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Perfectly Artistic DSP

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As I’ve mentioned, I started a new job back in June and GAF is a really nice place to work. People actually care about people. Not only do we still have a Christmas party and a summer picnic, but every month the CFO and CIO get their departments together to celebrate the month’s birthdays with singing and goodies to eat. So I got the list of birthdays and thought that this is a good place to start working on giving out more cards. So now I’m focused on making birthday cards although it’s not as if I don’t have a fairly major stash already. However, I work in IT so I’ll need far more cards for males than females so I think that may need to be my focus for a while. Which brings me to today’s card.

Stampin' Up! Perfectly Artistic DSP and Hello You and Endless Birthday Wishes

I know that you have to love this paper. I do and I really do not like grey – it’s smoky slate to be specific. It’s one of the pieces in a limited time offer for Sale-a-bration. It’s called Perfectly Artistic DSP and it’s available only from this Tuesday until February 15th for free with a $50 product order. I think I’ll be ordering myself at least one more pack of this. The good news is that there are only two grey pieces in a pack. 😉

I wanted to let the paper really sing here as well as making a masculine birthday card. I think that the real red “happy” works rather well. That’s from the Hello You dies and the “birthday” is from that incredibly versatile set, Endless Birthday Wishes. As you can see, I’m being good and still using up my retired backgrounds DSP paper for lining the envelope flap. It’s easy to line the outside – just cut a 6 by 2 1/4 inch piece of DSP, put the multipurpose glue onto the envelope flap, add the paper and then cut around with paper snips. Simple and effective.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello You thinlits dies

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Firstly I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours & Sketches for selecting my card as one of their weekly winners. I’m also delighted to announce that from next year, I’m joining the Design Team at CAS Colours & Sketches – it’s definitely an honour to be invited. I’m really happy that my sister has joined the team too. Her upline (and my surrogate upline) Eimear has also been invited. How awesome is that?

I’m switching gears a little today and have a birthday card to share. I put all of my Christmas cards together and there are far more than I expected so I took a break. And yes, I might possibly be playing with the new goodies from the upcoming catalogue!

Stampin' Up! Hello You thinlits and Endless Birthday wishes

This card all started with the It’s My Party designer washi tape (available from January 5), which I put towards the bottom of a piece of whisper white card. I originally tried two different designs of washi but after I looked at it and shook my head, I looked up to find my brother’s expression definitely very negative. So one piece of tape it is. I cut out the happy, from the Hello You Thinlits dies in melon mambo to match the tape and decided on old olive as a contrasting colour. The birthday comes from Endless Birthday Wishes. After stamping that, I glued on the happy with the fine tip glue pen – I really like this pen for the words although you have to move quite quickly because the glue sets rapidly. As you can see, there’s a slim mat of old olive and that’s on a melon mambo card stock base. A very CAS birthday card.

Here are the details of the products that I used to make this card. Just click on any of them to be taken to my online store.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Hello You

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It’s a hard choice, but I think that the English Garden DSP is my favourite paper in the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue. Some of the patterns can stand on their own as a card (I’ll post an example in the upcoming days).

Stampin' Up! English Garden , Hello You

The bee paper is in whisper white, soft suede and hello honey so I mounted it on a piece of soft suede. I then cut out a banner in whisper white and made the banner part using the new triple banner punch – it’s very easy. Simpler than using scissors and a ruler. I matted that with a banner of soft suede and popped the banner up on stampin’ dimensionals. The hello is cut out of hello honey using the Hello You dies – I really like the diecut words that Stampin’ Up! has and I was happy that these were carried over to the new catalogue and thrilled that there are more in the catalogue also. I forced myself to allow the hello to fall off the edges of the whisper white to the edge of the soft suede banner and I like the effect. I used the two way glue pen to adhere the word and it’s now my method of choice – the angled tip makes it very easy to get the glue just where you want it. The soft suede piece is mounted on ordinary whisper white card stock – I have yet to try the extra heavy whisper white – I think I’ll add it to my next order. As you can see, I lined the envelope with another piece of the DSP.

Here’s the photo in the catalogue of the English Garden DSP – as you can see, there are lots of really pretty patterns. I usually find DSP hard to use but this one is so lovely, it’s just screaming to be put onto cards.

Stampin' Up! English Garden

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Technique Tuesday – emboss resist

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This appears to be one of my favourite techniques, or at least one I do frequently. But I suppose that’s no surprise since it uses the heat gun. At the crop weekend I attended last month, I learned an embossed resist technique using a brayer, elastic bands, embossing powder and sponging. I decided to do it again but with two colours.

Stampin' Up! Hello You

I wrapped a couple of elastic bands around my brayer ensuring that they crossed and twisted. I then took a piece of very vanilla cardstock and after rubbing it with the embossing buddy to remove static, inked up my brayer (or actually the elastic bands) with versamark and rolled it across the card in a couple of directions. Then I sprinkled on clear embossing powder and heated it. I next took tangelo twist and hello honey and sponged the ink onto the card, wiping off the excess with a paper towel. This piece then sat in my Leave For Later pile because I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. I was more interested in playing with the technique!

On going through the pile recently, I decided that I wanted to leave as much of my “DSP” visible and so out came the Hello You thinlits dies. I cut out the thanks in tangelo twist and carefully added drops of the tombow glue – giving it a little time to set a bit so that it wouldn’t ooze – and then attached it to the background. I then mounted this on a base of hello honey. The envelope is lined in hello honey from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Bokeh Birthday

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Last month I created a card with a twist on the bokeh technique; this is the technique which mimics photographs where the light is out of focus. In the carding world, it consists of a coloured background with white circles on top. I decided to be different, a surprise I know, and do red circles. But whilst I was creating that which was for a colour challenge, I rather liked the look of the background before adding the red. So I made another one.

Stampin' Up! Hello You thinlits dies and Crazy About You

As before I thoroughly dampened the piece of watercolour paper with the aquapainter and then added crumb cake and soft suede, also with the aquapainter. I blotted the excess ink and water from the edges. I used my stencil and sponge dauber to add craft white ink in various sizes of circles. You must allow the water colour paper to dry thoroughly although you probably don’t need to leave it for a month as I did on this occasion!

I made the stencil using the circles collection and the big shot and an acetate sheet from a photopolymer set. I had a spare acetate sheet after adopting the method of just sticking the stamps directly onto the box inside. You glue the printed sheet inside the plastic cover which gives you an instant nudge if there’s a stamp missing. Until the photopolymer stamps have been stained by red or purple, it’s easy to lose them on the desk. And the staining doesn’t impact their performance.

I cut out the word happy using the Hello You thinlits dies and soft suede card stock, using a piece of wax paper to help facilitate its removal. The word birthday is from the Crazy About You set and is stamped in soft suede also. The water colour paper is matted with more soft suede and held on with sticky strip to ensure that it stays put. This is then mounted onto a crumb cake card base. Rather than lining the envelope, I dry embossed the flap with the hardwood embossing folder.

See you tomorrow,

Liz