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Farewell to Flurry of Wishes

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Flurry of wishes is on the retiring list but is still available until May 25th. The matching punch, Snow Flurry, was retired last year but it’s currently available on the clearance rack at a discounted price – $10.80 for a punch is a steal.

Here I used the snowflakes with white craft ink to make a background and one of the sentiments. That one has been used a lot. The deer is from Merry Mistletoe which is also retiring.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mistletoe - Flurry of Wishes

Here’s a card showing one of the other great sentiments – as well as the detail of the snowflakes, heat embossed in silver.

Stampin' Up! Flurry of Wishes and Winter Wonderland Embellishment

Do you remember where you were when you make some of your cards? I remember making this last card at a crop. Mostly because I struggled so hard to use the embellishment. I’d started off the card with the goal of using this embellishment and caused much hilarity as my friends watched my indecision!

I hope you enjoyed today’s cards from the past.

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Liz

Merry Mistletoe

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Here’s the third card that we made at class on Monday. It features a new Christmas set in the annual catalog, Merry Mistletoe and one that was carried over from last year’s holiday catalogue, Flurry of Wishes.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mistletoe - Flurry of Wishes

We started by stamping the snowflakes from Flurry of Wishes (two sizes on one stamp) in craft white ink onto night of navy. This ink takes a while to dry so you can either leave it for a while or use the heating tool on the first setting to help it along. Either way, take care not to smudge it whilst it’s drying. Next we took the beautiful deer from Merry Mistletoe and stamped it in versamark and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. With a mat of silver foil, it really pops. The sentiment is also from Flurry of Wishes and we stamped it in night of navy and cut it out with the layering oval framelits.

I was asked if I like the thick whisper white card stock. I absolutely love it – it’s all that I use now for white card bases. I still use the ordinary whisper white for layers and inside the card, but there’s no comparison for the base. The new thick card stock is so much more sturdy.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Gift box punch board

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Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone. I’m rather more organised than this time yesterday morning and have only one more gift to wrap. Fortunately in my family we don’t open gifts until after brunch which comes after Martin’s motorbike ride (if it’s warm enough – and it is this year) and my run. So there’s time. I was too busy making dinner last night to finish off.

I had a few pieces of paper to wrap (tickets to shows etc) and I wanted to make them less obvious and more substantial and so I got out my gift box punch board. Every time that I use this, I’m grateful to Jill who bought it for me as a Secret Pal gift last year.

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

I wanted to use a tag from the Oh What Fun tag kit that I made last week and went hunting for a DSP with mint macaron. I found the perfect paper in the It’s My Party DSP. I agree it’s a large box for a voucher. There may or may not be some paper towel and walnuts in there just to confuse the recipient. My sister was delighted to see that I was using the tag that she designed (in the middle) and that went perfectly with paper from Merry Moments DSP and some retired mossy meadow ribbon. The sentiment is embossed in white and is from Flurry of Wishes.

The final box is also using Merry Moments DSP but this one is upside down so that the box closure is on the bottom. This made the top cleaner and I decorated that with a bow made with the bow builder punch out of real red that was already dry embossed with stars using the Lucky Stars TIEF. Here’s a closer look at that

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

For details on the tags, please see my post from last week.

I really like the gift box punch board – I have three examples of different sizes, the board has instructions on it for 15 different sizes (in both cm and inches) so it’s really versatile. Really easy too.

I’d love to stick around and write more and put off my run, but I’d better get moving. I hope that your day is filled with love and fun and joy.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Softly Falling bottle tag

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So you’re down to the wire now and grabbing bottles of wine as gifts and wondering how to package them? How about a bottle tag? I CASEd this one from my ornament tag from last month.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Softly Falling and Flurry of Wishes

These are easy to whip up – I know, I just made this one at 7am. A change in vacation plans means that today is the last day that I’ll see my boss this week. But it’s okay, I don’t think that Peter reads my blog so I’m not ruining the surprise. I cut a strip of whisper white card almost as wide as the bottle (almost 3 inches) and eight inches long. I scored it at 3 inches and cut a hole in the short piece with the circles framelits – how handy that the framelit can be used to measure how it fits over the bottle. I then embossed the longer end using the softly falling TIEF. Then out came my favourite sleigh ride edgelits again – I truly hope that you bought these because they are now retired – and some real red paper. For some reason (not awake yet perhaps?) I decided to put on the santa and his sleigh going from right to left, attached with dimensionals.

Stampin' Up! Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Softly Falling and Flurry of Wishes

For the back, I stamped one of my favourite greetings from Flurry of Wishes in real red on a scrap piece of paper. Well, Merry seems most appropriate here, no?

I hope that this helps with your packaging. And I hope that Peter likes it.

Happy Birthday to Eimear, my sister’s upline and my surrogate one – they live in the UK and I’m in the US so we’re in different trees. But I’ve been adopted which is lovely. Oddly I thought I was adopted as a child since my siblings had intense ginger hair and mine was blonde. Logically, they should have been the adopted children since my hair was the exact same colour as my mother’s!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Flurry of Wishes

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As I’ve mentioned a lot lately, last weekend I went to a crop with my friend Julia and my sister. One of the fun items there is that you get a goody bag filled with products from Stampin’ Up!. There are always some embellishments – which you may notice that I rarely use. I feel that they may look okay on a card but that they don’t actually add anything to a clean and simple card. But when my goody bag contained winter wonderland embelishments, I decided to try to build a card around it. I caused hilarity after declaring this when five minutes later, I said that perhaps I’d put the embellishment back in the box. Thus encouraged, I persevered and I think this card is better for the embellishment. It took a fair amount of encouragement from Caro, Jill, Jess and Barb, so thanks for that.

Stampin' Up! Flurry of Wishes and Winter Wonderland Embellishment

Here’s a close up of the embellishments:

Winter Wonderland Embellishments by Stampin' Up!

I started the card by embossing the sentiment in silver (don’t forget the embossing buddy); this is from the Stampin’ Up! Flurry of wishes stamp set. It’s a photopolymer set so it’s ultra easy for place everything where you want it. Definitely my favourite type of stamp although I do love the stamp-a-ma-jig.  After heat embossing the silver powder, I stamped a number of the snowflakes and heat embossed them in silver too. Then came the tricky part – I’d originally decided to have the ornament next to the sentiment, then I wondered perhaps if the card was better without it at all. After deliberation and other people’s opinions, I finally decided that it looked best – and was an addition to the card – on the centre of the snowflake. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go crazy and start adding embellishments all over the place, but it was an interesting challenge. I have the reindeer paper clips, I’ll have to try to make a card with them. They are really cute – here’s a close up:

Reindeer Paper Clips Embellishments by Stampin' Up!

It has to be done, right?

See you tomorrow,

Liz