Category Archives: Get Well

Lovely Lily Pad and Lily Pad dies

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I decided to play with the new freebies that I’d selected out of the Sale-a-bration brochure – Lovely Lily Pad and Lily Pad dies.

iz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lovely Lily Pad and Lily Pad dies

I used the dies to cut out 2 rows of the teardrop type shapes and then used the Beads and Baubles TIEF to emboss the rest of the top layer. They go together perfectly. I mounted this on a night of navy cardbase and then turned to the stamp set. I found that the reversible stamp is very easy to use – and ensures that you clean your stamp promptly! – but it isn’t totally symmetrical so you get an artistic look. I diecut the lily and popped it up with dimensionals.

The sentiment comes from the So Sentimental stamp set and is cut out with the matching dies – Stitched So Sweetly – but you can of course use a sentiment from your stash.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $50 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15. You’ll also earn a Sale-a-bration freebie from Stampin’ Up! with that order.

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See you on Sunday,

Liz

Back on your feet

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Here’s my second card this week using Back on your feet. The animals are really adorable – I had a lot of fun designing this yesterday.

back on your feet - Hammered Metal embossing folder

I stamped this little fellow in memento black and then used the olive blends to colour him in with a little dark soft seaspray for his puddle. I felt that the hammered metal 3D embossing folder (150646) mimicked his scales so added an embossed piece of old olive. I was really pleased with how this came out but hope I don’t need to send it anytime soon!

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $50 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15. My team members get them for free as a perk.

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See you on Wednesday,

Liz

Back on your feet

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A very Merry Christmas to all – I hope that you’re having a great day. As I mentioned on Monday, it’s not unusual for people to get sick when they stop working and relax. So just in case here’s a card made with Back on your feet (149385) a 9 cling stamp set featuring fun animals. You can put this together really quickly if you need to send such a card – hope you don’t, but trying to be realistic.

Back on your feet

I used the Bird Ballad DSP for the background and simply stamped in soft suede onto the paper. I matted the DSP with soft suede and then adhered it to a daffodil delight card base. The sentiment is stamped in soft suede on daffodil delight and cut out using the Stitched Rectangular dies. As I said, you can whip this up in no time at all.

I’m a member of the Talented Tutorial Team and each month the 15 of us create a bundle of 15 tutorials. If you spend $50 with me on product, I’ll send you all 15.

Click on the buttons below to join my team or shop. This month’s host code is above the Shop Now tab in the menu on the left. Just copy and paste it or type it into the box at the bottom of your order where it says HOST CODE and then click apply.

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See you on Sunday,

Liz

Blooms and Wishes

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I set myself a challenge to use a retiring stamp set but also to use only retiring colours. I chose the Blooms and Wishes stamp set and managed to use 4 retiring colours – I was pretty impressed with that. Perfect plum, wisteria wonder, rose red and always artichoke.

iz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Blooms and Wishes

I started with the biggest blooms on wisteria wonder and then did the centres of the flower in perfect plum. It’s not visible but I added wink of Stella (not retiring, thank goodness) over the perfect plum. Then I added in the sentiment in always artichoke to be sure that I had room for it. I’m not really going to miss always artichoke; it’s a nice colour but mossy meadow is coming back and it’s close and, in my opinion, nicer. I never once used always artichoke when I had the option of mossy meadow.

Next I added the rose red flowers and some sprigs of always artichoke. Attaching this to a wisteria wonder card base finished off a simple card perfectly. My class attendees enjoyed making this one.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

The ink pads and coloured card stock shown today are as supplies last. The stamp set is guaranteed until May 25th but don’t delay. Also yesterday Stampin’ Up! reduced some prices on the retiring list. Check out my shop to see what’s still available and what’s at a reduced price.

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See you on Friday,

Liz

My Hero with Emerald Envy Embossing

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This stamp set is named My Hero, which is a great name because it’s the charity set. For each set bought, Stampin’ Up! donates to the Ronald McDonald House Charities (over a million dollars so far) so you need to buy it. Not only because of the charity donation, but because it’s a fun set.

Stampin' Up! Weather Together

Here’s an image of the complete set:

Fun right? Today I used the umbrella and I used a trick that I saw on Pootles’ site. She mentioned a much easier way to emboss any colour. First you use the embossing buddy and then tap your image onto a versamark pad and then onto the colour that you want. After you stamp it, you add clear embossing powder to the card and then heat it. Voila. Heat embossing in whatever colour you like. Sam says that she’s been doing this for three years and hasn’t seen any issues with her ink pads. That’s good enough for me! Heat embossing in every colour here I come!

Once I’d heat embossed my image in deep rich emerald envy, I cut it out with the Umbrella Weather Framelits dies.  Next I used the archival basic black ink to create the umbrella handle (it’s two images) and cut that out as well. After gluing my umbrella to the whisper white, I used more basic black to add the raindrops from the Weather Together set. The whisper white then had a basic black mat before I adhered it to an emerald envy card base. I used a sentiment from the same set inside the card. I think this card would perk up someone who was sick. Hopefully!

You need this set. LOL. I feel like the famous posters calling people to sign up.

See you tomorrow,

Liz