Category: Birds and Branches

Hello everyone and welcome to today’s project share. I appreciate the time each of you take when you pop by.

As many of you know, I have been trying to be involved in as many blog hops and challenges as I can. They are a great way to try something new and they give me a concept for another project.

Today’s project is for the Global Design Project Sketch Challenge. If you pop over to the GDP website, you can see the cards made by their design team and the projects that are being entered into the challenge. If you click on the sketch challenge image below, the link will take you there.

For my project I wanted to use the new Cork Specialty Paper as well as the Garden Birdhouses Stamp Set. I hope you like the end result.

After preparing the Early Espresso card base, I cut the Cork frame using the Stitched Rectangle Dies. I also cut a White Vellum frame using the Scalloped Contours Dies. The vellum was then coloured using the Dark So Succulent Stampin’ Blend. These two frames were then glued together.

I stamped and coloured the birdhouse and bird images onto a die cut piece of Very Vanilla cardstock before placing it in the centre of the card front, using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The layered frame was then centred on the card front and popped up using more Dimensionals.

The branch, from the Birds & More Dies, was cut from a piece of Soft Succulent card that had Foam Adhesive Sheet attached. I positioned the branch to sweep across the top of the frame and the foam sheet added height to the card. The greeting was fussy cut and attached to the bottom of the frame.

I stamped the birdhouse on the card insert and envelope before adding a few 2021 – 2023 In Colour Jewels to the card.

It’s been a while since I’ve used dies from so many different sets for one project. I love the versatility of my Stampin’ Up!® products.

I think this card would be perfect, with a pillow gitft, for someone visiting your home.

Until next time, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Garden Birdhouses Photopolymer Stamp Set [155090] $31.00	Birds & More Dies [152721] $59.00	Stitched Rectangles Dies [151820] $61.00	Scalloped Contours Dies [155560] $61.00	2021–2023 In Color Jewels [155571] $12.25
Cork 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [156393] $13.00	Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686] $15.25	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] $17.00	White Vellum A4 Card Stock [106584] $17.50	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $13.00
Soft Succulent Classic Stampin' Pad [155778] $13.00	Balmy Blue Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154830] $15.50	Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154881] $15.50	Soft Succulent Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [155521] $15.50	Neutrals Stampin' Write Markers [147158] $52.50
Foam Adhesive Sheets [152815] $14.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $209.00	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00
Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00	Very Vanilla C6 Envelopes [106589] $13.00