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I wanted to make a Valentine’s day card that is a bit of a departure from the usual pink and red color scheme, and this ended up nice with a Shaded Spruce card base.
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Fortunately, I’ve been fussy-cutting birds and flowers from the Bird Ballad Designer Series Paper on and off for the past couple of weeks, so I had a lot of them to layer on top of each other for this card. They’re just kind of tucked into each other, with a few popped up on those foam hexagons to give the card a bit of texture and dimension.
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Making a heart shape from scratch is a little daunting, so if you look closely, you can see that I actually built up the birds on top of an intricate heart die that I cut out of vellum. The leafy edges of that die look all matchy-matchy peaking out from the edges of the heart, but I imagine any heart shape would probably work just as well–the idea is really just to have a guide for making sure the heart shape is relatively even.
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Doing the heart is the complicated part of this card; I stamped some of the flower and leaf images from the Free as a Bird stamp set in Shaded Spruce ink onto the same color card stock for the background, and then added a scrap of whisper white with the sentiment (also stamped in Shaded Spruce) and finished the whole thing off with a strip of Old Olive/Pretty Peacock reversible ribbon.
Absolutely beautiful; outstanding! Thanks for sharing how you created this lovely card.
Thank you!
Stunning!! I may have to give this idea a shot since I’m stymied for V day card ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Please do; I’d love to see how your version comes out!
Amazingly beautiful! Now to get brave enough to CASE!
Thank you! And CASE away!
What a great card and fabulous idea! Your coloring is gorgeous and just the perfect inspiration for a little birdie card today!
Thank you! I was originally going to try this in more traditional Valentine’s colors; I was trying to pick out the more red- and pink-colored birds at first, but then I realized that there really weren’t too many on the DSP, and also I set some pieces down on a scrap of Shaded Spruce card stock and went WOW!
Wow! Your card is amazing and you are amazing for creating such a masterpiece. It is beautiful, outstanding and way too much work. I absolutely hate fussy cutting and I suck at it.
Haha! I thought I hated fussy cutting, too, but I started and sort of got addicted and couldn’t stop, just put them in a box and didn’t do anything with them for like a month, so this card was actually pretty easy since I had a pile of birds and flowers already lying around.
Really love this!
Thanks!