Monthly Archives: April 2017

More Amsterdam swaps

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Here’s a second batch of the cards that I received through swapping in Amsterdam. There are five here today – I noticed that they color coordinated and decided not to add others! The first is a clever easel card which I received from Karen Caswell, a sideline to my sister and someone I’ve known on FB for a couple of years. It was lovely to actually meet her in person. I must have a go at this kind of card.

Images © Stampin' Up! - Karen  Images © Stampin' Up!

Here’s a card from Joanne Eckl who went to Amsterdam from Canada. You can never have enough cards using Beautiful You.

Images © Stampin' Up!

Here’s Linda Kasparian’s card showcasing the Lift Me Up bundle which her label says she cased from her upline Kim Fee. For some reason, I’ve neglected this bundle so I’m really happy that it’s carrying over.

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Demos were told that the Dragonfly Dreams would carry over so that set was very popular for swaps. Here’s one from Emma Bruinink

Images © Stampin' Up!

And finally – here’s a card from another adopted demo, Carolyn Crann Arnold. She is a Canadian currently in the UK for a year and was adopted by my sister’s upline, Eimear, the leader of the Aces & Diamonds. I’ve been getting to know her on FB in the closed group of the Aces & Diamonds so it was great to meet her too.

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I love this set and am happy to see it in the new catalog. I must dust it off again. Thanks for the reminder Carolyn.

I hope you enjoyed all of the projects that I collected. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Love Sparkles Thank You card

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This is the epitome of a clean and simple card using a whisper white notecard which not only is great value but makes your card making even quicker. It also showcases the set Love Sparkles.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Love Sparkles

I took three watercolor pencils – melon mambo, rich razzleberry and pacific point and scribbled onto the card. Next a blender pen took out the lines and moved the colour around a little, blending it together where the colors changed. Once that was dry, I used archival basic black to add the thank you from Love Sparkles. Sadly, this set is retiring but the good news is that it’s still available and is guaranteed to be so through my father’s birthday, May 22nd. Not that Stampin’ Up! knows my father but it makes it a really easy way to remember the date!

A few enamel shapes in pacific point and melon mambo finished this off.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello You Party Animal

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I’m really enjoying the Party Animal DSP which is where the gorgeous happy party background paper comes from today.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Party Animal - Hello You

Other colours in the DSP pack are pacific point and crushed curry so that helped decide on the colour of the card stock for the thanks which comes from the retiring framelits, Hello You. I can’t believe this is retiring – I use it all of the time. I added this to a banner cut with the triple banner punch out of emerald envy and popped it up with dimensionals on the DSP which was glued to an emerald envy card base. The DSP and framelits are both as supplies last but they are currently still available.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Timeless Tags Thinlits Dies

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I bought the Timeless Tags Thinlits Dies pretty early on in the life of the Occasions catalog and I have no idea why I haven’t used them yet. I love them. And sadly, they are on the retiring list – although they are on sale for $17.50 instead of $25 so that’s a good deal! By the way, the accompanying stamp set, That’s the Tag, is also on sale ($14.45 instead of $17) but the bundle isn’t, so it’s a better deal to buy them singly for a total of $31.95 instead of the bundle price of $37.75. But I digress. These are really fun and not just limited to tags. I made a card to showcase the versatility.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Timeless Tags Thinlits Dies - Vertical Greetings

I cut out the tag in some scrap paper and used my aquapainter and some inks to color the picture. Once I had a general idea of placement, I removed my piece of scrap and added more colour where it needed and blended away. The colors used are soft sky, daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and pear pizzazz. Once I had my piece of watercolor paper as I wanted, I cut out a new tag from a piece of watercolor paper  where I wanted it on the card. Next I added the greeting from Vertical Greetings (not retiring thank goodness) in pumpkin pie. I glued the outlining piece of watercolor paper to the painted piece and then added that to my card layer. To ensure that the card didn’t sag since the painted piece was small, I added strips of watercolor to keep the height the same and then glued the piece to a daffodil delight cardbase.

I’m really happy with how this came out – a few inks and an aquapainter can work wonders. But if you want these dies, act swiftly. I’m quite stunned at how fast some of the products are moving. The good news is that here in the states, the stamp sets are guaranteed to be available until May 22nd. My sister and friends in the UK don’t even have that – they are on whilst stocks last for everything. So I feel quite privileged!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Paper Pumpkin April 2017

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Well I admit that I’m a little frustrated today – my Paper Pumpkin April 2017 box is still in the status of the post office has heard about it. Apparently they heard about it three days ago and nothing’s happened since. This morning I watched the Stampin’ Up! video announcing the kit and since this kit is called A Sara Thing because Sara designed it, she was the one presenting it in the video. It’s a really cool kit – fun colours, a free gift of 4 watercolor pencils and some emboss resist techniques. And you all know how much I’ve been enjoying that technique lately! I’m hoping for your sake that if you didn’t get this kit that they release more of the kit and not just the refills. Which reminds me – I bought a 12 month subscription during Sale-a-bration (and scored 4 freebies for doing that!), I think my last subscription is about run out, so I need to put in the code to use my new subscription. Anyway, enough chatter – here’s the video:

It looks like loads of fun – and it makes 12 cards which is incredible value since a subscription is only $19.95 plus tax.

Whilst it’s not guaranteed that you can get your hands on this kit, if you sign up for Paper Pumpkin by May 10, you’ll get next month’s and a chance to buy previous paper pumpkin kits where available: click here

Need some more details on Paper Pumpkin?

  • 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 2 options.
  • 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 Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz