Up in the Air Bird House – Tutorial #488

Hey There,

Hope you are having an awesome Monday.  I absolutely took the entire day off yesterday so I am trying to play catch up today.  Russ and I hung out all day and totally vegged in front of the TV.  Sometimes you just need a down day, right?   He has a good excuse since he is still healing from his surgery last week.  But me, hmmm, I guess my excuse is Russ needed company on the couch, lol.

I have a pretty little card for you today.   It highlights the Stampin’ Up! set Up in the Air (item number 122477) and the brand new Framelits – Labels Collection (item number 125598).  Gotta love the New Framelits from Stampin’ Up.  Makes super quick work out of cutting the wonderful shapes using the Big Shot Machine, plus you have lots of layer options.

Reminders before I start on the tutorial:

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Now on with today’s tutorial. . . . .  . .

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampin’ Up! Up in the Air (item number 122477) Mini Catlog Hostess set

Card Stock: Stampin’ Up! Whisper White, Basic Black, Old Olive and Cajun Craze

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, So Saffron and Stazon Jet Black ink.

Accessories: Stampin’ Up!  sponge,  3/8″ circle punch,  brayer, White Gel Pen, Old Olive Marker, Scallop Trim Corner, Framelits – Label Collection (item number 125598)

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Die Cut the 3rd largest Framelit using the Big Shot Machine and Whisper White Card stock.

Brayered So Saffron ink all over the Whisper White Card stock.

Brayered Cajun Craze on the top 2/3rds of the card stock.

Brayered Cherry Cobbler ink at the top of the card stock.

Ink up just the branch on the Up in The Air stamp using Stazon Black ink and stamped it at the top of the card stock.  Inked up the branch and the bird house stamped it below the first stamping and over to the right just a bit.

Colored all of the flowers in using a White Gel Pen.

Colored the leaves in using an Old Olive marker.

Sponged a little bit of Old Olive at the bottom of the card stock to indicate a bit of ground.  You don’t want to get to dark with this otherwise your bird house will look like it is hanging really low.

Added 2 Old Olive panels, 1 Cajun Craze panel and 1 Basic Black panel.  Punched the corners of the Basic Black panel using the Scallop Trim Corner Punch (Item number 118870).

Adhered my panels together and punched 2 circles using the 3/8″ circle punch from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack (Item number 118309).  Adhered the circles to the main image panel.

Added an Old Olive brad to the center of each Basic Black circle.

Here is the finished card measuring 5″ square.  🙂

May your day bring a smile to your face.

Until my next post. . . . .  . . .

Hugs,

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