lavenderhousecreations

three of anything

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This is my first post as a new design team member at Make My Monday and the challenge is for 3 of anything. As you can see I chose these little birds. The stamp set is from Your Next Stamp, sadly an online store that has since closed, and I stamped, coloured then fussy cut each one. The bird legs were too difficult to cut so I stamped the birds onto the background and popped up the fussy cut bodies on top. Sentiment is part of the same set. They were coloured with metallic watercolours. The background was done using part of a flower stencil. I just kept moving the leaves around adding the ink as I did so. Ink used was Peeled Paint Distress Oxide and a dab of Dried Marigold here and there. I went over the piece with some Perfect Pearl powder to get some shimmer. Once I cut it down to the right size I used a black pen around the edges and added it to the yellow card front. Using a scrap piece of black behind the sentiment so only 2 edges show I added it at the bottom and then placed the YNS Gumdrops as you see.

A very uncomplicated card, but it is quite pretty in real life. As often happens the photograph doesn’t do it justice and for once the camera has caught all the shimmer which washes out some of the colour behind.

Thanks for stopping by and we look forward to seeing your entries in the gallery.

I am entering this into the following challenges.

https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/August challenge
https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/
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  2. Your birdies are so cute. How clever to stamp them then fussy cut so you didn’t have to worry about the little bird legs. Congrats on your DT venture.

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    1. Thanks a lot Judy. I remembered that a stamper from long ago used to always stamp finicky items onto the background and then add the fussy cut on top. It works like a charm.

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  4. Cute! Will check out the challenge. YNS is not totally closed. They are having a 22% off sale right now. We placed a large order yesterday. You can still find goodies as there is still a lot available.

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    1. Thanks Gayle. I’m hoping that I can keep up with the DT stuff as it is more of a time commitment than one realizes.

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  6. Johanna, this is a great card. You got a lot of depth with stamping the legs on the background and then popping the bird bodies up. It’s a wonderful piece. Congratulations on the DT position.

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    1. Thanks – As I mentioned the idea to stamp and then pop up came from a stamper I saw many years ago. She always did that technique and I had forgotten about it.

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