Saturday 28 January 2012

A birdie birthday.

There are celebrations in the Izzwizz house today - our very first little baby chick has hatched! We have kept hens for ten years, but this year we are breeding our own for the first time and we have little tweeting noises coming from the spare room. My husband, Tom, has just started his very first blog here to write about our hens and will be posting some pictures later on. In the meantime, here's a birdie birthday card to be going on with:

"Happy birthday little chicken"

The stamps are from Crafty Individuals and all the colouring is with three distress inks (Dusty Concorde, Milled Lavendar and Stormy Sky). The background is made much lighter by rubbing all the stamped images with silver Perfect Pearls. This also gives a lovely shimmer effect. The main panel is stamped in black archival ink for contrast.

"Embellishments"

There are lots of embellishments, so the colour scheme has been kept very simple. The row of flowers was sent to me by my very good friend Lee aka CraftyLoops (thanks Lee!). They come as a sheet that you can cut into blocks or strips and she did tell me where to get some more, but I've forgotten (d'oh!). The flowers were originally white, but I coloured them with two colours of distress ink to match the card.

"Bird in branch"

The bird in branch is a Marianne die-cut and has been cut & embossed in silver mirror card. The embossing really gives some texture to the leaves, as well as adding a little eye & wing to the bird. It is fixed on the card with Pinflair glue to raise it up and add a little dimension. The branches at the bottom of the card are also from this die-cut, with the bird removed. The silver butterfly is die-cut from a Marianne butterfly set.

"Sentiment"

The sentiment was stamped in black archival ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The stamp was in a set that came free with one of the cardmaking magazines. The sentiment was diecut from a labels Nestie and coloured with matching distress inks before layering onto a Silver mirror card diecut, embossed and edged with black promarker pen.

Both panels were matted and layered onto silver mirror card and black card before arranging together with some purple and silver lace (the purple lace started out white and was coloured with Dusty Concorde distress ink to match).

So, happy 0th birthday little chickie!

Entered for the following challenges:
The Stamp Man - Embellish It
Joanna Sheen - Celebrations
Mark's Finest Papers - at least 4 layers (there are 8!!)

38 comments:

  1. I love this card, thank you for writing how you made it with which dies etc...it does help when I get a mojo block as I can think ahh, yes...I could colour this differently or trim something off a die-cut shape. Hoping you have a very nice weekend with the chicks.

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  2. Maddy another beautiful card, lovely stamps, dies, flowers and colours, great idea how you have changed the lace colour.
    Congratulations on the birth of your first wee chickie
    Kathy xxx

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  3. Maddy this card is superb. And yeah! Little chirpy cheeps coming from house....Yippeee. And thats great Tom now has a blog, I left a wee comment for him. The colours of this card are stunning and I love the rose trim coloured. I bought the trim from the USA from Zibbet store. Heres the link in case you want some though I am planning on buying more so if you want me to get you some I can. In fact if you see anything you want, we may as well stick it on the one order if you want. Only if you want to of course. Heres the link anyway http://www.zibbet.com/SaCrafters/artwork?artworkId=637698

    Lee xx

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  4. Beautiful card as always, love this colour combo and congrats on your baby chick! Love Jayne. x x

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  5. This is beautiful I love the back ground...and the stamping...really gorgeous ..... happy hopping Sharon xxx

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  6. A stunning card. Thank you for leaving a comment on my blog. Have a great weekend x

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  7. Love this card,the little flowers are gorgeous. x

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  8. Ohh This is gorgeous - I'd want to frame it
    Linda

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  9. Fantastic card, great colours, beautifully stamped and embellished.
    Anne x

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  10. Gorgeous card I love it, well done on the chicks my dad use to keep hens too and had many a chick running about.. Chris xx

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  11. What a stunning card, beautifully stamped and lovely colours. xx

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  12. Beautiful card, love the colours and the bird on the branch.

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  13. Oh, I love this card. It has such a stylish and elegant feel.

    Heike xx

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  14. Wow Maddy this is beautiful. xx

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  15. I came across your blog through the DC weekend blog hop and although your style is completely different to mine (and that's a GOOD thing, it would be a very boring world if we were all the same and did the same things!) I have to say I think this card in particular is absolutely gorgeous! The colours are fantastic and it all works SO we'll together.
    What an absolutely beautiful card! :-)

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  16. Hi Maddy, my goodness this is beautiful! Love the stamped panel, that is wonderful!

    Sounds great having chicks - bet they are so cute!

    Sarah

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  17. beautiful card maddy,ovely colours. sue xx

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  18. Lovely card - beautiful subtle colours! Lea xx

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  19. Gorgeous!!!! Love the embossed die cuts. Thanks for joining Speedy Fox and friends.

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  20. Lovely, lovely card!!! Enjoyed reading how you made it and the details are exquisite!!! Very nice!!! Thanks for sharing with Speedy Fox and Friends!

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  21. oh hun this is just gorgeous oh I adore bird cages,and this is simply amazing love this to bits,hugs cherylxxxxxxx

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  22. really beautiful card! very unique...
    thanks for joining us at Speedy the Fox challenge (-:

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  23. Beautiful card, love the colours and detail
    Lorna xx (blog hopping from DC)

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  24. This is a stunning card, love how youve combined stamping with embellishments xx Hopped over from DC

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  25. Wow, gorgeous card. Loving the colours and the roses and everything. Its stunning. xx

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  26. wow happy sundays ... what a super card .. love the image and love the flowers and love the little bird ... ooooo love it all well done ... just doing a bit of blog hopping ... happy crafting and love sandy xx

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  27. What a gorgeous card. I love birds and this one is fabulous! Gail.

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  28. What a lovely card. Really beautiful, love the design and the rose ribbon. Michelle x

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  29. I'm a new blogger and i've hopped over from Docrafts. I love the colours and design of your card.
    Caron xx

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  30. This is a really beautiful card. I love the colours, flowers, birds. Really beautiful!

    Sandra x

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  31. Stunning card. Completely gorgeous.

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  32. Beautiful card. The colours are great. Never thought of using the Distress Inks to colour flowers - have used promarkers to do it so now must try the DI's.

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  33. another stunning card lovely colours

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  34. Wow, just beautiful! Love the embossing too. Thanks for playing with us this week at Speefdy Fox & Friends.

    Tammylee

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  35. Love this card, it is so beautiful. The colors are amazing. Great detail. Thanks for playing along with us here at Speedy Fox and Friends challenge, we hope to see you again next week. Make sure to check out our challenge with Friends of SpeedyTV for more fun with Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

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  36. Lovely card with great use of embellishments. Thanks for joining us at The Stamp Man challenge.
    Siobhan

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