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Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate

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Well, here’s my first Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate – I’ve been a bit slow with this because I was so busy playing with my preorder (it was a bigger box than Paper Pumpkin!). The Many Manly Occasions kit is really great, but I don’t want eight cards so similar – do you? I decided to save a piece of the corrugated orange card and replace it with something else. It turns out that it’s best with a plain colour behind it and I hit on the happy idea of combining Paper Pumpkin with my preorder. Hence, I chose a piece of dapper denim.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Many Manly Occasions

Isn’t it a beautiful blue? I then used emerald envy (definitely going to be a favourite colour) to cut out my happy sentiment from Hello You – a thinlit that is happily continuing into the coming annual catalogue. I stamped the sentiment from the Many Manly Occasions (say that fast 3 times!) in dapper denim after figuring out positioning so that I had enough room for my emerald envy sentiment. I attached the happy with the 2 way glue pen which I’m sad is on the retiring list. It works so well for skinny sentiments.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Many Manly Occasions

As you can see, I cut out a second happy sentiment to decorate the envelope. I’m not so sure how this would do through the mail, I may have to do a test and let you know. This one though, I’ll add to my stack of birthday cards in the office.

So that’s it for the first Paper Pumpkin May 2016 Alternate – I think I’ll go and come up with a card using the now leftover orange corrugated card.

Just a reminder that retiring stamp sets are continuing to be produced through tomorrow. After that, it’s as supplies last, so if there’s anything you want, you need to move quickly.  Additionally, it’s only just over a week before the new catalogue goes live – at that time, I’ll be ordering ribbon and paper for my paper share announced here. Send me an email at lizbaileycards@gmail.com if you want to get in on the first order.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Going Places DSP stack

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I meant to make some masculine birthday cards at the weekend, but as you’ll have presumably noticed over the last few days, they seem more feminine. I did have some success though and here’s one of them. I love the Going Places DSP stack.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

I selected a piece of DSP from the stack and then pulled the rest of the colours from that – mossy meadow and hello honey. The paper is beautiful but with a black background it’s rather dark so I wanted a big banner. This one is 2 inches tall which made it perfect for using with the triple banner punch. I cut out the happy from Hello Honey using the Hello You dies and once I’d figured out the placement, stamped the birthday from Endless Birthday Wishes in the archival basic black. After I’d stamped it, I glued the happy onto the banner using the 2 way glue pen. I love that it doesn’t ever ooze glue when I press it down. I matted the DSP with a piece of mossy meadow and glued that to a hello honey card base.

Stampin' Up! Going Places DSP stack and Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You thinlits dies

The banner is popped up on dimensionals and the tail of it extends slightly over onto the hello honey. It really is a super sized banner! For the envelope, I embossed the flap with the Lucky Stars TIEF.

I’m taking this card to work to add to my stash there. On Friday I had lunch with one of our fairly new hires and during the course of the conversation about weekend plans, he said that Friday was his birthday. I was so happy that I had an appropriate card to give him. That’s happened to me twice so far this year so I feel that I need to get a few more just in case cards ready.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

 

Sky is the Limit for 11 more days!

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Here’s a birthday card which I’m really happy with – especially as it targets that hard to make type of card – the masculine one.

Stampin' Up! Sky is the Limit and Endless Birthday Wishes and Going Places DSP and Hello You thinlits dies

I stamped the biplane from the Sky is the limit set on crumb cake in archival black and, presumably because I was at a crop and had loads of time, fussy cut it out. Actually this was the second biplane – the DSP says it’s sahara sand but crumb cake was a warmer tone and looked better with the DSP. So I need to find another use for a snipped out biplane soon. I liked the Going Places DSP very much and this one gives an impression of mountains which fits rather well with the plane. I matted this in black and mounted it on a crumb cake card base. Then I used the Hello You thinlits to cut out a happy sentiment in basic black. Before sticking this down, I stamped the birthday greeting from Endless Birthday Wishes in crumb cake. Just in case there was an issue. But happily it worked out okay, stamped on one of the mountains and then I could position the happy. I used the 2 way glue pen to stick this down – it seems the easiest method. It doesn’t ooze and the angled tip makes it easy to apply to small places. After putting the matted piece onto the crumb cake base, I attached the plane, popped up on stampin’ dimensionals. I’d say that this card was a success judging by the reaction from the nearby ladies. I used the leftover piece from the 6″ by 6″ DSP to line the outside flap of the matching envelope.

And why only for 11 more days? This is a set that you can get for free as part of the Sale-a-bration promotion but this particular set is only available through February 16th. So if you need this one, you need to spend $50 on product and then select this as your free item. If you don’t have the Hello You dies or the Going Places DSP, might I suggest you add them to your basket right away as a start?

