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A Little Birdie Told Me It’s Your Birthday

20th September 2019

Hello everyone! I am excited to be back again on the Foiled Fox blog and I have a tweet slimline card for you today.  The latest Ink To Paper release did not disappoint (how could it ever?) and I thought the Birdie set was absolutely adorable and decided to use that for my card today.

Vertical slimline cards always seem to work well for sky/galaxy themes or underwater themes don’t they. That depth down through the card allows for things to be hung, flying, or diving to their heart’s content!  I started by taking a panel of 80lb Neenah, the MFT Cloud stencil and six rainbow coloured Distress Inks.  I blended Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean and Shaded Lilac down through the panel and trimmed it to just under 7” x 4”.

Next I used a selection of Altenew inks to stamp my cherry blossom, leaves, branches, birds and birdcages. I originally had the little birds stamped in blue (bluebirds of course) but they got lost in the rainbow background so I changed them to a darker brown in the end – they morphed into sparrows! I used the coordinating dies to cut them out, placed the images over my blended panel and fiddled around with the layout until I was happy. I then took a photo so that I could recreate it accurately when adhering everything down.

I adhered some images flat and some popped up with foam tape and then put the whole panel back into the MISTI and stamped a sentiment from the Ink To Paper Sweet Tweets set.  This was stamped using MFT Steel Gray Hybrid ink – so its not as stark as black and coordinates better with the panel and images.  And that finished the card, not a coloured pencil, paint tube or marker in sight for me today, pretty unusual!  I hope you all have a great day, happy crafting!

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· Labels: Birthday Tagged: Distress Inks, Foiled Fox, Guest Designer, Ink To Paper, Ranger, Stencilling, Tim Holtz

Comments

  1. Ruth says

    3rd October 2019 at 11:36 am

    Super tweet! I love that you’ve just left the birds in outline and not coloured them in so that the background really shines through and they don’t get lost. Super card! Very striking.

  2. Andrea Hastilow says

    21st September 2019 at 12:18 am

    Saw this over on FF, beautiful card design, loving the soft colours of skt, so pretty & mix so subtly but eye catching, if I make any sense. Have good weekend x

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