Put a bird on it!

Here's another of my Stamping Royalty submissions, this one for birthday cards. I created the big dotty background using Heavenly Blue CS circles that I inked and applied to the Cricut cut scalloped rectangle. That's actual stitching on the center (sanded) Pacific CS band, and the ribbon is Color Ready seam binding sponged with Heavenly Blue ink and topped with a hand-rolled Art Philosophy flower.

The stamp set is an upcoming SOTM (not April,which you can see here) and

Here's a close-up of the tag. I did a lot of detail work on the bird tag. The bird itself is rolled in two ink colors and the legs/beak markered before stamping. I detailed his wing with glitter glitz gel and silver gel pen. Then I paper pieced the strips on his hat, filling in spaces with glitter gel as well. He's got a little Bitty Pearl eye and glitter glitz dots on his heart.

I {heart} this bitty birdie!

More to come tomorrow...thanks for flying by!

Snowman Gift Tags

Here's a pic of the adorable little snowman tags I made for last weekend's holiday bazaar. I made these using my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. I cut out the tags at 2 inches, and a basic circle at 1 3/4 inches.

I ran the circles through my snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder. I added black sequins for the eyes, and handcut noses from an old eight petal flower punch from my stash. The mouths went on with a simple marker.

I stamped a To/From sentiment on the back of the tag, which was the whole purpose of double layering the tag - to keep the back smooth for writing on the tags. So cute...Can't wait to get wrapping!