Cardmaking - TH funky birds over a wax resist backgrounds with glittery embellishments

I am working on cards upcoming family events.  I have had these funky birds (TH) sitting on my desk since the last time I made cards with them.  I really love the look of them and that they are very appropriate for many occasion if you start your greeting with  "A little bird told me...." .  I cut a large card for fit in my envelope and added a green rectangle to the bottom of the image which was embossed with stars and I punched out three of  them. I added paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel and once this large element was adhered to my card I added a double row of glittery stars on the right hand side.  I watercoloured the bird to coordinate and then mounted it to my card front with 3D foam tape once it was dry.  Totally fun cards to make!!

For this card I added a pink layer at the bottom which I punched with a border punch and then embossed with the D'vine Swirl embossing folder and added an embossed line in between using my Score tool.  Added little pink heart embellishments, paper piercing and a fun coordinating bird.  

This background was created with crumpled wax paper which was ironed onto the surface of glossy card and coloured with ink pads.  I embossed the floral swirl and then highlighted with turquoise Distress ink.  I embossed a green rectangle with the same embossing folder and added some clear glitter with a gel pen.  The fussy cut little bird was watercoloured to coordinate. 

I love the personalities of these birds!!!!  This card has the glittery heart embellishments on both sides of the image with two rectangles added - one at the top and the other at the bottom.

I used paste paper for this background and added watercolour to give it more interest.  The two rectangles were embossed and added to the top and bottom.  I added it to my card front and found it still needed a bit of something so I used a scallop border punch (SU) on the edge and added little gold embellishments and a row of paper piercing.  Still needing something I added paper piercing to a strip of yellow and added it to the left hand side and that was better!!  Done

So fun to create with these!!!

Therese