I broke out my coloring calendar images again for my next birthday card. Had to color the bird with Autumn colors for a Fall birthday card. I used the little leaf stamp in the sentiment stamp set to stamp around the image too.
I found another tag that you can write in your thoughts and thought it would be neat for my great nephew who is turning 14. Instead of writing this time I stamped different birthday sentiments.
I know we don't really associate roses with Fall but when you make them out of Fall colors well I guess it works :)
I have used this rose border I think once and it was high time I used it again and thought it paired nicely.
This was a new technique to me that our stamp group did over skype.
We added some inks to our glass mats and then spritz with water and used a pallet knife to move the inks around to kind of blend them and then we added tissue paper over the inks and let it absorb, then carefully take off and let dry. Once dry we crinkled the tissue paper to give it some lines and then added glue to our cardstock base and laid the crinkled tissue over the glue, you can even add more crinkles as you bunch it up after layering it on top. Let that dry.
Take your anti static pouch to run over the background, then take your embossing ink and lightly run over only the raised areas from your bunching up the tissue paper. Then add your embossing powder and heat, it gives such a neat look to your background. I liked it so much I made a few and will be using more in other cards :)
Cardstock base was 4 1/4 x 11 inches, scored at 2 1/2, 3 3/4, 6 3/4, 8 1/4. We took a piece of cardstock and embossed it and added our sentiment for the inside at the bottom.
This card does not stand up on it's own.
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,
Connie
Don't you just love how we as creative people can make our birds any color we would like :) I saw many of these type birds on Pinterest and thought they would be cute for my oldest sister who recently had a granddaughter.
You cut circles, I did two different sizes, don't quite fold in half leave a little room to be able to peek at the paper behind, double sided paper is the best for this. I added a heart punch to their bottom feathers and leaf punches for their wings. Black pen for the legs and eyes. For the beaks I just hand cut a triangle.
