Sweet Holiday Birds

September 25, 2023

Welcome back!

Today I have a new Holiday card featuring the new Holiday Birds Stamp and Die set from Dare 2B Artzy.

For my card, I chose a color palette from my Color Cubes. I used Card #297 which has some beautiful shades of teal blue and darker greens. I really love this color combo.

To start, I stamped the adorable bird images onto Neenah 110lb Solar White cardstock with Dare 2B Artzy Totally Black ink.

Using my selected color card, I tried to pick out some Copic marker colors that would match my palette. I selected G20, G82, G94 and G99 for my greens and BG70, BG72, BG75 and BG78 plus a small amount of BG15 was used for the blue-greens. I used neutral greys in N4, N5, N7 and N9 and a touch of red with R29, R37 and R89 for the scarf. I find that using a card from my Color Cubes really helps jumpstart my creativity as sometimes choosing colors for my cards is the most difficult part of the process.

Once my images were colored, I die cut them using the coordinating Holiday Birds dies. I love that these dies include the sentiments.

For the base of my card, I started by die cutting a piece of 110lb cardstock using the heart scallop die from the Slim Love Framelits die set I cut off 1 1/8 inch from the die cut piece from each end (approx. 3 scallops). This would make the die cut piece short enough to fit onto an A2 Card panel. I realized after I did this that I could have just used the coordinating strip of hearts die, but I really wanted the stitched edge that is cut with the standard die.

Because the Scalloped Heart die cuts out the center and just leaves the border, I used some Score-Tape and another strip of cardstock cut to 2 3/8 inch and positioned the stitched center cardstock and scalloped border onto the Score-tape to keep it in place together for my card panel.

Using the largest slimline stitched die from the Slim Love Framelits die set, I cut a piece of the Peace & Joy paper and then trimmed it down to fit on my A2 size card.

I added an additional layer of dark green cardstock cut to ½ inch wider than the Peace & Joy paper and a piece of gold glitter cardstock cut to ½ inch narrower.

Each layer of cardstock was added to a top fold A2 panel turned on its side.

My sweet little Holiday Birds were popped up with foam tape for a bit of dimension.

I stamped the Happy Holiday’s sentiment with the beautiful font onto white cardstock with Dare 2B Artzy’s Pomegranite ink. This ink is a wonderful true red color that matches the Peace & Joy paper perfectly. To give the sentiment some added dimension, I use the coordinating die and cut the outline two more times. I layered the sentiment just below the birds.

For a pop of shimmer, I used a gold Gelly Roll Stardust pen and added some shimmer to the scarf and the chest decoration on my birds. I added some small ombre glitter drops around the card for some added sparkle. I also added a single red clay heart between the two birds which helps balance out the red accents in my design.