Tag Archives: Vertical Greetings

Vertical Greetings for Pootles’ Colour Challenge

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It’s the third Pootles’ colour challenge already – I missed the second due to my business trip to Texas. This week the colours we have to select from are melon mambo, watermelon wonder, crushed curry and cucumber crush. I elected to use just three of them – watermelon wonder didn’t fit with my card. These colours gave me the chance to play with vertical greetings again – I’m really having fun with this set. In fact, Vertical Greetings was one of the sets that made it onto my “Must Buy Immediately” list!

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings and Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies

I carefully inked up the stamp with cucumber crush and crushed curry and then huffed on it before stamping. I then added the greeting in melon mambo. Are you wondering where the flowers came from? They are punched out of the Detailed Floral Thinlits dies and are a perfect size to decorate this tree – as are the crushed curry enamel shapes. Any time that I cut out the detailed floral thinlits dies, I save these little flowers. I then matted my piece of whisper white with a skinny piece of cucumber crush and glued that to a thick whisper white card base.

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings and Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies

The festive TIEF seems to mimic the rows of decoration on the flower pot so I used that to dry emboss my envelope flap.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings

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Vertical Greetings is one of my favourites in the new catalog. It’s so neat and tidy, so clean. I guess I’m showing my penchant for Clean and Simple cards again. I started this card by stamping five of the trees in old olive. I actually started at the left and stamped the tree and then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to guide me by putting the edge of the plastic onto the edge of the tree to help with the spacing. I also used a horizontal pencil line to help ensure that my trees were lined up. Note – if you use a pencil line, please ensure that you allow time for the ink to dry before erasing the pencil line. You are bound to smudge something if you don’t allow some drying time.

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings

After I’d stamped the trees, I stamped the pots in various colours and fussy cut them out. The ones that survived are in crushed curry and pumpkin pie. The cherry cobbler pot just didn’t make the cut. I glued the pots over the already stamped old olive ones. Next I cut out the sentiment, also from old olive. It’s from a retired set (Greetings thinlits) actually, and I’d forgotten that. It’s a really useful set, so that’s a little sad, however we have many new sets with words to diecut. And I suspect that I overused these so it’s time to move on!

To finish off my Vertical Greetings card, I added some of the new enamel shapes in crushed curry. They look a little like Christmas baubles although I’m trying to pretend that Christmas isn’t looming. At least from a card making perspective. The way I see it, it’s time to start making some Christmas cards or it will be a mad dash come December…

 

By the way, there’s a promotion currently going on that’s quite exciting. For every $50 you spend this month, you get a $5 to spend next month

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and next month is when you can buy the limited edition set, Thoughtful Branches. If you buy the stamp set and the dies, it earns you a coupon.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz

Vertical Greetings for CASology

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As I hoped, I spent some time yesterday crafting and took my inspiration from a number of challenges. Today’s card, using the Vertical Greetings set, is inspired by the latest challenge at CASology.

Stampin' Up! Vertical Greetings

Here’s the banner which inspired my card. It closes tomorrow, so if you want to enter, you’d better get crafting.

I decided that I wanted five of the trees and drew a pencil line to so that I could easily line up the pots. I started from the left and used the edge of my stamp-a-ma-jig for the spacing! So for the second tree, I positioned it on the line and then moved it to the right until the edge of the plastic was at the right most edge of the first tree. It worked perfectly. Then I put my emerald envy stamped trees onto a card base of the same colour. The little bow made with the thick bakers’ twine in melon mambo is the accent. I toyed with adding a sentiment, but everything seemed to be too much. So, it’s very much a clean and simple card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies

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I have a four day weekend stretching out in front of me with nothing particular to do (so far), so I’m looking forward to some crafting. This is a good thing since yesterday I booked a business trip out of town for the week of the 11th so I need to get ahead on my blog. This morning I decided to play more with the Detailed Floral thinlits dies. I love the night of navy and white together on page 76 and 77 of the catalog where this die is featured but I figured that emerald envy was of the same deep rich intensity and it ought to work pretty well too. And it does.

Stampin' Up! Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies and Vertical Greetings

Whilst I was choosing a greeting for my card, I decided on the Vertical Greetings set and all of a sudden my card turned horizontal! So here I’ve cut two of the smaller dies with the edge cut as well. I placed them onto the thick whisper white cardbase for placement purposes and decided where to put the greeting. The stamp-a-ma-jig is so handy for this. And because the stamp has a nice large gap between the words, there’s no need for masking, just tap a single word onto the ink pad and you’re good to go. After stamping (successfully) the words, I glued on the detailed floral thinlits diecuts. You’ll notice that there is a flower in the die and that’s what I’ve used for my embellishment – and they are popped up on teeny fragments of stampin’ dimensionals for some fun.

Stampin' Up! Detailed Floral Thinlits Dies and Vertical Greetings

Wishing you a happy Saturday.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Baby Bear Thank You

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When I first saw the Baby Bear set in the catalogue, I knew he was going to be on my first order. It’s not as if I have masses of friends having babies at the moment and need welcome baby sort of cards, but the set was still necessary. Immediately! I didn’t realise until this morning when I stamped him, just how incredibly detailed and realistic he looks.

Stampin' Up! Baby Bear and Vertical Greetings

I messed him up the first time, but then found that by stamping the most detailed colour first – since it’s the darkest colour – it’s much easier to line everything up. I also concentrated on getting the bottom of him right and everything else fell into place. Concentrating on his paws or ears doesn’t work because not all of the three stamps have the details at the edges. So I started with soft suede and did the detailed layer, then moved to the middle less detailed layer and stamped in crumb cake. The final layer which is just a block of colour, I did in crumb cake stamped off once.

I was planning on stamping the ribbon and did so – in sweet sugarplum and rich razzleberry but I felt that the bear looked so real, he needed a real bow. I found some pear pizzazz cotton ribbon in my stash and that set the rest of the colour scheme. The sentiment wasn’t planned – I just happened to stamp the practice bear on a piece of scrap which had the Thank You from Vertical Greetings and it really fit. I added a skinny soft suede mat before adding that to the pear pizzazz card base. I happened to have an envelope liner cut out already so I used that to dress up the envelope.

I hope you are having a great start to the weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz