I was 6 when I emigrated from Holland, leaving everything behind - except what could be packed into a trunk. It must have been a hard decision for my parents not knowing what was ahead of them in Canada.
Windmills remind me of the land of my birth. I returned to Holland after I graduated from University and was awestruck by the majesty of these structures.
One of the new bundles in the Mini catalogue launching in less than a week is the Tulip Fields and Flowering Tulips, both of which have dies. The Designer Paper that coordinates with them is gorgeous, as are the metallic butterfly embellishments.
The card I made is larger than I normally make - a 5 by 7- as I did not want to crowd out the windmill.
I put a picture of an old windmill below my card.
- Thick Basic White 10 by 7 scored at 5 to form a 5 by 7 card (card base)
- Flowering Fields DSP 4 3/4 by 6 3/4" - layer on card base
- Soft Suede 4 by 11 to die cut the windmill and turbines. To make the wind wings or turbines sturdier, I cut 2 of them and adhered them together. (These are the parts that turn in the wind to make the windmill operational)
- Add the wings to the body of the Windmill using a small brad
- Adhere completed windmill to the card front.
- Using the edge die from the Tulip dies, cut 3 layers of tulips using the Ombre specialty paper, a different colour for each layer.
- Adhere the layers together using Tear and stick tape, alternating the flowers and shifting the heights.
- Adhere to the card front below body of Windmill
- Trim off excess at both sides.
- Stamp sentiment using Gorgeous Grape ink on a 5/8 by 2 1/8" piece of Basic White. Adhere to card front hear the top of the windmill.
- Add 3 metallic butterflies
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