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Swirly Bird

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I was visiting my family in the UK recently and when I stayed with my sister I helped her with her eBay project. She wanted to make thank you cards and we cased one from Eimear, her upline, using Swirly Bird. Caro started making them using one of the newer in-colors, tranquil tide but I thought we should use up the flirty flamingo before it retires. So whilst Caro created the auctions, I sat at the table opposite and stamped. And stamped. The eBay project went well because I made 50 of them and she’s running out!

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Swirly Bird - Work of Art

I used flirty flamingo, fresh fig and smoky slate – I think she selected the last on purpose because she wanted to see my stamping in grey. I don’t like grey. I haven’t worked my way through 2 pieces of basic grey cardstock in almost 4 years. Right. Just don’t like it!

It was very relaxing just stamping away; I’d already prepped the layer so I didn’t have to jump up and down, just stamp. The sentiment is from Work of Art and I like how the sentiment looks, but that was a fair amount of big shot work. Especially since Caro’s stitched shapes framelits dies like to really hold onto the card once its been die-cut. And I’m happy to say that Caro is now out of flirty flamingo. We did start on the peekaboo peach colour way (peekaboo peach, garden green and tangerine tango) but I ran out of time to make up more than a few of those.

Liz Bailey Stampin' Up! Demonstrator - Swirly Bird - Work of Art

That’s a lot of thank yous!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project.

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Liz

More thoughts than prayers

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Here’s another card that I made whilst I was experimenting with the tree from Thought and Prayers; this time a thinking of you card. I am really enjoying going back to the Work of Art swoosh that everyone played with so much when the catalogue came out and finding new (for me) ways to use it. I’m also having a lot of fun playing with the effect of changing colours.

Stampin' Up! Thinking of You, Work of Art, Sheltering Tree

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes (of course) otherwise it’s impossible to get them snuggled up against each other and in line. The first is, surprise surprise, pear pizzazz and then old olive and mossy meadow. I hadn’t been using mossy meadow much until I did the CAS Colour and Sketches challenge earlier this month and then I was reminded what a gorgeously warm colour it is, so thanks for reminding me, Jane! I then used the Thoughts and Prayers tree and stamped that in early espresso as I did with the sentiment which is from Sheltering Tree. I then mounted my piece of very vanilla on a mossy meadow base. The matching very vanilla envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP from the in colours 2014 family in mossy meadow. I may need to challenge myself to use these papers for something other than lining envelopes, but that’s for another day!

Thoughts and prayers for a birthday

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When I finally inked up the Stampin’ Up! Thoughts and Prayers stamp set, I rather fell for the tree image. It doesn’t just need to be for sympathy cards and I decided to make a selection to show that.

Stampin' Up! Thoughts and Prayers, Work of Art, Sassy Salutations

Stampin’ Up! currently has a good selection of teal ink colours and I selected soft sky, pool party and lost lagoon for this card, stamping them on very vanilla. The swoosh is from the Work of Art set and I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to help me line them up as I wanted them. I then put the card to one side whilst I worked on another card. After the short break and thus being certain that the ink was dry, I used the embossing buddy to remove any static from the card and then stamped the tree in versamark. After sprinkling on the gold embossing powder, I used the heat gun to really bring this card to life. I think that one reason that I love making Christmas cards is that they tend to have a lot of metallic embossing!

The sentiment is from the Sassy Salutations set and is stamped in lost lagoon. As you can see, the matching liner is also in lost lagoon, from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Thoughts and Prayers with sympathy

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Sadly my friend Julia told me that not only does she need a baby card, but she also needs a sympathy one. She does have a stash of cards that she made herself, but it’s not large enough to cover all eventualities. Yet! I have a couple but decided to make a new one so that she has as much choice of these as she does with the baby cards.

Stampin' Up! Work of Art and Thoughts & Prayers

The swoosh is from the Stampin’ Up! Work of Art stamp set and is stamped in crumb cake, soft suede and then early espresso stamped off once on very vanilla card stock. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes but I know a lot people prefer to do it freehand. I love the stamp-a-ma-jig, it’s one of the tools without which I couldn’t stamp. I then stamped both the tree and the sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers in early espresso. The card stock is then mounted on a crumb cake base. Stampin’ Up! sells crumb cake envelopes (also whisper white and very vanilla) so this was a perfect time to pull one out. I lined it using the envelope liner framelits to cut out the liner in the backgrounds DSP in crumb cake.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Lotus Blossom for a class

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Here’s one of the cards that I did for a recent class. Once they got the hang of lining up the arrows on the Stampin’ Up! Lotus Blossom set, they loved it. The three images of the flower each have an arrow (that doesn’t appear when you stamp) that you point in the same direction on each stamp to help with lining up the image. This set is only available through the end of March – it’s one of the freebies during Sale-a-bration.

Stampin' Up! Lotus Blossom

We stamped the first (smallest and most detailed image) in lost lagoon and used the same ink for the second image, but we stamped off once first. The third image is stamped in pool party. We used pear pizzazz for the stalk – full strength for the partial image and stamped off once for the second image. Once that was done to our satisfaction (extra card stock may possibly have been sacrificed here!), we used the embossing buddy to remove any static and then stamped the sentiment from Work of Art in versamark. They of course loved watching the gold come to life under the heat tool. Who wouldn’t? The piece of very vanilla was then mounted on a piece of pear pizzazz and then put onto a card base of lost lagoon with stampin’ dimensionals. The card is a 4.25″ square. So we used the envelope punch board to make an envelope for a 4.5″ square card (a little extra room for the dimensionals), starting with a 7.5″ square of lost lagoon. They were surprised at how easy it is to make custom sized envelopes – I believe that there are measurements for 66 different sizes of envelopes on this handy tool. That’s pretty impressive for a tool that costs under $20.

See you tomorrow,

Liz