Good Morning!

We are having beautiful hot sunny weather here in Ohio.  I’ve been spending a great deal of time outside tending my veggie gardens.  It feels like summer and makes me want to stamp a little summer nature scene.   I broke open a new Stampin’ Up! set, An Open Heart.  Beautiful fine line designs and fabulous sentiments can be found in this set.  I used the bird as the main image in today’s project.  🙂

You can find the complete supply list below for this project and also how to the get the tutorial for this project free or by purchase below.

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Little Birdie For You Card Supply List

An Open Heart Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Chalk Talk Wood Stamp Set	Serene Silhouettes Wood Stamp Set	1-1/4″ Burlap Ribbon
Circles Collection Framelits Die	Stampin’ Dimensionals	Glue Dots	Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad
Wooden Elements Embellishments	Stamping Sponges	Old Olive Classic Stampin’ Pad	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin’ Pad
Tempting Turquoise Classic Stampin’ Pad	Heat Tool	Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder	Many Marvelous Markers
Mossy Meadow 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock	Old Olive 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

Also used a Versamarker for this project.

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FREE TUTORIALS

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Want the entire month worth of tutorials free?

Place a $50 merchandise order before June 30, 2014 and receive the entire month of tutorials (at least 12) free of charge via e-mail.

You will receive all of these, plus, they will keep coming until June 30, 2014.  You will also receive 1 virtual token from me for each $50 in merchandise purchased with your order.  Collect 10 tokens and receive a free stamp set of your choice up to a $30 value.  Now, that’s the way to get some bang for your buck!

Free tutorials are an exclusive perk for my valued Stampin’ Up! customers and down line.

This month’s tutorials include the following, plus at least 5 more to come this month.

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Have a smaller order?  The complete tutorial for today’s project along with all of the card tutorials I create from June 16, 2014 through June 30, 2014 (at least 6 tutorials) will be e-mailed to my customers who place a minimum  $20 merchandise order anytime between June 1, 2014 and June 15, 2014 free of charge.

Note:  Please do not select the option for no contact when placing your order or I will not be able to send you the tutorials.  Also, please make sure that my e-mail address, [email protected] is approved in your e-mail account so your e-mail does not reject my e-mails which contain the tutorials.  🙂

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If you wish to purchase the tutorial for this project or check out the monthly subscription option.

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

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Today’s card has been added to my card sales page CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

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New Deals Start Today!

Check out the latest batch of Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals in my on-line store.  Discounted prices on this week’s deals end June 23rd.

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I canned my first veggies of the season yesterday.  I canned beets in a sweet cinnamon, allspice and clove brine, yum!

If you would like the recipe click on this link to Canning Granny’s site:  Canning Granny’s Beets

I like beets, I’m just not in love with them, but sweet beets I can embrace with my full heart.

Are  you a beet fan?

It’s funny how I have changed over the years, my gardens were perennial flower gardens, but they are now all veggie gardens.  I came to the conclusion if I’m going to spend all that time outside weeding and watering I might as well be growing something good to feed my family.  Flowers are beautiful but they don’t help the grocery budget or give me the satisfaction I feel when I put home grown food on the table.  🙂

Lately, we have been enjoying fresh strawberries, peas, kale, beets, spinach and lettuce.  I’m growing a lot more varieties of veggies now but they are not producing yet.

I now have 5 garden spaces to tend and I’m dreaming of putting more in this Fall, it’s a sickness.  Russ tells me “go ahead it’s less I have to mow.”  Yep, that’s why I’m doing it, not.

May you feel the warmth of the sun today too.  I’m  off to the garden.

Until my next post. . . . . . .  .