Wow. We’re up to Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 5. And I have a couple more ideas too! This card sat on my desk for a few days whilst I thought how to complete it. In the end, I decided to allow the gold “squiggle” to be the star of the card and add extra gold to make it more lush and elegant. Let me know if you think I succeeded!

This is the official embellishment that is leftover after making the kit cards (I’m planning to make mine on Friday with friends) and it’s so beautiful. I stuck it onto a piece of very vanilla and then bordered it with a piece of gold foil 1/8 inch larger. Normally I leave my layers intact because depending on the colour, you can see that there are cut outs! Not with this card, I decided to cut out a fairly large rectangle out of the gold foil since it only comes a couple of sheets at a time. I cut the thanks out using the Hello You dies in blackberry bliss and used the 2-way glue pen to adhere it. I have finally decided on the 2-way glue pen as my favourite way to add die cut words – unless you squeeze, you don’t get extra glue that oozes around your word as with the multipurpose glue and it doesn’t dry too fast like the fine tip pen. I know that this is the third day in a row for blackberry bliss, but it feels a supremely rich and elegant colour to me and perfect for this card.

Since I’d cut out a lot of the gold foil, I didn’t want to have a dent in the front of my card so I popped the layer up on stampin’ dimensionals and added it to a blackberry bliss cardbase. Lots of dimensionals so that the card doesn’t sag. For this use, I tend to cut up the dimensionals at the edge of the pack – there’s no rule that all dimensionals have to be hexagons. Use it all up!

I used a retired paper to line the envelope – I’m not sure which DSP it is, it was in my stash of precut liners and I loved the gold foil with this card.

Sue Ann – I’m so glad that you signed up as an email subscriber. I love sharing ideas and I’m happy that you are here.

See you all tomorrow,

Liz