March Not 2 Shabby Inspiration Hop Gift Card Set

 Hi friends! It's time for the March Not 2 Shabby Inspiration Hop over on YouTube. You'll find tons of inspiration with the March products as well as a chance to win a gift certificate to the Not 2 Shabby Shop. For the hop, I'm sharing a video on making this pretty little card set with products from the March "Full Bloom" Box of the Month.

You can watch the video here, or on my YouTube channel, then follow the instructions to hop along and don't forget to click the link in the description box of my video to enter the giveaway.

Although I'm not much of a fan of making multiple cards of the same design, I do enjoy giving card sets for special occasions. It's a great way to give a meaningful handmade item to someone you love. The new Just Because stamp set in the March Box of the Month is absolutely beautiful, and with several all occasion sentiments, it's perfect to use to create a set of cards for gifting.

I started by coloring the tulips with a mixture of Ohuhu and Copic markers.  I cut the flowers out with my Brother Scan 'n Cut, doing a teeny bit of fussy cutting for the parts in between the leaves and stems.

(My dies hadn't arrived when I created these cards, but there are coordinating Just Because Dies available for purchase separately.)

I cut a stitched rectangle from white cardstock, then used the Window Quad Circle Dies from Sunny Studio Stamps on the rectangle die cut to make the window panel. The circle cut outs are about 1.5", so I cut some squares that were about 1.675" to glue behind the circle windows.  These patterns are from the gorgeous Butterflies & Blooms paper. 

I chose a scalloped rectangle of patterned paper to mat the panel, cutting a stitched rectangle out of the center, so as not to waste any of that pretty paper!  The flowers for most of the cards were tucked into one of the bottom circles, then adhered at the top with some dimensional foam tape for a bit of dimension.

I used sentiments from the Just Because set to finish off the cards, then accented with some Cherry Blossom Spring Cottage Sparkling Enamel Dots.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fantastic day!

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