It was great to be back making cards after a busy Christmas and a cold snap with temperatures in the -35C to -45C!! It has warmed up and we are now dealing with water running everywhere!! It was a small crowd for cardmaking but it always a good time when you are with friends and being creative. We started with making these fun bird cards. The birds are 2.5" circle (Nestibilities) cut from decorative paper. If it was not double sided I simply watercoloured the back to give the bird a bit of depth. The circle is folded just short of half to allow the back to create a bit of a belly. We added our fiber tails and then the beak before gluing our birds onto our backgrounds. Next, we added the eye - 1/4" circle punchie - which we glued in place and then added the highlight with a white gel marker. The legs were added next using a fine tip black Sharpie marker giving them a few toes. Then we created our hot glue seals for our ribbon. We placed a little 1/4" nub of hot glue stick on a piece of cardstock then onto a foil covered corrugated cardboard.
Do Not use a heat gun right onto your counter!!!!!!!!
We held our paper in place with a long skewer while we heated the hot glue with the heat gun. Takes less than a minute for it to melt into a small puddle of glue. We placed decorative buttons which were coated with embossing ink into the puddle and let them cool off. Once they are cool you can simply remove the button and see the impression in the hot glue. Very cool!!!
We added our ribbons across the decorative paper, added our second one by just crossing them and then added our seals. We stripped the paper off the back of the seals and then use a dab of hot glue to secure them over our ribbons. Birdie cards are useful for many occasions with the quote " A little birdie told me...". These fun cards to make!!! Therese
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