Monthly Archives: April 2017

Succulent Garden DSP

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Have you got the Brushstrokes stamp yet? After I saw Sara’s live demonstration on Facebook, I ordered the stamp and played with it last week adding the stripes to a piece of Inside the Lines DSP which was made for colouring. Next I decided to try the same on a piece of colored DSP, so I chose the Succulent Garden DSP.

succulent garden hardwood

The Succulent Garden DSP includes sweet sugarplum in its palette, but not on this piece so I decided to rectify the error! Here I cut my piece of DSP down to size and stamped the Brushstrokes stamp in versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Next I used a sponge dauber to add a fairly light covering of sweet sugarplum to the parts of the DSP not embossed. I was planning to just use one of the almost triangles on my card leaving a fair amount of white space but after I’d stamped my greeting from the Endless Birthday Wishes in old olive, I decided to change the layout. Here it appears as if the celebrates were on a strip across the card whereas they are actually stamped on the cardbase itself with the pieces of DSP added on top.

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

Dragonfly Dreams Tag

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I decided to make a “pillow gift” for my sister of a tag and it was based on my swap card (and then the tag improved the card) using Dragonfly Dreams.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Dragonfly Dreams

I first stamped the bee from Dragonfly Dreams in versamark and heat embossed using the copper embossing powder. Next I used so saffron, calypso coral and rose red to add diagonal stripes of colour with my aquapainter which I then softened by adding more water and more so saffron. When they were dry, I cut them out with the Stitched Shapes framelits dies and then cut a larger mat using the copper foil. I realised that these weren’t going to be sturdy enough as tags on her onstage live bag and added a sturdier square – I used the card that is on the back of a DSP pack. To make that more pretty, I added another copper foil square. After that I did more watercoloring using the retired set Larger than Life to stamp a C and then heat emboss in copper. I made one for myself too.

larger than life tags

Once I’d glued everything together with fast fuse, I tried to use a hand punch but it was a bit tricky. After mentioning this to Martin, he took the tags down to the basement and used the drill press. I then used some very vanilla satin ribbon to create a pretty means of attaching the tag to a bag. At this point, I decided it would be fun to make one for each of the Aces and Diamonds who were attending. Aces and Diamonds is Eimear Carvill’s team of which my sister is a member and I’ve been adopted as an “across the pond” member. It was really fun to meet up with them in Amsterdam.

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 – A Sara Thing

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So Onstage Live is over but I have a stack of new stamp sets and most importantly, a copy of the new catalogue. And theres some great stuff but I can’t even show you the cover until Tuesday. So in the meantime, heres a reminder that the 10th of the month is the deadline to sign up for Paper Pumpkin, the project in a box. This month is very special, the company turned creative control of the April kit over to CEO, Sara Douglass, and the end result is stunning! Her style is, “bold, vibrant, and artistic—with a little bit of sass,” which is exactly how she described the kit. Sara designed this kit for us all, so we can discover creativity through the eyes of the CEO while having an experience that is uniquely US! Get ready to embrace your inner artist and skip to the fun with Sara.
Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - April paper pumpkin

As if a kit designed by Sara is not reason enough to sign up, there’s more! She’s including a FREE gift inside every April box! It’s a surprise, but you won’t want to miss it.

What do you need to do? Just sign up for Paper Pumpkin by April 10: 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

Dragonfly Dreams Swap Card

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Today is the first full day of Onstage Live here in Amsterdam and we’ve been swapping like crazy – little gifts amongst the team and cards and 3D items with the general population. It’s a lot of fun. So since people have already seen it, it’s time to share my swap card which features Dragonfly Dreams. And, you’ll be surprised to hear, emboss resist!

Dragonfly dreams

I started by stamping the detailed bee from Dragonfly Dreams in versamark and then sprinkled in the gold embossing powder and heated. Then I took so saffron, calypso coral and rose red and a full aquapainter and coloured the background. Once it was completely painted and I’d removed the excess color from on top of the embossing, I went over again with more so saffron which softened the look. I originally then matted this on basic black and mounted it on my whisper white card.  But then I made a pillow gift for my sister using a copper bee and decided to use the stitched shapes dies to cut it out. I preferred the look and since I’d only completed construction on one card and just a couple of matted bees changed my mind on the card. Here’s the original look – I much prefer the stitching and a wonder black border. What do you think?

Dragonfly dreams

I finished this off with the sentiment also from Dragonfly Dreams.

See you tomorrow,

I’m off to go and talk all things stamping now,

Liz

 

Sending Love Designer Series Paper Stack

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As you read this, I’m at Onstage Live and we are all having a wonderful time spending time together, playing with new products and drooling over the upcoming catalogue. BUT the catalogue is not yet live and there are loads of great things in the current catalogues to play with. This is a little pillow gift that I whipped up for my sister on Tuesday evening using the Sending Love DSP stack.

sending love pouch

It’s a pretty way to package up a couple of Ferraro Rocher chocolates and I’d been contemplating a way to do this for a week or so. I’m holding a Bingo! And Retiring Party event on April 28th and I thought it would be nice for everyone to get a little sweet surprise on their arrival. They are easy to make – I cut a piece of paper from the Sending Love DSP stack in half and then scored on the long side at 2 1/4″ and 3 3/4″, then I flipped the paper over to the other side and scored at half an inch from both ends. Then I burnished the score lines gently, put 2 chocolates in and the lovely shape just happened magically – due to the scoring on the other side. Then I punched a couple of holes with my 1/8″ punch and threaded the beautiful real red satin ribbon and tied a bow

sending love pouch side

Since this is just a little holder and doesn’t have sides, the chocolates can slide out. I fixed that with a glue dot under each wrapper – it would be sensible to put those there before tying the bow. But if you forget, you can turn it all upside down and poke a glue dot into position with a piercing tool. Yes, it works. I, er, tested that for you!

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