Saturday, April 9, 2011

Happy Birdday

















I think I dare to say that spring has finally arrived to my part of the world. With the sun out and the birds singing I got inspired to make a card with one of my newest (and soon to be favourite) stamp. I just LOVE the bird theme. The image I have here is called Peony and it's one of the newer ones by ching chou kuik. It's from plate 97.

















The papers I have are from die cuts with a view Mariposa line. I got them from my sweetheart after his trip to the US :) Unfortunately the pics don't do the papers justice. They are very glittery and the birdcage background is in gold foil. As the papers were so beautiful I wanted to keep the layout simple and make them work with the image. After choosing the papers I coloured the image with promarkers to match. The text is handwritten. Oh, and I added some gold glitter glue to her flower to make it match the papers and stand out a bit. Hope you can feel the spring coming too.

13 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Katarina! I love the DCWV papers and have some myself so I know how glitzy they are IRL.
    Love your text and how you popped the bird over your layers, nice effect.
    Connie

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  2. very pretty, love the colors and the dp is a great choice!

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  3. What a cute sentiment to accompany such a gorgeous card. Your coloring is so beautiful Katarina, and I adore the glitter.
    Hugs.

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  4. Katarina this is so gorgeous. I love that DP and I too find it hard to cover up paper when it is so beautiful. So I try to keep them simple and let the paper be more of my embellishments.
    Hugs:)
    Angela

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  5. Wow Katarina, so pretty. Love your color choices, love the gold glitter on her flower. Gorgeous.

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  6. Love the beautiful coloring you did on this creation. So stunning. The hair color is just wonderful

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  7. Beautiful card, and amazing coloring!! Love the Design paper (have'nt seen them here, in Norway before:().
    Love how the bird is "coming closer" to the bird on the image! And your color choise is so nice.
    Stunning work Katarina!!.

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  8. Your card is a true beauty, Katarina. Love how you kept it simple with this gorgeous paper you got from your sweetheart... so sweet from him! Your soft colouring looks great and I also love how you layered the bird over the image.
    Hugs, Karina

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  9. Oh wow I love your colors and love how you off set the background paper frame...gives it a totally different look. I love it.

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  10. Gorgeous Katarina!! I love that glitter!! It is just perfect!! I love this card!

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  11. This is very pretty. Love the sparkle and you did fabulous carrying the bird theme through in an effective and subtle way.

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  12. This is just beautiful!!! I adore the addition of the glitter!!1

    xoxo,
    Kym

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