By the Tide Man Card

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May is here already! Can you believe it?

Today I am sharing a fabby man-card made with the By The Tide stamp set. I love how this card turned out. The designer paper is from Comfort Cafe, and I used Early Espresso Bakers twine layered over Natural Trim Ribbon, which you can find in the Spring/Summer Catalogue from Stampin' Up!

 

Most of the stamping was done in Soft Suede, the shell was stamped in Stazon black ink.

 

 

Hope you like today's project. I will be back on Sunday with another By the Tide card. 

Love Elizabeth X

VIDEO Milk Carton Die Video

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A little video today especially for Karen, who wanted some tips for assembling the box made with our Mini Milk Carton die from Stampin' Up!

Hope that was helpful Karen! If you have any special video requests, let me know.

Love Elizabeth X

Petite Pennants Boat

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Earlier this month I shared a golf card made with the Pennant Parade stamp set and matching Petite Pennant Punch. Today I am sharing another card using this stamp set.

I used a circle mask to create the sun, circle punch cut the waves and daubed the edges. The greeting and little stars also come from the Pennant Parade set.

Do you like it?

Love Elizabeth X

Mixed Bunch Flower Pot

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I always try to put all my class cards on my blog, but whoops, this one got missed! We actually did it at class almost a year ago. What is clever about this card is seeing how it pops out of the flower pot....

We stamped the flowers with Mixed Buch and punched out with the matching Blossom Punch. The leaves were stamped using the French Foliage stamp set and the greetings come from Petite Pairs.

Hope it was worth the wait.

Love Elizabeth X

VIDEO Lattice Card

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Today I have a video for you that makes a rather special looking card. It uses the Lattice die from the main Stampin' Up! catalogue and gives a very interesting effect.

Did you like today's card? I hope it inspired you to create your own lattice card.

Love Elizabeth X

Field Flowers in Wisteria

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Another class project today. This one features the Field Flowers and Papillion Potpourri stamp sets. We used Wisteria Wonder cardstock with matching ink -plus Elegant Eggplant ink for the top layer.

The stems are stamped in Lucky Limeade ink. I love the lace, which is a demounted wheel called Viola's Lace. (If you want to know how to de-mount a stamp, check out my videos - I have one that shows how it is done).

The technique we used is two step stamping on the flowers. You stamp the bottom layer in the paler colour and the detail with the darker colour over the top.

To do the butterfly, we stamped with Elegant Eggplant then spread the ink with a blender pen before punching out with the matching punch.


I also made a step card version of this card - again there is a video on how to make a step card.

Love Elizabeth X

Collage Curios Card

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Today I am sharing one of the cards we made in class this month. We used the delicious Comfort Cafe Designer Series Paper, and stamped the background at the bottom of the card with the En Francais background stamp.

We added half of one of the Paper Doilies from the Spring/Summer catalogue from Stampin' Up! We topped it with images from the Collage Curios stamp set. We heat embossed the ring with Gold Embossing Powder.

Do you see that Natural Trim Ribbon - also from the Spring/Summer catalogue. I just cut a couple of inches and frayed the bottom to get that effect.

I picked up the ink colours from the paper for the greeting, (Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla and Cajun Craze).

Here is another version I did with this design. I used the Soda Pop Tops, whose sizes match up with Collage Curios.

You can see on the close up that while the small Soda Pop Top is as it comes in the packet, the larger one has been run through the Big Shot to flatten our the edges. I played for a while until I got this right and used some thick card to protect my plates.

I hope you like todays cards. Back soon with more.

Love Elizabeth X