When I got home last night, my latest order had been delivered from Stampin’ Up! And this one contained the brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies released early on November 1st. Stitching has been a trend for a while and I was thrilled that these have been released because whilst I’m not about to start actually stitching on a card, I do love the look of the stitches.

Also in my order was the Fancy Frost Specialty DSP which was brought to my attention by my adopted upline, Eimear. Actually Eimear is my sister Caro’s upline but that UK based team has kindly let me be part of their fun and are encouraging me to go to the Live Onstage event in Europe with them next April. You can’t split up sisters now can you?! And yes, I double dip – I’m going away this weekend to MY upline’s cropping event, one that my sister has gone to as well. The stamping community is very friendly. Anyway, back to the card…

I very lightly sponged the fancy frost specialty DSP in always artichoke using a sponge and glued that to an always artichoke card base. I stamped one of my favourite trees from Totally Trees onto whisper white and cut it out with my brand new Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and created an always artichoke mat using the layering ovals. The merry comes from the Christmas Greetings thinlits and it’s been cut out in cajun craze. To tie it all together, I used an enamel shape in the same colour. Since I was going to have the sentiment overlapping the image, I glued everything down flat. I look forward to playing some more with the stitched dies tonight.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz