Hello there! Thank you for joining me today for an autumn card featuring Birds & Branches and how to alter die-cuts.
As you know, Saturday is our video day. It’s been a week, and so far, as of writing this up on Thursday afternoon, I haven’t made a video, but I did want to share another project with you, just in case. From now until December 1, there’s just some business that I need to take care of and have to wing it.
Birds & Branches combined with Beautiful Autumn coordinates perfectly. The veins in the leaves from Beautiful Autumn are the exact width as the branch die-cut from Birds & More. It’s another testament to how Stampin’ Up! products are meant, and do, work together.
I can’t believe I still haven’t gotten around to using the other images in this bundle, such as the nest and eggs, to share with you. There is so much potential and ideas I have in my head for these bundles.
I always keep the core of annual catalog products and look to supplement with seasonal products, and this is a perfect example.
The card base is a top-folding A2, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 Thick Whisper White CS. I cut a silver and white piece stripped piece of DSP from Feels Like Frost to 3/4 x 5-1/2 and adhered it at the left side of the card base, which looks fantastic and gives the project an unexpected punch.
I then cut a piece of Regular Whisper White CS to 3-3/4 to 5-1/2, which will be our image panel. I used a Stampin’ Sponge to ink on Balmy Blue from the left corner on up. I used the die-cut branch from Birds & More to cut a Soft Suede branch. I fussy cut off the leaves to alter/modify the branch, so I would have just the branch. I stamped the solid leaf from Beautiful Autumn in Bumblebee with the outline art in Soft Suede, then punched out with the coordinating punch. I placed the branch on the image panel to eyeball where I would stamp the Balmy Blue dot image from Pattern Play 3x. The branch and leaves were adhered to the image panel with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
I then stamped the sentiment at the bottom right in Memento Tuxedo Black. The bird was stamped in Balmy Blue with the solid image and Smoky Slate for the overlay image. The feet were stamped in Smoky Slate, all of which were cut with the coordinating die-cut. I added a touch of glue to the top of the bird feet and adhered it under the bird breast. Four mini Stampin’ Dimensionals were placed on the back of the bird, one of which helps secure down the bird feet even more. I colored in 4 medium Pearl Basic Jewels with the Dark Soft Suede Stampin’ Blend Marker and used 1 for the bird’s eye and the other 3 scattered about the image panel. A large pearl was adhered to the end of one of the branches, which I am definitely going to switch out to another leaf image to balance everything out.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers over the next 6+ weeks.
Thank you for stopping by for a visit. Have a great day and God bless.
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