Monthly Archives: December 2016

Up and Away Thinlits Dies

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One of my brother’s team, Gabe, is moving on. It’s been a hard year with too many projects with too tight deadlines. I don’t blame him. He joined a year ago so all he’s known here are death march projects (they’ve worked the last three weekends) and his new job is a 3 minute commute instead of 90. But we’re going to miss him. He joined just before I got my welcome stamp set so although I missed welcoming him with a card, I’ve got a good luck card for him to leave.

I can’t find a good luck sentiment so balloons seem appropriate. The new Up and Away thinlits dies along with the Lift Me Up stamp set seem perfect. And wow, are they fun?! The thinlits dies have five shapes that make up the colours behind the balloon. How fun is that? And there are smaller balloons which are stamped using the Lift Me Up set and then can be cut out with the thinlits.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Up & Away Thinlits Dies- Lift Me Up

So I made this massive card without pre-planning the colours – I cut out a number of the five shapes in night of navy, cherry cobbler, silver foil and marina mist and then glued them behind my two big balloons pretty much at random. I found that tombow onto the back of the detailed balloon die cut worked perfectly for attaching the backgrounds. I used dimensionals to make the balloons float on what is a complete sheet of card stock folded in half. We’re going to need a lot of room to write messages to Gabe. I then used the stamp set for a few of the smaller balloons and cut them out with the Up and Away thinlits dies. Since I didn’t pop them up, they could easily have been stamped straight onto the card, but it’s fun to play with new toys isn’t it?!

Talking of using full sheets – the envelope used almost a full piece of DSP. The envelope punch board makes it easy to make different envelopes – especially the table on the front which tells you the paper size that you need. In this case, it was 11 by 11 and I used the floral boutique DSP.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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

Baby Bear with a Jolly Hat

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Here’s another Christmas card using a non-Christmassy stamp set – this time, Baby Bear along with the Jolly Hat builder punch to add the Christmas to the card. Technically, the hat is a little small for the bear, but it was too adorable not to do it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Jolly Hat builder punch - Christmas pines - Baby Bear

The bear is stamped in soft suede first for the most detailed layer and then crumb cake for the next detailed and crumb cake stamped off for the least detailed layer. I like to do it backwards so that it’s easy to see the darker layer for lining up purposes. The final piece of stamping came from Christmas Pines, a set that I love but have only recently started to use – fortunately it’s carrying over. Do you ever do that? Buy something that you love and it just sits on your desk amidst all the other sets and it gets ignored for a while?

I punched out the hat in real red and whisper white and added the festive touch to my bear! What do you think?

I just noticed that today is the deadline to guarantee Christmas delivery.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on (including the jolly hat builder punch) and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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

 

Product Share Time

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With the new catalogue going live on January 4th, it’s time to talk about product shares again. This is when you get a portion of every paper or embellishment and ribbon so that it doesn’t break the bank. The idea is that you sign up for a share and once I have four people sign up, I order the product, divide it up and send it out. This way, you get to play with all the new stuff. Here’s a photo of a couple of the new ribbons – we’re not allowed to share pictures of catalog pages yet, but we can take our own photos. My favourite is the very vanilla satin ribbon, it’s so lush.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Product Share

There are 2 shares – paper and embellishments with ribbon.

Paper: This would cost $84 plus tax and postage to buy it all. For your quarter* share it’s $20 plus $6.45 postage.

Party animal, Cupcakes & Carousels (6 by 6), Sending Love (6 by 6), Sending Love Glassine Sheets (6 by 12), Succulent Garden, Tasty Treats Specialty, Urban Underground Specialty and Falling in Love

PLUS you get 6 pieces of 6 by 12 of TWO of the Sale-a-bration papers – Carried Away and Inside the Lines for free.

*There are 10 Sending Love Glassine Sheets; you get two. I didn’t want to cut the sheets into 6 by 6.

For the 6 by 6, you get 12 sheets per stack, one per pattern.

For the rest, you get 6 pieces of 6 by 12, one of each pattern- unless it’s a specialty paper when you get a piece of 6 by 6 of both specialty papers.

Embellishments and Ribbon: This one’s $17 plus $5.00 postage.

Emerald Envy taffeta ribbon (2.5 yards), Sending Love Ribbon Combo Pack (2.5 yards of both real red and whisper white), Succulent Garden 3/8″ ribbon combo pack (2.5 yards of both sweet sugarplum and whisper white), Very Vanilla 1/4″ satin ribbon (2.5 yards), Party Animal Embellishments (2 of 2 designs), Sending Love embellishments (1 each of 6 designs), Urban Underground embellishments (2 each of 3 designs) and Falling in Love embellishments (3)

PLUS you get 3/8″ metallic ribbon combo pack (1.75 yards of silver and gold) from Sale-a-bration for free.

If you’d like both shares, it’s $37 plus $6.45 postage. Just email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know what you’d like and I’ll confirm and send you an invoice when I’m ready to order.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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

Beautiful You

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I made a set of cards using the will-be-released-in-3-weeks stamp set, Beautiful You back in November a week after I went to Onstage. My friend Julia was lucky enough to win it as a prize patrol gift and when we were stamping together the following week, she brought it with her. Okay, I packed her bag for her to ensure that we had it! She was focused on Christmas cards, like most November stampers, but I couldn’t resist playing with it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Beautiful You

Not only does this set have three great images, but the sentiments are awesome and I love the fonts used too. I stamped this image in archival basic black onto watercolour paper and then used my aquapainter and the lid of my sweet sugarplum ink (see – I do have inks that aren’t red! It feels like all I’ve used lately are reds). Just a little splash of colour. I added a mat of basic black to make it pop – LOL – minor typo as I was writing this and I put that I added a moat of basic black. I guess it’s sort of a moat. Any, I used fuse to add the mat/moat which has the side effect of ensuring that the watercolour paper is perfectly flat if you’ve used loads of water (back to the moat again!). The card base is of course sweet sugarplum.

I looked in my stash of DSP that I had handy and found the perfect matching paper in Blooms & Bliss for the envelope flap. Beautfiul isn’t it?

I love this set so much that I’m going to be featuring it at two upcoming classes – January 14th and February 5th. Details coming soon.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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

 

 

Cookie Cutter Christmas

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A group of us got together over the weekend to make the Tin of Tags project and had a great time each making 30 tags. Julia showed me some cards she’d made with the Cookie Cutter Christmas set and shared that she was having issues getting the gingerbread man to stamp properly. I brought it home with me to use it with a pierce mat – it gives cushion that photopolymer stamps don’t have – and after first stamping with versamark and then crumb cake ink, got a perfect image. I didn’t want to waste it, so here’s my gingerbread man card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Cookie Cutter Christmas - Christmas Pines

I picked the colours from the Global Design Project forgetting that their new challenges start on Mondays so I’ve missed the deadline. Still, I’m grateful to them for the combination. The early espresso sentiment comes from Christmas Pines and of course the hat was punched out of real red with the jolly hat builder punch and set at a jaunty angle on my gingerbread man. His buttons are from the brights enamel shapes collection.

To make it so that the early espresso looks as if it belongs, I added an early espresso mat and to make the real red less of an accent, added a real red card base. I’m really pleased with this card and happy that I had to check out the stamp!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Cookie Cutter Christmas - Christmas Pines

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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