VIDEO Making a Feather card

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Today's card features a background and butterfly from the soon-to-be-retired Creative Elements stamp set. Contact me soon if you want it in your collection - once it is gone -it's gone for good!

It also features the simple but effective technique for creating beautiful feathers. Hope you enjoy it.

Back soon with more

Love Elizabeth X

Itty Bitty Pop-Up Boxes

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Today I am sharing a picture of two mini versions of the Envelope Punch Board pop-up boxes. If you don't know what I am talking about, scroll down to the last video to see.

These boxes can be done in any size and here are two I made for my nieces recently.

I used the Gingham Garden designer paper which gives a lovely contrast when you look inside the pop up lid. The greeting is from Itty Bitty Banners 

Back on Tuesday with another video.

Love Elizabeth X

Dress up Just for Fun!

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You may not know that I am such a big Walt Disney World fan, that my nieces call me Auntie Disney so I just had to make a Minnie Mouse card using the Dress Up die.

The ears are my ONLY non-SU! punch! The greeting is from Itty Bitty Banners.

My second fun project is a Stampin' Up! apron! I cut it and then used a circle punch, scissors and pricking tool to make that Apron.

I hope you like today's fun Dress Up projects and I still have more to come....

Love Elizabeth X

VIDEO Trimmer and Gift Card Holder

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So excited! My new trimmer from Stampin' Up! arrived today so I had to show it to you...

So many of us give gift cards at this time of year, that I always try to design a new one for my class ladies. We made this one during our November classes.

This is how it looks from the outside. We used Riding Hood Red for our outer holder and stamped using images from Polar Party. The greeting is from Itty Bitty Banners.

As you pull out the inner holder, you can see more of the Polar Party trees. We stamped them in Stazon, coloured with markers and did the stars using the fabby Gold Stampin' Dazzle marker from the Autumn/Winter catalogue. The tab is made using the Decorative Label punch.

As you open the Very Vanilla holder inside, it reveals a little holder for your gift card or money.

I have used this sort of design for invitations before, but I think it works well as a gift card holder - what do you think?


Love Elizabeth X

Join the Blog Hop

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Today is the day of the 2012 Inspiring Inkin' blog hop. You may have come to me from the lovely Jane's Blog - I bet you loved her projects! I hope you enjoy having a hop around to some lovely ideas from both the Stampin' Up! Autumn/Winter catalogue and also some sneak peeks from the upcoming BIG catalogue.

Now I am always excited about a new Stampin' Up! catalogue - but this one is the MOST exciting ever! It features over 200 pages of wonderful goodies - just wait until you see it on 1st October!

(If you would like a catalogue and you are not already coming to my launch party or the launch event of one of my demonstrator friends, do contact me!)

So first a project or two from the Autumn / Winter catalogue. I totally love the new Snow Flurry Bigz die! It cuts several layers of cardstock at once, so you can make lots of snowflakes really quickly - it is also a traditional 'cookie cutter' die, so it will cut chipboard and heavy materials.

This is a card we will be making at my October classes, (I have just a couple of spaces if you would like to join us).

 
And here is another example...made with the stunning Cherry Cobbler Tulle - I will be demostrating how to make these decorations at my upcoming parties (formerly known as workshops LOL).

Now I hardly know what to hint at or tell you about from the new BIG catalogue from Stampin' Up! There is so much...but here are a couple of cards made with a stamp set called Make a Cake. You can make your cake for any occasion, here are the ones I baked for you! :)

The first features the co-ordinating Patio Party Designer Series Paper. I added a bit of bling to the cake with Dazzling Diamonds.

 

 

This card uses the same stamp set, but this time I made a wedding cake. The greeting comes from Itty Bitty Banners.

 

 

 

 Well I do hope you have enjoyed my projects - I will be back soon with some more, but in the meantime do click here and continue on to Lynne to see what she has created.

Love Elizabeth X