Cottage Lane Stamper

Today's card features the Clubhouse Suite from the 2020 January - June Mini Catalog.  I love it when Stampin' Up!® comes out with a great masculine card set, and this one does not disappoint.  Being a "golfer" ( I use the term loosely I haven't picked up a club since my husband passed in 2008) , I absolutely love this suite!!! My late husband, Tim, and I would golf every weekend (sometimes during the week) , belonged to a "country club", a very small one in the sleepy town of Sleepy Eye.  It was one thing we loved doing together.  You would find us there Saturdays, Sundays, and Friday night was league, where after a round of golf the guys would grill us steaks.  They always tasted so much better out there! Great memories! This card is for my niece's boyfriend, Bob.  A wonderful guy who golfs, when he can sneak away from his farm work.  Farmers are some of the hardest workers I know. Get up with the cows, work the fields from dawn til dusk in...

I was perusing a few Facebook posts this morning and saw a new sponging technique that I want to share with you, using glycerin!  It makes the sponging of inks on the card stock go so much smoother.  I had been wanting to try a outdoor scene with the "Best Catch" bundle*, from the 2019 Occasions catalog and thought, why not kills to birds with one stone! I put together a little video, showing how to do the glycerin sponging while making this card. I used 3 different stamp sets, "Best Catch",  "Rooted in Nature" &  "High Tide". I used the "Best Catch" coordinating Framelits  "Catch of the Day" and also the new  "Rectangular Stitched Framelits" , also available in the 2019 Occasions catalog. DIMENSIONS: Whisper White card stock: 8-1/2" x 5-1/2", scored at 4-1/4", card base 4" x 5-1/4" sponged card layer 2" x 3-3/4", fisherman 2-1/4" x 2-1/...