I know that Rebecca has received her card so I can post it on my blog now. As with yesterday’s card, it’s more water colouring but only for the background this time.

I used my aqua painter and the soft sky ink pad to add a wash of colour to the water colour paper, getting fainter as I went down the paper. After it dried, I used lost lagoon to stamp the image from the Endless Birthday Wishes set – holding it down firmly since the water colour paper is rather bumpy and thus is harder to stamp on. I mounted the water colour paper onto a skinny mat of lost lagoon with sticky strip.

The sentiment is also from Endless Birthday Wishes and to get the placement right I stuck down the image first onto a card base of soft sky. Just be careful not to use a block that’s too large and covers the glued on image – it will mess up your sentiment stamping. Yes. I’ve done that! I used lost lagoon again for the stamping.

The envelope is lined with the soft sky backgrounds DSP – I’ve seen the new colour collections replacing these and I really like them. I’ll actually be able to use both sides of the paper instead of only using two of the four patterns as I’ve always done with the backgrounds DSP. And I can order the new DSP on Tuesday!

Last week I shared a card that I made for a Spring challenge. I really enjoyed playing with a window in the front of the card, so I did it again. This time I’m using the Endless Birthday Wishes stamp set, so called because there are masses of mostly single words which can be put together to form many many sentiments.

I used the circle framelits to cut out a window in the very vanilla and then cut two small frames out of pear pizzazz using same size framelit – once with the next larger and once with the next smaller. I then stamped the image in pear pizzazz through the window in the card although it would have been better to have stamped it after I’d attached the frame (but that wasn’t planned initially).

I put little dots of the multipurpose glue around the larger frame and glued that to the outside of the card. Then I did the same with the smaller frame and, with the card closed, glued the smaller frame to the inside of the card through the window. Here’s a view of the card open.

After that I stamped the greeting in pear pizzazz. As on the previous card, the frame on the inside not only adds to the design, but gives a very clear indication of where you shouldn’t write! And here’s the inside:

The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the Backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz.

See you tomorrow,

Liz