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Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper

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The Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper, and especially this pattern, is one of the best papers in the Occasions catalog in my opinion. It’s also running out (it’s hit the low inventory marker on the status report) and on sale at $6.60 down from $11. A steal. I had a different layout in my head but apparently my hands weren’t in the know and they cut the paper differently!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper - Paper Pumpkin October 2016 - Season of Gratitude

And once I had my piece of  Succulent Garden Designer Series Paper cut, it was a matter of looking for the right sentiment. It needed to be the right size and a single line. I eventually found a stamp that’s been sitting out since I couldn’t figure out where it came from – I eventually decided that it had to be from a Paper Pumpkin set and a quick look through the Paper Pumpkin pinterest boards revealed that it’s from the October 2016 Paper Pumpkin kit, Season of Gratitude. At least now I can put it away! I stamped it in mint macaron to match the DSP and used a mint macaron card base.

I hope that you’re feeling inspired to pull out some designer series paper and actually make some cards with it. It’s quite liberating cutting it up!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 7UYN7HEJ (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). In addition, to celebrate the new catalog, if you spend $50 this month, I’ll send you either the clear or gold faceted gems FREE (let me know which you’d like). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Succulent Garden DSP

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Have you got the Brushstrokes stamp yet? After I saw Sara’s live demonstration on Facebook, I ordered the stamp and played with it last week adding the stripes to a piece of Inside the Lines DSP which was made for colouring. Next I decided to try the same on a piece of colored DSP, so I chose the Succulent Garden DSP.

succulent garden hardwood

The Succulent Garden DSP includes sweet sugarplum in its palette, but not on this piece so I decided to rectify the error! Here I cut my piece of DSP down to size and stamped the Brushstrokes stamp in versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Next I used a sponge dauber to add a fairly light covering of sweet sugarplum to the parts of the DSP not embossed. I was planning to just use one of the almost triangles on my card leaving a fair amount of white space but after I’d stamped my greeting from the Endless Birthday Wishes in old olive, I decided to change the layout. Here it appears as if the celebrates were on a strip across the card whereas they are actually stamped on the cardbase itself with the pieces of DSP added on top.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get five FREE handmade cards; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is A2XGZS79 (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, click here.

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 on my phone

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I was reading Pootles‘ website last week and she showed a project where she inserted a piece of DSP inside a see through phone cover. I’ve been meaning to get a new cover because mine had lost a little piece and this was enough to have me running to amazon and getting my own see through case. Then came the hard part. Choosing which paper to use. I’d just made a card using a piece of mint macaron and whisper white pattern from the Succulent Garden DSP and I love it. So that was candidate number one!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden DSP - Affectionately Yours DSP

I started by using a piece of scrap paper and drawing around my old case. After cutting this out, I held it over the new case and started taking off thin strips – about 1/8 inch off both dimensions was perfect although I didn’t realise that at the time. I cut a little extra off the length and THEN found my corner rounder and punched each corner. It fit beautifully apart from being too short. Whilst it was in the case, I drew around the hole in the case and then snipped that out with my scissors. Now that I had my pattern created, it was a simple matter of cutting the Succulent Garden DSP piece to size and drawing the line for the camera hole. I love how this looks on my phone, it has made it look totally new.

I was so happy with it, that I had to make another – this one is the copper embossed paper from Affectionately Yours. I can see that there are going to be frequent changes!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Succulent Garden DSP - Affectionately Yours DSP

I’ve been mentioning the great deal that during Sale-a-bration (ends March 31st) you get a freebie for each time you spend $50 (before taxes and shipping) but what I should also be mentioning is what a fantastic deal you can get if you join the stampin’ up family during this time. You get to select ANY products of up to $125 and pay just $99 with free shipping. You can also select ANY two stamp sets for free which are worth up to $104. So that means you’re paying $99 instead of $251.90! It’s the ultimate deal and if you so choose, you never have to do anything again. There’s no penalty for dropping, it’s just a fabulous deal. But if you so choose, you can continue to get the discount (at least 20%) and see new products early and be eligible to attend Stampin’ Up! events and basically have a great time meeting new people. You don’t have to be in New Jersey to join my team, with the power of the internet, you can be anywhere. Want to know more? Drop me an email and we can chat that way or I’ll give you a call and can answer any questions that you 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

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