Birds and Blossoms II

Good morning and hope that your Tuesday is off to a swell start. I have to report the floors have still not been cleaned and in a bit,we're picking up  #2 brother & SIL and going to lunch. DH decided yesterday he wanted a 'good fish sandwich', but we were doing some other things and didn't get to this specific restaurant. Since he is a nice fella, he asked our relatives if they would like to go there for a late lunch, as they've never been to this place. You can see - it doesn't take much of an excuse for me to postpone housework!!

Please welcome 2 new friends to this little part of blogland:

Kate P. of Kate's adventures 

Jackie W of jackies crafts. 

Thanks to both of you for joining as followers here. Please do help me welcome these bloggers by paying a visit to their blogs when you have time during your surfing journeys.

My card for today was one of the easiest I've done. What took longest  was deciding on the Spellbinder to make a shaped card. I chose the S/B Grand Label #4, and the white you see is just the background used to photograph the card.

- Image is by Nice Crane Designs from a new set that was just posted to the store, Birds and Blossoms II.  This set has several really beautiful bird images in it. Image printed on Xpress c/d (found that this cardstock yielded quite a vivid image). Still playing with printer settings though. Die cut with the Grand Label 4, also die cut a shaped cardbase from white.  Did a bit of additional shading with copics, just because I wanted to. Sponged some DI Broken China adding some Seedless Preserves around the bottom area. Also used just a tiny bit of Seedless Preserves around the outside edge so that the white cardbase did not show.

- Sentiment stamped in Seedless Preserves with a tiny woodblock stamp. Airbrushed Copic B0000 on the background, then added B01 and B60. Used a scalloped square punch on the corners, smudged DI Seedless Preserves on the outer edge, tied a twine bow, called it done!

You will definitely be seeing more bird cards from this set of images, because they are (1)beautiful (2) make a fast card. Hope you like this & do yourself a favor & check out these images.

In the meantime, have a lovely afternoon, come again when you have time. Hopefully it will be set a spell on the front porch in a few weeks. These past few days would have been lovely porch sitting weather. Hugs & thanks for stopping today.