Category Archives: Birthday

Love Sparkles all Festive

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I’ve been meaning to use the Love Sparkles stamp set again for a while now and I finally got around to it at the weekend.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Love Sparkles - Festive

First though, I dry embossed the entire blushing bride card front (before folding my card base) using the Festive TIEF. I like how the dry embossing goes all the way to the edge, but the slight downside (if it is one) is that the debossing is seen on the inside and the card isn’t as sturdy. Still, it looks great! I then heat embossed the Celebrate sentiment from Love Sparkles on very vanilla card – I used the retired blushing bride embossing powder but you could easily ink your stamp with blushing bride ink and then versamark before using the clear embossing powder. The layering ovals framelits were a perfect fit and, since I’d decided to add rhinestones to the sparkly parts of the sentiment, it made sense to add a silver foil mat which I popped up. A really quick and easy, but effective, card.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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 more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

Paper Pumpkin February 2017 Alternative

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Here’s my first Paper Pumpkin February 2017 Alternative, the Many Happy Birthdays kit. Lately my Paper Pumpkin seems to take quite a while to get to me – eight days this time. Hence the delay in the alternative cards.

Paper Pumpkin February 2017 Alternative - Many Happy Birthdays - Blossom Bunch punch - Triple Banner punch

I used various circle punches, 2, 1 1/2 and 1 inches,  to punch out circles from one of the cards (I’ve still got enough to make 2 more cards like this one from the one card) and also a scrap of flirty flamingo. Next I created my banner, using the triple banner punch and a scrap of whisper white. I used the included stamp set in the Paper Pumpkin for the sentiment, leaving a space on the left hand side. I somehow managed to add a smudge of ink on the left hand side of the banner, but seeing as the space was designed for the blossom bunch punch flower, it didn’t matter a bit! I pushed the back of my paper piercer into the centre of the flowers to make the flower more 3D and then glued the 2 pieces together with glue dots.

I also added a scrap circle to the back of my largest circle so that it would be level since I was putting one side of it over another. The smallest circle is popped up with dimensionals. A scattering of three rhinestones finishes off the card.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

Designer Tin of Cards part 2

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On Monday I shared a card that I made with some of the supplies in the Designer Tin of Cards, here’s the card using the rest of the supplies for that same card. All this one uses apart from what’s in the kit, is a scrap of very vanilla for the circle to put the sentiment on. The kit did supply one, but it’s whisper white which I don’t like with the DSP background since it has very vanilla in it. Monday’s card used a few more extras, but basic ones – a delightful dijon card base, a tiny strip of Moroccan DSP, more very vanilla for the sentiment and a scrap of early espresso for the mat. So I’ve just stretched my Designer Tin of Cards from 16 cards to 20 with very few extra supplies and I’m working on stretching it to 24!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

Here I took the card base from the kit which has the DSP printed on it to the edges and added the flag. I got my scrap of very vanilla and stamped the sentiment from the coordinating Designer Tin of Cards stamp set in cajun craze and cut  it out with the stitched shapes framelits dies. I popped it up with a few dimensionals and I was done.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

 

Designer Tin of Cards for The Paper Players

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I meant to share another Bookcase Builder card today to show you how versatile it is since I’m offering it as a raffle prize to all my customers this month. However I got so excited by my early prep for a class next month that I’ve made another with the Designer Tin of Cards. I was inspired to make this one by the Paper Players challenge this week and also because the card in the box is a little too fussy for me. So yet again, I’m taking just part of the card, adding a few basics and, when I use the rest of this card’s official supplies, I’ll have made one card out of two.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Blossom bunch punch

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

I took the piece of DSP from the kit and selected a bright and cheerful colour to go with it. I used the DSP that this piece comes from (Affectionately Yours Specialty DSP) to help my choice of watermelon wonder. I added a skinny mat and used the Hello You thinlits dies to cut out my huge happy and then took the birthday from the Designer Tin of Cards stamp set. I could’ve also used the Crazy About You set for this, but the Designer Tin of Cards was already out!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Blossom bunch punch

The card needed a little something and the two smallest flowers punched out with the Blossom Bunch Punch added just the right touch along with a mint macaron enamel dot that I had leftover from, I think, the first ever pack of enamel dots that were produced in last year’s occasion’s catalogue. A rhinestone would’ve worked too but it felt good using up something from my stash. I put the flowers onto my pierce mat and pushed the back of my paper piercer into the centre to make the edges spring up a bit. You can also use one of the inserts from the clear block storage caddy. The mint macaron card base finished this off nicely with a deep border of mint macaron to set off the lovely sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code 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. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, 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

 

 

Window Box Thinlits Dies again

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I was really pleased with yesterday’s card using the Window Box Thinlits dies, or at least the candles die where I made a pretty subtle card. Actually it was using mostly colours from the subtle collection and sweet sugarplum fits in well. I decided to make another, but this one a lot brighter and louder and therefore I turned to the brights collection and a different in-colour which fits nicely with the brights, cucumber crush.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Window Box Thinlits Dies

I took a piece of whisper white card stock and lined the candles die up to the corner, and just remembered vaguely the margin around the die. After running it through the big shot, I moved it over, guesstimating how far along and trying to remember what my margin looked like. I was happy that it came out so well – and I got my gap between the 2 sets of candles pretty good. Then came the second row and all I had to guide me was the edge piece – I had to guess on height. Apparently it was my day and it all came out fine.

There wasn’t enough space to add snail like I did yesterday, so instead I got out my silicone mat and a sponge dauber and carefully dabbed a little tombow glue on the back being careful not to let my piece move. It wasn’t perfect – there was some time with the glue eraser, but it was pretty good. Next I took little strips of scrap cut a hair over 1/4 inch wide in cucumber crush,  melon mambo, pumpkin pie and daffodil delight and put them on the back. They didn’t all stick perfectly, but well enough that I could put snail all over the back and glue it to a cucumber crush mat.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Window Box Thinlits Dies

I debated on sentiments and banners but in the end, everything detracted from the fun. And it’s not as if it’s not obvious that it’s a birthday card! I took a piece of whisper white to get an idea on the size that I wanted which turned out to be 4 1/4 square. Using the envelope punch board, it was simple to create a custom envelope for my square card. And since I’ll likely give this to someone at work, it doesn’t matter that it’s a square envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle for the Bookcase Builder stamp set; 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