Love Birds

by Kris Hankins


Valentine’s Day is such a special day for you and your “love bird”. Enjoy your day.

Love Birds

Materials

• Paper and Cardstock
• Bo Bunny Crush Collection, “Romeo”     ( BBP-P-03334   $0.89)
• Bo Bunny Crush Collection, “Sugar”     ( BBP-P-03337   $0.89)
• Bazzill Bubblegum Cardstock     ( BAZ-1-112   $0.59)
• White vellum scrap
• White cardstock of choice - made into a 4.25”x5.5” card base
• Stamps
• Sentiment stamp of choice
• Ink Pads and Markers
• Clearsnap Fluid Chalk Ink Cat’s Eye, Rouge     ( CLE-FCC-Rouge   $1.95)
• Copic Marker, Shock Pink     ( COP-M-RV04   $3.95)
• Embellishments
• Ribbon, Stitched Circles, Fushsia/White     ( MA-BT-14   $0.39/yard), 8"
• Dew Drops, Clear, Small     ( ROB-DDS-clearsm   $3.99)
• Heart Stickers of choice (optional)
• Tools
• Sizzix Bigz by Tim Holtz, Caged Bird     ( SIZ-DBigz-656634   $19.99)
• Stipple Brush #8     (   STIPPLE-8   $3.49)
• Adhesives
• EkSuccess 3D Dots     ( EK-SPAF/PS   $1.99)

Instructions

• Cut a 4” x 5.25” layer from the Bo Bunny “Romeo” cardstock.
  Attach this to front of white card base.
  Also, cut a narrow strip of the word “love” from the Bo Bunny “Sugar” cardstock.
  
  
  


• Using the Sizzix Bigz Caged Bird die, cut a birdcage from the Bazzill “Bubblegum” cardstock.
  Stipple/darken the birdcage edges with Rouge fluid chalk ink.


• Using the reverse side of the “Romeo”cardstock (love birds), glue a piece to the back of the bird cage.
  Trim any excess paper from around bird cage.
  
  
  


• Instead of hanging beads or jewels from the birdcage, I chose to cover the holes with dew drops.
  I wanted pink dew drops, but only had clear.
  I easily colored the clear dew drops with a Copic marker.
  Glue the “pink” dew drops to the bird cage.


• On a piece of scrap white cardstock, stamp your choice of sentiment/word using Rouge fluid chalk ink.
  I stamped the word “forever”.


• Cut a strip of white vellum scrap (or coordinating paper), approx. 3/4” x 5”.


• Adhere the vellum strip and strip of “love” words across the bottom of card.
  Add the birdcage to the front of card using 3D foam dots.


• Tie a small bow from your narrow ribbon and glue to top of birdcage.
  Attach word/sentiment.


• On my card, I added tiny dimensional heart stickers to the birdcage – over each heart that was printed on paper.
  This step is optional.

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