Tag Archives: Enjoy the Little Things

Pedal Pusher

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Here’s a fun set that was added earlier this month to the list of items you can earn for free during Sale-a-bration. My order that arrived a couple of days ago had the two new sets so you’ll be seeing the Party Pants set soon. But today, it’s Pedal Pusher. This card was one of the “let’s start with a stamp and see where it ends up” variety. I wanted to use the bike and was pretty sure I wanted to use my aquapainter but even so I started by stamping the bike in archival basic black rather than using the stazon. There’s not much watercolouring over the black so I figured it would be safe from bleeding.

Stampin' Up! Pedal Pusher and Enjoy the little things

The really fun thing about the Pedal Pusher set is that it has a basket stamp and several options for what to include. I of course had to start with the wine! The grapes fall over the edge of the basket – I didn’t stamp it quite perfectly so I just added a grape to fill in the gap with my stampin’ write basic black marker. It worked perfectly.

I then did a pale wash of mossy meadow for the ground, trying hard not to make it too neat and tidy. Not that I’m claiming that I’m neat and tidy by nature (my sister and others who know me are probably giggling) but I like symmetry and things to visually be neat. Then I used a less watered down shade of mossy meadow for the bike frame and mudguards. Since I’d started with last year’s in colours, I grabbed hello honey for the basket and watered it down a little for the bread and then finished with a very watered down blackberry bliss for the grapes.

The sentiment is from Enjoy the little things which is a set intended for Project Life but it seems perfect for cards too. I stamped off once so that the blackberry bliss sentiment would be closer to the grapes in strength. The mat is blackberry bliss and it’s on a card base of mossy meadow.

I definitely need to check my supplies of the card stock in the in colours and get any extras I need by the end of next month. If I’m going to stock up on them, it makes sense to do so now so that I can get freebies from Sale-a-bration, right? 🙂

Ann asked me if there’s a trick to ensuring that washi tape doesn’t pull up from the card if you don’t wrap it all the way around although she wonders if it’s due to living in a dry climate. New Jersey is definitely not dry but I haven’t had any issues, so I reached out to Eimear (my unofficial upline) to see if she had either although the UK isn’t really dry. We agreed that the best thing to do would be to use some glue on the end – and that fast fuse would stop it (and anything) moving. When I say unofficial upline, it’s because my sister introduced me to Stampin’ Up! but since she lives in the UK I couldn’t be part of that group. But Eimear’s adopted me and I’m part of her Facebook group. Both Eimear and my sister Caro have blogs and are taking part in a blog hop today. I know that they’d be thrilled if you dropped by especially if you left them a comment.

Have a great weekend and I hope that you have some time to craft. I’m off back to my kitchen table to play some more.

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.

I’d also like to welcome my new subscriber. It’s a great feeling when somebody wants to have a daily dose of me in their inbox! Thanks for clicking on that subscribe button.

See you tomorrow,

Liz