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Merriest Wishes for Peter

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It’s hard to know what to get your boss as a little gift – especially one who is so fitness focused that means he goes to the gym five days per week and although he keeps a candy bowl on his desk, almost never eats it! I’m trying to emulate him – on the lack of candy eating that is. The gym, not so much although I’m going to try to start running again soon. There. It’s out there in writing so I’ll have to push myself! I decided on a bottle of wine which of course needs a tag, so I whipped one up this morning. I’d lent out my Merriest Wishes set and got it back a day or two back which is why I was so last minute with my bottle topper.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merriest Wishes - Merry Tags Framelits Dies - Softly Falling TIEF

I cut a piece of whisper white (thinking about it now, it should’ve been the thick whisper white) at 7 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches. Odd size you’re thinking? Well yes. I started with 8 by 3 but it drowned my little tag so I cut it down! I cut a hole in the top with a circle framelit (measured first over the bottle for size) and then dry embossed the bottom part with the Softly Falling TIEF.

Next to the fun details. I cut out the tag with the scene from Merry Tags Framelits Dies three times – in whisper white, soft suede and always artichoke and then cut out the deer and trees and glued them on top of the whisper white using my silicone mat and sponge dauber to apply the glue. Next I cut a full sized tab from soft sky and glued my pieced tag onto that. The sentiment is of course from the Merriest Wishes set.

I wonder if subconsciously I selected the colours to match the bottle that I was using for sizing and as a prop. Peter’s not getting this one – it’s only half full, the other half being consumed last night. The Oyster Bay bottle has a blue top that isn’t far off Soft Sky. I will be laughing at myself if I end up selecting a bottle by colour rather than contents!

In case you’re wondering at the lack of Paper Pumpkin alternate ideas, my kit hasn’t come yet. The tracking says that as of a week ago, the Post Office has been sent notification but not the item. Hopefully soon.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

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). 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

Merriest Wishes

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I was playing some more with the Warmth & Cheer DSP stack and the Merriest Wishes set. They just ask to go together!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merriest Wishes - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

So it’s  piece of the stack with a garden green mat onto a crumb cake card base. The sentiment is from the Merriest Wishes stack which I stamped in garden green on crumb cake and cut out with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies which I popped up on the DSP. It’s a fast and easy Christmas card that isn’t too clean and simple, it’s fun. I used the remainder of the 6″ by 6″ sheet to cover the envelope flap.

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.

Tomorrow is the beginning of an awesome sale. You need to be back because tomorrow has a flash sale that is just for Monday.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

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I completely overlooked the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack in the Holiday catalog and I can’t imagine why. I kept seeing cards online with gorgeous papers and they kept being this stack. When Julia was ordering recently, she planned to get this one and when I commented that it was on my list for my next order, she just upped the quantity to two and got me one. I’m so grateful! At the crop this weekend, I had a lot of fun playing with this stack and the stitched shapes framelits dies which coordinate beautifully with the stitching on this paper stack.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Merriest Wishes - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

Paper stacks are 6 inches square and if you cut your DSP for the card at 3 3/4 by 5 inches you get enough leftover to cover the envelope flap for perfect coordination. So that’s what I did and I matted it with a piece of garden green that’s just an 1/8 inch larger. This was then glued to a crumb cake card base. For my sentiment I used the Merriest Wishes set and embossed it in black. I then cut it out with the awesome stitched shapes framelits dies. I’m so glad that these came out early – they are addictive though, I warn you! I’m using them on pretty much every card that I can! I’ve read this morning that the stocks of the dies are getting low, so if you want to snap them up before they go on back order, you need to get them right away. Anyway, I popped up the sentiment with dimensionals and finished off the project by sticking the remaining DSP to the envelope flap and snipping around the edge of the flap.

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

Lovely As A Tree

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This cards a bit of an experiment – I was, of course, still playing with my Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies last night when I wondered whether I could have something poking out of the stitched shape. I decided on the elegant tree from Lovely As A Tree for my experiment.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Lovely As A Tree - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Merriest Wishes

I first stamped it on the very vanilla layer and then again on a scrap which I cropped with the largest of the square Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies. Then I carefully lined up the image and glued the die cut layer on the top of the tree stamped on the card layer. Only then did I stamp my greeting – happily flawlessly, but that was definitely taking a risk! I then put the layer onto a cherry cobbler card base to match the greeting. I am really glad that these dies came in time for me to take them to the 3 day crop that I’m going to tomorrow – look for lots more samples showing them next week.

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

Jolly Hat Builder Punch

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Yes, I’ve been playing with the Jolly Hat Builder punch again. It’s rather addictive. I know that my sister Caro has even punched one out and put on a photograph! I thought that I’d try a few of the other hat stamps in Jolly Friends as an excuse for more hats… 🙂

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Jolly Hat Builder Punch - Jolly Friends - Merriest Wishes

So my moose is stamped in soft suede again. This time the hat is the stripy rather Dr Seuss looking one and the brim and bobble are in silver glimmer paper. This is when I regret not having the red glimmer paper. Yet. I popped the bobble up on a teeny piece of dimensionals for some fun.

I’m finding that the brim of the hat can go either way up – I think that the stamp set implies it’s the other way than I’ve done it here, but this works too.

The sentiment is actually the name of the set, Merriest Wishes and that’s in real red too. I used a skinny mat of soft suede to echo the moose but that meant that I had a nice wider real red border from the card base. There are a few more different hat stamps to go, but since my Paper Pumpkin arrived at the post office in the wee hours, I’m expecting it today. So there will likely be a Paper Pumpkin related post tomorrow. It looks like a fun kit – I’ve already seen the video.

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.

See you tomorrow,

Liz