Admittedly a few birds did act strange…

I’ve gone Bird Crazy again for a male birthday card, love these little birds from Tim Holtz.

The recipient is old-fashioned and still writes everything with pen and paper so I’ve teamed the bird with the pencil (no pen) from the Crazy Things set.  My colour scheme comes from the current challenge at Cupcake Inspirations of grass, white and sky.  I’ve used several shades of Distress Ink blues and greens in my card and lots of white.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch at Sunday Stamps.  I just thought I’d challenge myself to make this a one layer card in keeping with the theme over at CAS on Sunday so a fair bit of masking happening.  I went a bit off on the placement of the pencil though so had to add in some extra black lines to the wing.  My sentiment is handwritten (in keeping with the pencil and recipient) and finishes off the oval shape around the bird.  The two banner elements were made using the same stencil (going for a chicken wire type effect), one using regular stencilling the other colour using Tim’s monoprint technique.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ S4-110 Classic Ovals Large

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection Layering Stencil ~ THS005 Honeycomb

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mermaid Lagoon & Mowed Lawn

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Carved Pumpkin, Hickory Smoke, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Tumbled Glass & Twisted Citron

Papers

Ranger ~ Speciality Stamping Paper

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz ~ CMS212 Bird Crazy & CMS237 Crazy Things

Challenges

CAS on Sunday #77 ~ One Layer Wonder

Cupcake Inspirations #348 ~ Grass, White & Sky

Sunday Stamps #120 ~ It’s a Sketch!

 

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