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Another Designer Tin of Cards alternative

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When I completed yesterday’s card, I started looking at the Designer Tin of Cards kit to see whether I could create two cards from another of the designed cards – or maybe just an alternative. Let’s see what I do with the leftovers from today’s card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Blossom bunch punch

I used the card base from the kit but decided on letting more of it show. A strip of night of navy gave me the foundation for my sentiment from the Designer Tin of Cards set which I heat embossed in silver and cut out with the layering squares framelits dies. I wanted a little something extra and since the blossom bunch punch was still out from the previous card, I grabbed some silver foil scraps and punched out three of the smallest flowers. I finished these off with three of the enamel shapes in night of navy and glued them on with mini glue dots.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Designer Tin of Cards

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I have a card class on Saturday 18th March and I’m already prepping for it! I think that may be a record. The class is to make the Designer Tin of Cards project kit which consists of a tin, 16 cards and tabs to help organise them. I’m guessing you’re wondering just what there is to prep? Well it’s 4 copies of 4 cards and I decided I wanted to make a few alternatives (no surprise, I know!) in case people wanted some extra variety.

I was a bit surprised to notice that when the card is based on the Moroccan DSP, the shape to go on it is whisper white. So I’ll ensure that I have plenty of very vanilla on hand so that people can swap those out. I also decided that I didn’t want to cover up most of the patterned card and have created 2 cards out of the supplies of one with just a few extra basics.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tin of Cards - Moroccan DSP - Layering Squares Framelits Dies

The large patterned piece is from the kit and I added it to a delightful dijon card base. Next I laid down a strip of the kit’s washi tape folding the ends to crease it where I wanted to cut and then cutting it off. I know that washi is planned as a rough and ready tape, but I don’t like the ragged edges! I cut a little strip of Moroccan DSP to lay on top of some of the washi – in fact that little strip is where I got the delightful dijon from. To continue the colour scheme, I used delightful dijon for the sentiment from the Designer Tin of Cards stamp set (on very vanilla!) and added a layering piece of early espresso cut out using the layering squares framelits dies. I popped this up with dimensionals.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to enter the raffle for a chance to win your very own Bookcase Builder stamp set for free; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, including this month’s raffle, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Flourish CAS Colours & Sketches

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It’s Thursday which means it’s time for another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and yes, the challenges there should flourish! How about this week you have a go at the challenge yourself? It would be great to see you in the gallery. This week it’s a sketch challenge where Karen wants to see some layering. I chose to go pretty minimalistic so that I could follow the layering of the sketch plus add some embellishments but remain ultra clean and simple.

Stampin' Up! Flourish thinlits and Watercolor Wishes

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

The flower was cut out with the Flourish thinlits in sweet sugarplum card stock; next I stamped the sentiment in the same ink onto a scrap of very vanilla which I cropped with one of the layering squares framelits dies. Yes, I could just cut the square myself using the trimmer but it’s so much simpler with the dies! That done, I held the square over the flowers and got them where I wanted them before using the two way glue pen to glue them permanently. The hello square is popped up on dimensionals hiding the stalks. For a final touch, I got out the enamel shapes in the in colours and added four to the buds. It’s probably the first time that I’ve added an even number of them!

 

Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate

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Firstly I’d like to thank Sam aka Pootles for selecting my card as her weekly winner – her blog is one of the few that I read each morning before I get out of bed and it was a great start to a Saturday.

When I got home from work yesterday, my Paper Pumpkin had arrived! So I got up this morning determined to make my first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate! It’s going to be very useful because soon I’ll be getting together with a friend and her son to bake cookies for a charity stall and we like to add fun labels. This set is perfect!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate - Something Good To Eat

I quickly decided that I wanted to make a very CAS card using the “A Happy Hello to you” sentiment  along with the sunflowers. I started with black centres but eventually changed to early espresso which looked better with the delightful dijon than chocolate chip. My grid paper is now covered in an assortment of sunflowers! After all that testing on white, I changed the top layer to very vanilla because it’s warmer. I wanted to add a pop of colour and watermelon wonder fits the bill – I stamped the sentiment and then used my layering squares framelits dies to cut it out and create a little frame. The layering dies are really great for creating different sized borders. Next was the placement of the flowers – I held my sentiment in place and figured how much of the flower needed to be seen and then removed the sentiment and stamped.  I popped the sentiment up with dimensionals. Then it was a simple matter of an early espresso skinny mat (it’s 1/8 inch larger than the very vanilla piece) and a wider than usual band of the card base showing. It’s fun playing with different sized mats; admittedly because I don’t tend to have a lot of layers there’s less scope, but it’s amazing what a change of 1/8 or 1/4 inch can make.

So there’s the first Paper Pumpkin September 2016 Alternate, I’m off to go and make the second one now.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Cupcake Cutouts Framelits Dies

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Well it was the House IT Desk (aka my brother) to the rescue. He got me a new card reader and I’m back in business. I decided to celebrate by finally entering another Pootles’ Colour Challenge; recently I’ve been leaving it too late in the week because I know that there’s more time and then suddenly I’ve missed the deadline! Also I wanted to make a card using the cupcake cutouts framelits dies to show why you need them if you don’t already have them. So I banned myself from using the stamp set and just used the dies. Sam’s colours for this week were rich razzleberry, sweet sugarplum, blushing bride and crumb cake. I usually forget about crumb cake so this was a great challenge for me.

Stampin' Up! Cupcake Cutouts framelits dies and Cottage Greetings and Layering Squares Framelits dies

I first cut out a number of the squiggles using the three pinks and decided that they looked very celebratory and should be bursting out joyfully. So then it was a matter of finding the right sentiment that wouldn’t take up too much space so that the squiggles could shine. I found my greeting in the Cottage Greetings set – a really happy one and stamped it in rich razzleberry on crumb cake. I cut it and the rich razzleberry mat using the layering squares framelits dies and then glued on my squiggles ensuring that they continued off the crumb cake cardbase and came together close enough so that my square would cover the ends. To continue the feeling of celebration, I added some enamel shapes in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry. The square is popped up on dimensionals so that the ends of the squiggles don’t create a lumpy look. I’ve now got lots of little pieces of cardstock that came out from the loops of the squiggles – I’m contemplating a shaker card with them! The cupcake cutouts framelits dies are a must have in my opinion – very versatile.

See you tomorrow,

Liz