Monthly Archives: June 2017

Crafting Forever

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Here’s a fabulous new stamp set, Crafting Forever, which includes the copyright phrase in case you want to be able to sell your cards. It just needs to be stamped somewhere – I put it on the back of all my cards. But this set is a fabulous collection of images and sentiments. I love the “do something creative every day”. I truly believe that’s important. Creativity nourishes the soul. Well mine, anyway. Sometimes my creativity is cooking, mostly it’s cards. Sometimes I play my violin. But it’s all important to make you feel right. What do you do to be creative?

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Crafting Forever

Here I stamped the pens and heat embossed using the copper embossing powder and then went to town with my aqua painter and three of the new inks – berry burst, lemon lime twist (yes, the one I was only using as an accent!) and tranquil tide. I put my piece of watercolor paper on a lemon lime twist mat and then used versa mark to create the pen background on the berry burst card base. I then added the perfect sentiment (although the one about housework is a pretty awesome one too!) stamped in more lemon lime twist on watercolor paper to ensure it matched. I cut it out with the Stitched Shapes Framelits dies so that there was interest on the sentiment but it didn’t need a match mat in lemon lime twist. I popped that up with dimensional which I didn’t place well and thus discovered that poking a mini dimensional into a sagging space is easy. Love the mini dimensionals – 720 in a packet for $4. Good value. And cute!

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 NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. 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

Colorful Seasons

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Here’s a simple card that I made for my launch party featuring a new stamp set, Colorful Seasons and one of the next in colours, Berry Burst. I’m having a hard time deciding on my favourite new colour! I think it’s whichever one I’m using at the time.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Colorful Seasons

I stamped the tree branches in crumb cake a few times at different angles and then added the flowers on top with an extra stamp of flowers in the corner so that it looks like one tree. I added the sentiment also from Colorful Seasons (there are some really good ones in this set) and a very skinny mat of berry burst to give a frame. I love the large white border.

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 NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. 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

Layering Leaves Dynamic TIEF

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One of the products that I received last week in my big box was the Layering Leaves Dynamic TIEF. I love it. It creates such awesome texture. There are things to know – spritz the card stock with water and run it through the big shot twice and you get fabulous texture. Here on a piece of lemon lime twist. Yes, the color that I was planning to use only for pops of color. I can still hear my sister giggling about that! She immediately loved the color and I decreed that it was too bright and I wouldn’t use it much. Apparently I should be more circumspect when talking to my sister – I told her three years ago that she was wrong about everyone being able to make cards and was convinced I wouldn’t be able to. Ahem.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Layering Leaves Dynamic TIEF - This Little Piggy

I also used the This Little Piggy set and stamped this adorable pig on watercolor paper and used some powder pink ink (and more lemon lime twist) with an aquapainter to colour it in. A little powder pink flag to add a little interest whilst leaving most of the Layering Leaves Dynamic TIEF visible and I was done.

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 NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. 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

More Than Chocolate

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I’ve been having a fun day playing with some of the product that arrived a few days ago – as you saw, it was a large box! And I was having so much fun, that I forgot to write a blog post until now! So here’s one I made this morning using the More Than Chocolate stamp set. A reminder of my box…

box of product

The mini dimensionals are awesome – they are perfect for putting on the paper pierce tool and just nudging under the edge of a already popped up sentiment to give a little more sturdiness. And I love the fresh fig 1/8 inch sheer ribbon that you can see in the box. As you can see from the card that I’m sharing.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - More Than Chocolate

I used fresh fig for the chocolate box and the sentiment – and it’s a great sentiment. And so true! And then I decided to go for monochromatic chocolates – just stamped in early espresso and left the decorative swirls on the top for another time. I really like how clean this makes it and it meant that I could add a bow in the new fresh fig ribbon without the card being overpowered. This is a really fun set – I just started adding chocolates at random, filling in the spaces as I went. My first play had the chocolates too regimented, I much prefer this irregular look.

I matted the very vanilla with a piece of early espresso just 1/8 inch large so there’s teeny tiny border which mimics the thickness of the chocolate box and left a wide border showing of the fresh fig card base.

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 NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. 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 Deal

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I can’t believe that I forgot to remind you of the Paper Pumpkin deal and it ENDS tomorrow! Click here for the details of the offer and a video showing how to sign up.

paper pumpkin offer

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.
  • 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.

Even more exciting – look what came yesterday:

box of product

I know what I’ll be doing tonight and tomorrow!

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 NJ99GP9Q (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you the fresh fig 1/8” sheer ribbon. 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