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Timeless Tags Thinlits Dies

I bought the Timeless Tags Thinlits Dies pretty early on in the life of the Occasions catalog and I have no idea why I haven’t used them yet. I love them. And sadly, they are on the retiring list – although they are on sale for $17.50 instead of $25 so that’s a good deal! By the way, the accompanying stamp set, That’s the Tag, is also on sale ($14.45 instead of $17) but the bundle isn’t, so it’s a better deal to buy them singly for a total of $31.95 instead of the bundle price of $37.75. But I digress. These are really fun and not just limited to tags. I made a card to showcase the versatility.

I cut out the tag in some scrap paper and used my aquapainter and some inks to color the picture. Once I had a general idea of placement, I removed my piece of scrap and added more colour where it needed and blended away. The colors used are soft sky, daffodil delight, pumpkin pie and pear pizzazz. Once I had my piece of watercolor paper as I wanted, I cut out a new tag from a piece of watercolor paper where I wanted it on the card. Next I added the greeting from Vertical Greetings (not retiring thank goodness) in pumpkin pie. I glued the outlining piece of watercolor paper to the painted piece and then added that to my card layer. To ensure that the card didn’t sag since the painted piece was small, I added strips of watercolor to keep the height the same and then glued the piece to a daffodil delight cardbase.

I’m really happy with how this came out – a few inks and an aquapainter can work wonders. But if you want these dies, act swiftly. I’m quite stunned at how fast some of the products are moving. The good news is that here in the states, the stamp sets are guaranteed to be available until May 22nd. My sister and friends in the UK don’t even have that – they are on whilst stocks last for everything. So I feel quite privileged!

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings

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So what do you do when you have a lot of Christmas cards to make and you’ve overused your Christmas stamp sets? I say, pull out Vertical Greetings. I was planning to add a hat to the tree, but it was too big and wasn’t giving quite the look that I was going for.

I inked up the tree in old olive and real red on a piece of whisper white. The stamping (or rather inking up) wasn’t perfect but I fixed that by adding the gold metallic enamel shapes! Amazingly I’d managed to keep the real red on the pot and the old olive on the tree – if you notice one end of the ink pad is curved, one is straight; it’s easier to partially ink a stamp using the straight edge. But I’d already planned a little bow and the gold baker’s twine from the trio in the holiday catalogue was the perfect little accent.

Of course, the vertical greetings set wasn’t planned as a Christmas set and thus doesn’t have a matching holiday greeting. I decided to leave off the sentiment and put one inside and highlighted the gold stars by running another piece of real red through the big shot using the Lucky stars embossing folder. Putting the tree panel (matted with old olive) to one side meant that the stars were more emphasised and stopped the card being too symmetrical. Although I did a maths degree and LOVE symmetry, it doesn’t work so well in cards!

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Liz

Vertical Greetings for PCC012

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For those of you who don’t have Paper Pumpkin – and why not? Especially now when it’s BOGOF – here’s a card not using this month’s kit. Instead I’m using colour inspiration from Pootles Colour Challenge 012, which is mint macaron, flirty flamingo and tip top taupe. The seemed the perfect time to get out the Vertical Greetings set and my stampin’ write markers.

First I took my aquapainter and quickly created some earth or shadow so that my plant pot wasn’t floating in space and then I coloured in various parts of the stamp in the three colours. After that I breathed on the stamp hard – to remoisten the ink – and using my stamp-a-ma-jig got the plant perfectly in place. I also used the stamp-a-ma-jig for the sentiment both for placement and to prevent wobble. Then I gave my piece of very vanilla a skinny mat of the rather bright flirty flamingo and a large border of tip top taupe to further tone it down. It’s a fun colour in small doses!

As usual, Sam has come up with colours that I wouldn’t have put together. It’s the reason I really enjoy challenges, they push you to try something a little different – or in this case, quite a lot. Flirty Flamingo hasn’t had much attention from me and I rarely use browns.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is the last day of the special deals.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 5

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I was sitting at my desk wondering what to make next when I looked at the Paper Pumpkin box sitting next to me and decided to take another look in the box. So here’s my Paper Pumpkin August 2016 Alternate 5. The DSP is actually meant to be a card base but I can’t see “wasting” DSP as the back of a card so I cut it in half and used it on the front.

The sentiment is from Vertical Greetings and stamped in island indigo and then I wrapped a piece of mint macaron ribbon around the DSP. The ribbon is from the Holiday catalog – it’s part of the the ribbon 3/8″ trio pack which also includes rich razzleberry and delightful dijon. I then matted my DSP with a piece of whisper white before adding it to my island indigo card base. I made a bow and added that with a glue dot – it was waving around so I used my paper piercing tool to add another glue dot under the ribbon too. I debated adding enamel dots but with the ribbon, it was just too much!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings for CAS(E) this Sketch!

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I spent Saturday with some like-minded friends and we spent the day crafting. I took along a list of current challenges so that I had something to focus on. Sometimes being surrounded by a lot of product leads me to some kind of mojo paralysis. CAS(E) this Sketch! has a fun challenge this week but I decided to turn it sideways and to let the line of images slump a little so that they weren’t in the middle of the card. Turning the card sideways gave me the perfect chance to use one of the sentiments from Vertical Greetings.

Here’s the sketch which inspired my card:

The flower is from Blooms & Wishes. I started at the right hand side and stamped one of the flowers in melon mambo before stamping the Happy Birthday in rich razzleberry. Then I spaced out the other three flowers. There was quite a deliberation about which of the enamel shapes would look best – as you can see, I finally decided on the larger of the rich razzleberry circles. There was also agonising over the colour of the card base since either melon mambo or rich razzleberry worked. In the end, rich razzleberry won.

But just to up the melon mambo quotient, I used it to stamp the envelope – both the flap and one of the front corners. A simple way to stamp the flap is to fold the flap over a piece of scrap paper on top of more scrap paper so that all you can see is scrap and the flap. Then you can stamp away without worrying about hitting the rest of the envelope.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

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