Firstly I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card this week as one of the winners. It’s a thrill to go to the challenge site and see my card amongst the winners. I hope that you follow the link to check out the rest of the cards.

Here’s another card that I made using this month’s Paper Pumpkin stamp set, Blissful Bouquet. I was so pleased with the multi coloured leaves that I did a few days ago that I decided to make my own DSP in the same way.

I mounted the two leaf stamps onto a single block and started stamping them in columns in the archival basic black ink onto very vanilla paper. Then, I used four different greens at varying strengths to colour in the leaves – mossy meadow, old olive, pear pizzazz and always artichoke. I decided to echo the black of the stamped image with a skinny basic black mat around my DSP and then mounted it on a mossy meadow card base. After that I went looking for the right sentiment. I realized that lately I seem to mostly make thank you cards (not a bad thing) and I’m a bit short of birthday cards. This sentiment comes from Birthday Blossoms and is stamped in mossy meadow and cut out with an oval framelit. I cut out the next largest framelit in mossy meadow but that made a border that was too wide for this card. So I used a sponge to lightly add a little mossy meadow to the edge of the very vanilla oval to give it a little definition. I lined the outside of the envelope flap for a change – just cut a 6″ by 2 1/4″ piece, glue it down and trim the edges with your paper snips. Easy.

I’m rather enjoying myself reusing this stamp set – I think I’ll pick another set sometime and do another series of cards. When I’ve made a couple more with Blissful Bouquet since I have some ideas at the back of my mind.

See you tomorrow,

Liz