Be Original Bird Crazy Card

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well. I have an inky Bird Crazy card to share with you today. I made this a little while ago, but hadn't posted it yet.

I had fun dressing up this bird with stamps from the Crazy Things set. She has a rolled up piece of sketch paper under her wing and a pencil tucked into the hat. Maybe she has been sitting on the branch of a tree sketching a beautiful landscape. The background was done with Ranger's dye inks, using a fun technique that I discovered when I tried to do something else. Instead of resisting heat embossed areas, as most dye inks do, the ink sticks to the embossed areas, creating a cool effect. You can see another example of the technique on my Glossy Journal Page Tutorial.

The background was white embossed on glossy cardstock and brayered with Electric Lime and Caribbean Coast dye ink. I like the textured effect that this gives. 

The bird and Crazy Things were stamped with Jet Black Archival Ink on watercolour paper. I used a little bit of Distress Micro Glaze here and there to create a cool resist effect. I did a tutorial and video tutorial on this technique, if you want to have a closer look on it. Everything was die cut with the coordinating dies and I stamped the parts with small stamps from the Correspondence set and Caribbean Coast ink. I used foam dots to adhere the wings, big eye and hat. Cut a small slot in the hat to tuck in the pencil. 

The bird is standing on a branch die cut from paper covered with foil tape, and you can spot some tissue tape underneath. I also used a piece of cheese cloth to create a nest. The sentiment was stamped on a banner die cut with the Tattered Curvy Banner die.

At the top of the card there is another two strips of tissue tape and some silver branches. The big one was die cut with the Fall Foliage set, and the small one was punched.

Thank you for visiting today! There is lots more to come on the blog later this month, I know it has been a little quiet.

Happy stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Sizzix Framelits Die Set 33PK - Crazy Things	Tim Holtz Sizzix CRAZY THINGS	Tim Holtz Sizzix BIRD CRAZY Thinlits	Sizzix Framelits Die Set 18PK - Bird Crazy	Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die - Tattered Curvy Banners
Tim Holtz Sizzix Die TATTERED CURVY BANNERS	Sizzix Paper Punch - Branch, Large	Tim Holtz Sizzix BRANCH Large Punch	Sizzix Thinlits Fall Foliage	Tim Holtz Sizzix FALL FOLIAGE Thinlits
Tim Holtz BIRD CRAZY	Stampers Anonymous Stamps - Bird Crazy	Tim Holtz CRAZY THINGS	Tim Holtz CRAZY TALK	Tim Holtz PERSPECTIVE
Tim Holtz CORRESPONDENCE	Ranger GLOSS PAPER 8.5 X 11	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER	Ranger METAL FOIL TAPE SHEETS	Ranger Embossing Powder WHITE
Ranger ADHESIVE FOAM WHITE	Tim Holtz TISSUE TAPE SYMPHONY	Tim Holtz Idea-ology TISSUE TAPE ELEMENTS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS MICRO GLAZE	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK
Ranger Dye Ink CARIBBEAN COAST	Ranger Dye Ink Pad ELECTRIC LIME RDP42877	Tim Holtz Distress Ink MERMAID LAGOON	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CARVED PUMPKIN Ranger TIM43201	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE
Tim Holtz Distress Ink TWISTED CITRON	Tim Holtz Distress Ink SPICED MARMALADE	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK	Big Shot Machine	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White
Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM	Standard Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies	Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Sizzix GRAPE Standard Cutting Pads	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS
Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Ranger Inkssentials US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL
Ranger Inkssentials EUROPEAN HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger

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