Tag Archives: Endless Birthday Wishes

Going Places DSP stack

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I meant to make some masculine birthday cards at the weekend, but as you’ll have presumably noticed over the last few days, they seem more feminine. I did have some success though and here’s one of them. I love the Going Places DSP stack.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

I selected a piece of DSP from the stack and then pulled the rest of the colours from that – mossy meadow and hello honey. The paper is beautiful but with a black background it’s rather dark so I wanted a big banner. This one is 2 inches tall which made it perfect for using with the triple banner punch. I cut out the happy from Hello Honey using the Hello You dies and once I’d figured out the placement, stamped the birthday from Endless Birthday Wishes in the archival basic black. After I’d stamped it, I glued the happy onto the banner using the 2 way glue pen. I love that it doesn’t ever ooze glue when I press it down. I matted the DSP with a piece of mossy meadow and glued that to a hello honey card base.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

The banner is popped up on dimensionals and the tail of it extends slightly over onto the hello honey. It really is a super sized banner! For the envelope, I embossed the flap with the Lucky Stars TIEF.

I’m taking this card to work to add to my stash there. On Friday I had lunch with one of our fairly new hires and during the course of the conversation about weekend plans, he said that Friday was his birthday. I was so happy that I had an appropriate card to give him. That’s happened to me twice so far this year so I feel that I need to get a few more just in case cards ready.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Botanical Builder Framelits Dies

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This week at CAS Colours & Sketches it’s an ultra simple sketch – I encourage you to pop over and check out the inspiration and entries and to have a go yourself. It was hard to do because there was so many options with it but now I find I’ve made a couple more cards using it. I really love Chrissie’s card with the square having texture and between the sketch and her version of it, I was inspired to make this card.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builders framelits dies

I knew that I wanted to use the Botanical Builder Framelits Dies so it seemed appropriate to use the Vine Street embossing folder so that I had leaves to go with the flower. Vine Street is sadly retired, but I’m sure that you have something that will work. I cut out the square using one of the squares collection framelits and then I carefully placed it in the embossing folder so that it was lined up as I wanted it. The lining up would be easier if I’d embossed a full piece of paper and then cut it out, but I didn’t want to squash the embossing whilst cutting out the square. I first stamped the celebrate in melon mambo (yes, again, but the enamel dots only come in a few colours!) and then fixed the embossed square onto the very vanilla base with fast fuse. Next, using the Botanical Builder Framelits dies, I cut out two flowers, one in very vanilla and one in melon mambo. They are attached together with glue dots just in the middle of the flower. I used SNAIL all over the back of the melon mambo flower to keep it in place on the card so that the melon mambo really shows through.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder Framelits Dies and Endless Birthday Wishes

The three small It’s My Party enamel dots were the perfect centre for the flower. I lined the envelope with the retired backgrounds DSP in melon mambo using the envelope liners framelits.

The challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches runs through Wednesday at 6pm east coast time and 11pm UK time. However since Jane is the hostess this month and she’s located in the UK, I’m guessing that in the US we have until 7pm having just sprung forward. The UK won’t do that until the end of the month. Best not to leave entering to the last minute though, just in case!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Sky is the Limit

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I’ve been trying to avoid the pun that it’s my head, but it’s no use! I have to say that it took a while for me to get off the ground with this stamp set. There. I said it! 🙂 The Sky is the Limit set is one of the Sale-a-bration sets that was guaranteed until February 15th but it’s still available as of the time of writing. I wouldn’t wait much longer if you want it though – it’s free with an order of $50 (not including postage and tax).

Stampin' Up! Sky is the limit and Endless Birthday Wishes and Sweet Li'l Things DSP

I love the typeface of the sentiments (although I didn’t use them here – they didn’t fit) but I wasn’t expecting to use the plane much. But the stamp has been used quite a few times. I was inspired by the sketch challenge at CAS on Sundays and I actually had a totally different plan, but the plane insisted that it be used again.  Especially as I wanted a male birthday card. Here’s the sketch banner:

I started by selecting the DSP which is from Sweet Li’l Things and cut it to the right shape and then stamped out the aeroplane in basic black. This seemed to harsh so I tried early espresso which was much better. The sentiment needed to be fairly concise and that’s the beauty of the Endless Birthday Wishes – you can mix and match and fill all sorts of different spaces. I stamped this in early espresso and then snipped out my plane. It’s not a big deal but I wouldn’t fancy making a dozen of this design! I originally intended to use a very vanilla card base but, as I usually do, I tested a few more colours and early espresso was the clear winner. I decided to match the envelope liner to the pool party colour of the DSP.

