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Merry Mice in pastels

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I shared a fairly bright Christmas card featuring the Merry Mice. Here’s another one, this one rather more muted. The image of the three adorable mice is again stamped in archival basic black on watercolour paper.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merry Mice - Star of Light

I used my aquapainter to colour these in and added more water than usual. So the first mouse is actually coloured in real red and marina mist although he looks pink. The next mouse is in blushing bride and wisteria wonder with a garden green bow in her hair. The third mouse of the trio has more marina mist and real red with real red and garden green lights.I used a little sahara sand for all of their faces, hands and feet so that they weren’t so anemic looking. I matted this with a piece of basic black to make it really pop and then put that onto a garden green card base onto which I’d already stamped the sentiment. This is from the Star of Light set and I (nearly) always stamp a sentiment before adding the main image for two reasons. Firstly, the layers can throw off your stamp-a-ma-jig or block and make things crooked. And of course you can always mess it up and then you’ve got a problem to fix. This way, if it goes wrong, I can turn the card the other way around and put my inside insert over the messed up sentiment. I’m happy to say that this wasn’t necessary in this case.

You can see a hint of the Holly TIEF that I used to dry emboss the envelope flap. It’s a fun and easy – and impressive – way to add interest to the envelope.

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

Star of Light

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With just over 2 months to go until Christmas, here’s an easy card that is elegant, luxurious but easy to mass produce. I’ve used the Star of Light swoosh again and have it bursting out from the sentiment in a celebratory way.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Star of Light - Christmas Pines - Holly TIEF

I made half a dozen of these cards and if you have them lined up in a production line, it goes pretty quickly. First I took my 6 pieces of very vanilla cut for the front of the card and stamped the cherry cobbler swoosh – it’s not pretty where they all meet up, but that doesn’t matter. Whilst the cherry cobbler was really drying, I took scraps, rubbed with the embossing buddy and stamped the Noel from Christmas Pines and sprinkled with the copper embossing powder. I had them all carefully laid out around me so that I could heated them all in one go. Next I did my big shot work – I cut out my sentiment using one of the layering ovals and the scalloped mat in cherry cobbler, also from the layering ovals. By this time, I was sure that the cherry cobbler ink was dry and wouldn’t attract any stray bits of the copper embossing powder and so I went back with the embossing buddy, added a few stars (from Star of Light) and added more copper embossing powder.  Then it was a simple matter of putting the sentiment together and carefully popping it up on dimensionals before putting my layer onto the cherry cobbler card stock. To make the card extra luxurious, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the holly TIEF.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month. Here’s a quick reminder of the papers included in the offer.  It’s really easy to find the four that you want. Or the eight…

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Starlight Thinlits Dies

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There’s a die in the Starlight Thinlits Dies collection that is unusual and beautiful. It doesn’t cut out a shape or coordinate with a stamp, it cuts out a number of dots and other shapes and creates a gorgeous negative star.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Starlight Thinlits Dies - Star of Light

I intended on having a larger piece but it was early and I was without coffee and I put the die at the corner of my piece of emerald envy. As I picked up my piece of silver foil to see how it looked, I realised that this wasn’t a mistake at all (!) and I could just change the card layout and it would be perfect. Next I used the versamark and the sentiment from the set which is bundled with these thinlits – the Star of Light set. I heat embossed using silver powder directly onto the card base. I find that it’s best to have the cardbase unfolded, it seems to do less warping – as does allowing the heat gun to get hot before starting.

Next I used tombow to glue my piece of emerald envy onto the silver foil and then popped that up with dimensionals. I think I’ll use this card in some of my upcoming parties – it’s nice and easy for beginners. Good for mass production too.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Jolly Friends CAS Christmas card

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Another thing that I got earlier this week and I couldn’t wait to play with was Jolly Friends. I absolutely love the moose but wasn’t sure how much I’d use it but I saw some cards my sister Caro made and I just couldn’t resist. And this one is fun but easily duplicatable (a new word, but you know what I mean)

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Jolly Friends - Jolly Hat Builder Punch - Star of Light

The moose is stamped in soft suede and the hat in real red. The hat was then punched out with the jolly hat builder punch – I did warn you that I was going to be putting these adorable hats on everything! I then used some gold glimmer paper to decorate his hat – also cut out with the builder punch. The sentiment comes from the Star of Light set – this one seems to be rather useful too. I’ll try not to wear it out!

I’m not quite sure from the tracking, but I MIGHT be getting my Paper Pumpkin today in which case, there will be some alternate ideas coming up soon.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Festive Birthday DSP

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When I made my card for CAS Colours & Sketches last week and decided that I was going to use a piece of Festive Birthday DSP to cut out a word, I of course, cut out numerous words. This card is using one of the spares.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Festive Birthday DSP - Endless Birthday Wishes - Star of Light

The word is from the Mini Treat bag thinlits dies and after starting with that, I decided to add the birthday cake in melon mambo from the Endless Birthday Wishes set. I was planning another very CAS card with loads of white space but it just didn’t “fit” so I cut down the panel and picked emerald green as a feature colour and made a little mat. I was still going to stay very CAS with a nice wide white border but after adding the enamel star in emerald envy for the dot over the J, I went star crazy and looked through my stamp sets for an appropriate one. I found a cluster of three stars in Stars of Light appropriately enough and made a border with it and more melon mambo. I think it makes a very celebratory card.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is XD4D794N (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. The “buy 3 get one free” offer for DSP is good for the rest of the month.

See you tomorrow,

Liz