In my recent order, courtesy of the Bingo winnings at the crop weekend, I received the large background stamp set, Corner Garden. I sat down and started colouring (again!) but didn’t like my colour choices and abandoned it. Instead of beginning again, I started playing around with vellum and decided to see if it’s possible to heat emboss on it. Apparently, it is.

I heat embossed it with the white embossing powder and then decided against adding a sentiment. I like the wide open space. This of course created an issue with how to attach the vellum to the card since (apparently) any glue will show through. The mini brads seemed like the perfect solution – and this is the first time that I’ve used them.

I don’t have a dedicated piercing mat for piercing (mine is used to get better images when stamping with photopolymers), but I do have the clear block caddy. This comes with foam very much like the piercing mat inserted in each of the spaces for the blocks. Obviously you need to remove those to put the blocks in the caddy and so I use the largest piece as a piercing mat. So I used this and the piercing tool to make the holes in each corner for the mini brads. I then cut a piece of strawberry slush the same size as the vellum and attached the two together since I didn’t want to see the back of the brads from the inside of the card. I then taped down the back of the mini brads. This was then glued to a strawberry slush base.

I don’t have the backgrounds DSP for the 2013 in colours, but I do have a few packs of the Sale-a-bration Irresistably Yours DSP. I cut a piece to fit over the envelope flap and then sponged it with strawberry slush. I really love this paper, it’s so versatile.

See you tomorrow,

Liz