Bird House – Hello

Design Team Time.  This round at Hand Stamped Sentiments (#435), we have a wonderful Inspiration Board.  So many lovely Spring images to spark your creativity.

I selected the “stack of bird houses” photograph and picked my color palette from there too!

Inspiration for my overall design was influenced by CAS on Friday (#280) to use Dies; Farm Quest (#49) Bird Homes; sneaking in Can You Handle the Pressure (#52) adding a bit of Wood Texture to the Bird Houses; and sharing with Love to Craft (#79) Anything Goes.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Crumb Cake cardstock.
• Background Panel: (5⅜” x 4⅛”) Very Vanilla cardstock dry-embossed with the retired Subtle 3D Embossing Folder for slight wood grain impression.
• Bird Houses: Pool Party, Copper Clay, Fresh Freesia and Crumb Cake cardstocks.
  • The “House” was die-cut with the (1½” x 3¼”) Tag die from the Tailor Made Tags Dies set.
  • The “Roof” was die-cut with the (1½” x ½”) Stitched Banner die from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
  • The “Bird House Opening” was die-cut with the (¾”) Stitched Circle die, also from the Stylish Shapes Dies set.
  • The Roof pieces were mitered with Paper Snips.
  • All Bird House elements were dry-embossed with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder for a rustic wood grain texture.
  • The Bird Houses were assembled and additional (¾”) Stitched Circles were die-cut to place in the Bird House Openings.
• Greeting – Hello: (3½” x 1½”) Crumb Cake cardstock scrap.
  • The cardstock was adhered to a piece of cut Foam Adhesive Sheet the same size.
  • The word, hello, from the retired Hello You Thinlits Dies set was the die-cut.

All elements were adhered to the card base.  The middle Bird House was popped up with Dimensionals.  The Crumb Cake Circles were added to the Bird House Openings and the greeting was then added.  Left over bits from the greeting were added to the Bird House as Bird Landing Posts.

My Bird Houses are ready for the Spring Birds.  Do you have Bird House in your yard?  I enjoy seeing the Birds when they visit.

Consider joining our challenge this round.  I would love to see what you create.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.   Cheers,  Jolanda!

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