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Spellbinders Window With A View Cards…

Hi friends and cardmakers…a dose of Spring for you today!  February brought us a new collection by Tina Smith and I’m late getting cards made and posted.  Isn’t that owl cute! and the little birdies!

The options for this collection are endless!  I had to make the window up with pots and plants!  Our daughters and one granddaughter are really into plants…a couple friends too…so I’m sure I’ll use this card!

The whole time I was making it I wished I knew the names so I could print them on the little signs! lol

I’m not much of a plant person. I have a huge Norfolk Island Pine that I’ve had over 30 years,  Boston Ferns, a Thanksgiving Cactus and a beautiful poinsettia that didn’t die after Christmas!  Amazing!  First time one has ever lived that long for me! lol

Back to the cards….I die cut everything and glued it up, mounted the tree and bird bath with the thin mounting tape I love.

Ink blended the background panel with my blue and green oxide brushes…I didn’t add more ink.

Stamped the sentiment but dropped the ink pad on the card so I had to add a panel on the bottom. ugh The sliver of green cardstock helped too. lol

More simple die cutting and gluing.  The window in an A2 size panel, then a piece of navy cardstock behind.

I mounted the pots with my favorite thin mounting tape and stamped the sentiment with the MISTI.

So many neat sentiments in the coordinating stamp set!

Holler if you have any questions and I’ll get right back to you!

Thank you so much for looking today!  Links below to the products I used to make these two cards!

Clicking/tapping on SPL takes you to Spellbinders,  SSS to Simon Says Stamp and SBC to Scrapbook . com

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Windows With a View I Want It All!…
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The Botanical Solarium Etched Dies…
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Backyard Haven View Etched Dies from…
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Sending Sunshine Sentiments Clear…
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Mini Misti – Most Incredible Stamp…
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Ranger Ink Jet Black Archival Ink Pad
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New & Improved Platinum SIX Machine…
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
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Scor-Buddy Eighths – Spellbinders…
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NEW dies! Memory Box Clara Blooms, Sitting Sparrow and Happy Easter Dover Script…

Hello!  Welcome to a blog post with Spring vibes again!  How in the world did it get to be March already!  I feel like I’ll be forever trying to catch up this year.  It’s ‘after wedding’ time for our family and adjusting to the anti climatic period! lol  So here’s a card for Easter!

I fell in love with this new Clara Blooms die…I used two pinks and mint green to die cut.  So sweet!  I also used the darker pink to die cut the top layer of the new Happy Easter Dover Script and a dark teal to cut the underneath layer…both the same size, I just offset them a little for a shadow effect.

I die cut the new Sitting Sparrow in some old Bazzill brown cardstocks and the Woodgrain Bird House in one of the reds from the new Blush 6×6 cardstock pad.  Gorgeous colors!

Can you guess where I got the inspiration for the background on this card? Let me know in the comments! hehe

I die cut the oval with the Studio Oval Layers and inked the edges a bit with Distress Evergreen Bough and the mini ink blending tool.

No stamping on this card!

I hope you love this as much as I do… the bird is so neat and easy to put together too!  As well as the birdhouse and the flowers!

Change the sentiment for any occasion!  yay!  This is an A2 size card…

Linking to some challenges…

NBUS #60 – Never before used stuff!

Triple B March – Birds, Blooms and Butterflies

Four Seasons – Spring!

Double D – First Signs of Spring!

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Add a Sentiment

Thank you so much for stopping by and if you want to know where to purchase these products at no extra cost to you, links are below!

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Links to the products I used on this card… Clicking/tapping STR takes you to starlitstudio.net,  SSS takes you to Simon Says Stamp, SBC takes you to Scrapbook.com and TE takes you to Taylored Expressions. 

Memory Box – 94688 Clara Blooms craft…
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Memory Box – 94724 Sitting Sparrow…
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Memory Box – 94742 Woodgrain Bird…
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Memory Box – 94729 Happy Easter Dover…
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Memory Box / Open Studio – 30075…
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Memory Box – SP1012 Blush 6×6 pack
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Bazzill Card Shoppe
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Mini Ink Blending Foam 1″ 20/Pkg -…
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Ranger Ink – Tim Holtz – Mini Ink…
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
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Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine…
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Memory Box NEW Cheerful Floral Collection Card…

Hello Friday!  Here lately you don’t have to worry about me filling up your email inbox!   I do have NEW to show you though!

A beautiful collection that I really enjoyed working with…NEW from Memory Box.  You knew already, right?! lol

You can stamp your image and then die cut or die cut then stamp on the die cut.

I cut the shape first then stamped on it in the MISTI.

Then the fun begins!  There is a stencil set to use for coloring!!!!!  For the pinks I used Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry Oxide Inks, then an old Versacolor pigment cube for the darkest… Rose Red #23.

Greens were a trio of Bazzill Dye inks but I had a new set of Altenew I could’ve used laying right there on my desk! ugh.  I will link to them.

The light blue was Speckled Egg, Savage Patina and the brush for Peacock Feathers without inking it. All oxides.

For the yellow flower I used Antique Linen, Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber oxide and the brown oxide brush for the center without reinking it.

I am really happy with how it turned out…you know how it is…at several points during the process I was thinking this is not going to work! lol

So after I finished stenciling it I put it in the NEW 3D Cheerful Floral 3D embossing folder!  oh wow!  That just added so much!   I taped it in place in the folder.  It shifted a little so next time I’m thinking maybe just go half way, stop and run it through from the opposite end half way.

I used the Memory Box Rectangle Double Border Hot Foil Plate for the base panel…started with 4 ½ in x 6 ¼ in panel but ended up trimming the top and bottom.  It will still fit in an A6 envelope.

I think it’s nice to have a bigger than A2 size for super special cards sometimes!  Let’s go Hallmark! lol

I used some ribbon from Stampin Up from who knows how many years ago and the sentiment from Birch Press Design Celebrate Today Noted Script hot foil plate and die set in gold foil.

I mounted the floral piece with some of the thin mounting tape I love!  then the ribbon, then the sentiment mounted with the same thin mounting tape.  It should still travel for one stamp!

Holler if you have any questions!  I’m going to link up what I used below.  If you’re tempted to get this collection, I say go for it!  You’ll have fun and end up with beautiful cards without all the time coloring!  Win! Win!

Linking to some card challenges…

Stencil Fun – anything goes

Triple B – Three B’s

NBUS – never before used stuff

Thank you so much for stopping by! Oh happy day…we’re so excited here…a week from Saturday one of our grandsons is getting married!  So we’re in the midst of all kinds of prep!   I found a dress and am now working on shoes!  lol

Yesterday we found out the Chamber of Commerce here used a picture of them on the cover of their new Face of Mahaska County magazine!  How fun is that!  We’re so happy for them! ❤

Ok – I’ll stop talking and get that list made below.

Links to what I used to make this card… be sure to check out all the NEW release from Memory Box, poppystamps and Birch Press Design!

THIS is the ribbon in my photos… love this stuff!

Memory Box – CL5278D Cheerful Floral…
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Memory Box – 88619 Cheerful Floral…
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Memory Box – EF1025 Cheerful Floral…
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Birch Press Design – BPF506 Celebrate…
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Memory Box – MBF006 Rectangle Double…
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Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
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Scor-Tape
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
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Glimmer Hot Foil Roll – Gold -…
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Glimmer Hot Foil System | Spell…
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Spellbinders Stencil of the Month Club Card…

Hello! Welcome to my post for the Spellbinders NEW Stencil of the Month Club!  This month is a variety of stencils and I just used one of them!

On Neenah Classic Crest Solar White I inkblended with Peacock Feathers, Shaded Lilac, Peeled Paint and a little Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide ink and ink blending brushes.

Spattered on some water droplets and then white drawing ink.

Next I hot foiled a sentiment to vellum in Silver but it didn’t show up as good as I thought it should so I put a strip of green cardstock behind it.  I taped the green strip down, then wrapped the vellum strip around to the back of a panel so I didn’t have to use any glue or tape on the front.

I used a little white gel pen on the Be Bold Blooms die cut flowers.  Simple flower arranging…

Fun to have another card for the stash!

Thank you so much for stopping by! The sun is shining and making me sleepy!  lol  Talk to you again soon!

Here’s the link to the new Stencil of the Month club and the some of the other products I used…

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Essential Glimmer Sentiments -…
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Scrapbook Adhesives Crafty Foam Tape…
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Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
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Winsor & Newton Drawing Ink – White,…
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Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink Pad -…
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Neenah Cardstock Classic Crest Ultra…
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Sakura WHITE MEDIUM POINT Gelly Roll…
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poppystamps Nordic Crown Flower and Scallop Pinpoint Hearts Slimline Card…

Hello everyone! How is it February already!  This month is going to fly by too! Our family is in the midst of preparing for a wedding!  One of our grandsons is getting married!  It’s pretty exciting but shopping for a dress and shoes…eek…time consuming!  I haven’t dreamed up a card for them yet! lol

I decided to play around with this new die set a couple weeks ago and had this idea but it ended up too large to be symmetrical so I tried it as a vertical slimline and didn’t like it at all until I turned it horizontal!  whew! lol

Are you enjoying the NEW Nordic line from poppystamps the last couple releases?  There’s a ton of designs!

I used the Nordic Crown Flower and Scallop Pinpoint Hearts here.  The smallest of the hearts.

I needed a sentiment so I went digging and found this Love Jotted Script from Memory Box and went with it.

I used some pink and green cardstocks from my ancient stash! lol

The white background panel is from a Hobby Lobby watercolor pad.

I’m linking to some card challenge blogs…

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Love is in the air

Double D Challenges – Heartfelt

The Flower Challenge #88 – Add a Heart

Triple B February Challenge – use 1, 2 or 3 of the B’s … Birds, Butterflies, Blooms.

Love is in the air a long with warmer temperatures here in Iowa.  We still have a few piles of snow working on melting…it was piled so high!

Thank you so much for stopping by and wish me well on dress and shoe shopping!  If you have any favorite places to shop, let me know!  I’m bad for being a last minute looloo!  waaaahhhh

Here’s the dies I used to make this card…

Poppystamps – 2610 Nordic Crown…
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Poppystamps – 2616 Scallop Pinpoint…
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Memory Box – 94119 Love Jotted Script…
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