Nov 29 2008
Katzelkraft Bird in Water - Tutorial #152 And New Blog Candy!
Well hello there everyone! I’ve been away tooooo long from my stamping room. A lot has been going on with holiday preparation.
For the Thanksgiving Holiday my small family gets together at our house for the feast. I still have half of the feast in the frig that needs eaten. (Just slap it on my thighs, that’s where it is going anyway, lol) We are not fancy people, this is my table setting for the occasion. 
I have to show you the two beast that were underfoot in the kitchen the whole day. These two both weigh over 100 lbs each. Abby the Lab and Lucas the German Short Haired Pointer/Great Dane mix. Both of these babies came from a local shelter after our beloved German Shepherd passed about 5 years ago. I encourage everyone to adopt their pets and spay and neuter them. :) Sorry, had to throw that in there, it’s too important.
Yesterday was spent, CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!!!! After Shopping we started putting up the Christmas lights on the outside of the house. This is the progress we made before dark. I then completely passed out on the couch, lol. I hope those who celebrate Thanksgiving had one filled with the love and Joy of Family and Friends.
Enough with the rambling, it’s BLOG CANDY TIME!!!!! OH, what blog candy I have for you this week.
How about a full sheet of Bird stamps from Katzelkraft! Here is a link to their online store so you can check them out: www.katzelkraft.fr The bird I used for today’s project is one from this stamp sheet.
To enter to win this Full Stamp Sheet all you have to do is tell me to enter you by commenting on this post. If you are getting this blog update by e-mail you will need to click this link and then comment at the bottom of the post: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/11/29/katzelkraft-bird-in-water-tutorial-152-and-new-blog-candy/
I will use a random number generator on Wednesday, December 3rd to select the winner. Good luck to all!
Now on with today’s tutorial.
Supplies:
| Stamps: Katzelkraft Birds, Stampin’ Up Lovely as a Tree |
| Paper: Stampin’ Up Whisper White, Pacific Point & Always Artichoke |
| Ink: Stampin’ Up Baja Breeze, Pacific Point & Always Artichoke, Palette Noir Black |
| Accessories: Brayer, White Gel Pen, Black marker, White Ribbon, Brads, Sponges |
Brayered Baja Breeze at the top and bottom of a 4.5″ x 3″ piece of Whisper White Card stock.
Brayered Pacific Point ink at the bottom of the card stock, not covering the Baja Breeze ink entirely.
Stamped the Katzelkraft Bird image with Palette Nior Black ink.
Stamped the Pine Tree Twice with Baja Breeze ink.
Stamped the Pine 3 times with Always Artichoke ink.
Sponged Always Artichoke ink at the right and bottom of the card stock.
Sponged black ink at the right, left and bottom of the card stock.
Added White Gel Pen to the light areas of the bird, made dots in the tree branches and also added white dashes in the water.
Added dashes of black marker to the tree trunks.
Sponged Pacific Point ink around the outside of the card stock.
Cut a 4 7.8″ x 6 3/8″ piece of Always Artichoke card stock and sponged Pacific Point Ink around the outside of the card stock.
Assembled card and added the ribbon and brads. Here it is finished measuring 5″ x 6.5″.
May your day today be one of leisure.
Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . .. . . .
Hugs,
Michelle
Links to all my tutorials can be found here: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/tutorials-ive-written/
Here is a link to my workshop calendar if you want to get info on beginner and advanced Brayer workshops: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/workshop-calendar
Frequently asked questions answers: http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/frequently-asked-questions/
Another beautiful card! You continually WOW me! Love the bird stamps. Thanks for your generosity! Your table looked lovely. Hope the furry friends got some scraps! Bless you for adopting “pound pups” ! We have one, also and lover her more than we can say, and yes, we had her spayed.
I really enjoy your blog. I check it everyday to see what may be new. Your technique and style amaze me. Thank for offering such wonderful blog candy. Sure would like to add the birds to my collection.
Kathy
I love birds as much as I love trees. I would like to be the blog candy winner. Thanks for inspiring my day.
Happy Thanksgiving! I love your pound puppies; we adopt pound puppies as well. Last time, my son found the “one” he had to have and sat at the pound for more than six hours till I could get there after work!
Love the birds and the blog! I would love to win the birds. Thanks so much for sharing your creativity!
Your dogs are beautful!!! I always get my pets from the pound — and thanks for the plug for spay/neuter!
Love the birds — I’m going to that website now!
Wendy Pannell
You are crazy good ! I have no idea how to do the things you do with a brayer. Do you ever make it to Minnesota?
Since finding your blog, many hours have been spent trying your tutorials, now my friends are asking,”how do you do that. I’m a bird lover and watcher so enjoy the bird cards along with all the others. We lost our big beautiful chocolate lab last year and we still miss him. One day the right dog will come along to fill our void, our shelters have a big problem with parvo so don’t want to go there. Thanks for all the well spent hours.
Thank you for your inspiration! I had no idea of the things you could accomplish with a brayer. Loved the pictures on your blog. (I have three dogs - two labs & a cocker spaniel). Please include me in your blog candy drawing.
You are so talented. I did your brayered sky technique for a retirement card for a co-worker and he was very moved by the card. Thank you for giving all of us so much inspiration. And thanks for the spay/neutering plug! People really need to learn to be more responsible with their beloved animal family members.
A stunning card Michelle. What a great stamp sheet also. I wold love to win this. Thanks for the wonderful tutorials and the chance to win this sheet of stamps.
I love the bird stamps. You are an inspiration for taking cards to the next level, truly a work of art.
WOW!!! Once again your cards are truley amazing. I am always amazed at what you can create. You are a very talented person, and keep it up. I may never be able to create as well as you, but I do love to see all of your creations. Thanks for the wonderful blog, Happy Holidays!
Another inspiring card for us, on this chilly morning in Fort McMurray, Alberta. I hope your Holiday went well. The blog candy is lovely and I would love to have a chance at winning it. Thank- you for your generosity!
Happy Thanksgiving to you! This is a lovely card. I have just recently started collecting birds rubber stamps. I would love to add this sheet of beautiful bird stamps. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
This set of stamps is beautiful and really perfect for you! Thanks for the chance to win!
This card is stunning. I love it. Thanks for the opportunity at such beautiful bird stamps for your blog candy. I have to admit….I was stalking your blog everyday this week looking for some new cards. So glad you posted today and got back into your craft room girl….
Gloria (aka: GloriousGreetings)
Happy late Thanksgiving. This is a lovely card…thanks for the chance to win blog candy.
How beautiful is this. Thanks for a chance to win..
Thank you for the opportunity to win this lovely birdssheet. I visit your blog regularly and I think you’re a real wizz with a brayer. Thanks for all the inspiration you give us, you’re so genorous.
this is lovely. glad to hear your Thanksgiving was nice. I am learning so much from you. Thank you for what you do. I would love to be entered to win the “blog candy”.
What beautiful dogs! My husband and I adopted our dog at a local animal shelter. She was only 10 weeks old and a mixed breed. Someone found her in the woods only 1/2 hours before we walked into the shelter. I spotted her immediately and fell in love on the spot ! She is now 10 years old and I cherish every day with her.
Beautiful card, beautiful table, beautiful lights, adorable doggies and great blog candy. What can’t you do?? Hope your day as as much of a blessing as mine.
Again what a beautiful card!! I keep coming back to your site to see if you have something new!!
And taht blog candy is great… so please do enter me into it.
I love your christmas decorations… it must have been quite some work to get those up!! Love it!
Happy Gobble.Gooble to you too!
I am actually going to start to get in gear and try to put out the Christmas decorations today.. try is the key word as I am soo tired I decided at 6 pm that maybe I could do a little shopping! lol.. and ventured out.. what an adventure it was indeed and the stores weren’t packed and I got good deals on some things although I only shopped for my little DD! lol.. I have my little men to shop for but my oldest already told me he wants art supplies soo I am going to surprise him and get him some yummy supplies and pick some up for me ! lol.. this year he is going to get stamps as he’s been really getting good at stamping! 
(he’s 10) Have a wonderful weekend! HUGS to you and yours!
Thank you again for a wonderful tutorial. The card is beautiful! I am excited to have a chance at those wonderful stamps! debb
Love this. Birds are my favorites to stamp and I really
enjoy your tutorials.
Beautiful…I always love your technique!!! Hope I’m the lucky winner!
I would love to be the winner of the birds - I do not have any, only butterflies.
You are one talented lady, not only on paper but also around your house. The table setting is lovely and your lights are festive.
Happy thanksgiving to you! Your dogs are gorgeous!
Another impressive card…those bird stamps are lovely.
I*’d love to enter. Your dogs are great. I’m a dog lover myself, and firmly believe in spaying/neutering.
Oh my I was having withdrawls over the holiday waiting for you to post a new card!! Was well worth the wait it is gorgeous!!!!
Jen
Yet another gorgeous card! Can’t wait to try this layout with a crane stamp I just ordered from Stampscapes. And please add me to your growing pool of wishful blog-candy stampers.
Love the lights on your house, though I half expected some brayering on the siding
As always you make such a beautiful card. I look at your blog all the time and steal shamelessly. You are always einabling to buy more product. Like I need any help.
I still need lots of help with the brayer. Hope some day to take your class.
Have a great holiday season.
Lovely again, Michelle! Your table looks great and your dogs look like fun! I like the lights on your house too!!
Great to hear about your pound puppies! I too have two rescue dogs that are always underfoot hoping for a bit of turkey, etc.
Linda
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you too! I love your designs, you’ve inspired me to keep trying to things outside my box. Thanks for the chance for some “candy”.
Jannette D.
I love all the Christmas lights. it must have taken hours to put them all up. Wow! I also love the birds stamps they are gorgeous so yes please enter me for your blog candy, LOL.
what a great card, I love the bird. I’m glad we aren’t the only ones who put up there Christmas lights after Thanksgiving. Have a wonderful Holiday. Love waiting to see what you come up with next. Cheryl
Michelle,
Birds are high on my list. Since i work at a park in Florida, really anything to do with nature is okay. I just love the way you do the highlights.
What an absolutely gorgeous card. So serene looking.
Thanks for the chance to win candy!
Love your use of light vs dark and the colors you use are always the first thing that catches my eye. Fantastic!
Again, another great tutorial. You were braver than I to battle the traffic and the crowds shopping on Black Friday. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
oh such fun! Thanks you for a glorious blog, please enter me in your contest, and Happy Holidays!
/S
Your dogs are beautiful- 2 out of my 3 cats were pound kitties that I adopted. Please enter me for your blog candy, that is a great stamp set!
Your work is beautiful!
Gorgeous, Michelle!!! You have such a wonderful imagination and incredible brayer and sponging skills. I love to see what your next creation will be. Thank you so much for sharing your talent! Thank you, too, for the opportunity to win such a fabulous set of birds, some of my favorite creatures. Your Thanksgiving table looks lovely! Love your babies, too!
What a beautiful set of stamps!!! I would love to win :-))) thanks for the give away and for your awesome tutorials!!!
cwhentge@grm.net
enter ME Michelle!
love the pics of Abby and Lucas, lol…just waiting for a tender morsel to fall to the floor!
I Love this card! Great color combo. Tanks for another great tutorial. I hope to win those stamps so I can try this card!!
WOW! another great card. I just am amazed how you crank them out. I really do love this one. it reminds me of my grandmother. she always had a beautiful yard with lots of trees, flowers, and birdbaths. she could sit and watch the birds playing in the birdbath. to this day, I love being still and listening to the birds early in the morning. thanks for the sweet memories…….
Lorene
I am totally in love with birds and I think it is because so many companies are coming out with awesome bird stamps!! LOL. Love your card, like usual!! You are truely an inspiration!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
Your creations are incredible!! I love visiting your blog. I would also love to win these bird stamps..thanks for the opportunity.
You are so talented ! Love your blog and the inspiration it gives me and I really appreciate the tutorials.
Claudia
scfranson@charter.net
It’s so good to have you back! Again another beautiful card I really should come up with something new to say, I sound like a broken record but, it’s true all your cards are beautiful. As a dog owner (3 from large to small) I loved the picture of your dogs.
We miss you here in Texas!
I come on your blog every day ( even 3-4 times a day ) since i have found it. I LOVE your art work. It is a pleasure looking at them and feeding my soul with all your Tut’s.
Your blog is as good for me as dark chocolate.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! delightful!!
Please continue to WOW me.
Love ya!
Lauretta
Of course I want you to enter me in your blog candy! Who wouldn’t? The bird set has so many lovely birds in it, all unique and lifelike. OH, the cards I could make! thanks for this chance to win.
What a gorgeous card! And a lovely table setting as well.
I’d be absolutely thrilled to win this set of stamps!!
Michelle, as usual, you have done an outstanding job. I love the bird stamps.
Thanks for sharing your pictures, especially of your beloved dogs. I can’t imagine my life without pets.
Hi michelle! Your dogs are beautiful!! I have a little “Pinky” LOL she’s only 8-9 lbs. She’s a chihuahua/dachshund mix. She was loving the Thanksgiving cooking in the kitchen as well! LOL glad to hear you got some Christmas shopping done. I haven’t started mine yet. Mostly for myself…*snerk* Anyhoo…thanks for the opportunity to win some stamps! One can never have enough stamps. *BIG GRIN* Your lights look pretty too BTW! I just pulled ours out last night. My boyfriend unfortunately came down with a cold so we’ll probably have to hang them when he’s feeling better. This is a beautiful card! Very elegant. TFS!
It’s a beautiful card, Michelle, TFS.
Eveline.
Love, love, love the bird stamps - Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks for sharing the things you love and for your generosity.
Gorgeous card as always. I especially love the tree/bush on the right. I would love a chance to win these elegant stamps. TY!
Beautiful! Breathtaking beautiful.
Ter:)
You are simply amazing! I wish I had a ’smige’ of your talent, always able to come up with original great projects. I follow you everyday and can’t wait for your next post! I would not win blog candy if I was the only one entering but I love to comment on your latest & greatest! Thank you for your continuing inspiration and keep ‘em coming! Thanks again, Nancy
Once again I love your workshop !
you always surprise with beautifull works
you have a great imagination !
hugs
Sandra
I loved the masculine feel to this card. I have tried a couple of your cards- the tutorials are fantastic. Thanks for taking my stamping to another level.
Beautiful Card. Michelle, you are so bad! I really didn’t need another online store to shop at. This store has some amazing images. I’m in deep trouble. Please enter me to win this beautiful sheet of birds. Thank you for the tutorial. It’s amazing as usual.
Another beautiful card! Your blog is my everyday go to. Please enter me in the drawining,
Donna
love birds and would dearly love to have stamps for my cards. Your cards are so unique
I am always looking so forward to receiving your emails/tutorials am in awe of your talent! Thank you for your inspiring help.
Melody
Too interesting. I just started working with Birds (Inkadinkadoo) this morning - how timely. LOVE your creation. Thanks for another great opportunity.
DianeL
loyaz1@wbhsi.net
What a beautiful card, Michelle! Those bird images are so beautiful. I just love anything fowl related.
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy getting back “in the groove”!
Suzy
Wow what a beautiful card and blog candy to boot, awesome!! Love those birds
Karen W jkwallace@mchsi.com
I love the bird stamps and would love to win. I always look forward to reading your blog because all your work is so beautiful. Thanks for a chance to win.
Love the dogs! Yes, everyone should adopt at their local shelter and spay or neuter! Thanks for sharing the most beautiful card. Please enter me!
would love to receive the blog candy! please enter me!
great looking pound puppies! i volunteer at our local spca and got my german shepherd there a couple of years ago after our old dog died. he was so good at thanksgiving, with a bunch of people, a new baby on the floor and food left on the table!
sandyh
sandyha@comcast.net
I love birds and your card is stunning, as usual! Love that you have big dogs and you rescue them! I raised Great Danes for 23 years and have had Newfoundlands for the past 6 years. I have 4 dogs now…2 rescues and 2 Newfs.
OMG! Those birds are fabulous! And this is the best card to date!
I enjoy your blog very much and love the tutorials. Your cards are amazing. Thanks for the opportunity to win blog candy.
As always your cards are amazing, and I love your christmas lights that is something my family loves to do over the holidays is go looking at all the lights at night. I would love to win the blog candy and thank you for being so generous both with your time and ability and blog candy.
Holly
Oh WOW! Fabulous card, and fabulous candy!!!! FInger’s crossed. Thanks for the tutorials, they’re always really inspirational. Lisa
Wow Love the card and your pups. The lab looks like my mom’s dog that passed away. Thanks for shareing
Anne
Another amazing piece of art! I would love to win the birds.
Joyce
Beautiful card - beautiful stamps - beautiful table - beautiful lights. Do you get the idea? I think everything about your site is beautiful.
OH yeah and beautiful beautiful blog candy. Pick me please.
Michelle,
It appears you had a delightful Thanksgiving with family and “friends”. Thanks for the reminder to all to spary and neuter your pets. It’s so important. In Colorado Springs we are now having to license cats to help fund the feral cat problem. Sad…but true. Enough of that.
Birds are the beginning of Spring. When you hear them first sing…it’s magic to your ears. Thanks for the super-duper blog candy this week. You are certainly a dear.
Happy week!
DonnaB
Please enter me in the contest, thanks for the chance to win. Beautiful Birds! I so enjoy your blog, thanks!
Smiles, Melinda
Your cards are always so gorgeous! LOVE this one! I just got my Jack Russell neuter yesterday!:) He is doing pretty well! Your pups are so beautiful!
Hi Michelle,
Your table setting looks lovely… I had my Regal Beagle under foot in the kitchen. I have become very skilled at waltzing around my “Candy Gurl”….
You are way ahead of me with shopping AND lights…Yikes I haven’t started, I am thinking maybe Sunday or Monday for the lights.
SO about this feathered friends blog candy…. wouldn’t it be lovely…count me in and keep your wonderful tutorials coming… I will have to try this out.
Thanks, Hve a wonderful day !
Gorgeous card Michelle! I love your use of tints and tones and fabulous inking techniques! Thanks for a chance to win some wonderful goodies!
Wow, this is so gorgeous! Please enter me in the give away, these stamps are so beautiful! Your house is so pretty all lit up! I luv going for a ride just to see all the houses all lit up, don’t you?
I am always at aww and ooooing at all of your artwork, I wish I could attend one of your workshops as I have tried the tutorials and have failed drastically, I like to watch live to learn!! May be someday I shall… keeping a watch on your calendar!
Love and hugs always!
Wow, this is stunning. Thank you for the opportunity to win such unbelievable candy. Your artwork is always amazing thank you for sharing with us.
Debbi
I really envy you for having your outside lights up already. We “thought” about it and that was as far as it got. Love the new Bird stamps. Hope my number comes up.
You have a wonderful blog. You sure get a lot done. Please enter me for the drawing of those wonderful bird stamps. Thanks, Nancy P.
Oh this card is stunning! No surprise there! I LOVE bird stamps and have several, but not this one…hint! Hee! Have a great weekend!
Beautiful card, as always. You are an inspiration, artistically, to me. Thanks! Can you tell us what the pine tree stamp set is that you used on this card? Linda Ford
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Once again wonderful and inspiring work Michelle thank you so much for sharing your talent. It may someday rub off !!!!!! I hope!!!!!
beautiful pics of your dogs too and your home looks wonderful all lit up.
I’d so love to win the stamp set - fingers crossed
Have a wonderful holiday time
You continue to amaze me with your talent! Your cards are gorgeous. Murphy, my 145 lab mix says “rowlf” to your two sweeties wish we could get together and play while our mom’s play! He is laying by me as I look at your card and tutorial. At least that is what I think he is thinking. He did look up when I showed him the photos. We had just taken a big walk admiring all the birds around us. This looks like a great sheet of bird stamps! Thanks for a chance to win a set. Happy holidays!
I, too, read your blog daily. I sit with my mouth wide open at your creative work.
And this card is no different. Amazing!
You made me tired just reading all you did.;)
I love your blog. It inspires me so much! You are always so generous with your blog candy!
Thanks,
Carol
You continue to inspire and delight me! Thank you for the opportunity to win blog candy.
What a gorgeous card! Love the water effects and highlighting with white.
You are so incredibly talented! I so appreciate you sharing your talents with us. Thank you for the tutorials that are so easy to follow. Now, I just need to get brave enough to do one!
Hi to you! What a talent you have for taking a stamp and making your cards come alive! How I wish I had your talent. Thanking you for taking the time to make these tutorials so we can look talented too!!! Linda
I am truly amazed with your artistry. The bird alighting on the water is magical. I love the bird stamps and would treasure having my own set. Please enter me into your drawing. Thanks for sharing your creations and how to make our own. Caroll
Wow..that is so simple yet so beautiful! I always love your cards! Those birds are just lovely too! I sure hope I win!
I want to be like you when I grow up!!!! You continually amaze me with your beautiful cards! One day I hope one of your classes is close enough where I can go!! Thanks for the great blog candy!!
What a gorgeous collection of bird images! I love the card you made with it. You always know just where to place highlights to really bring the picture to life. Thanks for the chance to win!
Michelle, Abby and Lucas are just precious and obviously they are great kitchen helpers. I am happy you added the plug about spaying and neutering, it is so important. Your holiday table was lovely, and I really like the Christmas lights. I just came in from decorating my fence. I love this time of the year. Thanks for all that you do.
Love your photos of the dinner table, outdoor lights and of course your two special babies!
And after all that you still create another georgeous card! What a great stamp sheet and I thank you for posting a company that I had not heard of! Thank you so much for offering this great sheet as blog candy!
love, Love, LOVE birds!!! Pick me!!! Once again, you’ve shown how to take a stamp and create a scene worth framing!
Love the bird stamps! Thanks for another great tutorial.
Another beautiful card! Every day I look forward to seeing what you created
I also like seeing pictures that you post of your home, animals and such.
I love the bird stamp set. Happy Holidays!
Your cards are beautiful and your tutorials are amazing. One of these days, I really am going to try one of your tutorials.
Your blog has inspired me to start stamping again!! BEAUTIFUL! Please include me in your blog candy drawing. Thank you for your beautiful artwork.
I love the birds! Wish I could get my white pens to work like yours!
ugh…Christmas lights and shopping already. Where in the world did the year go. Thanks for the reminder
Thank you for the chance to win some yummy candy.
Have a great day!
Michelle
Such a hectic time of year and so little time to sit down and just stamp. Love this card and actually all of your work. I have been experimenting with your techniques and am pleased with some of the results but haven’t quite reached your level.
Now about the canines….my daughter has three hounds and they are her ‘children’ or rather my ‘grandchildren’. One came from a shelter, one wandered in off of an Indian reservation in New Mexico and the other was a little fur ball for Christmas 16 years ago. They are quite the trio with the most distinct and sometimes hilarious personalities. Anyway, thank you for the opportunity to win some blog candy!!
