Monthly Archives: February 2017

Bookcase Builder

Here’s a card using the bookcase builder set to make shelving, but just a little shelf. It’s also showcasing the new emerald envy 1/8 inch taffeta ribbon which is so easy going.

I wanted to leave enough space for one of the great sentiments in the set and that meant having less as the focal point. A little shelf with a space on the left for a bow was the perfect answer. The shelf is archival basic black and the books and teddy bear are in emerald envy, dapper denim and delightful dijon. Once I’d stamped those and trimmed down the whisper white, I cut a piece of basic black as the mat. Next was the sentiment which I actually embossed in white but rather than using versamark, I used the craft white ink. Not only does heat embossing dry the rather juicy ink, I get much better coverage with the embossing powder because it’s so juicy. I popped the panel up with dimensionals and then added the emerald envy ribbon bow with a glue dot.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project, having such a large border of emerald envy reminds me again what a great colour it is! I’m already into the “oh my, in colours are retiring in 3.5 months” which has me looking more at all the in colors. So you’re likely to see more of the in colors coming up, especially the ones actually retiring this year – I’m really going to miss mint macaron and delightful dijon. How about you? Which ones are you going to miss?

Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, 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

Window Box Thinlits Dies again

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I was really pleased with yesterday’s card using the Window Box Thinlits dies, or at least the candles die where I made a pretty subtle card. Actually it was using mostly colours from the subtle collection and sweet sugarplum fits in well. I decided to make another, but this one a lot brighter and louder and therefore I turned to the brights collection and a different in-colour which fits nicely with the brights, cucumber crush.

I took a piece of whisper white card stock and lined the candles die up to the corner, and just remembered vaguely the margin around the die. After running it through the big shot, I moved it over, guesstimating how far along and trying to remember what my margin looked like. I was happy that it came out so well – and I got my gap between the 2 sets of candles pretty good. Then came the second row and all I had to guide me was the edge piece – I had to guess on height. Apparently it was my day and it all came out fine.

There wasn’t enough space to add snail like I did yesterday, so instead I got out my silicone mat and a sponge dauber and carefully dabbed a little tombow glue on the back being careful not to let my piece move. It wasn’t perfect – there was some time with the glue eraser, but it was pretty good. Next I took little strips of scrap cut a hair over 1/4 inch wide in cucumber crush, melon mambo, pumpkin pie and daffodil delight and put them on the back. They didn’t all stick perfectly, but well enough that I could put snail all over the back and glue it to a cucumber crush mat.

I debated on sentiments and banners but in the end, everything detracted from the fun. And it’s not as if it’s not obvious that it’s a birthday card! I took a piece of whisper white to get an idea on the size that I wanted which turned out to be 4 1/4 square. Using the envelope punch board, it was simple to create a custom envelope for my square card. And since I’ll likely give this to someone at work, it doesn’t matter that it’s a square envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle for the Bookcase Builder stamp set; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Window Box Thinlits Dies Candles

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When I made the box using the window box thinlits dies recently, I really liked one of the dies that is designed to add a pattern to the side of the box. I thought it would be perfect for a birthday card so that’s what I’m sharing today. I wanted a really clean, mostly white card to really show this off. I intended to have all my candles the same size to start with but that morphed into three different colours.

I started by running the die through the big shot with a piece of whisper white and then started cutting strips of coloured card about 1/4 inch wide. The flames are so saffron and about 1 1/2 inches long whereas the candles are just over an inch long. I’ve got pear pizzazz, sweet sugarplum and calypso coral on the card. I used snail to add glue around the edges of the white card since they don’t need to be firmly stuck down, just held in place long enough to get the pieces onto the card base. Here’s what the back looks like – as you can see, there’s nothing holding down the tops of the candles:

I stamped the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in pear pizzazz and then used more snail over the back of the candles to glue it down. Here’s a close up showing the candles a little better

It’s definitely a fun die to play with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, 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. To get a free Sale-a-bration product, an easy way to spend the $50 is to order a prepaid 3 month paper pumpkin subscription at $55 instead of the regular price of $59. Already a subscriber? It doesn’t matter – you can buy a prepaid and once that runs out you go back to your monthly subscription. Personally, I like to buy a 12 month subscription because it’s $2 cheaper per month AND it gets me 4 Sale-a-bration items!

Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Beautiful You Paper Piecing

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Beautiful You was one of the first sets on my must have list and I made 8 cards with it the weekend after Julia won the set during Prize Patrol. I didn’t want to have all 8 post on my blog in a row, but I think maybe I’m spreading them out a bit too much! Beautiful You is a really versatile stamp set; with three beautiful images and eight sentiments it’s able to handle almost any occasion.

I picked out calypso coral for this card and used the colour and my aquapainter to colour in the girl’s dress which was stamped on watercolor paper. One reminder on this – the archival basic black is great, but give it a little time to really dry or your colouring ends up a little grey! I also find it easier (unless I’m doing a big watery wash) to keep very little water in the brush – it’s more controllable. Whilst the dress was drying, I stamped the top of the image again onto the flower design of the calypso coral sheet from the Subtles DSP stack. After snipping around her hat, I glued that in place to give her a fun hat which I matched by covering the envelope flap in the same paper.

Then it was a simple matter of adding a slim basic black mat with fast fuse – a strong adhesive is needed to ensure that the watercolor paper is perfectly flat after it’s been absorbing water. And finally gluing it all onto a calypso coral card base.

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. That could be a 3 month prepaid Paper Pumpkin subscription which is currently on sale! 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 Time

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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. Here are the alternative cards that I made with January’s kit which was actually about treat bags. Apparently I got completely side tracked by the stamp set in the kit!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 4 - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

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 enter the raffle; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Monthly Archives: February 2017

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