Hand Penned

This month is Stampin’ Up!s Designer Series Paper sale. So I thought I would show off some of my favourite packs. Last week I used the Beauty of the Earth DSP, you can check that out here. For this week’s project I decided to use the Hand Penned DSP. This is definitely one of my favourite packs from the Annual Catalogue! I love the colours and designs. And this is a pack that is great to use to make simple cards. You don’t need to add a lot when you’re using this DSP.

I’m a big purple fan, so for this card I’m using the Highland Heather design. I also decided to keep this a monochromatic card, so Highland Heather is my only colour (other than white of course). For the inside of the card instead of stamping a phrase or image I added a strip of the DSP design. I always like to add a little something to the inside of my cards… and the envelopes.

On the outside of the card there’s of course another strip of the DSP. Then for my images I used the Butterfly Brilliance stamp set. And I love that the butterflies are super easy to cut out using the coordinating dies, Brilliant Wings! I’ve fussy cut butterflies before and while it’s not as bad as some other images I still prefer to not if I don’t have to.

The phrase comes from the Quiet Meadow stamp set which is another favourite of mine. I stamped it in the bottom right hand corner so I would have lots of room to add some of my butterflies which I popped up using some Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then of course I had to add a little bit of bling. So I added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels. You could also add some Wink of Stella to the stamped butterflies.

I love this card using the Hand Penned DSP! If you want to check out this and the other packs of DSP that are on sale til August 2nd head over to my online shop. Next week I’ll be featuring the In Good Taste DSP pack.