Guess what? I finally finished getting my part of our tax materials together! What a relief it is to finish something that you've spent far more time dreading and putting off than actually doing. (Yes, I'm sitting here thinking of the creative energy that I've wasted. It's akin to telling my son to clean his room: he spends far more time fretting over the injustice of having to pick up the mess that he has made alone than he does actually cleaning. I don't know who he gets that from. . .) Enough babbling--on to stamping.
I'm longing for a full-fledged Spring to arrive; with that came the need for bird stamps. I just got this Crafty Secret Bird Notes set from Anna Wight's store today--smokin' fast service! (I think I ordered the last one, but I'm sure she'll have more in soon.) I used some Prism China cardstock as my card base, then cut and embossed a window with my Spellbinders Nestability Petite Plain Oval set. I stamped bird feather with Adirondack Hazelnut ink, then aged the edges with Antique Linen Distress ink. I stamped the birds on a sheet of watercolor paper with Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate ink and heat set it before watercoloring it with my watercolor crayons--it's been a while since I've used them! Honestly, I'm not sure what color these birds rightly should be. (I'm sure my mom-in-law can tell me when she sees them though!) I decided to make them yellow-breasted--like sunshine. (Are you sensing a theme here?)
After watercoloring the birds, I used a larger Spellbinders Petite Oval die to cut them out (larger so that the edges wouldn't show if the card were sitting partially open). I tried a lovely brown satin ribbon around the card base, but it seemed too fussy. The twill tape, aged with Antique Linen distress ink, fit much better. The little oval spiral clip is from the SU Aged Copper hardware kit, and the "you brighten my day" sentiment, stamped it in Brilliance Pearlescent Chocolate ink, is from Verve Visual's Thoughtful Florals set.
That's it--a simple, almost-one-layer card in celebration of the completion of taxes the coming of Spring! Thanks for visiting.
