
Well, it looks like spring is finally going to arrive. I know I'm rushing it as it isn't here officially until March 21st but we have at least had some sunshine this past week. What better way to welcome warmer weather than with a 3D Bird Feeder card holder and some Stampin' Up! cards featuring, what else, BIRDS!
Our group leader Liz Holloway has designed a wonderful file to use with our Silhouette Cameos or some other cutter if you don't have a Silhouette. It was super easy to assemble and when the base is made using the backing cards from Stampin' Up! dsp packages it makes it very sturdy too.
Here is the suite of products I made to share with you today. Read on for a few more details.

Aren't these just so much fun?! I had fun creating the bird feeder and deciding what to put on the outside to dress it up. I immediately thought of the Springtime Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-Bration addtional items catalog.
Let me share some more pics of the bird feeder: You can click on each pictures to link to a full size image.



The roof of the feeder attaches with magnets built into the house and the roof so you can actually hang it if you want to. Let's take a look at the inside and see how it looks hanging up too.

As you can see I used the silver stripe foil design for the roof and the perches and the leaf flourish for the front, back and sides. I then added some flourishes using the Flourish Thinlits dies item#141478 $29.00 in the general catalog cutting them from gold foil.
To attach these delicate items I use the Xyron 5.5" sticker maker. Running it through and the using a stylus to trace around the edges and in the cutout portions so that is comes up cleanly. This makes attaching them soooo super easy.
Now on to the cards. Sometimes my creative juices just aren't flowing. When that happens I challenge myself with some inspiration. I found a site called My Create Ink Color Lab. On this site all the current Stampin' Up! colors are listed and you can use it to generate color combinations. My favorite button on this site is the "surprise me" button. Just click it and it pops up 5 colors to use. I did that for each of my cards. Then I have a book of card sketches that show in just black and white outlines different layouts for cards so I went to that to get some ideas for layouts. The title of the sketch book is 101 Creative Card Sketches and can be found HERE.
I call card number one Tutti Frutti Best Birds Flourish. Details of how it's made and a supplies list can be found on my TAMS site.


I titled card number two Feathery Friends and the supplies and instructions are on my TAMS site.

Card number 3 is titled Petal Palette Petals and More. Instructions and supplies list is on my TAMS site.

Here is the inside of this card. Quite often I will place a small image or die cut on the inside of the card just to carry the theme there.
I do hope you've liked the projects I shared with you today. Be sure to visit my These Are My Stamps web site where you can find card instructions and supplies lists for many of the cards you see on my blog.
Do click on the links below and check out the other creations by the member of the Creative Circle Design Team. They are all fantastic and create some really beautiful designs.
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