Category Archives: Thank you

Bunch of Blossoms for CAS on Sunday

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No, it’s not Sunday, the challenge blog is called CAS on Sunday and the current challenge is a Clean and Simple Thank You.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Bunch of Blossoms

I recently bought Tuscan Vineyard and have really been enjoying playing with it. It was perfect for this challenge – I stamped the image in memento black ink and used some delightful dijon and an aquapainter to pull some of the black ink and merge with the yellow. I imagine I could’ve used one of the brown inks that we have, but I was having fun with this. I just wanted to add a touch of colour to the image and leave the rest as it was stamped. I then added the sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms in delightful dijon – what a great typeface, I can see that I’m going to use the sentiments from this set a lot. I think this was the first inking of the set and I’m surprised I waited this long. Oh yes, it was a large order, can’t use everything at once, right?

Since the basket-covered bottle looks quite brown, I used a mat of early espresso before mounting that onto my delightful dijon card base. It’s taken me a while to warm up to delightful dijon, but it really is a great colour.

Now I just have to decide whether to spend the afternoon crafting or trying to make my first video. I’ll finish my coffee first and then decide.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Tuscan Vineyard for CAS Colours & Sketches

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Happy Thursday which means that it’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, this time a sketch.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Watercolor Wishes

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

At the weekend I broke out one of my new sets, Tuscan Vineyard and started watercolouring. I really miss the retired mossy meadow, but if it hadn’t have retired, I wouldn’t have pulled out Always Artichoke which worked really well here. Silver linings right? After watercolouring the leaves in always artichoke and adding more colour to the parts of the leaves which were more shaded (the designers of the stamps make life easier for those of us who really weren’t stars in art class!) I pulled out rich razzleberry and did the same to the grapes. I then carefully added the sentiment realising that I should have stamped it before I’d spent the time watercolouring but it was perfect.

I trimmed my watercolour paper to be smaller than the card front at the sides to be true to the sketch. Unusually I made the card with the fold at the top which I feel works well with the side panels.

The photo shows that the card is sitting on something bumpy but not much detail – it’s the new Petal Burst TIEF and I used it to emboss the envelope flap.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge site to see what the rest of the Design Team have created and to have a go at the challenge yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Festive Birthday DSP for a few challenges

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The incredibly bright colours in the Festive Birthday DSP really drew me, far more than I expected. After I’d made a card earlier this week using it (shared yesterday), I was inspired by the challenges at Addicted to CAS and Less is More to make another.

Stampin' Up! Festive Birthday DSP and Hello You thinlits

Less is More’s challenge is REPETITION and Addicted to CAS wants stripes so the Festive Birthday DSP seems to work for both. I cut a strip of the DSP just over the 2 1/4 inches I needed to line the envelope flap – I made the cut at a white line so as not to mess with the pattern. I actually stuck the DSP onto the whisper white card with a teeny border of whisper white showing as if it were part of the DSP. I’d selected this part of the DSP because it didn’t have much melon mambo – I didn’t want my die cut word over it because it would disappear. So I glued the whisper white piece to a melon mambo card base and then adhered the die cut thanks, which is from the Hello You thinlits dies.

A note here about the new big shot platform – I LOVE IT! The extra height in the centre of the platform means that you’re not having to put delicate dies at the edges to get extra pressure nor roll the die back and fore a number of times through the big shot. It’s a huge improvement and I’m really happy. It’s also good not to have to bother with the extra tab that sticks out of the old platform most of the time – it’s always trying to knock things off the table.

I covered the envelope flap with the remaining piece of the DSP strip that I’d cut so that it all matches. I do love coordination!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings

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Vertical Greetings is one of my favourites in the new catalog. It’s so neat and tidy, so clean. I guess I’m showing my penchant for Clean and Simple cards again. I started this card by stamping five of the trees in old olive. I actually started at the left and stamped the tree and then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to guide me by putting the edge of the plastic onto the edge of the tree to help with the spacing. I also used a horizontal pencil line to help ensure that my trees were lined up. Note – if you use a pencil line, please ensure that you allow time for the ink to dry before erasing the pencil line. You are bound to smudge something if you don’t allow some drying time.

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings

After I’d stamped the trees, I stamped the pots in various colours and fussy cut them out. The ones that survived are in crushed curry and pumpkin pie. The cherry cobbler pot just didn’t make the cut. I glued the pots over the already stamped old olive ones. Next I cut out the sentiment, also from old olive. It’s from a retired set (Greetings thinlits) actually, and I’d forgotten that. It’s a really useful set, so that’s a little sad, however we have many new sets with words to diecut. And I suspect that I overused these so it’s time to move on!

To finish off my Vertical Greetings card, I added some of the new enamel shapes in crushed curry. They look a little like Christmas baubles although I’m trying to pretend that Christmas isn’t looming. At least from a card making perspective. The way I see it, it’s time to start making some Christmas cards or it will be a mad dash come December…

 

By the way, there’s a promotion currently going on that’s quite exciting. For every $50 you spend this month, you get a $5 to spend next month

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and next month is when you can buy the limited edition set, Thoughtful Branches. If you buy the stamp set and the dies, it earns you a coupon.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Designer Tin of Cards

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What’s a Designer Tin of Cards? Well I’m glad that you asked!  It’s a project kit that Stampin’ Up! sells which contains the consumables to create 16 cards and a tin to store them in with organising tabs. But it doesn’t include the stamp set, ink or adhesive. I bought the designer tin of cards and also the stamp set of the same name to complete the set.  But the sentiments are fun and definitely aren’t confined to the 16 cards in the kit. As you can see here:

Stampin' Up! Baby Bear and Designer Tin of Cards

Here’s an image showing the project kit. It’s only $27 and if you gather with your friends or demo, you only need one stamp set.

Designer Tin of Cards Project Kit

The sentiment is actually bigger than just Thanks, but I coloured just the Thanks in with my Stampin’ Write marker in cherry cobbler. For the bear, I used Baby Bear and intended this to be the start of a recent design card at CAS Colours & Sketches. I stamped the first image in soft suede, stamped off twice, then the second image in the same ink, stamped off once. The final image is stamped, would you believe, in elegant eggplant. There was a colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches but the cucumber crush just didn’t want to play with this as a starting point. But I didn’t want to waste the bear. I love the elegant eggplant with the soft suede, it works really well. After getting a smear of ink on the card, I decided to rescue my bear and fussy cut him out. After adding the cherry cobbler sentiment, I popped up the bear on dimensionals. Then I noticed a little cherry cobbler dot but I “fixed” that by putting a cherry cobbler enamel shape over it.

This works well because this card is for a 4 year old. One of my friends at work signed up for Paper Pumpkin’s special offer last month and her sons had a lot of fun playing with it. They both made me a card so I wanted to make cards for them too. This one seems perfect. I dry embossed the envelope with Lucky Stars to match the enamel shape.

See you tomorrow,

Liz