A Little Birdie Told Me

Here’s a card we made at our Opportunity Night (a night where customers can come to learn about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator) last week.  This card is almost exactly the same as the one we made.  I added the scallop to the strip in the middle of the card, and used a different papers, but other than that it’s the same.  This was hard to photograph so you could see that there is a hole in the front where you can see the smaller bird inside!

 I love how we used the punches to add a focal point!  To make the yellow scallop, first punch a 1 3/8″ circle in the Apricot Appeal.  Then line up the circle in the middle of the scallop circle punch.  I layed this onto the Naturals White card stock and put a small dot in the middle so I knew where to punch the hole on the card front.  I used my Stamp-a-majig for placement of the birds, hats, and sentiments, although one bird inside looks like he’s losing his hat!  Oh well.  I colored the birds with re-inkers and my aquapainter, using the Naturals White card stock instead of Whisper White, as I find it takes the watercoloring technique better.  I should have used StazOn because on a couple of the birds the ink ran when I got a little too heavy with the water.  I stamped the small bird directly onto the Soft Sky paper, then again onto a scrap of Naturals White, colored him, cut him out (cut off his legs), and glued him over the stamped image.

Stamps: A Little Birdie Told Me; Paper: Naturals White, Certainly Celery, Apricot Appeal, Soft Sky Designer Series Paper; Ink: Basic Black, various Soft Subtles inks, Groovy Guava & Purely Pomegranate, Close to Cocoa marker for beaks; Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ circle punch, corner rounder punch, aquapainter, Stamp-a-majig