Birthday card #2 is finally done (click to see it up close). It's not at all what I was expecting it to be. I started out with the fern frond from the new hostess set Organic Grace and Celery and Sahara sand paper... How did I end up with this?!Well, long story short, the frond/celery/sand card was drab, drab, drab. The frond got supplanted by the cute bird from Touch of Nature (retired) and it all needed a hit of colour.
The colours on this card are Certainly Celery, Tempting Turquoise, and a dash of Basic Black. The bird was coloured with classic ink on a blender pen. The edges are pierced, and it's matted on celery and black. The flower is from one of my Got Flowers bottles, with a pretty new designer brad (filigree) and a small turquoise rhinestone brad. Oh, and although you can't really see it in the photo, the bird's feathers have been dusted with irridescent pearl-ex powder, so they're a bit shimmery.
The layered papers are Turquoise (pierced) on Celery, which is layered on some polka dots left over from the Polka Dots and Paisleys paper kit (retired), which is layerd on some whisper white. The Birthday sentiment is from All Holidays (p142). The ribbon is some 1/4" grosgrain black with a wee knot of turquoise and green polka dots.
The background is the big Baroque background (p135) stamped in Certainly Celery. And it's all been matted on some Celery cardstock.
Not at all what I intended to make. Funny how cards have a mind of their own.
Thanks for looking!
C
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