Michelle, you blow me away with your talent. I love the card you made and it’s really so simple, but beautiful. I would love to win those stamps. I went to the website and was going to buy them, but cannot find them on there. Help! Thanks for sharing the Thanksgiving pictures too. Lovely and cute doggies.
Love this card and the stamp set is incredible - if I don’t get it as blog candy, I’ll have to find it on my own. Thanks for all you do to help us be better stampers. Happy Thanksgiving!
Michele, thanks for guiding us through your process of creating another beautiful card! So lovely…as is your beautiful Thanksgiving table. Thanks for sharing the photos of your table, your sweet dogs and the very pretty Christmas lights!
I am very impressed with what you accomplished on Black Friday and am not surprised you passed out on the couch! LOL!!!
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends and feel very grateful for all our blessings!
Wow Michelle, your whole post is full of inspiration from the wonderful card to your thanksgiving table, to your Christmas lights. I really must get myself and my other half (Hubby) in gear. I’d love to be entered in the draw for the wonderful sheet of bird stamps. Thankyou for sharing your time and talent with us.
Fab card, and great instructions!
Just wanted to let you know that I have awarded you the Brighen Your Day award, this was first stared by Sue. Details are on my blog.
Jane :0)
Your talent amazes me. Thanks for sharing with us.
And those bird stamps are gorgeous.
Michelle,
Your work is truly a gift from God. You use it beautifully I might add. It’s fun to see what you’ll come up with next for your tutorials. Your blog posts are filled with warm, wonderful information about you and who you are. You much be a great lady to know. May you continue to bless everyone you come in contact with in person or out here in blog land. May God continue to bless you.
Sue
Thanks for sharing another great card with us. We haven’t put our lights up yet this year, but hopefully we will soon.
Hi Michelle,
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had ours back in October up in Canada. I received your two cards when I came back from vacation on Monday. The colors on your cards are always so vivid and I thought it was because of the camera settings, but in real life they are amazingly rich in color! The card you have today is very beautiful! I will have to try the brayer technique once I finish writing my exam on Tuesday. =] Cheers!
Oh how I’ve missed you!! Nothing in the emailbox but adverts these days…gorgeous birds you are blog-candying with…I’d love to have them! Come ‘on, number generator!! Pick me, Pick me!!
Happy Christmas,
Theresa in San Jose
Your work is soooooo amazing!!!!!!!!!! You probably hear that ALL the time, how could you not?
You really do inspire us to become better at what we love to do already! Thank you for your tutorials, they are wonderful!
p.s. I’m jealous you have your lights up already!!!
Thanks for sharing your Thanksgiving with us. These are memories that’ll last a lifetime, even the nap (which I also did). Your card is wonderful, as usual. Your dogs are beautiful (we have 2 cats, 1 from the pound and both spayed). I’m excited to see what new cards you come up with but I hope you take time to have fun with family and friends at Christmas.
This card is really charming! I’m so fond of birds. I wish I could win these stamps, but I live in Sweden… We don’t have the same range of stamps in our shops. You are so lucky!
I am totally broke until the pension people get their heads out of their butt and you tell me about a stamp company I never knew of before? Not fair.
gonna go cry and yell and take some rolaids.
I just love your stampng tutorials. I check your blog daily (and have missed you this past week while you were busy with your life) and can’t wait to try the techniques. I would love some bird blog candy. Keep up the great work!
Pat
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the card and the pups! I have been in companion animal rescue for over 15 years and often foster these wonderful animals (we focus on adoptable animals that get put on the euthanasia list due to lack of shelter space). We have several furry children of our own and they are all shelter dogs (www.petfinder.com) . The spay/neuter mention makes me love this website even more. I like birds about as much as dogs so I hope I have a decent chance at winning those stamps!
Oh Michelle…you continue to inspire me with your creativity. You’ve given me the courage to try new things and I thank you for that.
Merry Christmas to you and your family…
I just love your work. I would love to win a set of stamps and try to make something as beautiful as your tutorials show. Thank you for the opportunity to try and win.
Carole
OMG, where to start! Well, I guess with the most important, lol…I got such a start looking at your german short hair! It’s like looking at a picture of my childhood dog Auggie! Yours may be a wee bit beefier, but otherwise they’re identical! He was the equivalent of a pound puppy, too…somebody boarded him at the vet where my bro worked and then never came back.
The bird sheet is awesome! I am a bird addict, I think…my eye is always drawn to them…your card certainly shows them off well! I love the way you capture light with your brayers…almost spooky, lol!
Looks like you had a wonderful holiday, Michelle…I was hoping you would!
Hugs,
Betsy
This card is gorgeous. I always learn so much from your tutorials-Thank you for taking the time to share your talent!!!! I have not seen these stamps before and I would love to have the blog candy.
Love the birds and swirls. The swirls are so feathery looking. Thanks for offering the stamps, and please enter me in the give-away.
I always enjoy your work.
Michelle - thanks for the peak into your life! I like your style!
I’m glad I had the chance to meet you in Dayton; you introduced me an entirely different way of thinking about stamping.
Have wonderful holidays,
Mary Ann M
Yes, please enter me in the blog candy contest. What a terrific prize! You are too generous. I’m a bit later than usual sending you a comment as I’ve been outside putting up the lights and dragging stuff down from the attic and into the house. You should see my living room! Well, maybe not, you’d never come back. This year I made myself a promise to go through all the Christmas stuff and sort out what I don’t want, what is broken, and what I want to keep. I’ve got such a variety of stuff and few things match but that’s the way I like it. There were only 4 of us this year at Mom’s for Thanksgiving but at least we were together and had a roof and plenty to eat. Michelle, your two 100 lb babies are adorable. I am a critter lover and these two are precious. Right now we have two indoor kitties, 3 outdoor kitties, two fox that come visiting every night, a herd of deer that range from 8 to 23, racoons that really are not welcome but they keep coming and a flock of 8 tom turkeys and 25 hens. Yes, we feed them all! When I get my digital back from being repaired, I’ll share some if you’d like. I’m sorry, I haven’t mentioned how much I love your card and to thank you for doing the tutorial. Some folks express their holiday feeling with the word “stressful”; the word that best describes how I feel during the holidays is energized. I don’t shop for Christmas, we make almost everything we give. This year the only thing I did purchase was a Kourik (might have the spelling wrong) one cup coffee maker for Mom. I broke her other one at Thanksgiving. DRATTTTT! I know this comment is turning into a book but I want to tell you that I so admire the prize I won a few months back and have it mounted on my studio wall. It inspired me to grab up some dollar frames at a yard sale and I made two of the most beautiful scenes for the holidays. I gave one to my Mom and one to my Sister so they could display them during the holidays. They just think I’m soooo talented! I learned it all from you! Well, I’ll close for now before this turns into an edition.
Hi, I don’t have any bird stamps so this would be a great win for me! Everyone have fun with your decorating!
Your emails are the very first thing I open — when checking out the email subject lines — Your creative spirit is like the lovely birds you so often stamp — You definitely give wings to your creations as you so kindly share them with all of us. Thank you so much for touching my creative soul. Carol
Another gorgeous card. Surprise, surprise! I am such a sucker for birds! I would be soooo very excited and honored to win your blog candy! Thank you for the opportunity.
BettyAnn
Gosh everything is sooo beautiful from your card and the stamps to your table setting, Christmas lights and especially those adorable, underfoot babies!!! I’m with you about adopting a rescued animal and spay/neuter!!!! I would love some of that eye candy,so please enter me in your giveaway!!! Happy Holidays!! Willow
Love the trees..can’t wait until your next blog !!!!
I am always amazed at the wondeful work you do! And well, yes I would love to receive blog candy from you!
Denise Wells
mamascollections@aol.com
This is great. I love birds and I love you technique. I have a binder full of your techs. and have to get another binder. I cn’t pass one up. I would luv these birds. Jackie
I know times are hard,but shareing a good meal with family and friends can make even hard times special.also being able to see a new piece of work from you doesn’t hurt.
I need those birds! Okay I don’t need them but I do want them… Thanks for your great tutorials. I know the effort it takes to document along the way and it is really appreciated.
I am very thankful for all of the talented and generous artists I have had the priviledge to meet online.
Raine
So glad to hear your Thanksgiving was nice. You are a brave woman to go shopping on Black Friday. I didn’t even stick a toe out the door. I spent the day taking down Fall decorations and putting away Thanksgiving things. I did put on a Christmas tablecloth and topper and I will be going through our holiday decorations to decide what to use and what to donate. How do we collect so many things? Of course, stamps do not fix in that category! Again, you have created a beautiful piece of art. I am so grateful that you share your talent with us and how far I am coming along by trying to follow your wonderful Tutorials. I am light ages away from mastering the brayer but I do wield a wicked sponge because of you! Thanks you for your inspiration and willingness to share your talent with us.
Oh my….your dog on the left looks just like my dog Buford who past away a few years ago. I still miss him but he was 103 lbs and always at my side for 13 years. We have a small dog now and we enjoy him but still miss our Buford. I feed the birds, water the birds, paint birds, and stamp birds soooooo I absolutely am drooling over the blog candy.
I may pass out if I win. Looks like a good one. I thought your table settings and decorated house was beautiful. You do so many things well. Happy Holidays !!! Becky
Another teaching moment by Michelle! Not only a wonderful card and where to obtain the stamps but a great reminder about shelter dogs. Cudos to you Michelle. I love the way you teach us about how to add depth to our cards. Thanks for all the time you give us. And I’d love to win the bird stamps. Birds have always been a favorite of ours and our neighbor is a birder and an artist with birds as a focus. Had to do a “happy birdie” card for him!
Oh I love this card. Beautiful as always! I love birds. We have 2 bird feeders in our yard and just love watching all different kinds come up to the feeder. So relaxing. What a beautiful stamp set. I sure would love to win it!
Connie
As always another beautiful creation! I absolutly love your work! I would love to be entered for the blog candy! Thank you so much for sharing your talent for all of us! Beth
Lovely card. Your cards are always so beautiful and full of life. I love the bird stamps and am really hoping to win it. Thanks for the chance.
Angel hugs
Debby
What a beautiful card and thank you for the opportunity at some great blog candy. You are very generous. Love your two precious dogs. We had to put our precious Abby, a golden retriever, to sleep last year. She was 15 1/2 yrs old. Still have the 5 wonderful cats we have adopted. Seems the boys continue to come home with strays that no one wants. I will always take them and give them all my love and yes each and every one is neutered or spayed.
Hi, Michelle:
This card is another amazing one. Thanks so much for sharing the site for this company! I LOVE the vintage stamps - just have to figure out the Euro difference now! I would love to win your blog candy and thanks so much for offering this opportunity. And thanks for the info on your beautiful dogs - shelter pets are the absolute best! We have a 10-year-old brother/sister cat duo and a 10-year-old beautiful golden retriever mix (she is SOOOO girly - but her sweet abandoned mom, they said, must have had five suitors because her nine pups were in a distinct range of looks from german shepherd to chow to shar pei to goldens! Ours was the only one to look like mom!). They are our joy, constant companions and our entertainment!
Please enter me! As always, I just love your work. You are so very inspiring. I tried one of your cards but it didn’t quite turn out as yours. Maybe next time! Hope I’m the winner! Thanks!
Connie Jenkins
stampinmom6569@yahoo.com
Michelle,
What a beautiful card. Please enter me to win your blog candy. If only I could do it justice like you. Thanks for sharing.
This is beautiful! I wish I could have just a tiny bit of your creativity. You never cease to amaze and dazzle me!
Hi Michelle,
Love your BLOG. Look forward to each and every post. You make it look so easy.
I have Chocolate Labs as well, Tank and Samson, can’t imagine life without them.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Smiles…Shelley
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I love this sheet of birds, but I know someone who would love them more! If I were to win these, I would love to give them to a wonderful friend. She absolutely loves birds!!! If not, then I may purchase them for her as a gift.
Again, you have done another wonderful project! Thanks for sharing your skills and techniques with us.
Happy Belated Thanksgiving! I would love the birds to set up nest in my stamping room — they are beautiful!! Thank you for the chance and a great tutorial.
Kim D in FL
Thank you soooo much for the opportunity to win. Just love your designs. Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. Your table looked so lovely. Here in South Africa we don’t celebrate it, but we can always find something to give thanks for. Thanks again for sharing with us
Love your current tutorial with the Katzelkraft birds.
Your Christmas lights look very nice. I can’t imagine your having time to do that this weekend–you are very ambitious.
Thanks for sharing your amazing talents.
Janet Hamilton
Lovely card and it would be something to win the bird stamps. Keep doing the tutorials for us.
Our last two cats have come from the animal shelter and add so much to our lives.
Another beautiful card. You do amazing work. Thanks for the chance to win some blog candy.
Pam:)
Your dogs are absolutely beautiful, and one can tell that they have been blessed with a wonderful home. Thanks for letting us share a glimpse of your Thanksgiving and Christmas! Also, thanks for the chance to win the sheet of bird stamps.
I look forward to seeing your tutorials……what an artist!!
Thanks for sharing your dogs with us, they look so hugable…….
Love this card, especially, since I am a bird lover!
You are so talented. Thanks for your great tutorials ! This card is so beautiful !
Love your tutorials!!! Please keep them coming.
Thanks for the chance to win the bird stamps.
What a beautiful set of stamps! And you put it to such good use!!
Thanks for such inspiring tutorials
Holly
Michelle, I just love your adorable ‘Beasts’ and I am so glad you adopted them! We adopted the joy of our lives, Ollie, who is a 6 year old part lab part German Shepard from the SPCA two years ago and we love her to death. I do fund raisers for the local animal shelter and I can vouch for the importance of adopting these homeless friends and keeping your pets spayed and nutured. Thank you for mentioning that on your very well-read blog. I love your card as well, don’t want to forget that!
Oh! I absolutely love those birds!!! Please enter me for a chance to win them…Thank You for your fabulous tutorials. They are so inspiring. And a Happy Belated Thanksgiving to you!
wow….fabulous birds….and this old bird thanks you for offering the chance to win such awesome blog candy
enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend
Another stunning card! I am in awe of your talent Michelle. Thank you for the photos of your beautiful dogs & well done for the reminder about neutering/spaying. My dream is to adopt retired greyhounds - hopefully it will happen one day. Your house looks lovely with all the twinkling lights. Thank you for offering such lovely blog candy. I have no bird stamps & would be thrilled to win these. Have a great weekend, I’m off to have a look at the Katzelkraft site. Kirsten.
Just love your beautiful bird card!! Would love to win this stamp set so I could TRY and copy your card.
Also enjoyed looking at your lovely table setting,lights and adorable dogs!
I have a golden lab called Leo….does not matter what the occassion is, he is always under my feet..especially in the kitchen!
TFS!
Oh Can I be in your blog candy! I stalk all of your work! It is always so amazing! And hard on my budget lol! I almost always have to run out and buy the supplies you use to keep up! I just got the snow angels stamp set in the mail today! Woo Hoo Can’t wait to play.
Another very beautiful card! Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Your table was beautiful, and I thought the turkey napkin holders were really cute. Your babies are fabulous, and I just wanted to kiss them. I have two cats that we rescued, and we love them like crazy. (yes, now spayed and neutered). Dogs are out of the question as we live in an apartment, and our circumstances won’t allow it.
Please enter me in for the blog candy. I so appreciate your generosity. Thank you again for all you give. Hope you and yours are well and happy.
Great card –they are always good! These are neat birds–please enter me in the contest. Thank you!
Michelle, these birdies are just too “tweet”!! Please enter me in the blog candy contest. Loved your beautiful bird card, too! Thanks!
Love the bird card! Another beauty. —-Your dogs are beautiful. I am glad to see that they are in their forever home and are happy. I also adopted all three of my dogs from the pound. I had 8 birds and am now down to three. I rescue them and find them new homes! *love* my feather friends!
Love the card! Love the stamps! I hardly ever win anything, but would be thrilled with this one! Thank you for sharing your talent and the goodies. Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas! Cindy
Please enter me into the drawing. I would love to have these stamps and be able to replicate one of your master pieces.
Michelle- you always come up with the most amazing works of art. Those bird stamps are to die for- pick me please!! Thank you for sharing your talent again and giving us all the chance to win some fabulous stamps.
Another beautiful card! I love all the birds. This would be nice to win!
Another beautiful card! You continue to inspire me. Would love to win the blog candy, and have to say you are amazingly generous! Love the Christmas lights and hope you have a very merry holiday!
Wow! Another beautiful card…I love the bird stamps and December 3 is my birthday…that would be a great gift!!!!
Your dogs are beautiful!! And of course your art work!! Another great card!
What a sweet sheet of rubba! I’d love to have them nest here!! I just love visiting your site Michelle, such Inspiration!!This card is fabulous! I Love your easy to follow tutorials especially using the brayer … I don’t always get the same results but I don’t mind.. love the technique!! Love your beasts, my DD has one too… her black lab will knock you over with love!
It’s a great day for putting lights up here … no snow, not too cold so that’s next on the list of things! Thanks for the chance to win some blog candy! Ü
Wow! I love that card and I love those stamps. Thank you for the chance of winning a set.
Michelle,
I look at your blog several times a week, your work is outstanding. Your Thanksgiving table looks great. But most impressive is your dogs, Abby and Lucas. They are gorgeous!
Have a blessed holiday season.
Thanks for sharing!
Teresa
You are amazing stamper!!!
I always love your tutorials! I like how you added the important piece about adopting a pet. We have an adopted pet, and she is terrific! We all love her to pieces! She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix and has the sweetest nature!
This card is just lovely! I so love that Baja Breeze color!
You sure did a lot this weekend already! Love how the house looks!
I would love to have a chance to win some blog candy, so count me in! Thanks!
Please keep the tutorials coming, I learn so much from them!!
Gillian
oh my gosh, these birds are awesome! I have to have them! If I don’t win them, I must buy them. Great card, too. Love the holiday lighting on your home as well. Can you come and do mine? LOL Kathy Eddy
Hi, Michelle–It’s MJ, from San Jose, just back from my spiritual odyssey to John of God in Abadiania, Brazil. It’s so good to come back to our beautiful and clean country after all the grinding poverty I saw there… We may be going through some hard times, but we are still the luckiest people in the grandest country on earth! Thank you for the inspiration and beauty you add to our worlds! MJ
Michelle,
You are incredibly talented. Your Thanksgiving table was elegant. Hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving.
Sylvia
Michelle~ Gorgeous card as usual! You are such an artist! I’d love to be entered in the blog candy giveaway…I keep hoping tha tone of these times I’ll get the lucky number! LOL!
Thanks for remembering the 4-legged friends in this post. We went to my mom’s for Thanksgiving…with our 3 dogs. She has 2, so we had 5 dogs underfoot for the occasion…we all had a great time! Please enter me for the blog candy. The stamps are awesome, but of course, you turned them into art. I love all your work.
Ok, so everyday I’m checking your site, and wondering where you are, and hoping all is well. I was very glad to hear that you were taking some well deserved time off to celebrate Thanksgiving and shopping! Your card is gorgeous again. Every time I look at one of you tutorials it makes me want to go out and buy it and try it! Maybe, just maybe, this time I can win a set and try it! Anyway, thanks so much for the chance.
Oooh, yes, enter me! Thanks for the chance and your constant inspiration.
Well, you’ve done it again! Another gorgeous nature scene…with bird stamps, no less. I just finished using my bird die to make a card. Would love these stamps. Seems that everyone is adopting pets. That is so wonderful. I am sharing an adopted cat with my mom. Well, not really adopted, we just kept working at it until we won this cat over. It was in the wild and now we are graced with its loving presence every day. My mom lives across the highway and the cat visits us both. Happy to share.
I love checking your blog daily. I learn so much and am constantly inspired! Thanks Michelle. Please enter me in the drawing.
Love your card and the pictures are great. Count me in on these fun stamps. Thanks for a chance.
Michelle - This is another beautiful card. Your work is truly amazing. Thank you so much for your tutorials. I don’t know how you do all you do, and still have time to stamp!!
Card, as usual, is fabulous, table, also beautiful,
but Abby and Lucas win my heart!!
Michelle, I absolutely love all of your tutorials! Thank you so very much for sharing. Please enter me in your candy contest. gail
i am truly thankful that you are so generous with the sharing of your artistic talents!
I’d love to be the lucky winner of your blog candy!
Michelle, I have been stamping for over 10 years now and I thought I was a pro until I saw your site. Your techniques are simple and easy to follow, but are so amazing! I have had such a great time trying out different cards in the Zindorf style. Thanks for all you do. Please enter me in the blog candy. Until next time, have a wonderful holiday season! Tanja
Love the card, birds are my fav!! You are so talented. Would love to win the blog candy.
Although I don’t have a dog now, my neighbor’s dog (from the pound) runs here for goodies every time she escapes from the house. Happy holidays…
Your card is, as always, just perfect! LOVE the bird stamps, thanks I really need one more store to buy from (-: Thanks for your continued inspiration!
WOW!! Your cards are wonderful. Thank you for directing me to the katzelkraft website… their stamps are BEAUTIFUL!! Now, I have somewhere else to help drive the worldwide economy back into the black. My husband thanks you. Please enter me in the blog candy. Happy Holidays!
I think your house looks absolutely beautiful. The bird card is awesome. You have cost me a pretty penny lady. I saw all the wonderful Stampin Up ink colors and had to go and buy just about every set they have. LOL
Keep up this fantastic tutorial . I love it
Birds of a feather flock together! This bird would love to win your bird blog candy!
Pick me, pick me!
Marianne
italianarteest@aol.com
What a nice card! I really like the colors together, I dont often team green and blue together, but I think I may try now. Great blog candy too!
I never tire of your talent. You are simply amazing. Thank you for the chance to win this awesome stamp set. It’s too cool! Thanks again for sharing your talents so freely. I have learned a lot from you.
Your work is always so inspiring! I really need more bird stamps..LOL!!
I would love to win the stamps!! love your blog, always fun new ideas, thanks for sharing !! Rose aka rosebudinnh
Hi Michelle
I love watching your blog you have a lovely style. please enter me in for the wonderfull blog candy you have on offer
Love
Tracey
Hi Michelle
Please enter me in your blog candy competition. I really enjoy your tutorials and am still trying to get my brayering and sponging too look something like yours. Oh well, looking on the bright side the more I practice the more I get to play with my stamps and inkpads etc.!
I have a total of 6 animals and all of them are from the local shelter. I would take more if I could — but it’s just hard with one person to care for them all !! Just like I love my pups — I too love what you do with a brayer. I read each post so carefully and think I’ve got to try this soon…..Thanks for the blog candy ! and Happy Thanksgiving and have a blessed Christmas season this year !!
I love your tutorials and would love to win!
Hi Michelle,
I’m glad you got to spend Thanksgiving with family (of the two-legged kind and the four-legged kind). I am thankful for your inspiration over the net and in-person. The bird set is fabulous.
