Dial-a-doodle-doo!

Hi everyone!  

If you've been around for a while you know that I love to spin, and for a spinner, Spring is the season for shearing and new fleece to wash/process/spin.  So here is a viewfinder "dial a doodle-doo" card featuring some barnyard friends along with a few treasured words of wisdom.

The base of this card is 4.0 x 5.5 inches, but the overhanging banner and the edge of the viewfinder spinner bring the measurement to the full standard 4.25 inches wide.  

I used the largest Spellbinders die to cut one circle from card stock and another from copy paper.  Folding the copy paper circle in half and then in half again helps to find where to punch a tiny hole in its very center.  I also used the template to divide the spinner into quadrants for aligning the individual stamps.

You'll need to be careful to align your spinner so that there is that little bit of overhang, but still room for the other elements and embellishments you wish to include on your card front.  

I figured out the placement of the brad and then decided what pair of circle dies to use for the "peek" part of the viewfinder.  Take care to align the opening so that the edges of the larger circle do not show through from underneath.  I like for the mat layers to show, so I cut the larger circle of the pair where I want it to go on the thin designer paper.  After glueing the designer paper to the underneath layer, the smaller circle is easy to align to cut the opening through the mat layer of card stock.

Here is a look at the sentiment and that fun rustic barn designer paper.  And I'll let you in on a secret:  I got a tiny smudge of black ink beside that little piggy so I decide to give everything a generous splattering of tea dye distress ink, black distress oxide ink, and diluted white acrylic paint.  I hope you'll think that it gave everything a fun, grungy barnyard kind of vibe with a side of sunshine.  

A sheet of designer paper from Craft Consortium's Over the Rainbow brings the cheerful yellow of the ribbon from the card front to the inside, a reminder of sunny skies and happy times when the stress of life has made them difficult to call to mind!       

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Farmhouse Signage Bundle
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Farmhouse Simple Sentiments
• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Tuxedo Black
• Craft Consortium Beach Hut 6x6
• Craft Consortium Over the Rainbow 6x6
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles SM
• Spellbinders Nestabilities - Standard Circles LG
• May Arts 1.5" Gingham - 30 yard Spool - Yellow
• brad
• oxide and distress inks, acrylic paint for splashes