Category Archives: Thank you

Sprinkles of Life

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This is the set that gives to the Ronald McDonald charity for every set purchased, which is a good reason to buy it. It’s a set with loads of images so there is lots of scope for masses of cards too.

Stampin' Up! Sprinkles of Life and Greetings thinlits dies

This is another card that I made at the crop in July. I embossed the basket in early espresso on whisper white and then stamped the flowers in wild wasabi. Using a blender pen I used rose red, wild wasabi and so saffron to colour in the image making sure to get various strengths of colour. For example the yellow flowers are coloured completely in so saffron with a fairly intense colour for the centres and a lighter touch for the petals. I cut out the image using the circles framelits and then cut out the next largest circle in rose red.

I love the new designer series paper stacks and wanted to use one of them as a background – this is the one in so saffron. I matted it with whisper white since it didn’t look quite right directly on the base of rose red. To finish the card off I cut the thanks with the Greeting Thinlits dies in wild wasabi – I seem to use these dies rather frequently. I really love having words that I can die cut and add to a card. Oddly when I used to buy cards before I started making them, I used to look for the cards that had no sentiments. Now, I really like to add one. Go figure!

I’ve been a bit busy over the past day or so – my father arrived from the UK last night which is wonderful. I even tidied up the my craft area aka the kitchen table!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

English Garden DSP

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Here’s a card I made back in July at the crop weekend. Moving your craft stuff around definitely brings different things to your attention and I’d ended up with the English Garden DSP right in front of me. I also had my new (at the time) triple banner punch on the table so I decided to combine the two.

Stampin' Up! Greetings Thinlits and English Garden DSP

The paper has quite a lot going on so I didn’t want to add much more, but rather to let the paper shine. I matted the paper in mossy meadow and then glued that to a blushing bride card base – obviously pulling the colours from the DSP.  Then I cut out my sentiment using the Greetings Thinlits dies also in mossy meadow. Making the banner was easy, I just inserted a strip of blushing bride card into the smallest slot of the banner punch. In retrospect, I think that I should’ve made a mossy meadow banner just a tiny bit bigger to mat the banner, but two months ago, I didn’t think of that!

I used more of the DSP to line the outside flap of the envelope. I do not like the envelope to be plain.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

September Paper Pumpkin Alternative

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I mentioned the other day that one of the great things about the Paper Pumpkin kits is that there’s always a stamp set included. I haven’t made the treat bags from this month’s kit yet, but I have used the stamp set. And it seems appropriate for the first day of Autumn.

Stampin' up! Wickedly Sweet treat

This is a very straight forward card, and a classic Clean and Simple one. I used the single pumpkin stamp from the Wickedly Sweet Treat set and stamped it in pumpkin pie across the bottom of the whisper white cardstock. I hadn’t exactly planned the complete look but I knew didn’t want the pumpkins all in a straight line. When it was time to think about the sentiment I was pretty happy to find that I’d somehow created the perfect space for this sentiment from the same set. So I stamped it in the new archival basic black ink – I love this new black, it’s relegated my memento tuxedo black to the “only use in an emergency” pile. I added a skinny basic black mat to balance the colour of the sentiment – it’s just 1/8 of an inch bigger than the whisper white card and then mounted it on a pumpkin pie card base.

I also used the stamp on the envelope. I’d like to say that I used it because the stamp was inked up but it was a day after I made the card. Oh well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

A World of Thanks

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I was trying to do a colour challenge a while back which wanted a card made with watercolor wonder, cucumber crush and night of navy. Whilst trying to come up with my entry, I was playing with the new background stamp A World of Thanks. And although it didn’t fit the challenge guidelines, I rather liked how this card evolved.

Stampin' Up! A World of Thanks

I started out using my stampin’ write markers and colouring different words in various colours but it was just too much in your face and I decided to let the image itself just shine. I inked up the stamp (using my ink pad) using watercolour wonder and trying to avoid getting ink on the hearts. I then used a blender pen to clean up the edges of the hearts and coloured them in using the cucumber crush stampin’ write marker. After breathing heavily on the stamp to moisten the ink again, I stamped on very vanilla paper. I then mounted this on a base of watercolor wonder.

The envelope is lined using the new In Color collections which are available in family collections containing all colours in 4 designs – they replace the old Backgrounds DSP and I really love the new designs, this being one of my favourites.

See you tomorrow – and Happy Friday,

Liz

You’ve Got This

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I said yesterday that I’m rather fond of die cutting words; well here’s another example using the same one as yesterday with a totally different look.

Stampin' up! You've Got This and Greetings Thinlits

The flower is from the You’ve Got This stamp set which was part of the Annual catalogue pre-order, so you’ve probably seen the image a lot – I used it myself earlier in the week. I stamped it in stazon black on watercolour paper – the stazon is necessary if you’re going to watercolor but it needs a different cleaner being an alcohol based ink. It’s not my favourite black. But currently winging its way across the country in my Holiday pre-order is a brand new archival basic black Stampin’ pad which I’m hoping I’ll like more.

I used my aquapainter and pumpkin pie ink for the centre of the flower and then rich razzleberry for the petals. The stem and leaves used old olive. I try to put on a pale amount of the colour and then build up –  I’m no expert but I like playing with the aquapainter – it’s an enormous amount of fun and of course as I practice, the better I’ll get. There’s a hint of the old olive around the flower – a tip I was recently given which helps the flower really pop.

The thanks was cut out of rich razzleberry using the Greetings Thinlits. These look very fiddly and a worry to remove from the die, but I’ve found that I don’t even need wax paper to help remove the word, it pops up perfectly easily using a paper piercing tool. That is not to say that there isn’t a new base precision plate, designed to give better performance with detailed dies in my current order!

I mounted the piece of water colour paper onto a base of rich razzleberry using fast fuse. I had a love-hate relationship with this adhesive; when it worked it was great but the tape kept sticking to the fast fuse container and not working. I’d have to take it apart and get it back in working order seemingly every time that I used it. Then I discovered that the issue was with the crafter. I saw a Stampin’ Up! video on how to use it and now I love it! The basic tips are:

Don’t press down too hard

Make sure that you do a sharp snap to the side to break the tape

and MOST importantly – alternate the side that you snap the tape to.

This last keeps the tape in the middle. Sadly I hadn’t consciously noticed that the tape ALWAYS stuck on the right hand side which coincidentally was the side I always snapped the tape to…

I finished the card off with a matching envelope liner in rich razzleberry in one of the retired background colours. I don’t have the brights collection of new backgrounds. Yet.

See you tomorrow,

Liz