Build A Bird Feeder

Oh My Goodness this card turned out to be amazing, however, it is definitely not a very quick make.  I could have made it, or it could have been made with a full acetate background for the card front, but I wanted the card to have a feel of looking through the branches at the little friends busy in the meadow.

I have a YouTube video up that will be much more descriptive than this blog, just because there are so many steps, that going into detail would make it too long.

To start, I used a piece of cardstock cut 5.5" by 11".  I scored the paper at 4.25" and then scored it again 1/8" over from the first score line.  The card front is thick with the bird feeder and then with the additional layers on the inside, a simple score line will not give you enough room.  

I used a craft knife to cut an opening in the front cover that I could adhere the Branch Backdrop pieces to.  

I added a little Walnut Stain distress Oxide Ink to the branches on the backdrops.  

I wanted to have some seeds in my bird feeder, so I inked a piece of light brown cardstock for some color variation.  I also wanted it to stay put in the feeder so I applied adhesive film to both side of the cardstock and then used the die that is included with the Build A Bird Feeder Die Set to cut it out.  

For the bird feeders, I cut three fames, two pieces of acetate and two sets of the cap and tray.  I used Carved Pumpkin Distress  Oxide Ink to soften the edges and give it more depth.  To assemble them, I glued tray and top on two of them along with a piece of acetate.  I placed the birdseed at the bottom of one feeder, glued in the third frame.  I cut a couple of acetate strips to apply to the top and bottom of the feeder keep the feeder centered in the backdrop.  To finish the bird feeder, I glued the second decorated one on top of the other two.  

As I was making the front of the card, I realized that I needed someplace to put the sentiment, so I cut a piece of green cardstock using the Simple Grassy Border Die to cut a piece of ground for the card front and then cut two more ground pieces for the inside of the card.  I heat embossed the "Happy Birthday" sentiment from the Simply Sentiments Stamp Set.  

For the inside background, I inked a piece of white cardstock with a light layer of Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink and then used the Cloudy Stencil to lightly lay in some clouds.  Once that was dry, I used the Stratus Cloud Stencil with white pigment ink to lay in some more clouds on top. 

Once I glued my grassy pieces on the Branches Backdrops, I glued the backdrops to the card piece.  I made sure to  adhere the birdfeeder to the frame before  I put glued the backdrops to the card frame piece. 

Since I had several layers now on the front of the card, the branches had gaps because the backdrop pieces were separated by the card frame.  To fill the gaps, I cut out another Branch Backdrop and then trimmed the branches off  where I needed to fill the gaps.  This probably doesn't make much sense, but if you watch the video, you will see what I do to fortify the branches.  

I used the leaf dies that are included with the Branches Backdrop to cut out the leaves for my branches.  For the green on my leaves, I inked white cardstock with Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide Ink.  

To finish the inside of my card, I cut my inked background piece to 4" x 5.25", adhered my two grassy pieces to the bottom and then glued the whole piece to the right inside piece.  

The images are from the Backyard Bird Feeder, Backyard Bird Feeder Add On and the coordinating dies.  I colored them with Copic markers in the following colors:

·       Y02, Y38

·       B00, B02, B04

·       T0, T2, T5

·       R24, R29, R39

·       E30, E33, E37

·       E70, E71, E74, E41

·       RV10, RV23

·       G21, G46, G28

I just placed my little friends and other elements where I felt they looked best always keeping in mind where they would show from the front of the card.  Once I had everything in place, I felt like I had a lot of open space in the sky so I used the Simple Puffy Cloud Frames to cut out a few clouds to fill in the open area.

Phew!  That just about completes this card.  Like I said, it is pretty time intensive, but definitely impactful.

Thanks you so much for stopping by today.  

Sandy

Under The Weather?

 

Hello again!  Today I have a really neat interactive card that combines Trinity Stamps and Lawn Fawn Dies.  I am also linking a YouTube video at the bottom of this post if you want to follow along in the process of making this card.

To start, I cut a piece of light blue cardstock 4'25" x 11.0" and scored at 4.25".  I cut three pieces of patterned paper to 4.0" x 5.25".  

