It’s time for another Dirty Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.  This month the required element, as this post’s title would suggest, is to use a bird or a bee image.  I chose this cute little owl from the Hero Arts “Birds and Branches” set.

Recently I’ve been having some fun making my own embossing templates/elements.  On this card, the smallest circle from the Standard Large Circle Nestabilities was used.  I die cut several of them using Ellen Hutson’s “Craft-a-Board”, placed them on the cardstock with the embossing mat and ran them through my embossing machine.

After lightly sponging to accent the embossing, I stamped one of the flowers from the “Birds and Branches” set onto the embossed cirlces.  The end result adds some fun dimension to the card.

Hope everyone is enjoying a beautiful Spring.

Happy Crafting!

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Stamps: Hero Arts “Birds and Branches” and “Elegant Nature”

Papers: Papertrey Ink “Select White”

Inks: Memento “Tuxedo Black”; SU! “Certainly Celery”; Copics:

Accessories: Ellen Hutson “Craft-a-Board”; Standard Large Circle Nestabilities; GG Ribbon; Rhinestones; Heart Buttons; Corner Rounder Punch; Cuttlebug

March brings lots of birthdays in my family.  A sister, a daughter-in-law, a nephew and two brother-in-laws all have their big day.  When I saw the fun Sketch Challenge over at Splitcoaststampers, I decided to use it for my nephew’s card.

The main image panel is popped up on dimensionals.  Since the left side of the image is over a couple more layers of card stock than the right side, I used dimensionals of varying thickness.

This allows the image panel to sit level once it is adhered to the card base.

Last month was my niece’s birthday.  Here is the card that I made for her.

Again, when adhering the main image panel to the card base, I used varying thicknesses of dimensionals to allow the panel to sit level.

Hope that everyone’s March is starting out to be a happy one!

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Nephew’s Card:

Stamps: SU! ‘Lots of Bots’

Papers: Papertrey Ink ‘Select White’, ‘True Black’ and ‘Pure Poppy’

Inks: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’; Copics:

Accessories: Star Eyelets

Niece’s Card:

Stamps: Our Craft Lounge ‘Pat the Dog’; Papertrey Ink ‘Birthday Basics’

Papers: Papertrey Ink ‘Spring Moss’, ‘Terracotta Tile’ and ‘Polka Dot Parade’ DP; SU! ‘Whisper White’

Inks: Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’; SU! ‘Bashful Blue’ and ‘Old Olive’; Copics:

Dog:

Grass:

Cloud/Sky:

Accessories: Gingham Ribbon