Wow! Thank you all for your sweet comments these past couple of days! I'm glad y'all are liking the Bella cards I posted this week - hopefully I'll be posting more in the near future as I still have a bunch of bellas that haven't seen ink yet!
I could have posted another one today but decided to make something different. I have a bunch of Kim Hughes sets sitting here that are also sadly neglected so I pulled a couple of the sets out last night and made this card:
This one turned out even better than I thought it would. I had a vague idea in my head of what I wanted to do and then just fiddled around and this was the end result!
I used the Pretty Birds set - the nest and the bird image, and the branch, leaves and sentiment are from The Landing Pad set.
I stamped the branch with ColorBox chalk ink, then used my Prismacolors and gamsol to add a little more color (I can't remember if I'd ever used chalk inks before with Prismacolors and gamsol so I wasn't sure if it would smear but it didn't in the least as you can see!).
The leaves were stamped using a green chalk ink.
The nest was stamped separately onto Kraft CS, colored then cut out. I adhered it so that it looks like the bird (that I stamped above the branch on purpose) is sitting in the nest - doing it that way meant I didn't have to do any masking!
I added some mini Prima flowers and attached them with some mini brads (Basic Grey) from my stash.
The textured cardstock is DoodleBug by Bazzill - LOVE that CS - also love that the texture of it mimics the texture on the branch! I used my Fiskars Treading Water Punch to scallop the bottom of the CS.
I ran the brown CS through my CuttleBug using the Swiss Dots folder.
The sentiment was stamped then punched out with a circle punch and matted with a larger circle punched from Celery CS. I added another mini brad and prima to it before adhering it to the cardfront.
The ribbon is PTI as is the card base.
On the inside of the card I added more DoodleBug CS, used up the brown CS that I had embossed then attached a piece of white CS that I stamped the branch and leaves on. It looked pretty bare so I added a nest to it as well :o)
STAMPS: The Landing Pad and Pretty Birds stamp sets by Kim Hughes for Cornish Heritage Farms.
CS: White, Brown, Kraft (SU!), DoodleBug Textured (Swimming Pool), Summer Sunrise (PTI).
INK: ColorBox Chalk Inks.
ACCESSORIES: Ribbon, Primas, Brads, Circle Punches, Swiss Dots CB Embossing Folder, Prismacolor Pencils and Gamsol, Fiskars Treading Water Punch.
