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Playful Palette DSP stack

Last night I really felt the need to lose myself in crafting. We’d just taken our father to the airport and the house felt empty and I knew that crafting would help. In one of the Facebook groups that I belong to, there’s a distinct lack of fondness for the new Playful Palette DSP stack, some of the colour combinations are just not to some of the members’ taste. With that in mind, I decided to reach for the new stack and try to get some minds changed!

I decided to start with one of the sheets with just two colours and the emerald envy called me. Whilst thinking about constructing the card, sitting there with the piece of DSP and a piece of emerald envy, I realised that I have the new emerald envy ruched ribbon. So the card started to come together with one of my current favourite stamps from All About Everything which I stamped on very vanilla and cut out with my retired ovals collections framelits – I haven’t got the new layering ones. Yet. I intended on cutting out an oval in emerald green as a mat but somehow the card decided that it wanted two strips of ribbon and a bow and that my oval was going to be a present tag. It’s as well not to fight when a card has taken over in my experience!

I carefully cut the DSP a smidge smaller than my usual mat for two reasons. One, I wanted to get a larger emerald envy border and second, I wanted enough left to line the envelope! The envelope needs 2 1/16 inches in depth so instead of a 4″ by 5 1/4″ top layer, I cut it 1/16″ smaller, so just one mark on the stampin’ trimmer, 3 15/16″ and 5 3/16″. The card isn’t really a parcel – I cut two pieces of the ruched ribbon and anchored them behind the DSP with fast fuse. Then I attached my DSP layer to the care base. Next I attached the tag with a glue dot, angling it so that it showed under the bow. And lastly I attached the bow. This has got a fair amount of dimension from the layers of ribbon – I’m thinking this may be a hand delivered card.

To decorate the envelope, I used the multipurpose glue to attach the piece I’d reserved and cut around the edges with my paper snips. Easy to do with the envelope guiding you. So there you have it – a card using the Playful Palette DSP stack which, I hope, my Facebook group will like.

I’d like to give a warm welcome to my new email follower – thanks so much for signing up and I hope that you enjoy the fun that we’re having over here. Feel free to comment and introduce yourself or just to ask questions or for any reason at all!

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Garden in Bloom for CAS C&S

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Happy Thursday! And being Thursday it means it’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s also the start of a new month which means it’s time for a change in hostess, and this month it’s Bev’s turn to come up with the challenges. She’s starting us off with a nice summery mix of colours – I think in the hope of coaxing summer along!

Here’s the banner for the challenge:

As often seems to be the case when I’m making cards for the Design Team, my first card didn’t make me happy. It definitely didn’t please my current Critique Board made up of my brother and father. They thought the card was fine, but not Design Team-worthy. I’ll share that one soon so you can weigh in too. Martin suggested using my “favourite stamp” which he believes is the bee. I really do like it’s very cute. Martin’s concerned I’m going to wear it out and should get a spare one just in case! It’s from Garden in Bloom.

I wanted the bower of flowers to really feel as if the bee had masses and masses of flowers to visit. So I decided on a one layer card with the flowers off the edge of the card. First of all I stamped on a piece of scrap and cut out my mask. On my test piece (it became the test after I got an extra ink splodge), I did all the outlines first but then it was hard to match the insides because I’d made a point of turning the stamp in various directions so that the flowers didn’t all look uniform. Oops. On my real piece, I stamped the whole flower at one time. Much easier! The sentiment is from the bonus set from Paper Pumpkin in April, All About Everything. It’s quickly become one of my favourite Happy Birthday sentiments. It’s hard to say what my favourite stamp really is, regardless of what Martin says, but the Garden in Bloom stamp set is definitely one of my favourite sets.

I hope that you’ll go over to the challenge blog to check out the rest of the Design Team’s cards and to have a go yourself. It would be great to see your card in the gallery.

Don’t forget that I’m offering blog candy. Just comment on this post before Saturday and tell me why you like making cards for a chance to win.

Also, although I ordered today, if there’s sufficient interest in another product share, I’ll order again. Just email me to let me know if you’re interested and if so, which shares you’re interested in.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies

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I’m still playing with the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies and it’s still the swoosh. I did cut a number of the round scribbles out so I expect that they will make their way onto a card soon, but for today, it’s the swoosh.

I already had a real red swoosh cut because I’d used the insert pieces in my Mondrian inspired swoosh card, so really I’m just using up leftovers this morning! I like the way that the real red swoosh flows into the card base so that at first glance (unless you know what the swoosh looks like) it’s not obvious whether the swoosh has been added onto the card or whether I’ve cut out pieces of the very vanilla to reveal the real red below. I then cut out a few pieces in gold foil and glued them into place using my 2 way glue pen. I trimmed the overlapping edges of the swoosh easily with paper snips using the edge of the very vanilla as my guide. The sentiment comes from All About Everything, the bonus set that came with April’s Paper Pumpkin and is stamped in real red to match. Then I put the very vanilla onto a real red card base.

I didn’t have a real red envelope liner precut, but I did have this rather flashy gold one. It’s from last year’s holiday catalogue and unavailable these days. Envelope liners are a great way to use up leftover paper. I just checked the retiring list and I hope that if you wanted the envelope liner thinlits you have them because they are no longer available.

See you tomorrow,

Liz