Marching into Spring Week 2!

Ready for more fresh air, sunshine, new leaves, and flowers blooming? Well, the Dream Team is right there with you! Our challenge for the month of March is...coincidentally...Marching into Spring. Per usual, we'd love to have you play along with us, and link your own creations to theInlinkz tool on the Dream It Up! blog, or at the bottom of this post. Play as many times as you'd like. Those of you who work Dreamweaver and/or Stampendous products into your projects receive bonus points, but everyone has an opportunity to be the winner who receives the stencil of their choice.

The surest sign of Spring around here is the peeking up of Daffodil leaves from out of the snow. It's always heartwarming to see how tough they are when it's still so cold out. Hopefully, I'll be seing my Daffodils popping out of the snow soon! Here's my hint of Spring:

LL428 - Long daffodils 
Matte Yellow Embossing Paste, let dry, stencil with inks on the inside of a window card
Add a beautiful ribbon from May Arts

The inside, see how the ribbon adds a nice touch to the inside too!
Just cut a small slit in the fold and feed the ribbon through.

Of course, a matching envelope always looks great!

A lot of times when I'm making cards, I leave a sentiment off until I know how I'm going to use the card. This card would make a wonderful Sympathy card with a pretty saying added to it, but it would also be a beautiful birthday card for a friend with a Spring birthday. That's the joy of working with these products, they are so versatile!

The "B" team would love to share their interpretations of this theme:

Dream It Up!

Louise Healy

Alison Heikkila

Kristine Reynolds

Pam Hornschu

Gill Wilson

Cindy Groh

Happy Creating,

Louise

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Happy Easter!

The Dreamweaver Stencils design team continues with our April Inspirations theme. Be sure to stop over at the DREAM it UP! blog to meet our newest team members and welcome back some returning players!
More BIG news, next week we will be having a blog hop with the Stampendous folks. So be sure to stop back by starting Monday, April 21st to be inspired ALL WEEK!

We are challenged this month to create something based on something that inspired us. Spring has finally started to show its colors here in norther Illinois, so my inspiration came from the daffodils that have started blooming in my garden. Here they are:

And with Easter coming up on Sunday, I knew the perfect stencils to use for my creation.

Here's how it was done:

• Start with a white window card  and place your Long Daffodil stencil (LL428) on the inside of the card, centered in the window
• Tape the stencil in place with removable tape
• Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Matte Yellow Embossing Paste over the stencil
• Remove the stencil and place in water for cleaning
• Let the paste dry
• Place the clean, dry stencil back over the dry paste, tape in place
• Use 1/4" stencil brushes to apply pigment inks on the flowers and leaves
• Remove the stencil and sprinkle the ink with Clear Embossing Powder, tap off excess powder
• Heat set the powder with a heat tool
• Let the image cool, then return the stencil and add another coat of inks in slightly deeper tones
• Remove the stencil and sprinkle the ink with Clear Embossing Powder, tap off excess, heat set
• Place a piece of printer paper inside the card and close the front
• Use a 3/4" stencil brush to brush some yellow ink on the front of the card
• Edge the opening of the window with a gold Krylon pen
• Tape the Happy Easter stencil (LM234) to a piece of white cardstock
• Apply a coat of Matte Yellow Embossing Paste
• Remove and clean the stencil
• Let paste dry
• Mount on a yellow cardstock mat that is edged with Gold Krylon pen
• Mount it under the daffodils on the front of the card

I hope you've enjoyed learning about my inspiration and take the time to see what the other team members have been inspired by this week!

Janelle Stollfus (GD)

Dream It Up!
Laura Drahozal
Lyn Bernatovich
Louise Healy 

Pam Hornschu

Lynn Mercurio

Alison Heikkila

Happy Creating,

Louise

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