Bird in a Forest

This is a sample card for my WF12 Hidden Potential Challenge during Winterfest at Two Peas in a Bucket.

 

The background is made using acrylic paints on white cardstock to make a faux woodgrain. Once it was fully dry, I embossed it with my Scrollwork embossing folder, trimmed it to size, and mounted it to the chocolate card base.

 

The tree patterned paper is from Die Cuts With a View's (DCWV's) Green Stack (woodland theme). I die cut and dry embossed it with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eighteen. Then I dry embossed it again using the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

 

I added burnt orange velvet rick rack by American Crafts and adhered the tree panel to the card base.

 

The bird is from Tim Holtz / Sizzix Caged Bird die - and it was a prize I won from Two Peas during the Stamping A to Z event (photo 4). (Thank you Two Peas, Tim Holtz, Ranger, and Sizzix!)

 

I used the die to cut the bird and wing from recycled cardboard from a cracker box. Then I dabbed it with a Ranger Paint Dabber in stream to coat it.

 

After the initial coat of paint was dry on the bird, I stamped music from Hero Arts CG279 Musical Clef cling set on the bird using Ranger Archival ink in sepia. I dried it with my heat tool. Then I spread a thin layer of Golden acrylic paint in iridescent pearl.

 

When that dried, I lightly sanded / distressed the piece with sandpaper. Then I dabbed a bit more of the original stream paint on top. I adhered the wing to the bird using Glossy Accents and set it aside to dry.

 

Once the bird was dry, I added a Dot Sparkler foil sticker that Daria sent me (photo 3). (Thanks Daria!) Then I used Walnut Stain Distress Ink on a sponge dauber to add detail to the top edge of the bird. Finally, I adhered the bird to the card base using foam squares for dimension.

 

Click here to see a close-up of the bird.

 

Thanks for looking! :-)

Done