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Watercolor Wings for CAS C&S

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It’s Thursday which means it’s time for another new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week it’s Caro’s second colour challenge of the month and it’s the remaining retiring in colours plus silver.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings and Happy Home

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

This small butterfly from Watercolor Wings is usually made using 4 stamps but today I only used three of them. The fourth one just didn’t work with these colours without having one of the colours overpower the others. I started by stamping the stamp that is almost the complete butterfly in lost lagoon and then added the detailed butterfly in blackberry bliss after stamping off once. I added the body, stamped in full strength blackberry bliss and finished it off with the stamp that just does the inside detail near the body in metallic silver. Here’s another look at the butterfly:

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings and Happy Home

Next I turned to Happy Home for the sentiment. Watercolor Wings has great sentiments but “missing you” seems very appropriate – I definitely will miss these colours!

I then put this piece of whisper white onto a mat of blackberry bliss and added that to a lost lagoon cardbase. I lined the envelope with a lost lagoon envelope liner, another product that you know I’ll be missing!

I hope that you’ll pop over to CAS Colours & Sketches to see the rest of the cards from the Design Team and to play with these colours; I’d love to see your card in the gallery.

I’ve announced my product share for the 2016 catalogue – details are here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home

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Apologies for the late post, I’ve been fighting with my computer again. The Home IT desk thinks it might be the motherboard, so I’d better get myself set up on one of the other (numerous) computers! I’ve been playing with Happy Home again – I’m sad it’s retiring. Right now, the Happy Home set and the matching framelits come in a bundle. The framelits aren’t retiring but there’s nothing in the new catalogue that they match with – I’m guessing that something to match is coming out at Christmas or next year,  but I’m not giving up this stamp set!

I decided that I’d join another two of the scenes together for the Paper Players challenge today and when I went looking for my watercolour paper, I found the shimmery white paper first. So I’m using that instead – I usually forget that I have it.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

Here’s the banner which inspired my card:

I stamped the image in wisteria wonder which gives it a lovely soft look and then used my aquapainter to put a wash of colour for the ground in pear pizzazz. I purposely made it not a uniform green to avoid the impression that it was completely flat. Then I used my pink pirouette stampin’ write marker to colour in the shirt, added a little more wisteria wonder to the shorts and coloured the kite and flower in so saffron. The greeting, also from Happy Home, is stamped in pear pizzazz. I contemplated adding an extra mat to the card but it didn’t fit with the hand drawn look of the card, so I just glued the shimmery white paper onto a so saffron card base.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home and Hello Honey

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Today’s title is a little alliterative (not a word one gets to use often!) and the card is continuing my “use it before it retires” philosophy. I wasn’t happy to see that Happy Home is being retired – I love the Christopher Robin type illustrations. I hadn’t used it with the matching framelit before, so I decided today was the day. I have been through the new catalogue (well, the pdf) a couple of times and I’ve checked with my sister but neither of us can see anything that coordinates with the framelit. I’m assuming that means that there’s a stamp set to coordinate in either the next holiday or Occasions catalogues. I’d say that I’m looking forward to that, but there’s SO much in the new annual catalogue that I don’t have space to look forward to anything else!

So I stamped my favourite image from this set in archival black ink onto very vanilla card stock. This is now the only black ink I use unless I’m doing major watercolouring and need the stazon. The black memento ink has not been used since I got the archival and it used to be my firm favourite! The archival black is a really great ink – it doesn’t run, it gives a great crisp image but you do have to be careful to give it a little time to dry for fear of smudging.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

I coloured the image using the cover of the mossy meadow ink pad and my aquapainter, making sure it wasn’t uniform so as to give an impression of different depth. Then I used my tangelo twist Stampin’ Write marker for the shirt and the kite. Next I used the Hearth and Home framelit to cut out a Hello Honey window and used the 2 way pen to glue the two pieces together. I really like the 2 way pen for delicate work – there’s no oozing. I wanted to add some texture so I used the Elegant Dots embossing folder and a piece of hello honey which I then glued to a hello honey card base. Delightful Dijon is close, but I’m really going to miss this colour. I contemplated a sentiment from the Happy Home set (some of which are completely unused for no good reason) but decided that the card didn’t need it. I used dimensionals to give the window lift from the texture.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home

The new hostess code for the next four weeks is J46QU3Z6. If you spend $65 with me (before tax and shipping) I’ll send you the pearl basic jewels. All the details are on my Customer Loyalty Program page. If you love the home and hearth framelits and the Happy Home set, you might want to consider ordering them as a bundle – it will save you 15% and of course Happy Home is retiring and is only available as supplies last.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Happy Home for CC&S (again)

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Firstly – Happy Birthday to Rebecca. 🙂

I seem to be stuck on the Happy Home stamp set. I took a few days off and played with the set from Watercolor Wishes (although I used that again today), but the images from Happy Home have really caught my fancy. Today is Thursday and thus another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This, being the first Thursday in the month, is a colour challenge and the first of Louise’s challenges. I meant to use Garden in Bloom and the bees looked adorable but I couldn’t get all the three colours to work to my satisfaction. So I went back to Happy Home!

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Watercolor Wishes

And here’s the banner which inspired my card today

I took a piece of very vanilla and sponged it in daffodil delight. I then added some tangerine tango and finally some melon mambo. I put another layer of daffodil delight over the top. Then I stamped the image in the archival basic black. As I mentioned, the sentiment is from the Watercolor Wishes set and I stamped it in tangerine tango on the very vanilla card base. I glued the image onto the card base with fast fuse – I love this glue for serious gluing.

I hope you’ll pop over to CAS Colours & Sketches and see what the rest of the design team have made with these colours – and I hope that I’ll see your card in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Celebrate Happy Home

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Apologies for the late post today – I was all ready to start blogging this morning when the rather excessive wind outside meant that we had a power outage. After about five minutes, it came back on and I was happy, but it was a momentary restoration and then it was out again for the next couple of hours. Still, we used the time to go to the mall (and walk around and have a coffee because it doesn’t open that early) and look at stand mixers. I’ve been pushing the limits of my 4.5 quart mixer and I’m upgrading to a 6 quart. In purple. I can’t wait!! Anyway, to get back to the card making…I’m still using the Happy Home set – I really love the line drawn images and they keep making their way onto my cards. Today I set out to make a card for the sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts and somehow Happy Home insisted on being included. Endless Birthday Wishes gets pretty insistent as well.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Endless Birthday Wishes

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired this card

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I inked up the stamp with my archival basic black ink, but didn’t include the clouds that are part of the image. I’d decided to use the Sweet L’il Things DSP for my clouds. First, I stamped my sentiment onto the very vanilla layer in archival basic black  and then glued my piece of DSP onto it. Next I cut three pieces of thick very vanilla baker’s twine and firmly attached them to the back of the card with fast fuse. I then popped this card up with plenty of dimensionals and added it to my very vanilla card base (otherwise the twine would make lumps in the card). After that I used the ovals collection framelits to cut out my image and that is also popped up with dimensionals – note – you want the dimensionals on the top and bottom of the oval so that they aren’t on the twine. The twine stops the middle of the oval from sagging. Here’s a side look at all that dimensional use.

Stampin' Up! Happy Home and Endless Birthday Wishes

I then used the same paper to line the envelope so that it coordinated. I used to make short liners so that I could get 8 out of a 12 by 12 piece, but I’m never in danger of running out of DSP and you can often see the end of the liner through the envelope. So now, I’m making full sized liners and I like the extra luxury that it gives, finishing off the handmade card perfectly.

I hope you’re having a power filled and wind free Sunday!

See you tomorrow,

Liz