Monthly Archives: July 2020

Summer Days again

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Here’s my third card this week showcasing the host set, Summer Days along with the sentiment from Loyal Leaves which was still on my desk from last week!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Summer Days - Loyal Leaves

As on Friday’s card, I stamped the image in Sahara sand and then colored it. I used dark granny apple green on all of the stamped image lines and then used the light one to blend it and fill in the rest of the image. Then I did the same on the wood using dark and light soft suede. The track was colored using dark and light crumb cake.

The sentiment was stamped in granny apple green onto the top layer. I’d advise doing this before the coloring, just in case, although you could always pop up a sentiment on top if you make a mistake. I then mounted the whisper white layer onto a crumb cake mat and then adhered to a granny apple green card base.

If you’d like to see me making this and the two earlier ones, I do a Facebook Live on Sundays at 11am EST on @MyElegantCards, i.e. in about 3.5 hours. I make all three cards that I blog during the week.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $35 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

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See you on Wednesday,

Liz

Summer Days

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Here’s my second card this week showcasing the host set, Summer Days. It was very relaxing coloring the images in this set.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Summer Days - Stitched Shapes Framelits dies

First, I stamped the image in Sahara sand and then colored it. I used dark granny apple green on all of the stamped image lines (apart from the trunk and girl of course) and then used the light one to blend it and fill in the rest of the image. Then I did the same on the wood using dark and light soft suede. The little girl was colored using light mango melody, light night of navy, ivory and light melon mambo.

The sentiment is the same as Wednesday’s from the Forever Fern set since there aren’t any sentiments in the Summer Days set. This time I die cut it using the Stitched Shapes Framelits dies after stamping in melon mambo. I mounted the main image on a soft suede mat and then adhered to a whisper white card base, popping up the sentiment with dimensionals.

If you’d like to see me making this, I do a Facebook Live on Sundays at 11am EST on @MyElegantCards. I make all three cards that I blog during the week.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $35 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

Click on the buttons below to join my team or shop. This month’s host code is above the Shop Now tab in the menu on the side. Just copy and paste it or type it into the box at the bottom of your order where it says HOST CODE and then click apply.

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See you on Sunday,

Liz

Summer Days

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This week I’m showcasing the host set, Summer Days. It can only be obtained for free with host rewards which begin at $15 when the order is $150 – either your order or an order put in with your friends. That would be enough for this set which costs $13 of host rewards.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Summer Days

I stamped the two images in tuxedo black memento ink and then colored them in using a variety of blends. Of course you can use whatever colors you like. I used dark real red, light night of navy, dark mango melody, light granny apple green, ivory and both of the soft suede markers.

The sentiment is from the Forever Fern set since there aren’t any sentiments in the Summer Days set. I mounted it on a basic black mat and then adhered to a whisper white card base.

If you’d like to see me making this, I do a Facebook Live on Sundays at 11am EST on @MyElegantCards.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $35 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

Click on the buttons below to join my team or shop. This month’s host code is above the Shop Now tab in the menu on the side. Just copy and paste it or type it into the box at the bottom of your order where it says HOST CODE and then click apply.

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See you on Friday,

Liz

More Loyal Leaves

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Here’s the third card showcasing the Loyal Leaves stamp set; an 8 piece cling stamp set (152544) for $23.  I’ll be making them all live on my Facebook page (My Elegant Cards) at 11am EST today. After I made Friday’s card, I decided to try the same sort of thing but this time bringing in a spritzer and water.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Loyal Leaves

This time I used a D block and, after tapping it onto the granny apple green ink pad, spritzed it with water and pressed it onto the whisper white paper. Since it needed time to dry, I did this several times on other piece of card stock.

Next I used early espresso to stamp a leaf. A couple of the layers had splurges of ink on so I trimmed those down with the trimmer and then added an early espresso mat, as with this example. I added a sentiment from the Loyal Leaves set on to the card base and then adhered the two together.

I made more cards using the backgrounds that I’d created and I ended up with a set of six! Here are some of them:

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Loyal Leaves

I used an E block for the next one

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Loyal Leaves

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Loyal Leaves

I really can’t decide which of the two types I like best. What do you think? Full sized whisper white layer or cut down with an early espresso mat?

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $35 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

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See you on Sunday,

Liz

Loyal Leaves

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This week I’m showcasing the Loyal Leaves stamp set which is an 8 piece cling stamp set (152544) for $23.  And the leaves are gorgeous.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Loyal Leaves

You’ll have to trust me what I tell you that it looks better in person; I couldn’t get the photo to really show the gold embossing. I used a C block and tapped it onto ink pads and then onto the very vanilla layer cleaning in between each color. The colors used are just jade, shaded spruce and pretty peacock – stamping off for the pretty peacock otherwise it was too dark.

After leaving this to dry, I heat embossed the leaf in gold and then added the sentiment from Loyal Leaves in pretty peacock. There’s also a pretty peacock mat to really frame the focal point.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $35 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

Click on the buttons below to join my team or shop. This month’s host code is above the Shop Now tab in the menu on the side. Just copy and paste it or type it into the box at the bottom of your order where it says HOST CODE and then click apply.

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See you on Sunday,

Liz