Sunday, October 18, 2009

It's for the birds.....

We have lots of red cardinals here in southern Arizona but I made this one on the card to coordinate with my paper.


This is a sketch from Mojo Monday and I love how this turned out. I started with a white cardstock base then created the card front. I love the paper, Amberly Grace SWIC and cardstock and really don't need to use the blue cardstock as the whole card. I stamped the bird from the All Things of Nature set using Noir PH ink on the smooth side of the beige cardstock and colored with my Prismacolor H2O pencils and Niji water brush. The ribbon is from the Amberly Grace collection also. My Bitty Blossum was also colored with the H2O pencils and the brad is from Creative Impressions. After I completed the card front I then attached it to the base. I have a little trick I use when attaching small brads to the flowers. I use my 1/32" hole punch on a scrap of paper then I punch that out with my 1/4" punch centering the tiny hole in the center of the 1/4" hole. I then push the brad through this small circle then into the center of the flower. It gives the brad some stability and keeps it in the flower. You can barely make it out since I colored the center of the flower. Now to decorate the inside of the card.....

4 comments:

stampin'fool said...

i love the coloring. Great job.

Kim said...

GORGEOUS!This is one of my favorites of yours Carol!

Sheila said...

SUBMIT!!!!!! Somewhere, anyway!!!

Julie Robinson said...

This is beautiful! I love Amberley Grace- and I love the stamp Set All Things of Nature. Great card!!!!! love it, love it, love it!