Kathleen (kab)
Your card as always is a work of art!!!!
I hope you Christmas decorating is well underway - that is what I will be doing for the next 4 days so there will be no stamping time!
But maybe some nice birds will be flying into my mailbox if I am the lucky one!!!
what a gorgeous card - love that blue!!! we also had a good thanksgiving - and i found THE BEST turkey potato soup to make with leftovers!! oh yum!! we also have a black lad - our second black lab - and is there any better dog?? ours is the biggest baby!! please enter me in your blog candy contest..thank you for your generosity.
Michelle, your cards are fabulous. I wish I lived near you so I could take advantage of your classes. I do save quite a few of your tutorials, actually most of them. The sheet of birds is a beautiful selection of our feathered friends. I would be so lucky if I were to win but, if not, I will probably order the sheet. Thanks for your inspiration!
I have never managed to duplicate one of your beautiful cards, but I’ve had fun trying! I love these birds. One of my favorite things in winter is to watch birds flock around our bird feeder. Their jeweled colors shine against the snowy landscape.
Hi! This is an amazingly beautiful card! I love the colors! Thanks for the opportunity to win some great stamps!
I love your cards, they are so beautiful.
Please enter me in for the wonderfull blog candy you have on offer.
Michelle, you are so generous, first with the awesome tutorials, and with the blog candy you give away.
I am still hoping you will come to Florida for some workshops.
thanks for sharing
ceashark at aol dot com
carolyn s
Your blog candy is worthy of all the entries submitted and I’ll join them in thanking you for the chance to win the beautiful bird stamps. Also have to ’second’ all comments about how gorgeous your cards are…(and the “Hope I win” remarks, too)!
As always-this card is as breathtaking and ALL your others! Thanks for being such an inspiration and the opportunity to win that beautiful sheet of stamps!
Cindy
Birds? Did I hear someone say ‘birds?’
Love the card and love the stamps. Also love the lights on the house and fence. Our small town is offering “The Griswold Award” for best decorated house. I so want to win, but my husband says ‘no way,’ we couldn’t afford everything I would want to do. LOL.
Gorgeous card. The trees on the side look like they have sparkling Christmas lights on them. - Your house looks very festive too.
Please enter me in the drawing for these Katzelkraft bird stamps! More importantly, please, please draw my name!!! I love most of their stamps, but feel the postage would be prohibitive to order! Nelda Deakins
nelda mc765 @ charter .net
Such a neat card. You come up the the neatest ideas and I wish I had you talent to make such great cards. Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win the beautiful sheets.
MaryS
Hi Michelle,
Good to have you back in your stamping room. Love the design today and especially the colors. I’m always amazed what you do to create shadow effects.. I hope I win the blog candy so I can recreate it!
Another Black Friday shopper, hope you found as many good deals as I did…. Another beautiful card! Thanks for the chance to win this great stamp set!
WOW! You are one talented lady and you bring such inspirations to people like me. I just love your tutorials on the awesome techniques you teach. All I can say is sure would be fun to win something from you, but if I don’t that’s ok too. I just don’t come to your blog to win candy, I come for the talent that God has given you. Than you for sharing! God Bless!
I love hearing about Thanksgiving as it is such a diferrent concept to me living in Australia. However I can relate to the dogs underfoot in the kitchen, as my 2 big and one small do the same (and then throw in the husband).
Thanks for the great blog as I love seeing more things for masking and brayering as it makes me use it more. Just wish I could do one of your classes.
If there is one thing I love, it’s bird stamps. This is lovely. I love to check out what you are up to. Thanks.
O my gosh Michelle you have been so busy!!! I love your gorgeous babies, I have two labs of my own who have been adopted from our local Humane society!!! Your card is gorgeous as usual.. enter me in your drawing!! You are so very generous!!
Thanks a million!
Hallo,
Love the card and love that bird sheet - have alot of birds but am always hunting for more. Love your pooches - we have 3 cats and a dog and all but my oldest cat are foundlings (the oldest cat - 18 - I bought/rescued from a very bad pet store
Thanks
Tera
Wow! What a beautiful card and beautiful bird stamps! I love bird stamps, and these are exceptionally nice!
Michelle
Your post is the first one I look for every day. Your techniques and finished cards are beautiful
Barb
Love your cards. I’ve not only started learning to use my brayer (finally!) but I’ve learned a lot more about how to use the white opaque pen to highlight my stamping. And I love the birds!
I am addicted to bird stamps lately, and those are phenomenal! Thanks so much for sharing your artwork. I had major surgery on Monday and have not yet resumed stamping, but you are certainly inspiring me to get back in the swing of things soon!!
Happy Holidays!
As always you inspire me. I am sitting in my craft room trying to get motivated to finish the Christmas cards I am making - Checking out your blog always seems to give me the inspiration. Thanks.
You continue to WOW me!! I would love to take one of your classes (if you should ever make it to Albuquerque). Please enter me in your drawing.
These birds are Lovely! I would love a chance to play with them.
Thank you!!
I would love to win these stamps.
Enjoy the remainder of the Thanksgiving weekend.
Oh yes, your card is fabulous. I do admire your work so much. I would love to win this stamp sheet. I can already see all the beautiful creations I could make. Please enter me in the draw.
Michelle,
Happy holidays to you and your family! I love the two beasts that were under foot for the day. They are just adorable. As for your tutorial, yet again! WOW. I would love a chance to win your candy. Looking forward to your next post
Hi Michelle,
from a lovely sunny southern hemisphere day :-). We too have light displays here, but nothing like we see pictured in the States, and if we want to see them at their best, we have to wait until about 9:30 when it is properly dark.
Thanks for another inspiring tutorial, and the bird stamps would make a wonderful Christmas gift
Terrific card, TFS! I love your tutorials. The bird candy looks wonderful too, thanks for the chance at winning!
WOW! You never cease to amaze me. I love everything you do. Where do you find all the different stamps? Do companies just send you stamps wanting you to create something with them?
Yet another fantastic tutorial! Thanks for sharing your talent.
What a beautiful card! I am getting inspired.
There sure are some talented people! WOW stamps…checked out the site. I love how you use the gel pen to add highlights. Thanks for teaching us to do the same.
PS Please do enter me for your blog candy!
I love the magic you create with your brayer! Could I zap just a little of your creativity and put it into my fingers? Please add me to your blog candy party…
Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.
Michele, You are so inspiring! I so love birds and all the bird stamps turn me on but these are especially nice! I hope the random generator picks me! Kathleen
Love this card and the stamp set!
How I love birds! I’ve never seen this set before. Please enter me into your drawing.
Love these bird stamps and what you have done - Please please pick me! Di
Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy! I think it’s really neat how you find lesser known stamp companies with interesting designs. It has inspired me to step “outside the box” for my rubber suppliers and, I must say, I am pleased with the results!
Another beautiful card! I Love the birds!
Your house looks nice lit up….is that Santa I see peekin out the window??
Your dogs, are sooo sweet. I Love my animals as if they were my kids…
Your Thanksgiving table settings were simple but nice…it’s not how fancy you are, its having all the warmth of family and friends around!
Thanksgiving was yummy, now I feel like the turky….S-t-u-f-f-e-d…lol
The last blog candy you gave away on my birthday - I thought what a nice birthday present that would be! Well, the generator didn’t pick my name. Now you are giving away another set of stamps on my husband’s birthday. If you draw my name, I promise I will let him borrow them from time to time. LOL This is a beautiful card! I visit your blog every day to see if you have posted another gorgeous card so you have become part of my daily routine now. Hope your Thanksgiving was fun - we don’t have dogs at our house but all of our kitties have come from the pound or were strays that wandered into our yard, starving half to death. Thanks for your generosity, Michelle.
Michelle
Love your blog…it is one I check on a daily basis. I, too, am an animal lover…my current ” fur baby” is a 4 year old, very active black Lab, also a rescue, as all my dogs are. Love the bird stamps…please enter me in the draw.
Thanks
Karen L
I have 2 large dogs myself - and they are always in the kitchen with me, waiting on something, anything, to fall on the floor! LOL
Thanks for the chance to win 
Please Please Please pick me.
I don’t have any bird stamps and keep seeing them around.
If I don’t win I’ll have to go spend some dough on one.
Cheers
Donna
Hi Michelle~
How many times can I say thanks?
–Thanks for sharing the photos of your lovely table setting!
–Thanks for the photos of your two gorgeous dogs! They are both so bright and alert looking.
–Thanks for the adopt-from-a-shelter, spay, and neuter plug! We cannot do enough to help our wonderful animal friends and these things are at the very top of the list!
–Thanks for showing us how the holiday lights on your house are shaping up. Very Festive!
–Thanks for another awesome tutorial. It’s great to know how to make “water” in 2-D!
–Thanks for another opportunity to win some blog candy! I love birds and this variety of bird images *will* become part of my stash…one way or another!
Have peaceful, joyful holidays! I hope the joy you give all of us through this blog and your tutorials comes back to you!
hugs,
~jeanie.
another great card. Love the bird stamps. Sounds like you had a great holiday…Thanks again for the inspiration. I love reading your emails and seeing what you do next, it is always amazing….
Julie
Ohhh, these stamps are to die for! They are so beautiful and your artwork only enhances them more! These stamp companies should be honored to have you showcasing their creations.
Another fantastic tutorial and awesome blog candy to boot! Oh, and your house looks so pretty….I LOVE Christmas lights ♥
Hi Michelle,
My little rescue dog arrived on Thanksgiving along with my daughter, the vet. He’s a cute little Boston terrier who got into rat poison. He’s recovering and getting lots of love. I truly enjoy your work and I’m learning lots.
ann
well NOW I know why I haven’t won in past give-aways because THIS is the one waiting for me! My passion is nature’s bounty (aside from writing and cardmaking), so to win this particular blog candy would make for the best Christmas present ever! Love your Christmas lights Michelle; thanks for sharing. I start my Christmas tree and house decorating tomorrow, Dec. 1 for us in Australia.
These bird stamps are really pretty….thanks for making them available for blog candy!
MollyK.
I have missed your posts so much!! I was so excited to see your post today, and you have blog candy too. Wow. I have never heard of http://www.katzelkraft.fr. I’ll have to go check them out. I absolutely LOVE birds. I have a Senegal Parrot named Merlin. He’s my little buddy.
It’s good to have you back.
Hugs,
Alena :o)
Happy Thanksgiving Michelle….We adopted from the local kennel this past summer. Not only saving her from the kennel, she had parvo - life threatening- our vet was able to save her from that!! She’s 7 months old, very solid and very,very happy!
I love the blog candy, you are just soooooooo generous!
1) OMG your house is so beautiful!!
2) That is a stunning stamp set.
3) Thanks for saying that about the furry ones - it IS so important. I wish everyone cared about that!
4) Happy Thanksgiving! (late)
5) Jealous of your Christmas decorations. I’m behind.
6) GORGEOUS card!!
What a beautiful stamp set and, as usual, your card is just outstanding! Your lights look great, your dogs are too sweet looking! We have a small dog- a cockapoo named Peanut- he is very sweet and loves to sit under the table and delights on scraps that make it to the floor (some intentionally……..). Have a great weekend!
Beautiful card! I love learning about new stamps from companies I have never heard of before (especially nature themed ones). Thanks for sharing your talent.
kim
This is so pretty!
Love the card, love the lights, love the dogs. I’d love to win those stamps, too! Thanks for sharing so much.
