Five little dickie birds...

When I first thought about bird cards as a theme for one of my classes, I soon realised the wide range of different styles of bird stamps we have in our current offering, including new ones from the spring/summer catalogue and some old faithfuls from the annual catalogue. I also soon realised how easy it was to make cards for every occasion with birds firmly in the picture.

I set about creating 4 cards, (which in total include 5 birds), each one for a different occasion:

New Home

 Using the flying home stamp set with its cute bird images, I have used watercolour pencils to colour it in. The background ids the tree ring background stamp, whilst the celebrate sentiment is a sale-a-bration thinlit

Any of the images on this stamp set would have worked for a new home, but equally for New baby, wedding or anniverary.

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Thank You

I got my inspiration for this card when trawling through Pinterest. You can see the original here

I love this petal passion suite and here I have utilised stamps, dies and embossing folders. The powder pink and basic grey combination is beautiful and I love the little blush of pink on the bird's breast. I created the layers using the lots of labels framelits

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Belated Birthday

Here's a card I need far too often. Sorry it is late. I love these quirky images in the bird banter stamp set and this sentiment just made me laugh. I did some masking of the parrot so I could add the balloon and branch without getting lines all across my bird image. I used the stampin' blends to colour in.

You can have lots of fun with this stamp set.

Happy Anniversary

Best birds and the matching framelits come from the annual catalogue. I dug out my husband's childhood bird book to choose the colours of stampin' blends for my bullfinch and the other bird is coloured to look sparrow like. You can change these birds just by changing the colours. I die cut the birds and branch and positioned them nuzzling together to make an anniversary card. The marina mist background is the large stamp from the "You've got this" stamp set.

I certainly haven't exhausted the different bird images currently available from Stampin' Up, but it is not a bad start. If any of these have taken your fancy, either click on the stamp images to be taken to my online store, or get in touch.

Helen

xxx