Monday, June 6, 2011

Bird-day Birdie

Here’s my card for this week’s SCS clean and simple challenge. This week's theme is "play on words." I went for a fun bird-themed birthday card.

I stamped one of the bird images from Our Craft Lounge’s Tweet Thang stamp set and colored it with Copic markers. I stamped the image a second time, colored just the bird’s wing, cut it out, and attached it to the image with a dimensional dot. The image is set on an aqua card front, using another dimensional dot, with a little punched grass strip underneath it.

For a festive look, I made a simple banner to string across the card’s upper left corner. It’s just a few narrow patterned paper strips with a notched piece snipped out of the bottom edges, folded over a length of green baker's twine. The banner's anchored with knots at the end of the twine and secured with glue dots.

I paired the image with the “happy bird-day” sentiment from the coordinating Tweet Trees stamp set. The sentiment's stamped so it's like the bird is saying the words. Fun!

Materials Used:
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{heart} papers: Our Craft Lounge Tweet Thang and Tweet Trees stamp sets, Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink, X-Press white Copic blending cardstock, Copic markers (YG00, YG01, YG03, YG05, YG13, YG25, Y00, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18), Echo Park Summer Days patterned paper, Divine Twine Green Apple baker's twine, Zva Creative dimensional dots

other:
Aqua Mist and Simply Chartreuse cardstock (Papertrey Ink); grass border punch (Martha Stewart)

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