Love Birds!

Having fun playing with my new goodies after a brief break from stamping. I've gotten to the point of feeling stressed about holidays and shopping and preparation which usually causes me to stop enjoying my hobby for a bit. Mostly because of the constant little voice in my head telling me I should be doing other things. Well, I ignored the little voice today and made FIVE cards! I won't show them all to you today because two are for Monday's CAS challenge, one is my Diva card for Wednesday and one I just don't like yet. I'll tweak it until I do then I'll show it as well.

Anyway, for this card I enjoyed playing with the new punch from the upcoming Occasions Mini catalog called the Extra Large Two Step Bird. Not only do you get a bird a separate wing and a branch in one punch, but it is the sleek new slim design guaranteed to save you space! I love this clever punch design and wish all my punches were this slim style- they'd all actually fit in the same drawer.

I had in mind a sympathy card that I need when I set out to make this, but eventually it evolved into this anniversary card. To get the wings in the same design as the heart I just stamped them with the heart after they were punched out. By the way, the heart is from the new stamp set called I {Heart} Hearts also in the Occasions Mini Catalog available January 5th.

Did you notice the texture in the background? I used one of SU's texturz plates with the Big Shot. It is subtle beacause I tried to only do the bottom edge by using a piece of scrap paper between the texture plate and the top part of the cardstock... no such luck. Yes I could've used just the bottom edge of the texture plate, but I liked the pattern/design better at the inside edge. Now I'm glad it didn't work!

In hindsight I wish I would've used the new Scallop Trim punch for the bottom border also, but actually forgot about it. Wouldn't it have been lovely?!!

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you are having a great weekend!
~Kristin

SUO Supplies

Stamps: I {Heart} Hearts, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Colors: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Big Shot, Texturz Plates, Modern Label punch, Extra Large Two-Step Bird punch, Vanilla Satin ribbon, Eyelet border punch