Tuesday 14 June 2016

Birds Of A Feather

Morning Everyone, Today I am sharing a fairly simple but effective card, using the feather collection of stamps from Bee Crafty, drawn by Sam. I have really loved designing with all of the stamps in the collection. They are so versatile and have been drawn with the most amazing detail. Here I have used the large straight feathers as a frame for another of the wonderful sentiments. 


For this project I took a sheet of Cream Linen cardstock. I then stamped the feather onto copier paper, cut this out and then in half to act as a mask so I could stamp the frame. For the frame I used Black Archival Ink.


Using the same ink, I then stamped my sentiment, you can find this either in the complete set or in the Wordage Section of the Bee Crafty website.


Next I stamped four more feathers on to copier paper and cut them out. These dont have to be to precise as it's mainly to keep any ink from covering the detail. I wanted the cream card to show through the feathers. I covered the feathers with the mask I had made using Temporary Adhesive Spray. I also took some crap paper to mask off the rest of my background, The tore some paper into cloud shapes for the sky.


Using Shaded Lilac, Blueprint Sketch and Stormy Sky Distress Inks, I blended from the edge inwards to create a halo around my sentiment.. I hardly used any ink at all in the centre, just enough to blend.

I removed all of the masks and removed the residue from the adhesive. I took a fine black liner and added some very simple birds in the sky, I trimmed around my design, leaving 1/2 inch around the image. Lastly I matted the project onto Blue Pearl Cardstock. The finished card measures 8 x 8''.


Thank you so much for taking the time to look at what I am sharing with you today. I hope you have enjoyed my step by step and that you will visit again very soon.

6 comments:

  1. This card is so beautiful. Very detailed and looks simple but very striking at the same time. Not simple to make though.
    Thank you for sharing. Nicola x

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    1. Thank you Nicola, It's not too difficult once you plan it in your head. I am so pleased you like it.xx

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  2. Beautiful as always Nick but Nicola is right even though it may look simple it is not with all the layers to make the effect-lovely!!x

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    1. Thank you Dawn, I am over the moon that you like this. Thank you for taking the time to visit and leave your comments Take care xx

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  3. A very beautiful card Nick and once again a wonderful young detailed step by step tutorial. If anybody has misplaced their Mojo a quick flick through your blog and they will have all the inspiration they need. Hugs Janet xxx

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    1. Thats very kind of you Janet, I am so glad you think so. Thank you so much for all of your lovely comments xx

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