Today I am sharing how I made another card project. This project uses the songbirds on branches suite from Pinkfresh Studio. I absolutely fell in love with these products and ended up making a ton of cards. To see the bonus cards that I made, scroll to the bottom of this post. Better yet, check out my YouTube Tutorial and I will be sure to talk about the bonus cards at the end of the video!
To start the project, I am pulling out some hammermill 100lb cardstock and my Gemini Hot Foil Press. Since the foil plates I am using today are quite large, I will set them to the medium heat setting for 30 seconds. The foil plates that I am using today are the songbirds on branches and brushed sentiments, both from Pinkfresh Studio. I used some gold foil for both the birds and the sentiments.
After my hot foiling is completed, I set up the songbirds on branches panel on my Wendy Vecchi Make Art Station. I used the songbirds on branches layering stencils to apply ink to my image. For the birds and flowers, I used a combination of lemon whip, sunshine, ballet slippers and sparkling rose. I tried to blend the yellows and pinks together to create a beautiful orange transition color. For the leaves, I first applied a base layer of ocean breeze (the lighter aqua color) and then used aquamarine to add shading to the base of the leaves and the leaves detail layers. I also trimmed down a cardstock panel to 4×6 inches and applied the aqua inks around the edges, leaving a white center .
Once the images were colored, I used the coordinating dies and cut out the birds, leaves and sentiments. I also cut out an extra layer of the sentiments from some white heavyweight cardstock to stack up the sentiments for dimension.
I prepared a card base by cutting a piece of cardstock to 10×7 inches and scoring along the 10″ side at 5″. Next, I adhered the birds and leaves directly to the inked panel. I kept the birds close to the left side of the panel to leave room for my large sentiment on the right hand side. I then trimmed off any leaves that were hanging over the edge of the panel. I then mounted the panel to my card base using some foam tape. At this point, all that was left to do was add on my sentiment and my card was done.
Now for the bonus cards. This first card is fun because I made it without using the coordinating dies. In this product suite, the stamps, dies, foil plates and stencils are all sold separately. I wanted to show you that you don’t need the dies to make a beautiful card.
For this bonus card, I wanted to make a standard A2 size card. I though that the brushed sentiments were too large for this size of card, so I pulled out a hot foil plate from my stash called Yana’s sentiments and used that instead. The smaller sentiment and only 1 bird were enough to fill the card nicely. I also added a scalloped frame die cut from foil cardstock to add even more shine.
This one is very similar to the one that I created in the video, but I made it in the A2 size.
This card turned out to be one of my favorites! I didn’t want to waste the remaining hot foil, so I used a solid hot foil plate to create the reverse images of the birds. I then die cut them out and made a 5×7 card very similar to the one I made today. For the 4×6 panel, I used a scrap of cream colored cardstock to add some interest to the background.
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