Linda Watts
You have created another beautiful card! I finally figured out how to subscribe-I have been saving your site under favorites and would go to it everyday to see what you created! Wow-again! I am jealous! I sure can’t make my brayer do what yours does!!
I would love to enter the blog candy contest. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Oh, we have a lovable “pound puppy” too- he is the only bird that has not flown the nest!!
Thank you for all the opportunities you give so many of us to win such wonderful cards and stamps. Love the birds, great images on the stamps. Certainly hope those birds “fly” north to R.I. Ha Ha!
Marcelle
Thanks for another great card. Please enter me in for generous give away. I love those bird stamps. Your dogs look so sweet!
Rene’ Mewes
RM3116@charter.net
If everyone shared their special gifts like you do with us, the world would be a better place! Thank you and happy holidays!
Oooh, pretty birds - TFS and thanx for the t’riffic blog candy opp!
Hello from Columbus, Ohio. We are here visiting family. We saw more snow on the way here than we have in Ontario. This card is so beautiful! I love how the water looks like it has reflections. I’d love to have the bird stamps. Love the lights on your house. It looks like a Christmas post card. Thanks for all you do.
Trish
Beautiful, as always. We get our babies, er, dogs form the pound, too. I think they know they’ve been saved. And, of course, the spaying and neutering are ESSENTIAL. I hope EVERYONE had a blessed warm and cozy Thanksgiving, and among the thanks given, one more was given for living in this incredible country. i know times are tough right now, but nowhere near as tough as many other places on this globe.
Peace, y’all!
Wow that’s a lot of comments. I know there’s not much chance of winning, but I did want to let you know I appreciate your tutorials and learned so much. Beautiful card.
Hi Michelle,
Your card is gorgeous as always! You do such a fantastic job and I appreciatae your tutorials. Thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy; bird stamps are one of my favorites.
Oh, Michelle, you are so bad for my wallet!! These are gorgeous stamps, and of course I want at least half of what is available on their site!
Thanks for the inspiration, and for sharing the images of your sweet poochies and home. I have an Aussie who was rescued from a puppy mill, and she is the sweetest dog in the neighborhood. All the kids just adore her.
Happy Holidays!
WOW!! Nearly 300 people have stopped to tell you how awesome your work is!!
I hope you know how very inspiring you are!
Thanks for taking the time to share your talents with all of us.
I think the birds are just beautiful.
Michelle - beautiful - I love it - please enter me in your BLOG candy giveaway.
Thank you,
Sandra
I can’t decide which I like more, your tutorial or the beautiful dogs…..both, I think.
Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorials each one is an inspiration. Thanks also for the chance to win such a lovely sheet of bird stamps. Please enter me in the draw. Thanks again.
Another great card!
It’s always good to click on your blog and find a new card! Thanks so much for the colorful inspiration and for the generous blog candy opportunities.
Once again another beautiful card. Watching you from far off Australia, wishing I could be closer to go to one of your workshops.
i’m still trying to learn to brayer…guess i’ll always be a sponger. 8-}
the white gel pen is like the icing on the cake..it really makes it POP!!
please enter me in the blog candy drawing.
I love the birds!!!! They add a classy touch to cards and you can use them for so many themes. Thank you, thank you for inspiring us all to be more creative in our artistic endeavors!! Please put my name in the hat to win!
What a beautiful card! Thanks for sharing the tutorial. I always get so inspired by your creations.
Belated Happy Thanksgiving!
Shawn K.
Thanks for sharing with us all your pics! Your blog candy is a great one! The birds are precious… you could use them year round on many projects. Please put me on the list for blog candy! Again, thanks for taking time to share!
Thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving happenings. Our dinner was pretty simple also, and for once no one was stressed out, ’cause everyone pitched in w/the food. We have a new addition to our family after our Scootie passed away 1 1/2 yrs ago. We have Roxie now who’s almost 9 weeks old - Min Pin and Chihuahua - love her to death already. Anyway - love the card - I want to win the stamps so I can try the card you made. I love your ideas and your cards. Always anxious to see what the next card will be like. I look daily to see if there is one. Pick my number to win!!!!
Thank you for another great tutorial. My weekness in stamps - birds and butterflies, so if I’m allowed to enter for this wonderful “candy ” please add me in-( I am in New Zealand.) I would so love to get my hands on these.
How do you manage to get your Christmas light up so early? I doesn’t feel like Christmas yet. I look forward to another pic. of the finished decorations.
I love all your cards but this is one of my particular favorites of the past few weeks, the colors are very soothing and wintery. Thanks for the tutorial and the introduction to this cool stamp company!
Bird stamps are my fav! I’ll have to check out this site.
Thanks for another super tutorial.
that set is amazing! always love your work. thanks for sharing some of your Thanksgiving with us.
love it..love it
so beautiful!
what a prize
I hope
i am the lucky
one
JoAnne
I would love to win the bird stamps…..hope this is my “lucky” day.
Oh, Michelle! What an absolutely FABULOUS stamp set. I just love those birds! - & the card is awesome! I realy, really wish that you could visit Australia for some of your workshops!!
Hi,
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH, How I would love to have this stamp and create the card that you made. Thank you, for all the wonderful creation you create.
Cindy
Although I get discouraged b/c I never win, it is still excited to wonder if maybe this time I will win something.
Thank you for adding fun to our days and giving us something to look forward to.
Alex
Hi once again, Michelle!
I would die if I won your blog candy - you are so generous! I have to tell you that I have now been trying your methods and although they don’t look like yours I am getting there!!!! It is sooo exciting.
I am so late in reading my email - looks like I might be the last one!! No wonder you are so tired after all you have done in the past couple of days. Your home looks lovely and it sounds like your Thanksgiving was wonderful. We have two dogs as well! Seems we have a lot in common.
Thank you for this opportunity Michelle.
Wow Michelle….What a beautiful card…would love to win those birds stamps. Thanks for sharing all your lovely cards with us.
Nice birds! And once again, goreous cards - thanks for sharing.
I love seeing all the new creations you come up with, and I finally figured out how to leave a message on your blog!! Yippee! Yes, Please throw my name in for blog candy. My friend Sandy, and I had such fun with using your brayering technique on some Halloween cards this year! Just LOVE your artwork, it’s so inspiring. Oh, your canine babes are so cute. I have three myself, all rescues too!
How exquistite these stamp images are, Michelle! Please enter my name in your drawing! Thank you for introducing us to this company!
Best wishes……~Sandie Luck
Hi Michelle
As usual, I love your tutorial. Thanks for a chance to win!
Love the card and thanks for another chance at blog candy! We got our lab from the shelter, too, after losing our beloved Jetta who we had 12 years. In fact, he looks so much like yours! Yes, if only people would spay & neuter their pets! It’s so important!
Sandy
Michelle, I love these birds! They are gorgeous and I definately want entered in the drawing. No matter what I make, I find myself getting out my bird stamps (I only have a few) and I’d love to win these! Your puppies are so adorable. We have 2 chihauhaus and 1 german shephard. The little ones think they are big and the sheppard doesn’t know she is big! Ha, Ha! Happy Holidays from Missouri!
Your Thanksgiving table looked festive and beautiful and I love your bird card. Thanks for a chance at winning your blog candy. Enjoy this wonderful time between Thanksgiving and Christmas!!!
Gloria
Another original BEAUTY by Michelle! I’m amazed you didn’t emboss something!! LOL Thanks for the tutorial & a chance to win an amazing sheet of stamps!
Oooo! Please enter me in your blog candy contest. This sheet of bird stamps is amazing and your card is beautiful.
Jeannette
Michelle what a nice card and love the colors. I have had some great times making cards with your magic. My juices have been flowing. Thanks for the help.
Michelle:
I love your new tutorials…i get sooo happy when they come out!
Your dog family is adorable and hope you had a great turkey day, and got some more time in your stamp room.
The bird stamps are lovely, I’ve never seen any quite like that.
Thanks for all your beautiful cards, they are inspiring.
I’ve only recently found your blog, and what an amazing site! So much to read, I get lost for hours here. Thank you for posting your tutorials!
Oh, and I would be thrilled to win those bird stamps. They are beautiful.
You make it seem so easy. Where do you get all of your ideas.
Michelle, I love your work and your tutorials! The bird stamps are wonderful and would be much fun to use. Your dogs are adorable. I have three furbabies (a fox terrier, a rescued beagle and a rescued cat) and I love them so much. I think it is wonderful that you are advocating pet rescue and spaying/neutering on your blog. You are awesome!
Love the new tutorial! And the bird stamps are wonderful. Pick me! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Uh oh….I went, I looked….bad idea. Now, I’ve gotta clean the slobber off of my keyboard!!!! Thanks alot Michelle!!! Just what I need, more rubber stamps to entice me. I am sooooo weak when it comes to fine rubber stamp images. Please enter me in this blog candy giveaway!!! Hisses, Rockin Robin Caldwell
Michelle, your work always amazes me! I love how you pull stamps from different sets (like the bird and tree on this card) together. And to offer up blog candy is the chocolate frosting on the cake! ;D
Hi Michelle, I love your blog and your tutorials. Your work inspires me and the tutorials make it easy. I love the bird stamps, they would be so much fun to use on my cards. Thank you for all you do….
Your cards are artwork-they are so pretty!!
As always I love your work, it is truely amazing, thank you for you love to share to other what you know. Michelle I would love to win this birds set out of all the animals there are birds are my favorite to stamp and to color and I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family
As usual, a wonderful card. Your creativity leads to inspiration–thank you for that. Please enter me for the chance to win those wonderful stamps!
Isn’t Bea just the best?!?
I loved her stamps so much that I bought the 1/2 sheet of birds! I wish I could’ve gotten the whole sheet, but circumstances being what they are…. I’m just grateful to have any!
Thanks for the inspiration, this bird really stumped me. At least you’ve given me a direction to try!
Beautiful card as always! I love the bird images. Thank you for the opportunity.
Blog Candy here I come! Sure hope I win this one - I love bird stamps and these are incredible.
Someone asked about the pine tree stamp. It is from Stampin’ Up! “Lovely as a Tree” set. This set has been offered since the beginning and has never been retired. You can also find it on eBay. I picked up a set on eBay after seeing the millions of amazing ways Michelle has used it in her beautiful cards!
Michelle, your artwork is so amazing and I am putting all your techniques to work in my stamping. You always inspire, and thank you so much for taking the time to share with all of us! Thanks again, Lynne
Blog Candy…. just another stamp set made beautiful by the master. Please enter me for a chance at this one. I love birds. Your work is truly amazing. I am in awe each time I visit your site. Thanks again for sharing your talents with all of us, Vicky
Thank you for all the work you do in sharing your ideas. I love every card you make and your blog is my favourite. (Not just buttering you up, I really do mean it just like all the other fans). I would love to win these stamps. I doubt they will get to the Australian shops, so it will mean more internet spending, and then I have to make the order up to an amount that’s worthwhile
Of course, every purchase turns into something bigger than intended. Love using bird stamps, and these look especially good.
Oh Michelle! This is gorgeous! I just spent two days working on a brayered sky and did pretty decent. need to check your FAQs though. gotta figure out how to get rid of the ‘lines’ left form the brayer itself….
BUT, regarding this card. I LOVE it. oh, I’d love, love, love, LOVE for a christmas gift!!!
Fingers crossed for the candy, but either way I LOVE your tutorials and look forward to them everytime I open my email.
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!!! (your house looks gorgeous…)
L
The card and tutorial are great. Would like to be entered to win the super bird stamps.