I rather like this sketch and definitely intend to go back to my original idea – as long as the plane doesn’t get pushy again!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

It’s My Party Designer Washi Tape

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I had to laugh yesterday. My brother, Martin, is a computer geek through and through and yet, when I showed him my card he commented on the washi tape. As in – he recognised that I’d used washi tape and he knew what it’s called. He can mention DSP without blinking too. I guess living with a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator rubs off a bit. I’d love to see what kind of card he’d make, but it’s not his thing – he’s more likely to be in the basement playing with wood. But he can talk the talk! He hasn’t learned the names of the colours though. Not yet. 😉

So it’s Thursday which means it’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches. It’s a sketch week.

Stampin' Up! It's My Party Designer Washi Tape and Endless Birthday Wishes

and here’s the sketch banner which inspired my card

I don’t think I’d have made this card without the sketch and I’m very happy with it, so thank you Stef! It’s also the first time I’ve used two different washi tapes on a card so that’s cause for celebration too.

I put down the two strips from the It’s My Party Designer washi tape and then used a piece of watercolour paper to stamp the birthday cake from Endless Birthday Wishes. It seems to me that substituting a birthday cake for the flower makes a lot of sense. Which would you prefer?! I suppose my bathroom scale would prefer the flower, so it’s lucky that these are calorie free. I used my aquapainters to colour in a pale melon mambo cake with darker trim. It wasn’t dark enough so I used the melon mambo stampin’ up! write marker to emphasize the decoration on the cake. I cut it out with my paper snips and used fast fuse to stick it to the card. Since it’s nigh on impossible to cut around the candles and lights, I cut off the candles and stamped them on the card and then added the cake on top.

I then stamped the sentiment, also from Endless Birthday Wishes in melon mambo on the whisper white card and then glued this to a melon mambo base.

Any questions, feel free to email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com. Take a look at the other inspiration from the design team and have a go yourself.

And a hearty welcome to my new email subscriber. I’m so glad you joined in the fun.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sky is the Limit for 11 more days!

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Here’s a birthday card which I’m really happy with – especially as it targets that hard to make type of card – the masculine one.

Stampin' Up! Sky is the Limit and Endless Birthday Wishes and Going Places DSP and Hello You thinlits dies

I stamped the biplane from the Sky is the limit set on crumb cake in archival black and, presumably because I was at a crop and had loads of time, fussy cut it out. Actually this was the second biplane – the DSP says it’s sahara sand but crumb cake was a warmer tone and looked better with the DSP. So I need to find another use for a snipped out biplane soon. I liked the Going Places DSP very much and this one gives an impression of mountains which fits rather well with the plane. I matted this in black and mounted it on a crumb cake card base. Then I used the Hello You thinlits to cut out a happy sentiment in basic black. Before sticking this down, I stamped the birthday greeting from Endless Birthday Wishes in crumb cake. Just in case there was an issue. But happily it worked out okay, stamped on one of the mountains and then I could position the happy. I used the 2 way glue pen to stick this down – it seems the easiest method. It doesn’t ooze and the angled tip makes it easy to apply to small places. After putting the matted piece onto the crumb cake base, I attached the plane, popped up on stampin’ dimensionals. I’d say that this card was a success judging by the reaction from the nearby ladies. I used the leftover piece from the 6″ by 6″ DSP to line the outside flap of the matching envelope.

And why only for 11 more days? This is a set that you can get for free as part of the Sale-a-bration promotion but this particular set is only available through February 16th. So if you need this one, you need to spend $50 on product and then select this as your free item. If you don’t have the Hello You dies or the Going Places DSP, might I suggest you add them to your basket right away as a start?

See you tomorrow,

Liz