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Berry Basket Bigz L Die

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I’ve been fancying the Berry Basket Bigz L die for a while so when it was on special last week, I pounced. Then of course as soon as it arrived, I had to make a basket. I grabbed the nearest card stock which happened to be Watermelon Wonder and made a basket. You cut out the die twice and then put the two main pieces together with a strong glue – I favour fast fuse for this. Don’t forget that you need to snap to break the tape and you need to alternate the direction. If you always go the same way, it will stop working and you will get very frustrated with it. Trust me, I know this!

Stampin' Up! Berry Box Bigz L Dies and Botanical Builder framelits dies

You then take the two edge pieces that you want (there’s a scalloped and a straight piece) and fold and glue them together and then attach them to the box. It’s easiest to do this with the box upside down. I put little bits of fast fuse on the box and then added the edge because I don’t want to see a staple ruining the look of my box.

Then it was time to decorate and I decided to use the botanical builder framelits dies. I cut out most of the flower pieces in delightful dijon and watermelon wonder and built flowers using glue dots. I also attached them to the box with the glue dots. I’m going to fill it with some blank notecards and envelopes and a few other goodies to give to a friend at work.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Botanical Builder Framelits Dies

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This card was created solely because I wanted to play with the botanical builder framelits dies, and the elegant leaf in particular. I cut it out with a piece of mint macaron card stock, just to see how it looked and then went hunting through my stash of DSP to find something that would work.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and Botanical Gardens DSP and Enjoy the little things

I ended up with the coordinating Botanical Gardens DSP which I got as part of a bundle with the dies (there’s also a stamp set in the bundle although I didn’t use it today but if you’re going to buy the DSP and the dies, it makes sense). It was a simple matter to cut the DSP to the same size as the mint macaron was (before I used the die on it). My Enjoy the little things sentiment comes from the set of the same name and this was the first time that I’ve used it. I don’t know why it took this long, it’s a very versatile set with lots of different typefaces. Fun. I stamped the sentiment in basic black but it wasn’t quite black enough so I used my stampin’ write basic black marker to darken it. I’ve also used the same DSP to line the outside of the envelope flap – just add it with the multipurpose glue and snip around the edges.

Tomorrow is a special day here on my blog. It’s will be my 400th blog post. I little thought when I started blogging that I’d have so much fun with it and (apart from traumatic events both in my life and that of my computer) would blog daily. To celebrate this, I’m going to offer my first blog candy. So stop back tomorrow for a chance to win.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Packaging cards

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I needed a secret pal gift to give and as luck would have it, I got Myra, who frequently likes my cards on Facebook. I decided to give her a box of cards but then decided to try to improve dress up the packaging. The details for the card that you can see on top are here.

Stampin' up! botanical builder framelits dies packaging

Each card was put in a cellophane envelope which has a top to glue down (that’s the stripe you can see on the right hand side), but I left them open. Then, using the colour scheme from the top card, I cut out a large topper using the retired labels collections die (the lots of labels collection would work too) and folded it in half and stapled it together trapping the tops of the cellophane envelopes in the middle. This means that it’s easy for Myra to flip through the cards and extract the one that she wants from it’s sleeve without having to take anything apart.

Botanicals Builder framelits dies

Then I used the new Botanical Builder framelits dies (only ten days until everyone can order them) to cut out various flowers and leaves. The advantage here was that not only did it dress it up, it covered the staples. I had wondered if getting the Botanical Builder dies was a mistake since they allow serious dimension – something that my cards don’t tend to have – but I’ve used them twice already and am really pleased with them. And happily, Myra was really pleased with her gift. So, a win-win.

I hope that you all had a happy and fun filled day yesterday and that you’re enjoying the rest of the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Botanical Builder

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Here’s yet another peek at one of the great new products coming soon – the botanical builder framelits dies. It’s perfect for a quick birthday card although I hadn’t completely decided which of the smaller flowers I was going to use so I cut them all out of calypso coral so that I could play with them. Now I have a little pile of  flowers to use. The precision base plate really helped with the intricate shapes as did the new big shot brush which helped pop out the shapes as well as clean up some of the wispy pieces of card. The so saffron flower is cut with just one die and glued onto my very vanilla card with a glue dot – as is the calypso coral flower inner or maybe that should be stamens?

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits dies and Birthday Blossoms

The sentiment is from the Birthday Blossoms set in the annual catalogue (finally, something that you can get now!) and is stamped in calypso coral. I used the same colour as the mat and then glued this to the so saffron card base. Today’s card is finished off by lining the envelope using the envelope liners framelits and a very vanilla envelope.

Here are all the supplies that I used to make the card – even the dies that you can’t purchase until Jaunary 5th unless you become a demonstrator. And why wouldn’t you?! There’s no downside to it that I can see – unless it’s that you lose control of your kitchen table since it gets covered in all sorts of crafting stuff!

See you tomorrow,
Liz