when I really appreciated having people to talk and laugh with. I finally started playing with Tuscan Vineyards and in between, my subconscious figured where I was really going with Penned and Painted which I was trying to use for Pootles’ fourth colour challenge.

Stampin' Up! Penned and Painted

The challenge this week is to use any or all of sweet sugarplum, so saffron and soft sky. All double S names – fun! I used sweet sugarplum for the sentiment, from the Watercolor Wishes kit and also for the outlines of the flowers from Penned and Painted. Next I filled in the flower with the second stamp from the set using sweet sugarplum stamped off once. The centre is the third part of the flower and is stamped in so saffron. I adjusted the orientation of the flowers but did one at a time. I once did some triple stamping where I thought it would be a great idea to stamp all of the outlines first, then all the next layers and finally all the centres and it did not go well. It was hard to figure out the orientation. So now I do one at a time!

I glued this piece of whisper white to a sweet sugarplum base to complete the card. I’ll start sharing what I did with Tuscan Vineyards as well as boxes I made for the cards starting later this week.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin July 2016 Alternate

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I’ve had my Paper Pumpkin for a little while but I’ve been having so much fun with the order that came whilst I was on my business trip, that I’ve only just got around to playing with it and coming up with alternates. It was also an opportunity to use my new Holly TIEF.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin July 2016 alternate - Holly TIEF

I started off my dry embossing a piece of real red with the Holly TIEF and then glued it to a real red card base. I cut the triangles from one of the little boxes, cutting just  inside the score lines. I glued the three triangles onto the card with multipurpose glue and then added an old olive trunk. This gave me the perfect opportunity to pull out the new Enamel Shapes (page 177 in case you haven’t seen them) and add some of the smallest circles in real red and old olive. I had intended to add a sentiment, but it was going to fight with the dry embossed background. And I didn’t feel like having a fight on my hands this morning!

It feels as if lately, I’ve given myself permission to start making Christmas cards – I’ve made a few this month. I’m planning a monthly Christmas card class stamp a stack  (4 copies of 2 designs) starting next month. Let me know if you’re local and interested. I’ll create a kit by post if there’s interest – let me know.

Hope that your weekend is going well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies Lined Box

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a mint macaron box made using the Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies and it was very popular. Just as I finished making it, I realised that I wanted to make a lined box. So without further ado, here’s my Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies Lined Box.

Stampin' Up! Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies

I started by cutting two long strips 4 inches wide from an 8.5 by 11″ piece of real red card stock. I scored them both at 3.5 inches and 7.5 inches. Next I used the larger of the two floral dies to cut each end of both strips along with the edge die. I then used fast fuse to attach the two real red pieces together so that I now had a cross shape.

To make the liner, I started with a 12 by 12 piece of whisper white card stock. I scored at 4 inches and then 1 groove inside 8 inches; I turned the paper and did the same again. So you have an almost 4 by 4 centre (which will fit inside the box) and the four edges. After burnishing all the score lines, I snipped up to the centre once on each edge (doesn’t matter which side as long as you don’t actually completely cut out a corner). You can see how you then put the box together by taking one of the cut pieces and putting it along the edge of the centre square. I found it was best to put it in place and then I cut down the extra cardstock a little so that there wasn’t so much inside for later cutting – you can see that on the opposite side of the box in the photo.

Next I glued the box together with fast fuse and positioned it in the middle of the real red centre square. After that I glued the real red to the outside of my box liner. I then fussy cut the top of the whisper white liner to match the top of the real red. Of course it wasn’t until after I’d done this that I figured out how I could have used the die instead. Next time, right?

It’s really quite hard to describe how to make something in 3D – hopefully this all makes sense. If not, drop me a line and I’ll clarify. I know I’ve said it before, but I really do need to start making a few videos.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

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Yesterday I made a card with the set Sweet Cupcake and the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies. Today I decided to do it again, but focus more on the framelits. I also wanted to make a card with the Fruit Stand DSP and have my favourite paper, really shine. So here’s the result of that combination!

fruit-stand-lemons

Isn’t the lemon paper lucious? It’s a bit watercolorey and so the daffodil delight card stock doesn’t match perfectly hence the old olive as the card base. Or rather, it matches, but the daffodil delight card makes the DSP less intense. I wanted to really highlight the paper so this seemed like the perfect time to cut out the “wish” from the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits dies – it’s cut in old olive, the same as the card base. The “Make A” comes from the Sweet Cupcake set and I positioned it so that it was stamped over one of the paler lemons, also in old olive.

Stampin' Up! Fruit Stand DSP and Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

I cut my paper to 6 inches wide and 4 inches deep. Then I cut it back to 5 1/4 but that meant that I could cut a 6 by 2 1/8 strip from the remainder to decorate the envelope flap. It’s as easy as a bit of multipurpose glue on the flap, putting the DSP onto the flap and trimming around the edge. I love the coordination.

I’d like to welcome my new email subscribers, I’m so happy that you’ve joined us. I hope that you enjoy the projects that I share. Feel free to introduce yourselves. In the next day or two I plan to share another 3D project, so come back for that.

See you tomorrow,

Liz