Handmade by Natty

I’m back on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today with my first card featuring supplies from the lovely new Spring Jardin release from The Greetery.

As luck would have it, they arrived just in time for some weekend crafting. Yay!

Alas, when it came time to take some snaps, the lighting conditions were less than wonderful…

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Products featured today:

• The Greetery | Golden Egg stencils and dies
• The Greetery | Bigger Botanicals Soapwort dies
• The Greetery | Tangled Tulips stamp + stencil combo and dies
• More supplies linked in the supply list at the bottom of this post

I’m a real sucker for multistep florals frames, especially one from The Greetery’s Print Shop series, so when I saw the Golden Egg stencil set it was a total must have for me!

I know Betsy showed how the stencil set can be adapted to A2 formats with a little selective inking and placement, but for its first outing I’m using the stencils as intended. On a 5×7 card.

I started out by cutting a piece of Lawn Fawn Blush cardstock from the Macaron assorted pack to the width of the stencils so I could simply keep the cardstock panel in the corner of my stamp positioner and easily swap out the various stencil layers. This worked a treat!

I used a mix of bright spring colours at the top of the card and moved down into darker shades at the bottom.

The steps are so easy to follow that you don’t have to look at the guide, but as always it provides some great colour inspiration, and you get an idea of which elements you can skip.

For this card, I omitted the oval step of stencil #3 to keep it the original blush cardstock colour inside the egg.

Instead, I grabbed the oval and scalloped dies from the coordinating Golden Egg die set to create the powder blue frame. I also used the oval die to create a mask so that I could splatter the inside of the egg with gold paint and not have it go anywhere else.

The Spring Jardin release included so many items that could fit inside the Golden Egg dies, but also coordinate with the ever-popular Capsule Basics collection.

I went with the lovely Bigger Botanicals Soapwort die, cut from C9 Artichoke, Ivory, and Sunflower. Again I added some Blush ink to the centres and a little pencil detail on the petals.

Finally, for my sentiment I went with a banner from the Twisted Tulips stamp + stencil combo cut with the matching die.

And there we go – I’m really pleased with how this turned out, plus I look forward to using the Golden Egg floral frame stencil steps on non-Easter cards too. So many possibilities!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Supplies

Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project. See note in sidebar about my project supply lists and the use of affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support is always appreciated!

The Greetery – Tangled Tulips stamp and stencil set Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery – Tangled Tulips dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery – Bigger Botanicals Soapwort die Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG
The Greetery – Golden Egg dies Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	The Greetery – Golden Egg stencils Shop at: SHC (UK) | TG	Altenew – Blush dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)
Altenew – Buttercream dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Altenew – Firefly dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Altenew – Grass Field dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)
Altenew – Mountain Pine dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Altenew – Rouge dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Altenew – Shadow Creek dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)
Altenew – Warm Sunshine dye ink Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn – Black Licorice ink pad Shop at: MISC | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn – Butter ink pad Shop at: MISC | SHC (UK)
Lawn Fawn – Kiddie Pool ink pad Shop at: MISC | SHC (UK)	The Stamp Market – Powder Blue ink pad Shop at: MISC	Altenew – Green Valley ink cube set Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)
Altenew – Red Sunset ink cube set Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Altenew – Summer Afternoon ink cube set Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Concord & 9th – Artichoke cardstock Shop at: C&9 | SBC | SHC (UK)
Concord & 9th – Assorted Neutrals Collection cardstock Shop at: C&9 | SBC | SHC (UK)	Concord & 9th – Ivory cardstock Shop at: C&9 | SBC | SHC (UK)	Lawn Fawn – Macaron cardstock Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)
The Stamp Market – Powder Blue cardstock Shop at: MISC	Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry Colors 6-pan watercolour set Shop at: MISC | SBC | SHC (UK)	Uni Posca pen PC-1M – White Shop at: MISC
Bearly Art – Precision Craft Glue Shop at: MISC | SBC	Lawn Fawn – Stamp Shammy Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Mini MISTI stamping tool Shop at: MISC | SBC
MISTI stamping tool Shop at: SBC	Pinkfresh Studio – Dual-tip embellishment tool Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Pinkfresh Studio – 1″ Blending Brush Set Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)
Tim Holtz – Distress Sprayer Shop at: MISC | SBC	Waffle Flower – Shader Brush Size 1 – Double-Ended Shop at: SBC | SHC (UK)	Ranger – Artist brush set Shop at: MISC | SBC
Crafter’s Companion – Gemini machine Shop at: MISC	Sizzix – Big Shot machine Shop at: MISC | SBC	Sizzix – Sidekick machine Shop at: MISC | SBC
Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (maxi) Shop at: MISC | SBC	Tim Holtz – Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: MISC | SBC