It’s time to share another card made with one of my favourite stamp sets from the Occasions catalogue and this time it’s showcasing all of the Beautiful You trio of ladies. It took a little juggling to get them all onto a regular sized card along with a sentiment, but I’m really pleased with how this came out. I like the way that the sentiment fits so well with images of one lady living with passion and doing many things and having many looks. It also reminds me of the images on the front of a paper pattern and I went to sewing shops many times with my mother to peruse the pattern books.

So here I stamped the Beautiful You trio onto a piece of watercolor paper along with the sentiment using my favourite archival black. I actually made about 8 different cards with this stamp set at the same time but I’m spacing out sharing them. I’d done a sweet sugarplum one and decided to use that on this one too along with some dapper denim which I’d chosen as a card base. Then I decided to add a different darker shade and the very stylish lady in the middle is actually wearing a rich razzleberry dress. But with the water in my aquapainter, the colours look almost identical. I think I’ll experiment with a sweet sugarplum wash and add rich razzleberry colour with the new watercolor pencils for contrast. I suspect that they will work beautifully together.

I cut a piece of Blooms & Bliss DSP to line the envelope flap – it matches perfectly with both rich razzleberry and sweet sugarplum.

My paper pumpkin finally arrived yesterday but after another late night at the office, by the time I had cooked dinner and we’d eaten it was about 10pm and I had no energy to play. There seems to be a state of energy where crafting gives energy but there’s also a lower state where you can’t think creatively at all. Here’s hoping that I get home earlier and can just relax with my kit.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I did mention I think that I really love the Beautiful You stamp set? It lends itself to colouring with blender pens, the aquapainter, the new pencils and is also perfect for paper piecing.

I stamped my image onto a piece of whisper white card stock with archival basic black – I’ve given up using any other black these days – and also onto a scrap from the Subtles DSP stack in so saffron. I thought that the little flowers were perfect for a dress. Then I used my aquapainter and the matching so saffron ink to add colour to the hat; with that successfully accomplished, I snipped out the dress in the DSP. A little bit of liquid glue and my Beautiful You lady was now attired in a gorgeous flowery dress.

I cut down the whisper white piece of card until it felt right and then cut a mat in basic black to make the image really pop. Next I took a card base of so saffron added the wonderful sentiment in black and again, once that was successfully accomplished, glued my image to the card base. I always like to be ultra safe and ensure that my stamping is perfect before adding the image or the hat for example is painted properly before adding my snipped out image. It takes but a moment to stamp or colour but longer to cut out the image so I don’t want to waste it. And indeed, if I’d glued on the image before stamping the sentiment, the extra height of the image could have impacted my stamping.

To finish off the project, I cut a piece of the same DSP to 6 by 2 1/4 inches and glued it onto the envelope flap. A quick snip with the paper snips and it matched perfectly.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz