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Hydrangea Hill DSP

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For my third Hydrangea Hill DSP card I decided to add in the Hydrangea Haven stamp set. This piece of DSP has beautiful mixture of Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Misty Moonlight and white. 

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Hydrangea Hill DSP - Hydrangea Haven

The piece of the Hydrangea Hill DSP is about 2 inches deep and is attached to a Highland Heather card base. For the top layer, I stamped the hydrangea in Gorgeous Grape and added the shading using Highland Heather stamped off once.

The sentiment comes from the Hydrangea Haven stamp set which was stamped in Gorgeous Grape with the Pastel Pearls adding the finishing touch.

I showed how to make this card in detail yesterday – along with 2 others – at my 11am EDT Facebook Live and then uploading the video to YouTube.

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Forever Greenery DSP

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This week I’m focusing on using up some of the designer series paper from the annual catalog which will be retiring at the beginning of May. I’m still on the same pattern from my Forever Greenery DSP; it’s so beautiful I didn’t use it up very fast! Here’s another way simple layout that you can use.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Forever Greenery DSP - Peaceful Moments

Here the DSP is a 2 1/2 by 3 1/4 inch piece of the Forever Greenery DSP which is matted in Pretty Peacock.  The sentiment from Peaceful Moments was stamped in Pretty Peacock directly onto the Thick Whisper White card base. Simple, quick and to my mind, beautiful.

 You could get 12 cards like this out of one 12 by 12 sheet of paper with some leftovers. Or if you reduced the size of the DSP to 2 1/2 by 3 inches you could get 16.

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Liz

Flowering Foils with Hammered Metal

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Here’s my second card featuring the Flowering Foils Specialty DSP this week. I kicked it up a notch, this time adding a foil mat and using a brayer to add colour to the DSP.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Flowering Foils Specialty DSP, Peaceful Moments, Hammered Metal 3D embossing folder, Rectangle Stitched Dies

I used blueberry bushel lightly for the background layer and matted it with silver foil. The hammered metal foil was sitting in my “useful stuff” pot and I thought it would be perfect for a banner.

The sentiment comes from the Peaceful Moments stamp set, part of the Poppies suite; they seem to be my go to at the moment. I heat embossed the sentiment in silver and then looked at a number of stitched dies before finally deciding on the rectangle ones. And what a surprise, I even had a matching ribbon.

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Liz

Vibrant Vases

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I’m continuing to play with the Vibrant Vases set and wanted to do a distinctive blue and white which I thought I’d seen in the catalogue but I must’ve imagined it. I do design cards when half asleep at 2:30am sometimes. Sadly the large stockpot that I thought I’d washed was also a dream!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Vibrant Vases

This is a simple card using white embossing powder and versamark with the sentiment also coming from Vibrant Vases. It would have been very easy to set it up on the stamparatus but I got away with doing it by hand! I wasn’t planning on making a number but now I may go back and make a few.

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Liz

Balloon Celebration

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The oldest son of a former colleague graduates from High School this week and Peter, my boss, suggested we take up a collection. We lost Chris to leukemia on Christmas day two years ago and we like to show that we have not forgotten him. He comes up in conversation a lot. So here’s a LARGE card using Balloon Celebration (so that the whole department can sign it) and three of the new in-colors that will be available for you to purchase next Friday – assuming that you haven’t already taken advantage of the early release to get the set of 5.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Balloon Celebration

I folded a piece of blueberry bushel cardstock in half to create a card that is 5.5 by 8.5 inches. Hopefully that’s big enough! The base layer is very vanilla and I punched out balloons from lucky lipstick, blueberry bushel and call me clover. I love these new colours, they are so bright and cheerful and intensely coloured – nothing wishy washy here! I found that it’s easiest to add the bubbles before punching – especially when I was doing the silver heat embossing. For the congrats, I used the multipurpose adhesive sheets on some lucky lipstick before cutting out the sentiment – which is from the Sunshine wishes thinlits dies – which makes is SO easy to adhere. I added a mat of lucky lipstick and the card was complete. Now all I need to do it make an envelope – although it seems impossibly big, I just need a piece 11 by 11 inches and my envelope punch board.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz