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