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Blooms and Bliss DSP notepads

I was making some thank you gifts for customers last weekend and was so pleased with them, I wanted to share. I like them so much that I think they will be part of my hostess gifts this month too. I bought the notepads at Staples and then needing small patterned DSP, it was a simple decision to pull out the Blooms and Bliss DSP – I love this paper!

The first thing to do is to measure your notepad – mine is a smidge over 5 inches long and 1/4 inch thick. The width is a smidge over 3 1/2″ inches so I cut a piece of island indigo at 6 1/2 by just over 3 1/2″ – this means that there’s a little lip at the bottom so it’s easy to open the notepad. I scored at 5 1/4″ and 5 1/2″ inches and burnished them really well to ensure that the cover stays flat. Then I cut a piece of DSP at 5 by 3 1/4″ and glued that to the cover before firmly gluing the cover onto the notepad. Make sure that you push the end of the notepad firmly into the piece of card that you’ve scored for it.

Then it’s just a matter of decorating it – I used the perfect sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms. It’s a good uplifting one to have on your little notepad to see as you jot down reminders. I stamped it in island indigo onto very vanilla and cut it out with our layering ovals, making a mat in island indigo with another of the layering framelits. An addition of some pearls and I thought I was done. In fact, I was so happy, I made other colour ways and also included the Floral Boutique DSP. Here’s an example of the three colour ways that I made.

As I kept looking at these (I told you I was happy with them!), I realised I was NOT happy when I opened the pads to see a big Staples on shiny black paper at the top. So I fixed it. I cut a piece of card at just under 1 1/4″ and scored at an inch. I glued this over the Staples panel – next time I’d do this first so that I’d get a cleaner close on the notepad. You live and learn, right?

So if you’d like one of these notebooks, I’m adding them to all my customer orders this month – on top of the free product that you can earn using my Customer Loyalty program. Just please don’t hit the No Contact button, or I can’t send you anything because I won’t know who you are!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Blooms and Bliss DSP

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Happy Wednesday – my days are all confused after the day off for Labor Day on Monday! Here’s a quick card that is easy to replicate and uses such a minimal amount of DSP that you could get 144 cards out of a single DSP pack. In this case, I’m using the Blooms and Bliss DSP – one of my favourite packs of DSP ever.

I started by using a 2 inch by 5.5 inch strip and then decided it was too wide and hacked off a bit – about a quarter of an inch. I’d cut my strip of island indigo to be 1/8 inch wider so I just put the DSP with the cardstock, got the edges the same and sliced away. This meant no measuring and only one cut and I still had my 1/16 inch border at the edges. Next I stamped the greeting which is from Endless Birthday Wishes in island indigo onto the thick white cardstock before constructing the rest of the card.

If I’d actually designed this card to use 1 3/4 inch of DSP and cut it that way to start with, I’d end up with 144 cards like this one and then I could make another 24 where the strip was just 1.5 inches wide which would work well too although would probably need a wider cardstock border. So there you go – 168 cards from one pack of DSP!

Don’t forget that it’s the last day of the Special Deals that I’ve been mentioning this week. Tomorrow we get a new set.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Happy July! I’m really not sure how we got here so quickly but I am looking forward to a 4 day weekend here for July 4th. I’m expecting to play with my supplies for a fair proportion of it. Can’t wait! I also plan to work on my photography – I have a lightbox and 4 lights but it’s not producing the quality that I want. So I need to work on that. Today I’m sharing a quick and easy (and easily mass produced) card using the beautiful Blooms and Bliss DSP and the ever faithful Watercolor Wishes stamp set.

This card just fell together because I’d cut the paper already to use the other side in a class and I had an extra. The soft colours of mint macaron, sahara sand and island indigo are really beautiful together here and I wanted to show case the gorgeous DSP. So I merely added it to an island indigo card base without any extra matting. I did try various mats but it detracted from the overall card and drew attention from the DSP. So, I went clean and simple. I then stamped the much used sentiment from the Watercolor Wishes stamp set (it comes exclusively in the awesome Watercolor Wishes kit) in island indigo onto a scrap of whisper white and matted that with a scrap of island indigo. I popped it up with dimensionals and I was done.

I hope that you have a fun weekend planned with some time for crafting.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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Have you seen the Blooms and Bliss DSP? It’s gorgeous. There are combinations of purples in it, sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry, but also teals, island indigo and mint macaron. I already made a card with the purples, today it’s time for the teals. I work at GAF and one thing that I love is that the IT and Finance departments get together monthly to celebrate the birthdays that occurred during the month. However, they only celebrate the employees’ birthdays. I have 6 people reporting to me and 5 of them are contractors. So I decided to make cards for all of my team, contractors or employees. This Sunday is Dave’s birthday and apparently he doesn’t like to make a fuss about his birthday. Hence, I’ve made a card that’s almost camouflaged!!

I love this DSP, it’s apparently mint macaron, island indigo and whisper white although I found that very vanilla went very well with it. I tried all of the colours for the die cut and finally decided on mint macaron. The Happy comes from the Hello You thinlits dies and I glued it to the DSP with my 2 way glue pen. I then attached the DSP to a card base of island indigo. And that’s all this Blooms and Bliss DSP camo card needs. I hope Dave likes it. At least I expect he’ll like the biscotti that I’m planning to bake, he loves those.

Don’t forget that this month is a great time to join Stampin’ Up! – and there’s no downside to it. If you join up this month and get $125 of product plus 2 free stamp sets for a mere $99 with free shipping and never buy another thing, it’s okay. If you want to keep buying product and enjoying a 20% discount, that’s even better. If you spend or sell $300 per quarter (not including your starting partial quarter) you stay active and keep getting your discount which can grow to 25%. What’s to lose? If you have any questions let me know, but your best bet is to just sign up!

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Have a great Wednesday. See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies for GDP

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Sunshine Wishes Thinlits Dies for what? Yes, GDP, it’s not some kind of designer paper, but the Global Design Project which I enter every now and then. I really should enter more often, they have fun challenges.

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

Don’t you absolutely LOVE this DSP? I can see actually running out of it which would be a first! The whole package is absolutely gorgeous – blooms and bliss DSP in case you’re wondering. It’s a fairly fast and CAS card – I cut a piece of the DSP 4″ by 5.25″ which means I can make 6 out of a piece of paper by the way and glued it to a rich razzleberry card base. Both the flower and the sentiment are from the Sunshine Wishes thinlits dies set and they are also in rich razzleberry. I also tried it in sweet sugarplum but it didn’t give me the pop I wanted.

This photo gives you a good look at the envelope – I used the 1.5 inch piece left from my 4 inch strip to cut out a number of butterflies using the same thinlits set. I tried three, but one was the right number for the envelope. So I had some left. Where to use them?

Of course, the inside. For one of them at least! The sentiment comes from the My Hero set which is a set you need. It’s this year’s charity set – when you buy it, Stampin’ Up! will donate $3 to the Ronald McDonald House Charities. I love that they do this and always buy the designated set. It’s good to give back.

If you haven’t got a catalog just email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com and I’d be happy to send one along. The catalog is online (the button’s over there on the left) but it’s nicer to sit with a coffee and a highlighter to make notes. I’d definitely add today’s products to the list. Oh yes, I did!

I’ve been playing with the detailed floral thinlits dies again – come back tomorrow for another example.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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