Birds, Nests & Sweet Children!

Hello! So good of you to stop by to see what I'm busy with.

This Fortnight's challenge, #71, at Sugar Creek Hollow is "Bird's of a Feather". 

I found a lovely image, on my travels some time ago and saved it to my computer. Unfortunately, I did not record the source...Sorry! It is the sweetest, old fashioned image and a lovely verse, which unfortunately, I was not able to include. Because the image is small and there is a sweetness about it, I decided to keep the card in proportion and went with an easel card.

 I created the easel using a Joy die 6002/0147 cut out of Opale Wove Diamond White card. The patterned paper, both floral and blue spots, are from my box of scraps, so no names, sorry, and die cut with Nellie's Multi-Frame Circles. Everything was giving a soft 'touch' of Distress Ink in either Burlap or Old Paper.

I highlighted the eggs in the nest with Glossy Accents and the birds where cut, using Memory Box Resting Birds die, out of Cor'dinations and lightly sanded.

I used beautiful seam binding called Rancho Red, that was gifted to me a very dear friend. At first I thought it was too strong a color and tried out a softer pink, but realised that this color seemed to lift the card somewhat. I tied a double bow, using my Bow Maker (love that gadget!)

Onto the inside of the easel. I wanted some flowers, but fairly flat flowers because of the card closure, so turned to my awesome Olba Punch set. I absolutely love this set as it somehow fits into my idea of  'all things miniature'. I punched out and shaped these little flowers, mounted them and added a little pearl to the centers. I then punched out some leaves, lay then onto the card and arranged the flowers on top of them. They needed a touch of sparkle, so added some Stickles to the flowers with a toothpick!

I wanted a sentiment that was thoughtful and found this lovely one in my stash from Verve. It is VS-09-PJ029 and I stamped it using Hero Arts 'Charcoal' Ink. Much softer than black and I was very happy with the way it looked on the mottled blue card. Such a beautiful verse and one that I should have foremost in my mind. The last touches added were some more birds and of course, pearls!

Please do pop in and visit my teamies - links on the right side of the blog - to see their amazing creations and then get your thinking caps on and please enter our challenge! We ask you to please use both Birds & Nests on your projects and they need to be a Vintage and/or Shabby Chic creation to qualify for the prize or guest designer spot. We also have a guest designer, Anne Marie Governale and you can see her stunning work at on her blog My Eclectic Spirit.

It is so good to pop in and visit you all when you do link to a challenge.

Till next we chat dear friends, keep well, keep creating and God Bless!

Hugz

Moz