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Bookcase Builder

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As I mentioned when I introduced my giveaway this month, I’m going to be showcasing the Bookcase Builder set. There are a couple of colleagues at work whose wives are expecting babies in May and for once, I’m trying to be prepared! Neither knows what they are having, so I need two of each type of card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

This was a fun card to make – just enjoy making your own DSP. I used only the ABC blocks image and dapper denim and randomly stamped onto a piece of very vanilla ensuring that some were off the edges of the card. Then I trimmed down my “usual” size piece of 5 1/4 by 4 inches by 1/4 inch so that I could add a skinny mat of delightful dijon before adding that to the dapper denim base. It’s not quite a traditional pale blue baby card, but unmistakenly a baby card – especially with the congratulations stamped inside and another teddy bear. The typeface of the sentiments in Bookcase Builder is especially beautiful in my opinion.

To finish off the card, I stamped the delightful dijon teddy bear onto very vanilla, cut it out with my favourite stitched shapes dies and then popped it up with dimensionals.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Love You Lots, Baby Bear

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As it’s Thursday, there’s a new challenge on the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge blog – which is why this post is later than usual. It’s timed to coincide with the challenge blog. Today it’s a colour challenge and to make this card I combined two sets, the hostess set Love you Lots and Baby Bear.

Stampin' Up! Lots of Love and Baby Bear

Here’s the colour banner which inspired my card.

I was a little worried about this combination – as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not overly fond of brown and to make it worse, when I made this card, I hadn’t yet made peace with flirty flamingo. So it was with some trepidation that I sat down to see what was going to happen. I started with a piece of watercolour paper thinking about doing a sunset with trees and started happily using my aquapainter to add sweet sugarplum and flirty flamingo. It looked really good. I’m not sure where the idea of the elephant came from – other than it was on my desk – but I decided to stamp her in chocolate chip and I loved the look. I also stamped her again on the whisper white card. I then snipped her out – cutting off her tail – and then glued my piece of watercolour paper right over the top. I added a little more sweet sugarplum in the shaded areas for contrast and a wash of more chocolate chip for some ground. The sentiment comes from the set Baby Bear and it’s also stamped in chocolate chip.

There was something missing and I looked around my table for a little something. I was actually at a day crop and didn’t have all my supplies, but I did have my new punch, the blossom builder. Perfect. I punched out a piece of flirty flamingo and put it on a foam mat. I then used the handle of my scoring tool to press down on the centre to make the edges pop up. A rhinestone in the centre and my baby elephant had her bling.

For the envelope, I stamped the elephant again and left her plain. So it coordinates but doesn’t give away everything about the card ahead of time.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team have created and to have a go yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter, any public gallery will do or even Facebook.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Finally Zoo Babies for a girl

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I’ve been making baby cards for a boy a lot this month; I was producing a number so that Julia had a reasonable selection – and the next time that anyone needs one, I’ll be ready. Unless the baby is a girl, that is. So I decided to make a pink card, just to be prepared. And the Zoo Babies set was still on my desk so out it came again.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

The three rhinos are slightly too big to fit on a standard sized card, so I cut a piece of very vanilla at 5.5″ wide. This meant that I could add a quarter inch border on the base card and be able to make an envelope out of a sheet of regular 8.5″ by 11″ card stock, essential since I don’t have blushing bride in 12 by 12. I used a ruler and pencil to draw a line to help me line up the rhinos which I then stamped in blushing bride. I added the toucan stamped in perfect plum and used the same ink for the sentiment which is from the Bravo set. I mounted the very vanilla on a base of blushing bride.

I then took another piece of blushing bride and cut it to a 8.5″ square which enabled me to make the matching envelope sized to fit a 4.5″ by 6″ card. Whilst I still have my stamps inked up, I added the little toucan to the front of the envelope as well.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies blushing bride envelope

There, now I’m prepared for any births.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

More Zoo Babies

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I’ve really fallen for the collection of baby animals in the Stampin’ Up! Zoo Babies set; it’s been sitting unused on my shelf of (ever expanding) stamp sets for a while and now it appears to be like chocolate chip cookies. You can’t stop at just one. Which may possibly be why at my last class I sent most of the cookies that I had made home with my friend Jacquie. They are her favourite after all.

When I realised that I didn’t have any baby cards in my stash, I started to make a few so that Julia could have a choice. This one could also be for a kid’s birthday.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies and Alphabet Press TIEF

The hippo is stamped in sahara sand on very vanilla card stock and yes, that’s pear pizzazz AGAIN for the toucan. I really like the combo of very vanilla, pear pizzazz and sahara sand together. I cut out the two animals using the circles collection and the big shot and then cut the next largest circle in pear pizzazz. I used the tombow mono glue to glue the two circles together.

I then took a piece of sahara sand card stock and ran it through the texture boutique in the Alphabet Press folder. I’m really happy that I got this machine, it is so handy not having to change the bigshot base between cutting and embossing. It will also be useful in classes since we can emboss using either machine.

I wanted the textured background to really stand out and so I attached the circles in the corner; I attached them with stampin’ dimensionals, it adds interest and makes it easy to attach on the textured surface. It gives a totally different look being in the bottom left as opposed to the bottom right – here’s an example from a couple of weeks ago where I put the focal point on the right. I then mounted this onto a sahara sand base and lined the envelope in the sahara sand shade from the backgrounds DSP.

 

Son of Zoo Babies

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Well, not really son of Zoo Babies but it does feel like a rather long running action movie! Maybe it should be The Return of Zoo Babies! Anyway, I was having so much fun making baby boy cards for Julia to select from when she returns from St Lucia that I had to make another. This one sort of reminds me of the Jungle Book and the elephants all walking in single file. Imagine that there are far more of them.

Stampin' Up! Zoo Babies

They didn’t fit on a standard card (the front elephant’s trunk was – dare I say it? – truncated) so I stamped the three elephants in marina mist on a larger piece of whisper white and cut it down after the stamping. A ruler really is your best friend here – I drew a pencil line across the card so that I could line up my elephants  – using the stamp-a-ma-jig here of course. The congratulations also comes from the Zoo Babies set. I mounted the whisper white on a piece of marina mist sized to give a 1/8 inch border all around.

This odd sized card meant that I could pull out the envelope punch board, a tool that I don’t use enough. It’s so much fun to make your own envelope and it really impresses people too. And it’s so easy. It’s almost like baking a cake – people are so impressed and think that you took hours and hours when in fact it’s the task of a few minutes.

See you tomorrow,

Liz