Monthly Archives: January 2017

Mediterranean Moments with Watercolor Pencils

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On Tuesday night I held a launch party; you should have been there, we had loads of fun! One of the make and takes used watercolor pencils and I enjoyed playing with them so much, I decided to pull out other stamp sets to colour. This time, it’s Mediterranean Moments.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Mediterranean Moments

I stamped the image using the archival basic black and then walked away for a short time to be sure that the black was really dry. Next I took a number of the pencils – real red, old olive, pacific point, daffodil delight, early espresso and a little calypso coral and roughly laid down some colour. You don’t have to be at all precise at this point. Then I used a blender pen to move the colour where I wanted it. I left about half of the image uncoloured so as to keep the sketch look rather than trying to make a painting. All that remained was to choose a card base – I often use a skinny basic black mat around watercolouring and this time I decided to use the black for the card base. I really like how it left all of the attention on the image.

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

 

 

Falling in Love DSP notebooks

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I had a launch party for the new catalog last night and we had so much fun. We had snacks – hummous, cheese, grapes and chocolate chip cookies (two of them home made, I’ll leave you to figure out which two!), a free raffle, a little gift for everyone AND we made three cards. It was a good night. I’ve previously shared the make and takes, but here are the little gifts – covered notebooks decorated with Falling in Love DSP. This are extraordinary for me because they are neutral – in fact just sahara sand and very vanilla and I love them. The neutrals collection is my least used, I’m not fond of grey and brown isn’t really me either, so these are a surprise. The Falling in Love DSP is absolutely gorgeous – here’s a selection of the leftover notebooks.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Falling in Love - Designer Tee

Covering a notebook is easy – you just need a ruler. My notebooks are 3 inches wide (apart from the ones that are 3 1/16 – they weren’t cut with precision apparently) so that set the width of my card stock. I added 1/8 inch to the front (which measured 4 15/16 inch) to create a little lip to make them easy to open, 3/16 for the width and 1.5 inches for a piece on the back which meant a 6 3/4 piece of card which I scored at 5 1/16 and 5 1/4. I applied fast fuse just to the piece that goes on the back and carefully lined up the notebook with it’s cover. Then it was a  simple matter of stamping the sentiment from the SAB freebie, Designer Tee, in more sahara sand (!) and cutting it out with the layering circles and creating a scalloped border to go around it. I didn’t pop anything up because I didn’t want anything coming off the notebook if it was thrown in a purse.

I got carried away and made more than I needed – and then sickness got in the way and a few people couldn’t make it – so I have extra extra. I’ll throw one in with my thank you card to anyone who orders from me this month whilst they last. So if you want one of my remaining notebooks, order quickly!

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

Time for Paper Pumpkin

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It’s the 9th of the month which means that it’s almost your last chance to sign up for Paper Pumpkin and get this month’s kit. In case you don’t know what Paper Pumpkin is about, 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 (great gift idea) and save money with the latter 3 options.
  • There’s a special on the 3 month prepaid subscription – $55 instead of $59. And since it’s over $50 you earn a FREE sale-a-bration item.
  • Once you’re a Paper Pumpkin subscriber, you can buy previous kits as supplies last. Sometimes complete kits are available at other times, it’s just the consumables so that you can make more.

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

 

All Things Thanks

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I was playing with the Falling in Love DSP yesterday playing with another project, when this piece of DSP came to hand and I thought it would be great with the All Things Thanks set. The big bold sentiment paired with the dreamy out of focus bokeh background insisted on being put together. I think that they were right!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - All Things Thanks - Falling in Love DSP

I used the embossing buddy of course and then inked up in versamark. I actually then stamped because I have the retired early espresso embossing powder, but if you don’t, just then ink up in early espresso and use clear embossing powder. It gives the same look and the versamark doesn’t seem to upset the other ink pads – I’ve been doing this for a while. I also heated the powder before adding the DSP to its mat since if it became wavy (heating the back of the paper helps to straighten it out), fixing it to the early espresso mat would take care of it. I used blushing bride as a card base which is odd because I fully intended to use sweet sugarplum! This is the paler edge of the DSP so possibly the sweet sugarplum would’ve been too much. I think I’ll get a piece from the more purple side of the sheet and make a similar card for comparison purposes. Wow! Can you believe that I made a card without the Stitched Shapes Framelits? Me neither! Although that gives me an idea…

I really love this DSP – I wonder if it might possibly be the first time that I need to order a second pack!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - All Things Thanks - Falling in Love DSP

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

 

Designer Tee

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It’s a slow day here today; I’m not sure if that’s because it’s snowing or whether I’d be moving slowly anyway! But it’s taken me all morning to get organised and blog writing. I decided to feature the new Sale-a-bration set, Designer Tee which I hadn’t yet inked up. The images are sized to fit on the t-shirts in the Custom Tee stamp set (which comes as a bundle with framelits) but I wanted to show an alternative use.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tee - Lucky Stars TIEF - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

The image is stamped in real red and then cut out with what is becoming rather predictable – the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. The sentiment is from the same set. Once I had these two elements set, I wanted to add some texture, hence the lucky stars TIEF band along with a real red border. I contemplated ribbon or enamel shapes but it was getting a bit too much so I stayed clean and simple. I attached the image to the banner with dimensionals – it seems to work best for attaching to texture, just make sure you push fairly firmly on them to start with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get five 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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz