I couldn’t resist another sneak peek from the upcoming Occasions catalogue that goes live on January 4th. This card showcases the beautiful Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies with the sentiment from the coordinating stamp set, Dragonfly Dreams. I’m predicting that this is going to be a really popular bundle – it was one of the first things on my list and as a demonstrator, we got to order it early at the Onstage Local event that I went to last month. It was great fun but only a single day rather than the 2.5 days that you get at Onstage Live. In April, our “local” event is in Richmond, Virginia which is a plane ride away so my friend Julia and I (encouraged by my sister and her upline) are going to fly to Amsterdam for the main event. I’ll get to meet some of the people that I “chat” with on Facebook in person AND go to two and a half days of Stampin’ Up! fun including seeing the new incolours in person. Want to join us? Just become a demonstrator and you’re able to attend too. And get product at a discount at absolutely no risk. Whilst you’re thinking about that, let me show you the card that I made with the new bundle.

The Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies has a piece which cuts out these five dragonflies as a single piece and after cutting it out of a layer of very vanilla, I started putting DSP behind it to see what I liked. Nothing was giving me what I had in my head so I took a piece of watercolour paper and brushed on island indigo in varying shades. Then I went to work. When I got home, it was perfectly dry and I took some perfect plum and added strokes of that. Once that was dry, (crossing my fingers that it really was!) I used the embossing buddy and then gorgeous grunge with versamark and gold embossing powder to give the random dots real life. I used fast fuse firmly attach my watercolour paper to the very vanilla and then added the sentiment from Dragonfly Dreams in island indigo. The die cut was attached with glue dots under the largest part of the body leaving the tails and wings free; this meant I could bend the wings a little to give the idea of movement which makes sense for dragonflies flitting about. I played around with various mats but it detracted from the dragonflies so I ended up with just an island indigo card base. I really love how this turned out and will be playing with it some more but I’ll be back to holiday cards tomorrow!

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz