Monthly Archives: December 2016

Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies for a CAS(E)

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I haven’t done any challenges in ages – I’ve been playing with whatever was to hand without needing a starting point. Sometimes the focus on a sketch or collection of colours is helpful and sometimes you don’t want to be tied down. But I do find that challenges often push you to make cards that you wouldn’t have made otherwise and if it’s a challenge that you find tricky, and you persevere, it can give you a card that you’re really proud of. So I decided it was time to pick a challenge and I found CAS(E) this Sketch has a fun sketch which allowed me to use my Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies and a sneak peek of an upcoming set, Beautiful You. The sneak peek is a very little peek!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies - Beautiful You

I used my Delicate Ornament Thinlits Dies to cut out the gorgeous ornament in gold foil and a solid one in cherry cobbler. After putting these together using my sponge dauber and the silicone craft sheet, I took out the gold baker’s twine from the trio pack but it was a bit too insubstantial for this ornament. I tried a few other ribbons but nothing looked right, so I went back to the gold baker’s twine, cut three lengths and braided it. I used my paper piercing tool to hold the knot to my eraser and weighted that down with a punch to hold it steady whilst I braided. I tied off the ends with simple knots. Fuse was handy for securely fastening the braid and knot to the underside of the ornament and I popped the ornament up on dimensionals to hide the knot. I used fuse on the underside of the very vanilla piece and firmly pressed the braid to the fuse and then cut off the knot. The whole very vanilla layer was then added to a cherry cobbler card base.

I bet you’re wondering about the Beautiful You sneak peek? It’s just the sentiment. There are 6 or 7 other sentiments in this set as well as some fabulous images – I’m guessing that it’s going to be be extremely popular.

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

 

Vertical Greetings

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So what do you do when you have a lot of Christmas cards to make and you’ve overused your Christmas stamp sets? I say, pull out Vertical Greetings. I was planning to add a hat to the tree, but it was too big and wasn’t giving quite the look that I was going for.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Vertical Greetings - Lucky TIEF

I inked up the tree in old olive and real red on a piece of whisper white. The stamping (or rather inking up) wasn’t perfect but I fixed that by adding the gold metallic enamel shapes! Amazingly I’d managed to keep the real red on the pot and the old olive on the tree – if you notice one end of the ink pad is curved, one is straight; it’s easier to partially ink a stamp using the straight edge. But I’d already planned a little bow and the gold baker’s twine from the trio in the holiday catalogue was the perfect little accent.

Of course, the vertical greetings set wasn’t planned as a Christmas set and thus doesn’t have a matching holiday greeting. I decided to leave off the sentiment and put one inside and highlighted the gold stars by running another piece of real red through the big shot using the Lucky stars embossing folder. Putting the tree panel (matted with old olive) to one side meant that the stars were more emphasised and stopped the card being too symmetrical. Although I did a maths degree and LOVE symmetry, it doesn’t work so well in cards!

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

Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

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So, have you finished making your Christmas cards yet? Or even writing them? I’m not sure if I’ve made enough, I haven’t been terribly organised in counting them up. And I haven’t started writing them – Martin had a brilliant idea of writing one per day from the beginning of November, it was a great idea, but hasn’t happened! So, in case I’m short of cards, I decided to come up with a fast card – and when I’m looking for that, DSP is a life saver. And with the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack to hand, I decided to use that one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Star of Light - Triple Banner Punch

I pulled out a sheet of paper and cut it down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ – this gives enough left over to line the envelope flap and with a mat (cherry cobbler) just 1/8″ inch bigger, gives a nice wide border between the mat and the card base – here it’s crumb cake. It would be easy to pull out a framelit (especially one of the stitched shapes that I’m so fond of) but I wanted to also feature the gorgeous mini pinecones. If you cut the strip at exactly one inch, it’s a tight fit into the triple banner punch, so I cut a strip of crumb cake just a 1/16 inch under one inch wide and stamped the sentiment from Star of Light in cherry cobbler. I cut a strip of cherry cobbler 1/4 inch bigger for matting and assembled that together – amazingly I remembered that I wanted to add the pine cones and left space for them. I tied them up with the cherry cobbler twine that was part of the baker’s twine trio pack and attached them with a mini glue dot that I rolled a little to stop it showing. Looks like this is a card that I’ll be hand delivering!

It would be easy to mass produce these – you could cut strips of the crumb cake and cherry cobbler at 4 1/4″ and get two across a regular sheet of card stock. Stamp and then cut them up and assemble. You could easily put together 20 banners pretty quickly after which it’s pretty fast to put together the cards.

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

 

Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies

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I couldn’t resist another sneak peek from the upcoming Occasions catalogue that goes live on January 4th. This card showcases the beautiful Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies with the sentiment from the coordinating stamp set, Dragonfly Dreams. I’m predicting that this is going to be a really popular bundle – it was one of the first things on my list and as a demonstrator, we got to order it early at the Onstage Local event that I went to last month. It was great fun but only a single day rather than the 2.5 days that you get at Onstage Live. In April, our “local” event is in Richmond, Virginia which is a plane ride away so my friend Julia and I (encouraged by my sister and her upline) are going to fly to Amsterdam for the main event. I’ll get to meet some of the people that I “chat” with on Facebook in person AND go to two and a half days of Stampin’ Up! fun including seeing the new incolours in person. Want to join us? Just become a demonstrator and you’re able to attend too. And get product at a discount at absolutely no risk. Whilst you’re thinking about that, let me show you the card that I made with the new bundle.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies - Dragonfly Dreams - Gorgeous Grunge

The Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies has a piece which cuts out these five dragonflies as a single piece and after cutting it out of a layer of very vanilla, I started putting DSP behind it to see what I liked. Nothing was giving me what I had in my head so I took a piece of watercolour paper and brushed on island indigo in varying shades. Then I went to work. When I got home, it was perfectly dry and I took some perfect plum and added strokes of that. Once that was dry, (crossing my fingers that it really was!) I used the embossing buddy and then gorgeous grunge with versamark and gold embossing powder to give the random dots real life. I used fast fuse firmly attach my watercolour paper to the very vanilla and then added the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in island indigo. The die cut was attached with glue dots under the largest part of the body leaving the tails and wings free; this meant I could bend the wings a little to give the idea of movement which makes sense for dragonflies flitting about. I played around with various mats but it detracted from the dragonflies so I ended up with just an island indigo card base. I really love how this turned out and will be playing with it some more but I’ll be back to holiday cards tomorrow!

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

 

Paper Pumpkin Gift Idea

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We’re approaching the 10th of the month which is the important Paper Pumpkin Day. If you’re signed up by the 10th, you get this month’s kit; if you miss the deadline, you get next month’s. The reason I’m mentioning it now is I’m betting that there are a few people on your list that you’re struggling with. Paper Pumpkin can help with some of these – how about a prepaid gift subscription (either for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months) which will be like them getting a gift each month until their subscription runs out. If you sign up with me, I’ll send you a card that you can use to present to your recipient announcing the gift as well as 5 hand made cards as a gift for you.

In case you don’t know what Paper Pumpkin is about, here’s a fun video explaining

And then here are the details:

  • Each month you receive a unique, surprise kit with a project. It’s colour-coordinated and everything is pre-cut
  • Each kit includes stamps, ink, paper, accessories and instructions.
  • Each kit gives you about 30 minutes of fun
  • Your Paper Pumpkin ships around the 15th of the month.
  • You need to sign up for a kit by the 10th of the month to get that month’s kit. If you sign up on the 11th of the month, your first kit will come the next month.
  • A Paper Pumpkin subscription is just $19.95 per month (and shipping is included!) There’s no commitment, you can cancel or put your subscription on hold at any time. You can also prepay 1, 3, 6 or 12 months at a time and save money with the latter 2 options.
  • Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits or refills as supplies last.

To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz