Well, it’s me, Susan!  It’s the first of the month (April already?!?) and today I’m back with a fun and simple SUSIE Q-TIP for Your Next Stamp!

Do ya’ll remember the days when dies were few and far between?  We didn’t have them available in all shapes and sizes like we do now.  (But aren’t they one of the BEST parts of our craft?)  How in the world did we survive?  Kind of like before microwaves.  Well I remember those days before I had fun “grass” border dies, so I’m going to show ya’ll how you can still make grass without one.  I enjoy this look from time to time even though I have two grass dies, actually!

My main panel shape happens to be a circle, so first, I just cut a partial circle from a piece of scrap that I wanted to use as my grass, making sure it was the same size as my panel piece, so that I could just glue it right on top after I made the grass.

Next, I just took my detail scissors (again, my favorites are Cutter Bees–about $10 at Michael’s) and just hacked into it across the top, straight down about a half inch (ya’ll could make it however tall you want your grass to be).

Lastly, I simply “furled” them with my fingers to bend them down a bit.  If you want to, you can trim some of the grass “blades” at different angles along the tops of a few of them, so it’s not so uniform looking, like I did here.  Then just glue the grass piece over the main image panel and you have an instant “setting” for your special Fhiona.  Thanks to Bunny Ellie, this card came together so sweetly!

Now, go kick some grass, ya’ll!  Just leave a comment here if ya’ll have any questions or if there’s something you’d like for me to “attempt” to cover in a future SUSIE Q-TIP FUN DAY!!