Watch the birdie!

Hi everyone, today I have another Christmas card to show you.  This one has been inspired by a beautiful silhouette Christmas wreath card in a recent post in the Lavinia For You FB group by Elizabeth Moffatt, for which she kindly provided a number of step-by-step pictures.   

I started off by CASE-ing Elizabeth's card, though I wouldn't enter those cards into any blog challenges as that wouldn't be fair. However I then branched out a bit more by changing the wreath stamps, colours, colouring my bird instead of stamping a silhouette, and adding lots of sparkle .. so this is an "inspired by" card - and here it is.

I created a circle of sponged Distress inks on my card square, then stamped my berry wreath and branch using Versafine Clair Pinecone. I stamped my birdie several times (using a stamping platform) using various brown and red inks, then coloured his tummy and head with white Posca pen and gave him an eye with black fineliner. I coloured the berries with red Sakura Stardust pen, and stamped my stars with gold ink (in hindsight I should have heat embossed them, but there's a lesson for next time). I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment in gold, and added white snow dots with Posca pen plus a few teeny gold gems before matting everything onto dark green card stock and my card base.with hindsight the birdie is probably better as a silhouette as he isn’t really the right shape to be a robin, but no matter!!

Here is another picture to show the sparkle.

Stamps: Lavinia Berry Wreath With Mini Berries, Bird Collection, Mini Branch, Stars Mini, Stars 1 Mini; Uniko Christmas Wishes;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint); Versafine Clair (Pinecone, Tulip Red); Versafine (Vintage Sepia); Memento Dew Drop Brilliance (Galaxy Gold); Versamark; gold embossing powder; Sakura Stardust pen (red); Posca pen (white).

Challenges I would like to enter:

Crafty Catz #615 - Anything Goes with option Christmas (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #621 - Anything Christmas Goes

Creative Knockouts #479 - Anything Goes

Daisy Chain #69 - Christmas Is Coming (3rd entry)

Dragonfly Dreams (November) - Christmas (3rd entry)

Make My Monday - Things With Wings

Sparkles #142 - Festive Things With Wings (2nd entry) - SPOTLIGHT WINNER

Try it On Tuesday - Traditional Christmas (2nd entry)

Winter Wonderland - Robin Redbreast (2nd entry) - TOP 3

Word Art Wednesday #569/570 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

For anyone who is wondering, here is a pictures of one of my CASE'd cards (this is not for any competitions) 

… and here is a pic (with permission) of Elizabeth’s original card that inspired me in the first place. 😀

Take care, and thanks for dropping by.

Hugs,