For the front of the card, I glued one piece of the patterned paper.  Using the cloud die from the Trinity Stamps Scenic Borders: Slim Line Series, I cut out two pieces of clouds from a light gray cardstock.  I dusted the edges with Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink.  I layered the cloud piece and cut them to 4" wide.  

Using the Grassy Die Border and the Little Picket Fence Border by Lawn Fawn, I cut out the grass from green cardstock and the fence from white cardstock.  I inked the edges with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink.  

Using the Trinity Stamps Simply Sentimental: Friends Die, I cut out the "friend" word from a dark gray and glued it on the clouds.  The sentiment on the front of the card is from Trinity's Healing Wishes stamp and coordinating die set.  I added some little raindrops that were cut from some pixie dust cardstock.  

The little images were stamped and die cut from Trinity Stamps Indispensable stamp and coordinating die set using Copic markers in the following colors:

• YR16, YR68, YR18
• B0000, BG000
• R30, R20, R21

For the inside of the card, I used Lawn Fawn's Swivel Surprise Die to cut out the interactive mechanism from white 80lb cardstock.  I used the die to cut out the light blue circle pieces, the gray banner with the "pill better soon" sentiment and the gray patterned paper circle piece.  I used Trinity Stamp's Clean Cut Layers Circles: Set A to cut out the white patterned paper.  

Once I have built the interactive mechanism, I adhered it to the inside of the card after I had glued a piece of patterned paper centered on the side.  The best way to learn how to make this piece is to either watch my linked video or the video by Lawn Fawn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwPOz6LNyI.  

Once I had the mechanism working and pieces exactly where I wanted them, I adhered the last piece of patterned paper on the left side of the inside of the card.  I left this side blank so that the card sender would have an area to write a message and sign.  

This is such a stinkin' cute card don't you think?  I can hardly wait to send it to someone feeling a bit "under the weather" .

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you are doing well!

Sandy

Happy Easter!

 Yikes!!  It's almost Easter and I haven't made very many cards this year.  Better late than never right?

For this shaker card, I used the Trinity Stamps Picket Fence Cut Out Die Set.  For the front of my shaker, I used the third largest rectangle from the A-2 Clean Cut Layers Rectangle Set A.  I centered the Picket Fence Cut Out Die on a piece of patterned paper.  I made sure to leave enough room for the sentiment.  To get the white fence, I ran the Picket Fence Die through my machine with white cardstock and then trimmed it out of the opening.  I adhered the fence on top of the patterned paper.  The clouds and the grass were also cut with this die.  The grass was cut from white cardstock that was inked with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink.  

For the background inside the shaker, I inked in some clouds using a cloud stencil and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink.  I also used a little Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide Ink at the base of the fence.  

To create the "well" where the shaker bits go, I used two layers of foam tape to give it enough depth for the shakers to move freely.  

My little bunny is from the Trinity Stamps Hip Hop Hooray Stamp Set and Coordinating Die Set.

I colored him with Copic Markers in the following colors:

• YR000, YR01, YR02
• RV10
• C00

I heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder and the Trinity Stamps Simply Sentimental Happy Stamp and Coordinating Die Set on pink paper.  The word "Easter" is stamped with black ink on white cardstock.

This turned out to be such a cute little shaker card.  I just love it!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have an amazing day!!

Sandy

Build A Bunny

 Hello!  Today I have a card that has been rattling around in my head.  This little bunny is standing next to my kind of plant - a succulent.  They are about the only plants that survive in my house. 

For the background on this card, I used a piece of Lawn Fawn's patterned paper called Fairy Godmother.  I use Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Ink with the Brick Stencil.  

The plants and two of the pots are from the Planrt A Succulent.  The tall planter on the right is from the Little Flowers Die Set.  I used the Harvest Crate Die Set to hold on of the plants.

I used Copic markers to color in the plants and the containers in the following colors:

·       YG41, YG61, YG63, YG67

·       G85

·       BG53

·       YR02, YR21, YR23

The bunny is from the Build A Bunny Die Set and his little overalls, are from the Build A Bunny
Add On Die Set.

The sentiment is the Scripty Hello Die.  I used the same Fairy Godmother  paper that I did for the background.  

This card didn't turn out like I had pictured it in my head, but that's all right.  Maybe next time, I will use colored cardstock for the planters and the plants.  Hmm.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope that you have a great day!

Sandy