The Best Dirt!

It’s Wednesday, and this week, I made a card using High Hopes Rubber Stamps Gordon Groundhog - R123 for the image and The Best Dirt - F221 for the sentiment. My husband loves gardening and this makes me think of him! LOL! We have a few little squirrels that like to raid his garden, eat the tomatoes and dig up the potatoes. Luckily, my husband is good natured and says he can't get mad at them for what comes natural. We call our back yard the Stevenson's oasis for wild animals. We have bunnies, squirrels, racoons, possums and a mole that seem to like our vegetables and sometimes we've even caught them sleeping up on the furniture under the Gazebo. My husband has now installed a backyard web cam so that we can now capture some of what goes on at night while we are sleeping.

To make my card this week, I began with a card base of Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb., cut and scored to be 5.5" x 4.25". Echo Park - New Day Beautiful Blooms Paper was cut to be the same size as the base and applied using double-sided tape. Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mowed Lawn and a finger dauber were used to ink around all of the edges of the card. Anna Griffin Empress Mini Cutting Machine and My Favourite Things Die-Namics - Single Stitch Line Rounded Rectangle Frames were used to die cut Stampin' UP! - Regals Designer Series Paper, Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card and Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb. cardstock.

The clouds in the sky were created using the inner part of the die-cut from the Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb. cardstock and a mid-size Gina K Designs Blender Brush, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Salty Ocean and stencils that I created using Avery Elle - Pierced Clouds Die. Once this was done, I used regular tape to piece the outer die cut from the Stampin' UP! - Regals Designer Series Paper and the clouds piece together from the back side. I stamped the image onto the inner frame of the Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card using Memento - Tuxedo Black ink and my MISTI. Once the image was coloured, it was fussy cut around the top part of the image. I applied U-Line double-sided tape to the image and background pieces that I had joined together and popped them both up onto the card.

The sentiment was also stamped using my MISTI onto the same cardstock and then cut with a small cutting device. I ran this through my Xyron Create a Sticker and adhered it to Recollections - Black cardstock. Once again, I cut around the sentiment, leaving a slim border. U-Line double-sided tape was applied to the back of this and it was popped up onto the card. Lastly, to finish it off, I added some Doodlebug Design Inc. Braddies with Glue Dots - Mini.

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Gordon Groundhog - R123 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Sentiment: The Best Dirt - F221 (High Hopes Rubber Stamps)

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Mowed Lawn, Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Salty Ocean

Die Cuts: My Favourite Things Die-Namics - Single Stitch Line Rounded Rectangle Frames, Avery Elle - Pierced Clouds Die (D-05-01)

Paper: Copic Marker X-Press It Blending Card, Hammermill - Premium Colour 100 lb., Stampin' UP! - Regals Designer Series Paper Stack (12" x 12"), Echo Park - New Day Beautiful Blooms (12" x 12"), Recollections - Black

Embellishments: Doodlebug Design Inc. Braddies - Bubble Blue Blossoms and Tangerine Blossoms

Tools: MISTI - Most Incredible Stamping Tool, U-Line double-sided tape, Anna Griffin Empress Mini Machine, Glue Dots - Mini, Xyron Create a Sticker, Sakura Glaze - Black

Image coloured with Copic Markers:

Groundhog: E29, E27, E25, E23, (Nose and Eyes - Sakura Glaze - Black)

Jeans: B26, B23, B21, E31

Hard Hat: Y17, Y15, Y08

Dirt, Stones, Stem and Grasses: E37, E35, E33, E31, W7, W5, W3, YG23, YG17, YG11, YG09

Flower: E15, Y38, Y35, Y32, Y17, Y08

Hope you like it and have a fantastic week!

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