I was working on a challenge card for the nacho average challenge blog but the link was closing today and I’d have needed to publish this post around midnight and then link it up. Instead of writing the post, I watched My Fellow Americans with my father and some chardonnay for me and brandy for him. I love that movie and have seen it many many times and it is still incredibly funny. Jack Lemmon and James Garner are wonderful. So here’s my card for the pear pizzazz, lost lagoon and silver challenge even though it isn’t being entered.

The flower is from an upcoming set, the Stampin’ Up! Crazy about You set. It’s 30 stamps of words and three images. There is a coordinating new punch for this flower – the Flower Medallion but I don’t have it. Yet. So I snipped the flower out after stamping it in lost lagoon. Then I decided to stamp it again in pear pizzazz and snip out the centre of the flower. My mother watched in horror as I snipped away, declaring that it would drive her crazy to do that kind of thing (even though she does dress making as a hobby) but it’s strangely relaxing. I glued the flower together with the tombow glue.

The strip of DSP is from the All is Calm DSP and it’s the first time that I’ve used it. I love this pattern and have never wanted to cut into it previously. But I have to do something with my growing mountain of DSP other than just look at it from time to time! I used stampin’ dimensionals to pop the flower up.

After this I used the silver glimmer paper and the new Hello You thinlits dies to cut out the thanks. The set also has “hello”, “you” and “happy”. The instructions suggest that by running it through the big shot 3 times, you’ll get a cleaner cut. That definitely helped – especially as my waxed paper had migrated down to the workshop in the basement. Next time I will be interested to see how it works with wax paper and the three times through the big shot – I’ve “liberated” a roll of wax paper from the basement.