Large all occasion card featuring a cute little bird with a button & lace over an embossed strip with a serenidipity background in greens and blues

After having fun with the little bird from Melonheadz on my last card I decided to make another one.  For this one I started by creating a serendipity background using blue and green scraps of decorative paper.  After it was dry I trimmed it to fit on my large blue card.  I adhered three strips of blue cardstock to each other using regular tape on the back and them embossed them with the script embossing folder (CB).  I glued it to my background and then added a length of lace securing the ends to the back with double sided tape.  After adhereing my background to my card I added a cute little blue die cut button which I found in my stash.  It has been created for a different project - embossed and with a white crochet thread tie.  I watercoloured my little bird to coordinate with my card, added four lines of paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel, layered it onto green cardstock with a eyelet border punched edge and an embossed line which I added with my score tool.  That was layered onto blue cardstock and then mounted a bit askew on my card front using 3D foam tape.    Therese