Hi everyone!  Did you miss me?  Sorry I have been MIA.  I have been working on my Stampin’ Up! Artisan Award entries – nothing like waiting until the last minute.  I think I get more creative with a deadline bearing down on top of me.  Since Easter I have been frantically trying to finalize my last few projects, get them photographed (since I didn’t make duplicates), write the supply lists and carefully packaged to send the Stampin’ Up!  So as of this morning they are on the way – postmarked by April the 10th according to the rules.  Now it is time to wait – by the end of May they should have decided on and contacted the winners.  I can’t show you any of the projects so you will have to wait until later  – sorry.  And then I shopped and packed for our little Spring Break trip.  Right now I’m sitting in the mountains of North Georgia!  It should be a nice few days for a little get away.

Now are you ready for a project.  I created this card for last months Birds & Butterflies class.  The card is an additional design to a set of cards I created for the Create with Connie  & Julie class that I guest designed for earlier this year.  So if you particpated in that you can add this card to my Vintage Card Kit project.

This is a long card – the ones that fit in the small open end envelopes.  The card base is So Saffron 6″ x 6″  folded in half with a Chocolate Chip piece of trim that was punched with the Scallop Trim border punch.  The punch was part of the Sale-A-Bration rewards and isn’t available right now but it will be back in the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalog coming out in July.  The Very Vintage Jumbo wheel was used on the base of the card and I also used the Color Spritzer to add some spritz to the card – you can do this just to the base or at the end so everything gets some spritz. 

The Old Olive Strip was sent through the Big Shot Die -Cut machine with the Perfect Details texturz plate – I think this gives the look of lattice.  I stamped the vine on it too and sponged it with Old Olive.  The flowers and bird are punched from the Rich Razzleberry  Patterns Designer Series Paper.  The flowers are just circles that have been scrunched up.  I added a yellow Rhinestone brad to the center of each.  I thought these looked like Morning Glories. 

I hope you like it.  To create a matching envelope – use the wheel across one end and then stamp the vine. 

Thanks for stopping by today!  And the bluebird had 4 eggs on Wed afternoon.