Today's Post for Memory Box on the Outside the Box Blog

Stencils + Dies = Great Spring Cards

I posted this today on Outside the Box, so I thought I would share it again here in case you didn't see it. 

I'm still working on ways to combine stencils and dies on the same card.  This is what I came up with for today's post.

Materials Used

• Memory Box Parchment Notecard
• Memory Box Garden Fronds Stencil No. 88502
• Hero Arts Green Hills Ink
• Memory Box Tulip Stems Die No. 98782
• Memory Dots Distressed Dots Paper in Key Lime and Squash, flowers and leaves layered with pop-dots

Materials Used

• Memory Box Parchment Notecard
• Memory Box Garden Vines Stencil No. 88523
• Hero Arts Green Hills Ink
• Memory Box Adorable Posies Dies No. 98837(die cut six sets of petals and layered, bent up petal edges for more dimension)
• Memory Box Distressed Dots Paper in Squash
• Martha Stewart tiny yellow pearls for flower centers

Materials Used

• Memory Box Dill Notecard
• Memory Box Calm Countryside Die No. 98779, cut into the front of the notecard
• Memory Box Distressed Dots Paper in Pool for the clouds

and inside the card:

Materials Used

• a scrap of Memory Box Pool Notecard
• Memory Box Distressed Dots Paper in Pool
• Memory Box Texture Disperse Stencil No. 88507
• Hero Arts Tide Pool Ink
• Memory Box April Showers Stamp B1912 or CS1912B
• Hero Arts Black Ink
• Memory Box Adorable Posies Die No. 98837
• Martha Stewart tiny white pearls for flower centers

I don't know about you, but making cards for spring actually gives me hope that it might just show up this year.  Plus setting our clocks ahead over the weekend gives us more daylight into the evening hours. More snow on the way this week, however.  THINK SPRING!!!

Happy Crafting!