The Sunburst Sayings and thinlits die was a bundle that was delivered at the end of last week and another thing that I had to play with immediately rather than going to bed! I also got the Botanical Gardens designer vellum stack which is one of the freebies in the Sale-a-bration catalogue and it matches the Botanical Gardens DSP.

I used the sunburst thinlits die to cut out the vellum and then cut out the piece of DSP to match. I stuck the vellum down with the multipurpose glue in the middle where I was going to have the sentiment and then flipped the DSP over and started trimming. I’d done three sides before I realised that I should’ve left the ends and folded them over the paper and glued then on the back of the DSP. Instead I put tiny drops of the glue, using a paper piercing tool, onto the vellum where there was stamping. It worked pretty well and it’s hard to see which of the four sides is folded under. Which side do you think is folded?

I then stamped the sentiment from the Sunburst Sayings, which I got in a bundle with the die and saved 15%. Gotta love that. I cut this out with the coordinating 1 1/4 inch circle punch and then cut a matching mossy meadow mat using the circles collection framelits dies and my big shot. I like how it gave me a narrower border than using two of the nested circles framelits. I popped the sentiment circles up on dimensionals and then glued this to a mossy meadow card base.

I also cut another piece of the DSP and glued it to the back flap of the envelope and then trimmed the excess with my paper snips. It’s a quick and easy way to dress up the envelope. I don’t think I’ve sent out a “naked” envelope in over a year now!

By the way, it’s the right hand side of the card which had the vellum folded under.

See you tomorrow,

Liz