It’s a hard choice, but I think that the English Garden DSP is my favourite paper in the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue. Some of the patterns can stand on their own as a card (I’ll post an example in the upcoming days).

The bee paper is in whisper white, soft suede and hello honey so I mounted it on a piece of soft suede. I then cut out a banner in whisper white and made the banner part using the new triple banner punch – it’s very easy. Simpler than using scissors and a ruler. I matted that with a banner of soft suede and popped the banner up on stampin’ dimensionals. The hello is cut out of hello honey using the Hello You dies – I really like the diecut words that Stampin’ Up! has and I was happy that these were carried over to the new catalogue and thrilled that there are more in the catalogue also. I forced myself to allow the hello to fall off the edges of the whisper white to the edge of the soft suede banner and I like the effect. I used the two way glue pen to adhere the word and it’s now my method of choice – the angled tip makes it very easy to get the glue just where you want it. The soft suede piece is mounted on ordinary whisper white card stock – I have yet to try the extra heavy whisper white – I think I’ll add it to my next order. As you can see, I lined the envelope with another piece of the DSP.

Here’s the photo in the catalogue of the English Garden DSP – as you can see, there are lots of really pretty patterns. I usually find DSP hard to use but this one is so lovely, it’s just screaming to be put onto cards.

See you tomorrow,

Liz