Majestic Bird

Hello!  This is a good time to check on your friends and I thought this card would be nice to send someone to let them know we care.  I was inspired by the Tic Tac Toe Challenge at The House That Stamps Built.  I was a bit stumped for an idea at first but decided to start with Heron and sentiment stamps from Repeat Impressions and build from there.  I stamped and heat embossed the image and words with Black Ink and Clear EP on white card stock which gave a great definition to the feathers. I added some brown flocking to the cattails and glossy accents to the beak and legs which added texture but I needed to add dimension which I did by adding white foam to the back of the cut out image before attaching to the Glittery Patterned Paper background.  Now to use piercing which is the other element in Row 1, I added piercing to the water area which gave it some definition. Like the choice of patterned paper that I used....goes well with the colors in the image and it has a lot of glitter  stripes- hard to see in photo.
Challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper
Artsystampers Digitals Challenge: #13 Things with Wings
The House That Stamps Built: Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge A820 - used top row Piercing-Birds-Dimension

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Butterfly with Stencil

Hello!    I used My Favorite Things Radiating Rays stencil with Memento Summer Sky ink and DOI Tumbled Glass to create a panel that I trimmed with a square die and cut the center out with a circle die.  I attached that using foam pad to Shimmery Yellow Card Base and added a fussy cut butterfly that was in my stash of leftovers.  (Stamped the butterfly with Black Ink and colored with Copics. ) Finished with a GKD sentiment. 

When I showed this to my DH, he thought it needed more so I added a frame of Blue CS to the second version shown below.  I'll let you be the judge to which one you like. 

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: Week 513 Use Yellow
CAS-ology: Week 337 Burst-burst of rays
The House That Stamps Built: DCC43 Use Stencil

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Popping in with Poppies

 I am sharing a Card that I made "casing" another card designer for a challenge at Happy Little Stampers. I stamped Power Poppy Poppies stamps and sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black on white CS.  Using a Rectangle die, I cut a section from the stamped area and colored this area with Copics R29,YR07, Y06, YG95,YG63.  I attached the center to foam cut the same size and attached both stamped sections  to the card base of Yellow CS.   I pretty much followed the layout of Joyce's card but used different stamps and colors.  I like using the foam to keep the card from being crushed in during mailing.

Challenges:
Happy Little Stampers: Challenge-April CASE the Designer Joyce Mehrberg.
CAS on Sunday: Challenge #80 Flowers



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