I am Guest Hostessing the IC Today! Come Play!

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Today I am excited to be Guest Hostessing my favorite challenge at Splitcoast - the Inspiration Challenge! I hope that you will check it out and play along!

This week’s Inspiration Challenge comes from a site that makes me long for spring! Charleston Gardens Home and Garden Collection has a wide variety of indoor and outdoor items for any size garden. I chose this beautiful clock/thermometer for my inspiration piece and came up with this:

I stamped my image from Artistic Outpost in Memento Black ink, and then cut out using my Grand Calibur and a Spellbinders die. I sponged on Antique Distress Linen ink, and then added some Kaiser Champagne pearls. The leaves are a new-to-me Sizzix die and the bird is a Martha Stewart punch. The Cuttlebug embossing folder was perfect for my theme.

3733 Bird Clock/Thermometer by Charleston Gardens

There are many really neat garden items at this site. Come play along!

Other challenges for this card:
Catch The Bug - February Anything Goes
Drunken Stampers - Use Something New (Sizzix die)
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Die Cut or Punches
 

Stamps: Serenity by Artistic Outpost

Paper: Naturals Ivory, Basic Gray, Basic Black, PTI White, Stash DP

Ink: Memento Black, Antique Distress Linen

Accessories: pearls, Sizzix die cut, Spellbinders die cut, Kaiser pearls, Cuttlebug EF, MS bird punch