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Love You Lots for a couple of challenges

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After a couple of busy days in New York, I was happy to be home and to have time to play with my stamps. CASology want a CUTE card this week and ATCAS want watercolour. This seemed a perfect opportunity to pull out Love You Lots and play with one of the so far uninked images.

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I really do love playing in challenges where the sketch or colours are set, but sometimes it’s really nice to use a cue card and be able to add green if you feel like it, or to change the design as the card wants. It seems to depend on how your creativity is feeling. Sometimes it needs more of a kick than at other times!

So I stamped this super cute image on shimmery white card stock using the archival basic black ink. To ensure that it was really dry before I started watercolouring, I stamped the sentiment next – obviously also from Love You Lots – in rose red. Then I squished my ink pads to put ink on the lids and started colouring away. I must say that after two days at a conference, it was fabulous to sit at my table and just watercolour. SO relaxing. I used soft suede for the hedgehogs and then more rose red for the flower. To give them something to stand on, I added a swoosh of pear pizzazz. Easy, fun, relaxing and definitely cute! I then put the shimmery white onto a base of rose red.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Love You Lots, Baby Bear

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As it’s Thursday, there’s a new challenge on the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge blog – which is why this post is later than usual. It’s timed to coincide with the challenge blog. Today it’s a colour challenge and to make this card I combined two sets, the hostess set Love you Lots and Baby Bear.

Stampin' Up! Lots of Love and Baby Bear

Here’s the colour banner which inspired my card.

I was a little worried about this combination – as I’ve mentioned before, I’m not overly fond of brown and to make it worse, when I made this card, I hadn’t yet made peace with flirty flamingo. So it was with some trepidation that I sat down to see what was going to happen. I started with a piece of watercolour paper thinking about doing a sunset with trees and started happily using my aquapainter to add sweet sugarplum and flirty flamingo. It looked really good. I’m not sure where the idea of the elephant came from – other than it was on my desk – but I decided to stamp her in chocolate chip and I loved the look. I also stamped her again on the whisper white card. I then snipped her out – cutting off her tail – and then glued my piece of watercolour paper right over the top. I added a little more sweet sugarplum in the shaded areas for contrast and a wash of more chocolate chip for some ground. The sentiment comes from the set Baby Bear and it’s also stamped in chocolate chip.

There was something missing and I looked around my table for a little something. I was actually at a day crop and didn’t have all my supplies, but I did have my new punch, the blossom builder. Perfect. I punched out a piece of flirty flamingo and put it on a foam mat. I then used the handle of my scoring tool to press down on the centre to make the edges pop up. A rhinestone in the centre and my baby elephant had her bling.

For the envelope, I stamped the elephant again and left her plain. So it coordinates but doesn’t give away everything about the card ahead of time.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team have created and to have a go yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter, any public gallery will do or even Facebook.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Love You Lots

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Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday, it was the second day in a row that I awoke to no power. And after a day at work followed by a mandatory work event, it was pretty late when I got home and hardly worth posting. So here’s the card showcasing another stamp from the Love You Lots hostess set that I’d intended to post yesterday.

Stampin' Up! Love You Lots

This is all one stamp and I love the elephant and his friend the mouse; it’s a totally adorable image. Here I made a general card that I can add a sentiment to the inside when I come to use it. I stamped the image in my favourite archival basic black and, after leaving it for a few minutes to ensure that it was really dry, used smoky slate and an aquapainter to colour it in. To give them something to stand on, I used pear pizzazz and layered the colour three times (with drying times in between) so that I have dimension rather than a flat wash of colour. Before putting my watercolour paper on a pear pizzazz card base, I added a mat of basic black which is just 1/8 inch larger than the watercolour paper. And it’s that easy – a quick clean and simple adorable card. As I said earlier in the week, you need this Love You Lots set!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Love You Lots hostess set

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I was intending to play with washi tape for today’s card, but yesterday afternoon I was showing Julia the new stamp sets that I got earlier this month. And I realised that I haven’t yet played with Love You Lots. It’s one of the hostess sets which means that it’s only available using Stampin’ Rewards but it also means it’s very good value. The 8 piece set was just $9. This set also lends itself perfectly to the current challenge at CAS on Sunday, which is black, white plus one colour.

Stampin' Up! Love You Lots

I started by watercolouring the image until I realised that I was just layering on more red to get to what is full strength real red so what was the point? Especially when I layered a little impatiently without waiting for the previous layer to dry and the edges started to blur. So I stamped the image using the archival basic black onto ordinary whisper white card stock, coloured it in with a real red stampin’ write marker and cut a black square at 2 1/8 inches to give a small frame to my 2 inch square of whisper white. I then positioned the image and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to get the sentiment where I wanted it. Only after that was done successfully did I add the image to the card, popped up with dimensionals. I’d like to say that my stamp was still inked up and so I used it for the envelope, but actually I’d already cleaned it. I’m sure the extra cleaning – and thus conditioning – is good for the new stamp! I’ve a good mind to go and play with the rest of the adorable images in this set now.

Whatever you’re doing, I hope you’re having a fun weekend. I’m going to spend the afternoon crafting.

See you tomorrow,

Liz