All occasion card featuring a hand decorated background, embossed vellum, stitching and a fussy cut bird

 A fun birthday card for a special person!!!  I started with a piece of blue scrap book paper and added a layer of stamped leaves in a light green colour of ink.  I watercoloured over them with blue and green to make a muted background.  While it was drying I tore and embossed a piece of vellum using a leafy branch embossing folder (CB).  I laid it over the background and added a strip of tan cardstock.  I used a decorative stitch on my sewing machine and stitched all of the pieces together using blue thread.  I mounted this large element to a tan card.  The bird (Supercoloring) was sized and laser printed and then fussy cut.  I watercoloured it to coordinate with my card!!! It was mounted to my card using 3D foam tape.  I printed several birds so will be using them on future cards.  Therese