Monthly Archives: September 2016

Vertical Greetings for PCC012

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For those of you who don’t have Paper Pumpkin – and why not? Especially now when it’s BOGOF – here’s a card not using this month’s kit. Instead I’m using colour inspiration from Pootles Colour Challenge 012, which is mint macaron, flirty flamingo and tip top taupe. The seemed the perfect time to get out the Vertical Greetings set and my stampin’ write markers.

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings

First I took my aquapainter and quickly created some earth or shadow so that my plant pot wasn’t floating in space and then I coloured in various parts of the stamp in the three colours. After that I breathed on the stamp hard – to remoisten the ink – and using my stamp-a-ma-jig got the plant perfectly in place. I also used the stamp-a-ma-jig for the sentiment both for placement and to prevent wobble. Then I gave my piece of very vanilla a skinny mat of the rather bright flirty flamingo and a large border of tip top taupe to further tone it down. It’s a fun colour in small doses!

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings

As usual, Sam has come up with colours that I wouldn’t have put together. It’s the reason I really enjoy challenges, they push you to try something a little different – or in this case, quite a lot. Flirty Flamingo hasn’t had much attention from me and I rarely use browns.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is the last day of the special deals.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate 3

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So here’s my Paper Pumpkin September 2016 third alternative; I’m having a lot of fun with the kit whilst I figure out what treats I’m putting in the tubes. The sketch at Freshly Made Sketches inspired this one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 - Something Good To Eat

Here’s the banner:

I turned the sketch on its side and used the banner from the Paper Pumpkin for the main element – actually it took two of them and my metal ruler to ensure that they were lined up. There are more banners in the kit than you need for the 16 tubes, and you don’t want to waste any. I cut a little strip of black and used my triple banner punch to put the flag in it. Then I used rich razzleberry for the sentiment (also from the Paper Pumpkin set) and cut that out with the layering square framelits dies. Then I cut out a basic black scalloped mat which I popped up with dimensionals. This was all put on a rich razzleberry card base but it didn’t feel quite right. A few metallic enamel shapes in silver finished the card off perfectly.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate 2

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Since it’s a Sunday, I checked a couple of challenge sites who post new challenges on Sundays, before sitting down to craft and found that The Paper Players want a taste of fall. Even better, Laurie wants a clean and simple card. This challenge fits perfectly with my goal to create another paper pumpkin alternate with the Something Good To Eat kit.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate - Something Good To Eat

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I used very vanilla card stock for my top layer and first stamped the pumpkin in, obviously, pumpkin pie. What else could I use?! The details on the pumpkins are in tangerine tango. The faces and stalk as well as the sentiment (all from the Something Good To Eat kit) are in old olive.

To pull out the old olive more, I trimmed 1/8 inch off two sides of my very vanilla (to 5 1/8 by 3 7/8) so that I could have an old olive mat. It’s 5 1/4 by 4 leaving a wider pumpkin pie border.

As I mentioned yesterday, the labels in the paper pumpkin kit are going to be useful for a bake sale. I’m tempted to go and create a bag to hold cookies for it now.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate

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Firstly I’d like to thank Sam aka Pootles for selecting my card as her weekly winner – her blog is one of the few that I read each morning before I get out of bed and it was a great start to a Saturday.

When I got home from work yesterday, my Paper Pumpkin had arrived! So I got up this morning determined to make my first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate! It’s going to be very useful because soon I’ll be getting together with a friend and her son to bake cookies for a charity stall and we like to add fun labels. This set is perfect!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate - Something Good To Eat

I quickly decided that I wanted to make a very CAS card using the “A Happy Hello to you” sentiment  along with the sunflowers. I started with black centres but eventually changed to early espresso which looked better with the delightful dijon than chocolate chip. My grid paper is now covered in an assortment of sunflowers! After all that testing on white, I changed the top layer to very vanilla because it’s warmer. I wanted to add a pop of colour and watermelon wonder fits the bill – I stamped the sentiment and then used my layering squares framelits dies to cut it out and create a little frame. The layering dies are really great for creating different sized borders. Next was the placement of the flowers – I held my sentiment in place and figured how much of the flower needed to be seen and then removed the sentiment and stamped.  I popped the sentiment up with dimensionals. Then it was a simple matter of an early espresso skinny mat (it’s 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla piece) and a wider than usual band of the card base showing. It’s fun playing with different sized mats; admittedly because I don’t tend to have a lot of layers there’s less scope, but it’s amazing what a change of 1/8 or 1/4 inch can make.

So there’s the first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate, I’m off to go and make the second one now.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Floral Boutique DSP

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I started my card for today by deciding that I really should use some DSP and there was a scrap of the Floral Boutique DSP in my folder. I have a plastic hanging box which takes 12 by 12″ hanging files and I use those to hold my DSP – scraps of a stack are put at the front of the file. Actually this piece was wider and it wasn’t until I was almost done with my card that I realised why it was bothering me and trimmed down my DSP to be an accent rather than trying to take over the card! And that was a good thing, because after I’d stacked my DSP on my piece of whisper white and ensured that the edges were perfect, I was removing an extra spot of glue and managed to push the DSP so that it was wonky. And I didn’t notice until the wiggle room time was up. I usually love that the multipurpose glue gives you adjustment time, but very occasionally, I’ll mess something up because I was done but the glue wasn’t. So I just trimmed off the wonky edge and that’s a second, very easy way, to get your edges lined up perfectly!

Stampin' Up! Floral Boutique DSP and watercolor wishes

I love the navy and white together but I decided that I wanted another pop of colour – and that it wouldn’t be melon mambo, just for a change. I had the watercolour wishes happy birthday sentiment still mounted on a block from yesterday’s card which explains the choice of sentiment. I stamped in sweet sugarplum on a piece of scrap and cropped it out with the layering ovals framelits dies, I also used them to crop out my sweet sugarplum mat. Incidentally, if you don’t have these layering dies, they are on special this week until the 21st, for only $26.25. That’s a great bargain. Just click on the Shop Now button and they can easily be yours – don’t forget to use the hostess code to start amassing your loyalty points. For more details on my loyalty program, click the button on the left.

Then it was just a matter of construction – I put the DSP right up to the edge of the whisper white (and adjusted as previously mentioned!), added a little layer of sweet sugarplum and put that onto a night of navy base. I popped the sentiment and it’s mat up on dimensionals.

Every time I use the Floral Boutique DSP,  I wonder why I haven’t used it more recently. So I hope you like this stack, I have a feeling I’ll be playing with it at the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz