The Fruit Stand DSP is amazingly, still available and it’s on sale – $8.80 which is 20% off. I’ve become completely enamored with this pattern which was uncut up until last week – I thought it was beautiful, but just too loud. But it’s not. It’s making wonderful cards.

I wanted to show how different this paper can look – I took a square (3 1/2 inches) that didn’t have any of the bright full strength watermelon wonder and it’s a totally different look. I matted it with a piece of pear pizzazz 1/8 inch larger for a skinny border and isn’t it amazing how it changes the look of the paper? I used the Vertical Greetings again as before – in pear pizzazz instead of watermelon wonder – with a card base of thick whisper white.

Here’s my card, side by side with my previous card with this paper with a similar layout and the card is totally different. It’s amazing (and fun) how a change in color totally changes everything. And this is using the same paper! Let me know which you prefer.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz