Double D - Birds

I've said it before and I'll say it again.  If it's a bird challenge chances are I will be making a card.  Birds are my joy, both in feeding them and watching their antics every day and including them on cards.  So when Double D had a bird challenge with four shown in their mood board my heart started beating.  I was enchanted with their red-headed woodpecker and knew I could turn Altenew's Bird of the Mountain into one.  

It took a little thought to know what color each layer needed to be and how to cut the red head but I think it worked.  I also cut the beak longer.  To give him something to perch on, I cut a strip of Kraft cardstock, ran it through a woodgrain embossing folder and dragged some Gathered Twigs Distress Ink across it.  The background was colored with Tumbled Glass DI.

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As You See It #342

As You See It has a perfect challenge for me.  For the birds!  I have a great love of birds and feed my friends every day.  

I'm not particularly happy when these birds descend upon my feeders though.  They are large and have a big appetite.  But I thought it would be easy to make Altenew's Bird of the Mountain into a red-winged blackbird.  Then I had to figure out what to do with him.  Enter Honey Bee's Fall Foliage.  These birds like to hang out along the roadside where cattails are growing.  I had to improvise with the leaves since none are in the set and the scene looked bare without them.  A look through some of my flower dies brought me the stems from Altenew's Cosmos.  It's all on a panel lightly inked with Speckled Egg Distress Ink.  

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Just Us Girls #718 - Word Week

Hey there crafty friends.  I'm so glad you dropped by.

We have something a little different for you this week at Just Us Girls.  We are collaborating with Time Out for a two week challenge.  I'm on both Design Teams and the host for this challenge - Birds.

I just HAD to have this Bird of the Mountain from Altenew and it was so popular I had to wait for it to come back in stock.  That was a while ago and I'm just making him into a card now.    He was cut from white cardstock that was inked in colors to make him into my version of a thrush.  The leafy branch is unlabeled so if you know whose it is please tell me.  I tried a Google picture and it came up as a piece of wall art that was the very same image in a large size.  The clouds were made with an MFT stencil.

There are a lot of different birds flying around the blog this week, all made by our talented Design Team and our Guest Tracey McNeely.  You'll want to check them out and also those made by the Time Out Design Team. 

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