I’m still hooked on the colour combination in the All is Calm DSP from the Holiday catalogue – lost lagoon, pear pizzazz and pool party. After I played with the baby wipes and a rainbow of colours recently, I wondered about my current 3 favourite colours on a block and the first use of my spritzer. So I put a few ink drops of each colour on a D block, spritzed it with water and pressed the block onto whisper white paper. I got different effects depending upon how much water I added and whether I moved the block around to get the colours to mix more. This is definitely a fun way to make custom DSP! Since I used ordinary paper, rather than watercolour, it took some time to dry. Actually I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with the results and they sat on my desk for about a week. One made a nice tag for one of my mother’s Christmas gifts. And another was recently turned into a card.

I embossed the letter E from the Stampin’ Up! Larger than Life alphabet set in clear embossing powder. I really like the effect of this on the varied background colours. I then cut it out using the 4th largest square framelit and cut out the next size up in lost lagoon and glued them together. It was then a simple matter of mounting this square on the pear pizzazz card base. I lined the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz (subtles collection).

Although the Larger than Life set is expensive, it is definitely worth it in my opinion – especially if you get it (as I did) as a free set by meeting a demonstrator challenge. I’ve earned 6 free sets now in the 7 months I’ve been a demonstrator, definitely yet another reason to sign up.