I recently earned a free stamp set from Stampin’ Up! – it must be about my fourth in 6 months. This time, I had just seen monogrammed notecards on Susan Itell’s site and decided that I really like the Stampin’ Up! Larger Than Life set and that it really would be useful. It’s pricey (about $45) so it’s a good one to get for free or, failing that, as a 50% off item when you earn one through holding a qualifying party. Let me know if you’d like to learn how to do that.

I didn’t use the notecards as Susan did, but a regular sized 5.5″ by 4.25″ card in very vanilla. I cut an upper layer a quarter of an inch smaller and using the stampin’ scorer scored each side 3/8 inch from the edge. I then flipped the paper over so that the embossing was a mountain instead of a valley. I used rich razzleberry to stamp the e (I am known as Liz but a lowercase L doesn’t look as good as an E!) using my stamp-a-ma-jig and stamping twice to get a really good image. I lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in rich razzleberry from the brights collection.

I really like how this came out and can definitely see making a box of them for somebody although I think I’d make them all different colours. Since I started making cards, I’ve become far more excited by colour.