I was really pleased with yesterday’s card using the Window Box Thinlits dies, or at least the candles die where I made a pretty subtle card. Actually it was using mostly colours from the subtle collection and sweet sugarplum fits in well. I decided to make another, but this one a lot brighter and louder and therefore I turned to the brights collection and a different in-colour which fits nicely with the brights, cucumber crush.

I took a piece of whisper white card stock and lined the candles die up to the corner, and just remembered vaguely the margin around the die. After running it through the big shot, I moved it over, guesstimating how far along and trying to remember what my margin looked like. I was happy that it came out so well – and I got my gap between the 2 sets of candles pretty good. Then came the second row and all I had to guide me was the edge piece – I had to guess on height. Apparently it was my day and it all came out fine.

There wasn’t enough space to add snail like I did yesterday, so instead I got out my silicone mat and a sponge dauber and carefully dabbed a little tombow glue on the back being careful not to let my piece move. It wasn’t perfect – there was some time with the glue eraser, but it was pretty good. Next I took little strips of scrap cut a hair over 1/4 inch wide in cucumber crush,  melon mambo, pumpkin pie and daffodil delight and put them on the back. They didn’t all stick perfectly, but well enough that I could put snail all over the back and glue it to a cucumber crush mat.

I debated on sentiments and banners but in the end, everything detracted from the fun. And it’s not as if it’s not obvious that it’s a birthday card! I took a piece of whisper white to get an idea on the size that I wanted which turned out to be 4 1/4 square. Using the envelope punch board, it was simple to create a custom envelope for my square card. And since I’ll likely give this to someone at work, it doesn’t matter that it’s a square envelope.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz