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Vertical Greetings

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Vertical Greetings is a stamp set from last year’s annual catalogue which I was thrilled to see carry over into this year’s. It’s unusual in that the greetings are, well, vertical which can be extremely useful. I also love the images of the neat adorable topiary. And they are good for Christmas cards. Last night I had one or two (well eight) people over to start on holiday cards but since the new catalogue isn’t live until September, I didn’t want to taunt them with images that they couldn’t order. So out came Vertical Greetings and the Holly textured embossing folder.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Vertical Greetings - Holly TIEF

The group was divided as to how to ink up the stamp; some used the straight edge of the ink pad to carefully ink up the desired part of the image and then used the second ink pad for the rest. Others used markers. It’s just a personal choice. But the real red and old olive look awesome together on this image and if there’s a slight issue where the colours change, the old olive 1/8 inch sheer ribbon bow covers it perfectly! We made the old olive pop a little more by adding a mat in the same colour. This then went on top of the real red piece that was dry embossed with the Holly TIEF and then placed on a real red card base. The finishing touches were a few sparkly rhinestones.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Holly TIEF for a quick and easy card

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I hope that you’re all enjoying the close out sale – lots of goodies there on sale, fun isnt it? I decided to highlight a product which is retiring (and still available) and one that is in the annual catalogue and staying with us. I have been using the Holly TIEF quite a lot in my Christmas crafting but you’ve probably not seen it much because I’ve been using it a lot for embossing the envelope flaps. It’s great for that, but it also deserves to be on a card in its own right.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Holly TIEF - Suite Seasons - Layering Ovals Framelits Dies

So here’s a piece of garden green which I dry embossed with the Holly TIEF – before lending the folder to Julia – and then I had to make it into a card. There just happened to be a piece of gold glimmer paper on my desk and this is where the card came from. I used the triple banner punch to add some glitz and even pulled my gold heat embossed favourite sentiment from Suite Seasons from my pile of “waiting to be used”. The green and gold together were nice, but I wanted a bit more pop – so I used the layering ovals framelits dies (LOVE these!! – I ordered the layering circles yesterday at 50% off!) to cut out a scalloped cherry cobbler mat and added the three smallest cherry cobbler enamel dots as the holly berries. With the sentiment popped up over the glimmer paper and a cherry cobbler card base, I really like the fun of this card. And I will be embossing the envelope flap to match.

Just a note about the glimmer paper – it’s not very smooth due to the glitter so the best way to attach anything to it is using the dimensionals and pushing down firmly to ensure a good attachment. And of course popping up the sentiment is aesthetically pleasing also.

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). As it’s Christmas, it’s a big gift – check it out on my customer loyalty page. Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

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Liz

Merry Mice Stamp Set

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This is an adorable card, I made it at the weekend at the crop. Julia had the Merry Mice set and I decided that I needed to play with it.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mice - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Christmas Greeting Thinlits - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I stamped him in archival basic black and then coloured him in with markers – garden green, cherry cobbler, smoky slate and blushing bride in the ears – the ears were too bright so I used a blender pen to soften them. I then found a sweater pattern from the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack and stamped the mouse onto it and cut out his sweater. Somehow I got really lucky and the pattern was perfectly centred and makes the mouse look so cosy. Next I cut him out with the stitched shapes framelits dies. I also stamped just the star onto a piece of gold glimmer paper and fussy cut out the star. To finish off my card, I used the Christmas Greetings Thinlits and a scrap of gold glimmer paper to make the jolly. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Holly TIEF.

These stitched dies are available now in advance of next year’s annual catalog and to really sweeten the deal, there are a number of coordinating sets available at 25% off this month – Merry Mice is one of them.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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

Star of Light

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With just over 2 months to go until Christmas, here’s an easy card that is elegant, luxurious but easy to mass produce. I’ve used the Star of Light swoosh again and have it bursting out from the sentiment in a celebratory way.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Star of Light - Christmas Pines - Holly TIEF

I made half a dozen of these cards and if you have them lined up in a production line, it goes pretty quickly. First I took my 6 pieces of very vanilla cut for the front of the card and stamped the cherry cobbler swoosh – it’s not pretty where they all meet up, but that doesn’t matter. Whilst the cherry cobbler was really drying, I took scraps, rubbed with the embossing buddy and stamped the Noel from Christmas Pines and sprinkled with the copper embossing powder. I had them all carefully laid out around me so that I could heated them all in one go. Next I did my big shot work – I cut out my sentiment using one of the layering ovals and the scalloped mat in cherry cobbler, also from the layering ovals. By this time, I was sure that the cherry cobbler ink was dry and wouldn’t attract any stray bits of the copper embossing powder and so I went back with the embossing buddy, added a few stars (from Star of Light) and added more copper embossing powder.  Then it was a simple matter of putting the sentiment together and carefully popping it up on dimensionals before putting my layer onto the cherry cobbler card stock. To make the card extra luxurious, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the holly TIEF.

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. Here’s a quick reminder of the papers included in the offer.  It’s really easy to find the four that you want. Or the eight…

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin July 2016 Alternate

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I’ve had my Paper Pumpkin for a little while but I’ve been having so much fun with the order that came whilst I was on my business trip, that I’ve only just got around to playing with it and coming up with alternates. It was also an opportunity to use my new Holly TIEF.

Stampin' Up! Paper Pumpkin July 2016 alternate - Holly TIEF

I started off my dry embossing a piece of real red with the Holly TIEF and then glued it to a real red card base. I cut the triangles from one of the little boxes, cutting just  inside the score lines. I glued the three triangles onto the card with multipurpose glue and then added an old olive trunk. This gave me the perfect opportunity to pull out the new Enamel Shapes (page 177 in case you haven’t seen them) and add some of the smallest circles in real red and old olive. I had intended to add a sentiment, but it was going to fight with the dry embossed background. And I didn’t feel like having a fight on my hands this morning!

It feels as if lately, I’ve given myself permission to start making Christmas cards – I’ve made a few this month. I’m planning a monthly Christmas card class stamp a stack  (4 copies of 2 designs) starting next month. Let me know if you’re local and interested. I’ll create a kit by post if there’s interest – let me know.

Hope that your weekend is going well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz