March 2nd Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

Hope everyone is doing well.

I very much appreciate all the well wishes for my birthday, thank you!

I'm having a great birthday weekend.

Enjoying our daughter's visit immensely, and we are having perfect Faux Spring weather - sunny skies and high temps in the 70's.

😁😎😁

The new theme for the week at Sunday Postcard Art is Spring and is hosted by Annie.

So, I thought this would be a great chance to use a Rubbernecker Hydrangeas stamp set I've had for a while and have never used. I drew the stems and leaves to save masking time, but I did stamp and heat-emboss the flowers, using Lost Shadow DOX ink. I used colored pencils and Zig Clean Color markers on it. I stamped it on a sheet of Webster's Pages designer paper that had a pretty flowery side border, and I cut it to fit my 4x6 card base (which I colored with a dark blue Promarker first). 

I finished by stamping (with Chipped Sapphire DOX ink) and heat embossing the Spring and Garden words using Leave Memories stamps from the Monet's Garden set. These stamps are so old, they were made before clear stamps or even cling rubber were a thing. I have several LM sets that I still love and use occasionally.
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The next 3 cards were made using my Papermania Country Life Die Cut and Paper Pack:

This tag pocket card was made for a niece. 

Here's the tag pulled out of the pocket.

I used a ribbon slot punch to make the belted element at bottom.

(That was fun AFTER I figured out how to make it work, lol. I was going to make the latch as per the sketch below, closing the card by buckling and unbuckling to open, but I decided to just make it look that way, which allowed me to glue down the latch -- I was worried the latch would tear or not last having the card opened a few times, plus it's a hassle for the recipient to have to unbuckle and buckle it - a faux latch!)

DCWV green designer paper and SU yellow card base. The rest is from the kit.

And the sketch I used.
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And this card was made for another girlfriend who loves cats and has a few.

So I went with cats!

Again making a tag pocket card.

The kit has several tag pockets to assemble so that's why the tag pocket cards.

For this one I combined images and papers from the kit with some striped DCWV paper.

 

The tag out of the pocket, showing both sides.

On the tag back I stamped using some EKS balloons and cake and an Avery Elle sentiment.

And the sketch I used. 

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This last card is for a girlfriend who loves shabby chic and "down home" country stuff.

So I went with chickens.

I used a long tag and other items from the kit plus a white doily from my stash and a sentiment I created in PSE and printed out. White Recollections card base.

 

And the sketch I used. I flipped it vertically.

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Thanks for the visit today!

Here's to a great week coming up for us all.

XOX