Samantha Walker Creative Team April Blog Hop

Welcome to Samantha Walker Creative Team Blog Hop! This month's theme is Spring!

You should have arrived here from Susie's blog.

If this is your first stop, be sure to head over to Samantha Walker's blog to start at the beginning!

This month one lucky winner will receive Butterly Magic Spellbinders™ Expandable Patterns Die Set

AND be sure to look extra closely at Step #4 to learn how you can get this FREE SVG and Silhouette Studio file:

How cute is this little guy?

To enter, just leave a comment on  Samantha's blog  by Sunday, 04/14 at 11:59pm MDT. The winner will be announced on Samantha's Facebook page on Monday, 04/15.

For additional entries:

1. Receive an additional entry for commenting on each of the other blogs in the blog hop.

2. Go here and follow Samantha Walker's blog 

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4. Sign up for an e-mail subscription to Samantha's blog and you will automatically receive a link to a free SVG cutting file that you can download and use on your personal electronic cutter. If you are already a subscriber, just enter in your information in the secure form on Samantha's blog!  The free files will be e-mailed early next week!

To receive the additional entries and get the free files, mention in your comment on Samantha's blog that you have done so! 

And now let me show you what I made!

It is not easy to get into spring mood when we still have snow in our backyard. It is slowly melting away, too slow if you ask me! Meanwhile I love looking at my indoor plants including the newest addition - small fairy garden with fairy house.

I picked Samantha's beautiful bird houses Love Bird Mailbox and made some small changes. 

- I deleted the mail slot opening and the opening for the perch.  

- I duplicated the heart shaped window on the front and added it to three other walls.

- I reduced the dimensions of the original heart on the front and moved it a little higher, closer to the roof

- I added the rectangular for the door

That's how the modified shape looked like in my Silhouette Studio.  

I cut the house and the roof from different papers from Samantha Walker Traditions collection.

I cut four pieces of transparency slightly bigger that the window openings and added ribbon "curtains" to three large windows by stapling the ribbon to the transparency.

Fairies also need some privacy.

Time for assembly. The best part is that no glue is needed. I found it easier to close the bottom first, than the side flaps and the top.

I only used adhesive to add the roof.

Small button for the door handle and the fairy house is ready to welcome new inhabitants.

This can be a great project to to share with children. They would love to decorate the house and add small trinkets to the garden.

My daughter loved our fairy garden. I can see her spending hours arranging the pebbles, making tiny clay mushrooms and garden decorations and looking for just the perfect fairy that will live in the garden.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you were inspired to try these or any other beautiful cut files from Samantha Walker Silhouette Store. 

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