I’ve been wanting to use the three lines in the painted petals set for a while but they just wouldn’t fit onto a card. Yesterday afternoon, I finally realised what I wanted to do with them. I wanted the sentiment front and centre and very obvious – I have a couple of people that need such cards to be sent to them at the moment.

I first stamped the sentiment from the Lovely Amazing You set in the middle of the very vanilla card using blackberry bliss ink which I stamped off once onto scrap paper. Then I stamped the lines from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set in lost lagoon about midway between the edge of the card and the sentiment. One of my favourite tools then came into play – my ruler – so that I could ensure that the second set of lines were at the same distance.

I then decided that the card needed a lost lagoon mat which necessitated some trimming of the very vanilla piece. The stampin’ up! trimmer is great at trimming off little strips. After adhering the very vanilla to the lost lagoon mat I glued it to a blackberry bliss base. A nice easy CAS (clean and simple) card.