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In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack

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Nicole is joining my team – for the discount of course. That’s why we all join. And why not? A minimum of a 20% discount is awesome and during Sale-a-bration you get to add 2 free stamps to the $125 worth of product that costs you just $99 plus tax. If you’re thinking about joining too, there are 12 days of Sale-a-bration left which means only 12 days to add the 2 free stamps of your choice. I like to send a card to say hello, welcome, I’m glad you joined and I know that Nicole likes tip top taupe so I decided to use the 2015-2017 In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack for her card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack - Blossom Bunch Punch - Hello You thinlits dies

I covered the entire card base with a piece of the In-Color Designer Series Paper Stack – love the words – and then cut a strip of tip top taupe card stock as a base for my beautiful copper foil word which I die cut using the Hello You thinlits dies. I used the scrap from cutting out the hello to punch out three of the smallest copper foil flowers with the blossom bunch punch. The largest pearl looked great inside them and I attached them all together with glue dots.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue.

See you tomorrow,

Just 12 days to go in Sale-a-bration!

Liz

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

Fruit Stand DSP for FMS challenge

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I was making Christmas cards yesterday to include in hostess packages that I’m mailing out and I want them to be a surprise so I’ll share them later on. Let me know if you’d like to host a party and I’ll send you one too!  Today’s card is inspired by the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and I’m impressed that I’m sharing it the day before the challenge closes rather than the day that it does! I decided to use the Fruit Stand DSP which I haven’t used lately and it really should get me out of my Christmas card making rut!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Fruit Stand DSP - Hello You Thinlits Dies

 

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired my card:

I just love this paper, isn’t it gorgeous? The colours of the watercoloured paper are beautiful but when I checked the colours of the Fruit Stand DSP, the oranges mentioned were Peekaboo Peach and Tangerine Tango. Neither really worked – the first was just too bright and the second fought to be the star of the show. But Pumpkin Pie does work; it gives a border that doesn’t try to take over the card. I cut out the piece of Fruit Stand DSP with the largest but one from the banners framelits dies and then cut out a pumpkin pie mat with the largest. And the border was just too big – now that we’ve been spoiled with the layering dies, the border just looked too chunky. So I lined up the bottom of the banners where I wanted them, glued on the DSP and then used my trimmer to cut down the pumpkin pie card stock to match.

The Hello is from the Hello You thinlits dies and cut out in the lush copper foil. I did consider the gold but the copper works best.

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 and get BOGOF until October 10, click here and use the code BOGO.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Seaside Shore Shaker Card

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I was inspired to make a shaker card – my first outside of a class I think – by the sketch at this week’s Freshly Made Sketches.

Stampin' Up! Seaside Shore - By the Shore DSP - Hello You Thinlits dies

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

I decided to change the orientation of the card because I wanted a die cut word for my sentiment since it would be going over the window sheet circle. The whole window sheet made me think of a fish bowl which is where the fish from Seaside Shore became a part of the card! I love the By The Shore DSP and this one looks so much like water, getting darker as you get further from the surface. So with all the decisions made, it was all about construction.

I used my circles dies to cut the aperture and then a larger one to cut a circle of the window sheet. This I glued to the back of my piece of very vanilla using fast fuse. Next I stamped the fish from Seaside Shore in archival basic black, coloured their stripes with a daffodil delight marker and then cut out them out. About this time, my friend Bilma stopped by and I learned that someone that I worked with about 15 years ago is about to retire. So this card was perfect and will go to Joe on his retirement.

I cut a piece of the By The Shore DSP that would fit under the top very vanilla layer, ensuring that it was big enough so that you don’t see any of the base of the card at the edges. I glued on the daffodil delight die cut congrats before positioning the fish since I didn’t want them under the word. Next I glued on the fish. After using the foam adhesive strips, I’m a firm believer in shaker cards. Previously it was hard to build the wall to keep the sequins in, but now with the bendable foam adhesive strips, it’s easy. I easily made a circular wall, used the embossing buddy to ensure the edges weren’t sticky (looks like I needed to do more of that) and then picked out the small sequins from a tin of two sizes and snowflakes from the holiday catalogue back in 2014. All that was left was to take the backing off the foam strips and fix the top layer to the rest of the card. In the event, I actually used dimensionals for the parts of the card not next to the opening and that was an error since they are about half the height of the foam strips. Next time, I’ll just use more of the strips for the rest of the card.

Here’s another view, with the card carefully propped up to show that there really are a lot of sequins in it!

Stampin' Up! Seaside Shore - By the Shore DSP - Hello You Thinlits dies

I added another fish to the envelope so that it coordinated with the card. I’m definitely going to be making some more shaker cards soon, they are really fun to make and they are fun to look at too.

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