Monthly Archives: January 2017

Succulent Garden DSP

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Here’s the thank you card that I sent to my December customers; I appreciate all of my customers and I enjoy creating cards to send to them – along with a little extra which I’ll share tomorrow. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been rather busy at work lately so I wanted a card that would be quick and easy to mass produce. DSP is always a great choice in this situation and the designer series papers in the Occasions catalog are really gorgeous – here I’ve chosen the beautiful Succulent Garden DSP.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden DSP - Bunch of Blossoms - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Festive TIEF

I like to have some card stock pre-cut into card base sizes so that I’m not continually popping up to cut something (it might be good for me to get up all the time though) and I cut many at a time with my large carl cutter. This saves time and saves my Stampin’ Up! trimmer blades wearing out just cutting lots of bases. So I cut a bunch of old olive bases and then the DSP into pieces of 5 1/4 inches by 4 getting 6 to a sheet. It’s fairly soothing, folding all the bases and then gluing all the DSP on.  At the next session, I stamped the sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms in sweet sugar plum and then cut it out using the stitched shapes framelits dies cranking that through the big shot at the same time as a piece of old olive and the layering ovals. Then it was a simple matter of gluing the two pieces together and popping it up with dimensionals. To finish things off, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Festive TIEF. I love the polished look of an embossed envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Bookcase Builder

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We’ve just had five people promoted at work and I therefore need a few more congratulations cards! I pulled out the Bookcase Builder stamp set with the really gorgeous sentiment  – I love the typeface. And then there are all the fun items to put on the shelves.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder

After a few test runs, I got the shelf and sentiment placement where I wanted them – and stamped in early espresso – and stamped the trophy in delightful dijon and then the wine carafe. And then I realised why the top of the carafe was flat. It isn’t a carafe, it’s a lamp. Oops! I showed my brother and told him that I was puzzled why the top of the carafe was flat and he said he thought it was awesome – it would stop it rolling around the table like ours do since they don’t have flat tops. He laughed and laughed when I showed him that it was actually a lamp. Although he prefers it as a carafe! But I started again and this time got my pear pizzazz lamp the right way up and moved onto the plant. The bottles and teddy bear filled up the lower shelf and then it was a question of matting the piece of whisper white. I continued the early espresso colour with a really slim mat (just 1/8 inch larger) and put that onto a delightful dijon cardbase. One down and a few to go – I’ll check my stash for a supply so that I can get these out in a timely fashion – or maybe I’ll make more like this but using different items on the shelves; I’ve only used about a quarter of the shelf items in bookcase builder so far. Either way, It’s so fun to celebrate promotions with a handmade card.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Stylish Stems for Norma

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I’ve been giving out birthday cards at work for a year now; I don’t manage to make them for the entire department (I don’t even know some of the people) but I’m enjoying the joy that someone feels when they get a handmade card. Last year, someone jumped up and hugged me and said I’d made their day. It’s an enormously touching response to my hobby that I enjoy for its own sake. So here’s a card I’ve made for Norma, whose birthday is today. It’s also for the Paper Players current challenge – it’s about time I entered a challenge; when I “entered” one lately, I forgot to go to the challenge site and actually enter!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Stylish Stems - Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I really love the Special Reason bundle which includes the stamp set and the Stylish Stems framelits dies. The dies are unusual in that it includes shapes to cut around the stamp set images and dies that create a shape that allows a paper or coloured image to show through. They are really versatile. I took a piece of watercolor paper and used the watercolor pencils to lay down color – rich razzleberry and melon mambo – using darker, more intense colors in the centre and fading outwards like a peony, creating that effect with a blender pen. I used the stylish stems framelits dies to cut out the front part but once I’d glued that to the watercolor paper, I needed to trim it. That didn’t go too well! I ended up using my carl trimmer because the stampin’ up one wavered and couldn’t make straight lines through the double thickness. I should’ve made the watercolor smaller and used dimensionals. But now that both pieces were the same, I added a border of rich razzleberry. This was then added to a whisper white card to which I’d added a sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 2

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I did some time to play with my paper pumpkin kit yesterday evening so here’s the Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 2. I really loved the heart outline that I used yesterday and thought that perhaps it could make a good background.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 2 - Adoring Arrows

I took a piece of whisper white and first stamped the solid heart in real red and then filled in the rest of the background with the heart outline. I used a real red card base to match and thought that was it, until the card called for just a little bling. And that really was it!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate

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A quick Paper Pumpkin January 2017 alternate before I dash off to work. Yes, on a Sunday. Thankfully a rare occurrence but the project that I’ve been pulled into recently is rather demanding! So demanding, that it wasn’t until yesterday that I was able to get to the post office and mail out my thank you packages to the people who came shopping with me last month. Apologies for the week’s delay if you are one of them, but they are on the way now and are expected to be delivered by Tuesday at the latest.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 - Adoring Arrows

Here I decided to take the elements of the kit and rather than make a bag, change it to a card. The only thing I’ve added is a scrap of calypso coral card stock. First I cut one of the bag fronts down and added a border just 1/8 inch of calypso coral to frame it. The banner and striped vellum are from the kit and attached together with glue dots. The ones in the kit are really flat and, amazingly, don’t show through the vellum. Before I’d learned that, I had designed this so that the heart would cover the glue dots – now I can remove the “how do I hide the glue dot” concern from my designs whilst using kit glue dots. Finally I stamped the heart with the outline and sentiment and added it with dimensionals.

By the way – there’s one glue dot under the vellum that’s not hidden by something else. I’m so thrilled that it’s invisible! At least, I think it is  – let me know if you can see it!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz