Monthly Archives: August 2017

Foil Frenzy Specialty DSP

I needed a gift box and of course it’s a simple matter to make one. The hardest part was deciding on which of the beautiful foiled patterns to use from the Foil Frenzy Specialty DSP pack. There are three 1 sided designs in four colours with the coloured foil printed onto heavyweight kraft paper. Perfect for boxes – or anything else! I picked the lemon lime twist foil stripes and decided on a lemon lime twist base.

First I measured my contents and determined that I needed a box 5 1/2 by 6 1/4 by 1 inch. So to allow for the sides, that meant cutting a piece of lemon lime twist cardstock at 7 1/2 by 8 1/4. I then scored that at one inch all the way around, cut the tabs loose and made the box. For the lid, I cut a piece of the foil frenzy specialty paper at 1/16 inch larger (one tiny notch on the Stampin’ Up! trimmer) and then continued as before scoring 1 inch on all four sides. The slightly larger piece means that it fits snuggly onto the base. I added a little notch to make it easier to open using a 3/4 inch circle punch. This photo shows the lemon lime twist foil stripes better.

For the decoration, I closed the box with a piece of the lovely 1/2 inch finely woven ribbon. Next I heat embossed in gold part of a sentiment from Better Together onto a piece of lemon lime twist and cut it out with the layering oval dies as well as a gold foil scalloped mat. The leaves maybe puzzling you – it’s a sneak peek of a new leaf punch that will be available next Friday, 1st September. It’s great for just adding a little bit of interest.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Watercolor Christmas Project Kit

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I shared with you the four designs that are in the Watercolor Christmas Project Kit at couple of days ago – you can see them here. They are very quick to make and economical at $20 for the kit which makes 20 cards (stamp set extra); very handy to get ahead in your Christmas card making. Here’s the official Stampin’ Up! video showcasing the kit.

Since the kit doesn’t include the stamp set, buying multiples of the Watercolor Christmas Project kit doesn’t give you extras that you don’t need and keeps the price per card very reasonable. I’m also planning to make more cards with the stamp set to add to the value – maybe with notecards.

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Liz

Heartland

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Today’s card is showcasing a set in the annual catalog, Heartland. I sat down with a piece of watercolor paper, my archival black ink, some inks and an aquapainter and just coloured away. It was extremely relaxing. I’m not great at watercolouring, but it’s very enjoyable; my main tips are to do more than one at a time and not to use too much water in your aquapainter.

The colours that I used are pear pizzazz, marina mist, crumb cake, calypso coral (very watered down for a faint touch of skin color), smoky slate and a few dots of the pumpkin pie stampin’ write marker for the beak. Once it was dry, I went back and added a little more of the pear pizzazz and marina mist where the hatching was on the image, to give depth. I then matted this in black and used the first part of the sentiment included in the Heartland set. The whole sentiment was just a tad too long! So I inked up the part I needed with a marker and stamped it onto the marina mist card base.

Watercoloring is really fun and Stampin’ Up! makes it easy to figure out where to make it a little darker by adding the extra lines. Have a go – you’ll maybe surprise yourself.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Merry Mistletoe

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Here’s the third card that we made at class on Monday. It features a new Christmas set in the annual catalog, Merry Mistletoe and one that was carried over from last year’s holiday catalogue, Flurry of Wishes.

We started by stamping the snowflakes from Flurry of Wishes (two sizes on one stamp) in craft white ink onto night of navy. This ink takes a while to dry so you can either leave it for a while or use the heating tool on the first setting to help it along. Either way, take care not to smudge it whilst it’s drying. Next we took the beautiful deer from Merry Mistletoe and stamped it in versamark and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. With a mat of silver foil, it really pops. The sentiment is also from Flurry of Wishes and we stamped it in night of navy and cut it out with the layering oval framelits.

I was asked if I like the thick whisper white card stock. I absolutely love it – it’s all that I use now for white card bases. I still use the ordinary whisper white for layers and inside the card, but there’s no comparison for the base. The new thick card stock is so much more sturdy.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings

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Vertical Greetings is a stamp set from last year’s annual catalogue which I was thrilled to see carry over into this year’s. It’s unusual in that the greetings are, well, vertical which can be extremely useful. I also love the images of the neat adorable topiary. And they are good for Christmas cards. Last night I had one or two (well eight) people over to start on holiday cards but since the new catalogue isn’t live until September, I didn’t want to taunt them with images that they couldn’t order. So out came Vertical Greetings and the Holly textured embossing folder.

The group was divided as to how to ink up the stamp; some used the straight edge of the ink pad to carefully ink up the desired part of the image and then used the second ink pad for the rest. Others used markers. It’s just a personal choice. But the real red and old olive look awesome together on this image and if there’s a slight issue where the colours change, the old olive 1/8 inch sheer ribbon bow covers it perfectly! We made the old olive pop a little more by adding a mat in the same colour. This then went on top of the real red piece that was dry embossed with the Holly TIEF and then placed on a real red card base. The finishing touches were a few sparkly rhinestones.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Monthly Archives: August 2017

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