I made a set of cards using the will-be-released-in-3-weeks stamp set, Beautiful You back in November a week after I went to Onstage. My friend Julia was lucky enough to win it as a prize patrol gift and when we were stamping together the following week, she brought it with her. Okay, I packed her bag for her to ensure that we had it! She was focused on Christmas cards, like most November stampers, but I couldn’t resist playing with it.

Not only does this set have three great images, but the sentiments are awesome and I love the fonts used too. I stamped this image in archival basic black onto watercolour paper and then used my aquapainter and the lid of my sweet sugarplum ink (see – I do have inks that aren’t red! It feels like all I’ve used lately are reds). Just a little splash of colour. I added a mat of basic black to make it pop – LOL – minor typo as I was writing this and I put that I added a moat of basic black. I guess it’s sort of a moat. Any, I used fuse to add the mat/moat which has the side effect of ensuring that the watercolour paper is perfectly flat if you’ve used loads of water (back to the moat again!). The card base is of course sweet sugarplum.

I looked in my stash of DSP that I had handy and found the perfect matching paper in Blooms & Bliss for the envelope flap. Beautfiul isn’t it?

I love this set so much that I’m going to be featuring it at two upcoming classes – January 14th and February 5th. Details coming soon.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz