This blue and cream paper is from Basic Grey’s new Granola collection. It is beautiful paired with a bird from Tim Holtz’s new Nature grungeboard set.

Grungeboard is amazing to work with. There are limitless possibilities when it comes to altering and embellishing this ingenious material. It is soft and pliable and very light too. The rather large bird does not weigh down the card in the least.

THE BIRD

The primary color used in painting the bird is Mushroom from Adirondack’s Dimensional Pearls. The highlights are achieved with Adirondack’s Metallics Pearl paint and Sandal from the Lights collection.

After the paint dries heat emboss the bird with the tree stamp from Hero Arts’ birds and branch stamp set. Stampendous has a color called Pearl Lustre Sapphire which is opaque and goes quite nicely with the feathery blue Basic Grey paper. Use the outside edges of the tree, it may be easiest to use a tinted embossing powder so you can see where you have already stamped. Avoid stamping the tree trunk. Doesn’t bird look right at home camouflaged in the Hero Arts tree?

THE SENTIMENT

The border stamp is actually a 12? stamp from Hero Arts, heat embossed with Ranger’s white embossing Puffs. It is slightly distressed, but has a very different look from Tim Holtz’s distressed embossing powders. The sentiment is from an acrylic stamp set by PrintWorks and the coordinating flower is a Whisper Prima flower.

ASSEMBLY

This card comes together very quickly. Cut the paper down to fit the card base and then cut along the curve of the floral border stamp. Rough up all of the edges with a distressing razor. Then use Old Paper Distress Ink by Tim Holtz around the edge of the card. Come back around with a thinner application of Denim Dimensional Pearls.

After the patterned papers are adhered decide upon placement of the bird, which will be applied with a dimensional adhesive. But first use Adirondack’s Metallics Pearl to highlight the left side of the bird and the Mushroom Dimensional Pearls to create a shadow under the bird and on the right. No need to apply it to the bottom half of the card. The idea is to make the bird pop off of the blue and white patterned paper.

This uplifting card has a very peaceful mood, thanks to Basic Grey for the beautiful papers that inspired the design!

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