Challenge 345 at Shopping Our Stash ~~ Put A Bird On It!!!

At Shopping Our Stash we want you to "Put a Bird on it" I think that is self explanatory. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of birds everyone puts on their projects. Take a spin over to the Main Blog and see what the rest of the design team have made.  I was caught up colouring, fussy cutting and even picked out the paper and card stock then I found out I was making the wrong week, oh wow what a panic, I had to change gears really fast.  Since we are shopping our stash I dug out a couple of Stampin'up retired sets, one I've use a few times but the other it's the first time I have put ink to it.

Although there are lots of layers it seems rather simple. The blossom branch didn't ink well or it could be because of the old thesaurus page too, but I'm okay with it because the bird is the focal point, and I have another birthday card for my stash.

Close up of the Robin, my white gel pen wouldn't work to accent the eye, I'll figure out something before I give it away. 

Finished the inside and added some punched corners, talk about using stash, I haven't used this punch in eons but I wanted something to break up the white on white. 

The stamp sets I used were Nature Walk and Easter Blossoms I have had them for many years, in fact it was back when I put the labels on the stamps and they don't stick to the block, so I tried using a lip balm over the stamp and it stuck very well. (one of Scrap and Stamp with Frenchie's tips)

Well here we are another week and another challenge, I hope you will join us for the "put a bird on it" challenge. thanks for looking today.

Shopping Our Stash has an Easy Challenge this Week!!!

Such an Easy Peasy challenge at Shopping Our Stash this week ~~ challenge 302 is to use buttons!!!

As you see Fussy cutting last week was not enough for me I had to fussy cut the cardinal from Stampendous, although there is a die set for it all the birds and the holly are very easy to trim. I have had this since last year and it's never seen ink and along with the three bird stamps, a holly and berries stamps there is a Tree Stencil, sad though I never even noticed it until I was typing this post  and I looked at the package without the set of stamps in it. "duh"

I made this for a friend's Birthday, she loves Cardinals

Close up of the flowers and the super sparkly buttons that I have had for eons the Happy Birthday is from Impression Obsession 

Finished the inside with a sentiment from the Impression Obsession and it doesn't see ink often enough, I seem to go with the ones that are on my desk at the time I'm making a birthday card.

I would like to enter this in:

Cut it Up Challenges ~~ Challenge 121 Wings

Thanks for spending a bit of your day checking what I've been up to and head over to SOS Blog and see what the rest of the design team have made....they are awesome. See you again next Tuesday for a new challenge.