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Hexagon Punch and It’s My Party

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Here are two things which are retiring in a couple of weeks – the hexagon punch and the It’s My Party DSP stack. Both, as of this morning, are still available. The punch is extremely useful for cutting the ends of banners or, as in this case, for using up scraps.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and It's My Party DSP

The DSP scraps are all from the It’s My Party DSP, a very happy stack. I punched out about 10 in various scraps as well as a couple in crushed curry. I stamped the sentiment on one of these also in crushed curry ink. I’d tell you where the sentiment is from, but I can’t find it – I’ve sorted out my sets into current, retired but I’m keeping and retired and a quick look through this morning hasn’t helped. It is a very similar sentiment to one in the Sale-a-bration set, Party Pants. I eventually will locate the set and I’ll update this. Edit: I located the stamp set – it’s Sunburst Sayings.

Then comes the fun piece – take a piece of whisper white and start arranging the hexagons. For this arrangement I decided that I wanted them falling down the page. Once I had them laid out, I started at the bottom right and worked up one. Then I started at the top left – hoping I’d got my placement pretty close – and worked down. I’ve noted before that the hexagon isn’t totally perfect so I like to pop up at least one of the hexagons to disguise this. I did this again today, popping up the sentiment one. Here’s a better view of that.

Stampin' Up! Hexagon Punch and It's My Party DSP

And that’s it – a quick and easy card which uses up scraps. What more could you ask for?

See you tomorrow (at 8am because it’s a Thursday and I align my posting with the challenge thread),

Liz

It’s My Party

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That’s the name of the DSP – It’s My Party DSP, not that I’m having an actual party today.I CASEd the idea of this card from Allison Okamitsu. I love the big bold typeface of the word hello paired with the fun It’s My Party DSP.

Stampin' Up! It's My Party DSP and Hello

I used versamark and crushed curry embossing powder for the beautiful word and then stamped the hat in melon mambo on whisper white and quickly snipped it out. I then cut out the hello and a matching mat in crushed curry using a couple of the ovals collections framelits dies. I chose this fun paper for the background and cut out a 4″ by 5 1/4″ piece (you can get 6 of these out of a single piece of the DSP) and adhered it to the crushed curry card base. The only thing popped up today is the little party hat. I stamped the sentiment “birthday girl” on the inside of the card rather than following Allison’s card closely and putting it on the front. And there you have it – a quick and easy  birthday card. Actually I need a masculine one today, I don’t think this quite cuts it so I’m going to my stash for that.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Sunburst Sayings

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This card gave the big shot a bit of a work out – I don’t think I’ve used so many different dies on a single card before. And there was almost no stamping, just the sentiment from Sunburst Sayings – which coordinates with the Sunburst thinlits die.

Stampin' Up! Sunburst Sayings and Sunburst thinlits die and Party Pop-up thinlits dies

I actually cut out a number of the starbursts as I was trying to decide on the direction of this card. A couple of tips – use the big shot brush to get the cut piece out of the die and cleaned up (or the paper piercing tool) and not your thumb. I have a pretty good cut from the card that I tried that with! Also I put glue on the sunburst to the ends before trimming to fit the melon mambo cardbase, that could have been planned a little better. This DSP is from the It’s My Party DSP which is a fun collection of papers in happy bright colours. In this case, crushed curry and whisper white, so I continued those colours with the stamping and the mat. I punched out the sentiment with the 1.25″ circle punch and used the circles collection dies to cut out the mat which is popped up with dimensionals. I used another piece of the DSP to line the outside flap of the envelope to coordinate. And there’s one bright and happy birthday card. Except, that’s not all. There’s more fun on the inside.

