Category Archives: Thank you

Painted Petals and Blooms

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This is another of the cards made with a single sheet of the Painted Blooms 12 by 12 DSP. It’s one picture on the paper rather than a repeated pattern so by cutting it into 6 pieces you get half a dozen matching but different cards. Another one is here.

Stampin' Up! Painted Blooms and Painted Petals

This is from the upper part of the paper and this time I stamped the sentiment from Painted Petals directly onto the paper rather than framing it in the background colour. It’s stamped in rose red. Then it’s a simple matter of mounting the DSP onto a rose red card base. It really can’t get much easier to make a card! I lined the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in rose red from the regals family. I can’t believe that the backgrounds are on the retired list but I’m assuming that there will be a replacement.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Painted Blooms and Painted Petals

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I just got back from another crop weekend hosted by my upline Jen and a couple of her friends. My best friend Julia and I have spent the last two days making cards, laughing, meeting new people, talking to old friends, somehow getting covered in glitter (and none of my cards have glitter) and making more cards. It was a lot of fun. They provide a good bag and there were a number of sheets of the Painted Blooms DSP in there which is very pretty. I used about a sixth of a sheet to make this card. I’ve seen a number of people make a set of 6 cards using this paper and it seems like a pretty good idea. I decided to use different coloured bases for mine rather than having them all match.

Stampin' Up! Painted Blooms and Painted Petals

The sentiment is from Painted Petals and a favourite thank you of mine. I love the typeface and the neatness of the sentiment in a block. I stamped it in mossy meadow (although the DSP doesn’t have mossy meadow in it) on whisper white and cut it out using the circles framelits. I then cut up the next size from mossy meadow and glued them together. I popped the circle up using stampin’ dimensionals on the DSP which was adhered to a mossy meadow base. I think it’s rather effective and I’m thrilled to have used some of my DSP so promptly! I should add that Julia managed to use her whole sheet of this one. I’m not quite there yet.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Thanks for waiting!

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I got home from Barcelona yesterday and have been reunited with my paper, stamps and ink. I’m not thrilled to be home; I miss my friends and learning to speak Spanish, wandering around the city and eating good food. And let’s not forget sitting around drinking wine. It felt that with just a few more weeks, I’d be a lot more fluent. But it’s nice to have my crafting supplies handy. And some new ones arrived whilst I was away including the sale-a-bration set, For Being You.

Stampin' Up! For Being You

I’ve been looking forward to playing with the water colour paper some more so I decided to combine the two. I got the colour combo from the colour coach – it’s blushing bride, calypso coral and hello honey. I used the aquapainter to create the three stripes and blended them together a little where the colours changed. The Thanks is stamped in calypso coral. I then tried various combinations of cardstock to complete the card but nothing was quite right. Looking at my overly large stash of DSP I decided to actually use some. I used my new fast fuse to fix the water colour paper to the piece of Best Year Ever DSP and then mounted that on a base of calypso coral. I used the same DSP to line the envelope flap.

 

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Watercolour Thank You

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I had previously made a spanish thank you card using the Gracias En Acuarelas stamp set which is equivalent to the Watercolor Thank you set. It occurred to me that the April image from the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set would make a good background for this. To begin with, I tried making a card with an extra layer but eventually realised that watercolor and layers don’t really make sense. One is fun and not precise and the other is very precise. Don’t you agree?

Stampin' Up! Gracias en acuarelas

The imprecise splodge is the “April” image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set and I stamped it in pool party on very vanilla. I originally tried whisper white but in its stark white-edness, it seemed to have too much precision also. Or maybe I just haven’t had enough sleep. Anyway, I then stamped the gracias image in lost lagoon – I do much prefer lost lagoon on very vanilla instead of whisper white actually. I then mounted this piece on a base of lost lagoon. The envelope is lined in lost lagoon from, yes, you guessed it, the backgrounds DSP from the incolor 2014 pack.

Technique Tuesday – emboss resist

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This appears to be one of my favourite techniques, or at least one I do frequently. But I suppose that’s no surprise since it uses the heat gun. At the crop weekend I attended last month, I learned an embossed resist technique using a brayer, elastic bands, embossing powder and sponging. I decided to do it again but with two colours.

Stampin' Up! Hello You

I wrapped a couple of elastic bands around my brayer ensuring that they crossed and twisted. I then took a piece of very vanilla cardstock and after rubbing it with the embossing buddy to remove static, inked up my brayer (or actually the elastic bands) with versamark and rolled it across the card in a couple of directions. Then I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heated it. I next took tangelo twist and hello honey and sponged the ink onto the card, wiping off the excess with a paper towel. This piece then sat in my Leave For Later pile because I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. I was more interested in playing with the technique!

On going through the pile recently, I decided that I wanted to leave as much of my “DSP” visible and so out came the Hello You thinlits dies. I cut out the thanks in tangelo twist and carefully added drops of the tombow glue – giving it a little time to set a bit so that it wouldn’t ooze – and then attached it to the background. I then mounted this on a base of hello honey. The envelope is lined in hello honey from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz