Today’s card is for a challenged at CanYouCaseIt where you have to use neutrals, yellows and browns. A good challenge for me since brown tends to stay in the box, unused.

Here’s the banner for the challenge:

I had started playing around with the DSP from Sweet Li’l Things and hello honey and I already had the DSP glued to the cardbase. But the card refused to continue in the direction of a congratulations card (possibly, in retrospect, because I’d mistakenly grabbed crushed curry and it didn’t look right with the hello honey) so I got out lighthearted leaves. I really like this set and am disappointed that it’s retiring at the end of the year. Another good reason to use it!

I stamped it in early espresso on very vanilla (to match the DSP) and cut it out with the framelits. I then coloured it in with hello honey, crumb cake and early espresso. I played around with different colours for the sentiment (I have spares cut out now for a future project) and finally settled on early espresso. This was cut out using the greetings thinlits dies using the precision plate which makes it so much easier than having to cut several times and use wax paper. It takes just once through the big shot and the sentiment pops right out. It still needs a little cleaning of the wispy bits of card, but it’s minimal. I used the fine tip glue pen to glue the sentiment on – another great tool that makes life much easier. If you’re trying to glue something that is.

See you tomorrow,

Liz