When I was looking at the English Garden DSP, one of the patterns really jumped out at me. I decided to make a card with it as a background so trimmed a piece to create a background. But then I really didn’t want to cover it up at all!
So I didn’t! I cut a piece of mossy meadow to make a skinny mat for the DSP and then mounted that onto a hello honey card base. And nothing that I tried made sense covering the paper. In the end I decided to let it stand on its own. I did line the envelope with the same DSP though to link them together. I’m happy with how this turned out.
Here’s a card I made back in July at the crop weekend. Moving your craft stuff around definitely brings different things to your attention and I’d ended up with the English Garden DSP right in front of me. I also had my new (at the time) triple banner punch on the table so I decided to combine the two.
The paper has quite a lot going on so I didn’t want to add much more, but rather to let the paper shine. I matted the paper in mossy meadow and then glued that to a blushing bride card base – obviously pulling the colours from the DSP. Then I cut out my sentiment using the Greetings Thinlits dies also in mossy meadow. Making the banner was easy, I just inserted a strip of blushing bride card into the smallest slot of the banner punch. In retrospect, I think that I should’ve made a mossy meadow banner just a tiny bit bigger to mat the banner, but two months ago, I didn’t think of that!
I used more of the DSP to line the outside flap of the envelope. I do not like the envelope to be plain.
It’s a hard choice, but I think that the English Garden DSP is my favourite paper in the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue. Some of the patterns can stand on their own as a card (I’ll post an example in the upcoming days).
The bee paper is in whisper white, soft suede and hello honey so I mounted it on a piece of soft suede. I then cut out a banner in whisper white and made the banner part using the new triple banner punch – it’s very easy. Simpler than using scissors and a ruler. I matted that with a banner of soft suede and popped the banner up on stampin’ dimensionals. The hello is cut out of hello honey using the Hello You dies – I really like the diecut words that Stampin’ Up! has and I was happy that these were carried over to the new catalogue and thrilled that there are more in the catalogue also. I forced myself to allow the hello to fall off the edges of the whisper white to the edge of the soft suede banner and I like the effect. I used the two way glue pen to adhere the word and it’s now my method of choice – the angled tip makes it very easy to get the glue just where you want it. The soft suede piece is mounted on ordinary whisper white card stock – I have yet to try the extra heavy whisper white – I think I’ll add it to my next order. As you can see, I lined the envelope with another piece of the DSP.
Here’s the photo in the catalogue of the English Garden DSP – as you can see, there are lots of really pretty patterns. I usually find DSP hard to use but this one is so lovely, it’s just screaming to be put onto cards.
