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Fancy Frost Specialty DSP

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Well I’ve gone for all the catalogs today – the annual, the soon to be retired Holiday and the upcoming Occasions! After playing with the Hey Chick stamp set yesterday, I wanted to make another card and sometime last night I thought of the window framelits and having the chick peeking in the window. I was wondering what to do for wallpaper when I thought about texture which led me to the Fancy Frost Specialty DSP which is retiring and currently 20% off at $10.80.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Fancy Frost Specialty DSP - Hey Chick - Hearth and Home thinlits

I took a piece of the fancy frost paper and used the Hearth & Home thinlits to cut out the window. Then I did the same with a piece of so saffron and continued the colour by lightly using a sponge dauber onto the textured paper. Next I stamped my chick with archival basic black and then used the same two watercolour pencils as yesterday, daffodil delight and pumpkin pie but added some rich razzleberry to the ends of the chick’s hairdo.

To construct the card, I placed everything where I wanted it and then removed the window frame. I added glue to the back and then put it back in its spot. This meant that I had the chick stuck to the window frame in the right place and could just add the wallpaper around the frame. Easy. After adding this all to a rich razzleberry card base I felt that there was something missing. I’d wanted to add the sentiment but it wasn’t going to work over the texture until I remembered the classic label punch. A quick stamp and the addition of an enamel shape and it was perfect.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Fancy Frost Specialty DSP - Hey Chick - Hearth and Home thinlits

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hearth and Home

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I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a winner this week. I’m especially happy because it was a sketch challenge and I had to spend many days mulling over how I wanted to do it. I’m glad that it was a success in the end.

I’m not sure what kind of card I’ve made for today – it could be a Christmas card since it has tree, but it could also be a birthday card. I left the inside blank so that I can decide when I need it!

Stampin' Up! Heath and Home and Sleigh Ride Edgelits

I made the background for the scene using the same sponging and spritzing technique that I detailed when posting this card that my sister showed me at the crop. I used the same three colours here – blushing bride, lost lagoon and night of navy. Briefly – you sponge the three colours and then spritz with water a couple of times and this gives the gorgeous sky effect. The window frame and trees are cut out in night of navy using the hearth and home thinlits and the sleigh ride edgelits.

Here’s a tip – when you look at your beautiful sky, do NOT think that it would be a good idea to trim it to the same size as the window frame by also using the hearth and home dies. Of course that would cut out the windows which is exactly the piece that you need! But, if you were to do something that ridiculous, you CAN piece them back together onto another piece of card so that you can make it work. Oops!

So I added my trees between my pieced back together background and the window frame. This done I tried all three sky colours as mats and bases and came to the conclusion that a lost lagoon mat and a night of navy card worked best. It allows the blushing bride sunrise to really pop. I put the window onto the card with stampin’ dimensionals. The envelope is lined with the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds designer series paper.

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Hearth and Home

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Firstly, thank you to the team at Can You Case It? and especially Amy for selecting my card as a Design Team Member pick this week. It was a great start to my weekend to see that I’d been selected.

I had a number of challenges that I was intending to enter but I was distracted with the fun that we had at a class last night and haven’t made the appropriate cards. So here’s one that I made recently, incorporating vellum again.

Stampin' Up! Hearth and Home and Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies

I knew that I wanted to use this pattern from the Winter Wonderland Designer vellum stack and decided that I’d use it behind the window frame but that’s about all I’d decided when I started this card. I’m hoping that I’m not alone in deciding on a single element and building the card around that! I cut the window frame out of early espresso using the Hearth and Home dies and trimmed the vellum to fit behind it. Then I cut out the trees using the sleigh ride edgelits in gold foil to match the dots on the vellum. I guess I’ll pretend that the sun is shining on them or something. I glued the trees to the back of the window frame with the multipurpose glue and then attached the vellum in the same way. This completed, I contemplated the rest of the card and decided that the softly falling embossing folder would work well. I attached the window frame to the card with dimensionals to keep a gap between the vellum and the raised dots. I also ran the flap of the envelope through the big shot with the same folder so that it coordinates.

I decided to use a die cut word on the inside of the card – why not, right? This is using the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and the sentiment that I chose happens to come from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set which is sold in a bundle with the thinlits dies, thus saving 15%. I was going to say that it was coincidental that I chose this set, but I guess there’s a reason why Stampin’ Up! bundle it together.

Stampin' Up! Christmas Greetings thinlits and Holly Jolly Greetings

See you tomorrow,

 

Liz

Happy Scenes

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I was looking for challenges this weekend and found TGIF’s White Christmas challenge. Since I appear to be a little behind in my Christmas card production, that seems like a grand idea. I suppose that if I made some multiples, I’d be in better shape but I keep coming up with new ideas.

Stampin' Up! Happy Scenes and Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Hearth & Home Thinlits

Here’s the challenge banner that inspired my card

This card looks better in person – I took at least 4 photos and this is the best. Apparently it’s doomed to not look its best. I started off by embossing a piece of whisper white with the softly falling TIEF – I love this embossing folder. I then cut out the trees using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits dies and mossy meadow. I did contemplate adding something to look like snow on the trees but figured it would just look untidy, so left them as is. Which I’m happy about now that the card is finished – I like the mossy meadow background to the card. Although now that I’m done with the card I realize that it would have been much easier to have cut out the trees on the white and used the negative space to show the trees. Apparently I wanted to do it the hard way! Then I used one of the new in colours, tip top taupe to cut out the window using the hearth and home thinlits dies. After some fast fuse use, the window was constructed. This was when I decided that I wanted a sentiment. In white. What better than Let it snow? This is from the Happy Scenes set and I heat embossed it onto the mossy meadow card base. The envelope liner was cut using the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds DSP.

I think I’ll make another of these cards and this time, I’ll make it the easy way. One less piece to put together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz