Today I’m sharing a third card made with the Moroccan DSP to put in my matching box which I’ve yet to show you. The box holds up to eight cards and because I’ve decorated it with the Moroccan DSP, I’m making the cards all with paper from this stack.
This is another fairly busy paper which would be overwhelming if it were covering the entire card front – well, it would be to me. So I cut a strip 1.5 inches wide (actually it started wider at 2 1/8 inches but I cut it back as I was designing the card) and decided to pull out the cajun craze from the pattern. The cajun craze strip is 1/8 inch wider than the DSP to get a lovely tiny border. Once you’ve got the liquid tombow glue on the DSP, use your trimmer or your table to ensure that you’ve got the edges perfect. This is why I use the liquid glue, you have a little time to wiggle the paper to make sure that the edges are lined up. I then mounted this on a very vanilla card base.
To continue featuring the cajun craze, I used that ink for the sentiment which is from Watercolor Wishes. I know that you knew that because I use it all the time! But I love the typeface, the sentiment and the way the sentiment is stacked together. It’s just perfect. I cropped it with an oval die and then popped it up on dimensionals.
In case you were wondering why I started with a strip of DSP at 2 1/8 inches, it’s because I’m lazy – actually, let’s call it efficient! It means that there’s less cutting for the envelope flap. Just get a 6 by 2 1/8 inch strip, put some tombow on the flap and add the DSP. Use an edge to ensure that the edge of the envelope and the edge of the DSP match and then trim the excess with your paper snips. Now you have a perfectly coordinating card and envelope.
Yesterday demonstrators were able to see the new Holiday catalogue and we’ll be able to order next Tuesday. It will be generally released on September 1st. I can’t wait to start playing with some of the goodies. If you can’t wait either, just think about signing up as a demonstrator. For $99 with free shipping, you can select $125 worth of product (including from the new Holiday catalog) with no requirement to ever buy more. If you want to stay active and enjoy the 20% discount, you just need to sell/buy $300 per quarter, not including your first quarter. This means that you’d have until the end of September to sell/buy a total of $300 to stay active. And that’s not difficult, believe me! Just click on the tab over on the left for more information and the link that you need to join my team.
See you tomorrow,
Liz