TGIF – Pretty Plants with Norine + a Save the Date!

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Happy Friday everyone! Norine is here today with the most adorable project ever for today’s TGIF. AND, make sure you read through to the end of today’s post for a fun Save the Date announcement! 🙂

Hello friends, I just realized it’s Friday the 13th!  Good thing I’m not superstitious.  Super-psyched for spring, but not super-stitious.  I’ve been messing with plants and growing green things and while I’m not a super-talented gardener, I am always optimistic.  Today’s plants though are ones I have been wanting to “plant” since I first saw the cute macrame plant hangers when they were released last year!  I’ve recently taken up the craft of macrame again since first trying it in 7th grade and made some plant hangers for real, so these dies spoke to me in a very real way!

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For today’s card, I combined the dies from the Macra-Made For You Dies set with the stamps from the Pot-Pourri stamp set.  I used all the combinations of light and dark green inks I own to get the variety of vegetation that real living plants come in and stamped the layers of three different potted plants.

I also stamped three different pots, stamping the first layer in a light color and repeating the stamping with darker inks around one edge to suggest shadows.  Then I cut all of the stamped images and paired up plants with pots and hung two of them in a die cut macrame holder and left the 3rd to be a table-sitter.

Next, I die cut the Cozy Cup Coaster and folded a corner of it to tuck over the edge of a red gingham table cloth.  I found the perfect pale wood-grain patterned paper in my stash and used it for the card panel background and to me it just screams “cottage”!

I stamped a sentiment from the Sentiment Suite – Thank You stamp set, stamping directly onto the patterned paper rather than adding any extra die-cut tags, to keep things from looking too busy.  Finally, I positioned all the elements in place to create the cozy little scene of house plants, trimmed the card panel 1/8th” on each side and adhered all the layers to the card base.  I popped the table plant up with some foam tape to add a little extra dimension.

Agh! Isn’t Norine’s project just the cutest? I love how she combined all of the different elements!

Now for a fun announcement! We’re busy, busy, busy getting everything ready for the release of our next collection. Join us here on the blog the week of March 23-27 for sneak peeks, reveals, projects and prizes! Our latest collection called Fresh Air, will be available in the shop on Friday, March 27.