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Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies

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This was actually a post to showcase the bermuda bay glimmer paper but it’s sold out in the US. If you’re in one of the other markets you can still get it. But let’s assume that you have some leftover – or our standard glimmer paper! I was having trouble with this particular colour glimmer paper – trying to pair it with bermuda bay card stock and it just didn’t work. The other evening, I looked at it in frustration and realised that it looks a whole lot more like island indigo. Mostly. Bingo! And it looks great with the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits Dies - Bunch of Blossoms - Petal Burst TIEF - Layering Circles Framelits Dies

So I’ve got a bermuda bay glimmer paper dragonfly and it’s so sparkly. I put it on a piece of whisper white edged by a skinny mat of island indigo. Bermuda bay just didn’t work. The card base is thick whisper white and the entire front of it is dry embossed with the petal burst textured impressions embossing folder – this is one of the items that (at least) is available as a freebie in the UK during Sale-a-bration. Not so in the US for some reason. I then decided to use one of my current favourite sets for sentiments, Bunch of Blossoms. But here I found that island indigo didn’t work for the sentiment – too dark, even stamped off it didn’t work. Bermuda bay looked much better. I’m thoroughly confused by the bermuda bay glimmer paper, just know that you should consider both bermuda bay and island indigo if you’re using it!

I used the layering circles framelits dies to cut out the sentiment and the slightly larger scalloped one to cut out a mat from the glimmer paper. I popped that up with dimensionals. This card has been many days in the making (the bermuda bay threw me off!) and I’m finally happy with it.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

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See you tomorrow,

Just 9 days to go in Sale-a-bration! Which means only 9 for the awesome joining offer.

Liz

Tuscan Vineyard for CAS Colours & Sketches

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Happy Thursday which means that it’s time for a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches, this time a sketch.

Stampin' Up! Tuscan Vineyard and Watercolor Wishes

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

At the weekend I broke out one of my new sets, Tuscan Vineyard and started watercolouring. I really miss the retired mossy meadow, but if it hadn’t have retired, I wouldn’t have pulled out Always Artichoke which worked really well here. Silver linings right? After watercolouring the leaves in always artichoke and adding more colour to the parts of the leaves which were more shaded (the designers of the stamps make life easier for those of us who really weren’t stars in art class!) I pulled out rich razzleberry and did the same to the grapes. I then carefully added the sentiment realising that I should have stamped it before I’d spent the time watercolouring but it was perfect.

I trimmed my watercolour paper to be smaller than the card front at the sides to be true to the sketch. Unusually I made the card with the fold at the top which I feel works well with the side panels.

The photo shows that the card is sitting on something bumpy but not much detail – it’s the new Petal Burst TIEF and I used it to emboss the envelope flap.

I hope that you’ll pop over to the challenge site to see what the rest of the Design Team have created and to have a go at the challenge yourself. You don’t need a blog to enter.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Fruit Stand Designer Series Paper

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On Friday I returned home after a week at one of our plants in Ennis, Texas. It was a really interesting week, I learned a lot, met a large number of really nice people and met up with my friend Rebecca (whom I haven’t seen in 12 years) a couple of times. As you presumably noticed, I had all my posts ready to go so that there was no interruptions but the one thing that was bothering me was that my Stampin’ Up! order was arriving the day after I left, on Tuesday. So yesterday, in between laundry and cooking, I found time to start playing. Usually I jump on the new stamp sets but this time it was the Fruit Stand DSP which insisted on being used first. I fully expected to be using the quieter sides of the the DSP, so this card came as a bit of a surprise to me!

Stampin' Up! Fruit Stand DSP and Watercolor Wishes

The Fruit Stand DSP is absolutely gorgeous and the peach (or is it an apricot?) needed to be the focal point of the card. So I snipped around it with my paper snips which was no big deal. I decided to leave a white border and layer it on white so I didn’t need to be terribly precise. After a fair amount of playing around with the reverse of the paper and various colour of cardstock, I finally decided to use tangerine tango. I cut down my top layer of whisper white to 4 3/4 by 3 1/2 inches and stamped the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes in tangerine tango using the cut out peach to help position it. Then I added a skinny mat of tangerine tango (1/8 inch larger than the whisper white) before gluing that to a thick whisper white card base. I then popped up the peach on a lot of dimensionals – the DSP is pretty sturdy, but I wanted to be sure it wouldn’t sag.

Stampin' Up! Fruit Stand DSP and Watercolor Wishes

I used another of my new products on the envelope – I dry embossed the flap with the petal burst TIEF.

I’m off now to go and play some more. See you tomorrow,

Liz