Monthly Archives: October 2016

Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

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Welcome to October and the first challenge of the month at CAS Colours & Sketches. I’m especially excited about the challenges this month because it’s my first time hosting the entire month. We’re starting off as usual with a colour challenge.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies - Sweet Cupcake - Festive Birthday DSP

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

Very bright and cheerful, yes? When I decided that I wanted to use emerald envy and tempting turquoise, it occurred to me that these colours are in the Festive Birthday DSP along with one of my favourite colours, melon mambo. So I set about making a CAS card with the DSP and I wanted to do something other than a strip of DSP. It took until the weekend when I realised that I wanted to cut out a word. Luckily the three colours I’d chosen are next to each other in this piece of the paper, they could easily had had one or two of the other colours in the way. I cut out a number of words before deciding on the wish from the cupcake cutouts framelits dies. Next I added the stamped sentiment from the coordinating Sweet Cupcake sentiment in emerald envy and a matching melon mambo enamel shape which I confess is over the dot. It wasn’t until after I’d added it that I decided an enamel shape would look better. But nobody knows it’s under there. Apart from you and me anyway!

I then played with combinations of mats until I saw that white on white was much the best. Too much colour was going to detract from the image.

I hope that you try out these colours – they are bright and cheerful, and to start with, a trifle intimidating. But the richness of them is really fun to play with.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Love You Lots for a couple of challenges

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After a couple of busy days in New York, I was happy to be home and to have time to play with my stamps. CASology want a CUTE card this week and ATCAS want watercolour. This seemed a perfect opportunity to pull out Love You Lots and play with one of the so far uninked images.

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I really do love playing in challenges where the sketch or colours are set, but sometimes it’s really nice to use a cue card and be able to add green if you feel like it, or to change the design as the card wants. It seems to depend on how your creativity is feeling. Sometimes it needs more of a kick than at other times!

So I stamped this super cute image on shimmery white card stock using the archival basic black ink. To ensure that it was really dry before I started watercolouring, I stamped the sentiment next – obviously also from Love You Lots – in rose red. Then I squished my ink pads to put ink on the lids and started colouring away. I must say that after two days at a conference, it was fabulous to sit at my table and just watercolour. SO relaxing. I used soft suede for the hedgehogs and then more rose red for the flower. To give them something to stand on, I added a swoosh of pear pizzazz. Easy, fun, relaxing and definitely cute! I then put the shimmery white onto a base of rose red.

Don’t forget that today is the last day to get the 25% savings on a selection of products. Just click here to go to my online shop and then select the World Card Making Day category at the top.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO. The World Card Making deals last until tomorrow and the “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Wondrous Wreath

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I wanted to make a less traditional coloured wreath with the Wondrous Wreath set and decided on a silver and gold colour scheme. However since the stamp with less leaves is stamped over the base one, it would be nigh on impossible to do with actual heat embossing so I decided that delightful dijon and smoky slate were close to the metallics. I think that this is the first time I’ve ever used smoky slate as a base – I’m viewing it as silver rather than grey so as not to shock people who know of my grey dislike.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Wondrous Wreath

The first thing to do when using Wondrous Wreath is to cut out the middle of the wreath before any stamping. It’s much easier to fit the stamping around the hole than to have to place the framelit when you can’t see exactly where it’s cutting. The first leaves were stamped in smoky slate and the second layer with less leaves was in the delightful dijon. I gave it a little time to dry and then rubbed the embossing buddy over it and inked up the berries in versamark. Next I inked them with real red and stamped and added clear embossing powder. It’s hard to show the glossiness of the berries, but it’s there. Once the wreath was complete, I used the outer framelit to cut it out. It’s popped up on dimensionals on the smoky slate card base and then I cut out the Joy (in the same framelits) from red foil. It’s only now as I’m typing that I’ve realised that the red foil isn’t current any more, so you’ll have to pretend it’s copper, gold or silver!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Wondrous Wreath

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO. The World Card Making deals last until tomorrow and the “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.
See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Floral Boutique DSP

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I was having some fun carding this weekend, but I kept making Christmas cards so I moved all my Christmas sets to one side and decided I was making a non Christmas card. They tried to creep back in as I looked at the sketch at the Pals Paper Arts this week, but I resisted and kept my eyes firmly on the Floral Boutique DSP which is beautiful, but for some of the patterns, I can’t envision a really large piece on a card. It would take over. So it was perfect for this challenge.

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Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

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The reason that this post came out so early is that I’m off to New York for a 2 day conference and I figured it would be best to be certain that I’ve entered it in the challenge rather than struggling from a hotel room. So I cut a strip of the Floral Boutique DSP and added it to my whisper white layer. I knew I wanted a bright pop of colour and tried to use anything but melon mambo but in vain! I love it with the night of navy. So I cut a piece of whisper white slightly under an inch so that it would fit easily into the triple banner punch and created my flag. I popped it up with dimensionals but decided something was missing. That something apparently was some enamel shapes in melon mambo which, I think, finished it off perfectly.

Don’t forget that this is the midway point of the World Card Making celebration at Stampin’ Up! It ends on Wednesday. What with that and the buy 3 get 1 free DSP offer, this is a good time to put in an order. I’m off to put one in myself right now!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO. The World Card Making deals last until tomorrow and the “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Fruit Stand DSP for FMS challenge

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I was making Christmas cards yesterday to include in hostess packages that I’m mailing out and I want them to be a surprise so I’ll share them later on. Let me know if you’d like to host a party and I’ll send you one too!  Today’s card is inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and I’m impressed that I’m sharing it the day before the challenge closes rather than the day that it does! I decided to use the Fruit Stand DSP which I haven’t used lately and it really should get me out of my Christmas card making rut!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Fruit Stand DSP - Hello You Thinlits Dies

 

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired my card:

I just love this paper, isn’t it gorgeous? The colours of the watercoloured paper are beautiful but when I checked the colours of the Fruit Stand DSP, the oranges mentioned were Peekaboo Peach and Tangerine Tango. Neither really worked – the first was just too bright and the second fought to be the star of the show. But Pumpkin Pie does work; it gives a border that doesn’t try to take over the card. I cut out the piece of Fruit Stand DSP with the largest but one from the banners framelits dies and then cut out a pumpkin pie mat with the largest. And the border was just too big – now that we’ve been spoiled with the layering dies, the border just looked too chunky. So I lined up the bottom of the banners where I wanted them, glued on the DSP and then used my trimmer to cut down the pumpkin pie card stock to match.

The Hello is from the Hello You thinlits dies and cut out in the lush copper foil. I did consider the gold but the copper works best.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO.

See you tomorrow,

Liz