my April Christmas cards (a little late)

I was so busy in April that I didn’t get a chance to make a few Christmas cards.  So now I am catching up!  The monthly Dirty Dozen Christmas card challenge on Splitcoast for April was to use any bird image.  I decided to use this cute little Paper Smooches cardinal and some Jillibean Soup papers to make a few clean & simple cards.

The bird and branch were paper pieced and the beak and needles were colored with Copics.  I love that little bird but I think my favorite part is the paper pieced branch…

The brown patterned layer with words came from a piece of 12×12 papers.  I also happened to have the same print in the 6×6 size pad, so I used the smaller size to paper piece the branch.

I still have a long way to go to finish my cards for the 2012 holiday, but I am so glad that I slowly keep plugging along!  If you want to join us, use the keyword SCSCCAPR12 when you upload to the SCS gallery.

stamps- Paper Smooches Hang Ups, Santa Paws, and Swanky Snowdudes; paper- vanilla, Jillibean Soup Christmas Eve Chowder- Frozen Shrimp; ink- Memento Tuxedo Black, brown Marvy LePen; accessories- Copics, Quickie glue pen.