A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Monday, 3 March 2025

Two Birds with a Fence, and a Dove Framed with Snowflakes

My Time to Craft has a fun challenge.  It's called "1-2-3".  You have to use 1 of something, 2 of something else, and 3 of something else.  I have one fence, two birds, and three words.


I created a background with some blue watercolour paint to make a sky and some Distress Snowfall Grit Paste to make the snowy ground.  Added the die cut fence.  Then die cut two of the Time Holtz birds and did a bit of sponging on them with Distress Aged Mahogany.  Added them to the fence and ground, and finished with a three word sentiment on a banner die cut and some white splattering.

Try It on Tuesday wants to see embossing of some sort.  I went with both dry and heat embossing.  And I used a stamp I haven't used since I started my blog in 2015.  The last time I used it was in 2013 on a card I posted on SCS.  So I'm adding it to The Neglected Stuff Challenge.


I stamped my image / sentiment in dark blue in the centre of a layer of cs and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I coloured in the bird and the stars with a bit of lighter blue watercolour paint.  Then placed it in the snowflake embossing folder and ran it through my Cuttlebug.  

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Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Cobalt ink, Distress Aged Mahogany
Paper - white and red cs
Size - 6x3.25"
Accessories - TH bird dies, unknown fence die, sentiment banner die, blue watercolour paint, Distress Snowfall Grit Paste, bleed proof white ink

Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - Stampendous Classic Peace
Ink - ColorBox royal blue
Paper - chalk cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Ultimate Crafts snowflake frame embossing folder, clear embossing powder, blue watercolour paint

6 comments:

  1. Terrific twofers. Saw the 1-2-3 challenge and your take on it is brilliant! Love that EF on your second card… provides the perfect frame for that lovely sentiment.

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  2. WOW you found some beautiful goodies in your old stash! Both cards are fabulous my friend! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Neglected Stuff challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

    Darlene
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
    Neglected Stuff Co-Owner
    NEGLECTED STUFF CHALLENGE

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  3. Your 1-2-3 card is very clever Susa, and I love the pretty birds, one perched and one on the ground, with a great blue sky and the grit paste which makes wonderful snow, and the then the lovely sentiment to finish. The second looks terrific using the dry embossed white snowflake frame and the the sweet blue bird with the flourishy sentiment fits in the centre perfectly. x

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  4. very clever with the 1-2-3 challenge, those birds are so pretty in deep red, and your snowflake frame card is so elegant ♥

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  5. That's a great take on the My Time to Craft. A cute card and I like the Grit Paste snow. Lovely embossed frame and beautiful dove.

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  6. A lovely CAS card. such a nice EF. Thanks for sharing at Try it on Tuesday. Avril x

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