#Birds - DT layout for Alexandra Renke

Hello there crafty friends,

I'm back today with a new layout for the Alexandra Renke Design Team!

Have you guys seen the brand new Bird papers in the AR shop?! Oh my goodness!!! They are all so beautiful and special! I can't wait to see what everyone makes with them!

For today's layout I chose one of my favorite papers from this collection, Designpapier Paradies große pinkige Spatzen, because well...colors! Am I right?! Such vibrant and happy colors, just like I like it!

So to start with, I fussy cut lots of birds (for future projects too) while I was watching some of my favorite series. Usually I do this when I'm not in a crafty mood! I just can't watch TV without doing something else though, so combining the two works great for me.

I then selected a bunch of papers that I thought matched the colors of the birds well:

• Designpapier Teppich Dunkelviolett
• Designpapier Herbstpflanzen Bordeaux
• Designpapier Herbst wild Wellensittich Pinkorange
• Designpapier Herbst wild Schmetterling Gelb

Using the 3D feathers die (3D Federn), I die cut a bunch of feathers from the above papers.

For my background I chose the following paper:

• Designpapier Planner rote und goldene Fächer

Eventually I ended up cutting it up and combining it with white card stock to create my background. The white card stock I always use is this one:

• Hauskollektion Unipapier Cremeweiß 200g, 25er

I adhered the two pieces of papers to the background, then lined up all the feathers in an arch kind of shape. I glued them down in the middle, so that I could still bend up the edges.

I layered some tissue paper behind my photo and glued it all down on the left side of my paper.  I added my title, journaling, date.

Now the birds were ready to embellish my page! I used 3d foam adhesive to glue them down. Last but not least, I went through my enamel dots and pulled out some colors that went with my color scheme.

That's it! Easy peasy! What do you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

See you soon!

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Spellbinders Jane Davenport Artomology collection - Part 3

Hello crafty friends,

I'm back with my third and last blog post in my Jane Davenport Artomology series! If you've missed the previous two, you can find them here and here.

For today's post I've made a scrapbook layout and a card using the Fair Feathers Etched dies. The idea is the same on both, a dreamcatcher. Besides the dies I also received a couple of other products from this collection, and I really didn't want to waste them! There are two packages of washi sheets (Washi Girls and Washi Mermaids) and  with amazing designs that would make stunning art journal pages, but since I don't do art journals, I decided to come up with something else. I took a sheet from the Washi Girls set, because it's got a rainbow of colors on it, and stuck it on white card stock. I first die cut a circle around the sentiment for my card so I knew what I have left of the paper.

Then I die cut a bunch of feathers from the remaining paper. I actually used up all of it! I love that my feathers are an array of color!

I trimmed my photo into a circle and die cut another big circle from a patterned paper from the Fancy Pants On Our Way collection. I placed them on foam adhesive to give them dimension and also so I can tuck the twine under it that I was going to hang the feathers from. Next I hung all the feathers on the twine as well as a few other things like journaling spots, tags and die cuts and glued them in place. I added a few buttons to some of the feathers and a couple of embellishments around my photo. I wrote my journaling on one of the tags, stamped my date, and that's about it!

As for the card...Like I mentioned above, I die cut the text from the washi sheet which I found to be a great sentiment. I used a basic circle die for this. I then added a couple of different yellow watercolors as well as some black splatters to an A2 size white card stock and let it dry. Then I adhered this panel onto an A2 size top folding card base.

I checked where I wanted to have the circle on my card. Then I just glued 3 feathers on the card front and layered the circle on them. I wrapped some twine around the circle and tied a bow at the top. Done!

I hope I could inspire you in some small way to go and start crafting!

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

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