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Bye Bye Bundle – Beautiful Bouquet and Bouquet Bunch framelits dies

As with last Friday, today I’m sharing a bundle of products which are in the upcoming catalogue BUT they are no longer bundled together giving you a 10% saving. They are the Beautiful Bouquet stamp set and the Bouquet Bunch framelits dies and they make it easy for flower arranging challenged people like me to make a nice bunch of flowers! Here’s my favourite card that I made with this bundle. I really like that not only are there the images you need for your flowers, there are also a dozen sentiments. With 21 dies and 37 stamps, it’s seems a fairly expensive bundle, but you do get a lot – however you really need to take advantage of the bundled saving and grab it for just $51.25.

To get the differing colours of the flowers, I used an aquapainter to colour a piece of watercolor paper in different strengths of sweet sugarplum. For all the details, click on the photo above.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you over the weekend,

Liz

Brusho and Bubble wrap

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I’ve been getting just as excited by the packaging as in the contents of the boxes lately. Bubble wrap is wonderful with brusho.

I sprinkled some prussian blue, brilliant red and gamboge brusho powder onto the large bubble bubble wrap and then spritzed with water. Pressing a piece of watercolor paper on top of this produced this background. The cut out from the Celebrate You thinlits dies finished this off perfectly – not forgetting to apply the multi adhesive sheet to the back of the card before cutting out the shape. I love this product, it makes it so easy to apply words.

This one was mostly brilliant red powder with just a tiny sprinkling of prussian blue and a bit more water and pressing down harder. Dapper denim went well with the hints of prussian blue so I used that and the sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday and tied the dapper denim in more by adding a thin mat. I think it was after making this card that my brother Martin found me in the kitchen washing bubble wrap. He was just a little surprised shall we say? He understood of course once I’d explained. I’m now on the lookout for some small bubble bubble wrap!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Farewell to Happiest of Days

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I’m continuing my Farewell to stamp sets that I will miss with Happiest of Days. Happiest of Days is a lovely little stamp set which I’ve used a lot in my classes. Here are some of my favourite cards to show the variety. Just click on a photo to go to the original post.

I’ve used this one for masculine and feminine birthday cards – this one is using tranquil tide and lemon lime twist in both markers and card stock. I love how it’s so simple and yet so effective.

Next a totally feminine birthday card featuring Whole Lot of Lovely DSP (still available last time that I looked), gold heat embossing, powder pink shimmer ribbon (not retiring!) and some colouring with pear pizzazz and powder pink Stampin’ Write markers.

Here I used a powder pink watercolor wash for the background to my card with some berry burst marker for the cake stripes. Set off with gold heat embossing, this card could be for any celebration.

I made this one solely to feature the gorgeous little powder pink bow. Pre-tried in case you’re bow challenged. I also love the deep fresh fig border around this one.

I hope you can see how much I love this stamp set – and how much I’ll miss it! If you are in the same boat, you don’t have to miss it. It’s guaranteed to be available until May 25th.

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects – if they’ve inspired you to grab the Happiest of Days set, just click on the Shop Now button. Remember that if you spend $50 on product, you can select a free stamp – click on the free stamp set button below to see the choices.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

More String Theory

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I decided to try more string theory and this time to use two stands of twine. This was using thick baker’s twine which does give a different look – experiment with any string you can find, it’s fun! One strand was colored with bermuda bay and the other with dapper denim.

On this card I draped the two pieces of string separately on the bottom card layer, then put the ends together, added the top card layer and pulled the string out of the phone book. For more detailed instructions, see my earlier blog post or Lydia Fiedler’s blog where I first learned the technique. I hadn’t really planned for a sentiment so now I went on a hunt for the right sized one – and found it in Picture Perfect Birthday, stamped in bermuda bay.

For these two beauties, I’m showing the top and bottom layer that were created together. I put the two pieces of string together and then arranged them on the card. It’s amazing how different they look even though they are mirror images. For the one I again used the Picture Perfect Birthday sentiment but for the other I used the Celebrate You thinlits dies which I earned in Sale-a-bration but which will be available in the new annual catalog in June.

I hope that you enjoyed today’s projects and that I’ve inspired you to try your hand at string theory. Just don’t forget the gloves or cling film to prevent extremely inky hands! If you’re short of re-inkers or card stock you can buy them in my store. Most of all, have fun!

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See you on Wednesday,

Liz

Just 6 more days for the Party Pandas

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I just noticed that I forgot to share this adorable card featuring the Party Pandas. Criminal! They are so much fun and you have just SIX days to earn them for free. They are free with a $50 product purchase until the end of the week when Sale-a-bration ends.

The Scattered Sequins TIEF that I used as a background for this card recently became available as a Sale-a-bration freebie too. An addition of the tutti frutti sequins makes the background even more fun. I colored in the panda’s hat with a watercolor pencil but you could also use Stampin’ Write markers. The sentiment is also from the Party Pandas. I’d definitely suggest this as a freebie choice – and if you’re taking advantage of Sale-a-bration to stock up on retiring in colors and basic supplies, you’ll earn a few freebies.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Category Archives: Birthday

Bye Bye Bundle – Beautiful Bouquet and Bouquet Bunch framelits dies

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Brusho and Bubble wrap

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Farewell to Happiest of Days

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More String Theory

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Just 6 more days for the Party Pandas

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