Time for a change of pace

Here’s a card that’s comletely opposite of my last card, soft vintage and beautiful! I decided to finally try one of Jen’s “sketch for you to try”, she holds them every Friday but I’ve not done one before. I looked at her site today and saw the sketch, then a wonderful package came in the mail with a new “bird notes” stamp set! How fun!

I’ll post the instructions after the picture, as it was nice and simple and I think makes a great card for mass producing. Sean and I are going to see Kathy Griffin tonight, Im very excited! I love her stand up and watching her “My life on the D-list” on Bravo, she really makes me laugh! My Mom is coming over to babysit the girls, so we are going to stop and have a quick bite then go see the show. She’s playing at the Paramount tonight, for any of you Seattle gal’s who know the city.

Instructions:

1) I started with a piece of chocolate chip CS cut and folded to standard size.
2) Next I cut soft sky CS to 4 1/4x 5 1/4 and stamped the feather image onto it with soft sky ink, the birdy feet in chocolate chip, then used my ticket corner punch on the four corners.
3) Then I stamped the bird and crown in stazon brown onto Papertrey white CS and used my oval nesties to cut it out.
4) I then cut out a coordinating size in chocolate chip with another nesty.
5) Then I watercolored the bird with creamy caramel and heavily diluted chocolate chip ink, and made a ground out of the same combination.
6) I also used a white signo gel pen to highlight some feathers, a glaze pen for sparkle on the crown and sponged the edges in chocolate chip ink.
7) This was then adhered to the chocolate chip oval.
Next I wrapped some chocolate satin ribbon around the sky layer then adhered the oval bird to the right of the card.
9) I made a seperate bow with the ribbon and adhered it to the left of the bird with glue dots.
10) This was all adhered to the chocolate chip base with dimensionals.
11) Finally I adhered 4 cream halfback pearls to the four corners.

The DEETS:

Stamps: Bird notes-Crafty Secrets
CS: Chocolate chip, soft sky-SU   white-Papertrey
Ink: stazon brown, chocolate chip, creamy caramel, soft sky-SU
Accessories: white gel pen, glaze pen, sponge, nesties, dimensionals, glue dots, ribbon from M’s, pretties kit

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