In The Nest Tutorial & BLOG CANDY!

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As I said before, I love feeding and watching the birds.  I’m a city girl (spent my first 43 years in the city) and then I moved to a rural town and I’m pretty much surrounded by farm land.   Well being a city girl, I got a lesson at the feed store, yep my town has a feed store, lol.  I went in and asked for bird seed.  I was promptly told you can’t grow birds with seed, what I was looking for was bird feed.  Now how did I make it all these years not knowing the correct term for bird feed. 🙂  Lesson learned!

NOTE:  TIMES UP FOR THE BLOG CANDY! THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED. 

Anyway, I have blog candy for you all today!  A set of (16) sixteen, Series 7, Studio G, Clear Stamps.  All you have to do to enter to win these stamps is leave a comment on this post.  If you are getting this by e-mail, please click this link to be able to leave a comment on the post:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/07/16/in-the-nest-tutorial-blog-candy/

I will use a random number generator and will announce the winner on Friday morning, July 18th.  Good Luck everyone!

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Below is a picture of the new Stampin’ Up in colors I just received in the mail.  These colors won’t be available until the new Catty comes out.  I just couldn’t resist playing with them, so I used a couple of them in today’s tutorial.  Please forgive me, I just had to, lol.

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up Soft as a Feather, Best Blossoms & French Script
Paper: Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss & Whisper White
Ink: Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss & Chocolate Chip
Accessories:Stampin’ Up markers, Versamark pad, 1 1/4 circle punch, Sponges, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Clear embossing powder & heat gun

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OK, so I was so excited about my new color options, I started this project and realized that I wasn’t taking pictures, lol.  So the first 3 pictures were staged after the fact.  Bare with me it is 4:00 a.m after all. 🙂

Stamped Nest by first loading the stamp with Versamark then with Chocolate Chip ink before stamping on a 4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White card stock.

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Heat embossed image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

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Colored the sides of the nest with a Going Gray marker.

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Stamped the leaves by first loading the stamp with Versamark, then Kiwi Kiss ink, then dabbed a few dots of More Mustard marker on the stamp before stamping.  I like a little texture in my leaves.  🙂

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Heat embossed leaves with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

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Sponged some Kiwi Kiss ink on the top left side of the card stock.

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Randomly sponged some Baja Breeze ink on the card stock.

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Used a 1 1/4″ circle punch and punched the center out of the nest.

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Flipped the card stock over and stuck on Stampin’ Dimensionals and stuck it to a 4″ x 4″ piece of Black card stock.

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Glued the punched piece of nest on the black card stock.

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Stamped the French Script Stamp on the card stock using Baja Breeze ink.

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Stamped two eggs on Whisper White card stock using Baja Breeze ink.  Cut them out.

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Lightly pressed eggs on to the Kiwi Kiss ink pad to give them a hint of green.

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Stamped leaves with Baja Breeze ink on a Kiwi Kiss card stock panel.

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Sponged Baja Breeze ink around the card stock edge.

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Assembled card and here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.

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Don’t forget to comment to enter to win the Blog Candy for today!

Hope you feel safe and secure in your own nest today.  🙂

Until my next post. . . . . .

Hugs to all,

Michelle

437 thoughts on “In The Nest Tutorial & BLOG CANDY!”

  2. Ruth Sharpe's avatar Ruth Sharpe

    I really enjoy your tutorials. It is grand of you to share your fabulous ideas and artistry with all of us. Thanks for the opportunity to win something too. Ruth (used to live in Plain City, Ohio and now I live in London, Ontario.)

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  3. Melissa (SCS: stampin_melissa)'s avatar Melissa (SCS: stampin_melissa)

    Wow! Love your idea to punch out the center of the nest and layer it. Where DO you get these ideas from? LOL! You are truly one of the most generous stampers out there! Not only are you offering a daily tutorial but also some blog candy too. I’d be so excited to win. 🙂 Oh and your comment about the bird seed, that’s exactly what I’d say too!

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  4. Sandra's avatar Sandra

    Hey Michelle. Without a doubt your artwork inspires me like few others. It would not have occurred to me to get those crisp clean images by stamping them first then embossing. If I didn’t spend so much time just looking I might actually try it!! TFS

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  6. adrienne olson's avatar adrienne olson

    Hi! Michelle!!

