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For more tips on creating with the Home on the Farm Collection watch the tutorial at https://youtu.be/zJQQ7iljUw8.

Instructions: Card size is 7 x 5”. Score and fold 7 x 10” black cardstock at 5”. Cut paper from the Home on the Farm Paper Collection x2 6 7/8 x 4 7/8”, ink the edges using Distress Oxide Black Soot ink and adhere to the front and the inside of the card base.

Create a 5 x 5” shadow box. Score a 7 x 11 1/2” piece of Deluxe flower Shaping Paper on the short side at 1/2”, 1”, 6” and 6 1/2”. Score both sides on the long side at 1/2”, 1”, 6” and 6 1/2”. Trim the right top and bottom score lines off up to the first vertical score line, use scissor to cut tabs. (See sample on my blog.) Use the Cut Mat Create Die to cut the aperture in the front of the box. Cut paper from the paper collection x2 4 7/8 x 4 7 /8”, x4 3/8 x 4 7/8” and ink the edges with Distress Oxide Black Soot ink. Use the Cut Mat Create 2A die to cut the aperture in one of the 4 7/8 x 4 7/8” pieces for the front of the shadow box. Adhere the papers to the box prior to assembling. Cut one of the scenes from the 6 x 6” card panels from the paper collection, trim and adhere to the inside the box. Add dries clear glue to the scene and sprinkle with Crystal Ultrafine Transparent Glitter. Finish folding at all score lines and adhere to form the shadow box. Randomly add glitter to the paper on the outside of the box.

Stamp the barn, water cans and dog on watercolor paper using jet black ink. Color the dog using Dark Gray and Carmine Red Zig markers and color the barn and the water cans using Stampin Blend markers Cinnamon Cider and Smokey Slate. Stamp the hen and hay using Archival Coffee ink, color the hen using Beige Zig marker and the hay using Daffodil Delight Stampin Blend marker. Stamp the flowers using Dark Granny Apple Green, Dark Lovely Lipstick and Dark Daffodil Delight markers, color with the same colors using the light markers. Diecut using the coordinating dies and diecut the flowers, hen, dog, hay and watering cans again from Deluxe Flower shaping paper. Adhere the layers together to create stronger diecuts and lightly shape using the Deluxe Flower Shaping Kit. Diecut paper from the collection using the barn die and adhere to the back of the barn using Darice foam strips. Diecut the barn 2x from Kraft cardstock and adhere to the back of the barn. Ink the edges using Distress Oxide Black Soot ink.

Adhere dimensional squares to the inside of the barn doors to keep them open. Adhere the hen, hay, yellow flowers and dog to the barn as shown. Adhere the barn to the inside of the shadow box using dries clear adhesive. Adhere the water cans and pink flowers to the outside of the shadow box. Stamp sentiment on matching designer paper, ink the edges with Black Soot ink, cut a black mat 1/8” larger, adhere sentiment to mat layer and then to shadow box.

Diecut two tags from designer paper using inside Ticket and Tags die and ink the edges with Black Soot ink. Cut two tags from black cardstock using the outside Ticket and Tags die. Adhere the designer paper tags to the black tags, punch a hole and add black cord to each tag. Adhere the tags to the back of the shadow box and adhere the shadow box to the card base.