Happy February! I can’t believe that we’re through January already – don’t worry, I’m not going to start counting down until Christmas. Yet. I’m ready to continue to work on my resolution to send/give more cards and a new resolution is to kick what the doctor today confirmed is bronchitis. Normally I’m happy being at home since I can card, but I don’t have the energy at the moment. Luckily I was at a crop at the weekend (before the exhaustion kicked in) and made a bunch of cards that I can share with you over the next week or so. My brother made me a washi tape holder and although I didn’t take it to the crop, I did take the It’s My Party designer washi tape since it’s new, I have a lot of washi and I almost never use it. So that was my challenge to myself. One card. With washi.

So what I found is that if you use some washi, you can make a card very quickly. The hardest part was getting the wispy pieces off the die cut and the big shot brush helps with that amazingly well. I took a piece of very vanilla card and lined it up on my grid paper so that the bottom of it was along one of the lines. Then I took the washi tape and lined that with one of the grid lines too so that I could be sure that it was straight. It looks slightly off in the photo but that’s because part of the card is on the envelope. In real life, it looks straight. One tip about the washi – there’s a special end to the washi when you get it – about half an inch from the end there’s a kind of stripe. Cut that off or the washi isn’t perfect when you put it on your card. I then used melon mambo (as you’ll see in the coming days, I was having a melon mambo weekend – don’t panic, there’s some rose red and watermelon wonder too as well as a couple of cards completely without any pink) to cut out the sentiment from the Hello You thinlits dies. I then perched this on the top of the washi tape and, having put that on a melon mambo cardbase decided that was all I needed. I flirted with the It’s My Party enamel dots but they didn’t add anything, they just looked as if I’d used them because I wanted to use them. In my opinion, they need to be needed.

For the envelope, I dry embossed the flap with the Elegant Dots TIEF. It definitely is elegant – I need to use it on a card soon.

I have some classes coming up, if you can get to North NJ check the left hand panel for the link to them. As always, if you have any questions, just contact me and I’ll get right back to you – and I’m fairly sure that email is safe and I’m not contagious that way.

Since it’s 1st February, that means that we’re one third of the way through Sale-a-bration. And only 2 weeks away from the three limited edition free items being retired – and replaced with three new ones. A quick reminder – for every $50 you spend before tax and shipping you get to choose a free item from the Sale-a-bration catalogue (the link to it is on the left). If your wish list is a bit larger than $50, then the best deal is to sign up as a demonstrator and get $155 worth of product for $99 (shipping included). There’s no penalty for joining up just for the totally customisable starter kit if that’s what you want to do. Or you can just stay for the discount. Or you can build a business. The great thing is that it’s totally up to you! If you want to sign up, the link for that is on the left hand side too.

Here’s the list of supplies for this card:

See you tomorrow,

Liz