Category Archives: Thank you

Weather Together Thank You

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Pootles is starting a weekly colour challenge and I thought that it would be fun to enter the inaugural one and to take the opportunity to use my last so far unused set, Weather Together. It’s the issue (ha!) with getting such a large first order, it takes a while to use everything!

Stampin' Up! Weather Together

The colour challenge is to use any or all of smoky slate, so saffron, pool party and pink pirouette. I’m really not a grey person (too much grey school uniform and I’m still not over it although it’s over 30 years ago!) but I like how smoky slate goes with pink pirouette. I started by stamping the umbrella handle in smoky slate on smoky slate cardstock and then cut it out with the matching dies, Umbrella Weather Framelits Dies – how easy is that? And actually they aren’t just matching, they come in a bundle saving you an instant 10%. I stamped the outline of the umbrella in smoky slate on pink pirouette and then added the pink pirouette dots. I built the card by gluing the umbrella handle onto a piece of whisper white and then popping up the umbrella itself with dimensionals. The sentiment is also from the Weather Together set. I made a little border to pull everything together with a slim smoky slate mat and left a good frame of the pink pirouette. It’s fun to play with different size borders, tiny changes make a big change to a card. Once I had the card all together, it felt as if there was something missing, so I cut out some of the little hearts using the Umbrella Weather framelits and stuck three of them onto the middle panel of the umbrella. There. That’s what was missing.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Baby Bear Thank You

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When I first saw the Baby Bear set in the catalogue, I knew he was going to be on my first order. It’s not as if I have masses of friends having babies at the moment and need welcome baby sort of cards, but the set was still necessary. Immediately! I didn’t realise until this morning when I stamped him, just how incredibly detailed and realistic he looks.

Stampin' Up! Baby Bear and Vertical Greetings

I messed him up the first time, but then found that by stamping the most detailed colour first – since it’s the darkest colour – it’s much easier to line everything up. I also concentrated on getting the bottom of him right and everything else fell into place. Concentrating on his paws or ears doesn’t work because not all of the three stamps have the details at the edges. So I started with soft suede and did the detailed layer, then moved to the middle less detailed layer and stamped in crumb cake. The final layer which is just a block of colour, I did in crumb cake stamped off once.

I was planning on stamping the ribbon and did so – in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry but I felt that the bear looked so real, he needed a real bow. I found some pear pizzazz cotton ribbon in my stash and that set the rest of the colour scheme. The sentiment wasn’t planned – I just happened to stamp the practice bear on a piece of scrap which had the Thank You from Vertical Greetings and it really fit. I added a skinny soft suede mat before adding that to the pear pizzazz card base. I happened to have an envelope liner cut out already so I used that to dress up the envelope.

I hope you are having a great start to the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Flourish thinlits dies

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I’m still working my way through the new supplies that I got last week. That sounds as if it’s a chore – it’s obviously not. I’m having loads of fun playing. I have a little pile of die cuts on my desk that I’ve cut “just to see” and they are slowly making their way onto cards. Okay, actually it’s not a desk, it’s the kitchen table and my stuff spreads over it like lava! Luckily my brother doesn’t seem to mind – I try to leave a space where he can put a drink if he’s sitting there chatting with my whilst I play. One of the sets that I cut a few days ago is the Flourish thinlits dies and I cut out the main piece in calypso coral.

Stampin' Up! Flourish thinlits dies

First, I got my spacing and then added the greeting in calypso coral – it’s from the Vertical Greetings set that I used yesterday. I can see that this set is going to have a lot of use –  it’s one of the first which caught my eye in the new catalogue. I used the 2 way glue pen to fix this to my thick whisper white card base – the thick card stock which Stampin’ Up! brought out last year really is awesome for card bases. I wondered about adding a few pearls but it was overkill – this card really is the epitome of clean and simple.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Swirly Scribbles for CASology

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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with the new thinlit dies, Swirly Scribbles and it seemed to pair really well with CASology‘s current challenge.

Stampin' Up! Swirly Scribbles and Hello You

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

I cut out the shape using basic black because it was handy (and sturdy) and tried to use it as a stencil. It was too easy to go over the edges and add extra sweet sugarplum where I didn’t want it so I started again. I still had the remains of the dapper denim that I’d cut out with the dies and I made my own extended stencil. I was going to try to describe this but figured that a picture is worth a thousand words!

Stampin' Up! Swirly Scribbles

Since the die is longer than you need for a standard sized card, it was easy to use some post it tape to keep the die steady in its frame. And as you can see in the photo, there was no longer any need to be as careful with my sponging – the edges were now protected. After I’d used a sponge dauber to sponge on the sweet sugarplum, I removed the stencil and moved it up the card and repeated the process. I really think that the Swirly Scribbles are going to be extremely popular so if you love them, I’d suggest ordering on June 1 to avoid backorder disappointment.

I had intended to use a sweet sugarplum card base but having sponged on very vanilla, the colours weren’t matching perfectly so I switched to dapper denim (fast becoming a favourite) and used the same to cut out the thanks from the Hello You thinlits dies.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Chalk Lines and Wetlands

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This week’s challenge at Less is More is for a one layer card and the theme is At Sea. One layer cards are tricky and having looked at the Design Team’s inspiration, I’m not as happy with my card as I was. But they can’t all be my best card can they (by definition!)?

Stampin' Up! Chalk Lines and Wetlands

I decided to use my favourite birds from the Wetlands set and I’d been wanting to play with Chalk Lines some more before it retires. So first I stamped the birds in early espresso (as part of my plan to use brown more often) onto a card base of soft sky. After making sure it was really dry, I rubbed the embossing buddy over the card to remove static and stamped the image from chalk lines in versamark. A sprinkle of clear embossing powder and a blast of the heat gun gave me what looks like a wavy sea to me. I dithered about adding a sentiment but after hovering the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes (no, it’s not quite worn out yet!) over the card, decided to add it. It’s also in early espresso.

I used my beloved envelope liners framelits dies and the soft sky backgrounds DSP that retired last year but I’m still working my way through some of the colours!

I’m planning on offering a paper and ribbon share so that you can get a taste of all of the new goodies without having to take out a loan. I think I’ll take a share myself so that I don’t have quite so much DSP to use up – I don’t seem to be good at using an entire pack.

See you tomorrow,

Liz