This card was created solely because I wanted to play with the botanical builder framelits dies, and the elegant leaf in particular. I cut it out with a piece of mint macaron card stock, just to see how it looked and then went hunting through my stash of DSP to find something that would work.

I ended up with the coordinating Botanical Gardens DSP which I got as part of a bundle with the dies (there’s also a stamp set in the bundle although I didn’t use it today but if you’re going to buy the DSP and the dies, it makes sense). It was a simple matter to cut the DSP to the same size as the mint macaron was (before I used the die on it). My Enjoy the little things sentiment comes from the set of the same name and this was the first time that I’ve used it. I don’t know why it took this long, it’s a very versatile set with lots of different typefaces. Fun. I stamped the sentiment in basic black but it wasn’t quite black enough so I used my stampin’ write basic black marker to darken it. I’ve also used the same DSP to line the outside of the envelope flap – just add it with the multipurpose glue and snip around the edges.

Tomorrow is a special day here on my blog. It’s will be my 400th blog post. I little thought when I started blogging that I’d have so much fun with it and (apart from traumatic events both in my life and that of my computer) would blog daily. To celebrate this, I’m going to offer my first blog candy. So stop back tomorrow for a chance to win.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz