I found a piece of mossy meadow cardstock that I’d stamped with the leaves from Blissful Bouquet, the Paper Pumpkin October 2015 set. The plan had been to make some kind of DSP with it but other card had been put on top of it and it disappeared. Until last night.

I took my gold marker (Stampin’ Up! have retired theirs but sharpies work) and coloured in a few of the leaves at random and I really liked the effect. Unusually I decided to mat it in black and glue that all to a mossy meadow card base before I’d figured out the rest of the card. Even more unusually – and in direct contradiction to what I said yesterday – after trying a few things to add to the front of the card, I settled on my unused pack of Expressions Natural Elements. Everything else covered up too much of my home made DSP.  The natural wood colour didn’t work so I pressed the wooden piece into my versamark and then sprinkled it with gold embossing powder. Apparently I wasn’t thinking ahead too much because this is when I went looking for what to put it on in order to heat it. I was going to use a punch since they’re metal, but my brother objected since there’s a plastic covering. Good call. Because when I got a metal lid and used that, the heat gun blew the word all over the place so the lip of the lid is what saved my piece. Martin suggested, once I was finished, that he has some fine sandpaper in the basement which I could use next time to hold the wooden word in place. Good idea. I’m really pleased with how this came out and even more happy that I have used a previously “hard to use” element. Should I try a wooden snowflake or Rudolph paper clip next?

See you tomorrow,

Liz