Week 13 Christmas Card - Robins + an April Rainbow

Good Evening to everybody,

 

 

I hope all you mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, foster mothers, and step-mothers have all had a wonderful day. It's been a great day for me, spent exactly how I wished and the sun has been shining here all day so it couldn't have been better.

 

This week's card was completed on Friday but I'm posting a bit later than usual just because it took me longer to sort out the photographs. And why is this you might ask? Well, it's because I've been practicing with my new camera - yes, a new camera. Perhaps because I was borrowing his new camera too often, the EM took pity on me and treated me to one of my own. Same make/model as his, a Samsung, but it's PINK! No question which camera is mine then : ) I'm chuffed to bits because it really is a step up from my old one.

 

Back to the card then. The starting point of this card was the Lili of the Valley cute square which I added flower soft too and edged with the Tim Holtz Fired Brick ink pad.

 

 

I've been playing with shrink plastic and for this card made a couple of robin charms. Until you try it out for yourself you don't realise just how much shrink plastic shrinks!! The first robin stamp I used was really too small but I've used it anyway.

The second worked out better but I had a bit of a disaster with it and somehow managed to break of the holed top while trying to attach it to the link for the charm. So I filed it smooth and used it as an embellishment anyway.

As is my usual I've decorated the inside

and the back.

Materials used:

• Cardstock: White card to make a 6” x 6” base card; dark green card for matting the topper
• Design Paper: Paper taken from Papermania, Henbury Lane, Poinsettia A4 Pack
• Robin charms: Bird stamps taken from Papermania Tweet stamp set & Sheena Douglass, A Little Bit Sketchy 2, Faith; Inkssentials clear shrink plastic; Archival ink pad, jet black; markers, red & brown; jewellery findings to make chain.
• Other Items: Lili of the Valley, Cute Squares, Christmas Animals; Flower Soft, polar white; Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn, green double stitched ribbon;  red die cut bow & sentiment from the Poinsettia A4 Pack, as DP; Wild Orchid Crafts, red mulberry paper poinsettias (CX-00032)

I wasn't too sure how this card would turn out as it kind of developed as I went along, especially with the disaster with the shrink plastic - a lesson learned!

To finish today here is a photograph of an April rainbow that appeared just in front of our house, taken just yesterday evening.

 Love rainbows.

Happy crafting,