Birdies at Home ~ Crafty Secrets

Good Morning!

I'm in a wonderful mood! I'm so excited to be going to the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, TX. next week! I'll be helping out in the Crafty Secrets booth and in Vicki's classes! Stop by and see me, if you can!

I'll be meeting my friend Tex at the airport in Dallas, Tex kindly invited me to stay with her and my friend Joy with be arriving later that night, I'm so excited to be seeing my friends and spending time with them!

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Here's a card I made with the new Birdies at Home stamp set by Crafty Secrets. The detail in this set is amazing, there are musical notes and words inside the swirly tree branches and the cages, WOW!

I used my Tim Holtz film strip die to cut the strip out of vanilla paper. I shabbied it up with Ranger Distress Black Soot ink. I layed the strip on a piece of vanilla paper and traced the inside of the film strip lightly with a pencil, I used that as a guide to where I'd be stamping the small birds. I adhered the film strip to my vanilla strip with the birds stamped on and then I added Crackle Accents.
After I cut the main image with the Spellbinders die I left it in place and used my old SU! stipple brush and pounced Ranger tumbled glass ink on the image.

This is a darker picture, I think it shows the crackle in the film strip better.

Supplies: Stamps - CS Birdies at Home. Paper - vanilla, CS Pastel Paper Pad. Ink - Ranger Distress Black Soot, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Copic markers. Acces. - Crafty Secrets Chipboard Die Cut Shapes, Ranger Crackle Accents, glitter, black pearl pin, Adorn-it's. Tools - Spellbinders Labels 4 die, Tim Holtz film strip die by Sizzix, Scor-Pal, tracing wheel, stipple brush, scalloped edge punch.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I got this last week at an antiques shop in Conway, Blue Ribbon Antiques. I've been wanting one forever, but, they were always out of my price range. I really don't know what it's called other than a paper rack, they had an extra roll of paper I got too, YAY! I think they used them in general stores to wrap up purchases, etc.?
I'll be using it for grandkids artwork.

I hope you have a great day, we just got a big rain here, a gully washer!