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Eastern Medallions and Eastern Beauty

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Here’s another card that I made a few days ago whilst playing with the Eastern Medallions thinlits dies from the Eastern Palace suite. I absolutely adore the large flower die and the way that the petals are released to add a three dimensional feature to the card. In fact, I loved it so much, that I wanted to make it the highlight of the card.

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

I started by using the die in the corner of a piece of the new color, berry burst and then I helped bend the petals a little. A thumb at the base of the petal helps the petal bend properly. Next I used the matching stamp set, Eastern Beauty, on a piece of white scrap to stamp the sentiment and border. One of the layering circles dies cut this out and I glued it in place inside the flower. Holding the Berry Burst over a card base of thick whisper white showed that although it was looking beautiful, it needed just a little something. But not too much! So I added scored lines using the trimmer to make them 1/2 inch in from the edge and then the Simply Scored tool to deepen the lines. That was the perfect finishing touch. I think I’m going to make this card up in all of the in colors and will share them with you soon.

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

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I was playing with the new Eastern Medallions thinlits dies which are part of the Eastern Palace suite – this was released a month ahead of the new catalog in two bundles. Check them out in the store. I’d tried out a few of the Eastern Medallions dies but not all and it wasn’t until I tried one of the big flower looking ones, that I realised that some of the dies do a partial cut so that you get some awesome three dimensional effects. So I decided to experiment!

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

Here I used the Eastern Beauty stamp set and some of the beautiful Berry Burst ink (I think that melon mambo may be taking a bit of a back seat for the next 2 years!) and then used one of the dies from the Eastern Medallions set to cut the four “petals” around it. There’s also another die which cuts out the whole shape. I glued down the outer piece (it’s attached to the inner piece at the middle of each side) onto a layer of whisper white and put that onto a card base of thick whisper white. Why white on white? The added subtle border really added to the design of the card and made a super clean card. I love all of the white space.

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 Palace Specialty DSP

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So after a rather busy week, I took some time this morning to play with some of my new product. I also wanted to try a third card with the same basic layout as the last two that I shared but to try to make it seem different again. A fun challenge. So I took the newly released Eastern Palace Specialty DSP which is available to you now in two bundles  (with freebies) and available a la carte as of June 1st.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Eastern Palace Specialty DSP - Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms

And I amazed myself – and my sister – by using a predominantly lemon lime twist piece of DSP. I’d said that I wasn’t sure about this colour and could see only using it in accents, but after the surprise of the large piece of loud Fruit Stand DSP, I wondered. This is again a 3 1/2 by 4 1/4 inch piece but this time the mat (tranquil tide) has a large border. I had already cut out the tranquil tide shape using the Eastern Medallions Thinlits Dies and then cut that out with a circle and then trimmed the shape out from inside the circle (mostly because my circle wasn’t centred) and then put it to one side. This morning I realised that it would be a perfect accent for the card to hold the sentiment which is from the Bunch of Blossoms stamp set and stamped in yet more lemon lime twist.

And there you have it. Three cards with the same basic layout, all quite different. I enjoyed the challenge to myself. Now to use some of the sets that are retiring that haven’t been used enough…

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