Happy Birthday Daughter & CR84FN24

Cupcake's Creations, has posted a wonderfully elegant color challenge: Light Blue, Aqua, and Cream. And, my daughter is celebrating a birthday this week, so...I combined the two. I stamped the bird in Basic Brown classic ink and colored her with chalks. I masked the birds head to stamp the crown. I really wanted it to look as if the bird is wearing the crown and not just randomly over the birds head. Know what I mean? The scallop piece is actually box pleated. I'm not sure if you can tell, but I wanted to let you know. I scrunched up some blue seam binding and tied it around the box pleat. I put the pearl brad all the way through the seam binding and pleated scallop trim. The roses I hand rolled, and added a half pearl to each of the centers. The butterfly is die cut from felted wool. I finished the card off with a few spritzes of Vanilla smooch. And I have yet to figure out how to photograph a card with smooch on it, so you can tell. :(
Thank you for looking. I'm now off to decorate her cake!

SU! Birds Card Class #4

[Ok, for those who visited my blog earlier, you know that I removed an image. I had posted a different card as #4. Then, when I finished posting the last card and 'thank you' gift, I noticed that #4 seemed out of place. So, I re-made the #4 card.]

Happy Saturday! This is the fourth card for the SU! Birds Card Class that is being held at my house on two different days; tomorrow or next Saturday. I thought maybe some of you would like to see them all, so I am getting my act together and getting them downloaded to my blog. Life has been crazy busy these last few months. Don't know why. But, I don't seem to have as much time as I use to have. Or maybe, I'm slowing down. I don't know, but I don't like it. If you purchase a kit, you also get a bird house 'thank you' box.

I like this bird from Best Wishes & More stamp set, because it is really versatile. You can put it on a branch, or leave him walking on your card. He is a nice size too, so he won't get lost, and he's not too overwhelming.

I had to use my favorite color - Close to Cocoa. I used Bermuda Bay to help anchor the card. I spritz some card stock with water, and crumbled it, and then flattened the card stock, put it into my three flower punch and that is how I made my flowers. I dipped the end of my stylus into the champagne shimmer paint to create the center of the flowers. I used glue dots to attach the flowers to the card.

SU! Birds Card Class #5 & 'Thank-You' gift

Ok. These are the rest of the things for my SU! Birds Card Class. This is card #5, and the little bird house 'thank you' gift for attending my class. I guess somedays, you just need 30 minutes to yourself to get things together. Now that I have all my cards together, instead of individually, I don't think card #4 goes with the group. Post a comment. I'm thinking of changing the colors. Because the other cards all seem to go, except that one. I'll recreate it, use the same layout, just change the colors.