Welcome Stampin' Friends
The theme for this week's challenge on Stampin' Royalty is SPRING!
Fun! I have had an idea for a punched bird for a while now and wanted to use that for my creation for Spring. Spring has arrived in Boise, Idaho and walking outside hearing the birds sing brings joy to my heart! We have also had a lot of rain! The only down side to that is my hair does NOT like the rain!!! And, maybe my driveway full of worms! But soon it will be green everywhere and blooms galore!
This card was especially fun to make because I got to make it with my friend Georgie, who is my downline and the moderator of Stampin' Royalty. We made our challenge cards together today. You can see I incorporated my punched bird idea and a little worm, normally preditor and prey, but on my card, they have put their differences aside and are now friends!
Here is how I made my punched birdie...
1. Die cut a 3" circle (#122125) from Daffodil Delight card stock (#119683).
2. Using a 1-3/4" circle punch (#119850), punch out a piece, leaving a moon shape behind.
3. Take your favorite paper scissors and round one side of the punched out opening. I know it is a little scary, but just go for it and you will be surprised at how awesome you do, and if not, that one was just a prototype (as my friend Lael would say!) Try again, it's allowed.
4. Using the 1-1/4" circle punch (#119861), punch out another piece from the opposite side of the bird.
5. Again, take your favorite paper scissors and round out the punched opening, revealing your birdie!
6. For the birdie's wing start by punch out a 1-3/4" circle (#119850), punch out a portion of that with the 1" circle punch (#119868).
7. Round out the punched opening with your favorite paper scissors, just as you did with the bird and you are done with the wing.
8. Sponge (#101610) the birdie and his wing with Daffodil Delight ink (#119667) to give it demension. Run the wing through the Big Shot (#113439) with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (#117335) then mount the wing to the birdie using Dimensionals (#104430).
9. Add a googly eye with Mulitpurpose Glue (aka - Green Glue) (#110755). Once you adhere your bird to your card draw in the legs with the writing tip of your Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker (#100082). And the worm, I cut him out free hand, in a little "s" shape.
I thought I would also share with you the card I made with Georgie, it is slightly different than the card she made for the Spring Challenge, mostly because I messed up on mine from the get go and had to do mine a little different. You can see Georgie's original on her blog or on Stampin' Royalty. But, here is my version of her fabulous creation. Make sure to click over to Stampin' Royalty to check out what my fellow Goddesses made with this challenge and to play along with our challenge as well.
Oh my goodness....I don't know how I missed this the first time around! This is so stinkin' CUTE! I know, my driveway gets full of worms too, but this worm & his feathery friend just make me smile!
Posted by: LeAnne | March 30, 2012 at 04:56 AM