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St. Patrick's Day Retro Oven

Today's St. Patrick's Day card features the Retro Oven die by Tim Holtz.  I just recently purchased this die along with some other products and wanted to combine them all into a holiday card. I started by assembling the oven using scraps of paper from my stash. The oven door was covered with a small piece of acetate.  I also cut the outline of the oven from 5 mm foam and adhered this behind the oven to create a shaker element.  I cut small shamrocks out of green foil cardstock using my Cricut machine and combined these with light green sequence to make the shaker material inside the oven. To create the card background, I started by inking a script stamp with Coffee Archival Ink and stamping it at the top and bottom of the card panel.  Then, I used a make-up blending brush to apply Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide through a gingham stencil onto the card panel.  I shifted the stencil and then repeated the process using Lucky Clover Distress Oxide.  Finally, I sprayed the panel with Bubb