Da Birds

I've been playing in my craft room all day, and have nothing to show for it but pretty trash. So instead of a card, I'm sharing some photos of my crooked bird feeder.

You see, the feeder holds a cylinder of seed, and the birds roost on the base and nibble on the seeds. It starts out looking like this:

That's a full (new) cylinder of seed. I'm mighty proud I managed to capture papa cardinal, too!

As the birds work on the seed, you can see where they work:

I have short birds. Look at the guy on the right in this next photo:

He's stre-e-e-e-e-etching his poor neck to where he's likely to choke! Can't have that!

Oh, check out that bird on the left. Isn't he handsome?

My apologies to the bird on the right. You're handsome, too.

So to save them from their shortness, I do this:

Seed cylinder has been flipped, and the birds are once again happy.

In other news, tomorrow is the big reveal of my new blog feature. Y'all come back now, you hear?

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Just Playing

Here's what I think is the last card from my crafty day a few weeks ago. This whole card was just me playing with a new die and some unopened washi paper.

Here's my card, then I'll explain:

I started with my still-not-used Frantic Stamper Proud Peacock die. I die-cut it out of a pretty sheet of washi paper from We R Memory Keepers.

I carefully peeled the washi paper from the die and stuck it to a piece of white card stock. The body was cut from a piece of DCWV Shimmer paper. I added the eye with my black glaze pen.

The blue layer was a circle I die-cut and trimmed to fit in the bottom right corner. The handsome flags sticking out are pieces of the washi tape sheet I used for the peacock feathers. The sentiment is from WPlus9 Quite Like You.


I was following the then-current Retro Sketch:

which I turned upside down:

Before I made this, my pal cut the peacock feathers out of white card stock that had been distressed with several colors of ink. I liked that look, so I'll probably try it myself before I file this die.

I have several pages of undone challenges that I hope to give some attention this weekend, so I'll be back soon. :)

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Pushing My Luck

When I saw the current challenge over at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers was Snarker's Choice (to pick any previous challenge), I knew immediately what I'd do. I may still be sad I missed the Brad challenge, if only for the graphic they used:

See why I needed to play? And now I can!!!!

Here's my card, then I'll explain:

I used papers from my Basic Grey Out of Print 6x6 pad, and the only really tough decision was having to use that (gah) pink strip to break up all the busy.

The sentiment was discovered in my UFO pile, and I'm not sure from whence it came. I just cut it out with a circle die, layered it on an existing black circle that was taking up space on my desk, and slapped it onto the card.

The only problem was I put that onto the card base before I added the brads. DOH! I had to hack off the card front from the back, add the brads at the top of the black panel, then attach the old front to a new card base.


I followed the current Sketch For You To Try:

I'm so happy I got that out of my system. :)

Off to link up!

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An Old Reliable

I was recently in need of a few simple cards I could use for several different messages, so I made four of these:

I covered the edges of a piece of Distress water color paper with painters tape, which left just a small open area in the center.  I smooshed three colors of Distress Ink onto my craft sheet, spritzed them with water, then used my water brush (with no water in it) to paint the colors in three stripes - green, blue and purple.

I dried the ink before I removed the tape, then I stamped the Hero Arts tree with Archival ink. Next I trimmed the panel, put it on a purple layer, and mounted it to the base with foam tape.

These were so easy to make, I actually made two at a time. :)

I didn't stamp a sentiment on any of them. I know one will be a Thank You, but I'm not sure about the others, so I'll just let my hand-written words on the inside do all the talking.

In other news, I have a few snarky card ideas up my sleeve, and I'll be back when I can get them onto paper like they are in my head.

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Stuff I used: SU Perfect Plum card stock (maybe the 39th color I tried, aka: why I don't like purple), and the following: