For those of you still snowed under in the country, I wanted to share a project from a recent design challenge for The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie. I love cardinals and all of their background stories so I focused on them for inspiration on this project.
We started with Tim Holtz's Thickboard tag. I painted all the edges with the red acrylic paint to match the cardinals of course.
The I used an old school decoupage technique of using only the very top layer of a beautifully printed paper napkin. This time I used Dina Wakely's clear gesso under and over top of the napkin with a little extra along the sides to seal it in.
Then I used the beautiful Peace and Joy papers from Kaisercraft for the background and embellishment pieces. I fussy cut out flowers, greenery and of course the majestic cardinals as well as a tag and sentiment banner.
I applied a round wood circle to the bottom to give the cardinals something to perch on and then built up the embellishments in layers.
I dusted all of the embellishments and birds in snow that was created from chunky crystal glitter and Art glitter glue. I topped of the tag with a beautiful buffalo plaid ribbon.
I hope these sweet snowy cardinals bring you joy today.
One Love,
Annette
