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Watercolor Wings for CAS C&S

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It’s Thursday which means it’s time for another new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. This week it’s Caro’s second colour challenge of the month and it’s the remaining retiring in colours plus silver.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings and Happy Home

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

This small butterfly from Watercolor Wings is usually made using 4 stamps but today I only used three of them. The fourth one just didn’t work with these colours without having one of the colours overpower the others. I started by stamping the stamp that is almost the complete butterfly in lost lagoon and then added the detailed butterfly in blackberry bliss after stamping off once. I added the body, stamped in full strength blackberry bliss and finished it off with the stamp that just does the inside detail near the body in metallic silver. Here’s another look at the butterfly:

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings and Happy Home

Next I turned to Happy Home for the sentiment. Watercolor Wings has great sentiments but “missing you” seems very appropriate – I definitely will miss these colours!

I then put this piece of whisper white onto a mat of blackberry bliss and added that to a lost lagoon cardbase. I lined the envelope with a lost lagoon envelope liner, another product that you know I’ll be missing!

I hope that you’ll pop over to CAS Colours & Sketches to see the rest of the cards from the Design Team and to play with these colours; I’d love to see your card in the gallery.

I’ve announced my product share for the 2016 catalogue – details are here.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Fluttering Watercolor Wings

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So I finally used the Fluttering TIEF, I’ve had it for ages and just haven’t used it. I have no idea why. But in the shower today, I thought about spotlighting a butterfly over a matching textured background. So here it is.

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings and Fluttering embossing folder

I used the Fluttering TIEF on a piece of whisper white (actually also on crushed curry but that didn’t work for today’s project. I’ll use it soon) and then turned my attention to the butterfly. This one is from Watercolor Wings and it’s a two step stamp (actually three, but we never seem to call it by the actual number of steps!). I stamped the solid butterfly in crushed curry and added pumpkin pie for the edges of the wings. Then it was melon mambo for the details. I cut out a piece of melon mambo 1/16 inch bigger to frame this. The textured piece of whisper white is mounted onto a melon mambo card base and the butterfly is popped up with dimensionals.

The envelope is lined using the envelope liners whilst they are still non-retired and the brights retired backgrounds DSP stack. It’s an easy way to dress up an envelope.

I noticed this morning whilst browsing the pre-order items (a perk of being a demonstrator) that there’s a new punch coming out called Sprinkles. It cuts out the confetti that I cut yesterday using the Party Pop-up thinlits dies – much easier to use a punch. I’m going to wait until tomorrow to put in my preorder when cutting blades will be available. But soon I’ll have my hands on the new incolours. Can’t wait!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Thanks for waiting

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I’ve been missing in action for 8 weeks, but I’m back now. I started a new job at the beginning of June and I love it; I’m actually excited to go to work and get things done and the people are really nice. They are also very kind; after the third day in my new job, my mother had a stroke and there was no problem with me jumping on a plane and flying to the UK. Tragically my mother died a few days after my brother and I got there and then there was the funeral to arrange and masses of other things to do. It seems to take a while to organise a funeral in the UK and it was on a Friday at which point I’d been in the UK for two weeks. I didn’t feel that I could leave my father immediately after the funeral and my boss had no issues with me taking another week. Really good people. Exciting work. And a 15-20 minute commute. It doesn’t get much better than that. Of course a new job is exhausting and with the effort of that and the mourning, I just didn’t feel like making cards because it  allows for too much time to think. And I was just too tired. And Mum loved my cards and so not being able to share them with her is hard. But last weekend I went to a weekend crop and had a great time reconnecting with my fellow cardmakers and scrapbookers and of course making cards. And today would be my mother’s 77th birthday so it seems a good day to restart my blog. And with the new annual catalogue that came out a month ago and the holiday one available in a month (although as a demonstrator I can order this coming week) there are a lot of new exciting products to play with. Perhaps I could actually send my brother in law a birthday card, it’s only a month late. At least my friend Jen’s card is only a week or so late.

So here’s today’s card:

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Wings

This is using the Stampin’ Up! set Watercolor Wings that is in the new annual catalogue. I didn’t do anything clever to get all the colours on it – it’s a three step stamp. So I did the first in crushed curry and then the second stamp using pumpkin pie and the final stamp just does the edges of the wings and that’s in melon mambo. A really beautiful effect and very easy. The set also includes a stamp for the body which I’ve done in memento black ink. The sentiment comes from the same set as well. I matted my piece of very vanilla with a thin amount of black to make it pop and coordinate with the butterfly body. This is then put onto a melon mambo card base. I used last year’s backgrounds DSP to line the envelope – I already have a lot of them cut. When I need an envelope liner I cut 8 at a time so that I have spares.

Happy carding and see you tomorrow,

Liz