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Picture Perfect leaving

Picture Perfect is leaving us in just THREE days – if it lasts that long. It’s currently been marked as being “low inventory” so you’ll need to move swiftly to grab it. It’s a really fun set with multiple layers of stamping and a diverse selection of images – starfish, hummingbird and flowers! For some reason, I didn’t manage to create a card with the starfish and the hummingbird together.

Here are a selection of the cards that I’ve made with it – just click on the pictures to go to the original post.

This card is rather unusual – all the elements (apart from the sentiment) were fussy cut. I wasn’t sure of the placement to start with and I started fussy cutting a few pieces and ended up with them all!

This card also uses Gorgeous Grunge (also retiring and in short supply) which everyone seemed to love. I, however, didn’t believe I’d used it much at all. It’s interesting that it’s on two of the five cards here.

This is one of my favourites. Simple and the hummingbird just takes centre stage. As it should.

I love how realistic the images are in this set.

If you’ve been inspired, don’t forget that both Picture Perfect and Gorgeous Grunge are as supplies last until Wednesday. After that, they aren’t available.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Gorgeous Grunge with Picture Perfect

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As you know, my cards are clean and simple almost exclusively so Gorgeous Grunge is not a set that I use much. But for my first card for the colour challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week, I decided that I needed it to add in the third colour and to add a little something to the background. In the end, it was not the card that I chose for the Design Team, but it’s still a fun card. And still clean and simple!

I stamped the starfish in blushing bride and rose red – it looks so three dimensional it’s incredible! I snipped it out and then the matter of how to add the so saffron loomed. Some sort of sand made sense and I first tried the lines from Gorgeous Grunge which I’ve never used before but it looked as if the starfish was trying to run which didn’t really make sense! So I used the dots, stamped a couple of times as my background. The sentiment comes from the bonus set in April’s Paper Pumpkin, All About Everything. I love the Paper Pumpkin kits – even if I don’t love the project, there’s always a stamp set and other items to play with. It’s definitely worth the money. I popped the starfish up with dimensionals to give it even more 3D effect. I even added tiny little snippets of dimensionals at the end of the arms. I like the white on white look, it’s very clean but slightly more interesting than a one layer card.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Picture Perfect for my sister

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Today is the start of a new month at CAS Colours & Sketches which means that it’s time for a new challenge hostess. This month it’s my sister Caro’s turn and she’s chosen to do a farewell to some of the retiring in colours.

Here’s the banner which inspired my card.

Of course, I first thought about flowers or sunsets but it just wasn’t coming together for me and I was determined to make a card that didn’t look autumnal even though these colours hint at it. Then I noticed Picture Perfect in my “staging” area and decided to play with that. I have the majority of my stamp sets in another room but I have a box that my father built for me that holds about 20 sets that I keep on my table and store my “just used” or “thinking about using” sets. Hummingbirds come in an incredible array of colours, some of which look completely unnatural and improbable (just check google), so I felt that I could use these colours to make a fun bird. It also really highlights mossy meadow which is my favourite of these three colours.

It’s a 2 step stamp, officially, although 4 step stamping would be more accurate! I stamped the three body images all in mossy meadow, stamping off twice for the first one, once for the next and full strength for the last. I decided to reuse the “throat” stamp on the wing to add in the hello honey – an idea that I saw on Brandys cards. The sentiment is from the set that is currently my favourite for sentiments – Watercolor Wishes. After stamping the sentiment in mossy meadow, I glued the very vanilla piece to a mossy meadow card base.

I lined the envelope with retired mossy meadow backgrounds DSP using the (retiring) envelope liners framelits. I hope that you’ll take a look at the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge site this week and admire the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and then have a go yourself with these colours. It would be great to see your card in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Picture Perfect using CC&S colours and sketch

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We had another new hire this week and I wanted to make a card to welcome him. And I wanted to reuse the colours from the new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. Two blues sounded like sea and sky and the coral made me think of the Picture Perfect set and the starfish. I am also continuing to play with last week’s sketch challenge which apparently really grabbed me – thanks to Jane for these.

The banner for this challenge is:

It’s quite a tricky combination in my opinion and I played with it for a while before deciding on this design. Martin asked why a starfish on a welcome card; I decided it’s because work is hard, we’re trying to do a lot with not enough people (hence the hiring) so Rod will need extra arms and hands to get everything done. A stretch perhaps…

The starfish is stamped in watermelon wonder on watercolour paper – it’s a 2 step stamp and one was stamped off first once and the other is full strength. I then fussy cut this. Why watercolour paper? Well I intended to use watercolour paper for the background and I played with it a little but in the end, after also trying white shimmer paper, I ended up with ordinary whisper white. So the background has marina mist and night of navy washed on with an aquapainter and, once that dried, I actually used Gorgeous Grunge to add the night of navy spots. I must remember to warn my sister Caro about the use of Gorgeous Grunge. It’s not something I use much at all whereas she loves it. Next I cut a square of night of navy slightly larger for the mat. I kept the squares slightly smaller than the starfish – I like the overhanging look. Before adding anything to my base of thick whisper white, I stamped the sentiment from Welcome Words in night of navy. There’s not much worse than gluing elements to a card and then messing up the stamping. Once the stamping was done, I started construction.

I popped the starfish up with dimensionals and then coloured it in with some clear Wink of Stella. I know that this pen is on backorder and I can see why – I need to get a back up one because I’m using it a lot. I used some of the retired backgrounds DSP in night of navy to line the outside of 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 with these colours and have a go yourself.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Picture Perfect Hummingbird

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There’s quite a lot of stamping on today’s card which just used the Picture Perfect set – the hummingbird is 4 steps and the flowers and leaves are three. And then there’s all the fussy cutting – all the stamping meant that it was a lot safer to cut out the pieces. I didn’t want to have the final stamping mess up the whole card. So the flowers are completely in melon mambo – I stamped off twice for the first stamping, once for the second and used full strength ink for the final stamp. I then added some glitter with the Wink of Stella on the darkest parts.

For the leaves I used mint macaron stamped off once, then full strength and finished the stamping off with cucumber crush. I discovered that stamping off onto a piece of grid paper that had some rich razzleberry stamping off on it wasn’t a good idea. It took me a while to figure out why I had slightly off coloured leaves since I wasn’t looking at the grid paper when stamping off! I cut out my leaves and flowers last weekend and then worked on something else. Today I cut out the hummingbird so the fussy cutting didn’t seem too arduous and it’s only as I sat down to type this post that I realised that everything on this card was fussy cut. The colours used for the bird are cucumber crush, melon mambo, old olive and mossy meadow. Oh and there’s a little more wink of Stella there too.

Next was construction! I’d advise stamping the sentiment first although I didn’t do that. I started by placing the flowers and leaves and then gluing the leaves where I wanted them. Next I added the flowers that are falling off the edge and finally popped up the whole flower. I also popped up the hummingbird to give him more of a sense of movement.

Finally I lined the envelope with the 2015-2017 in color DSP stack and the envelope liners framelits. This whole card feels very Spring like and happy and this liner continues that. I showed the card to my brother telling him that I didn’t think he’d like it. He didn’t. I’ve yet to make a card combining pink and green that he likes – for some reason he just doesn’t like them together. I do though, so that’s okay!

Somebody submitted a Stampin’ Up! order naming me as their demonstrator yesterday (thank you very much), but checked the No contact box. This means that I can’t send you a thank you card. So if it was you, please reach out to me so that I can thank you properly with a card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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