My card for the Whimsy Stamps Challenge! - Things with Wings is the challenge this week - and me, I used one of the new LiaStamps images. She does beautiful birds so I knew that one of them would be wonderful for the challenge. I chose "Sparrow" - Now that is what it is named, but here in Texas that looks more like a ScissorTail Fly Catcher - we love to see them out on fence lines and always point them out. So I googled images to make sure I had the right colors and went to work with my Copics.
My bird is colored with Copics, over and over, then highlighted with a white gel pen and pencils. I did it all twice. So I could cut out the bird and pop dot it over each other for more depth. The base image is cut out with a nestie label, and I took my black Copic and went around the edge. The card - lots of layers. Lots and lots. Black card stock, peach card stock, another black card stock. Then a piece of Prima pattern paper. Really pretty... peach flowers and flying birds on it. But then I added another pattern paper, and another layer of black card stock. Then a band of the Prima paper across the middle. Everything is sewed down. I a roll of Rayon Seam Binding tape that was a deep peach color - I smooched it and wrinkled it, then a piece of double sided tape to hold it in place. That is when it was time for my bird, pop dotted on to the front of the card, and the bird pop dotted on top of that.
Needed more right? So I die cut out four Memory Box corner flourishes, punched out some Martha Stewart flowers ( I matched the color of the ribbon with a Copic and colored them) I glued them to the corners and then I decided that the sweet little flowers in the image, well the needed some 3-d work too. so I added flowers onto the branch! For the centers I used a Viva Decor Black Paper pen.
