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Make It Monday #249-Notes of Spring

Easter-Spring, Happy Birthday, Make it Monday Videos, Thank You, Thinking of You / March 23, 2026

Hey friends, I am excited to share with you the March product of the month, Notes of Spring. If you don’t have this cute little set, you still have time to place a $75 order before the end of the month. I am sure you will love playing with these sweet little characters. They make great spring and Easter cards!

It is really hard to pick a favorite, but I think I am partial to the stinkin’ cute duckling. It would make a sweet birthday card for all ages. Have fun creating with this cute set. The sky is the limit!

A Closer Look at today’s cards!

I stamped and cut out my cute little duckling, but that is only because I dropped this little guy when I was stamping on my white panel. Not to worry, there are no mistakes in stamping, only creative opportunities, so I just stamped him again and used my handy dandy paper snips to cut him out. Whala, it is fixed! You can just stamp your image directly to the card panel, or stamp and crop him. Either way his is so stinkin’ cute.

I stamped and used my paper snips to crop these little ones on purpose. It was much quicker and easier than masking, but either way will work.

I usually don’t use much of the Sea Foam cardstock, but today, I guess I was in the mood for a little light colored spring. I think it turned out perfectly if I do say so myself. I love the tone on tone look. I did add a but of ink with a sponge dauber to the greeting just for a little darker highlight! Love it~

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#249 Make It monday notes of Spring project Sheet

I hope you have fun playing with this sweet set. If you don’t have it, I would love for you to place a qualifying order with me, just click the Shop with Me button below! Happy Stamping!

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

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Masking Techniques Part One ~Make It Monday #248

Happy Birthday, Make it Monday Videos, Stamping Techniques, Thank You / March 16, 2026 / masking, series, Technique

Hello my stamping friends. Due to the storms in St. Louis, this post may be posted a bit later that usual, but Praise the Lord we have power and this post will go out today. I pray that wherever you are the storms missed you as well. On Friday, I hosted a Masking Technique class and while I will not be sharing with you all of the techniques we learned. I am sharing a few masking techniques that I hope you will try. I will share a few more with you on Wednesday in the second part of this 2-part series.

One of the most important things you will need to know about masking, especially if you are creating a scene or staggering images, whatever you stamp first on your cardstock will be the image that is in front. Placing a mask on that image will allow you to stamp over the mask, thus putting the newly stamped image behind the first image you stamped.

Let’s take a closer look!

In this card I stamped the Cajun Craze pot and the leaves in it first (see video) and then the subsequent pots and leaves. I used colored pencils to create a table look and used a blender pen to smooth the lines. If you have not used the blender pens with your colored pencils, you are going to love them. Click here to check out our blender pens.

The second important thing about masking, is to use high quality masking paper and to trim as close to the design as possible. Click here to check out our Masking Paper. This will minimize the gaps between your stamped images. If you do get a small gap, again the blender pen with a little ink will help hide those gap lines.

Don’t forget to download your free project sheet!

Masking techniques part one-make it monday #248

I hope you enjoyed today’s cards. Stop back on Wednesday for Masking Techniques-Part Two.

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

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Make It Monday #247 ~ Flowers Fair

Happy Birthday, Make it Monday Videos, Thinking of You / March 9, 2026 / Flowers Fair

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a fabulous weekend. If your area observes daylight saving time then you all know we lost an hour of sleep last night. The good news-spring is almost here. In today’s video I am sharing three fabulous spring cards using the new Flowers Fair background stamp. This is a great set of flowers and I know you are going to love them.

Flowers Fair Background Stamp

A Closer Look!

#247 flowers Fair Project Sheet

I hope these cards brought a little springtime sunshine into your day. Thanks for joining me. Stop back on Wednesday for another video tutorial.

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time, be blessed, Renae

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Make It Monday #246 Three Hexagon Birthday Cards

Happy Birthday, Make it Monday Videos / March 2, 2026 / Birthday, Fun Fold, Hexagon

Happy Monday all. Today I am sharing with you three cards that I created using the Heartfelt Hexagon punch. If you don’t have this punch it is a good one. I use it for a variety of greetings, but today I thought I would think outside the box and use it for a background on two of our cards.

I think this technique would also look cool with the To the Point punch as well. Perhaps you have other punches in your stash that would work too. Use whatever is in your crafting stash and of course have fun creating!