This is a gorgeous set of stamps - thanks for offering it. I’m really pleased that you have solved a mystery - there’s one particular bird on there that I’ve seen used a lot and didn’t know who manufactured it (the one with the really long tail feathers). Your card is fabulous.
WOW- i realy love birds, just bougth the inkadinkado- birds last week, but these are special, så i realy want to win.
PLEASE PICK ME.
and your card ist soooooo beautifull. thanks for all your tutorials.
johanna
PLEASSSSSEEEEE pick me, I must have this stamp set!
Tracy in San Jose, CA
What a great blog! Keep on the very good work.
Looking daily at your tutorials and love them!
It’s a pity, that katzelkraft isn’t available in Germany.
Michelle, Thanks for the wonderful tutorials. I am inspired!
Your dogs are awesome , your tutorial is great and the stamps are wonderful!!
Please enter me ..
Patti xx
Hello Michelle,
For a while now I visit your blog……so it’s only fair (or how do you say it in Englisch..) that I also leave a comment!!
I truly love your work!!!
I love to make cards with stamps and learned a lot from your tutorials!!
And now…..everyday I take a peek to see if there is already a new item with new things to learn!!
Thanks for sharing with us!!!!!
Linda den Besten
Happy Holidays Michelle…so much LOVE your tutorials and as a newbie stamper who is trying!! to master the brayered look, have learned so much from your blog than I did at a class I took.
Appreciate the excellent pictures of each and every step, along with your written instructions which give this newbie tons of inspiration!! that “I” too can do this…
I hope??!!! hahahaha
Keep those tutorials coming!! hUGs to your BaBiEs!!!
your card is wonderful as usual and your babies are so cute! thats alot of dog to have under your feet!LOL!
You certainly have been busy, super tutorial. I also have a 100 pounder a rotty, and a 60 pounder a springer. I’d love to win the stamps.
I love your tutorials Michelle, and also this one is as special as all the other wonderfull cards. I also think the bird stamps are super, so I would love to win them, if it’s not a problem that I live in europa. Your dogs are also lovely, and it’s wonderfull to have animals in the house. Ik wish you all the best and thanks again for your wonderfull work that you show and the amazing tutorials
Beautiful card. I adore birds and these stamps would be perfect. Thank you for offering them up.
Cheryl Sims
Love the birds your cards are always so amazing. Thanks for taking the time to show us your beautiful work.
Sandra
Oh Michelle,,,,,,,,,,another wonderful card…………..after taking your beginning brayer class I can see and appreciate each step so much easier then before.
The birds in this set are amazing…………..each and everyone of them could be used in the “Zindorf” process……… See you in Febrary for the advanced class !!!
Pick me,,,pick me !!! HA HA
Tina DeLong
Hi, your cards are great! The tutors you do are such a great help. I keep coming back to your blog to see what you have done. I would love to win the birds. Thanks for your help Gloria
Dear Michelle….this card is so beautiful..I love always to read and see your tutorial…if I winn the Candy I would send you a card made by Me….Have a nice sunday for you….Thanks for teaching with your tutorial Michelle….love, Monika
Stunning card Michelle I love the deepth and shading in the scene. It is so exciting to see what you come up with for each time you make a new card. I love trees and birds and these stamps look so beautiful made. Many thanks for the chance to win them
Thanks for sharing the pictures of Abby and Lucas and another fabulous card and tutorial. Love it and the Katzelcraft bird stamps! I have my fingers crossed that the random number generator stops here.
Marliese
wow those birds are wonderful, I certainly would not mind getting my hands on this rubber
thanks for all your tutorials!!
Hi Michelle. Please enter me in your blog candy contest. I would love to win these beautiful bird stamps. Everyday I check your blog to what your have come up with next. You are truely inspirational. I wish I could do what you do with ease. I enjoy seeing a glimpse into your life as well and the joy you have in it. I have 2 golden retrievers myself and would never be without an animal in my life. They give so much love my world wouldn’t be the same without them. Happy holiday!
Thanks for sharing all these great ideas of yours - I always check your blog during the day, hoping to find a new inspiration.
And these birds are just so beautiful… Thanks for the chance!
Always so fun to see how your cards are created, so love how you did the trees and the water under the bird….very cool stamp set, every kind of bird you can think of!
Your blog is one of the most inspiring places I go to on line! It makes me so happy when you post a tutorial! Your nature scenes are so inspiriing!!
Wow! Awesome and amazing! I love those stamps.
Noah (8 years old)
Hi:
Love your card and the stamp set is awesome — couldn’t agree more on pets — it breaks my heart to see them unwanted!!!
Bev T.
Love, lovel, love this style of yours, keep them coming
Debbie
I just love checking your blog to see what new creation you have made. As usual, this is just beautiful!
Oh how I would love to play with those birds. What a fantastic card you made. Your work is always so wonderful.
Happy Holidays
Heather
OMG! You are an inspiration! I just found your blog a few weeks ago and have to say I’m in awe and envy of the fantastic cards…or works of art…you are able to crate each time!! Please do enter me into your draw as I can only hope that one day I could create such beauty as you with the use of a brayer!! : ) Thank you so much for sharing! I’ll be watching!! : )
Cheers,
Tash.
Beautiful art work as usual !!!
Please enter me in the draw
thanks so much
Lillian
Another beauty. I like the use of color and the use of the images. It’s always a treat to read your blog. I really like the blog candy. I sure hope I win this one. I put bird feeders out this year and have been greatly blessed watching them. I would have so much fun with this set.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the wonderful blog candy. I love birds, I feed them all year around outside my sliding door. This is a great set. Also, thanks for the pictures of your beautiful dogs. I have two rescued dogs myself and they are my babies. Another beautiful card, Michelle.
Another amazing card by an amazing artist. Your Thanksgiving table was lovely, too!
My dog only weighs 25 lbs… can’t imagine 2 at 100..
Please enter me into your Katzelkraft bird blog candy draw. No wonder you passed out after all that activity. *LOL* I got tired just reading everything you did!!! And as always, thanks for sharing of yourself.
FABULOUS card as always, and wonderful blog candy! Please enter me. You are a lot further on with the decorating than we are! It looks lovely.
I second your comment on the speying and neutering of pets- my daughter works for a vet that does SPCA work, and some of the abdandoned and feral animals are in a desparate state, especially at this time of year. Always choose a pet from a shelter, never a pet store!
Thanks for the chance at a rant, Michelle, and for the tutorial!
dear sweet Michelle you absolutely amaze me with every new post. you are truely an artist. and i have to say that i totally love those beauteous birdies! i even have one as a tatoo.lol. i have so been looking for bird stamps like those. thanks again and happy stampin.
I am a newbee to your website. It is just awesome!
I have been a big fan stamper of Stampscapes for years.
You have sent me in a new direction. I am looking forward and excited to start trying your projects.
I too would like a chance to win the bird stamp set.
Kathy
Wow Michelle–this card is awesome….Will add this stamp sheet to my ever growing wish list. Every once in awhile I get to be fortunate to buy a tamp set you have used. I have used my Lovely As a Tree set so much and am delighted to see you using it so much….it is definitely a must have for a zindorfian follower! My grandmother and mother were always enamoured by birds and I think I am following that trend as well. The older I get I enjoy watching the birds and also using them in stamp art! I love this sheet of stamps. Thanks for sharing your great ideas and artwork!
So glad you had a great holiday weekend…..love the dogs. My Max and Lucy say hi!
As always, beautiful card! I love your use of the white gel pen for highlighting. I need to get one and try it. Love the puppy photos! It’s awesome that you rescued them both!
Hello Michelle, Hope you had a Blessed Thanksgiving…your dogs are so cute. My Samson’s a bull terrier is a rescue dog as well… a gift from my son. Girl!!! you are such an enabler!!!!, well this company will definitely have to be on my wish list for the coming year. Would love a chance to win this sheet of stamps. Lovin the coolnes of this scene, birds and trees are one of my favorites. Enjoy the time off Michelle, it is well deserved. Blessings….
Beautiful scene, I love how you draw your inspiration from nature. These are such gorgeous stamps please enter me for your draw. I love dropping in each day to see your creations. I am quite selfish feeling very disapointed when you haven’t posted, of course you deserve your days of realaxation and personal down time.
Christine
Happy Holidays! I love looking at you work, and your tutorials. Your work is wonderful and so inspiring. Thank you for letting us know where to get the supplies!The bird sheet is great, so I know that I will visit that site (http://www.katzelkraft.fr/) just to see what I need! LOL! Thanks for being so faithful to share!
Thanks for the chance to win this incredible set. Your card is awesome. Hope you enjoyed your busy and productive weekend! May you have a lovely advent!
Bonjour Mme Zindorf,
Il me faut ces étampes! S’il vous plaît choisissez moi! Puisque l’hiver est ici, je peux au moins avoir des oiseaux sur papier…
What beautiful images. Your tutorials are so great and I have learned so much from them. Thank you for the chance to enter the blog candy.
I Love your cards. Would love to win the birds. Because of you i ran out and bought a brayer for myself and my 9 year old daughter now wants one too.
You do such a great job on everything you do please keep up the good work you
inspire us all.
Many thanks.
Michelle,
Love the card! I hope I get to win this blog candy. You can never have to many birds to make cards with. lol House looks nice all decorated.
I love your blog. I am an old stamper (62) been stampin for years I have a 10 year old NEW brayer and plan to use early in 2009! I adopted a 5 year old boy, 13 years ago! He is now an 18 year old senior. I plan to create his announcements and all the other stuff. About 2 years ago my arms felt the need for another baby, so I adopted a 8 month old shorkie (shihtzu and yorkie) He is a big boy, weighing in at 5.5 pounds. He is the love of our lives. I am sure he keeps me off the psy. couch. Use that money for stamps! This is my first time to reply and of course I want to enter to win those bird stamps, they are amazing. I also want to THANK YOU for your amazing site. I really admire all the things you do.
I really enjoy your artwork and wonderful step by step directions. I saw the Rock Star guitar and had just purchased the stamp set myself so, following your directions I just had to make a card, and since it said YOU ROCK, I gave it to my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary. I usually don’t comment on these blogs but I would love to win those bird stamps. Keep doing what you do.
Beautiful card.The bird stamps are great. Would love to win the set.
Joan
I especially love your pictures that have water in them. Please include me in your drawing for the birds.
What wonderful tutorials! Please enter me in your giveaway.
Sure would like to learn how to use the brayer technique. Not unless you come to Everett, WA can I learn. Have any future openings? Or is there a lesson on your web site?
It’s beautiful Michelle! I would love to have a Zindorf orginal!!
You are always an inspiration to me. Your cards make me want to drop whatever I am doing and tryp to duplicate them. I would love to win the bird stamps. They would be a refreshing change from the numerous flower stamps I currently have.
Keep sharing your beautiful creations with us and have a Merry Christmas.
Patti P.
Love your cards - so classy without the frills. It has actually made me go back to using a brayer and stamp positioner. Thanks for stirring the stamping pot to get us using things we already own.
Oh Michelle,what a gorgeous card and tutorial.I love it and the candy is really great.i hope i can win it.
I put a link on my blog.
Many thanks for the chance to win these great stamps.
Many greetings
Angela
Michelle - thank you for sharing your beautiful cards and techniques with all of us. Today is my 78th birthday and opening your tutorial was a lovely gift. I have been teaching stamping at a senior center and also working with a church group. Love doing it but your cards and methods will take it to a whole new level. This is the first time I have attempted blogging so again you have opened a new door. Many happy thoughts to you.
