Saturday, February 1, 2025

Life is Better with Friends by Janet


Hello and happy weekend! Have you seen the beautiful new stamp set that Kim Hein designed yet? It's called 5980 - KH Song Birds and Feeders Set. This is for the bird lovers out there. In this card, I've used just one of the many images dedicated to our feathered friends.

To make my card I first cut out a circle on alcohol ink friendly cardstock using 5726 - Nested Circle Dies. Then I stamped the image and added one additional bird on the left side. I knew this was going to be about friends so I had to have two birds! I colored the bird bath with cool gray markers and made one bird with a blue breast and the other with a red breast. These guys are friends even though they're very different from each other. Do you have any friendships that are the same? I bet you do. 

After I finished coloring the stamped images, I used a blender stick from Ranger and applied some blue ink here and there to make a sky. I grounded the birdbath with a warm gray marker. Though simple to color, the effect is nice.

There's a lot going on in the card background but it doesn't overpower the birds. I enjoy combining patterns and you're good to go when you use Ai Paper packs because each pack coordinates perfectly together. I used a a piece of patterned paper from 5892 - Easter S2 Paper Pack and cut it with a lattice background die. I cut a middle rectangle piece out of the same paper pack for the center and behind it all, I used another design from the same pack. 

Thanks so much for joining me here at the blog today. As always, please visit the Ai store for the products I used and all the things you need for your card, journal, and tag making projects. Happy creating!

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