I was looking at the Paper Pumpkin February 2016 kit, Hello Sunshine, last night and it hit me that there are four of all the main decorative pieces and only three cards for each. So I could play with leftovers. Of course they aren’t technically leftovers since I haven’t made the kit up yet – I’m saving it to do it with my friends next week. There’s a gold squiggle that you peel off the shiny gold foil and that leaves behind lots of pieces of foil and I thought it would be a crime to waste them. So I didn’t.

I carefully peeled a piece of gold foil (with it’s backing) leaving a hole where it had been in the cut foil. I lay this down on the card and, after peeling off the backing, stuck my piece of foil where it’s supposed to go. And continued that way. There were a few mishaps – the thin paper between the pieces was torn, so I had to approximate. Some had to have glue added but I’m thrilled with the overall effect and I love it on the cherry cobbler. I matted this with a piece of basic black and then decided it was a birthday card. This sentiment is also from the Hello Sunshine kit and I embossed it in gold. After doing this, I attached the matted piece and popped it up with dimensionals. I lined the envelope with a precut envelope liner but looking at the two together, I’m going to switch out this envelope and save it for later and line another with some DSP with gold on it.

And after doing this, I still have the gold squiggle from this, my leftover embellishment. I’ll finish my card with that soon and post it.

See you tomorrow,

Liz