Category Archives: Thank you

Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

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I got the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a Sale-a-bration freebie and have barely used it. Actually I rarely use vellum – I should work on that! This card started as a potential design card for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge this week – a colour challenge of chocolate chip, tempting turquoise and blushing bride. I used an aquapainter to get the card fairly wet and then added a pale wash of blushing bride at the top and tempting turquoise at the bottom. After using the heat tool to dry the paper, I stamped the image from Wetlands in chocolate chip. There seemed to be something missing so I added the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes to the bottom in more chocolate chip. I just couldn’t get this card to cooperate and be sufficiently CAS for the design team so I put it to one side.

Stampin' Up! Wetlands and Watercolor Wishes and Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

After playing with various mats, I decided to try the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a mat/background. Apparently after going to the opera last night and a pedicure tonight (on top of work) I was tired and couldn’t cut the vellum the right size. After the second failure (!) I decided to cut a quarter of an inch off the card base to fix the issue! I used fast fuse to fix the watercolour paper to the vellum and also to the card base of soft sky. The tempting turquoise was just a bit too loud to work with the washed out colour that I’d put on the paper.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Grateful Bunch and CC&S

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It’s Thursday which means another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a sketch. I’m really getting more and more fond of sketches – I encourage you to give a sketch a try. And why not start with this week’s over at CAS Colours & Sketches? 🙂

Stampin' Up! grateful bunch watercolor wishes

For some reason my mind turned the rectangles into flower stalks early on. It was as I was driving home from CVS getting a prescription filled for my brother that this idea popped into my head. I had to imagine whether it should be grateful bunch or the botanical builder set.  Nowhere near as distracting as texting, but hard to envision and when you have the idea you want to play immediately! In the end I tried both in reality and Grateful Bunch won. I’m rather hooked on the almost retiring in-colours at the moment and so the stalks are in mossy meadow. To stay true to the sketch the left hand stalk is full size and the right is smaller. I did this by masking off some of the stalk – it didn’t have to be perfect because a flower could cover any issue! I tried hello honey and blackberry bliss as the flowers, the latter full strength and stamped off once but it lacked some brightness. So I thought about yesterday’s card and how mossy meadow and watermelon wonder look so great together and I stamped the flowers in watermelon wonder on very vanilla and punched them out. I love that the punch cuts out three flowers at a time! I decided to change colours, pretending the plants are separate, and on the right did a stamped off blackberry bliss flower.

I added the mossy meadow sentiment from the Watercolor Wishes set (love this set) and then glued on the flowers, popping up the biggest watermelon wonder flower for some interest. The very vanilla piece was put onto a mossy meadow card base and there you go.

Stampin' Up! Grateful Bunch and Watercolor Wishes

I’m now wondering if I need to get more mossy meadow card. It’s such a great colour and I’m really going to miss it. I may have to grab another pack before the retiring list comes out and the in colours items disappear…

Anyway – please go over to CAS Colours & Sketches and check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team and have a go yourself. I promise that after a few sketches you’ll come to love them too.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home for CC&S (again)

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Firstly – Happy Birthday to Rebecca. 🙂

I seem to be stuck on the Happy Home stamp set. I took a few days off and played with the set from Watercolor Wishes (although I used that again today), but the images from Happy Home have really caught my fancy. Today is Thursday and thus another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This, being the first Thursday in the month, is a colour challenge and the first of Louise’s challenges. I meant to use Garden in Bloom and the bees looked adorable but I couldn’t get all the three colours to work to my satisfaction. So I went back to Happy Home!

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Watercolor Wishes

And here’s the banner which inspired my card today

I took a piece of very vanilla and sponged it in daffodil delight. I then added some tangerine tango and finally some melon mambo. I put another layer of daffodil delight over the top. Then I stamped the image in the archival basic black. As I mentioned, the sentiment is from the Watercolor Wishes set and I stamped it in tangerine tango on the very vanilla card base. I glued the image onto the card base with fast fuse – I love this glue for serious gluing.

I hope you’ll pop over to CAS Colours & Sketches and see what the rest of the design team have made with these colours – and I hope that I’ll see your card in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Watercolor Wishes meets Grateful Bunch

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I bought the Watercolor Wishes card kit a while back and put it to one side to wait until I put a class together to do it. One of the great things about this kit is that it’s all inclusive – as in the stamp set is included. I recently pulled out the stamp set and started playing with it. The sentiments are really pretty.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wishes and Grateful Bunch

I had cut this piece of DSP in mint macaron from the Pretty Petals stack a while ago when I was doing a sketch challenge but this one was put to one side. I recovered it from my “save for later” pile and decided it was time to continue. This card is actually the cause of the card that I shared yesterday because I was stamping and punching out the flowers from Grateful Bunch in both melon mambo and watercolour wonder. I love the way that both the stamp and the blossom bunch punch can create three flowers at a time. I decided that the watercolour wonder went best with the mint macaron but I didn’t quite like the overall combination of colours. Then it hit me that I had used whisper white card for the flowers and the DSP and base were very vanilla. Once I’d remade the flowers in very vanilla, I was happy. It also means that I have a few more flowers sitting on my desk asking to be used.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wishes and Grateful Bunch

Once I had all the pieces ready for construction, I put the DSP in the right place and first stamped the Thanks (isn’t that a great typeface?) in watermelon wonder. Stamping completed, I glued down the DSP and then glued down 2 of my flowers, popping up the third. The very vanilla layer was then glued to a very vanilla card base. Once that was done, I added the pearls to the centres of the flowers. The envelope is lined using more of the same paper so that it coordinates.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate 4

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Well I’m up to my Paper Pumpkin March 2016 Alternate number 4. This one is just using stamping rather than re-purposing any of the DSP. And after Rebecca’s enthusiastic comments about Cucumber Crush, I decided to use that colour again today.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin March 2016

I used post it tape to mask the area that I wanted to stamp and then it occurred to me that it would be a little irritating if I messed up the sentiment after stamping all the leaves and flowers. So I peeled up the post it tape and stamped the sentiment. Of course it was fine! Then I set about using cucumber crush and rich razzleberry and two of the little stamps from the Paper Pumpkin, Pocketful of Cheer stamp set. I really like having the images continue over the edges so that it looks as if this is just part of a large piece of paper. One word of warning however – the ink doesn’t dry as quickly on the post it tape so be careful about getting it on your fingers and then on the card.

This was a lot of fun to make, I think I’ll play with the post it tape more often. It’s a permanent fixture on my desk so that shouldn’t be difficult – I use it as a holder for my multipurpose glue. It’s especially handy to have the glue upside down as you get towards the end of the pot and the post it tape holder works perfectly.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the sentiment came from last month’s Paper Pumpkin kit, Hello Sunshine. This design really called for a single line sentiment and nothing in this month’s kit worked.

See you tomorrow,

Liz