Apologies for the late post today – I was all ready to start blogging this morning when the rather excessive wind outside meant that we had a power outage. After about five minutes, it came back on and I was happy, but it was a momentary restoration and then it was out again for the next couple of hours. Still, we used the time to go to the mall (and walk around and have a coffee because it doesn’t open that early) and look at stand mixers. I’ve been pushing the limits of my 4.5 quart mixer and I’m upgrading to a 6 quart. In purple. I can’t wait!! Anyway, to get back to the card making…I’m still using the Happy Home set – I really love the line drawn images and they keep making their way onto my cards. Today I set out to make a card for the sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts and somehow Happy Home insisted on being included. Endless Birthday Wishes gets pretty insistent as well.

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired this card

I inked up the stamp with my archival basic black ink, but didn’t include the clouds that are part of the image. I’d decided to use the Sweet L’il Things DSP for my clouds. First, I stamped my sentiment onto the very vanilla layer in archival basic black  and then glued my piece of DSP onto it. Next I cut three pieces of thick very vanilla baker’s twine and firmly attached them to the back of the card with fast fuse. I then popped this card up with plenty of dimensionals and added it to my very vanilla card base (otherwise the twine would make lumps in the card). After that I used the ovals collection framelits to cut out my image and that is also popped up with dimensionals – note – you want the dimensionals on the top and bottom of the oval so that they aren’t on the twine. The twine stops the middle of the oval from sagging. Here’s a side look at all that dimensional use.

I then used the same paper to line the envelope so that it coordinated. I used to make short liners so that I could get 8 out of a 12 by 12 piece, but I’m never in danger of running out of DSP and you can often see the end of the liner through the envelope. So now, I’m making full sized liners and I like the extra luxury that it gives, finishing off the handmade card perfectly.

I hope you’re having a power filled and wind free Sunday!

See you tomorrow,

Liz