    I just love your site! All the beautiful work you do is so inspiring and easy to learn thanks to your step by step tutriols. I love the fact you use supplies that are easily attainable to all of us. I can’t wait daily to see what your posting next!

    Thanks so much for all your inspiration!! Adrienne

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  7. Nimue's avatar Nimue

    Hi Michelle,

    I’ve run out of superlatives for your site. I keep learning so many things. I never would have thought of using Versamark and dye ink. Where’s my brain been.

    I love the texture on the leaves. Another thing I never would have thought of.

    Thanks yet again – Nimue

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  8. Candy's avatar Candy

    OMG I’ve been going in the feed store for 9 years now asking for seed. I’m sure glad the owners are such gentlemen! I stand corrected and will do better in the future. Thanks for all your wonderful tutelage from seed/feed to stamping techniques. I look forward to your emails daily.

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  9. Jennifer's avatar Jennifer

    This card is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful I’ve seen. OK…I love birds and bird nests and the colors are awesome. Thank you so much for providing wonderful tutorials and the sharing of you time and talent. It is MUCH appreciated!!

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  11. squirrellyshirley (SCS)'s avatar squirrellyshirley (SCS)

    I love the “bird feed” story!! I am just the opposite: country girl grew up on a farm, hauling hay in the summers, learned to drive stick shift on a John Deere tractor, learned to swim in a creek so as not to step on crawdads…..now I’m in the city and long for the quiet nights of the country!!

    Thanks for the chance at some blog candy!!

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  12. Mary R.'s avatar Mary R.

    Woohoo! New SU! colors! I hate to lose the old ones though so I’m going to stock up on the paper. Love this card! I have shown your blog to a lot of people. We aren’t artists like you, but you make us think we can pretend to be! Thanks, Michelle!

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  13. Laura's avatar Laura

    HEy Michelle! Nice to see I am not the only one out there up at 4am stamping 🙂 Sometimes that is the only time I find peace. Thanks for another great tutorial and for the opportunity for blog candy. Love those little Studio G stamps.
    Laura

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  14. Carla's avatar Carla

    Your card is gorgeous! Thanks for another great tutorial and also for the preview of the new In Colors! Can’t wait to get them!
    Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy also!

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  15. Debi's avatar Debi

    First I must say Thank You. I have just recently found your site and I have been having so mush fun with your tutorials and now this one it is great. You are an Angel in stamping.
    Thanks Debi

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  17. stevie's avatar stevie

    Wow, over 200 responses already! I love your work and TRY to copy your tutorials, lol. I suppose we will have to wait until next year to get the new in colours :).

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  18. Kelly's avatar Kelly

    Michelle,

    Loved this nest card! I’m an intermediate stamper and am just beginning to delve into techniques and what I call “engineered” cards! I especially enjoy getting ideas from the splitcoaststampers website.

    Kelly

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  20. cleo's avatar cleo

    Thank you for another great tut. I always look forward to see what new kind of image you will show uns on that speziall day.
    Its always a plesure to come back here.
    best wishes
    Cleo

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  21. Amy Scott's avatar Amy Scott

    What a beautiful card! I haven’t stamped in a long time; however, your blog inspires me everytime I look at it!

    I love how you bring texture into the picture just by adding color and shading. Very nice!

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  22. Sankari's avatar Sankari

    Wow! What a great card – that was such a neat technique to make the nest have depth to punch out a circle! The card is beautiful the way you lay it out is always so beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity to win such generous blog candy – OMG! You are so sweet!

    Sending you sunny wishes from Iowa,
    Sankari

    PS -thanks for posting that difference between bird feed and bird seed – as a city girl living in the country, that’s good to know 🙂

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  23. Judy Reader's avatar Judy Reader

    Thank you once again for a wonderful card. I just love getting your tutorials. You have a wonderful way of making cards come alive. have a wonderful day.

