A Die Cut Bird and a Circle

Playing along with the Tic Tac Toe Challenge and CAS Mix Up, and getting a friend's birthday card made.

I started out by creating my background - green and blue Magicals sprinkled on mixed media cs and spritzed with water.  I stamped a foliage stamp on it with black ink.

I stamped and heat embossed the bird, then die cut it.  

On a white panel, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, trimmed it with a stitched rectangle die, and die cut a circle out of the upper centre.

I layered the panel over the background using foam tape for dimension, added it to the card base, and added the die cut bird to the top, popping up its head on foam tape where it goes over the background.

I chose the centre vertical row - "die cut - circle - bird" from the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.

CAS Mix-Up - anything that flies with watercolour as a main element - my Magicals are my watercolour element.

Supplies:
Stamps - Local King Stamp Co. bird, Hero Arts sentiment, Magenta foliage
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white and mixed media cs
Size - A2
Accessories - blue and green Magicals, Local King Stamp Co. bird die, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, Spellbinders circle die, foam tape

Foliage in a Star

Less is More challenge is asking for "More Than One Type of Foliage".

 

 And it's the end of the month so it's time for the October Rudolph Days "Anything Goes" Christmas card challenge.

I'm trying to clear off my desk so had a look through my scraps so that I could make a card that would qualify for Pixie's Snippets Playground challenge. 

And I used some never-used foliage and mistletoe dies for the NBUS Never Before Used Schtuff challenge.

 

 

 

I die cut the star by setting a smaller die cut inside a larger one and die cutting from a scrap of shimmery gold cs. I die cut the greenery and mistletoe boughs from scraps of smooshed leftovers.

Assembled the star and bunch of greenery on a cream panel, using gold twine to "hang" the star, added a heat embossed sentiment, and popped the panel up with fun foam. Finished off by adding white liquid pearls to the mistletoe berries.

 

I'm hoping to be more regular with my posts going forwards as I'm getting my energy back and starting to feel more creative.

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - Stampabilities sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Gold
Paper - cream, gold, and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Spellbinders star dies, TH greenery dies, white liquid pearls, gold embossing powder, gold twine, fun foam