Wildly Grateful Bird House ~ Busy with the Cricky

Hello friends! Today I am participating in Phase I of Kylie's International Blog Highlights. Kylie is an amazing Australia based Stampin' Up! Demonstrator from whom I have been receiving training for the last ten months. Next week I will be joining the training group's monthly blog hop. But ahead of that, I thought it might be fun to join the International Highlights group today.

Today's card features the Bird and Branches bundle, along with geometric shapes, stitched dies, and circle dies. There is a darling little nest included in this bundle, but like the three little pigs, I thought my birds might need to upgrade their straw and twig nest to an actual covered house!

To make a house I used a technique I call, "eye-balling it." What that actually means is, I had no real plans, but I began with two rectangles, one in Whisper White and one in Seaside Spray. I used my Stampin' Up! paper trimmer to cut the two rectangles into pentagons, the blue being about one-half inch larger than the white.

My pentagon was an elongated version of the photo above. I used my circle dies to cut out a "door" in the white layer, and then I used the Pinewood Plank embossing folder to add wood texture. A scalloped circle die was used to cut trim for the door.

The roof was crafted by cutting two Stitched So Sweetly labels and mitering the corners together. The seam was covered with the greenery and flowers.

The birds were stamped and then touched up with markers. I used Stampin' Dimensional dots to add depth to the card front.

The top ten cards in Kylie's International Blog Highlights will be featured at the end of the month in an International blog hop. Please visit Kylie's blog at THIS LINK and vote for my entry!