Lovely Amazing You Archives - My Elegant Cards

I’ve been wanting to use the three lines in the painted petals set for a while but they just wouldn’t fit onto a card. Yesterday afternoon, I finally realised what I wanted to do with them. I wanted the sentiment front and centre and very obvious – I have a couple of people that need such cards to be sent to them at the moment.

I first stamped the sentiment from the Lovely Amazing You set in the middle of the very vanilla card using blackberry bliss ink which I stamped off once onto scrap paper. Then I stamped the lines from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set in lost lagoon about midway between the edge of the card and the sentiment. One of my favourite tools then came into play – my ruler – so that I could ensure that the second set of lines were at the same distance.

I then decided that the card needed a lost lagoon mat which necessitated some trimming of the very vanilla piece. The stampin’ up! trimmer is great at trimming off little strips. After adhering the very vanilla to the lost lagoon mat I glued it to a blackberry bliss base. A nice easy CAS (clean and simple) card.

It’s very easy to get stuck in a rut and the same is true of making cards. I haven’t used hello honey in ages and I have no idea why, I really like it. I’m sure that I “ought” to focus on using up the in colours that are about to retire along with the retiring DSP but what do you know. Those rebellious tendencies are at work again.

This was made at the end of the crop weekend when I challenged myself to make a card without DSP (that’s a novel twist seeing as I rarely use it), without watercolouring and to use my new set, Lovely Amazing You. I’m really fond of this tree from Thoughts and Prayers and it seems to create just the right space to put a sentiment.

I stamped the tree on very vanilla in hello honey and then toyed with using the “love you more than chocolate” sentiment but although it’s a great sentiment, I’m not sure that I’m going to need it very often… How many people do you love more than chocolate? Anyway, I decided to use the good wishes one and since blackberry bliss was already out, I used that, stamping it off once first. I matted the very vanilla with blackberry bliss and mounted that on a base of hello honey. The envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP in hello honey.

Happily neither of these stamp sets is on the retired list that Stampin’ Up! announced today. The backgrounds DSP in all families IS there though which is rather disappointing – hopefully there are new ones coming out with different patterns. They are so useful for lining envelopes. Once they are sold out, they are gone, so go shopping asap if you want them or other items, many of which are discounted.

See you tomorrow,

Liz