Happy Friday!
I love using this little bird punch and matching Stampin’ Up! stamp set, Language of Friendship. The punch made making the bird and leaves a breeze. The background is a combination of the direct to paper technique and stamping.
I purposely made the leaves non-traditional colors for interest.
Check out the tutorial for this project below.
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Now on with today’s tutorial. . . . . . .
Project Supplies:
Stampin’ Up! Stamps: Language of Friendship and Summer Silhouettes
Card Stock: Stampin’ Up! Whisper White, Midnight Muse, More Mustard, Pacific Point, Old Olive and Tempting Turquoise
Ink: Stampin’ Up! Basic Black, Certainly Celery, River Rock and Island Indigo
Accessories: Stampin’ Up! 1 3/8″ square punch, Bird Punch, Stampin’ Dimensionals, White Gel Pen, Markers (Soft Suede, Always Artichoke, Pacific Point, Basic Black, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, More Mustard and Midnight Muse).
Started with a 4.25″ square piece of Whisper White card stock. Smeared the River Rock ink pad on the card stock. Then smeared Island Indigo ink on the left side of the card stock.
Smear a little Midnight Muse ink over some of the Island Indigo ink at the far left. Smeared Certainly Celery at the right and left side of the card stock.
Stamped the lattice stamp from the Stampin’ Up! set, Summer Silhouettes over the dark edge of the card stock using Midnight Muse ink.. Stamped the Leaves from the Summer Silhouettes stamp set using River Rock ink all over the card stock.
Added Branches using the Soft Suede marker. Added a shadow on the right side of each of the branches using a Chocolate Chip marker.
Stamped the bird on More Mustard card stock with Basic Black ink. Punched the images out.
Added More Mustard marker to the dark areas of the wing and birds body. Followed up by coloring over the entire wing and body using a So Saffron marker (this was to warm the image up a bit). Added Basic Black at the bottom of the two images.
Punched the birds wing out of Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, More Mustard and Pacific Point card stocks. I’m going to use these pieces for the leaves. 🙂
Added Shadows to the leaves with an Always Artichoke marker, Pacific Point Marker, Midnight Muse marker and More Mustard Marker. Colored over the More Mustard leave using a So Saffron marker.
Glued the leaves to my main image panel and attached the bird using Stampin Dimensionals to pop it up. Added veins to the leaves using the same colors that I used for the shadows.
Punched two 1 3/8″ squares from Midnight Muse card stock and then cut them in half to use for my corner embellishments. Added a More Mustard card base, Pacific Point panel and a More Mustard panel. Also added my triangles and White gel pen dots on the the edge of the triangles after assembly.
Here is the finished card measuring 5.25″ square.
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May your day be filled with warmth and sunshine!
Until my next post.. . . . .
Hugs,
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St. Petersburg, Florida (Registration Closed)
I hope you can make it to one of my workshops in 2012. I have decided not to travel full time after this year, so be sure to catch one now!
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