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Winter Wonder TIEF

I’ve been suffering with insomnia over the past few days but decided rather than thinking about all the things on my to do list, I’d design a card in my head. And this is more or less it. I hadn’t visualised the ribbon and the sentiment is a different shape, but the idea is there! My starting point was the Winter Wonder TIEF. I have to say that designing this was a very relaxing way of passing the time at 4am!

You can’t see it in the photo, but this is the shimmery white paper, so there’s a delicate sparkle to all of the white paper – including the tag since I needed it to match. I started with the dry embossing and then added a strip of the brand new real red 1/8 inch solid ribbon. I missed it on my preorder, somehow I just didn’t notice it in the catalog. It’s lovely ribbon with a good temperament. Next the sentiment from Star of Light stamped in real red and cut out with the layering ovals framelits dies. I added a scalloped mat in real red too. I popped these up and added a little bow so that the card looks just like a little gift. Which it really is.

This will be one of the cards that we make at my next Christmas card class on Monday September 18th. There are still some spaces if you are interested.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies

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After forgetting to use tranquil tide yesterday, I decided to make it the star of the show today. And with an upcoming Christmas card class on my mind, I combined the two to produce what I think is a really elegant Christmas card featuring the Seasonal Layers Thinlits dies and its matching stamp set, Colorful Seasons.

I cut out one of the snowflakes on gold foil and then remembered my multipurpose adhesive sheets – so I adhered some of the sheet behind the foil and cut out three more. Colorful Seasons is an extremely versatile set covering all the seasons, but there’s no Christmas greeting so I turned to one of my current favourite sets, Star of Light for my greeting. I placed my die cut snowflakes where I wanted them but didn’t glue them down in case anything went wrong with my heat embossing. And then stamped my greeting in versamark and also the smaller snowflakes from Colorful Seasons. Only once my gold heat embossing went off without a hitch, did I peel the backing off the gold foil snowflakes and put them in place on my tranquil tide layer. I’d considered a gold foil border for the layer but it was just too much and all the card needed was to be put onto a tranquil tide base.

I can see that the beautiful snowflake from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies is likely to feature on a number of my Christmas cards this year. It’s beautiful and with the multipurpose adhesive sheets, easy to handle. I did find that a couple of passes through the big shot to be helpful when cutting it out though.

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Liz

Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies

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I’m using the Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies but today I’m showing that they aren’t just for Christmas cards. A daughter of a friend of mine was graduating from her Indian dance academy but I was unable to attend but I wanted to send a card. And I felt that it should be a very rich looking card with masses of gold. So I started with the Star of Light heat embossed in gold on real red card stock.

Next I cut the borders around the edge using the Card Front Builder Thinlits Dies and glued a piece of gold foil behind before mounting on a card base of real red. Although this would make a beautiful Christmas card, I just needed a little congratulations for Sahana and found the perfect sentiment in the Happy Birthday Gorgeous stamp set. I heat embossed that too and cut it out, and the gold foil mat, with the layering ovals framelits. And I think I achieved my goal – elegant but very rich looking. What do you think?

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Liz

Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

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So, have you finished making your Christmas cards yet? Or even writing them? I’m not sure if I’ve made enough, I haven’t been terribly organised in counting them up. And I haven’t started writing them – Martin had a brilliant idea of writing one per day from the beginning of November, it was a great idea, but hasn’t happened! So, in case I’m short of cards, I decided to come up with a fast card – and when I’m looking for that, DSP is a life saver. And with the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack to hand, I decided to use that one.

I pulled out a sheet of paper and cut it down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ – this gives enough left over to line the envelope flap and with a mat (cherry cobbler) just 1/8″ inch bigger, gives a nice wide border between the mat and the card base – here it’s crumb cake. It would be easy to pull out a framelit (especially one of the stitched shapes that I’m so fond of) but I wanted to also feature the gorgeous mini pinecones. If you cut the strip at exactly one inch, it’s a tight fit into the triple banner punch, so I cut a strip of crumb cake just a 1/16 inch under one inch wide and stamped the sentiment from Star of Light in cherry cobbler. I cut a strip of cherry cobbler 1/4 inch bigger for matting and assembled that together – amazingly I remembered that I wanted to add the pine cones and left space for them. I tied them up with the cherry cobbler twine that was part of the baker’s twine trio pack and attached them with a mini glue dot that I rolled a little to stop it showing. Looks like this is a card that I’ll be hand delivering!

It would be easy to mass produce these – you could cut strips of the crumb cake and cherry cobbler at 4 1/4″ and get two across a regular sheet of card stock. Stamp and then cut them up and assemble. You could easily put together 20 banners pretty quickly after which it’s pretty fast to put together the cards.

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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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Star of Light in Copper

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I love the new copper embossing powder and also the foil which is in our Holiday catalogue – fingers crossed that it carries over. I wanted to really showcase them this morning so went with the beautiful detailed star from the Star of Light stamp set stamped in versamark, covered in copper embossing powder and then heated. I find that as the card starts to warp, if I turn the card over and heat the other side, it straightens out perfectly. Having a mat to put the embossed piece on helps it stay unwarped; I like to use fast fuse to attach card that’s been embossed, just to be on the safe side. I hadn’t planned this card completely, just knew that I wanted the star, but then the lovely sentiment was a no brainer. So out came the embossing buddy, versamark and powder which I’d just put away!

To get more copper, I added a mat of copper foil – although I cut out the largest circle stitched shape framelit to use later. I just couldn’t bear to hide all that copper! Then it was a simple matter of adding this to a cherry cobbler card base and the card is complete.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is the last day of the online extravaganza and also that tomorrow has one day specials – if you don’t have the magnetic platform, tomorrow is the day to get it since it’s only $26 which is 35% off. The bell punch is only $10.80 which is 40% off.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is MSJ9ZMGN (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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