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Pedal Pusher Party Pants

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How’s that title for a bit of alliteration? Today, as we get to the final days of Sale-a-bration, I’m using two of the free products that I got over the last few months, Pedal Pusher and Party Pants. This is a quick and easy card, easy to mass produce and easy to change by changing the colours.

Stampin' Up! Party Pants and Pedal Pusher

I stamped the bicycle on very vanilla in archival black ink. I find that I need the piercing mat underneath to give extra cushion when stamping this or the middle of the image isn’t crisp. Adding some ink from the re-inker to the pad helped too. Be careful after you’ve stamped, it’s very easy to smudge this. I added the basket and the picnic image since that seems appropriate for a birthday. I then coloured in the bike using my lost lagoon marker and then added a touch of the clear wink of Stella on top. The bike I got at 13 was a metallic blue and this reminds me of it. I stamped the sentiment from Party Pants in versamark on lost lagoon (after using the embossing buddy) and then used the gold embossing powder. Once I’d heated it to the lovely raised shine, I wiped a soft cloth over it to remove any remnants of the embossing buddy powder. Next I used the Balloon Bouquet punch to get my balloon. The balloon string was hand drawn with a black Stampin’ write marker before I added the balloon, popped up with stampin’ dimensionals. I mounted this on a lost lagoon cardbase.

Lost lagoon is one of my favourites of the soon to be retiring in colours. It’s hard to pick an absolute favourite, I have a trio instead – lost lagoon, mossy meadow and blackberry bliss. The other two of the five are close to colours currently available but these three are beautiful, rich and unique. I’m going to miss them. Fingers crossed that they come back in a colour refresh someday.

I’ll be posting later tomorrow – at around 8am – since that’s the time that the new challenge is posted at CAS Colours & Sketches.

See you then,

Liz

Pedal Pusher for CC&S

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There is a new challenge starting today over at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s a fun colour one. I had the Pedal Pushers stamp set from Sale-a-bration to play with and I decided to use that for the challenge.

Stampin' Up! Pedal Pusher and Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine

And here’s the banner for the challenge:

I started with a fairly wet wash of cucumber crush and mint macaron on a piece of watercolour paper. I love the watery look of the diluted wash with the two greens next to each other. Then I stamped the bicycle in the archival basic black and added the basket and the flowers. I coloured the bike with the Stampin’ Write mint macaron marker and the leaves of the flowers in cucumber crush. The flowers are coloured using real red and the aquapainter so that I have flowers coloured in varying strengths. I then realised that I should’ve stamped the sentiment before doing all my colouring, but fortunately I stamped it okay! It’s a sentiment from this month’s Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine.

I then matted this with a piece of basic black which is just 1/8 inch larger than the watercolour paper and mounted that onto a real red card base. I was tempted to add the butterfly from Flowering Fields but when I tested it out, realised that the butterfly was much much larger and was about the size of all the flowers put together. It would’ve looked like an alien!

I lined the envelope with the cucumber crush flower pattern from the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits dies. It’s yet another beautiful colour that I need to use more.

I hope that you’ll hop over to the CC&S challenge log to see the inspiration from the rest of the team and to enter a card of your own into the challenge.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Pedal Pusher

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Here’s a fun set that was added earlier this month to the list of items you can earn for free during Sale-a-bration. My order that arrived a couple of days ago had the two new sets so you’ll be seeing the Party Pants set soon. But today, it’s Pedal Pusher. This card was one of the “let’s start with a stamp and see where it ends up” variety. I wanted to use the bike and was pretty sure I wanted to use my aquapainter but even so I started by stamping the bike in archival basic black rather than using the stazon. There’s not much watercolouring over the black so I figured it would be safe from bleeding.

Stampin' Up! Pedal Pusher and Enjoy the little things

The really fun thing about the Pedal Pusher set is that it has a basket stamp and several options for what to include. I of course had to start with the wine! The grapes fall over the edge of the basket – I didn’t stamp it quite perfectly so I just added a grape to fill in the gap with my stampin’ write basic black marker. It worked perfectly.

I then did a pale wash of mossy meadow for the ground, trying hard not to make it too neat and tidy. Not that I’m claiming that I’m neat and tidy by nature (my sister and others who know me are probably giggling) but I like symmetry and things to visually be neat. Then I used a less watered down shade of mossy meadow for the bike frame and mudguards. Since I’d started with last year’s in colours, I grabbed hello honey for the basket and watered it down a little for the bread and then finished with a very watered down blackberry bliss for the grapes.

The sentiment is from Enjoy the little things which is a set intended for Project Life but it seems perfect for cards too. I stamped off once so that the blackberry bliss sentiment would be closer to the grapes in strength. The mat is blackberry bliss and it’s on a card base of mossy meadow.

I definitely need to check my supplies of the card stock in the in colours and get any extras I need by the end of next month. If I’m going to stock up on them, it makes sense to do so now so that I can get freebies from Sale-a-bration, right? 🙂

Ann asked me if there’s a trick to ensuring that washi tape doesn’t pull up from the card if you don’t wrap it all the way around although she wonders if it’s due to living in a dry climate. New Jersey is definitely not dry but I haven’t had any issues, so I reached out to Eimear (my unofficial upline) to see if she had either although the UK isn’t really dry. We agreed that the best thing to do would be to use some glue on the end – and that fast fuse would stop it (and anything) moving. When I say unofficial upline, it’s because my sister introduced me to Stampin’ Up! but since she lives in the UK I couldn’t be part of that group. But Eimear’s adopted me and I’m part of her Facebook group. Both Eimear and my sister Caro have blogs and are taking part in a blog hop today. I know that they’d be thrilled if you dropped by especially if you left them a comment.

Have a great weekend and I hope that you have some time to craft. I’m off back to my kitchen table to play some more.

See you tomorrow,

Liz