Here’s my final Christmas card for the year using Festive Phrases to wish you a very merry Christmas. I coloured the lights with real red and garden green Stampin’ Write markers and then added a little sparkle with wink of Stella. With a border of real red cut out with the layering squares framelits dies and put on a card dry embossed with the Softly Falling TIEF, you get a classy card nice and quickly – although I’ve had this ready and photographed for about 10 days!
If you celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a wonderful day. And if you don’t, I hope you have a wonderful day too!
I hope you enjoyed today’s project.
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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.
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.
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Happy Thursday and welcome to another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. As I mentioned last week, I have hostess duties this month and this is my first ever sketch challenge. I was a bit nervous about creating a sketch, but after a little surfing I found that it was quite fun to just let go and design a sketch. I really hope that you like what I’ve come up with and join in the fun. I designed this card on Tuesday and because I’d just got a new box of supplies they feature on my card. The Cozy Critters and matching Jolly Hat Builder punch are really fun to play with and the mini jingle bell is the fun finishing touch.
and here’s the sketch which inspired my card
I wanted to keep the background strip fairly quiet because my owl was going to be quite busy so decided on dry embossing. I love the softly falling TIEF, it’s good for snow and champagne bubbles. Then I stamped out the tree branch in old olive and (amazingly) just snipped it out whilst I was thinking about what to do next. Next was the adorable owl who is in soft suede and I coloured in his scarf with real red. Then it was obvious he needed a santa hat. Clearly it’s cold if he has a scarf on so he needs an overly large hat – I love that it’s down to his eyes and at a somewhat jaunty angle! I first punched out the hat in real red and glued that down and then added a mini jingle bell with a glue dot but something was missing. As you’ve probably noticed, I don’t do much glitter, but the hat called for a dazzling diamonds glimmer paper brim. Perfect.
There was an issue with the preorder that meant I couldn’t get the hostess set, Cozy Critters otherwise I’d have been sharing it earlier. And now that I have the Jolly Hat builder punch, I have a feeling that santa hats are going to be turning up all over the place!
Stop over to CAS Colours & Sketches to take a look at the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team and I hope to see you in the gallery.
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I’m a little late today due to a power cut at the absolute worst time – so photography, blogging and making food for my day are now compressed into about 15 minutes in total. Eek. First things first – photography and blogging, I can (gulp) skip the nutrition or at least cut it down! It’s Thursday which means a new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches and it’s Karen’s first sketch of the month. Of course since I’m late, my computer has decided to stop reading my SD cards. I was about to use my iPhone but my brother’s computer can read the card. Weird! Anyway, here’s this week’s card:
And here’s the sketch which inspired it
I dry embossed a piece of so saffron with the softly falling TIEF and then used one of the old oval framelits to draw a curve on the back which I cut out with my paper snips. Then I heat embossed the sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes in gold onto a so saffron cardbase and constructed the card. A few of the gold enamel shapes finished the celebratory card.
I made this card at the weekend and yet here I am sliding it into the challenge just under the wire! There’s just been too much excitement with the new catalogue launching to post my card. You’ll notice that I’ve finally managed to stop using the swoosh from the Swirly Scribbles thinlits dies and have actually used one of the scribbles!
Here’s the banner which inspired my card
Do you notice the shadow down the diagonal on my card? Yes, I cut the card to create the line in the sketch
I just took a regular cardbase, lined it up on my trimmer where it looked right and just chopped off a piece. I could’ve used that for the inside part but I actually used one of my precut liners which is a 1/4 inch smaller in both dimensions. I used the piece I’d removed from the card front to get the angle right and then embossed it using the Softly Falling TIEF. This serves two purposes – it decorates the card front when the card is closed and makes it clear where you shouldn’t write to prevent your message showing. I glued the non-embossed piece next to it with an added sentiment from Cottage Greetings.
Do you notice a couple of tiny pearls added to the dry embossing? There are three. I did the same on the envelope too, where they are easier to see.
For the focal point of the card, I finally used one of the scribbles from the swirly scribbles thinlits dies to cut out my real red piece. The sentiment is from Sunburst sayings and I popped up my very vanilla circle for a little extra interest. A very clean and simple card that’s easy to make although it looks a little intimidating to start with.
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