Marilyn
You are truely amazing, I love the tutorial for today the card is wonderful !!!! Please enter me in the blog candy. Thank You for all your inspiration. Lisa
I really like this one, Michelle!!! Just got my speedball today so I can’t wait to sit down and have a go…Blog candy?…YES, PLEASE!! Love those birds!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too! My precious Bianca is a rescued Pomeranian that has made my life so happy!
Thanks for the enabling of another really great stamp company.
I love finding unique stamps, and these are beautiful!!!
Pick me… Pick me!!!
very beautiful card…I don’t own any bird stamps so these stamps would be perfect to use and learn how to make this card…please enter me for a chance to win..thanks
Your cards are simply breathtaking! Sometimes I am able to copy your technique and end up with an OK effort, but I am totally amazed at your endless creativity in coming up with each of your little vignettes. Thanks so much for sharing your talents. The bird stamps are gorgeous! I’m an avid bird watcher and would love these!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful techniques with us! And thanks for the chance at some wonderful blog candy!
Your dogs are adorable. And those bird stamps are great. I would so love to win those.
Thank you for taking the time and sharing your great tutorials
Us girls had our annual scrap book weekend party after thanksgiving and we had a chance to try out your techniques. Not as good as yours but we all are learning.
Thanks for the opportunity for the blog candy.
I love seeing each of your creations. Wished I lived close enough to take your brayer classes.
Maybe if you do an Ohio/Marco’s class in the spring or summer, I can attend.
Thanks again for all these wonderful tutorials. They sure help to inspire. And I would love to be entered into the blog candy draw.
I just recently found your blog. Your work is so beautiful. Thanks so much for all of the inspiration. You make it look so easy that I had to buy a brayer. Now I just need to try some of your tutuorials. Thanks again and Happy Holidays. -Molly B.
Beautiful cards. Thanks for the tutorial too. You do awesome work!
Love the card. I always do. More importantly I love Abby and Lucas. I have one dog and 4 cats. Dog is a pure breed and all cats were resuced. They make our house a home. I agree spay or neuter. Are your two babies rugs in your craft area too? Thank you for sharing them.
HI Michelle,
Love your work. We’re real bird watchers so would love these stamps. Thank you for all your inspiration.
Michelle, I so enjoy your tutorials, but especially love that you share you love of the craft with others. I really like these birds…so sign me up please. Happy Holidays. Julie S.
Your tutorials are awe-inspiring. I hope someday to be able to make cards as beautiful as yours. Hopefully I’ll win the blog cand and then I’ll try some of your techniques! Thanks.
I love your cards — every single one of them!! This one is another beauty. Also love the dogs — they look so sweet.
As always Michelle, an incredibly beautiful artistic creation! I so wish I had your eye for color. Thank you for the continuing tutorials!!
oh wow gorgeous. I love these stamps. I have a friend that loves birds and I am always looking for new ones to send her cards done with.
It sounds like you had a wonderful holiday. Sometimes small gatherings are the best. Love the pictures of your poochies. Please put me in the running for the blog candy, I would have lots of fun with those birds. Kathy
i just luv yor site i get an update evre time u post a nuw post and yor cards i onle wish i cud use a brayer lice u wud u evr cum to mn bi the twin cities i will b the first wun in line hope yor holiday waz az much fun az it loct in the fotos i dont have ne birds stamps so thanxs for the chanse to win sum
Beautiful card. I am always excited to see you use stamps that I own…the lovely as a tree set. These bird stamps are gorgeous. If I win I hope I can do them justice. Happy Holidays.
Pauline
beautiful works of art, as usual. Oh, and hoping the randomness picks me…I’m making a HUGE bird album for a Christmas gift. These stamps sure would come in handy! Thanks for the inspiration.
This is stunning. Love your work. Great inspiration!!
OOOh I love birds! Sign me up!
As always your cards are spectacular and inspiring.
I find your cards fantastic.
Birds and butterflies are my favorites, this card is super if you ask it me
Your blog is full with inspiration for others, thanks for this.
And then, you can win such a super Candy, thanks for everything.
Another beautiful and inspiring card. Wish you would come to Vancouver to teach a class. What a gorgeous stamp set, I would love to win this - but if I don’t win, I’d like to buy it!
Beautiful card, I own…the lovely as a tree set so please enter me in the blog candy draw. These bird stamps are gorgeous and I would love to win them. I know I would have lots of fun playing with them.
Happy Holidays.
Carol
i love the birds, and i’ve been looking here to by the trees, ore somethink like yours…
thanks for giving me a chance to win.
johanna
The birds & the bees & the flowers and the trees!!!!! It’s music to my ears. I always love your blog & you inspire me to greater things. Thanks for the opportunity to win. All the best - Luv Sharon
Wow!, I would love to have your ability to sit down and create these beautiful pieces of art from my stash. You are such an inspiration! Thanks
I love the birds! Thanks for your tutorials!
Robin
Another beautiful card! I just love the bird images on this sheet.
Julie Frokjer
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Oh my, I LOVE birds! I would love to win this set. Please enter me in your blog candy. Love your cards and tutorials.
I had to catch up with your tutorials, because I was too busy with holiday prep! What a surprise to see 3 new ones. I would love to be the winner of your blog candy this time! It would make a lovely surprise for my mom, she loves birds!
Thank you so much for taking time out of your holiday weekend and post this tutorial! Your artwork is amazing and it gives me a smile every day that I see an email from you in my Inbox!
Your fur babies are both super cuties! I can’t imagine trying to cook around them though…that sounds like it was an adventure in itself!
Thanks again for the great artwork and amazing tutorials!
Hugs,
Suz
Michelle your table setting is beautiful, simple and elegant. Also love your big fur friends, they look so content.lol I love your bird card I love birds almost as much as I love trees not quite but almost. I would love to win this great set, thanks for the chance.
Evelynn
Yes, please enter me in the drawing to win those fabulous birds. You are so generous. Lovely as a Tree is one of my all time favorite stamp sets and I’m so thrilled that you use it so often.
Thanks, Teresa
Michelle, I am so into birds and trees and nature now because of your inspirational cards. Thank you for sharing so generously!
Sara
Thankyou for all your amazing tutorials, I l love working with them. Very generous blog candy, congratulations to the winner!
Michelle,
You are amazing! You introduce light and shadow into your art so well. I’m trying to get the hang of the white gel pen. Mine never looks as good as yours! Please enter me in the drawing.
Thanks,
Niki
Love the birds - over here in the North of Germany it´s getting cold enough meanwhile to feed them - we have to set up a new birdhouse because the old one got
carried away bit by bit by insects to build their homes….
thanks for just another terrific tutorial !
I love that bird set. Once again, another great tutorial. Abby and Lucas are just too cute.
How wonderfully generous! What I could’nt do with such lovely images of birds. Just love them. Not usually very lucky in free prize draws but I can but hope!
Another awesome card. Your tutorials continue to inspire me. Thanks for the opportunity to win this great sheet of stamps.
Love your tutorials. Those are some awesome birds. Thanks for the chance to win.
Your tutorials are great! Thank you. Your work is great. God bless.
Wow another masterpiece! I would love to win this blod candy I have been looking for BIRD stamps and haven’t found much that tickles my fancy lol
Francine
Oh what a treat it is today. I was gone for the Holiday and now I’ve returned to find all of your wonderful postings. I am going to love going over them one by one. thanks again for your inspirtation and I really hope to win the blog candy this time. I’ve been wanting to add some birds to my work. Have a great Christmas season.
Love the card. It’s my first visit to your site and can’t wait to try some of your techniques. I do have one question…how do you adhere the red rubber stamps to the clear block? Do they stick by themselves? I was told I had to mount them on mounting foam so they would adhere to the clear acrylic block, but from what I can see I don’t see foam on your stamps. Anyway love your techniques…great way to add dimension to stamped images. And, yes, I would love to be entered in the blog candy giveaway. Dawn
Count me in for the blog candy! The birds are adorable. WOW you are ambitious! I don’t have any lights up yet…..my goal for this next weekend. I love your dogs!!! They are adorable. I had a Golden Lab Mix we got from the pound and she was always under foot but we loved her. We had to put her down a couple of months ago. She was a sweetie. Thanks again for your inspiration, Michelle!
I never very like distressing and inking, but since I visit your website I already made 2 cards. It is soooooo easy with your instructions. I wonder why I didn’t like it before.
Girl you made me fall in love again :))
I am especially very proud you are using katzelkraft’s stamps as I am living in France too. We are just one worldwide creative family.
thanks for everything !!!
PS Your house and table look gorgeous
Michelle, you are one in a millon!
What a gorgeous stamp set!! I looked at their site… I really didn’t need to see all those sets, how wonderful of you to share! You are so inspiring with your creations!!
Hi Michelle!! You’ve made anoter masterpiece! Wow! Congradulations!
Hope you had a great thanksgiving celebration. Thanks for the chance yet again to win some great stamps. Also, loved your table setting, for something simple it sure looks good.
Beautiful work, as always! Wouldn’t mind winning some cute bird stamps!
You make such beautiful cards and I really do appreciate you showing how you do (even if it’s impossible to copy!
I wouldn’t mind winning some stamps!
I take every week a look at your blog. And you make such wonderfull thinks. I throughly do love your art. I have put your blog link on my blog. Keeping going on this way. Thanks for sharing it with us.
love Christa
Wow! I just love this card and the stamps! You are so creative! I look forward to checking out your blog every day.
WOW Michelle! I just got caught up on your stampings from over the weekend and must say these cards are gorgeous as usual! Please enter me to win this stamp set - it is beautiful! THANK YOU so much for the opportunity!
Blessings,
Chrissy
Beautiful card! Once again!!!! I’m so excited about your bird stamps from Katzelkraft! I love birds & am on the migration route for Western Blue Birds, so we see them at least twice a year. I would love to win the stamps.
Lagene
What a lovely card! Signature Zindorf creation
Your lights are very pretty on your home. We need to get going on ours.
Please enter me in the blog candy draw. My mother is a birdlover and a stamper, and would love these stamps.
Thanks!
Karen
Birds are something I don’t have many of at all. Thank you for the opportunity and please enter me for the blog candy. I enjoyed your tutorial very much.
Hi Michelle!
I love your work so much that I just ordered the Lovely as a Tree stamp set for myself. I always have one of your beautiful creations on my computer for my screensaver. My co-workers ask me if I stamped the card and I show the your website and the rest of your beautiful cards. Thank you for sharing your gift with us!
Your work is absolutely genius. I hope to be able to take one of your beginner classes. Can’t ever imagine being able to successfully duplicate your works of art. Thank you for sharing.
Wow what a neat company. Your design is wonderful as always.
Love your card! Please add me to the long list of entries. And, as always thanks for sharing your talents!
Love your “kids”. ALL of ours have been adoped from the shelter. Our “Kids” consist of 4 dogs, 2 cats, and 3 large parrots; all have been fixed except the birds (lol). Please enter me in your “Blog Candy give away”, I love this stamp (not to mention all your other stamps) and with your guidance there is nothing I could not do!! Phew, got a little carried away! There really are no words to express the beauty of this card, can’t wait to try it with another subject stamp (have no bird stamps).
Another beautiful creation - thank you for sharing your amazing gift! I always look forward to seeing your daily cards - they never fail to inspire me.
Your work is unbelievable. I look forward to visiting your site and learning what can be done. You have an amazing gift. Thanks for sharing.
Your work is unbelievable. I look forward to visiting your site and learning what can be done. You have a wonderful artistic gift. Thanks for sharing.
Another great design!! Would love to be entered for a chance to win the blog candy. Thx for the opportunity