Sweet Sunday Bluebirds - SSSC161

I needed a thank you card for a bird lover.....and specifically bluebirds.  I googled bluebirds to get the proper colouring and found this perfect stamp from Gina K in my stash.  I used the SSSC161 as my layout, although I rotated it once to the right and took a wee bit of liberty with that piece of blue card stock in the background.  It's a lovely piece of textured paper, but was a smidge too small and since it's from England I'm not likely to get any more for a while but that's the beauty of a sketch, it's open to interpretation :)

I stamped the bird from Home Tweet Home in Memento Tuxedo black ink and coloured it with copics.  I will say I went through 3 birds before I was happy with the colouring!

The card stock is SU Certainly Celery, So Saffron and some retired Cutie Pie DSP.  I cut out the bluebird and popped it up for some dimension.  The flowers are a mixture of dies from MFT: Botanical Beauty, Pretty Posies, Prima Donna Petals and Royal Leaves for the leaves - love the texture on those.  Fishtail Flags is still one of my fav dies and I added a couple of green dots to the middle of the flowers to finish them off.  I do hope my friend loves her bluebird card as much as I enjoyed my visit with her!

Cheerio.....Leslie

Home Sweet Home

I came across these odd shape note cards I'd bought in England a few years ago and instantly knew the image and paper I was going to use for my card!

Karen had given me some new MME Lime Twist papers and I remembered seeing a cloud sheet in the package "Out of the Blue".  I mounted it on a piece of SU Not Quite Navy.  The hardest part of this card was cutting that piece to match....talk about angles!  I stamped the birdhouse  from Home Tweet Home by Gina K in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured it with copics.

Then I stamped it again and popped it up for some dimension.  I added a few coats of clear glaze pen to the roof.  It was lacking some "oomph" so I consulted with Dana and she suggested a TE Tiny Twinkle on the "perch" and a bit of glitter on the clouds....perfect!  The Picket Fence Border die is from Taylored Expressions.

This card is one of the fastest I've made.  Good thing, because I need two more! :)

Cheerio.....Leslie