I had to make this card in a big rush for a friend when I realised that I needed it by the next day to deliver for her 90th birthday! Eeek. It can take me hours to make a special card.
Searching through my UFO pile (‘unfinished objects’) I discovered that I had a background card base and panel already stamped. These had been sitting in my stash for over a year waiting to be finished into a project. Now was the time to complete it.
It’s ‘Send a Card to a Friend’ over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog this week – so I entered this one.
How it was done:
The card blank had been stamped directly using Distress Inks.
A little Distress Ink was blended around the edges of the card blank and patterned paper.
The birds had been stamped and heat embossed in gold powder. I coloured them with glitter and gel pens, mounted the paper onto green card and glued to the card front with foam pads for dimension.
The die cuts had also been sitting in my stash. I shaped them lightly with a ball tool and glued to the card front.
I finished the card with peel off stickers (great when you are in a super hurry) and added glitter glue for extra sparkle. Et voila card done. Phew!
Materials:
Floral Notes and A Little Bird Told Me stamp sets (Chocolate Baroque)
8 X 8 inch card blank, 6 X 6 decorative paper (Crafty Individuals Shades of Summer) and green card for mounting
Inkpads: Versamark, Distress Inks (Victorian Velvet, Tea Dye)
Glitter and gel pens (Sakura and Pentel)
WOW Embossing Powder (Gold Rich)
Glitter glue (Stickles Diamond and gold)
Die cut foliage (Sizzix Tim Holtz), electronic cut fern (Tattered Lace ScanNCut), punched flowers (Tonic Petal Pairs)
Peel off stickers (gold)
Heather Tree Creative Designs by Anne Waller 
Wow, this is gorgeous anne and very clever to have something on your stash for in case you don’t have much time! Your friend will be very happy with such a card! xxx
Thank you sweetheart – gave it to her today and she was over the moon xxx