When I send out Burgin Bucks coupons for free stamp sets, I include a blank note card that can be used by my stamper. I try to keep its design generic but seasonal, and also easy! So although I was excited to take my new Fancy Frames dies for a test drive, I couldn’t really spend a lot of time coloring.
You may recall this card that featured a strip of cardstock that was colored with Sponge Daubers, then cut with the leaves dies. I love that effect but just couldn’t manage a bunch of them.
Designer Series Paper to the rescue! This piece was part of Rings of Love, a recent (and retired) Sale-A-Bration pack. I couldn’t believe how stunning it looked, and then my dilemma became deciding the color of the card base. So many choices! Evening Evergreen was particularly beautiful, but I kept to my routine of providing a note card rather than a full-size card and stayed with the beautiful Kraft Note Cards & Envelopes. Interestingly, this die (and the other one in the set) is perfectly sized for a note card.
Before die cutting it, I affixed a piece of Adhesive Sheets to the DSP to make it easier to adhere to the front of the note card — and to reposition it. When satisfied, I burnished the reverse side of the cardstock so it would remain in place.
Funny thing about the sentiment panel; I searched through my sets of dies to find something that would cut the sentiment to the perfect size — 1.5″ x 3″ — for the opening. No luck. Then it dawned on me (and you can laugh) that all I had to do was use the same Fancy Frame die over the Very Vanilla scrap I had stamped on to give me the exact size. Duh.
You can tell by the product list below just how simple and quick these cards were!
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