LOVE FOR BIRDS

Since the loss of our furry friend "Okie" about three years ago, I have had to make due with putting out some bird feeders. It actually has been fun getting a nice variety of feathered friends visiting us.

As promised yesterday, this is the other set of three stamps that are in the Papertrey "Take Three Summer" stamp set.  I'll try to clearly explain how I did the section with the birds.  I have a "template" that I made with white card stock using the die that cuts the three squares evenly spaced.  I place the template on my craft sheet and then place each stamp centered in one of the squares with the stamping side down.  Next I take an acrylic block and place it on top of the clear stamps, lift the block and then ink the stamps with VersaMark ink.  The designs were then heat embossed with Opaque White embossing powder on a piece of Baja Breeze card stock.  See pictures at the end of the post showing the steps described.

My next step was to get a border to place over the stamped images.  I used a piece of Not Quite Navy card stock which was larger than I needed and die cut the three squares with the die.  Here is a picture of the die that goes with the clear stamp sets. 

 

The frame was pretty narrow so I used dots of Tombow Mono glue to attach the two pieces. The card base had been embossed with a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder before adding the bird images. Then I added the punched design under the birds.

I'm not sure if I explained this very clearly, but please feel free to ask questions. Here are the pictures of how I spaced the images:

 

The Papertrey die



The template I made with the die

 

The stamps face down inside the squares

 

Placing the acrylic block on the stamps

 

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