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Endless Birthday Wishes for Caro

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Today is my sister Caro’s birthday. Happy Birthday Caro! You can easily give her a present just by visiting her blog here. Thanks.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You framelits

Last week I was making bokeh backgrounds for my card at CAS Colours & Sketches and I made a couple at the same time. Since the technique tends to alter the look of the ink colours due to blending, it wasn’t going to work for the challenge since I felt that the card really needed a night of navy mat. I stuck with the smoky grey cardstock though since Caro tells me that I need to get over my issue with grey. And it’s her birthday, so it’s all about her.

To make the background, I put equal numbers of dots of pool party, marina mist and smoky slate onto an E block, spritzed with water and pressed the block onto some watercolour paper. I left it to dry for about a week – not that it needs that long, but I hadn’t decided what to do with it next.

I was really pleased with the card that I made for the challenge last week, both the background and the sentiment hanging off the edge. Here’s a reminder in case you missed it

Stampin' Up! Greetings Thinlits dies

I wanted to do the same kind of thing. But, of course, different. I got out the Hello You thinlits dies and cut out the happy in night of navy and then with my fingers crossed, stamped birthday (from Endless Birthday Wishes) onto the watercolour paper. I then cut out the end loop of the y in happy from watercolour paper and a scrap of night of navy and built up a support for where that loop falls off the watercolour paper. Then it was a simple matter of constructing the card – I’m a fan of fast fuse for attaching watercolor paper securely, the 2-way glue pen for fiddly gluing and the multipurpose glue for everything else. I lined the envelope the same as the previous card – using the Neutrals designer series paper stack and the envelope liners framelits. I hope that Caro approves.

See you tomorrow when it’s time for another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches. In order to schedule my post with that of the challenge, it will go live just before 8am EST.
Liz

Perfectly Artistic DSP

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As I’ve mentioned, I started a new job back in June and GAF is a really nice place to work. People actually care about people. Not only do we still have a Christmas party and a summer picnic, but every month the CFO and CIO get their departments together to celebrate the month’s birthdays with singing and goodies to eat. So I got the list of birthdays and thought that this is a good place to start working on giving out more cards. So now I’m focused on making birthday cards although it’s not as if I don’t have a fairly major stash already. However, I work in IT so I’ll need far more cards for males than females so I think that may need to be my focus for a while. Which brings me to today’s card.

Stampin' Up! Perfectly Artistic DSP and Hello You and Endless Birthday Wishes

I know that you have to love this paper. I do and I really do not like grey – it’s smoky slate to be specific. It’s one of the pieces in a limited time offer for Sale-a-bration. It’s called Perfectly Artistic DSP and it’s available only from this Tuesday until February 15th for free with a $50 product order. I think I’ll be ordering myself at least one more pack of this. The good news is that there are only two grey pieces in a pack. 😉

I wanted to let the paper really sing here as well as making a masculine birthday card. I think that the real red “happy” works rather well. That’s from the Hello You dies and the “birthday” is from that incredibly versatile set, Endless Birthday Wishes. As you can see, I’m being good and still using up my retired backgrounds DSP paper for lining the envelope flap. It’s easy to line the outside – just cut a 6 by 2 1/4 inch piece of DSP, put the multipurpose glue onto the envelope flap, add the paper and then cut around with paper snips. Simple and effective.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello You thinlits dies

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Firstly I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours & Sketches for selecting my card as one of their weekly winners. I’m also delighted to announce that from next year, I’m joining the Design Team at CAS Colours & Sketches – it’s definitely an honour to be invited. I’m really happy that my sister has joined the team too. Her upline (and my surrogate upline) Eimear has also been invited. How awesome is that?

I’m switching gears a little today and have a birthday card to share. I put all of my Christmas cards together and there are far more than I expected so I took a break. And yes, I might possibly be playing with the new goodies from the upcoming catalogue!

Stampin' Up! Hello You thinlits and Endless Birthday wishes

This card all started with the It’s My Party designer washi tape (available from January 5), which I put towards the bottom of a piece of whisper white card. I originally tried two different designs of washi but after I looked at it and shook my head, I looked up to find my brother’s expression definitely very negative. So one piece of tape it is. I cut out the happy, from the Hello You Thinlits dies in melon mambo to match the tape and decided on old olive as a contrasting colour. The birthday comes from Endless Birthday Wishes. After stamping that, I glued on the happy with the fine tip glue pen – I really like this pen for the words although you have to move quite quickly because the glue sets rapidly. As you can see, there’s a slim mat of old olive and that’s on a melon mambo card stock base. A very CAS birthday card.

Here are the details of the products that I used to make this card. Just click on any of them to be taken to my online store.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Birthday Bouquet DSP

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Today I’ve created a card for the Global Design Project’s challenge this week as well as playing with some of the new things that the nice UPS person delivered last week.

Stampin' Up! Birthday Bouquet and Endless Wishes

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I absolutely love the new DSP in the upcoming Occasions catalogue; this is the Birthday Bouquet DSP and I adore the pool party and mint macaron balloons together so it had to be the first piece that I used from this collection. I didn’t want to hide much of the paper at all and so went looking for a small sentiment. This is from the Endless Birthday Wishes set and I stamped it in mint macaron. Then it was a simple matter of cutting it out with the smallest ovals collection framelits (the magnetic platform is so handy to keep everything in place) and cutting out a mat of mint macaron using the next largest oval. I popped the ovals up with stampin’ dimensionals, at first just because I thought the extra dimension was a plus to the card but then my eye fell upon the new bow paper clips embellishments (another sneak peek). Now the extra space made all sorts of sense because I could add a bow. Perfect for a birthday celebration.

If you’d like to be able to get sneak peeks too, just click on the join my team tab over there on the left and join me in the fun.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Balloon Bash

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When my sister was over recently, she brought with her a number of stamp sets and left a few here for me to play with which she’ll pick up at Christmas. So it seemed a good idea to get some use out of them! One is Balloon Bash which is now retired but we have a few other balloon sets that could substitute if you, like me, don’t possess this one. I decided to try my hand at a sketch challenge over at Can You Case It?

Stampin' Up! Birthday Bash

Here’s the sketch

CYCI#96

I decided on a sunny collection of colours – actually they are three of last year’s in colours, mossy meadow, hello honey and tangelo twist. They will retire next June so I’m trying to play with them a lot before that happens. I started with the top balloon in hello honey and then added the sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes (love this set) in mossy meadow. This gave me the placement for the tangelo twist and mossy meadow balloons although this is actually the third time I stamped the card. The first time I managed to get a finger tip in the mossy meadow inkpad and got smudges all over, the next time I wobbled. Third time’s the charm, right? Then I had to decide on mats and card bases – I think I tried all combinations before settling on a skinny mat of hello honey on a card base of tangelo twist. Very happy for a birthday. I lined the envelope using the envelope liner thinlits with some retired backgrounds DSP in hello honey. I find that envelope liners are a great way to use up retired DSP – and I’m keen to do so because I like the new patterns in the DSP stacks. I added it in the scrolling store below so that you can see how beautiful they are. I’m fairly certain that they’ll be on my next order…

Oops – when I went over to link up my card to the challenge site, I found that I missed the deadline and they closed yesterday. Oh well, I got a new card out of it!

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz