Happy Birthday
by Rosemary Dennis

Hello, hello! Rosemary here on the blog today share a fun mixed media card that I made with the new Block Print Tropical Perched Bird and Handwritten Happy Birthday and Outline dies. I also used the Honeycomb Stencil for the project. Let’s take a look at what I made.

When I started the card I used just going to use some colored cardstock to create my bird. Then I started going through my supplies and I found containers of some Ken Oliver color burst medium that I had purchased long ago. So I decided to grab a sheet of watercolor cardstock and see what happened. Below is what happened, lol.

Bit of a mess, right? But I knew I could make something out of it once I cut all the pieces. I cut both dies multiple times so that I would have enough pieces to come up with the right combination.

Here are the majority of the pieces.

And here is the combination that I decided upon. Originally I was going to have more red in the bird, but in the end decided to limit that color to just the wing.

I adhered the bird with liquid glue and then set him aside to dry. I used a sketch layout for my card and decided to use the Honeycomb stencil for the background. I thought I would just do some ink blending, but then decided to take a look at some of the stencil butters that I had. I decided to combine a bright yellow and bright green and came up with this darker green that you see. I die cut white heavystock cardstock and then applied my stencil butter mix.

Once the panel was dry I got to work putting the card together. I adhered the bird with glue and then added the sentiment (which I had already had die cut and ready to go) with rolled up glue dots and glue

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. I had a lot of fun creating it using supplies that to be honest I had forgotten I had! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Comments

5 responses to “Happy Birthday
by Rosemary Dennis

  1. Lisa Elton Avatar

    This bird is so bright and cheerful! The perfect way to deliver birthday wishes!

  2. TK Avatar

    Wonderfully beautiful! I’m glad you played with your medium

  3. Faith A Avatar
    Faith A

    Love your colourful bird and honeycomb background, a beautiful card. x

  4. Greta H Avatar

    Beautifully unique card–love the look of your bird!

  5. Linda Wetterlin Avatar

    Just love the tropical bird atop the honeycomb window, Rosemary – just gorgeous!!

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