Lasting Lily and Lily Framelit Dies with Strong & Beautiful

After a long, long delay due to weather conditions, I finally got my order with my Sale-A-Bration Coordination products and I didn't want to waste any time putting them to use, since I only have another month to really feature them on my blog. Of course my favourite stamp set and therefore, the coordinating die set that I wanted to use first was Lasting Lily and the Lily Framelit Dies! And I haven't yet had a chance to use the Strong & Beautiful sentiment stamp set which is so perfect for this set.
A friend of mine got some really bad news recently and I wanted to send her some words of encouragement and hope and a reminder of her strength.

• I love the palette and the fact that the Neutrals family now includes colours that aren't browns, grays and black. I used Gray Granite as the base and then Merry Merlot and Mossy Meadow for the the flowers, foliage and backgrounds.
• I thought about using the new Lace Dynamic Embossing Folder for the Merry Merlot panel, but it was a bit busy for me. Instead, I chose the Tufted Dynamic Embossing Folder for the rich, elegant background look it gives.
• My Merry Merlot ink pad is at just the right level of  'juiciness' to get a perfect image with the DistINKtive Lasting Lily stamp set. The stems are more solid, but the leaves also give a varying opacity look with the Mossy Meadow stamp pad.
• The Lily Framelit Dies were a bit difficult to in line up perfectly with the images and I found myself trimming away some extra border in some areas, especially where I wanted the flower part to show through.      
• I love the sentiment from the Strong & Beautiful stamp set. It is just perfect for this situation, but it also has a beautiful script. I die cut the sentiment with the Rectangle Stitched Framelit Dies and matted it with the next largest size in Gray Granite.
• The finishing touches are are little drops from the February Paper Pumpkin Kit!

I'll bet you're just waiting to get your hands on these coordinating products! It won't be long now. You'll be able to purchase them on March 1!  Here is what will be available, so make sure you earn the Sale-A-Bration products they coordinate with now.

Call Me Cupcakes Thinlits, $37 CAD,
150072

Four Seasons Framelits Dies, $38 CAD
!50074

Hop Around Framelit Dies, $37 CAD
150073

Lily Framelits Dies, $37 CAD
150071

Story Label Punch, $24 CAD
150076

More Than Words Photopolymer Stamp Set,
$22 CAD, 150069

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Product List

Lasting Lily Photopolymer Stamp Set [149717] $0.00	Strong & Beautiful Cling Stamp Set [148732] $34.00	Gray Granite 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146983] $11.50	Merry Merlot 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146979] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25
Merry Merlot Classic Stampin' Pad [147112] $10.25	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $10.25	Tufted Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146335] $12.25	Rectangle Stitched Framelits Dies [148551] $48.00	Lily Framelits Dies [150071] $37.00
Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25

Lasting Lily on a Bad Day

It's been another one of those days - those days where the cardstock won't cut straight, where you smudge ink from an unknown source somewhere on your fingers just as you're finishing up your project, where you are gluing your layers together and they won't go on straight the first time no matter how carefully you try, and even using the Stamparatus, the mat moves the paper a smidge and you get a slight edge. I couldn't believe it! It took four attempts to finally get one I could use and even that wasn't perfect, but I'd had enough! I liked the design, but holy moly - the execution was a killer.  (See what I did there? lol)

And let me be clear - it was NOT the stamps' fault. The klutziness was all with me. Do you ever have days like that? Where you begin to wonder if your thumbs are, indeed, opposable? Anyway, the stamp set I want to feature today is from the Sale-A-Bration Brochure and it's called Lasting Lily. As you may have guessed, it's a DistINKtive stamp set, meaning that the stamp gives different opacities of ink due to the surface composition. It's also a Level 2 Sale-A-Bration reward that you can earn with a $120 purchase.

• I started with a watercolour wash on Shimmery White cardstock using Soft Sea Foam and an Aqua Painter, then a second layer of Mossy Meadow, drying in between with the Heat Tool.
• I stamped the stems and leaves using Mossy Meadow and regular acrylic blocks with the paper on a Stampin' Pierce Mat.
• I used the Stamparatus to stamp the lilies themselves in Highland Heather. The Stamparatus did a good job with the DistINKtive aspect of the stamps, letting you see the details of the image clearly, even when needy more than one stamping.
• I cut down the panel when I was done, to 2 3/4" x 4" so that you could see the texture from the Basket Weave Dynamic Embossing Folder in Crumb Cake cardstock behind it.
• The sentiment, also from the Lasting Lily stamp set, is die cut with one of the Stitched Label Framelits. Old Olive Linen Thread creates the small bow to finish off the card.
• The card base is Gorgeous Grape with the next panel Whisper White.

Here's Natalie from the Home Office with some information about Cling Stamps that I thought you might be interested in:

           

Suite Shares

I have completed one round of Suite Shares, but will do another round if there is interest. Click on the link to find out more:  Suite Shares

 Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.


Product List

Lasting Lily Photopolymer Stamp Set [149717] $0.00	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101910] $12.25	Gorgeous Grape 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146987] $11.50	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25
Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $10.25	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $10.25	Highland Heather Classic Stampin' Pad [147103] $10.25	Old Olive Linen Thread [148811] $6.75	Aqua Painters [103954] $23.00
Heat Tool [129053] $41.00	Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [146841] $12.25	Stitched Labels Framelits Dies [146828] $45.00	Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Stamparatus [146276] $67.00
Stampin' Pierce Mat [126199] $7.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25