'Birds in a Silver Cage.

Good afternoon Lovelies,

How are you all, well I hope, if not here's a (((Hug))) for you and I hope you feel better very soon.   Thank you for visiting my last blog post, hope you enjoyed your visit.

Apologies for not blogging for a while but life seems so busy at this time of year, not sure where the days have disappeared too lol!   This afternoon I would like to share a card with you that I made for The Sue Baker Presents Shows on the Create & Craft T.V. Channel in August this year.   This is made using the beautiful Birds & Blossoms Collection, just love these stamps,  right up my street lol!

    
Cut a six and a half inch square from some black cardstock.   Paint across the card using stripes of the Green-blue,  Blue-rose, Gold-rose and the Aqua-gold metallic paints, blending one into the other as you work down the card.

     
When dry, stamp the text stamp in the top left and bottom right corners, using a black inkpad.   Stamp the flower flourish in black ink, just off the edge of the card, in the bottom left corner.

Take a  square of black  card,  (which is slightly smaller than the 7"x7" white base card ) and matt it onto the base card.

       
Matt the painted, stamped card onto the base card, then stamp the 'Be the reason...' in the top right corner, using the Versamark pad and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.   Stamp the word 'Smile' on the bottom of the painted card with Versamark and heat emboss with silver powder.

Take another piece of black card and using the Versamark pad, stamp the birdcage and birds onto it.   Heat emboss this with some silver embossing powder.   Carefully trim around the image of the birdcage but not right up to the silver embossing, or it may chip away.  

     

    
Fix this to the base card using some sticky fixers to give some dimension to the card design.

Paint a piece of black card with the Blue-rose metallic paint and when dry, stamp the flower from the flourish stamp 6 more times using a black inkpad.   (only 4 pieces showing in the photo).    Cut out and 3D the flower, then glue to the original stamped image on the base card.

    

 

That is this card finished my friends, quite a quick and easy card to make.   Hope you like it.   Enjoy the rest of your day.   I will be back as soon as time allows lol!   Take care of yourselves until then.

    
                                     
                                                                Love & Rainbows,

                                                                  Hugs Jennifer xx.