I am really sad that the Hello You Thinlits Dies are retiring – I often reach for them for the finishing touch for a card as can be seen here. If you imagine the card without the hello, it’s nothing much. Add the lovely copper foil word and there’s fun.

I’m continuing on my quest to make cards using DSP so as to make room for the new beautiful DSP coming our way soon! This beautiful patterned paper comes from the Fruit Stand DSP (currently still available and on sale for $8.80); I love the soft watercolored look. I’ve just cut a rectangle of the DSP ( 4 1/2″ by 3 1/4″) and then matted it with a piece of peekaboo peach that is 1/8 inch larger so that there’s a tiny 1/16 inch border all around. This is then put onto a card base of thick whisper white. I can’t wait to get the thick very vanilla that’s in the new catalog!

Then I cut out the hello from the Hello You Thinlits Dies in copper foil and used the silicone craft mat, a dauber and tombow to glue it on. You put glue on the dauber and then dab most of it off so that you’re only dabbing a little onto the back of the sentiment. As long as you don’t allow the sentiment to move, there’s no glue on the front and no oozing from the back.

Here are a few other cards I’ve made with the Hello You thinlits dies

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See you tomorrow,

Liz