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  24. Evelyn----Ks.stamper's avatar Evelyn----Ks.stamper

    Michelle, I can’t believe you were a city gal. Your concept of the country , and landscapes are so amazing. But I guess city girls can long to be in the country. ha ha. I love the birdnest and the eggs, am liking the new colors also. Thanks for a chance at your generous blog candy.
    Evelynn

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  25. Victoria's avatar Victoria

    Michelle ~ You have out done yourself again!! Love~Love this card!!!! I love how you use different tech. on your cards. Love how you punched out the center of the nest. Great tutorial!!! Thanks for the chance to wing some candy!!!!!
    ~Victoria

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  26. Karen's avatar Karen

    The bird seed/feed made me smile! It reminded me of when my sister started working at a bank, and they sent her to the bank up the road to borrow some “VERBAL withdrawl forms”…!! Way back when, my Mum worked at a dressmaker’s. They sent her out to borrow plaid pattern thread!
    I love the way you did the nest to get extra dimension! I was scrapbooking yesterday, and was embossing- but I only wanted part of the image. So I thought “What would Michelle do here”, and it came out nicely!
    Thanks so much for your constant inspiration and generosity.

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  29. djolet's avatar djolet

    Thank you for all your posts! I really enjoy your work. I tried your emboss resist technique with the French Flair Background…and it was a lot easier, and quicker than I thought, to make a really cool card. I’ll get it posted later today to SCS -djolet.

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  30. Jen Dyson's avatar Jen Dyson

    What a neat idea of popping up the whole panel! I love dimensionals, but usually cut out a piece and pop it up. Very cute card! You have amazing ideas!

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  31. Claudette's avatar Claudette

    I just love this card, and all the ones you do. This is my favorite blog! And thank you for the chance to win blog candy! I absolutely adore those Studio G stamps but can’t get them here in Puerto Rico, so I have to buy them used from SCS.

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  32. Jamie's avatar Jamie

    I am always amazed at how artistic you are! It seems like you take a small project like a card and make it into something most people would pay to put on their wall. I love your how to’s and it makes me feel as if I can do more than just slap a stamp on a piece of paper and be done with it. You inspire me to do better! Thanks so much!

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  33. Cindy's avatar Cindy

    Your work is incredible and you make everything look so easy! The card is beautiful! I too am a city girl now living in the country and the closest craft store, that has any variety, is 53 miles away 😦 Thank you for the opportunity to enter and win your blog candy – I would just love the ‘sugar’ overload.

    mzm6030@yahoo.com

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  34. Marie's avatar Marie

    Well, I’ve got as much of a chance as finding a needle in a haystack with all of these answers from your readers, but figured what the heck!!! 😉 Thanks for a chance at some amazing blog candy!!!

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  35. Lyn's avatar Lyn

    I subscribe to a few blogs, but yours is always the first that I read when there is a new post because you always have such beautiful, inspirational work and you make it look so easy for us all to be artists! Today’s example is no exception!

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  38. Donna's avatar Donna

    Love all your tutorials, thanks for all the inspiration.
    Isn’t it great to have a nest where you feel safe, secure and loved.
    Can’t wait for the new catalog.
    Donna C.

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  40. Debbie's avatar Debbie

    Michelle..I just recently discovered your blog and I am so thrilled that I did. I love, love, love your wonderful tutorials and your card creations are just jaw dropping. I have subscribed to your blog and look forward every morning to stopping in here and seeing what you have been up to. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing you talents and knowledge with us.

    Debbie

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  45. sarita's avatar sarita

    you make such lovely cards – and by looking at what you make i think it makes me a better stamper by allowing me to try something that you do..something new! thank you for the opportunity to win some of those wonderful clear stamps!

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  46. Jenny's avatar Jenny

    Michelle,

    I am always in awe of your work. Your cards are so beautiful. I signed up on your blog just so I could save all your wonderful tutorials. My husband even looks at the emails with me.
    Thank you for being so generous and sharing your talent with us.
    ….I purchased a brayer because of you and it has become one of my farorite tools.

    Blessings,
    Jenny

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  48. kim haslam's avatar kim haslam

    love your work. I did my first card a couple of weeks ago (the one with the fish) and showed it to some people in a su class. One person recongnized the work right away. She was impressed i attempted to do the card. I told her that your instructions are perfect and very easy to follow so hopefully she will try one.
    thanks for all your work
    kim

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  50. Debby's avatar Debby

    Thanks for the chance at the blog candy. You work is just so perfect. Your tutorials are the bomb! I love to come everyday and see what you have come up with next.
    Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
    Angel hugs
    Debby

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