I was playing with the Falling in Love DSP yesterday playing with another project, when this piece of DSP came to hand and I thought it would be great with the All Things Thanks set. The big bold sentiment paired with the dreamy out of focus bokeh background insisted on being put together. I think that they were right!

I used the embossing buddy of course and then inked up in versamark. I actually then stamped because I have the retired early espresso embossing powder, but if you don’t, just then ink up in early espresso and use clear embossing powder. It gives the same look and the versamark doesn’t seem to upset the other ink pads – I’ve been doing this for a while. I also heated the powder before adding the DSP to its mat since if it became wavy (heating the back of the paper helps to straighten it out), fixing it to the early espresso mat would take care of it. I used blushing bride as a card base which is odd because I fully intended to use sweet sugarplum! This is the paler edge of the DSP so possibly the sweet sugarplum would’ve been too much. I think I’ll get a piece from the more purple side of the sheet and make a similar card for comparison purposes. Wow! Can you believe that I made a card without the Stitched Shapes Framelits? Me neither! Although that gives me an idea…

I really love this DSP – I wonder if it might possibly be the first time that I need to order a second pack!

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See you tomorrow,

Liz