From Our Birdhouse

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your week has gone well! And a fine spring week it has been here! Birds, bees, butterflies...all over! And nice sunny days for a change! Sort of like this cute little scene.... I'm having a hard time concentrating on my post because dear ol' hubby has really pulled a good one. Sigh...I have no clue why he decided to order himself a pair of jeans online. And a different brand that he's never even tried on before. That's always a great idea! Some guys should never be allowed to buy their own clothes unsupervised. He's one of those. Seriously..he needs Garanimal tags just to put together pants & shirts & not look like a deranged golfer. So the jeans arrive today. They are denim colored cardboard. But he's determined that they will be fine after washing. And after using a metric ton of water to wash them a dozen times, he tries them on. Ok. Now they are just crispy. He's still determined that they will fine, but he wasn't happy when I told him they looked like the male version of "mom jeans". I just hope he learns his lesson after he has to wear them a time or two. I'm thinking sitting down with these on will be a fun adventure for him. At least it will be entertaining for me!

Anyway, for my card today, I started my stamping this fun new picket fence, masking part of it, then stamping the new birdhouse 3 times (which, by the way, I begged for a birdhouse & here it is!). Here's a little tip to make this easier...I only cut quickly around the top of the fence mask then colored in where the birdhouse posts would be when I removed the mask. There's really no need to cut out between all the pickets on the fence :) I added the lovebirds branch above the houses and a few branches from the leafy tree branch, some die cut grass, a few punched clouds & a punched sun. The die cut house was left white; I only added a little blue to the windows and the greeting was stamped on a piece of green vellum and wrapped around the house. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend and may NONE of your jeans be crispy cardboard! And don't forget to check out the DRS Thursday Challenge! This week, Beautiful Backgrounds.

Supplies:

stamps: DRS Designs - Picket Fence, Lovebirds Branch, Single Birdhouse, Leafy Branch, From Our House Greeting

ink: Memento tuxedo black

paper: Neenah white, X-Press It white, green vellum

accessories: Copic markers, cloud punches, sun punch, house die (Memory Box), grass die (Cheery Lynn), mini scallop scissors (top & bottom of vellum panel)

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