Country Birdhouse Friendship Card

 Hello my friends!  It's been too long since I posted, and I truly apologize for the absence.  We spent a week back in Michigan visiting friends and family.  That was so much fun!  Then we had the 11 hours on the road to get back home again.  That seemed to poorly affect each one of us that went of the trip.  I've spent the last two days recovering from the trip, but I think I'm back on track now.  All that said, it's time to share a card I made before the trip.  It uses the Country Birdhouse stamps and dies bundle but doesn't even use the birdhouse from the set.  I'll get around to that soon, I hope.  This turned out to be such a sweet card.  I hope you like the idea and give it a try.

My first thought was to use the gorgeous woodgrain DSP found in the coordinating Country Woods Designer Series Paper.  These woodgrain prints will be perfect for anything country, masculine, or beach themed.  In fact, today's card fits into the country theme and this print is a perfect fit.  

The card base is Misty Moonlight which is one of my favorites.  It's cut to 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", then scored and folded in half.  I wanted to conserve my DSP print, so it's cut only 3" wide and 5 1/2" tall.  To frame it on the card front, I layered a piece of Moody Mauve behind it that measures 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".  These two are layered onto the card base using "green glue" to attach.  This gives me the canvas to create the card.

One of the Everyday Details Dies was used to cut a Basic White circle to anchor the design.  This die set is still available as an Online Exclusive item.  It is a wonderful basic set that you'll use over and over again.

The bird from the Country Birdhouse set was stamped in Misty Moonlight ink on a Basic White piece of cardstock.  Using a Blender Pen, the edges of the stamped bird were softened, pulling the color into the design.  A Daffodil Delight Marker was used to add color to the beak and feet.

Two sets of leaves from the Layering Leaves set were stamped on Basic White using Garden Green ink.  The detail on these was also softened with a Blender Pen.  These were punched out with the Boughs Punch.  There were also two sets of leaves punched from Garden Green cardstock to fill out the design.

Three of the tiny flowers from the Birdhouse set was stamped with Moody Mauve ink onto white also.  The Blender Pen was used to soften the color on these too.  A Daffodil Delight Marker was used to dot in the color for the flower center.

The bird and flowers were die-cut using the coordinating dies to the stamp set.  The hanger and bow were die-cut from Misty Moonlight cardstock.  Now it was time to get all the pieces together to put the design together.

The first thing was making sure the white design circle was in the right place so the bow and hanger would reach the top of the card.  These were both attached with adhesive.

The solid green leaves were placed and attached with adhesive.  Then the stamped leaves were carefully attached over these using adhesive.  

The bird was attached over the leaves using Dimensionals.  One of the flowers was tucked into the leaves.  The other two were added to the design using Mini Dimensionals.

The sentiment used here is from the same Country Birdhouse stamp set.  It's stamped with Misty Moonlight ink on a piece of Basic White cardstock that is about 3/4" in height.  The two ends were angle cut to give it a little different look.  It's added to the design using Dimensionals.

To add a little more interest, three of the 2023-2025 In Color Opaque Sparkle Dots were added to the design.  These are the Moody Mauve color to match the design.  If you look really closely, you can see the sparkle in the dots.

There you have it, a country looking friendship card.  If you need a specific type of card, you can easily switch out the sentiment for something that fits.  I'm definitely happy with the card design as is.

Thank you for being patient with me.  This is going to be an interesting summer with several different trips planned.  Though none of them will require so many hours of travel.  Whew.  I am so definitely NOT a good traveler.  I like being where I want to be, but not the traveling to get there and back.  But with one comes the other.  Guess I can't have it both ways.  So happy you stopped in today to see what's new.  I'll try to be more timely in my posting for now (at least until the next trip 😁).

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Happy stamping and creating,

Sharon