Blue Bird Thank You

Here's my card for this week's Paper Craft Planet sketch challenge. Wendy's designed a great sketch for us that features a fun, fancy cut edge.

I used the sketch to make a spring-like thank you card featuring Papertrey Ink's Little Bitty Bird stamp set. I stamped the bird and branch image in brown ink on an aqua card base. A felt die cut bird covers the stamped image and adds texture, too. The bird has a teeny, tiny crystal eye for a little bit of sparkle. I added a pair of die cut white felt clouds to the scene to fill up the empty space.

I used a trio of scraps for the strips along the bottom half of the card. I went with a solid green for the top strip, partly because it looks like a grassy base underneath my image and partly because I wanted to stamp my sentiment so it could be seen. The sentiment I used is from the Fillable Frames #5 set. I attached a strip of Happy Spots patterned paper beneath the green and tied a Hawaiian Shores satin ribbon between the two. The bottom strip is more Hawaiian Shores, cut with a decorative edge die to create the card's fancy edge.

I hope you'll join us for this week's challenge. If you try out the sketch, be sure to add a direct link to your creation here on the Paper Craft Planet blog.

Materials Used:
Little Bitty Bird and Fillable Frames #5 stamp sets, Dark Chocolate and Hawaiian Shores inks, Aqua Mist, Spring Moss, and Hawaiian Shores cardstock, Happy Spots patterned paper, Little Bitty Bird and cloud dies, Hawaiian Shores felt, Hawaiian Shores satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink); Perfect Bracket Edge die (My Favorite Things); marker (Copic); clear crystal (Imaginisce); white felt