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Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

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So, have you finished making your Christmas cards yet? Or even writing them? I’m not sure if I’ve made enough, I haven’t been terribly organised in counting them up. And I haven’t started writing them – Martin had a brilliant idea of writing one per day from the beginning of November, it was a great idea, but hasn’t happened! So, in case I’m short of cards, I decided to come up with a fast card – and when I’m looking for that, DSP is a life saver. And with the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack to hand, I decided to use that one.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Star of Light - Triple Banner Punch

I pulled out a sheet of paper and cut it down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ – this gives enough left over to line the envelope flap and with a mat (cherry cobbler) just 1/8″ inch bigger, gives a nice wide border between the mat and the card base – here it’s crumb cake. It would be easy to pull out a framelit (especially one of the stitched shapes that I’m so fond of) but I wanted to also feature the gorgeous mini pinecones. If you cut the strip at exactly one inch, it’s a tight fit into the triple banner punch, so I cut a strip of crumb cake just a 1/16 inch under one inch wide and stamped the sentiment from Star of Light in cherry cobbler. I cut a strip of cherry cobbler 1/4 inch bigger for matting and assembled that together – amazingly I remembered that I wanted to add the pine cones and left space for them. I tied them up with the cherry cobbler twine that was part of the baker’s twine trio pack and attached them with a mini glue dot that I rolled a little to stop it showing. Looks like this is a card that I’ll be hand delivering!

It would be easy to mass produce these – you could cut strips of the crumb cake and cherry cobbler at 4 1/4″ and get two across a regular sheet of card stock. Stamp and then cut them up and assemble. You could easily put together 20 banners pretty quickly after which it’s pretty fast to put together the cards.

Don’t forget the great close out sale currently going on and also the offer from me – a new, free stamp set. Just spend $40 with me and use the workshop code CBUJ4GTP, and you get to select one of Hey, Chick, Delicate Details or Designer Tee which I’ll send you for free once I close out this workshop on January 3rd. Check here for the details and also pictures of these stamp sets. If you spend $60, I’ll send you the pearl or rhinestone basic jewels as well. Email me at lizbaileycards@gmail.com to let me know which of the sets you’d like and whether you’d like pearls or rhinestones (if you’ve earned them), or I’ll just select one at random.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is CBUJ4GTP (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

 

Warmth and Cheer with Stitched Shapes

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I can’t believe it’s almost December, apart from a bunch of Christmas cards I’m completely unprepared. And maybe I should start actually writing the Christmas cards soon. Last year, it was very last minute – crazy I know seeing as I started making them in August! Here’s another card using the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack and the stitched dies – I think I might make a box to go with this set.

Warmth and Cheer DSP Stack - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Suite Seasons

It’s a very simple card to mass produce – it uses a piece of the Warmth and Cheer DSP cut down to 5″ by 3 3/4″ – this is so that there’s enough left of the 6″ by 6″ square to put on the envelope flap. My black mat is 5 1/8″ by 3 7/8″ to provide a little border. This way, my borders are different sizes, it’s a bit too samey if the borders match. So the black shows 1/16″ all the way around and then I put it on a regular cherry cobbler card base.

The sentiment comes from the really versatile set, Suite Seasons, and I actually used retired cherry cobbler embossing powder instead of my preferred clear (mostly because my clear embossing powder has been missing since the crop – probably fell out of my bag during transit). I like to ink up my stamp with versamark and then the colour of choice and use clear embossing powder. This way, the ink is juicy enough to hold the embossing powder and also the colour of the ink ensures that you have a perfect image. The exception is if I’m embossing in white – craft ink is juicy enough without versamark and I still use white embossing powder for this. I only use it because I have it! – must try the clear to see the difference once my order containing a replacement pot arrives.

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

Be Jolly By Golly

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Well we’re definitely being jolly here today. Our father flew in from England last night and I have a 4 day long weekend. Very jolly. Sadly my brother will have to work on the weekend, but at least he gets a few days off. Here’s another of my cards using the Warmth and Cheer DSP stack – I can’t imagine how I missed this in the catalogue originally, it’s great for quick and easy cards.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Be Jolly By Golly - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack

Here I cut a piece of the paper and mounted it on cherry cobbler and then put that onto a crumb cake card base. I cut the 6″ by 6″ piece of DSP down to 3 3/4″ by 5″ so that it would leave enough to decorate the envelope flap! Then I used a scrap of crumb cake for my heat embossing – I stamped in versamark and then cherry cobbler to ensure that I got a really full emboss – if there’s any issues with the melting powder, the ink will hide that. You can do this with clear embossing powder but I couldn’t find mine and used the retired cherry cobbler. It gives the same effect though. (Mental note – buy more clear embossing powder so that my first pot will turn up!).  I then cut this out with the awesome stitched shapes framelits dies and popped it up with dimensionals. Easy and really effective.

If you’re celebrating THanksgiving today, I hope you have a great day. If you don’t, it’s a good time to think about the things for which you’re thankful. I find it’s a large list.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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

Holly Jolly Layers

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Here’s another card showcasing the Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF; this is a new type of folder that gets a far more 3D effect which you can enhance by lightly spritzing the cardstock with water first. This is also my first use of the Holly Jolly Layers stamp set which is a fun set with four images that are already layered – but that doesn’t stop additional layers being added!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Holly Jolly Layers - Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF - Warmth & Cheer DSP stack

I used crumb cake for my dry embossed layer and then because the stamped image wasn’t getting the depth of colour that I wanted, I heat embossed it. Actually this is cherry cobbler embossing powder but that was merely because I couldn’t find my clear embossing powder. I really like to first ink up the stamp in versamark and then the coloured ink and use clear embossing powder. You get a nice filled in emboss because of the colour. I used the largest of the square stitched shapes framelits dies to cut this out and added a strip of the Warmth & Cheer DSP stack because I had a piece handy after cutting out a mouse’s sweater for an earlier card. I also dry embossed the envelope flap (I didn’t spritz that, figuring the paper is thinner and I didn’t want to get the glue wet!) – love the effect.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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

Merriest Wishes

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I was playing some more with the Warmth & Cheer DSP stack and the Merriest Wishes set. They just ask to go together!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Merriest Wishes - Warmth and Cheer DSP stack - Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

So it’s  piece of the stack with a garden green mat onto a crumb cake card base. The sentiment is from the Merriest Wishes stack which I stamped in garden green on crumb cake and cut out with the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies which I popped up on the DSP. It’s a fast and easy Christmas card that isn’t too clean and simple, it’s fun. I used the remainder of the 6″ by 6″ sheet to cover the envelope flap.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is GWTDK7RM (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.

Tomorrow is the beginning of an awesome sale. You need to be back because tomorrow has a flash sale that is just for Monday.

See you tomorrow,

Liz