Aug 13 2008
suspended birdhouse
Happy Wednesday! I hope your week is going well! I’m back with another card featuring the cute Olivia and her birds. This is for Jen’s challenge over at the All That Scraps message board to make a suspension card. What fun! I think I only ever made one of these and it was so long ago. I need to try this again! You can find a tutorial on how to make one here. When I saw this particular birdhouse image in the new C.C. Designs set, I thought it might be symmetrical enough to pull off putting them back to back. And it worked pretty well. I only needed to do some minor trimming. Yay! Then I found a Circle Nestabilities die to cut the openings in the front to hang my birdhouse. I wanted the die big enough to fit the house inside but not too big that it would cut away a lot of the pretty paper. I think this size worked pretty well! Then I used some old SU linen thread to hang it. The back of the birdhouse has a different bird on it but it looks pretty much the same so I won’t bore you with another pic. ;) On the left of the card is an embossed piece from one of the new Cuttlebug folders….check them out here! And don’t forget that Christine has free shipping at ATS for orders over $25!
stamps- Olivia’s Birdies by C.C. Designs
paper- Celery, Saffron, Pixie, DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies
ink- Black, white craft
accessories- Cuttlebug With Love border folder, circle Nestabilities, SU linen thread, Red Line tape, Copics, gel pen, Stickles
Diane aka cookiestamper
Hi Diane ~ are you kidding?? I am HONORED to be on your blog roll! I love your work & will be checking out the rest of your blog as well ~~ looks like I have a lot to read, lol!! I don’t know how I miss some of my favorite stampers blogs!!
This is so adorable!! Thanks for playing Diane!!
Cute suspension card! I love all the colors in this one, and of course Olivia and her birds!
Oh I really LOVE this one! And now I have to change my ATS order and have to buy the new embossingborders *hihi*
Diane, this is just adorable!
That idea turned out super cute. This is really exceptional, I love the colours.
Thanks for that inspiration.
Best regards, Nadine
I LOVE that embossed border. Do you have to cut it out after embossing? I need to shop more… LOL! Great idea to suspend the birdhouse - time to try another one of those cards… thanks for sharing!
i just learned how to do a suspension card and love it! your card is adorable, love, love love it!