A Little Birdie Told Me...

If you like creating your own card design, you will LOVE this month's NEW Freebie from White Spruce Studio!

You will get 12 different digital downloads garden elements that you can mix and match and create a scene.. or you can just use one by itself!

For this card i first started with a digital paper background (the blue paper is free at Bonnie Kohane Craft Time Page).

I layered the fence on top of the digital paper in my "word/pages" program.

To get the fence to be more transparent, you need to find the "opacity" option. I can find that option on my Mac in Pages under "Format" and then "Style". I reduce the opacity to 22%. I love how that turned out! You can also do this in Photoshop using the opacity.

Next, i combined the Birdhouse and the Wheelbarrow. And because the images are PNG (transparent background) i can layer them on top of each other. I chose to layer the two images separately from the background with the fence, because i wanted some depth. But you can totally add the images on top the fence that has the lower opacity.

I then colored the images with colored pencils and hand cut it out and then layered it on top of the fence with double sided foam tape. (I actually die cut my background and made my card base before i added the cut out images with foam tape)

I have also used:

Spellbinders - Nested Postage Labels for the card base (and small stamp)

Spellbinders - Postage Number

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Just a Note!

 If you like creating your own card design, you will LOVE this month's NEW Freebie from White Spruce Studio!

You will get 12 different digital downloads garden elements that you can mix and match and create a scene.. or you can just use one by itself!

For this card i first started with a digital paper background (the blue paper is free at Bonnie Kohane Craft Time Page).

I layered the fence on top of the digital paper in my "word/pages" program.

To get the fence to be more transparent, you need to find the "opacity" option. I can find that option on my Mac in Pages under "Format" and then "Style". I reduce the opacity to 22%. I love how that turned out! You can also do this in Photoshop using the opacity.

Next, i combined the mushroom and the snail. And because the images are PNG (transparent background) i can layer them on top of each other. I chose to layer the two images separately from the background with the fence, because i wanted some depth. But you can totally add the images on top the fence that has the lower opacity.

I then colored the image with colored pencils and hand cut it out and then layered it on top of the fence with double sided foam tape. (I actually die cut my background and made my card base before i added the cut out images with foam tape)

I have also used:

Spellbinders - Nested Postage Labels for the card base (and small stamp)

Spellbinders - Postage Numbers

Thank you for stopping by!

Challenges:

Springtime Smiles!

 

I had some fun playing with my Spellbinders stash.

I think a "chocolate" egg can be anytime don't you?

This is what i used to create this card:

Spellbinders - Ears to Spring (bunny stamp and sentiment)

Spellbinders - Embossing folder - Cloud Nine (background)

Spellbinders - Under the Sun - cutting die (substituted leaves for the rays)

Spellbinders - Spring Specs (foliage from this set for the sun rays and to add to the bunny stamp)

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Christmas Wishes

Come and join us at Kerst Christmas Facebook Group!

For the month of April one of our sponsors is White Spruce Studio!

Enter your Christmas card into the Kerst Christmas Facebook challenge and you might win this adorable Christmas Penguin from White Spruce Studio!!

We are also celebrating our 10th anniversary at Kerst Christmas Facebook Group!

Each week for 2026 we will be giving away a digital download freebie!!

This week you can grab, Bonnie Kohane Craft Time - Pine Tree Wreath paper

(expires April 11)

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Challenges:

April Showers scrapbook page

Would you like...

 to participate in the ONE MORE PAGE scrapbook monthly challenge? It will be an ANYTHING GOES scrapbook challenge and you can enter as many layouts as you want each month.

It will ALWAYS be anything goes if it's a scrapbook page! (any size).

Started scrapbooking again.. I have joined a scrapbooking blog team and will be sharing my scrapbook pages monthly on my blog and in their challenge blog!!

Please come and share your scrapbook pages with us... It is "anything goes" as long as it is a scrapbook page!

I have used:

Spellbinders - Roller Disco Dottie (i didn't used the wheels of the skates)

Memory Box - Happy Cloud

Bonnie Kohane Craft Time - Paper (Denim and Raindrop paper)

Share you scrapbook pages with us here!

Spellbinders - From Ink to Petals

I am ready for a full-time Spring!

I have used:

Spellbinders - From Ink to Petal Press & Foil Club, Feb 26

Spellbinders - From Ink to Petal Stencil

Spellbinders - Make a Wish Arch Labels - Cutting dies

Spellbinders - BetterPress Ink - Thunder

What i did... First, i pressed the From Ink to Petal using the BetterPress Ink, Thunder. Next, i used the Ink to Petal stencil and Lisa Horton Inks. I chose to color the BetterPress plate image with colored pencils and added a bit of pencil shading to the stencil image as well. Last, i hand cut the image out and layered it on top of the Make a Wish cutting dies.

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Wishing You Sunny Days!

You can create this sweet wall art or make it as a card if you'd like!

Here is what i used:

White Spruce Studio - 52 Baby Farm Animals (Bunny, Sun, fence and flower)

For this project, i up-cycled a charity frame. Originally it had a Christmas theme. I covered the scene with blue glitter paper and layered some paper on top. Next i printed out the Bunny, sun, fence and flower several times and layered them with foam tape to create a 3D wall art scene. You can also do single layers or make this a sweet baby card! Don't forget these can be used on baby onesies and shower decorations!

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