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Festive Birthday Designer Series Paper

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Mike ran around the office and gathered birthday wishes from people onto the 8 1/2 inch by 5 1/2 inch card that I made yesterday. And at the end of the afternoon, he told me he was out of space and could he please have another! So, when I got home, I made another large card out of a single piece of card stock.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Festive Birthday DSP - Hello You thinlits dies - Crazy about you

I wanted this one to be completely different and so I checked out my stash of DSP. I love the Festive Birthday DSP, it’s so loud and so fun. I first cut out the happy using the Hello You thinlits dies and figured out how much DSP I needed. Then it was a matter of positioning things and finally stamping the “birthday” from Crazy About You in melon mambo. Then a bit of a trim on the DSP to get the look that I wanted (I didn’t want the “happy” to sit over any emerald envy) and I stuck everything down. The card looked best with a coloured card base (emerald envy) with a whisper white top layer and so to ensure that Mike has (hopefully) room for enough messages, I stuck a piece of whisper white on both sides of the inside the card.

I used another 12 by 12 piece of retired DSP for the envelope – this was It’s My Party from last year – and made it at 11 1/2 square. Not that the card is any bigger than yesterday’s but yesterday’s card was a tight fit. This works a little better. Hopefully it’s large enough for all of the well wishes!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month – and the Festive Birthday DSP that I used today is included in the offer.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Festive Birthday DSP

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When I made my card for CAS Colours & Sketches last week and decided that I was going to use a piece of Festive Birthday DSP to cut out a word, I of course, cut out numerous words. This card is using one of the spares.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Festive Birthday DSP - Endless Birthday Wishes - Star of Light

The word is from the Mini Treat bag thinlits dies and after starting with that, I decided to add the birthday cake in melon mambo from the Endless Birthday Wishes set. I was planning another very CAS card with loads of white space but it just didn’t “fit” so I cut down the panel and picked emerald green as a feature colour and made a little mat. I was still going to stay very CAS with a nice wide white border but after adding the enamel star in emerald envy for the dot over the J, I went star crazy and looked through my stamp sets for an appropriate one. I found a cluster of three stars in Stars of Light appropriately enough and made a border with it and more melon mambo. I think it makes a very celebratory card.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin click here. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

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Welcome to October and the first challenge of the month at CAS Colours & Sketches. I’m especially excited about the challenges this month because it’s my first time hosting the entire month. We’re starting off as usual with a colour challenge.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies - Sweet Cupcake - Festive Birthday DSP

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

Very bright and cheerful, yes? When I decided that I wanted to use emerald envy and tempting turquoise, it occurred to me that these colours are in the Festive Birthday DSP along with one of my favourite colours, melon mambo. So I set about making a CAS card with the DSP and I wanted to do something other than a strip of DSP. It took until the weekend when I realised that I wanted to cut out a word. Luckily the three colours I’d chosen are next to each other in this piece of the paper, they could easily had had one or two of the other colours in the way. I cut out a number of words before deciding on the wish from the cupcake cutouts framelits dies. Next I added the stamped sentiment from the coordinating Sweet Cupcake sentiment in emerald envy and a matching melon mambo enamel shape which I confess is over the dot. It wasn’t until after I’d added it that I decided an enamel shape would look better. But nobody knows it’s under there. Apart from you and me anyway!

I then played with combinations of mats until I saw that white on white was much the best. Too much colour was going to detract from the image.

I hope that you try out these colours – they are bright and cheerful, and to start with, a trifle intimidating. But the richness of them is really fun to play with.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Festive Birthday DSP for a few challenges

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The incredibly bright colours in the Festive Birthday DSP really drew me, far more than I expected. After I’d made a card earlier this week using it (shared yesterday), I was inspired by the challenges at Addicted to CAS and Less is More to make another.

Stampin' Up! Festive Birthday DSP and Hello You thinlits

Less is More’s challenge is REPETITION and Addicted to CAS wants stripes so the Festive Birthday DSP seems to work for both. I cut a strip of the DSP just over the 2 1/4 inches I needed to line the envelope flap – I made the cut at a white line so as not to mess with the pattern. I actually stuck the DSP onto the whisper white card with a teeny border of whisper white showing as if it were part of the DSP. I’d selected this part of the DSP because it didn’t have much melon mambo – I didn’t want my die cut word over it because it would disappear. So I glued the whisper white piece to a melon mambo card base and then adhered the die cut thanks, which is from the Hello You thinlits dies.

A note here about the new big shot platform – I LOVE IT! The extra height in the centre of the platform means that you’re not having to put delicate dies at the edges to get extra pressure nor roll the die back and fore a number of times through the big shot. It’s a huge improvement and I’m really happy. It’s also good not to have to bother with the extra tab that sticks out of the old platform most of the time – it’s always trying to knock things off the table.

I covered the envelope flap with the remaining piece of the DSP strip that I’d cut so that it all matches. I do love coordination!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Festive Birthday DSP for CAS(E) this Sketch

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As I started to play with the new products that arrived last week, I was rather surprised that the first three cards all used DSP, not a new stamp set in sight! For someone who initially struggled to use any DSP at all, this was surprising and a breakthrough! Festive Birthday DSP is very bright and cheerful, and perfect for birthdays.

Stampin' Up! Festive Birthdays DSP and Hello You thinlits

I took the layout from this week’s CAS(E) this Sketch which gives loads of room for interpretation.

I used a strip from the Festive Birthday DSP, which I cut at 2 1/4 inches by 12 so that I had a piece for the card and a matching piece for the envelope flap. I used the raised edge of the Stampin’ Up! trimmer to push my piece of whisper white against as well as the DSP so that I could get them perfectly in line. Then I picked melon mambo as the colour that I wanted to feature and cut out the hello from the Hello You thinlits dies. I then glued my whisper white to my melon mambo card base.

Stampin' Up! Festive Birthdays DSP and Hello You thinlits

For the envelope, I took the remainder of my DSP piece and glued it to the envelope flap using the multipurpose glue. It was pretty easy to snip the excess off with my paper snips to get a perfectly matching envelope.

My paper pumpkin arrived on Saturday and I’m busy working on alternatives to the kit. Stay tuned.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz