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Background Bits

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When I don’t have a card in my head, I sometimes pick a stamp set at random and decide that the card will just use that. Yesterday I picked up Background Bits, a hostess set. The card didn’t turn out as I planned; in fact, the stamp I’d selected as the main focus didn’t even get inked up in the end! It’s fun seeing how cards evolve.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Background Bits - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I started by washing some pear pizzazz and soft sky over a piece of watercolor paper with an aquapainter. Whilst that was drying, I stamped another of the images from Background Bits in pool party onto the pool party card base.  Next I made my “label” – the sentiment is actually in one long line, but that wasn’t what I wanted so I only inked up one word at a time so that I could place it where I wanted it. I actually had to do this twice as I smudged the first one whilst using the stitched shapes framelits dies to cut it out. The second time I waited and occupied myself in tying a bow with the beautiful pool party 3/8 inch shimmer ribbon. Finally I stamped my flower image in night of navy and then added a mat of the same color. After that, all that remained was construction.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Lots of Love

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My sister posted on Facebook in a Random Acts of Kindness group about my recent medical diagnosis and I’ve received a number of cards from people that I don’t know, encouraging me and wishing me well. Everyone has talked about how great it is to get nice mail rather than bills and junk and how we should send cards. Having been on the receiving end, this has really opened my eyes – even sending cards to people that you don’t even know is tremendously powerful. So my message today is – send your cards! Today’s card is using a new hostess stamp set, Lots of Love and I’m CASEing one of the cards that I received, this one from Carrie Todd.

carrie todd

I love the colours that Carrie chose and the simplicity of the card. Really stunning. So I decided to CASE it. Unfortunately I didn’t have the same washi tape (I immediately ordered it on receiving this card!) but I did have Background Bits and I used that instead of the washi on a card base of lemon lime twist. I heat embossed in black actually to give some shine – I have to say it’s much harder to get your stamping straight than it would be to get the washi straight! Then I pulled out the hostess set Lots of Love and stamped the sentiment on more lemon lime twist this time in archival basic black and cut this out with my layering circles framelits dies. I added a scalloped border in basic black just a tiny bit larger and popped this up on dimensionals.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lots of Love - Background Bits - Layering Circles Framelits Dies

I love the lemon lime twist with black. I can’t believe that I originally said that I wouldn’t use this color except for little accents!

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See you tomorrow,

Liz