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Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

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I got the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a Sale-a-bration freebie and have barely used it. Actually I rarely use vellum – I should work on that! This card started as a potential design card for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge this week – a colour challenge of chocolate chip, tempting turquoise and blushing bride. I used an aquapainter to get the card fairly wet and then added a pale wash of blushing bride at the top and tempting turquoise at the bottom. After using the heat tool to dry the paper, I stamped the image from Wetlands in chocolate chip. There seemed to be something missing so I added the sentiment from Watercolor Wishes to the bottom in more chocolate chip. I just couldn’t get this card to cooperate and be sufficiently CAS for the design team so I put it to one side.

Stampin' Up! Wetlands and Watercolor Wishes and Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack

After playing with various mats, I decided to try the Botanical Gardens Designer Vellum Stack as a mat/background. Apparently after going to the opera last night and a pedicure tonight (on top of work) I was tired and couldn’t cut the vellum the right size. After the second failure (!) I decided to cut a quarter of an inch off the card base to fix the issue! I used fast fuse to fix the watercolour paper to the vellum and also to the card base of soft sky. The tempting turquoise was just a bit too loud to work with the washed out colour that I’d put on the paper.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Botanical Gardens Designer Series Paper

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The Sunburst Sayings and thinlits die was a bundle that was delivered at the end of last week and another thing that I had to play with immediately rather than going to bed! I also got the Botanical Gardens designer vellum stack which is one of the freebies in the Sale-a-bration catalogue and it matches the Botanical Gardens DSP.

Stampin' Up! Botanical Gardens DSP and Sunburst thinlits die and Sunburst sayings and Botanical Gardens designer vellum stack

I used the sunburst thinlits die to cut out the vellum and then cut out the piece of DSP to match. I stuck the vellum down with the multipurpose glue in the middle where I was going to have the sentiment and then flipped the DSP over and started trimming. I’d done three sides before I realised that I should’ve left the ends and folded them over the paper and glued then on the back of the DSP. Instead I put tiny drops of the glue, using a paper piercing tool, onto the vellum where there was stamping. It worked pretty well and it’s hard to see which of the four sides is folded under. Which side do you think is folded?

I then stamped the sentiment from the Sunburst Sayings, which I got in a bundle with the die and saved 15%. Gotta love that. I cut this out with the coordinating 1 1/4 inch circle punch and then cut a matching mossy meadow mat using the circles collection framelits dies and my big shot. I like how it gave me a narrower border than using two of the nested circles framelits. I popped the sentiment circles up on dimensionals and then glued this to a mossy meadow card base.

I also cut another piece of the DSP and glued it to the back flap of the envelope and then trimmed the excess with my paper snips. It’s a quick and easy way to dress up the envelope. I don’t think I’ve sent out a “naked” envelope in over a year now!

By the way, it’s the right hand side of the card which had the vellum folded under.

See you tomorrow,

Liz