This is my Paper Pumpkin April 2016 Alternate 5 plus some odds and ends. I’ve been trying to use up DSP and other retiring consumables lately as well as play with my Paper Pumpkin kit. Today I started off looking at the retiring in colours (which I’m sorely going to miss) and this card developed from there.

I looked at the ribbon that I have in the retiring in colours (all of it is already retired actually) and found that I had about 6 inches left of the satin mossy meadow. I tried to tie a bow but there just wasn’t enough. I’m still seeing the flower/starburst image from this month’s Paper Pumpkin, Lovely Little Wreath, as a celebratory image. This led me to choosing the celebrate sentiment from the bonus stamp set, All About Everything,  and stamping it in mossy meadow placing it above my line of ribbon. Next the starbursts were added in mossy meadow and I constructed the card gluing my very vanilla layer to a mossy meadow card base. This was when I decided that my clean and simple card was just a bit too clean and simple.

I got out all my embellishments and played around with the botanical jewels, bow tie clips and buttons. Nothing quite worked. This was when I remembered that the Home For Christmas enamel dots are in mossy meadow (as well as very vanilla and cherry cobbler). Three of the smaller very vanilla dots on the ribbon worked perfectly. I realise that these are retired and if you love this card (and don’t happen to have the enamel dots left over) it’s hard to make. However, it would work just as well using whisper white and the white perfect accents. I think I may make this card up in the four other colours whilst I’m thinking how to use up the mossy meadow enamel dots! And whilst looking at my stash of retiring DSP. I’ve seen the new paper and I want it all! I’m definitely signing up for a share of my upcoming DSP and ribbon share!

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See you tomorrow,

Liz