Hey there!
It’s Jess from A Card Day’s Work and I’m so thrilled to be this month’s Guest Designer for The Hedgehog Hollow! I have a card to share with you today as well as a video tutorial – I hope you’ll love them! Let’s get started.
I started things off by doing a little ink smooshing. This is one of my favorite techniques and I love that you never get the same results twice. I used Distress Oxide inks for this in Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, and Peacock Feathers. I applied the ink directly to my craft mat, spritzed it with water, then used a piece of clear flexible plastic to pick up the ink and ‘smoosh’ it on to my white card stock. I repeated this until I was happy with the background and then set it aside to dry.
Next, I grabbed all of the flower dies from the Art Impressions ‘Birdhouse Cubby’ set and arranged them on my background panel. I ran these through my die cut machine and then repeated this twice more. This gave me a cool die cut panel that looks like it was created with a cover panel die! These are perfect for shaker windows – and that’s just what I’m doing!
I stamped out the birdhouse and three adorable birds using my Mini MISTI and the Nuvo Hybrid Ink Pad included in the box. I colored them all up using Copic markers and then ran them through my die cut machine. I gave the birds, door, and awnings a healthy coat of Aqua Shimmer in Midas Touch from the box to shine things up a bit.
I used a clear piece of plastic and a whole lot of foam tape to create my shaker window and added some adorable sequins before mounting the card front to my card base. To finish things off, I used the sentiment ‘from our nest to yours’ on grey card stock. I heat embossed it with Ranger’s Liquid Platinum embossing powder and mounted this to my card front. I adhered the birds and birdhouse to the card front as well and finished things off with a few pretty pink sequins.
I hope you love this project and that it inspires you to create something with your kit today! Drop a comment down below and let us know what your favorite color combination for the birdhouse is going to be.
Hugs and love,
Jess
I love the total card and the use of so many different techniques. AI is also a new love of mine and appreciate your take on this set.
Beautiful cards you are so clever
Thank for the interpretation
Beautiful card! I have some very old Art Impressions stamp from many years ago. Just ordered some of their watercolor stamps as I love the watercolor look. I thought that was a great idea of using the plastic to lift color and place it where you want it on your background. I think I’m a little OCD when it comes to inked backgrounds. If I just ink and spritz and lay cardstock directly on top I dont always like the outcome. In that case I’ve used the background to cut out individual diecuts laying dies out on certain sections of color. The bird house is adorable and I love shaker cards. You made it look easy. Thanks for sharing.