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Bookcase Builder

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As I mentioned when I introduced my giveaway this month, I’m going to be showcasing the Bookcase Builder set. There are a couple of colleagues at work whose wives are expecting babies in May and for once, I’m trying to be prepared! Neither knows what they are having, so I need two of each type of card.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

This was a fun card to make – just enjoy making your own DSP. I used only the ABC blocks image and dapper denim and randomly stamped onto a piece of very vanilla ensuring that some were off the edges of the card. Then I trimmed down my “usual” size piece of 5 1/4 by 4 inches by 1/4 inch so that I could add a skinny mat of delightful dijon before adding that to the dapper denim base. It’s not quite a traditional pale blue baby card, but unmistakenly a baby card – especially with the congratulations stamped inside and another teddy bear. The typeface of the sentiments in Bookcase Builder is especially beautiful in my opinion.

To finish off the card, I stamped the delightful dijon teddy bear onto very vanilla, cut it out with my favourite stitched shapes dies and then popped it up with dimensionals.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Bookcase Builder - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to enter the raffle; the current one is Y3JVQ4Q7 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get an entry into the raffle). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For all the details on my Customer Loyalty program, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 4

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Here’s my Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 4, a fun way to make your own designer series paper. The Paper Pumpkin kit has the heart outline and a number of sentiments that fit inside it as well as a solid stamp.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Paper Pumpkin January 2017 Alternate 4 - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I took the stamps and used sweet sugarplum for my outlines and then the same colour and dapper denim to fill in the hearts with the sentiments. Next I created a sweet sugarplum sentiment and cut it out with the stitched shapes framelits dies and a matching sweet sugarplum layering circles die and then discovered that the placement I wanted covered a dapper denim sentiment and made the card unbalanced. So I stamped the sentiment in dapper denim and that fixed everything, popping this up on dimensionals.

These are unusually muted colours for a Valentine’s Card but I like how it works. It’s not in your face bright red or pink and it’s refreshing I feel.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get some party animal embellishments; the current one is XXXXXX (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. Check out the particulars of my customer loyalty program on a tab on the left.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Succulent Garden DSP

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Here’s the thank you card that I sent to my December customers; I appreciate all of my customers and I enjoy creating cards to send to them – along with a little extra which I’ll share tomorrow. As I’ve mentioned, I’ve been rather busy at work lately so I wanted a card that would be quick and easy to mass produce. DSP is always a great choice in this situation and the designer series papers in the Occasions catalog are really gorgeous – here I’ve chosen the beautiful Succulent Garden DSP.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden DSP - Bunch of Blossoms - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Festive TIEF

I like to have some card stock pre-cut into card base sizes so that I’m not continually popping up to cut something (it might be good for me to get up all the time though) and I cut many at a time with my large carl cutter. This saves time and saves my Stampin’ Up! trimmer blades wearing out just cutting lots of bases. So I cut a bunch of old olive bases and then the DSP into pieces of 5 1/4 inches by 4 getting 6 to a sheet. It’s fairly soothing, folding all the bases and then gluing all the DSP on.  At the next session, I stamped the sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms in sweet sugar plum and then cut it out using the stitched shapes framelits dies cranking that through the big shot at the same time as a piece of old olive and the layering ovals. Then it was a simple matter of gluing the two pieces together and popping it up with dimensionals. To finish things off, I dry embossed the envelope flap with the Festive TIEF. I love the polished look of an embossed envelope.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Succulent Garden DSP

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Succulents are all the rage right now, apparently, and so Stampin’ Up! brought out a suite of products showcasing them. Here I’m sharing a card made with the Succulent Garden DSP which is just gorgeous.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden DSP - Love Sparkles - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

I really love this particular print and so wanted to leave it to shine on its own with as little interruption as possible! So I’ve got a piece of the DSP with a small white border and placed on a mint macaron card base. I decided that it needed a little splash of another colour and, looking at the colours in the Succulent Garden DSP, chose sweet sugarplum. I had decided that this would be a thank you card and after trying a few sentiments in the new catalog, found the thank you from Love Sparkles which fits perfectly. A quick die cut around it with the Stitched Shapes framelits dies, a few dimensionals and I was good to go.

The designer series papers are always good for showing you different colour combinations that you may not have thought of yourself – even the papers that you don’t have.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Designer Tee

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It’s a slow day here today; I’m not sure if that’s because it’s snowing or whether I’d be moving slowly anyway! But it’s taken me all morning to get organised and blog writing. I decided to feature the new Sale-a-bration set, Designer Tee which I hadn’t yet inked up. The images are sized to fit on the t-shirts in the Custom Tee stamp set (which comes as a bundle with framelits) but I wanted to show an alternative use.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Designer Tee - Lucky Stars TIEF - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

The image is stamped in real red and then cut out with what is becoming rather predictable – the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. The sentiment is from the same set. Once I had these two elements set, I wanted to add some texture, hence the lucky stars TIEF band along with a real red border. I contemplated ribbon or enamel shapes but it was getting a bit too much so I stayed clean and simple. I attached the image to the banner with dimensionals – it seems to work best for attaching to texture, just make sure you push fairly firmly on them to start with.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get five free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards 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