Today’s project is another massive card – our recruiter at work has taken a job elsewhere and we’re going to miss her and I knew that a regular sized card would not be enough to hold all the good wishes from the IT department. So it’s a complete sheet of 8 1/2 by 11 inches folded in half.

Tara is quite a fan of my baking; she can frequently be found in my cube checking to see if the red box that contains my baking is there and complaining if it is missing for too long. So the sweet cupcake bundle seemed the perfect set for her card.

For the top of the cakes I used blushing bride stamped off once for the first image – the one that covers pretty much the entire cake. Then I used blushing bride for the next detailed image and sweet sugarplum stamped off once for the most detailed. I made all three cake tops the same and then cut them out with the cupcake cutouts framelits. The bases are from the 2015-2017  in colour DSP stack in tip top taupe again cut out with the framelits. The sweet word is also part of the framelits and of course I cut it out in both sweet sugarplum and blushing bride before deciding on the latter for the card. Then it was simply a matter of sticking everything down and raising a couple of the cakes up with dimensionals. I also added a very skinny tip top taupe mat to the card.

I saw a tip on Facebook yesterday from Simply Simple Stamping (although it didn’t originate there) about how to glue intricate die cuts, including words. The key is the silicone craft sheet. You place your die cut onto the craft sheet and also squirt some tombow onto the sheet. You pick up the glue with a sponge dauber (Connie used a sponge but I didn’t have a clean one handy) and, holding the die cut still, dab the glue onto the it. Actually you could do this on paper because you don’t want the diecut to move (or you’ll likely get glue on the front) but this is more forgiving – and easier to clean up. I marked my sponge dauber as “glue” so it’s always ready for service. This gives a much better result – there’s no oozing or issue with it not sticking really firmly. It’s a fabulous tip – this is the first time I’ve tried it and it’s a keeper.

I finished the card with enamel shapes in blushing bride and sweet sugarplum. And I made an envelope using the envelope punchboard using almost a sheet of the Subtles DSP stack in blushing bride.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz