Today’s card brings a smile to my face. I often watch birds soar, and imagine how they feel.
Bird Soaring Among the Clouds
The colors were inspired by this week’s TGIF challenge. Don’t you love Coastal Cabana? I began with it as the card base.
I also used Coastal Cabana for the clouds, applying a stenciling technique. The Pretty Label Punch has a great cloud shape, so I punched one from Thick Whisper White cardstock. Then, using a Sponge Dauber on regular weight, Whisper White cardstock, I added ink around the border of my punched cloud, moving it, and filling in the blank areas with more ink.
TIP: Daubing onto the punched cloud first (before spreading) will prevent making a round spot. You can see my punched cloud is dark from the repeated daubing.
I owe my cloud idea to this week’s challenge at Festive Friday.
The Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Paper was perfect for framing my clouds, which I cut to fit. Before gluing the two together, I stamped a row of tree tops (Lovely As A Tree stamp set) in Early Espresso ink.
Next, it was time to start on my soaring bird. I stamped the Serene Garden bird in Early Espresso ink on Thick Whisper White cardstock. Then, I colored her with three Stampin’ Blends: Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie and Ivory.
A Garden Scene Die was used to cut my Pumpkin Pie, soaring bird, and I raised her on dimensionals.
Thanks so much for visiting today. I enjoyed sharing my project with you! My supplies are listed below, and available at my store. Just click on the pictures.
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Beautiful card Su! Thanks for the great explanation on how you made the stenciled clouds. Thanks so much for joining us at Festive Friday! Hope to see you enter again next week!
Absolutely stunning, Su! Your stenciled clouds are perfect! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Festive Friday!
This card is really beautiful! Love the sponged clouds and the pop of orange with the bird. So pretty! Thanks for playing with us over on TGIF Challenges!
I love your clouds Su! What a lovely take on our challenge this week over at Festive Friday. Thanks for joining us, and hope to see you play again soon!
Love this beautiful card. Thanks for the tip about how to make the pretty, cloudy sky. Have a wonderful day!
Just gorgeous! So pretty and very creative!! Might have to case this one!
Really beautiful! These colors work so well with this card. Love the clouds too!!! Very clever. Thanks for playing with TGIFC this week.
très très joli
Love this card!!! Thanks for the instructions…. WOW! I will be trying this one this week. Thank you so much.
Su! What a fab card! Never crossed my mind to do anything like this. You have inspired me to play with that set more.