See you tomorrow,

Liz

It’s my party designer washi tape

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Happy February! I can’t believe that we’re through January already – don’t worry, I’m not going to start counting down until Christmas. Yet. I’m ready to continue to work on my resolution to send/give more cards and a new resolution is to kick what the doctor today confirmed is bronchitis. Normally I’m happy being at home since I can card, but I don’t have the energy at the moment. Luckily I was at a crop at the weekend (before the exhaustion kicked in) and made a bunch of cards that I can share with you over the next week or so. My brother made me a washi tape holder and although I didn’t take it to the crop, I did take the It’s My Party designer washi tape since it’s new, I have a lot of washi and I almost never use it. So that was my challenge to myself. One card. With washi.

Stampin' Up! It's My Party designer washi tape and Hello You thinlits dies

So what I found is that if you use some washi, you can make a card very quickly. The hardest part was getting the wispy pieces off the die cut and the big shot brush helps with that amazingly well. I took a piece of very vanilla card and lined it up on my grid paper so that the bottom of it was along one of the lines. Then I took the washi tape and lined that with one of the grid lines too so that I could be sure that it was straight. It looks slightly off in the photo but that’s because part of the card is on the envelope. In real life, it looks straight. One tip about the washi – there’s a special end to the washi when you get it – about half an inch from the end there’s a kind of stripe. Cut that off or the washi isn’t perfect when you put it on your card. I then used melon mambo (as you’ll see in the coming days, I was having a melon mambo weekend – don’t panic, there’s some rose red and watermelon wonder too as well as a couple of cards completely without any pink) to cut out the sentiment from the Hello You thinlits dies. I then perched this on the top of the washi tape and, having put that on a melon mambo cardbase decided that was all I needed. I flirted with the It’s My Party enamel dots but they didn’t add anything, they just looked as if I’d used them because I wanted to use them. In my opinion, they need to be needed.

Stampin' Up! Elegant Dots TIEF

For the envelope, I dry embossed the flap with the Elegant Dots TIEF. It definitely is elegant – I need to use it on a card soon.

I have some classes coming up, if you can get to North NJ check the left hand panel for the link to them. As always, if you have any questions, just contact me and I’ll get right back to you – and I’m fairly sure that email is safe and I’m not contagious that way.

Since it’s 1st February, that means that we’re one third of the way through Sale-a-bration. And only 2 weeks away from the three limited edition free items being retired – and replaced with three new ones. A quick reminder – for every $50 you spend before tax and shipping you get to choose a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue (the link to it is on the left). If your wish list is a bit larger than $50, then the best deal is to sign up as a demonstrator and get $155 worth of product for $99 (shipping included). There’s no penalty for joining up just for the totally customisable starter kit if that’s what you want to do. Or you can just stay for the discount. Or you can build a business. The great thing is that it’s totally up to you! If you want to sign up, the link for that is on the left hand side too.

Here’s the list of supplies for this card:

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Endless Birthday Wishes for Caro

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Today is my sister Caro’s birthday. Happy Birthday Caro! You can easily give her a present just by visiting her blog here. Thanks.

Stampin' Up! Endless Birthday Wishes and Hello You framelits

Last week I was making bokeh backgrounds for my card at CAS Colours & Sketches and I made a couple at the same time. Since the technique tends to alter the look of the ink colours due to blending, it wasn’t going to work for the challenge since I felt that the card really needed a night of navy mat. I stuck with the smoky grey cardstock though since Caro tells me that I need to get over my issue with grey. And it’s her birthday, so it’s all about her.

To make the background, I put equal numbers of dots of pool party, marina mist and smoky slate onto an E block, spritzed with water and pressed the block onto some watercolour paper. I left it to dry for about a week – not that it needs that long, but I hadn’t decided what to do with it next.

I was really pleased with the card that I made for the challenge last week, both the background and the sentiment hanging off the edge. Here’s a reminder in case you missed it

Stampin' Up! Greetings Thinlits dies

I wanted to do the same kind of thing. But, of course, different. I got out the Hello You thinlits dies and cut out the happy in night of navy and then with my fingers crossed, stamped birthday (from Endless Birthday Wishes) onto the watercolour paper. I then cut out the end loop of the y in happy from watercolour paper and a scrap of night of navy and built up a support for where that loop falls off the watercolour paper. Then it was a simple matter of constructing the card – I’m a fan of fast fuse for attaching watercolor paper securely, the 2-way glue pen for fiddly gluing and the multipurpose glue for everything else. I lined the envelope the same as the previous card – using the Neutrals designer series paper stack and the envelope liners framelits. I hope that Caro approves.

See you tomorrow when it’s time for another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches. In order to schedule my post with that of the challenge, it will go live just before 8am EST.
Liz