Vertical Greetings is one of my favourites in the new catalog. It’s so neat and tidy, so clean. I guess I’m showing my penchant for Clean and Simple cards again. I started this card by stamping five of the trees in old olive. I actually started at the left and stamped the tree and then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to guide me by putting the edge of the plastic onto the edge of the tree to help with the spacing. I also used a horizontal pencil line to help ensure that my trees were lined up. Note – if you use a pencil line, please ensure that you allow time for the ink to dry before erasing the pencil line. You are bound to smudge something if you don’t allow some drying time.
After I’d stamped the trees, I stamped the pots in various colours and fussy cut them out. The ones that survived are in crushed curry and pumpkin pie. The cherry cobbler pot just didn’t make the cut. I glued the pots over the already stamped old olive ones. Next I cut out the sentiment, also from old olive. It’s from a retired set (Greetings thinlits) actually, and I’d forgotten that. It’s a really useful set, so that’s a little sad, however we have many new sets with words to diecut. And I suspect that I overused these so it’s time to move on!
To finish off my Vertical Greetings card, I added some of the new enamel shapes in crushed curry. They look a little like Christmas baubles although I’m trying to pretend that Christmas isn’t looming. At least from a card making perspective. The way I see it, it’s time to start making some Christmas cards or it will be a mad dash come December…
By the way, there’s a promotion currently going on that’s quite exciting. For every $50 you spend this month, you get a $5 to spend next month
and next month is when you can buy the limited edition set, Thoughtful Branches. If you buy the stamp set and the dies, it earns you a coupon.
See you tomorrow,
Liz