Stampin' Up! Party pop-up thinlits dies and It's My Party DSP

This is the second die from the Party Pop-up thinlits dies with another piece of the It’s My Party DSP behind it. I cut the crushed curry at a quarter inch smaller than the card base, scored it in the middle and then lined the tabs on the die up with the score line.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Party Pop-up thinlits dies for PPA

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When I got home from work on Thursday, there was a box full of new product at the front door. Although this was my first day in the office for the week due to being sick, I could not resist a little play. I made yesterday’s card for Komal (she loved it – it’s wonderful how giving a card makes people happy) and then instead of going to bed, I had to play with the Party pop-up thinlits dies. I loved Brian’s colour combination for the Pals Paper Arts challenge this week so much that I looked through the It’s My Party DSP stack again for a suitable paper for the back of my card. It’s really simple to do – I cut the mint macaron a quarter inch smaller than the card base and folded it in half. The party pop-up dies have arrows on them that you line up with the central crease and then a roll through the big shot and you have this great pop up card.

Stampin' Up! Party pop-up thinlits dies

Just glue the DSP in place onto the melon mambo cardbase and then attach the mint macaron as well. Make sure you push the crease of the mint macaron well into the crease on the card base. The amusing thing about making this card is that after you’ve done all this, you still have the front of the card to do! Fortunately I persuaded myself to go to bed at this point.

I decided that balloons were the perfect image for the front of this happy and fun birthday card and pulled out more new items – the Balloon Celebration stamp set and it’s matching punch, balloon bouquet. You can get these as a bundle together and save 15%.

Stampin' Up! Balloon Celebration and Balloon Bouquet Punch and Party Pop-up thinlits dies and It's My Party DSP stack

I first stamped the bundle of strings in basic black and then stamped various sized balloons in mint macaron and melon mambo on scrap paper, decorating some with the bubbles. After I’d arranged the balloons, popping some up with stampin’ dimensionals I decided that I needed a sentiment. Since the balloon strings are in the middle of the card, it just didn’t work putting anything either side so it needed to be a banner. The triple banner punch came in very handy – it’s not an essential tool since you can use other punches or scissors for the banner end, but it’s makes it so much easier. The sentiment is also from the balloon celebration set.

I decorated the envelope with another piece of the same DSP as is inside the card. I just cut a strip of the DSP, glued it to the outside of the envelope and trimmed off the excess.

Here’s the banner which inspired this card

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Gift box punch board

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Happy Christmas and Feliz Navidad and Happy Holidays to everyone. I’m rather more organised than this time yesterday morning and have only one more gift to wrap. Fortunately in my family we don’t open gifts until after brunch which comes after Martin’s motorbike ride (if it’s warm enough – and it is this year) and my run. So there’s time. I was too busy making dinner last night to finish off.

I had a few pieces of paper to wrap (tickets to shows etc) and I wanted to make them less obvious and more substantial and so I got out my gift box punch board. Every time that I use this, I’m grateful to Jill who bought it for me as a Secret Pal gift last year.

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

I wanted to use a tag from the Oh What Fun tag kit that I made last week and went hunting for a DSP with mint macaron. I found the perfect paper in the It’s My Party DSP. I agree it’s a large box for a voucher. There may or may not be some paper towel and walnuts in there just to confuse the recipient. My sister was delighted to see that I was using the tag that she designed (in the middle) and that went perfectly with paper from Merry Moments DSP and some retired mossy meadow ribbon. The sentiment is embossed in white and is from Flurry of Wishes.

The final box is also using Merry Moments DSP but this one is upside down so that the box closure is on the bottom. This made the top cleaner and I decorated that with a bow made with the bow builder punch out of real red that was already dry embossed with stars using the Lucky Stars TIEF. Here’s a closer look at that

Stampin' Up! Gift box punch board and sleigh ride edgelits dies and flurry of wishes and Oh What Fun and Merry Moments DSP and It's My Party DSP

For details on the tags, please see my post from last week.

I really like the gift box punch board – I have three examples of different sizes, the board has instructions on it for 15 different sizes (in both cm and inches) so it’s really versatile. Really easy too.

I’d love to stick around and write more and put off my run, but I’d better get moving. I hope that your day is filled with love and fun and joy.

See you tomorrow,

Liz