Last night I really felt the need to lose myself in crafting. We’d just taken our father to the airport and the house felt empty and I knew that crafting would help. In one of the Facebook groups that I belong to, there’s a distinct lack of fondness for the new Playful Palette DSP stack, some of the colour combinations are just not to some of the members’ taste. With that in mind, I decided to reach for the new stack and try to get some minds changed!
I decided to start with one of the sheets with just two colours and the emerald envy called me. Whilst thinking about constructing the card, sitting there with the piece of DSP and a piece of emerald envy, I realised that I have the new emerald envy ruched ribbon. So the card started to come together with one of my current favourite stamps from All About Everything which I stamped on very vanilla and cut out with my retired ovals collections framelits – I haven’t got the new layering ones. Yet. I intended on cutting out an oval in emerald green as a mat but somehow the card decided that it wanted two strips of ribbon and a bow and that my oval was going to be a present tag. It’s as well not to fight when a card has taken over in my experience!
I carefully cut the DSP a smidge smaller than my usual mat for two reasons. One, I wanted to get a larger emerald envy border and second, I wanted enough left to line the envelope! The envelope needs 2 1/16 inches in depth so instead of a 4″ by 5 1/4″ top layer, I cut it 1/16″ smaller, so just one mark on the stampin’ trimmer, 3 15/16″ and 5 3/16″. The card isn’t really a parcel – I cut two pieces of the ruched ribbon and anchored them behind the DSP with fast fuse. Then I attached my DSP layer to the care base. Next I attached the tag with a glue dot, angling it so that it showed under the bow. And lastly I attached the bow. This has got a fair amount of dimension from the layers of ribbon – I’m thinking this may be a hand delivered card.
To decorate the envelope, I used the multipurpose glue to attach the piece I’d reserved and cut around the edges with my paper snips. Easy to do with the envelope guiding you. So there you have it – a card using the Playful Palette DSP stack which, I hope, my Facebook group will like.
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Don’t forget that this month you can join Stampin’ Up! as a demo for an awesome deal. As usual you can select $125 worth of product for just $99 with free shipping and then, as long as you maintain a $300 sales (including sales to you) threshold you will get at least a 20% on product. But in June, you also get to select TWO FREE stamp sets which, if you pick the most expensive in the catalogue, would save you just over $100. Questions? Just let me know.
See you tomorrow,
Liz