Hummingbird card

 

Good Morning Ladies,  

Thank you for your lovely comments on our garden photos on yesterday's blog.  Gardening is one thing that Paul and I both love, which makes it even more enjoyable.                                                                 It's a good job we took the photos on Sunday as we had a huge storm yesterday afternoon,  it started with continuous thunder, with no gaps between the rumbling, after about half an hour it got even darker and the wind picked up, there was an almighty crack of lightning and then even louder thunder, then the heavens opened and we have torrential rain and hail stones,  I don't even want to look at the flowers now!  I'm sure they'll all recover. 

I made today's card yesterday,  using the free stamps that came the last magazine I reviewd.  I cut a 3 1/4 circle out of a piece of copier paper and placed that over a 5 x 5 inch piece of white card, I blended Scattered Straw Distress Oxide through the aperture blending out towards the centre, keeping that lighter, I removed the copier paper and placed the circle aperture over the piece I just blended,  I held the circle down and blended Peacock Feathers around the rest of the card, again keeping the centre a bit lighter,  to add definition to the corners I blended Uncharted Mariner around the corners and down the sides.  After drying the ink I stamped the circlular dot stamp over the Scattered straw area in the centre of the card and edged the sides of the card with Versamark ink and then added Gold Embossing powder and heat set.  

Next I had to do a reverse stamp of the humming bird so that I could have two facing each other, I did this by stamping the bird using Versafine onyx black (as it was a bit wetter than my Versafine Clair) onto my Gelli plate, I then put a piece of card over the stamped image and lifted the reversed image, I quickly added clear embossing powder and heat set, this makes colouring with Distress Oxides easier,  otherwise the oxide dull the black ink.  I then stamped the other bird and coloured both with Abandoned Coral,  Fired Brick, Scattered Straw and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxides.  To finish the background I stamped one of the flowers  around the bottom half of the card. I finished the birds with a quick coat from a clear glitter pen (although it doesn't show up on camera). 

To finish the card, I mounted the inked front piece onto a mat of orange card that matched the Abandoned Coral,  I edged this with a black pen to give a faux black mat, I then created a yellow card and after winding some black cotton around the top of the card I adhered everything to the card base, I stamped the sentiment onto the orange card and edged with gold embossing and then popped that onto a black mat and adhered it over the cotton.  The last job was to add the hummingbirds, I added foam tape to the backs of them and placed them either side of the circlular centre piece. 

I hope that you all have a lovely day,  

Love and hugs, 

Sandra xxx