Foambird :-)

Here's another card using foamboard diecuts (see my tutorial for diecutting details)

"Foambird Card"

The background for this card uses my favourite inking with various colours of distress inks, overstamping with the same colours, and brushing a couple of the stamped images with Perfect Pearls for a little glamour.

"Decorated Foamboard Birdhouse Diecut"

The diecut was separated with a craft knife, the roof and floor decorated by dabbing with gold and the main body of the house embossed with a wood folder, then decorated with distress inks and alcohol inks, first white stripes, then other colours to complement the background. The foamboard picks up the embossing patterns brilliantly. The bird and butterfly were cut from patterned paper, shaped and all the pieces stuck with Pinflair dimensional glue to add to the dimension.

"Sentiment"

This lovely Chocolate Baroque sentiment was stamped in olive archival ink and heat-embossed in clear. This image also shows part of the background stamping.

"Dimension"

The beauty of the foamboard is all the wonderful dimension!

Ingredients:
Chocolate Baroque stamp sets: Live Out Loud, Fly Away With Me

Sizzix Bigz dies

foamboard

cardstock: white, 300gsm for card blank & 160gsm for stamping; hammered gold, 200gsm for matting

Kaisercraft Secret Bird Society 6" paper pad

Distress inks and markers: Scattered Straw, Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage, Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Brushed Corduroy, Walnut Stain, Picket Fence

Archival ink: Olive

Alcohol inks: Cranberry, Citrus, Butterscotch, gold mixative

Perfect Pearls: Gold Heirloom

Embossing powder: Stampendous Clear

Entered for the following challenge:
Hot Shot Crafts - die cuts