Color Hues #95

Today's card is for the Color Hues challenge - pink and blue.

A Penny Black dealer was retiring and getting rid of his supply so I took advantage of the sale and bought a number of stamps and dies.  My love of birds prompted me to buy Nature Sings which has four different birds on it.  I stamped the bluebird on Bristol and colored it with Zigs.  I masked the bird and made my own stencil to color the background with Kitsch Flamingo Distress Ink.  The branch was free-handed. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #645

I'm on a roll with cards for Freshly Made Sketches.  Jen's sketch made it so easy this time. 

The little bluebird is from WPlus9 and is colored with Zigs. The branch and leaves are from two different Honey Bee sets and the sentiment is from EbyE.  QACAS as Darnell would say. 

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Freshly Made Sketches #628 and The Card Concept #205

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

It took two challenges to inspire my card today.  Freshly Made Sketches and The Card Concept.

The design came from the sketch and the bluebird came from the photo.  I played with the Winter Birds set from Honey Bee, turning the chickadee into a bluebird.  She needed a place to roost so I pulled out the birdhouse from WPlus9, cutting it from grays and embossing with Altenew's Window Slats folder.  It's perfect to make it look like it was built from wood.  A little greenery from Honey Bee and soft inking of the background finished it off. 

I had a number of bluebirds at my meal worm feeder a few weeks ago.  It was such a thrill but sadly they haven't been back. 

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Double D and Triple B for April 2023

I have a card to share today that fits both the challenge at Double D "Things that Fly" and the one at Triple B which is always Birds, Butterflies and Blooms.  I had to buy the birdhouse and bluebird after seeing a video from Dawn at WPlus9.  I used the house on an earlier card but the bird is making his debut. 

The birdhouse was cut from TH Woodgrain cs and then I ran an ink pad over it to bring out the details. The bird was cut from white and ink blended to look like a bluebird.  The ones I have at my feeder are much darker but he was done first. I needed something to perch him on and went with Dogwood from Honey Bee.   The 'sky' is Spring Rain from PTI, embossed with a coverplate from STAMPlorations. 

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Time Out Challenge #162

Here is Time Out's Challenge for this week.

That shouldn't be too difficult, should it?  Well it was for me.  The first thing that came to mind was "Free like a bird" so I stamped a bunch of my The Greetery birds.  Then two of them sat on my desk for days while I wondered what to do with them.  I finally made the card and then struggled with the sentiment. 

I thought the birds needed a sky to perch in so I used my MFT cloud stencil and Broken China Distress Oxide.  The branch is from Altenew that has had major surgery and an inking all over with Cup O' Joe (which also stamps the sentiment btw).  Should I use a speech bubble?  The bluebirds are too close together for that, and besides what would it say?  Technique Tuesday to the rescue with this one.  I can image the mama bird saying it to her young even without the speech bubble.  Whew, I'm glad that's done.

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Less is More #410

I needed a sympathy card for a dear friend who lost her husband and I thought my NBUS Robin and Wren stamp from The Greetery would be perfect.  Because Less is More is having a color challenge I turned the robin into a bluebird.

I used a branch from Altenew and a sentiment from PTI to finish it off.

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Less Is More #363

Less Is More is look for cute.  That's easy.  But also one layer.  Not as easy but I managed.

This RC stamp set was part of a win. It's not my usual style but I love the pun-y sentiment and the bluebird is cute so I put them together, coloring with Zigs. I'm generally a stickler for perspective - that bird would never fit into the bird house - but in this case I made an exception.

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Time Out #97 - Inspired by Words

Here are the words that we are to be inspired by at Time Out.

I stamped a little girl from Penny Black when I was at Michele's and when I saw this darling picture of my great granddaughter Hannah

the two came together like this:

I went a little lighter with the DI/Zig watercoloring but she was my inspiration for the color choices. I wanted to use a sentiment stamp that I had but the font was too large and it was meant to look like a dirty typewriter so I generated the same sentiment on the computer.  I am grateful for this lovely child every day and what better way to celebrate all that is good than with a bluebird of happiness.

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