Hello again! It's been a busy week with Life in general. Summer things, necessary things, friend things, medical things... all is well, but it has kept me offline more than usual. Sometimes my head feels a little offline, too, haha! I'll try to catch up with everyone soon, but please forgive me if I'm slow to visit.
The final card of the week features a pretty Cottage Cutz Bird w/Bluebells. I'm an easy mark when those Scrapping Cottage sale ads come in my email, but I never regret it. This sweet little bird perched in the garden was such fun to put together.
Layered for dimension and colored with Copics she's pretty as a picture, so I placed her in a small but mighty frame which was a gift from the lovely Michele. The two die sets appear to be made for each other. After coloring the bird & flowers I looked through The Vast Hoard for coordinating designer paper and came up with a Prima pad from 2011. The oval window was already cut in the lavender piece so I layered over the yellow and trimmed to fit this 4 3/4" square card. It's nice when serendipity makes a card design easy!
A favorite old Hero Arts woodblock stamp provided a sentiment that was a perfect fit for the front. Inside is a Stampin' Up birthday sentiment from I-don't-know-which-set since I consolidated a lot of SU sentiments during my most recent purge. My small stamp room and my distaste for clutter and chaos makes purging a necessity, but believe me, I still have a LOT of favorite oldies and love to use them along with the new.
I'll link up again with Darnell's NBUS Challenge #53 with my never before used Bird w/Bluebells.
Thank you for visiting!
Stamps: Hero Arts Happy Happy Happy (2003), Stampin' Up birthday sentiment inside Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Super Smooth Solar White 80#, Prima Sweet Fairy designer paper (2011) Ink: SU Brilliant Blue Coloring: Copics Dies: Cottage Cutz Bird w/Bluebells, ornate frame - name unknown, Spellbinders Classic Ovals Other: Black self-adhesive half pearl for eye
19 comments:
Beautiful design and love this, so creative as always! ♥
Your card is so pretty! You always have a way with die cuts and I just love this sweet little bird! The frame really caught my eye as well! Have a lovely weekend!
a real cutie of a card and I agree with the sentiment. Have a great day
Such fun! You went from dancing mice to a cute little bird! Your card is so bright and happy! I love the die cuts you used and the paper is a perfect finishing touch. Talk about slow - I can hardly get one card posted with everything going on! Have a great weekend!
Beautiful card and frame -love the cute bird and little flowers.Glad to hear all is well-I finally got my scan results from last Oct this week scoliosis whick I already knew and riddled with osteoarthritis!!!
Carol x
You have the best dies and put them together so wonderfully!! I bought the strawberry set that you used in June and I actually used it make several pieces of each, but I haven't gotten them on to a card yet. Boo for me! :-(
Your little bluebird is so pretty and looks happily perched in your beautiful framed garden! Love the sentiment! You can never have too much happy! I'm with you and doing a purge now. So many toys, not enough time to enjoy them all so I'll pass them on.
Leslie, your little blue bird is looking so adorable sitting there among those sweet blooms. You indeed have some really lovely dies!!
I'm so happy things are getting better with you, its ok to take some time to gather your thoughts before getting back into the swing of things.
I'm so very happy you are creating again, my dear friend.
Sending lots of love and hugs.
Maria.
I love how you used your pretty designer paper and beautiful die cut ornate frame for your sweet and beautiful die cut bird on a branch image...you are so clever and creative, my friend. TFS Love and Hugs..Nancy
Leslie, I love how you've used that little frame and see your sweet little bird likes it, too! Makes me wonder what our birds in the garden would do if we set a mirror out for them? hmmm?
You do 'persnickety' so perfectly - love those sweet little bells!
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Every part of this is so beautiful. Love the bird and flower die cuts. Plus the designer paper is gorgeous probably because that is my favorite color. Love how you used the sentiments on the front and inside. Thanks for more inspiration.
another beautiful card, Leslie. The blue pops nicely with the purple.
I can see why this little bluebird captured your heart Leslie...he is ADORABLE and this whole card just couldn't be any sweeter! Had to chuckle a little about the dsp pad from 2011...just proves that there is a reason why we hoard!! Haha!! Sweet, sweet card my friend!! Hugs. :0)
Oh my your bird is so sweet with the lovely bluebells, love the fancy frame for him to sit inside. I like the different happy's going down the side too, so darn cute!
Those little bell flowers are darling and the are the perfect blooms to go with that sweet little bird! This is a delightful card, Leslie. I don't even want to think about how old some of my hoarded paper is!
Oh, how I love the bell flowers and darling bird! You have such a talent for combining dies that work beautifully together! As always, the colors are gorgeous too. The sentiment makes me smile!
You know I can't resist those Cottage Cutz sales and your bird is as cute as he can be, oh my, those pretty colors he is along with the pretty flowers makes a beautiful card!! Beautifully designed and the happy makes ME happy!! I am waiting for yet another sale, you can't beat them!!
Totally sweet and adorable card!
yes definitely a happy little bird. what sweet scene xx
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