Category Archives: Thank you

Hexagon Punch for CC&S

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I don’t know about you, but mostly what I’ve used my hexagon punch for is the end of banners. I decided to actually use it for its true purpose and at the same time use the colours from this week’s challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and Rose Wonder

Here’s the colour banner for this week:

I went to the regals and subtles DSP stacks for night of navy and marina mist and cut out hexagons. I also used one of the retired backgrounds DSP stack in night of navy. There were of course many more hexagons cut than appear on this card – I’ll probably make another out of the surplus. First I stamped the sentiment from Rose Wonder in watermelon wonder and then placed my hexagons. I noticed that they don’t perfectly tessellate (how often do you get to use that word?!) because if I started at one side with an edge of a hexagon parallel to the card, when I got to the other side, that hexagon wasn’t parallel. And it should be. To get over that issue I started from the edges moving in and then popped up the middle hexagon so that it wouldn’t notice that it’s very slightly off!

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and Rose Wonder

The envelope is lined with watermelon wonder from the DSP stack, cut out with the envelope liners.

I hope that you’ll check out the rest of the inspiration from the design team and have a go yourself with these colours. I found them really hard to start with, but in the end, I made two cards. I’ll share the other one tomorrow.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Pedal Pusher for CC&S

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There is a new challenge starting today over at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s a fun colour one. I had the Pedal Pushers stamp set from Sale-a-bration to play with and I decided to use that for the challenge.

Stampin' Up! Pedal Pusher and Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

I started with a fairly wet wash of cucumber crush and mint macaron on a piece of watercolour paper. I love the watery look of the diluted wash with the two greens next to each other. Then I stamped the bicycle in the archival basic black and added the basket and the flowers. I coloured the bike with the Stampin’ Write mint macaron marker and the leaves of the flowers in cucumber crush. The flowers are coloured using real red and the aquapainter so that I have flowers coloured in varying strengths. I then realised that I should’ve stamped the sentiment before doing all my colouring, but fortunately I stamped it okay! It’s a sentiment from this month’s Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine.

I then matted this with a piece of basic black which is just 1/8 inch larger than the watercolour paper and mounted that onto a real red card base. I was tempted to add the butterfly from Flowering Fields but when I tested it out, realised that the butterfly was much much larger and was about the size of all the flowers put together. It would’ve looked like an alien!

I lined the envelope with the cucumber crush flower pattern from the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits dies. It’s yet another beautiful colour that I need to use more.

I hope that you’ll hop over to the CC&S challenge log to see the inspiration from the rest of the team and to enter a card of your own into the challenge.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5

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Wow. We’re up to Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5. And I have a couple more ideas too! This card sat on my desk for a few days whilst I thought how to complete it. In the end, I decided to allow the gold “squiggle” to be the star of the card and add extra gold to make it more lush and elegant. Let me know if you think I succeeded!

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

This is the official embellishment that is leftover after making the kit cards (I’m planning to make mine on Friday with friends) and it’s so beautiful. I stuck it onto a piece of very vanilla and then bordered it with a piece of gold foil 1/8 inch larger. Normally I leave my layers intact because depending on the colour, you can see that there are cut outs! Not with this card, I decided to cut out a fairly large rectangle out of the gold foil since it only comes a couple of sheets at a time. I cut the thanks out using the Hello You dies in blackberry bliss and used the 2-way glue pen to adhere it. I have finally decided on the 2-way glue pen as my favourite way to add die cut words – unless you squeeze, you don’t get extra glue that oozes around your word as with the multipurpose glue and it doesn’t dry too fast like the fine tip pen. I know that this is the third day in a row for blackberry bliss, but it feels a supremely rich and elegant colour to me and perfect for this card.

Since I’d cut out a lot of the gold foil, I didn’t want to have a dent in the front of my card so I popped the layer up on stampin’ dimensionals and added it to a blackberry bliss cardbase. Lots of dimensionals so that the card doesn’t sag. For this use, I tend to cut up the dimensionals at the edge of the pack – there’s no rule that all dimensionals have to be hexagons. Use it all up!

I used a retired paper to line the envelope – I’m not sure which DSP it is, it was in my stash of precut liners and I loved the gold foil with this card.

Sue Ann – I’m so glad that you signed up as an email subscriber. I love sharing ideas and I’m happy that you are here.

See you all tomorrow,

Liz

Lighthearted Leaves

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Today’s card is for a challenged at CanYouCaseIt where you have to use neutrals, yellows and browns. A good challenge for me since brown tends to stay in the box, unused.

Stampin' Up! Lighthearted Leaves and Sweet Li'l Things DSP

Here’s the banner for the challenge:

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I had started playing around with the DSP from Sweet Li’l Things and hello honey and I already had the DSP glued to the cardbase. But the card refused to continue in the direction of a congratulations card (possibly, in retrospect, because I’d mistakenly grabbed crushed curry and it didn’t look right with the hello honey) so I got out lighthearted leaves. I really like this set and am disappointed that it’s retiring at the end of the year. Another good reason to use it!

I stamped it in early espresso on very vanilla (to match the DSP) and cut it out with the framelits. I then coloured it in with hello honey, crumb cake and early espresso. I played around with different colours for the sentiment (I have spares cut out now for a future project) and finally settled on early espresso. This was cut out using the greetings thinlits dies using the precision plate which makes it so much easier than having to cut several times and use wax paper. It takes just once through the big shot and the sentiment pops right out. It still needs a little cleaning of the wispy bits of card, but it’s minimal. I used the fine tip glue pen to glue the sentiment on – another great tool that makes life much easier. If you’re trying to glue something that is.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Acorny Thank You PPA275

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I think that this is a first – I don’t believe that I’ve ever used two different DSPs on a card before. I struggle to use one, to be honest. But I’ve recently realized that the way to use the things that I find hard is to start the card with them rather than hoping that they will somehow fall into place on the card. I recently used an enamel dot. Only one, it is true, but it’s the first time I’ve put a dot on a card and I don’t even own any candy dots.

This card is inspired by the current challenge at Pals Paper Arts.

Stampin' Up! Acorny Thank You

Here’s the colour banner for this challenge:

11-12 PPA275

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve been playing with the Acorny Thank You set a bit lately and these colours seemed as if they’d be fun with it. But this time, I decided to use some DSP – this is the Sweet Li’l Things DSP and I intended on having a band of the tangelo twist DSP but somehow it ended up punched out with the acorn punch instead. And then the hello honey paper seemed to partner so well. I glued the tops onto the acorns and played with them across the page trying to find the look that I wanted. I ended up with the perfect place for the sentiment – it’s from the Acorny Thank You set – and tried to glue everything down without messing up the layout. I had another acorn punched out and I used that to mark where each acorn was supposed to go whilst I added glue to the back. I’ve put the acorns onto very vanilla card stock because the DSP has very vanilla in it – I’m so glad that more of the DSPs are very vanilla since I tend to choose that more than whisper white. I’ve made a skinny mat of tangelo twist before mounting this onto a blackberry bliss cardstock. The envelope is lined with some retired backgrounds DSP and using the envelope liners framelits.

I can’t believe that we’re only 7 months away from these colours retiring, they are so gorgeous, it’s going to be hard to see them go. I think I may be concentrating on them for a while – in between my Christmas cards.

See you tomorrow,

Liz