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Eastern Medallions

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Today is my third anniversary of being a demonstrator with Stampin’ Up! and I’m happy that I took an extra day off work to spend crafting. It’s definitely a good way to celebrate. When I reflect back over the last three years, I’m struck by how my style has evolved. To start with, I was scared of colour. I remember struggling to use more than one or two on a card – not that I don’t still enjoy using minimal colours, but I have now embraced loud DSP whereas previously, I avoided it. I was also convinced that not everybody could make cards and that I was one of them – now I make cards almost every day and I believe that everyone can – and should! – make cards. I find that the very act of creating something is extremely satisfying and necessary. I used to cook new recipes as my creative outlet which was causing an unexpected problem – we were amassing such an enormous list of dishes that it was hard to fit the favourites in regularly enough! Now, with my creativity being fulfilled with papercrafting, my biggest problem is too many cards and not enough people to send them to, but I’m working on that too. Let me know if you’d like a birthday card sent to you! Having said that I have embraced colour, I am of course sharing a single colored card today – my final in my series of the 5 new in-colors and the Eastern Medallions thinlits dies.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Medallions - Beautiful You

And here are the four previous cards:

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Medallions - Eastern Beauty Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lemon Lime Twist - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Crafting Forever Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Oh My Stars TIEF - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms - Layering Circles framelits dies

I like the simplicity of the scored lines but the DSP is so pretty. I really can’t decide on a favourite!

Here the inner layer is the new Fresh Florals DSP stack – a marvellous collection of 40 sheets of paper; 4 each of 2 double sided patterns in each of the new in colors. I placed the piece of DSP where I wanted it in the middle of a Fresh Fig layer and ran it through the big shot using the Eastern Medallions thinlits dies. Then I snipped off the DSP around the flower, discarded the flower itself and then glued the DSP around the fresh fig flower. I then embossed in white the sentiment from Beautiful You.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards – which I’ll increase to TEN cards if you order today on my anniversary; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies

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Here’s the fourth card in my series featuring each of the in colors and the Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies as well as being based on the same layout. This one shows off Powder Pink accented by copper.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms - Layering Circles framelits dies

Here I cut down my top layer to be 3 1/4 by 4 1/2 inches – leaving a half an inch border all the way around as with all the previous cards although some had just a scored line to mark the border – and used the die to cut out the flower. Once I’d determined that the copper foil was perfect for the peek through, I used a piece large enough to add a border of copper foil. The sentiment is from the carrying over set, Bunch of Blossoms and I embossed it in copper and then used the layering circles framelits dies to cut it out. For an extra pop, I also used the layering dies to cut out a scalloped piece of copper foil.

Don’t forget that there are only FIVE more days to get products out of the 2016-2017 catalog, many of them at a reduced price. The Eastern Palace special bundles with their free gifts are only available through the end of the month too.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Oh My Stars TIEF

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Today’s card is resuming my series of the 5 in-colors with the same basic layout and Eastern Medallions Thinlits dies but today I’m featuring the brand new Oh My Stars TIEF. But before I get started, I want to remind you that as of today, all retiring stamp sets are as supplies last.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Oh My Stars TIEF - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms

Rather than scoring the top layer at half an inch in, I cut a piece of tranquil tide at that size (which is 3 by 4 1/4 inch) and then put it in place on the larger tranquil tide layer ( 4 by 5 1/4 inch). I ran these two layers through the big shot with my Eastern Medallions flower (back and fore since it’s two pieces). I snipped the flower off the smaller piece and then ran it through the big shot again, this time using the Oh My Stars TIEF. I then carefully glued it onto the layer, around the petals. I added these pieces to a whisper white card base. I love how the Oh My Stars TIEF has 8 pointed stars that match the 8 petals in the Eastern Medallions.

The sentiment is one of my favourites (thank goodness it’s carrying over!) and I stamped it in the white craft ink and then sprinkled it with white embossing powder and heated. I love how the two products together (the ink and powder) give such a great result. I then used the layering circles framelits dies to cut out the sentiment and also to cut a scalloped circle just a teeny tiny bit larger to give another splash of white.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Eastern Medallions and Eastern Beauty

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Today I’m sharing a card showcasing other thinlits from the Eastern Medallions thinlits dies; these are three nesting thinlits that can be used interchangeably with the one I used yesterday and another two smaller ones. Which means that there’s quite a variety of possible designs. I’ll do a post soon showing the various dies and some of the combinations. It’s quite amazing how much you can do with these.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Medallions - Eastern Beauty

I’m also showing a brand new product that is available in the Eastern Bundle kit and will be in the new catalog – the very vanilla notecards and envelopes. I cut out my beautiful medallion in tranquil tide but it’s actually designed to be a cutout in a large piece. So I snipped the edges that were still connected to the rest of the card into points. Once I had my medallion freed, I put it in place on my card and stamped the greeting from Eastern Beauty in more tranquil tide. With that stamped perfectly, I then used the silicone craft mat and a sponge dauber to add a little of the multipurpose glue to the back of the medallion and put it in place. And there you have it – a card that’s simple to create but is very effective.

One tip – be careful to line the points of the star up with the other pieces. The first time I tried this, I was just concerned about getting the three nesting pieces to be nested properly and it just didn’t look right with the inside pieces pointing in random directions.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Lemon Lime Twist

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When I first saw the new in-colours back in April, I was immediately drawn to three of them. But I wasn’t sure that we needed Powder Pink since we have two other pale pinks (after playing with it, I see that I’m wrong) and I knew that lemon lime twist was just a bit too bright for me and I was only going to be using it in little pops of colour. But after I made yesterday’s card with berry burst, I wanted to make the same basic card in the other colours although I wanted to change it slightly each time. It was a surprise to me that the second card was with lemon lime twist. And I LOVE it!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lemon Lime Twist - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Crafting Forever

For this card, I changed the card base from whisper white to lemon lime twist but still left the upper layer in the same colour. I used the same die from Eastern Medallions for my flower and then used my trimmer and Simply Scored to add the score line – this time I went all the way around the layer at a half inch from the border only skipping the actual petals of the flower. I had to add a piece of whisper white between the lemon lime twist layer and the card base for the peek through –  I made it 1/8 inch smaller than the upper layer so that there wouldn’t be an obvious line. Instead, this gives a little lift to the top layer – not as much as dimensionals would do, but a little extra lift.

The central part of the flower features a saying from a new set, Crafting Forever, which I stamped on whisper white and then cut out with the layering circles. I elected to leave the edge border off this time (of course I tried it, but it was too much). Do something creative every day. I think that’s a good idea. I’ll be sharing three more takes on this layout over the next week or so featuring the other three in colors. Here’s a side shot showing the lift on the petals

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lemon Lime Twist - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Crafting Forever

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz