Praiseworthy Prose - SBTD 07/10

Hello and welcome to the latest Stampers By The Dozen Blog Hop.  If you are starting here with me or have hopped over from Tricia, welcome - I hope you will find lots of inspiration as you hop around with us.

This month our theme is Wedding, Anniversary, Engagement or love.

I decided to use the Hand Lettered Prose dies that have been sitting on my shelf for some time now - waiting for the perfect project.

Here are the colours I decided to use for my project - nice and clean and simple!

Pear Pizzazz

So Saffron

Whisper White

I love cards with lots of white space, I love the new Daisy Lane stamp and punch bundle so I decided to make an 'I love you' eclipse card!

After selecting the letters I needed for my project (see below for my top tip), I carefully aligned the letters on a panel of thick Whisper White card using strips of Washi Tape and ran through the Big Shot.

Keeping the die cut letters safely to one side I adhered a slightly small panel of So Saffron card to the reverse using Tombow.

I then spent some time using little pieces of Foam Adhesive Strip on the reverse of each of the letters.

Each letter was then adhered to the panel, off setting slightly.

The panel was then adhered to the card base with Tombow.

Using So Saffron ink and the medium daisy stamp from Daisy Lane I stamped and punched out two flowers.

I used one of the lovely Perennial Essence Floral Centres - aka bee bottoms!  Did you know that you can add colour to these little yellow fuzzy pieces?  Well you can using the Stampin' Blends - I used Dark Pumpkin Pie.

I used the leaf image from Painted Harvest and the coordinating Leaf Punch to add a little colour behind the daisy.

Here is the completed card - it would work in so many different colours with so many different words/phrases wouldn't it?

The image of the Hand Lettered Prose dies at the top of this post look lovely.  However, when they arrive they look like this ...

Top Tip
... it was tricky trying to find the letters I needed for my project.  So, I sorted all 43 dies onto magnetic sheets.  Much easier to find the letters I need now and, I know I will be using these letters a lot so using magnetic sheets will save me lots of time and frustration!

Thanks for hopping along with us, next up is  Courtenay who has something lovely to share with us.

Crafty hugs,

Susan xx

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