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Farewell to Remarkable You

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I thought I’d start a weekly “I’m sad that this stamp set is retiring, don’t miss snapping it up” post. Mondays seem like a good day for that! One of my favourite stamps that is leaving us is Remarkable You. It’s such a versatile, beautiful stamp set – if you haven’t noticed it, check it out. Here are a few of the cards that I’ve made with it:

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Cottage Greeting

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Hello Sunshine

I love that this image can work for somber or happy cards.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Tin of Cards

And a cheerful thank you card too

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Thoughts and Prayers

I think this is one of my favourites with the set. So elegant.

liz bailey Remarkable You, brusho

So are you going to miss it too? Or do you have it on your shelf and it’s staying there? If you don’t have it, I recommend investing in it. As you can see, you can use it for anything.

I hope you enjoyed today’s projects.

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Liz

Remarkable You

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Remarkable You is a set in the current annual catalog and it’s perfect for colouring. Here I was still on my brusho kick, colouring everything in sight. I stamped the flower a few times before I got a decent image – at this point I didn’t have my stamparatus and I was wishing for it! I have it now although it’s at home (unwrapped) and I’m over in the UK visiting family. Luckily my sister has one…

liz bailey Remarkable You, brusho

I sprinkled some gamboge and yellow onto a block and used an aquapainter to color the flower. The moss green was on another block and had a tiny sprinkle of prussian blue. It’s really fun to add just a sprinkle of another colour and mix your own shade.

The sentiment is from the Happy Birthday Gorgeous set – such a pretty typeface.

I made the image pop by adding a tiny black mat and then putting that on an old olive card base leaving plenty of the old olive showing.

I’m still addicted to the brusho crystals but sometimes I take a break and do other things!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Remarkable You for CASology

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I seem to plan a lot of my challenge cards at the weekend and so I’m always sliding in under the wire if I enter the CASology challenges since they end on Mondays.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Thoughts and Prayers

The week’s challenge cue card is rather fun because it can be interpreted in a number of ways. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a mathematician and although I’ve managed to fight my need for symmetry quite successfully, I can’t go as far as torn edges! Not so far anyway. So since I haven’t embraced torn edges on my cards, I decided to go with a sympathy card. Sadly, I think that I’ll be needing one soon.

I started by stamping the leaves from the Remarkable You set in the archival basic black ink onto watercolour paper. It’s actually the first time I’ve inked this up – I’ve used all three of the flowers though. I really love this set, it’s great for watercolouring. I then stamped the sentiment using the same ink, it’s from Thoughts and Prayers in case you were wondering. I left the watercolouring for last because it would be irritating to mess up the sentiment after finishing the rest of the card and it gave the archival black a little more time to dry.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Thoughts and Prayers

For the watercolouring I went back to mossy meadow again. I adore this colour. I tried to put a fairly pale wash of colour all over the leaves and then make it slightly darker where there was shading. My first attempt was too harsh with not much success at blending, but this one worked out better. I really like watercolouring even though I’m not great at it and since it’s a fairly casual medium (sometimes) it doesn’t seem to matter. I’d encourage you to grab an aquapainter and have a go. It’s very rewarding. And if you don’t have it yet, Remarkable You is a great set to start playing with watercolour.

I put a very skinny mat of basic black around the watercolour paper – it really makes it pop. And then onto a mossy meadow cardbase.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Remarkable You

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I have been meaning to play with Remarkable You for a while and today I realised that if I took off the stalk, it would look like a waterlily. And that sounded like fun.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Tin of Cards

This is a set that I’m happy is making it to the new catalogue. I meant to have a watercoloured background of water or leaves but somehow that didn’t make it to the end result.

I stamped the flower from Remarkable You in melon mambo on very vanilla and then used an aquapainter to put a really pale wash of the same colour onto the flower. I then snipped it out – not as bad as it looks. Next I stamped the thanks, from Watercolour Wishes (yes again, I keep using this set!) in melon mambo and then the border comes from Tin of Cards. I love this border, I’ve only used it a couple of times so far but it creates a beautiful frame. Next I popped up my flower with dimensionals and that’s my almost one layer card done.

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Tin of Cards

To make the envelope interesting, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the retired Spring Flowers TIEF. I’m getting in practice for the retirement of the envelope liners framelits!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Remarkable You and Hello Sunshine

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It’s Thursday and thus another challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a colour challenge. Here’s what I made

Stampin' Up! Remarkable You and Hello Sunshine

and here’s the colour banner which inspired it

I hope that you’ll come and play. I used the beautiful set Remarkable You and embossed the image in silver on watercolour paper. And then I was determined to use the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 set (Hello Sunshine) which just arrived. Okay, I actually asked my brother to go to the mailbox to get the red box playing my “I have a sprained ankle” card again. He’s very nice that way. So I had to open the box and look at everything and then use one of the new sentiments for my card which I stamped in elegant eggplant. After that I used my aquapainter (filled with water by my brother) to watercolour the flower in elegant eggplant and wisteria wonder. The piece of watercolour paper looked good on an elegant eggplant base and I adhered it using fast fuse which is great for the watercolour paper.

I lined the envelope using the big shot and the envelope liner framelits in elegant eggplant to match the card base. The watercolour paper isn’t white or very vanilla but somewhere between so it doesn’t matter which way you go!

See you tomorrow,

Liz