Wednesday, January 20, 2010

happy birdie

i confess that when i saw this week's super sketchy sunday sketch at 365 cards i was very briefly stumped...i think it was the trapezoid:

luckily, they also showed a bunch of gorgeous DT cards made from the sketch, including one by my lovely friend ~amy~ that not only cleared up my puzzlement but made me want to tackle the project immediately. so i did:

(patterned paper: pink paislee, american crafts, we r memory keepers, prima; flowers cut with a graduated cuttlebug die out of some vintage leatherette; pearls & gem: kaiser; ink: colorbox; pen: copic outliner; embroidery floss: dmc; magnetic clasp: basic grey--inside card to hold the top bit flat when shut; frances meyer chipboard bird & heidi swapp heart used as templates for tracing)

my card is a tri-fold, and i confess i needed a couple of go's before i got a proportion i liked. it's not exactly the same as in the sketch, but if you're working with a 12 x 12" sheet of paper and want something bigger than 4" square, the only flexibility is to make it wider!

i think i'm also going to send this in to cards magazine's current challenge, where they want to see trees and branches! when i was thinking about that, i liked the idea of letting woodgrain paper represent the tree, and cloud paper represent the sky, and adding in some some leafy shapes--or in this case--a stylized branch. then all i needed was a little bird (i traced a chipboard shape) and a few embellies--my favorite being the white hand-stitching inside the outlines of the clouds, for texture--and i was all set!

12 comments:

  1. WOW Lauren.. Love this card. I also had a look at the sketch on sunday, but it looked to tricky for me to even have a go at it. Love the way you have solved the "puzzle". And the stiching around the clouds...well what can I say..LOVE....
    Hugs

    ReplyDelete
  2. LOVE IT! I love those branches. Did you tell us where they came from (from whence they came)? Maybe I need more coffee to see it.

    And you should TOTALLY submit this! Oh, yeah!

    ReplyDelete
  3. oh my cuteness!! love that birdie and the stitched clouds and the woodgrain! PERFECTION!!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Oh, yeah, you gotta submit this one! It is a really fab bird and branch and leaves, but the hand stitched clouds are da bomb. I {heart} this card, LFL :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. ♥♥tweet tweet♥♥ i adore it chickie:) What a fabulous job of multi-tasking at her best!!!!! Love the stitching on that fabbie cloud paper and the bird??!!!! excellent....thanks so playing sista!!!! You did a magnificent job!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Holy flippin' gorgeous cards Batman!!! Oh Lauren, I simply could not love this more...you had me at stitched clouds!!!

    (-: Heidi

    ReplyDelete
  7. Wow! I have to say, you nailed that sketch, what a great card. Add me to your list of followers, your blog has some great creations!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Adorable. Love how the scene is set up. Those papers are perfect.

    ReplyDelete
  9. This is really adorable! That birdie is so "tweet"!

    ReplyDelete
  10. I LOVE this!! This is so cool. I would have never thought to do this with that sketch. I love how your mind works with this. ITs so lauren! So cute. Your mojo was kickin' when you made this.

    ReplyDelete
  11. What a fabulous take on the sketch - I love, love, love your interpretation. Thanks for sharing this card with us!

    ReplyDelete
  12. So love this card! Good luck with the entry! Very clever use of the wood grain!

    ReplyDelete

the *BEST* part of blogging is the comments, dontcha think? thanks for taking time to leave one! ~♥~