I have fell in love with this Innovative Stamp Creations Stamp Sheet “Tranquil”.  It has these great flower stamps that come with it too, but I chose to make my scene today a winter one.  If you want to check out Innovative Stamp Creations’ site here is the link:  http://www.innovativestampcreations.com/ischomepage.html

Also, I haven’t posted it to my calendar yet, but guess who is going to be holding workshops in Buffalo, MN in June?  I cannot wait!  If you are interested send me an e-mail at mzindorf@aim.com and I will give you all of the details.

By the way, I updated my sales page and added ten more Stampin’ Up retired stamp sets. Here is the link for that:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/things-for-sale/

Ready for this quick tutorial?  Let’s get started.

Supplies:

Brayered Lake Mist ink on the top 2/3rds of a piece of 3″ x 6″ Whisper White card stock.

Stamped the twig stamp a few times in Pebble ink.  Remember with unmounted stamps you can bend them to make them different in shape when sticking them on your acrylic block.

Covered the bottom 1″ of the card stock with a scrap piece of paper and stamped the twig much lower on the card stock.   Sorry I missed taking the picture of the actual stamping.

Turned the scrap piece of paper around so it is masking the top of the card stock and sponged Pebble ink at the edge of the mask.

Un-masked the card stock and stamped the twig again.  This time bending the stamp quite a bit and stamped in with Black ink.

Stamped the little twig so it connected to the larger one with black ink.

Stamped the bird with black ink so it is sitting on the tree.

Sponged Pebble ink around the outside edge of the card stock.

Punched two Window punches out of black card stock.  I held them together and cut the curved end off of one side of both at the same time so they would be the same size.

Added simple panels of card stock and added the punches and a couple of brads and here you have the finished card measuring 5″ x 6.5″.

May your weekend be pure delight!

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

to all my tutorials can be found here:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/

Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar

Frequently asked questions answers:  http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/frequently-asked-questions/