I’m still playing with the Swirly Scribbles Thinlits dies and it’s still the swoosh. I did cut a number of the round scribbles out so I expect that they will make their way onto a card soon, but for today, it’s the swoosh.

I already had a real red swoosh cut because I’d used the insert pieces in my Mondrian inspired swoosh card, so really I’m just using up leftovers this morning! I like the way that the real red swoosh flows into the card base so that at first glance (unless you know what the swoosh looks like) it’s not obvious whether the swoosh has been added onto the card or whether I’ve cut out pieces of the very vanilla to reveal the real red below. I then cut out a few pieces in gold foil and glued them into place using my 2 way glue pen. I trimmed the overlapping edges of the swoosh easily with paper snips using the edge of the very vanilla as my guide. The sentiment comes from All About Everything, the bonus set that came with April’s Paper Pumpkin and is stamped in real red to match. Then I put the very vanilla onto a real red card base.

I didn’t have a real red envelope liner precut, but I did have this rather flashy gold one. It’s from last year’s holiday catalogue and unavailable these days. Envelope liners are a great way to use up leftover paper. I just checked the retiring list and I hope that if you wanted the envelope liner thinlits you have them because they are no longer available.

See you tomorrow,

Liz