I’ve had my Paper Pumpkin for a little while but I’ve been having so much fun with the order that came whilst I was on my business trip, that I’ve only just got around to playing with it and coming up with alternates. It was also an opportunity to use my new Holly TIEF.

I started off my dry embossing a piece of real red with the Holly TIEF and then glued it to a real red card base. I cut the triangles from one of the little boxes, cutting just  inside the score lines. I glued the three triangles onto the card with multipurpose glue and then added an old olive trunk. This gave me the perfect opportunity to pull out the new Enamel Shapes (page 177 in case you haven’t seen them) and add some of the smallest circles in real red and old olive. I had intended to add a sentiment, but it was going to fight with the dry embossed background. And I didn’t feel like having a fight on my hands this morning!

It feels as if lately, I’ve given myself permission to start making Christmas cards – I’ve made a few this month. I’m planning a monthly Christmas card class stamp a stack  (4 copies of 2 designs) starting next month. Let me know if you’re local and interested. I’ll create a kit by post if there’s interest – let me know.

Hope that your weekend is going well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz