Jul 16 2008
In The Nest Tutorial & BLOG CANDY!
As I said before, I love feeding and watching the birds. I’m a city girl (spent my first 43 years in the city) and then I moved to a rural town and I’m pretty much surrounded by farm land. Well being a city girl, I got a lesson at the feed store, yep my town has a feed store, lol. I went in and asked for bird seed. I was promptly told you can’t grow birds with seed, what I was looking for was bird feed. Now how did I make it all these years not knowing the correct term for bird feed. :) Lesson learned!
NOTE: TIMES UP FOR THE BLOG CANDY! THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED.
Anyway, I have blog candy for you all today! A set of (16) sixteen, Series 7, Studio G, Clear Stamps. All you have to do to enter to win these stamps is leave a comment on this post. If you are getting this by e-mail, please click this link to be able to leave a comment on the post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/07/16/in-the-nest-tutorial-blog-candy/
I will use a random number generator and will announce the winner on Friday morning, July 18th. Good Luck everyone!
Below is a picture of the new Stampin’ Up in colors I just received in the mail. These colors won’t be available until the new Catty comes out. I just couldn’t resist playing with them, so I used a couple of them in today’s tutorial. Please forgive me, I just had to, lol.
Supplies:
| Stamps: Stampin’ Up Soft as a Feather, Best Blossoms & French Script |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss & Whisper White |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss & Chocolate Chip |
| Accessories:Stampin’ Up markers, Versamark pad, 1 1/4 circle punch, Sponges, Stampin’ Dimensionals, Clear embossing powder & heat gun |
OK, so I was so excited about my new color options, I started this project and realized that I wasn’t taking pictures, lol. So the first 3 pictures were staged after the fact. Bare with me it is 4:00 a.m after all. 
Stamped Nest by first loading the stamp with Versamark then with Chocolate Chip ink before stamping on a 4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White card stock.
Heat embossed image with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Colored the sides of the nest with a Going Gray marker.
Stamped the leaves by first loading the stamp with Versamark, then Kiwi Kiss ink, then dabbed a few dots of More Mustard marker on the stamp before stamping. I like a little texture in my leaves.
Heat embossed leaves with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Sponged some Kiwi Kiss ink on the top left side of the card stock.
Randomly sponged some Baja Breeze ink on the card stock.
Used a 1 1/4″ circle punch and punched the center out of the nest.
Flipped the card stock over and stuck on Stampin’ Dimensionals and stuck it to a 4″ x 4″ piece of Black card stock.
Glued the punched piece of nest on the black card stock.
Stamped the French Script Stamp on the card stock using Baja Breeze ink.
Stamped two eggs on Whisper White card stock using Baja Breeze ink. Cut them out.
Lightly pressed eggs on to the Kiwi Kiss ink pad to give them a hint of green.
Stamped leaves with Baja Breeze ink on a Kiwi Kiss card stock panel.
Sponged Baja Breeze ink around the card stock edge.
Assembled card and here it is finished measuring 5.25″ x 5.25″.
Don’t forget to comment to enter to win the Blog Candy for today!
Hope you feel safe and secure in your own nest today.
Until my next post. . . . . .
Hugs to all,
Michelle
You make these look so easy!!!! I love the new colors, so different then the last 2 sets of colors. Thanks for another great tutorial!
What a beautiful card. Thanks for the chance to win some candy.
Love your work.
Hi!
That are great prices to win…! WOW!
I am a country girl, live in a farm, have some goats, chickens,cats, dogs etc. and have to feed the young birds when they fall out of their nest.
So love this tutorials with animals and all the nature!
Bye, and go on with the great tutorials!
marianne
Bonjour Mme Zindorf
Encore une carte extraordinaire! Tres beau avec les oeufs de rouge gorge. La carte d’hier etait superbe. Je n’ai pas d’etampe soleil mais je vais tenter la chose avec un collant silhouette en soleil. Merci pour la chance de gagner un cadeau!
I love this tutorial Michelle. Great dimension, once again. I love the bird seed story too! I was shopping with bf for our garden and asked him in front of a sales lady if he needed bags of ‘dirt’. She corrected me saying they were bags of ’soil’. I see the point, and it made me chuckle too! Thanks once again for your generous blog giveaway as well.
Loved your tutorial and the new colors! Can’t wait until mine arrive. I have always loved Soft as as Feather stamp set, but never got it - nothing has ever replaced that one!
Love, love, love your cards. Am working hard to perfect your technique. thanks so much for sharing your artwork
love this card, especially the little birds nest. I had five baby birds living in my “decoration” birdhouse attached to my garden shed and I loved watching them and listening to their shirping, but alas they have lflown the nest and left me dealing with the empty nest syndrome. hehe
4:00 am!!! Now that is dedication. Thanks, Michelle, for another inspiring and detailed tutorial. I check your website every morning before I head off to work. Just makes the day a little brighter.
Thanks again for your dedication.
Randa
I love your tutorials - I have subsribed to you blog at my google reader. It looks so easy when you see the steps, and the results are gorgeous!
Thank you!
Love this card. Thanks for a chance to win some awesome candy.
Thanks for starting your day with us.
Another beautiful card! THanks for the chance to win!
Michele,
What a great show of new colors! Can’t wait to get them. Your card is beautiful and love the techniques you use. Have a great day and thank you.
Hello!
This is my first time (or possibly second) commenting, but I have been a daily visitor here since I found your site about two months ago. I have just been too intimidated to comment before… LOL! I’m still a beginner stamper, but thanks to your tutorials I have even bought myself a brayer! I’m excited about the chance to win some blog candy as I’m working on building a stamp collection, much to my DH’s horror… LOL!
I love this card (well, what’s there not to love?), I find it amazing how you build up your scenery and every detail is just so, so perfect. I look forward to coming here every day to see your latest creation.
Thanks for posting these tutorials, they give me such inspiration to try new things (yep, as a beginner there are MANY new things out there for me to still try! LOL).
Minna
Love the card, love the tutorial, love your generosity!
Kathy
Hi Michelle, waiting on my new in colors to arrivee as well. loving the new colors. the card is gorgeous. thank you for the tutorial
Blessings…
Michelle….Beautiful. Love the colors. You never cease to amaze me. Thanks for another great tutorial.
Yeah! I was looking forward to seeing what you would do with the new in colors. Thanks for all the tutorials, inspiration, and a chance at blog candy!
Beautiful tutorial as usual. I want to be like you when I grow up. You’re so talented and you have such an eye for color. I love it. Thank you for all that you share.
Hi Michelle,
I am always stunned by your work and I really appreciate your tutorials.
Thank you for your wonderful blog and thank you to give us a chance to win your blog candy!
Johanne
another stunning card. I have become addicted. I get up every morning and am on the computer checking your blog to see what new and wonderful thing you have done. You have given me the creative boost that I have needed. Thank you, Thank you, thank you.
Michelle -
Love the colors .. and how you can “mute” (hope that is the right word) the colors … so artsy! Just love it!
Thanks for the chance to win some candy …
Kimberly
Your cards are really amazing. I check your blog every day to see what new art you’ve posted!
Good Morning Michelle!
I love the card! I wish the baby birds around me would take up residence in YOUR nest rather than in my hanging baskets! I love your inspiration and how you make it all look so easy. Once again, you’ve given my day a bright start! Thanks for your very generous blog candy.
Melanie
I check your blog every day. I may not comment but I am looking in awe. You have inspired me to try your technique. Thank you for sharing.
Nature cards are quickly becoming my thing! I like the way you add deminsion to the nest by punching out the center. Always looking for great new ideas!
Your creative genius is awesome. And I love the nest and bird ideas. One of my faves. Thanks for the chance to win this super blog candy. Pick me!
Mary
http://www.primitiveseasons.blogspot.com
Every morning I love to come to this site and see what is new. This card uses my favorite background stamp. I love this card!
Hi Michelle,
usually I avoid commenting at blog candy days because shipping things to Germany is always that expensive, so I don’t want you to do this. But I HAVE to tell you how cute this card is! Such a simple idea with just punching out the nest and setting the rest onto dimensionals to get the depth into the nest - and it makes such a WOW!
As always, I love your coloring, sponging and brayering. You give me so much inspiration, and although I already learned a lot from your tutorials you are and ever will be the goddess of brayering, no chance to get there myself, LOL!
Please keep on your great work!
Christiane
Hi Michelle!!
Love this card. My husband just asked, “Now, what are you doing on the web?” Watching your latest, of course! You give me so many tips!! I am having a stamp camp this morning and wanted to make sure I knew a technique really well, when I got caught up in your new card. We too live in a rural area and we feed and adore watching the birds and wildlife out here. I love the new SU colors too. I am already into the packs of paper and five of the inks for today’s camp. Keep up the great tutorials.
gail
Great blog candy! Thanks for your generosity! And thanks for sharing your techniques with us…. I love the step-by-step tutorials!
DeniseB
I’m glad you used the new colors, to see them in “action” is a treat. I really like the last set of colors and am looking forward to using the new ones.
Love how you made the nest 3D.
Great tutorial, beautiful card! Thanks for sharing!!!
I love this blog candy, thanks for being so generous!
.Percy
Another beautiful card…I learn from you each time! Thanks SO much for sharing rather than keeping all this to yourself!
Betsy
This card is just too cool! I’ll be digging out some stamps and sponges. Of course I don’t have the new colors so it’ll be different. Thanks. I don’t know what I’d do without you for inspiration.
Love the new colours! Can’t wait to try them myself. I love the way this card seems to have light dancing in it. Thanks for the chance at the “candy”. Take care.
Trish
Hello
i love your blog. Thanks for the change to win the blog-Candy.
Bye
Petra from Germany
Wonderful Michelle, you are so talented and inspiring and your instructions are so detailed that in following them I feel like an artist. Thanks for your inspiration.
Eileen
thanks for the chance to win…wonderful tutorial as always
What a great tutorial! Thanks for sharing! Love seeing the new colors too
Thanks for a chance for a great blog candy offer!
Blessings, Sherri
Good morning and the birds are singing here in Montana too! Cute story about the the “bird seed”! I love the card ,Michelle, and the first thing I asked myself is “Do I have those colors?” Then I read that they were the new in colors! LOL! I love the new baja breeze color, it reminds me of soft sky. I would love to win your blog candy! Gee, I would just love one of your cards, you don’t even have to buy anything. Great tutorial.
Love those new colors, thanks for the sneak peak! I love you card, they are all so beautiful and you make it look so easy. Thanks for the chance to win such a great group of stamps!
Michelle
What a wonderful card and a great tutorial.
Thank you so much for your inspiaration.
Maja
What a beautiful card! I can’t wait to get my new colors. Thanks for sharing your wonderful cards with us!
Hi Michelle, I love to see the art and I follow all you do and the links you provide with which you participate! I would love a chance to win some stamps! I get so excited in the mornings to find the email for the next tutorial and beautiful display of artwork, that if it is not there yet, I cheat and go straight to your website to check it out–to beat my email!! LOL–I’m a Zindorf groupie–so much so, that I have my family asking what did Zindorf create today–each day!! Thank you for offering this opportunity to everyone! What a lovely RAK and what alovely person to do so! I love the birds too and my DH just built a feeding station for mine! Thank you so much for inspiring us each day!
These new ink colors from Stamp N Up are beautiful and you used them to perfection on this creation. I’ve begun to look at stamps differently since I’ve been studying your techniques. Some sets I looked right past before are now on my “wish list”. As said a hundred times before by me and others, thank you for taking your time to create such easy to follow instructions on your blog. Also appreciate the opportunity to win these fabulous stamps!
This card is fabulous, very brilliant idea, thanks for sharing..
Brilliant card as always - visiting your blog is one of the high spots of my day!
OK first of all what are you doing up at 4:00am??? Oh my goodness, I wouldn’t be able to cut any paper let alone stamp and take pictures. I don’t function coherently until at least 7:00am!!LOL Thank you so much for sharing the new in-colours they look awesome. You use so many different colour combos that I would never think of I can’t wait to see what you do with the new colours. Of course I can’t wait for fall and christmas to see what cards you do! Basically its a rush to the computer first thing in the morning to look at the “new” card of the day! Thank you for bringing creativity to us each day (well most days) I don’t know how you do it but I’m eternally grateful.
I am so inspired by your work. I just found your blog last night. I’ve seen your work on SCS, but never thought about looking for your blog…duh!
Your work is truly amazing, and you make it look so easy with the tutorials. I’ve gotten some great tips — so I’m going to give it a try soon.
Thank you for sharing your talent and art with us.
Beautiful card!!! Love your tutorials.
Thanks for the inspiration.
love the idea of “under” layering the nest… tend to always think up instead of down!!
Allison
Dunlap TN
Another winner, hope I am, too! (-: Thanks, Michelle, Peggy
How do you have all the time to make these labor intensive cards? I love them but don’t have the time for that many steps somedays.
Your cards are absolutely amazing and what great blog candy also…
I have such a sweet tooth when it comes to rubbercandy,,, I think these little sets are such fun,, thanks Michelle for the chance too win!!
I want to know how you can be so wonderfully creative at 4:00 a.m?? Wow. I love anything with birds and this is beautiful! Thanks for such an awesome prize!
Every day a new card ! WOW!
It looks really great, like your other cards. Thank you for your tutorial, I´m learning step by step !
Many greetings from Austria…
Gabi
Another masterpiece. I check your blog daily for inspiration. You have helped me think out of the box and shown me new ways to us my stamps. It feels great to have so many possibilities. Thank you for sharing.
Your cards are amazing!! I love the step-by-step tutorials. It makes me feel like maybe even I could do it. Maybe one of these days I will be brave enough to try. Thanks for taking your time to inspire me.
I’ve been stopping in daily for a loong time now, admiring your work and wishing I had 1/2 of your talent! I love how saturated your colors are.
I have some time today, and I’m going to try a facsimile of this card today. You’ve inspired me!
candy the true candy is being able to see your work with the instruction and that way everyone who see it wins how cool is that keep it coming
Michelle, you make this all seem so easy. I live the new colors. Can you explain why you loaded the stamp with versamark and then the color ink? I don’t use Stampin’ Up ink pads and I was wondering if that’s a requirement to be able to emboss. I mostyly use Ranger’s Distressed Inks for Dye Ink Pads. Your tutorials are wonderful to follow. I look forward to reading your blog every morning.
By the way, your blog is in my top 5 and I have 95 blogs in my Google Reader!
Thanks, Marissa
Oh you make it look so EASY. A true inspiration is your work. Love everything you touch. Your instruction should be blog candy enough and then you offer us stamps. Who could refuse new rubber? Thanks Michelle for all you do.
Debi Pippin
Florida
I am always stunned by your work and I really appreciate your tutorials.
Thank you for your wonderful blog and continue your beautiful work
Hélène de Trois-Rivières
Your tutorials are always so clear and wonderful to follow. I’m always inspired by your creativity. Thanks for sharing your talent!
Once again lots of insperation.:) I learn so much from you!
Michelle,
Another great tutorial. I can’t tell you how many of your tutorials have inspired me to make something terrific for friends and family.
Would you look at all of those neat stamp sets! WOW-I thank you for the chance to win them. I look at your tutorials every day and am blown away with your work. I just found a cityscape stamp and am going to try that today. I loved that tutorial. Wish me luck!
Sheri
Wow - generous candy!!
That old SU set is one of my FAVES!! I still have it!
Thanks for the gorgeous card!
Beautiful card and a great tutorial!
I’m an email subscriber and I save your emails to refer to again later … but I still can’t brayer or sponge to save my butt!!
~Hugs & thanks for the inspiration!
I love the colors you used, and I especially love the little bird next! You make it look so easy!
Michelle, it would be hard for me to pick my favorite tutorial of yours. They are all so great! Thanks for sharing your talent.
Becky
That is to funny about the bird seed. Wow love the New In Colors. I know this will be on my list. I just love your cards and look forward to seeing them each day. Your tutorials totally rock and they are so easy to follow. WOW this candy you are sharing looks like the lucky stamper will be busy for a while creating all kinds of FUN stuff. Thanks for a chance.
beautiful card
your creations are always so amazing! the little birds nest looks so cozy and real. saw you got your new In Colors — I think I am in love .. can’t wait to see what you will do with them
First of all I wanted to thank you for sharing your wonderful art pieces on your blog. I enjoy looking at them and thank God for people like you that are blessed with so much talent and confidence. Your ability to transform whisper white paper to masterpieces are just absolutely impressive.
Next, the pureness of your heart is reflected in your work and your effort to teach “us” how to appreciate the beauty of nature. Your designs help me slow down and enjoy life, they are truly very soothing and your colors can actually transport me to the seasons of time.
Again, thank you and may God continue to bless you with the gift of pureness and wonder!
I’m always amazed at what you can do with some ink and paper. Always beautiful cards to share with us.
I am so amazed and blown away every day when I see what you’ve created. I’m an e-mail subscriber and save everything! I want to give everything you do a shot and you make me feel like I can! Your tuts are fabulous!
Thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy. It’s right up my alley since I’m doing Weight Watchers! But win or not, I’m not going anywhere. I’m here with you for the long haul!
Wow that’s a lot of candy. Keep up the wonderful tutorials! I enjoy them everyday!
I am a citiy girl as well who lives now very rural - and i know how you feel ‘lol’!
I love your card today, because I love bird’s nests. And as usual, you made the most of it.
Thanks for sharing!
Michelle, I love this card. One of the things I enjoy about your tutorials is that how you use the older SU sets, it reminds us to use the things we have. I also love that you use ‘nature’ in most of your cards. Thanks for providing these tips for us daily and thanks for the chance to win blog candy.
Hello Michelle,
Your talent is absolutely AhhhhMazing!!
Thank you for sharing your tutorials with us!
And the Bird Seed? I’m a country girl and I still call it bird seed… in fact, I am looking at a bag that says it is Bird Seed. Ha!! How funny!
I think that store was just trying to be funny with you. But.. it does make since that one can not grow birds with “bird seed”.
The next time hubby call it bird seed, I’ll get to tell him, too!
Thank you so much!!
Dianna
what an awesome card/creation :), I was not to thrilled about the new colors, but watching you work, I might have to get them :), also thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy.
Becky
Michelle
I love your cards and am really grateful for your tutorials. You make it look so easy!
Thank you so much for always posting a tutorial of your creations! It was like a light went off in my head this morning when i thought about how much more time it must take you to make a card when you have to stop at each step and stage a picture. It already takes me way too long to make a card, so I can’t say I would ever be as dedicated as you! Thank you again! :o)
How beautiful your card is; I expect to see those eggs hatch they’re so realistic. Recently found your blog; it will taking a lot of looking to see everything you share. Thanks for being so generous with your talent and experience.
jennifer
I really enjoy all of your tutorials and your beautiful cards. Thanks for the opportunity to win the blog candy!
Kathy
Wowsers Michelle! Another stunning card! Thank goodness I discovered your gallery at SCS… just love your images and especially love your tutorials!
Wow - your tutorials always amaze me - this one is fantastic. Thank you for sharing your great artistic talent with the rest of us.
Love your stories! I didn’t know you should call it bird-feed either. You learn something new everyday. Love your blog Michelle and of course all the lovely cards you create.
THANKS!!
Donna
Awesome card, Michelle! I just love what you do. I haven’t had a chance yet to try your techniques, but I am hoping to sit down with my little sis this weekend and give it a try!! I am waiting for my new “In Colors” to arrive. Can’t wait!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
How cool !!! I learn so much from your tutorials !! Thank you so much for all your work and dedication!!
I want the lucky number, for sure. I love it when you post in the a.m. When you post after work, I must check at least 15 times before you get home and get your next fantabulous work on for us. Thank you so much.!! Sue
Michelle, Love today’s card. Can’t believe you were up at 4 AM to bring us these wonderful tutorials. I so appreciate all your effort. You are a true teacher with your tutorials. I’ve tried several of your techniques, too, and love embossing the colored images before finishing the backgrounds. The effect is stunning. To me your tutorials are blog candy EVERY day. Thanks for being so generous to offer a freebie. Can’t wait to get my new Stampin’ Up catalog. The new colors are lovely.
Shirley L.
Dear, Michelle-
Lovely card, as always. All of your creations are “alive” and they are “moving”… So realistic and beautiful.
Thank you, all the best, Olga
I love your tutorials! great cards and soo cool ideas!
ANOTHER BEAUTY MICHELLE!!! Thanks for the great tutorials everyday! Thanks for some great candy too!
Brenda
Michelle, you always make my mouth drop with your AWESOME cards and this is no exception! Love all the “little extra” details you share with us each week … thanks for that! And what fantastic blog candy … some lucky winner is going to have tons of fun with all these sets!! Very generous!! Keep up the GREAT work and thanks again for sharing your talent and your cute little stories of life!!
Oh, Michelle! Your techniques are wonderful. I am learning so much from you. Thank you for sharing with us.
Michelle,
Your artwork is fantastic and I really appreciate learning the details of shadowing and making a card “pop”. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talents.
Nancy
WOWZERS! Everyday when I open my email and see one from you, I open it first! You always have such amazing artwork to share. Each time I look at your cards I say to myself “wow, this is my favorite” and then I see the new card for the day and say the same thing all over again!
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing talent with us each and every day.
Hugs,
Suz
I never win anything but thought I’d risk it! lol Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your artistic cards, very inspiring. Keep the cards coming. At 4 am I couldn’t even get out of bed, much less be making cards, so you’re forgiven!
I love the depth created with the dimensional stickers. It really makes the nest pop. Beautiful card as always. :o) Thank you.
Another AWESOME tutorial! You seem to have the eye for crating depth which I am so lacking! Love your work! Please continue to share your talent! AND thanks for the chance to win your blog candy! Love it!
Dorothy
I recently found your blog and I am just blown away with the fantastic goodies you produce. Thanks for sharing it with us all
Hugs Shirl
Another beautiful card, Michelle! Thank you so much for the very detailed tutorials. I learn something new everytime I look. And now blog candy to boot! Whoo hoo!
You are amazing! I love looking at your cards they are just beautiful. I actually pulled out my brayer last night and gave it a shot- let’s just say I need more practice! Thanks for sharing your work!
Heidi
Michelle,
Wonderful card love your tutorials. I am a country girl stuck in a city now LOL Just the opposite of you. Keep up the great tutorials I so look forward to them !
Michelle…I look forward to receiving your emails and love to try all of the techniques you show in your tutorials. I’ve learned alot from them. Now if my cards looked like yours, I’d be happy. Thanks for the chance for some candy!
Pam
As always, you’ve given us a wonderful card - you are great!!! Your tutorial is the first thing I look for when I turn on my computer. Thx for the opportunity for new stamps
I love this card with the bird nest and eggs. I am learning really a lot of techniques using your tutorials which are the best I have seen!! I am also using lots of clear ep! Also blog candy as well. Hope mine is the lucky number.
Thanks
OMG!!! I just love your blog. I check it everday. You make the most amazing cards, and as soon as I get my craft room back in order, I’m going to try and use your technique. Thanks so much for the inspiring tutorials.
Thanks for the great tutorial. I am sure I will give this a try. Of course I don’t have these stamps as I only found Stampin Up in the last year. Thanks for sharing the great blog candy too. Mary
Hi Michelle
All your cards are amazing. Thanks so much for all your tutorials.
Hope I’ll win this blog candy, it’s our 33rd wedding anniversary on saturday. Il would make a great gift for me!
What a beautiful card! I look so forward to your tutorials and have tried most of them. I keep practicing but it pales compared to yours. You are so creative. Today tutorial has a stamp set that I HAVE so I will be able to play and make something gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your expertise and knowledge.
Love the new In Colors. I am particular about light blues and the Baja looks like a light Tempting Turquoise. And I am partial to anything with an orange coloring. The new colors are going to be so much fun.
Your card is fabulous. The green is a nice shade.
Studio G designs a variety of fun stamps. Thank you for the chance to win them.
Off topic: Isn’t it amazing to have so many replies from people living around the world. When I was a child, a pen pal from another state was a big deal.
Hi to everyone near and far.
Like you, I enjoy feeding and watching the birds. Besides birds, we get chipmunks, rabbits and two different kind of squirrels that come to eat the feed that gets scattered on the ground. My favorites are the hummingbirds that come to my nectar feeder. I enoy your blog and the chance to win blog candy.
Thank you for sharing you talents with us! You certainly have given me some fresh ideas to work with as I share with others! Have a wonderful week!
Michelle..I absolutely LOVE.. LOVE..LOVE your cards..what an inspiration you are!
I am excited as I have the Soft as a Feather & French Script stamps …yeah!!
You tutotrial emails are my “WOW” MOMENT of each day!!
God’s Blessings to you!!
Janet
You are sooo inspiring Michelle. I learn something with every one of your posts. You do such little things that I’d never think of and add so much to your results! Thank you so much for continuing to share with all of us. And blog candy besides???? We are so lucky to have you help us.
Wow - after reading those comments I realize that I’m not the only one who checks your blog every morning - and every night just in case you ever decide to post something that I don’t want to miss. Your tutorials make this looks so easy! I really believe an amateur like me could actually do a half-decent job on this! Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us! Also thanks for the chance to win some blog candy - how great is that?!! Thanks!
Love this! You make such beautiful cards, Michelle! What a talent you are!
What a great set of prizes and I would share them with my card friends.
I grew up on a farm (chickens and dairy cattle) and each year they filled the silo with foddage. We also canned vegetables from a half acre garden.
Keep the tutorials coming.
Great blog, I really love your tutorials! Although your stamping level is still a bit to difficult for me, I learn a lot from them. Greetings from Belgium, Annelies
Michelle, you absolutely amaze me. Everything you do is awesome! Watching birds is one of my favorite pasttimes and makes me remember the importance of all the important things in life. Thank you for bringing that to me.
Looking for your posts is the first thing I do each morning when I power up the computer and seeing this this morning with your Blog Candy was a real joy. Thanks for being so generous with not only your talent, but also with your goodies.
I’m glad you used the new colors; I wasn’t too thrilled about them until I saw them in this card. Love the old retired feather set too!
Being a city girl, I thought it was bird seed. Your cards are awesome! You always add and unusual twist to them, like lifting the card so that the next is recessed. I would be thrilled ifI won the clear stamp sets. Marliese
Those turkeys! I’ve been calling it birdseed all my life and I’m a reasonably serious birder! Know what though, it does too grow birds…more show up all the time when I put it out. There must be a few stray seeds in the mix, as mine grows squirrels too.
Love the card, as usual, and the new colors are gorgeous in it!
Thanks for offering such wonderful blog candy! Whoever wins is one lucky bird!
Awesome tutorial! I have the stampin up birds nest set, and have been on the look out for ideas! Thank You!
Cindy~
Well, Michelle, I am a country girl…..always have been! Rural Ohio transplanted to Rural Florida! Never knew that it was bird feed…not seed…silly me!! Love your tutorial for this card!!! The coolest feature is the dropped bottom on the bird nest!!! Thanks for sharing your techniques, I learn so much from your tutorials!
I just love your cards, I am a big “bird” fan too and have a nest outside as we speak. I haven’t started my collection of Studio G stamps so I’m entering to hopefully have a chance to win the stamps.
Have a super day and keep sharing your beautiful art
DeAnna in Very wet Southwest, Florida
Love your cards. One day Ill get up enough nerve to try one.
Hugs Joan
Thanks so much for another amazing tutorial. I keep printing them out and trying them—you are fantastic.
Linda Peterson
I love all your work but this has to be my favorite. I love the birds also.
Thanks for all your share with others to enjoy and learn from.
~Sandra~
Hi Michelle
I always wait until the end of the day when I get home from work to look at your blog and then I know that no matter how bad a day I have had you will always have something to lift my spirits :O) Another beatiful card with lots of inspiration. Thank you again for sharing.
Hi Michelle,
I came across one of your cards on Splitcoast less than two weeks ago. Now I have closely reviewed dozens and dozens of your tutorials and have tried one so far, with a significant improvement on the second try…I am addicted!
Aside from your astounding talent, I genuinely appreciate your thoughtful commentaries and your generosity in sharing your talent and techniques with all of us. I told my husband last evening that your tutorials have affected my decision of what retired SU! stamp sets I am going to sell at my next used stamp sale. : )
Thank you so much for the chance to win some fun stamp sets; thank you even more for your assistance at making each of us better artists!!
Hoping your travels take you to Arizona!
How funny–you can’t grow birds from bird seed!
Too cute. Feed it is, then!
Gorgeous card! I just got an “old” SU catalog yesterday and saw this set in it. I loved the set just looking at it, but you have made me want it even more. Darn enabler!:)
I saw that you got a pre-order of SU incolors..are you a SU demo? Just wondering.
Shawn K.
Your cards are also so amazing and beautiful! They inspire me to always try new and different techniques.
You are the bomb!!! Your work is always so awesome, I look forward to your emails everyday. Thanks for sharing with us and for the awesome blog candy!
I love this card!! Actually I love all your cards and the fact that you give us such fantastic tutorials!! Thanks also for the chance to win a great prize. Keep up the good work I so enjoy visiting your blog!!
Love your tutorials, you are truly talented!
What a sweet card you’ve made! But that is with all the cards you make! You keep amaze me what a different kind of cards come out of your hands! Sweet!
And what a great blog candy!!!! Would love to win that!
You know, I think I learn something new with each of your tutorials. I never thought of inking a stamp with Versamark and then a coloured ink right after! I’ve always stamped the coloured ink, and then stamped over top of it again with Versamark.
Lovely card, as usual. I’m glad to see the new colours put to use!
ps. Awesome blog candy, thanks for the opportunity to win it!
This is wonderful. I would never have thought of punching the center of the nest out to make it pop. Anyway, I would be thrilled to win the blog candy, because of you and your beautiful work, I have a stash of stamps that is growing and growing.
Thank you.
Michelle! I am amazed by your creativity. I tried doing your resist and sponging techniques that you are so good at. This little nest is so darn CUTE!!
I have certainly enjoyed your tutorials! I am fairly new at card making/designing
and you make everything very clear……also, your work/designs are absolutely
breathtaking……………..
Thanks again
Janice in Lafayette
Wow! What a great giveaway.
I just want to thank you for all of the tutorials. They have made it easier on understanding the how to’s.
Wow! You sure know how to make a beautiful card. The next eggs are beautiful. I haven’t tried your technique yet, but I’ll doing so very soon.
I’m back to share my CASE of this card. I’m not a demonstrator so I don’t have the new colors - yet! LOL I don’t have the Soft as a Feather either but I do have a nest from Good Stamp Co. (they’ve gone out of business. Boo Hoo)
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/983894?nocache=1
you are the master of all things in nature Michelle. This is exquisite!!
How easy to leave a comment on yet another beautiful creation. I love how you layer those colors! I’m excited about those new colors too! Thanks for a peek! Thanks for a chance to win! Have a great week watching the birds!
I love your cards and I love anything to do with birds, so I really loved this card and tutorial, especially the clever way you made the nest!
marie t
I have been inspired by your blog when I have had “creative blocks”. I love your tutorials. They are very user friendly.
Michele, I think your posts indicates you may be a “city slicker”. I left Tennessee and now live in Indianapolis….I’ll take the farm living any day! lol. Our feed store always sold bunnies and chicks….I wanted them all…still do. What great memories.
Thanks for the opportunity to win blog candy! Fun fun!
Teresa
Hi Michelle, I love the way you do your cards. I finally tried one the other night and was happy with the results. I’ll be trying more. Each one is a work of art. So beautiful! Thank you for the inspiration. I love this card too!
This looks like a peaceful touch of nature. As always, you put the colors together beautifully. Love the layering.
Hope you have fun with your new colors !
Blog candy is always an extra bonus to your great tutorials.
I love your tutorials! I’m just starting to stamp and make ATC’s. Your techniques work on any size canvas. It makes it easy to decorate your artwork whatever the size. thanks for sharing.
reba
That’s too funny about the bird “feed”. I just filled my feeder up and it was empty within 24 hours. Those little ones definitely have a growing appetite!
And your card, another work of art!
What I want to know is, do you not make mistakes??!!! Ever?? LOL.
And how do you come up with a different scene nearly everyday?
Do you wake up at 4 a.m. and a vision just pops into your head? Complete with colors and stamp sets? Haha. How do you do it?
Love your tutorials, and Blog Candy on top of that.
You’re awesome!
Thanks for taking the time to help the rest of us out!
Opening up your blog each morning is like unwrapping a gift … and it’s always the one I was hoping for :o) Loved the eggs tucked into the nest (your use of black cardstock and dimensionals really did the trick). I’m lovin’ Kiwi Kiss. And the offer of blog candy for my sweet tooth? Wonderful!
Hi..Just wanted to say I follow your tutorials everyday and am very inspired by your work. Thank you for taking the time to share what you do…Donna
You have inspired me to go outside my box, I’ve been using my brayer more and layering with embossing powder. Thanks for sharing all your great work. And the blog candy too.
Jannette D.
Your card is wonderful as usual. Such beautiful work.
Thank you for the great tutorials. I love them.
I love ALL your creations, but I love it even more that you share the tutorials with us, so we, too can attempt to make artwork as gorgeous as yours. Thank you!
I just discovered your wonderful tutorials. Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent and ideas!
Another great card and tutorial! Thanks for all of your inspirations!
Michelle, Your work continues to blow me away. It is truly artiscally gorgeous and minded. I love you blog and love that I receive it via email. Another beautiful card by you and the fact that you take the time to make tutorials makes it even more fantastic.
Wonderful as always Michelle. Since I am certain I will be picked for your blog candy (hah!) I’ll be out of town until late Saturday night, so if I don’t respond right away, that is why. See you Sunday!
I just discovered your blog the other day. I love your creations and your willingness to share how you do them. Thank you!
Thank you for the tutorial and for the chance to win the candy!
Michele,
I love your cards and your blog. I have referred several of my friends to visit for inspiration. Now if I can figure out where I left my brayer..lol! Thanks for inspiring and encouraging me to get stamping!! I look forward to future posts.
Oh I love bird nests! Thank you for the lovely card tutorial and the inspiration!
michelle, i love your emails every day….this is no exception! thanks for a chance at some blog candy, but i feel like i win every day i see one of your tutes!
sandyh
sandyha@comcast.net
Another fabulous creation. How I enjoy your blog each day.
Wow this is a fantastic card, I luv this one!!! All of your cards are always fantastic & brighten my day! What are you doing up at 4 AM girl? Thanks for the generous blog candy & the chance to win!
I always love your tutorials! I always try to “rethink” them, so I can reapply your technique without totally CASEing your work. I love this one - very inspiring. Thanks you!
I start every day looking at a beautiful card that you have made. The tutorials are so clear and I have attempted a few of them. (the results are not quiet the same, I might add)
I would love to win all of those stamps. Keep making those great cards and the tutorials that we all enjoy so much.
Patti P
Really pretty card. Love the new colors. This would be a perfect Thinking of You card for a new empty nester. Thank you for sharing all of your hard work with us.
I love reading and learning from your tutorials. I have been subscribe for a while now and still your tutorials blow me away. Great job
Thanks for offering this Blog Candy. I hope I win! I just love your tutorials! Thanks so much for taking the time to wrote and pohotograph them! They are all wonderful works of art.
Judy Jackson
Your tutorials are AWESOME! Thanks so much for always sharing your talent!
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for sharing another beautiful card and tutorial.
I’ve been playing with your “Flutterby’ tutorial…and created some awesome cards.
I enjoy your work and tutorials tremendously.
Thank you for sharing your creativity with all of us here…. and wouldn’t it be fun to win some candy…
Have a lovely day i the country…( I’m in a small village…know all about that feed)LOL!
I love this tutorial. They are so easy to understand, and follow along.
We sure are fortunate to have someone like you!
Its so interesting to see how you give dimension and life to simple stamps. I’m always in awe of your talent.
Thanks for another great tutorial and a good look at the new colours. I am so inspired by your creations and tutorials….I just got my brayer and can’t wait to put ink to it. Thanks again! Gloria
This card is wonderful and I really appreciate how you break everything down step by step!!!
Who knew birds could be so beautiful! I really like the way you use everything old to make new with your technique. I’ll have to dig out all my old Stampin’ Up stuff now and look at it through Michele Zindorf lenses…
Thanks for the refreshing view,
Theresa
Hi Michelle! I, too, am a bird lover…although right now the feeder is empty so the birds are on their own for awhile. I’ve lived in the country most my life and love everything except the smell of cow manure. My hubby grew up on a farm and told our 3-year-old she’d have to walk in the manure to grow big and tall like Daddy (he’s 6′1″). Unfortunately, she believes him and wants to do it. Ewwww!!!
Love the blog candy. Set of 16 is pretty exciting.
Happy stamping,
Lisa
I love your cards. I also came from a bird seed to a bird feed type of place. A little bit of a culture shock be we love it. I would love to win the stamps. Pat
this woul dbe heaven next best thing to being in the room with you .. you are amazing! thank you for sharing your inspiration!
What beautiful work you do…what an inspiration. Thanks for offering the blog candy! Vicky H
Michelle!
You are a genious! I love how you made that nest 3D! I only wish I had that retired “Soft as a Feather” stamp set, but I’m a SU newbie. So instead, I’m going to keep an eye out for other ways I could use that technique. Love it, and your designs! TFS!
Jan
Your card is beautiful. Thanks for always putting together such great tutorials! ~Dannie
I can see why you had to use those colours! It’s a really nice card, well done, as usual!! Your blog is constantly inspiring me. Thank you
Diane Young
I am so in love with your designs that I check your blog every day and am disappointed when you don’t post. Sorry - that sounds like pressure to post and I know that is a lot to expect with busy people!! But your work is beautiful.
I look forward to opening my email and seeing your great turorials!! You have inspired me to work a little harder when I am actually playing. I have learned
so many tips since I have found you site………just a few weeks ago. You are so
kind to share and it is appreciated. Thanks a Bunch!! Marie
You do the most amazing things with ink and paper. Thank you for the wondeful tutorials! Love the bird seed I mean bird feed story : )Thanks for the chance to play.
Have A Great Day!
What a beautiful card!! I love the colors you used–ones I wouldn’t have thought to combine but they are gorgeous.
Another WOW card! I love your tutorials and have tried to emulate your wonderful ideas. Thanks for sharing your art.
Michelle,
Your blog is such an inspiration. I wake up every morning and I always have to check out your new pieces of art. Thank you for sharing. I absolutely ADORE your work, and have tried out your techniques myself.
Thanks so much,
michele
what a beautiful card
Thanks for the chance to win
Lillian
I really enjoy your tutorials. It is grand of you to share your fabulous ideas and artistry with all of us. Thanks for the opportunity to win something too. Ruth (used to live in Plain City, Ohio and now I live in London, Ontario.)
Wow! Love your idea to punch out the center of the nest and layer it. Where DO you get these ideas from? LOL! You are truly one of the most generous stampers out there! Not only are you offering a daily tutorial but also some blog candy too. I’d be so excited to win.
Oh and your comment about the bird seed, that’s exactly what I’d say too!
Hey Michelle. Without a doubt your artwork inspires me like few others. It would not have occurred to me to get those crisp clean images by stamping them first then embossing. If I didn’t spend so much time just looking I might actually try it!! TFS
Hi Michelle,
You are a gift to us all! Thank you!
Hi! Michelle!!
I just love your site! All the beautiful work you do is so inspiring and easy to learn thanks to your step by step tutriols. I love the fact you use supplies that are easily attainable to all of us. I can’t wait daily to see what your posting next!
Thanks so much for all your inspiration!! Adrienne
Hi Michelle,
I’ve run out of superlatives for your site. I keep learning so many things. I never would have thought of using Versamark and dye ink. Where’s my brain been.
I love the texture on the leaves. Another thing I never would have thought of.
Thanks yet again - Nimue
OMG I’ve been going in the feed store for 9 years now asking for seed. I’m sure glad the owners are such gentlemen! I stand corrected and will do better in the future. Thanks for all your wonderful tutelage from seed/feed to stamping techniques. I look forward to your emails daily.
This card is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful I’ve seen. OK…I love birds and bird nests and the colors are awesome. Thank you so much for providing wonderful tutorials and the sharing of you time and talent. It is MUCH appreciated!!
So beautiful. I appreciate all of your tutorials so much. Thanks for teaching us new things!
I love the “bird feed” story!! I am just the opposite: country girl grew up on a farm, hauling hay in the summers, learned to drive stick shift on a John Deere tractor, learned to swim in a creek so as not to step on crawdads…..now I’m in the city and long for the quiet nights of the country!!
Thanks for the chance at some blog candy!!
Woohoo! New SU! colors! I hate to lose the old ones though so I’m going to stock up on the paper. Love this card! I have shown your blog to a lot of people. We aren’t artists like you, but you make us think we can pretend to be! Thanks, Michelle!
HEy Michelle! Nice to see I am not the only one out there up at 4am stamping
Sometimes that is the only time I find peace. Thanks for another great tutorial and for the opportunity for blog candy. Love those little Studio G stamps.
Laura
Your card is gorgeous! Thanks for another great tutorial and also for the preview of the new In Colors! Can’t wait to get them!
Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy also!
First I must say Thank You. I have just recently found your site and I have been having so mush fun with your tutorials and now this one it is great. You are an Angel in stamping.
Thanks Debi
God has surely blessed you with remarkable talent. Thank you for sharing with us daily.
lc..
Wow, over 200 responses already! I love your work and TRY to copy your tutorials, lol. I suppose we will have to wait until next year to get the new in colours :).
Michelle,
Loved this nest card! I’m an intermediate stamper and am just beginning to delve into techniques and what I call “engineered” cards! I especially enjoy getting ideas from the splitcoaststampers website.
Kelly
Thanks again for a wonderful tutorial. Can’t wait for the new colors to be available!
Thank you for another great tut. I always look forward to see what new kind of image you will show uns on that speziall day.
Its always a plesure to come back here.
best wishes
Cleo
What a beautiful card! I haven’t stamped in a long time; however, your blog inspires me everytime I look at it!
I love how you bring texture into the picture just by adding color and shading. Very nice!
Wow! What a great card - that was such a neat technique to make the nest have depth to punch out a circle! The card is beautiful the way you lay it out is always so beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity to win such generous blog candy - OMG! You are so sweet!
Sending you sunny wishes from Iowa,
Sankari
PS -thanks for posting that difference between bird feed and bird seed - as a city girl living in the country, that’s good to know
Thank you once again for a wonderful card. I just love getting your tutorials. You have a wonderful way of making cards come alive. have a wonderful day.
Michelle, I can’t believe you were a city gal. Your concept of the country , and landscapes are so amazing. But I guess city girls can long to be in the country. ha ha. I love the birdnest and the eggs, am liking the new colors also. Thanks for a chance at your generous blog candy.
Evelynn
Michelle ~ You have out done yourself again!! Love~Love this card!!!! I love how you use different tech. on your cards. Love how you punched out the center of the nest. Great tutorial!!! Thanks for the chance to wing some candy!!!!!
~Victoria
The bird seed/feed made me smile! It reminded me of when my sister started working at a bank, and they sent her to the bank up the road to borrow some “VERBAL withdrawl forms”…!! Way back when, my Mum worked at a dressmaker’s. They sent her out to borrow plaid pattern thread!
I love the way you did the nest to get extra dimension! I was scrapbooking yesterday, and was embossing- but I only wanted part of the image. So I thought “What would Michelle do here”, and it came out nicely!
Thanks so much for your constant inspiration and generosity.
Thanks ever so much for all your inspiration. Please enter me in the blog candy draw. I love your cards and try to case them, but alas………………
Will practice more!
gjmollet@shaw.ca
I just love your talent. Thank you for the chance to win!
Thank you for all your posts! I really enjoy your work. I tried your emboss resist technique with the French Flair Background…and it was a lot easier, and quicker than I thought, to make a really cool card. I’ll get it posted later today to SCS -djolet.
What a neat idea of popping up the whole panel! I love dimensionals, but usually cut out a piece and pop it up. Very cute card! You have amazing ideas!
I just love this card, and all the ones you do. This is my favorite blog! And thank you for the chance to win blog candy! I absolutely adore those Studio G stamps but can’t get them here in Puerto Rico, so I have to buy them used from SCS.
I am always amazed at how artistic you are! It seems like you take a small project like a card and make it into something most people would pay to put on their wall. I love your how to’s and it makes me feel as if I can do more than just slap a stamp on a piece of paper and be done with it. You inspire me to do better! Thanks so much!
Your work is incredible and you make everything look so easy! The card is beautiful! I too am a city girl now living in the country and the closest craft store, that has any variety, is 53 miles away
Thank you for the opportunity to enter and win your blog candy - I would just love the ’sugar’ overload.
mzm6030@yahoo.com
Well, I’ve got as much of a chance as finding a needle in a haystack with all of these answers from your readers, but figured what the heck!!!
Thanks for a chance at some amazing blog candy!!!
I subscribe to a few blogs, but yours is always the first that I read when there is a new post because you always have such beautiful, inspirational work and you make it look so easy for us all to be artists! Today’s example is no exception!
Hi
Really nice tutorial again. Thanks for the blog candy also
Sandra
Love this card. its so cute a. You make it look so easy.. lol
I enjoyed seeing the new SU colours as well.
Thanks
Love all your tutorials, thanks for all the inspiration.
Isn’t it great to have a nest where you feel safe, secure and loved.
Can’t wait for the new catalog.
Donna C.
Love all your cards… they are so gorgeous.. sure wish I had gotten that Birdnest stamp.. do love feathers and birds.. Keep it up Michelle!!! BEAUTIFUL one of a kind cards!!
Michelle..I just recently discovered your blog and I am so thrilled that I did. I love, love, love your wonderful tutorials and your card creations are just jaw dropping. I have subscribed to your blog and look forward every morning to stopping in here and seeing what you have been up to. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing you talents and knowledge with us.
Debbie
Another Wow!! Please enter me for the candy blog. Thank you again for sharing with us!
Terry
As always a great tutorial! And whether I win the blog candy or not it’s my BIRTHDAY on the 18th so I’ll be having fun!
Hi from Cape Town!
Helen
http://firenzecards.blogspot.com
WHEW,,,,this is some major candy…..I am so very glad it is fat-free!!!
Great nest card and tutorial too.
Cynnie
I get my color and masking fix every day you blog!
you make such lovely cards - and by looking at what you make i think it makes me a better stamper by allowing me to try something that you do..something new! thank you for the opportunity to win some of those wonderful clear stamps!
Michelle,
I am always in awe of your work. Your cards are so beautiful. I signed up on your blog just so I could save all your wonderful tutorials. My husband even looks at the emails with me.
Thank you for being so generous and sharing your talent with us.
….I purchased a brayer because of you and it has become one of my farorite tools.
Blessings,
Jenny
Wow! What amazing blog candy! And the most beautiful card, as always. I love the depth in your work, it’s fantastic. Thanks for inspiring us all!
love your work. I did my first card a couple of weeks ago (the one with the fish) and showed it to some people in a su class. One person recongnized the work right away. She was impressed i attempted to do the card. I told her that your instructions are perfect and very easy to follow so hopefully she will try one.
thanks for all your work
kim
Oh, my, you have such talent! I want to be you when I grow up!
Thanks for the chace to win!
Thanks for the chance at the blog candy. You work is just so perfect. Your tutorials are the bomb! I love to come everyday and see what you have come up with next.
Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Angel hugs
Debby
Your work is truly amazing. One of these days (yeah when will that be) I want to try out some of your techniques. Beautiful card. - Wonderful Blog Giveaway too. - Ida
Michelle,
Great work as usual!!!! I just love your stuff and stop by your blog daily. You are such an inspiration, and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the tutorials. Nope, I’m not suckin’ up just to win the stamps….I truly admire your work and love your style. The depth and dimension that you are able to achieve just blows me away!!! I’m still hoping to get my hot little hands on one of your original pieces one of theses days. In the meantime, I will just have to be content with trying to win these stamps. Please enter me in the drawing. Hisses, Rockin Robin Caldwell
Just beautiful. I love the tutorials!
Very nice card, thank you for sharing…
Michelle, I am a new reader of your blog and all I can say is “WOW!” Very beautiful creations. I may try your techniques one day! Thanks for sharing your creativity!
I absolutely love love your work - you are my idol - when I grow up I want to do cards like you do (I’m only 60 now - smile) - I have tried several of your tutorials and the are wonderful to work from. Great job both on the art and the tutorials - keep up the great work
You make such beautiful cards! I love your tutorials!
Its fun to read the other comments and to see where some of them are from, all over the world. The card is well design and the stamps would make a great birthday gift on the 17th. Thanks
Beautiful card, just amazing and the new in colours look so much better than I thought they would. Thanks for the chance to win such great blog candy.
Thanks for sharing another great tutorial….and for the blog candy.
Linda
Michelle, I love your tutorials and look forward to it everyday. Thanks for taking the trouble to share your techniques. The new SU ink pads look fab!
I lived in a tiny little town in northeast Indiana for almost ten years, and then moved to Charlotte, NC — back to the city. I miss the small town and all those little fun experiences.
Here’s hoping the number generator picks me — I love new stamps!
I really admire your creativity. Your cards are simply beautiful. I just recently began trying my luck with using a brayer and sponging. Thanks for all the inspiration. This card, of course, is amazing.
Michelle,In the Nest is great, as is all of your art ! I would have never thought to punch out the bottom of the nest and elevate it. I’m so glad that my friend told me about you. I look forward to your blog each day. Thanks! Kathleen
Thank you so much for the time you put into sharing your incredible talent!! I haven’t posted before but get such inspiration from your style!!
your work is breathtaking…the bird nest card is just gorgeous…we watch the birds from the comfort of our living room through our big bay window, great entertainment!
thanks for offering the blog candy!
So beautiful, I have passed on your tutorial to my sister and friends because they are so beautiful and i have attmepted so many of them i do not believe i will even be as good as you but you encourage me to keep do my best. Thank you for sharing. So many ideals and tricks to try. Thanks
Michelle ~ ANOTHER wonderful tutorial and awesome card. Your tutorials are sooo helpful to me as I’m a visual person — and seem to have difficulty with just written instructions. Thanks for sharing your very special talent and the opportunity to win some blog candy too
Rochelle
Michelle you are an amazing artist. Your tutorials are well prepared and make anything look stupendous. Thank you for sharing with everyone. Each stamped piece is truly a work of art. Great blog candy too.
This is absolutely stunning and the colors are delicious. I love nature too and have lots of rabbits, birds, deer, and squirrels in my yard to admire. This looks like a card from Hallmark…..for real. Thanks for sharing with us, Becky
I look at your site every day and admire the work you do. I have printed many of your tutorials and will be trying some soon.
Thank you for the beautiful cards.
Cindy
Wow, your cards are awesome! Thanks for your tutorials!
what a fabulous card! I love to watch birds too and this looks lovely in those great new IN colors (NO FAIR!) LOL That’s really a funny story about growing birds from seed! LOL TFS that, it really made me smile:)
WOW 4AM early bird!! I am a night owl and sound asleep at 4AM. Thank you for another great tutorial. I just Love your bird nest card! I look forward to your tutorials and all your beautiful cards and all your stories you share. You make me smile : ) Thanks!
Wow another great card and tutorial. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your talent with us all. The In colors are beautiful and I can’t wait to order them in August..
Hugs and smiles.
Anne S
Stunning tutorial. I am so glad I found your blog. I have it linked so I can be inspired. Hmmm, I always call it bird seed!!! Hmm, what does that feed store know anyway hehehe
hugs,
another fabulous card tutorial Michelle; this theme is a favourite of mine too. Great images and colouring. We too feed the birds - all kinds of Australian natives including, Rainbow Lorikeets, Rosellas, Galahs and the humble doves.
I just found your website from a post on SCS by djolet. I really like your tutorial. Easy to follow and see exactly what you are doing. Really like the card and the new colors too.
To think you did this at 4 am! I would hate to think what my cards would look like! Thank you for sharing the new colors…it’s the best picture of them I’ve seen. And thank you for all you do to help inspire and teach all of us.
Michelle,
You are so generous with your talent! Another great card and tutorial. Would love to win your blog candy.
I’ve been looking at your tutorials for about a month now. You’ve really inspired me to try some different things with my card making. A couple have turned out great, and I’m still practicing on others.
Thanks,
Niki
Well, I am sure there is nothing original to add about how FABULOUS you are!!!!! Some day I want to have the nerve to TRY one of your tutorials. I finally got the nerve to buy a brayer!!!! I so want to move into your guest room for about a year to learn what you do!!!! Thanks for the chance!!!
Michelle, your work is quite amazing and delightful…so different from anyone else’s card art. Thanks for sharing the new SU colours with us. I’m still in mourning over the loss of Soft Sky, but my heartache might be assuaged by owning a Kiwi Kiss ink pad.
What a beautiful card and inspiring blog.
Claudia
scfranson@charter.net
Hi Michelle
Thanks for a chance to win some ‘blog candy’. I have been receiving your emails for a while with your tutorials. I find you an amazingly talented woman and amazed at how you find the time to put these tutorials online as they seem like a lot of work!
Keep up the good work
How fun to get a chance to see the new colors! You’ve created another beautiful scene with this sweet little bird’s nest. We are so lucky that you share your talent with us, and you remind us to appreciate the beauty in art and nature. Thank you for all of the time that you put into these beautifully photographed, very detailed tutorials. Thank you for bringing joy to so many people!!!!
What talent! The card is beautiful and the idea/layout is unique. I especially like the “sunken” nest. Tnanks for sharing
Love your work! I love that you show us how to make your cards also! I don’t think I’d be able to ever do anything like that without someone to show me step-by-step like you do. Thanks for the chance at blog candy and keep up the great work!
This is a beautiful set of stamps. Very clever to punch out the center of the nest and insert eggs. I have my fingers crossed to encourage a win.
Your cards are truly amazing! Thanks for sharing your work and your talent!
I just love your tutorials! The blog candy is awesome and I would love love to win it. Thanks so much for the chance to win these great stamps.
Hello from a dairy farm in Ohio! Thanks for sharing your talent with us by way of the great tutorials. I trulyl appreciate the time you put into them. Great blog candy - you are so generous!
Another gorgeous card. Thanks again for sharing your techniques.
Your cards are amazing. and your tutorials are great and easy to follow. thank you for sharing with us step by step your beautiful techniques.
fabuous card, who would have though a birds nest could look so beautiful on a card. Thanks for offering all the blog candy.
Love your cards and look forward to every new one. Thanks for taking the time to do your amazing tutorials.
Beautiful card as always. Love your technique and your tutorials.
Hi Michelle
Beautiful card and thanks for sharing
Michelle.
I am always inspired by your beautiful card creations.
Thank you,
Mother Hen
(Cyndi)
I am a dailey visitor and love everything you do. Your tutorials are so easy to understand, now just finding the time to try them. I have saved them for the last 6 months. When I retire in a few months they are all on my list of things to do.
Michelle, I love your bird nest picture. The colors are great. I also got a real kick out of your story. I have several feeders in my yard and attract many birds with feed and water. I always go to the Wildbird store and ask for bird seed. That was so funny! Thank you.
Simply gorgeous card. Love your colors that you picked. Your blog and ideas are amazing.
Love your ideas and adding that special touch. I too was city folk turned county. Learned not to feed oats and molasses to the horse in winter, glued the horses mouth shut. Naaaa.
As always, thanks for the beautiful cards, the detailed directions, and your expertise and creativity. I am in awe.
I love all the great techniques you share with us, and I appreciate all the time you take to make each of better stampers. Thanks from an Oregon Beaver who learned about feed and seed while a Buckeye.
Yay! Thanks for the chance to win! I LOVE your cards! Best of all your tutorials!
I made the leaf in water card this week using your tutorial. It turned out great!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent.
The details on this card are so amazing and simplistic. Stampin up is my favorite line…so being familiar with the products you use is really appreciated. Thanks for the opportunity to win your blog candy. Your talent is truly remarkable and I absolutely enjoy each and every post!
Love what you did with your project. The colors and technique are beautiful. Thanks for the opportunity to participate in your blog candy.
Thanks so much for showing me new uses for stamp sets I have! Best blossoms, one of my favourites.
I particularly like the background colouring on this one and am looking forward to giving it a try - but you are such a prolific maker of wonderful things, I can’t keep up!
I too love the country. I grew up in an outer suburb of Sydney, Australia and worked in the very heart of the city for many years, before moving to the country. We now have 150 acres about 20 minutes from town and have no neighbours. It is totally peaceful and I absolutely love it. Valda
I love birds too. My husband and I always had feeders out for them - until we moved to where we live now. The wind blows so hard here, that the feed (see, I didn’t say seed) blows out of the feeders in less than 10 minutes! Of course we have a nice crop of corn, milo, and thistle growning around our porch! LOL Please enter my name in the drawing. I will have to try to find this stamp set with the nest. The card is gorgeous.
Seems like my chances are one in a million here to win your fantastic give-away. But, I guess it just takes one to win. Anyway, I am continually amazed at your creativeness and what all you do. Your tutorials seem to be so easy and I promise I will try one. If the results are 1/3 as good as yours - I will be excited! You are just so amazing!!!!! Interesting new colors. We have some pretty finches in our feeders right now - wish you were here to capture their coloring! Thanks again for sharing!
I love each day seeing what new creation you have to share. Your combination of colors and use of stamps always stimulates the mind to create. I especially love your nature themes. Thanks for sharing with all of us! Davi
Another lovely card! Thank you for taking the time to document the process for us. You inspire me!
Michelle, I just want to say thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work - your step by step instructions have me playing right along with you - I do appreciate your time energy and efforts!
Thanks, Sandra
slbt17@yahoo.com
Better late than never! Add me to the huge list of entrants. Thanks for the chance to win some awsome candy! jmniffer
I always look forward to your posts. I have been trying my hand at DTP lately thanks to your inspiration. My cards don’t compare to yours, but I love putting ink on the paper and blending it all around. I saw in a blog that someone recommended cutting up Nerf balls for sponging. I bought some and finally did that tonight. They really do sponge nicely! Who knew?! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win some blog candy.
I think Karen should bring you along the next time she does a workshop on the east side of the state - I’d love to stamp with The Queen of Zindorfialand! Until then, I’ll have to content myself with a chance to win some candy.
This is yet another lovely card. Thanks for sharing on such a regular basis. I have saved a whole bunch of your tutorials onto my laptop so I can take you with me when I go on holidays
I tried my hand at the Northern Lights one last night and it turned out pretty well.
Thanks for Sharing!
Beth Greco
Michelle I just discovered your blog this week when I took a class from Lisa at Stamp on Over in Sunnyvale, Ca and have spent hours looking at your cards. I really wish I could attend your upcoming workshop in her studio but I live in another state and won’t be able to return to Calif. till the fall
I learned a lot from Lisa though and am going to try to recreate what she did per your inspiration. Your cards are beautiful.
Kathy
I look forward to your tutorials, they are they most beautiful cards. You inspired me to start using my brayer.Thanks for sharing your talent.
19 pictures!! with instructions! You are simply amazing. Thank you for sharing and for your time. I will definitely be trying one of your fabulous techniques soon. I can’t wait to pull out those old and forgotten stamps and make them new again. Warmest appreciation and admiration. JT
Wow I love the fact that you use so many older SU sets. Your blog provides anyone who visits it with a lot of inspiration. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Robbie
Michelle
I just want to tell you that I absolutely love your work. I use to oil paint many years ago and stopped due to lack of time. After watching your blog I have decided to pick it but in a different way…I am doing it by SU ink and sponges. I am having a ball!! Thank you thank you!!
Netta
fantastic card! thanks for the blog candy opportunity!
I love your card- it’s so beautiful! Actually…. I love all of your cards, lol! I’m also a city girl turned farm girl :D. Isn’t it great to be in the country?
I just saw all the new colors today and I’m in love with that blue! The designer pack of paper is awesome…and the new scallop punch will be on my list too. I’m not sure about the Kiwi Kiss but your card is making me look at that color twice. It does look nice with brown.
Wow Michelle…your art is just amazing. I look forward to seeing what you do every day, it is such wonderful eye candy and you explain it all so well. Thank you for sharing your beautiful artwork.
269 thousand + blog visits! Wowser…I am always in awe of your wonderful creations!
I always read your tutorials everytime I get on your blog. I love blog and just now seeing the new stuff coming out from stampin up is a big WOW!! I love the card you made here. I will have to try it.
I am becoming addicted to your blog. Your cards always catch my eye at SCS. Thank you for the time, effort and skill you put into the tutorials and your creations. From another small town girl in OH.
Thanks for posting the new colors, and the chance to win blog candy.
Michelle,
What a beautiful card! I can hardly wait to play with the new colors too! I never thought about growing birds with bird seed, too funny!
Hi Michelle, you are such an inspiration! Your craft is so much more than stamping. U make us all want to be like U.
Thanks for the opportunity to see your work and the chance at blog candy.
Gorgeous, lovely and wonderful! I love the colors- not too sure I would though…… I am not a demo, so will have to wait for the new colors….. Anyway, I am getting ready to be out of town- no stamping for a week- boo hoo! TFS Oh- and please enter me into your drawing for blog candy! Thanks Michelle!
I have to say that I love your techniques and the fact that you are so willing to share them with us. You are truly an inspiration. I have even stepped out of my box and tried to duplicate some of your techniques. I need a ton more work but am one step closer to a nice finished product.
My goodness, this one is outstanding! Love the new In colors, lucky you to have them now. I can’t wait to see what you do next!
you are amazing
and the candy is off the hook
woo hoo!
Your work has always amazed and inspired me. Since I have subscribed to your blog I have tried different techniques I was always afraid to try because I wasn’t sure how to do them. Thanks for all the wonderful tutorials and card ideas. I love all your work and look forward to receiving the next email. Thanks for the chance at the blog candy.
I’ve never tried the mirror image stamp, but your recent sample (I just happen to have the same MFT travel set) makes me want to give it a go. Your color scheme is wonderfully vivid. I love the clear stamps…hope I win some candy! Its only 11:30 on the 16th here in CA. Tomorrow at midnight I’ll join my 18 yr old son for the midnight premiere of the new Batman Movie…what fun. It is 2.5 hrs so I better get lots of sleep tonight!
How beautiful! You are a wonderful teacher and your creations are so inspiring! And, how generous of you to share all that candy! Thank you for the opportunity!
debra~
I am always so inspired by your creations.
I look forward to getting the email of your latest masterpiece and find your tutorials a great inspiration.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Kellie
The color combination is very eye catching. I have a hard time putting opposite colors together so it is a good inspiration for me. I love all of your artwork, it looks like your images just jump off the page. They are truly works of art. If I could make my cards look like yours, I would have a hard time giving them away and would want to frame them all. Thanks for inspiring me to make more works of art then just cards.
What an absolute stunning card and a wonderful idea!! Thanks Michelle for such great tutorials. It’s the highlight of my e-mail day at work. Thanks - Luv Sharon
thrilled to come across your site. Would also love to win your goodies. have a super day from this good old gal in the country - Saskatchewan - Canada I LOVE it here, peaceful, quiet (well except my girls) and loads of wildlife - clean air!
Beautiful card. Loved you bird seed story.
Pam C
Hi - as usual, an enchanting map:-)!!! Your Blog, your maps and your instructions are simply great!!!! It is nice to discover every day a little bit thrilling with you!!!! Lots of love from Berlin, Dani
Gorgeous card…thanks for the chance to win! I am looking forward to seeing more of those lovely new in-colours!
Beautiful card! And thanks for the sneak peek at the new In Colors and the chance to win these great stamps.
Julie Frokjer
stamp202@comcast.net
Love it when I happen to have the stamps you use for your tutorial, as with this one. Gives me another way to use them! I’ve certainly found your tuturials to be a source of of new direction for me. Thanks!
I love your tutorials and I love your blog candy! Thank you for the chance!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Another beautiful card, and I was so excited to see it, because I have one of those sets! I’m learning so much from your posts. Thank you!
Hi Michelle,
LOVE your cards and tutorials! Your work is so unique. You are on the top of my bookmarks and I visit your blog every morning before I do anything else - eager to see what awesome new creation you’ve posted. Since you asked, I’m in the Chicago suburbs.
What a gorgeous card, as always…you really do make it look so easy, and what awesome blog candy! Thank you!
was sad not to see a new card, but could oh so relate to. sometimes other things just need to be done, yes like the necessary house cleaning. Will make the anticipation of your next card even greater. Suzie from Elyria, Ohio
Hi Michelle,
I get up everyday and turn on the lap top, let the dogs out ,get my coffee then i check out what your doing today. I have a close friend that we do alot of cards and scrapbooking together.
when we get together we do your card we enjoy your tutorials so much you make it so easy to understand.
thank-you so much
I’m from Jay Maine
Like you I was raised in the city, and actually still live in the city. But we are blessed to be right on the edge of a green belt overlooking a valley. Every morning I sit out on our second-floor deck with my coffee, and am always joined by a variety of birds in the neighbouring trees!
Thanks again for being a never-ending source of inspiration!
Michelle, This is just the sweetest card! It reminds me of the sweet little robins nest I have in a tree in my garden. Thanks for the chance to win some incredible blog candy! Your posts are the best!
Another great card! Thanks for a chance at blog candy!
Michelle:
You have the most marvelous blog, so naturally I can’t wait to go there first thing each morning. Most of my crafting friends know who you are and just where to find your blog — you are very popular to say the least! We much appreciate that you share your talent with us. I have tried a few techniques that you make look so easy. With lots more practice I hope my attempts begin to look at least something like yours. I too am a city gal but have recently retired to the mountains and now the town I live in has only a gas station, general store and post office. I love my mountains (West Virginia), the birds twittering and the critters roaming. I’ve had the best of both worlds. —sandy
Ich liebe deine Werke und sie sind mir oft eine gute Inspiration, danke dafür.
Just stumbled across your blog - love your tutorials! Glad to know I’m not the only one who stays up late.
Happy Stamping. . . .
Your work inspires all. I feel that I can do anything if I follow your instructions.
From S.A., Tx.
So enjoy watching your work, love the idea of punching out the center, gives it such neat dimension…..I call it bird seed too, guess I am a city girl too
Thanks for the chance to win these stamps, I use the studio g stamps quite a bit, but don’t manage to always get them, guess I don’t get to the stores enough 
I continue to follow each of your postings and tutorials since I discovered your website about a month or so ago. I only dream to be able to do what you do. Thanks for sharing.
Sonia
I am from St Albert, Alberta Canada, originally from Northern Ireland, love your blog and fantastic art.
Eileen
Your cards are always so amazing. I find it to be such a treat to visit your site. Your tutorials are so helpful to me. Whenever I copy your stuff, I feel like an artist:) Thank you for that! Please don’t ever stop doing this, you are a gifted gal;)
Thank you so much! Can’t wait to see the new colors in person!!
Melanie
Greetings from Nebraska. Your tutorials are very easy to follow. Thanks for sharing your talent and ideas.
Hello Michelle from Georgetown, KY!!
Each day I sit here with my mouth open staring at the computer at what you’ve done! You are one HUGE talent!!!
I want to thank you for the opportunity to win some blog candy, but I’d be just as happy with a card made by you!
Thanks again!
Hugs,
Joani
you amaze me in how you put everything together - a true inspiration! I too am a city girl, but love going to the mountians to get revitalized! my kids think I am crazy, but I take pics of the bark on trees and close up of flowers. they are my inspiration too!
thanks for the eye candy!
Lorene
This card is wonderful Michelle. Love your work! I love birds and have some little Sparrows raising their 3rd family this season in my carport. They give me so much pleasure. What a sweet card this would be for a bird person.
Absolutely love this card. I currently have a turtle dove nest with three tiny birds being fed. The funny thing about this is this is the THIRD set of baby turtle doves this summer. Who knew turle doves were so prolific.
Wow, Michelle. What a great blog! I love your tutorials! i want to win the card as well as the stamps! LOL i, too, love to feed the birds and they are really eating a lot this year. please enter me for a chance to win. Kathy Eddy
I love getting your blogs every day–so pretty. I also love birds and have feeders I watch every day–today I am watching the squirrels getting the food!
Thank you for sharing!
Teresa
I love your cards! They are really funtastic and its great to see the process of making them step-by-step. Its perfect for one like me who always need to see the single steps to understand a technique
Love this card and the new colors. Also love that stamp set.
Thanks for the chance to win
Your work is amazing and I love visiting everyday - I am from East Hanover NJ.
Thanks for always sharing all your creativity - it is so inspiring.
Would love to win those stamp sets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the chance to win and for all the wonderful Tutorials! You are so appreciated.
Annette
Michelle, I love coming to your site everyday and looking at the beautiful creations. Your work is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Shannon from Powdersville, South Carolina
as always, just beautiful !!
Love your cards they are all so beautiful! Thanks for giving us more Blog candy too!! Please pick me
Love your blog thanks for the chance to win some blog candy!
great tutorial…as usual. YOur work is STUNNING! BTW, I am from Hershey, PA.
I got my preorder of new in-color stuff yesterday and (surprise!?!) I really love these new colors. Thanks for showing them off with your beautiful card.. As always, thanks for all you do!
Sue… from Minnesota
Great technique. I wish I would remember to do this more often when I am making special cards for special people!
Love your cards! Do you ever have a bad card day???? Where does your inspiration come from?
Wow - This is a beautiful card and technique. Hope to try it this weekend. Starting on my Christmas cards - need to start so I can finish on time!!
Wow! the blog candy really lets you know how many people are visiting your blog daily!
As always, love your cards, but just makes me realize how many stamp sets, paper and ink I need to do even half of what you do! So the free stuff is always appreciated! Thanks for all your hard work and continuing to share your creativity with us! 
Kim
Oh my Michelle, I’m so with you. I lived the first 39 years of my life near concrete pavements. Then my DH moved me to upstate NY for 5 years, and now we’ve been in Arizona, halfway between Phoenix and Tucson for 7 years. I remember my first “rural” lesson…every day, I’d drive my DH into work in downtown Rochester, NY. It would take an hour from where we lived on Lake Ontario. Every day I’d watch the bare trees on a nearby hill, and they would change. First, they started to get a little plump. Then they started getting a little green haze to them. That was a fun day because that night the green haze had erupted into little tiny leaves. Then the flowers appeared, and those dropped off and were replaced by bright little tiny shiny orange balls. Those got bigger and bigger until they were probably as big around as the tip of my thumb and turned a deep red. One day, we drove into Rochester as was our normal practice. But when we came home that night, I shouted to my husband “they’re gone, they’re gone!” because the little red shiny balls were indeed missing from the trees. My husband (my very DISGUSTED husband), just rolled his eyes, gave a heavy sigh and shook his head as he said … well that’s what happens when they PICK them. Who knew that’s how cherries eventually get into those little jars? Needless to say, I’m known in his family as the “concrete” princess.
Thanks for sharing all your tutorials. You are my daily dose of inspiration.
Another Wow card. I visit your blog every day because I love the artwork you do.
Thanks for all the techniques you teach. I am pretty new at all this (8 months) and
love seeing what you come up with each day. I also just found out that all the blog
candy people offer is really not real candy at all LOL!!! I kept thinking what do I need
candy for. Now I know better.
Thanks,
Lori
Boulder, CO.
Just visited for the first time, but it won’t be the last. Great card and wonderful directions. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Love to see your detailed instructions for the cards you create. I so envy your talent.
I am so late getting to your blog today because my Yorkie just had pups yesterday…imagine I did not stamp. You are such a talented women. Your work is art and always makes me feel great. You are known for your easy to follow tutuorials. Thank you so much for sharing and teaching your talent. Thank you.
Oh Michelle…this is - by far - my favorite card of yours! HAHA! Until the next one you make….but it is really beautiful! I love it!
Hi Michelle,
I’d love to be entered into your blog candy draw, please. Your blog is the most inspirational of all - I so appreciate your detailed tutorials, because they make it possible for all of us to attempt to extend our limits. I love trying to improve my stamping, and so your blog is my absolute favourite, and the one I must see each day. Thank you so much.
Anne
Wow! What a lovely card you made! Thanks for offering the stamps. It is so kind.
Wow! What a beautiful card! I love how you punched out the center of that nest and reattached it to the black. The top layer is just beautiful. Your blog candy made me say WOW! I live in northern Virginia, from the midwest (Michigan and Wisconsin). I just got back from a visit to MI and while there we went to the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan, so KellyRae’s story made me smile!
This card is absolutely gorgeous! I love how you play with colors…your results are stunning! Your very detailed tutorials are the best. Thanks so much for offering them to us. I’m from Ohio, too! North Dayton area.
I just recently came upon your blog…….and am definitely amazed by your work!! Your brayering technique is beautiful……..and I hope I can learn to do this ……..even if it just a fraction of how well you do it. Thanks for the opportunity to win the set of stamps.
I just recently came upon your blog…….and am definitely amazed by your work!! Your brayering technique is beautiful……..and I hope I can learn to do this ……..even if it just a fraction of how well you do it.
You do beautiful work. Love your color combos. I have even put a link to your blog on mine so that more people can see what you do. Keep it up.
Paula
Thanks for the preview of the new “in” colors. I’ve been wondering how some of them will go together.
Yeah blog candy! Love your work!! Thank you!
Great idea, Michelle! The card is fantastic, as usual. Also, thank you for a peek at the new colors. I can’t wait to play.
I’m SO looking forward to playing with this Kiwi Green color! Thanx for the daily source of inspiration and chance at t’riffic blog candy! LOVE the card, ‘natch!
later, alligator!
- SueB
Oh what a beauty…a day late in seeing, but I do love it. Have the ingredients, now to find time to play! Thanks for sharing! Please enter me in the blog candy. Thanks for that also! Nelda in TN nelda mc 765 at charter .net
I love your work - you make everything look so easy. Have a great stamping weekend.
Corrina
Beautiful card! Like that was a first!LOL
Neena Johnson
Lawndale California
wow…what you can do with ink and paper is amazing! thank you for having such a wonderful blog candy!
I just love all your work! So inspirational. You never cease to amaze me with each creation. Thank you so much. Love the stamps.
Wanda
Great ideas you have to share! Thanks! I would LOVE to win your blog candy… I have no options for getting those stamps where I live. Thanks for the chance to win them.
Swedie
you’re blog is awesome! you do a great job with the tutorials, they are fun and easy to follow! Thanks for doing this.
You do such beautiful work. Look forward to seeing your creativity each day. Thanks for sharing your talent.
wow Michelle, so many comments today. love your cards.
Andrea
Perth Western Australia
Beautiful card! Thanks for showing the directions.
Suzanne Mountfort
wow are these awesome or what! Beautiful craftmanship. I love your work.
Michelle…I look forward to your tutorial every time I check your blog. I absolutely love what you do!
My cimputer was off line yesterday…..I just hate being ynable to get out here and look! Awesome card once again! I love the brd stamps! Nature is God’s gift to us! Rhanks for sharing Michelle!
I had signed up for your email-but I had not got anything yet.
Love the card and the tutorial on how to make it.
Beautiful card and beautiful work. all that you do!
Wow once again you do wonderful things.. keep going i am amazed everytime
I absolutely love your technique and have had fun sharing with other stampers. I also love feeding the birds…….keep sharing your creations
I hope you never stop showing us your tutorials, I always love learning from the BEST! Thanks for the blog candy
Beautiful work Michelle! I love to read your tutorials, I’ve just uploaded my 1st attempt at doing something like your work on my blog…………..but I think I have a very long way to go yet!
Thanks for all your wonderful inspiration.
So so neat, thanks so much for teaching all of us! I Just love the nest and how you explain how to make it… Your tutorials are just wonderful,,thank-you
I’m from Texas but I grew up in Dayton…
Love your latest creation! I often look at your gallery totally amazed at your work. TFS.
As always your creation is absolutely gorgeous. And blog candy? Yeah!!!!
Thanks Michelle for your time and effort to share your talent with us all.
Kim
Michelle, I love every one of your creations! I wish I had the time to try even half of them! When I am able to spend some time stamping and want to try a “Zindorf” card, your instructions are so user-friendly. I appreciate the time and effort you spend preparing these. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with the rest of us.
Wonderful colour combination. I love blues and greens but would never have thought to put them together like this
Just a fabulous card! I really appreciate how you are so willing to share your secrets with the rest of us with a quick tutorial for each card you post. When I get home from vacation, I am going to get my brayer out and try some of the techniques I’ve seen you post - beautiful work! BTW, I’m from Riverside, CA, but am currently enjoying the sound of the waves at a condo on western Maui!
Love your tutorial today! Thanks as always for sharing!
Hi Michelle; your work is wonderful; love seeing them each day when I awake. Thanks for always be willing to share with us all.
Love your artwork!!! What a great Blog Candy too. Just love your site.
You have such clear and inspiring tutorials! Thank you.
I love love love this card. Great job Michelle!
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GORGEOUS colors, Michelle!
I appreciate all of the time that you put into your tutorials SO MUCH! You are an amazingly inspiring artist ~ thank you so much!!
- Vicki (a stampaholic) from CT
Another fabulous card, Michelle! Thanks so much for sharing your terrific talent! I’m looking forward to your 2009 creations!
- Sharon (CreatedByU)