Hello everyone.  I hope you are all doing well.  Spring has sprung here in Nashville and I am loving that it is only March.  The trees have beautiful flowers on them, the tulips and daffodils are up and open and the grass is turning that bright green.  It is a little weird though because some mornings when I walk it is 35 degrees out and other times it is 55 degrees.  It is kind of hard to figure out what to wear.  This weekend they say it might be 80 here.  I can live with that for sure!

I decided to take out some of the Stampin’ Up!®  Decorative Masks (or stencils) to make a card.  I have a bunch of them but rarely use them.  I don’t know why because they add a lot of interest to a card.  I need to use them more often.  I decided to use one of the current sets called Foursquare for my card.  There are a couple ways to make masking or stenciling easier.  You can tape down the card stock and stencil or you can use what is called a sticky mat to hold both down.  I have a Waffle Flower sticky mat that I love so I used that.  The card stock and the stencil don’t move when you add color which helps.

I first used a 4″ x 5.25″ piece of Basic White card stock with Soft Sea Foam ink and a Blending Brush for the top of the card stock.  Then I used Lost Lagoon in the middle and Shaded Spruce on the bottom.  When I was done, I layered that onto a Basic White card base.  Then I cut out the Cheerful Daisies large die twice and layered them on top.  I stamped both sentiments from the stamp set called Happy Little Things (which is an Online Exclusive stamp set) in Versamark Ink on Basic Black card stock and heat embossed them using White Embossing Powder.  I layered them on top using Dimensionals.  Lastly, I added some retired Matte Decorative Dots.

As a side note, the Foursquare Decorative Masks are retiring at the end of the current Annual Catalog so if you like them, you should order them soon.

I hope it warms up wherever you live very soon!

Soft Sea Foam

Lost Lagoon

Shaded Spruce

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