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Hello You thinlits for Spring

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It’s not spring here, not even close. It’s below freezing actually but the day looked beautiful – from inside. So I decided to make a spring like wreath using the Stampin’ Up! Wondrous wreath stamp set and the Wonderful wreath framelits to show that they aren’t just for the holiday season. Although it may be a while before I can send this card!

Stampin' Up! Wondrous Wreath

I started by cutting out the centre of the wreath with the tab on the framelit pointing straight upwards so that it would be easy to remember where to put the tabs on the stamp set and also when cutting out the outside of the wreath. It’s much easier to cut the centre first because if you wait until you’ve stamped, you can’t see clearly where the centre is! I stamped the first set of leaves in wild wasabi, stamping off first. The second set of leaves were in wild wasabi also. Then I stamped the flowers in so saffron and perfect plum and cut them out with the flower from the wonderful wreath framelits. I then cut out the happy using the Hello You framelits in a couple of colours so that I could decide which I preferred (adding the runners up to my stash of words). After deciding on the layout, I stamped the Spring in wild wasabi. This is from the Stampin’ Up! Crazy about you stamp set. I then used glue dots to fix on the flowers and popped up the wreath using stampin’ dimensionals. The happy was adhered using the tombow glue giving the glue a little time to set a bit before fixing it so that it wouldn’t ooze. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the plenty-a-petals embossing folder to match the flowers on the wreath.

Happy New Year from My Elegant Cards

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It’s 1st January 2015. Happy New Year! To usher in 2015, I thought I’d welcome January. I’m not usually terribly fond of January; it’s often bitterly cold here in New Jersey, I’ll have said goodbye to my parents for quite a few months and I frequently seem to get sick. This year I think I’ll try to be nicer to it – it shouldn’t be as hard this time. I’m going to spend three weeks at spanish school in Barcelona!

Stampin' Up! Hello You Thinlit dies

Maybe the pear pizzazz splodges, looking rather like murky water, aren’t being that nice to January, but I do love pear pizzazz with lost lagoon. The splodges come from the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual Birthday calendar set which is in the new Occasions catalogue which will be launched next Tuesday. The January is from the same set.

I cut out the lovely hello – isn’t the typeface great? –  with the Hello You thinlit dies. I had intended on adding more splodges in another colour, but decided that less is more. As I usually do.

I read the instructions on the thinlits envelope and Stampin’ Up suggested running the die through the big shot three times. I tried it – as well as using the wax paper – and it works much better for getting rid of loose bits of card. I have read that a dryer sheet also helps but I ended up with some of the drying stuff on the next piece of card that I ran through the big shot and the dryer sheet wasn’t helpful enough to make it worth having to clean the plates each time!

Did you make any resolutions? Perhaps this is the year that you’ll take the plunge and sign up as a demonstrator. I’d love to have you join my team. There’s no pressure to sell or even demonstrate. You can even just join for the discount – even for just your first quarter and then drop. There’s no penalty. Although I’ll say that with a 20% discount for demonstrators, it’s pretty easy to sell $300 of stuff each quarter because your personal purchases count as your sales.

More goodies from the upcoming catalogue

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I was working on a challenge card for the nacho average challenge blog but the link was closing today and I’d have needed to publish this post around midnight and then link it up. Instead of writing the post, I watched My Fellow Americans with my father and some chardonnay for me and brandy for him. I love that movie and have seen it many many times and it is still incredibly funny. Jack Lemmon and James Garner are wonderful. So here’s my card for the pear pizzazz, lost lagoon and silver challenge even though it isn’t being entered.

Stampin' Up! Crazy about You

The flower is from an upcoming set, the Stampin’ Up! Crazy about You set. It’s 30 stamps of words and three images. There is a coordinating new punch for this flower – the Flower Medallion but I don’t have it. Yet. So I snipped the flower out after stamping it in lost lagoon. Then I decided to stamp it again in pear pizzazz and snip out the centre of the flower. My mother watched in horror as I snipped away, declaring that it would drive her crazy to do that kind of thing (even though she does dress making as a hobby) but it’s strangely relaxing. I glued the flower together with the tombow glue.

The strip of DSP is from the All is Calm DSP and it’s the first time that I’ve used it. I love this pattern and have never wanted to cut into it previously. But I have to do something with my growing mountain of DSP other than just look at it from time to time! I used stampin’ dimensionals to pop the flower up.

After this I used the silver glimmer paper and the new Hello You thinlits dies to cut out the thanks. The set also has “hello”, “you” and “happy”. The instructions suggest that by running it through the big shot 3 times, you’ll get a cleaner cut. That definitely helped – especially as my waxed paper had migrated down to the workshop in the basement. Next time I will be interested to see how it works with wax paper and the three times through the big shot – I’ve “liberated” a roll of wax paper from the basement.