Two Step Bird Archives - Inkspired Treasures

Every Thursday, Create with Connie and Mary has a challenge for everyone to play along! This week we have a color challenge using Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Baja Breeze and Pear Pizzazz! Beautiful colors together and they go along with the Springtime Vintage Suite of products we are featuring this week on Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition!

My card this week is a departure of my usual, don't you think? Can you see how I used the Baby Blossoms stamp set? I stamped the background with the small flower stamps tone-on-tone on the Rose Red cardstock with Rose Red Classic Ink, then punched with the 2 1/2 Circle Punch. I also stamped another stamp in this set on the Pear Pizzazz with Pear Pizzazz Classic Ink and punched with the 1" Circle punch. I also punched a 1 3/8" Pink Pirouette circle.

I started with a base of Rose Red and layered on Baja Breeze. Next I layered on Whisper White. I cut a square of Baja Breeze cardstock and ran it thru the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Impressions Folder. I ran a strip of Sticky Strip down the left side, then added Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding Ribbon scrunched and wrapped to the back. I added a bow of the Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding on top.

I used the Two-Step Bird punch with Baja Breeze cardstock, and used the Square Lattice on the wing and a little pearl for his eye! I placed on the card with Stampin' Dimensionals. I added two of the leaves with Pear Pizzazz. I stamped So Many Candles, so Little Cake from Bring on the Cake stamp set with Rose Red on the Very Vanilla. Finally, I added three Pearls to the Rose Red circle.

Make sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team did for the Create with Connie and Mary Challenge this week! Grab your stamps and play along! Upload your creation to Inlinkz over on Create with Connie and Mary!

Today certainly feels and looks like spring around here! We have been having beautiful sunny days (unusual for Ohio) and temps in the high 50s, low 60s. I can see the golfers playing from my house, so the course must be open.

Bloggers' Challenge for today is a Spring theme…perfect! I also combined it with another challenge and used Mary Jo's Monday Lunchtime Sketch to build the card for my punch flowers.

I started with a base of Old Olive cardstock and layered on a piece of Stampin' Up!'s Cottage Wall Designer Paper in the olive print. For the back layer, I ran the Pale Plum Cardstock thru the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impressions Folder and layered it on Rich Razzleberry. The next layer, I used the stripe pattern in Cottage Wall DSP and layered it on Rich Razzleberry cardstock again.

I used the Two-Step Bird Punch (and you thought it was just for punching birds…lol!) and created the vine from the leaves, then used the bird's wing and created the buds for the flowers. The Old Olive part of the bud is the wing with the point down and a V cut into the rounded part. The Pale Plum is the wing with the point upward for the flower bud. I sponged the edges of the Pale Plum with Rich Razzleberry and the Old Olive cardstock with Old Olive Classic Ink, too, for some shading and definition. I adhered them to Whisper White cardstock and layered that on Rich Razzleberry cardstock. Finally, I stamped Happy Birthday from Stampin' Up!'s Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set in Rich Razzleberry Classic Ink and punched it with the Word Window Punch. That was layered onto a Pale Plum Modern Label Punch and tucked under the front panel.

I loved Mary Jo's sketch, and I think it fits the Spring Theme for Bloggers' Challenge as well! I hope you have a great weekend! Come back tomorrow for the monthly Control Freaks Tour de Freaks Blog Hop! You'll be glad you did!

CCMC137 – Baby Blossoms

Bloggers Challenge – Spring