Monthly Archives: November 2016

Lovely As A Tree

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This cards a bit of an experiment – I was, of course, still playing with my Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies last night when I wondered whether I could have something poking out of the stitched shape. I decided on the elegant tree from Lovely As A Tree for my experiment.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lovely As A Tree - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Merriest Wishes

I first stamped it on the very vanilla layer and then again on a scrap which I cropped with the largest of the square Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. Then I carefully lined up the image and glued the die cut layer on the top of the tree stamped on the card layer. Only then did I stamp my greeting – happily flawlessly, but that was definitely taking a risk! I then put the layer onto a cherry cobbler card base to match the greeting. I am really glad that these dies came in time for me to take them to the 3 day crop that I’m going to tomorrow – look for lots more samples showing them next week.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

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When I got home last night, my latest order had been delivered from Stampin’ Up! And this one contained the brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies released early on November 1st. Stitching has been a trend for a while and I was thrilled that these have been released because whilst I’m not about to start actually stitching on a card, I do love the look of the stitches.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Fancy Frost Specialty DSP - Christmas Greeting Thinlits - Totally Trees

Also in my order was the Fancy Frost Specialty DSP which was brought to my attention by my adopted upline, Eimear. Actually Eimear is my sister Caro’s upline but that UK based team has kindly let me be part of their fun and are encouraging me to go to the Live Onstage event in Europe with them next April. You can’t split up sisters now can you?! And yes, I double dip – I’m going away this weekend to MY upline’s cropping event, one that my sister has gone to as well. The stamping community is very friendly. Anyway, back to the card…

I very lightly sponged the fancy frost specialty DSP in always artichoke using a sponge and glued that to an always artichoke card base. I stamped one of my favourite trees from Totally Trees onto whisper white and cut it out with my brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and created an always artichoke mat using the layering ovals. The merry comes from the Christmas Greetings thinlits and it’s been cut out in cajun craze. To tie it all together, I used an enamel shape in the same colour. Since I was going to have the sentiment overlapping the image, I glued everything down flat. I look forward to playing some more with the stitched dies tonight.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sealed with Love for a sneak peek

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As you know I went to the Onstage Local event in Secaucus at the weekend and of course we got to play with new product from the next catalogue. I wanted to share the Make and Takes we did using the Sealed with Love stamp set and matching framelits, Love Notes Framelits dies. The cards also feature the new Sending Love DSP stack, Sending Love embelllishments, Sending Love Glassine Sheets as well as emerald envy baker’s twine.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Sealed with Love - Love Notes Framelits dies

Aren’t they adorable? They are 3 inches by 3 inches and the base is a sheet of the Sending Love DSP stack cut in half. In fact, in our Supplies box on the table at the event, we had the entire stack sliced in half. This meant we could all choose our card bases.

The cards at the left and right are fairly self explanatory and just feature the stamp set and matching framelits with some embellishments. The middle one is amazing – we used the framelits to cut out an envelope shape out of the Sending Love glassine sheets and then stuck it together with a mini glue dot. The insert is also cut using the framelits and the matching stamp set, Sealed With Love has a matching stamp that matched the top of the insert. Of course, it would have been easier if I’d stamped first and then cut but this worked pretty well.

I love the real red and emerald envy together – I need to make some more Christmas cards featuring those colours.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Suite Seasons for an easy Christmas card

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Continuing my quest to use up DSP, I pulled out the This Christmas DSP paper and found the wonderful music paper that I’d forgotten about. This seemed to pair perfectly with Suite Seasons.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Suite Seasons - This Christmas DSP Paper

So I cut the DSP to a usual layer size ( 1/4 inch smaller than the card) and made my black layer just a smidge larger to border it. I glued this to a real red card base wrapping a piece of the gold satin ribbon around it as I did so. Next I made numeous greetings from Suite Seasons – first in real red, then I embossed it in gold. Unfortunately on whisper white when the DSP was vanilla. So I have a whisper white and gold greeting to play with later! I cut out a scalloped mat using the Layering Ovals framelits and popped this up on dimensionals.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Candy Cane Christmas

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I’m planning to make gifts for my team at work and they are likely to be edible. Hence I decided to make some tags for the gifts and I’m using the Candy Cane Christmas as inspired by the tags in the Holiday catalogue on page 4. I went to Onstage local yesterday and have seen the upcoming Occasions catalogue which will be live to customers on January 4th and it made me realise that I’d better get moving on using up my DSP! I came home and quickly put in my preorder (a perk of being a demonstrator and attending the event) so that I’ll be able to share a few sneak peeks with you soon. In fact, I’ll be making some samples in the next day or two with product that I received whilst at the event. It was a really fun day and I’m already planning to attend the next one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Candy Cane Christmas - Candy Cane Lane DSP - Baker's Twine Trio Pack

This actually isn’t helping much with my DSP use;  I cut a strip 2 1/2 inches wide and then cut that into 2 1/2″ squares so you get 4 per strip, and therefore 16 per sheet of DSP. Then I stamped my sentiment in real red or crumb cake onto whisper white and decorated with images from the Candy Cane Christmas in real red or garden green. Since I have a diverse team I wanted to stay away from actually saying “Christmas” and stuck with this saying on all of the tags. I used both sides so that there is even greater variety in the tags. I used the 2 inch punch to cut out the circle and put a little fuse onto the back at the top. This made it easy to anchor the thread which is from the baker’s twine trio pack and then I glued this onto the DSP square. Quick and easy and fun. And now they are made so I won’t be hurriedly making them whilst I’m baking in 6 weeks or so time! I’m getting unusually well organised!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz