Cardmaking - TH funky bird with glossy background, seam binding in pewter eyelets

This card was created in the A2 card format.  The background used glossy cardstock, ink watercolour on the surface and then was embossed and highlighted with a purple ink pad.  Very bold!!!  I added another strip of inked glossy, two eyelets and then a length of pewter seam binding tying it in a double knot on the front.  My bird is more subdued than the other ones but it still works for this card.  

Therese
 

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