Good Saturday morning. I’m sorry to have been away for several days. I’ve had a hard work week along with needing to work on some special project commitments. I really enjoyed making this project today for the Splitcoaststampers Beach Themed Inspiration Challenge. You can check out the Pinterest Inspiration Site here. My card was inspired by the carved bird art piece found here and was made using the Impression Obsession Shore Birds, All-in-One Frames Rectangles 2 and Small Grass. I got a little carried away with the Liquid Applique so my ocean is quite frothy but I still like the way it came out.
I started by lightly sponging in the sane, water and sky using a stylus and foam tip. The sky was made using my retired Stampin’ Up! cloud template. I applied Liquid Applique on the water and tapped lightly with my finger to spread it out and then heated with my heat gun. I applied a light coating of glossy accents on the water and sprinkled with glitter to add a touch of sparkle, dusted it off lightly and then set aside to dry. I cut the frame and applied thin strips of mounting tape and attached to the scene layer. I applied ATG adhesive to the back and attached to the card base.
The birds were all cut using white cardstock and colored with markers and mini applicators. I cut a couple sections of grass and tucked in behind the frame and attached with glossy accents. The birds were popped up in the scene with mounting tape.
Thanks for coming by today and I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Card size” 5.50” x 4.25”
Fantastic scene!!
Pretty bird card…love the dies you used!
Good morning, Kittie, love your inspiration an so well captured. Missed you but knew when you came back that we would see something special. this is special, the birds are perfect with your lovely beach scene. using the technique you have for the ocean is special an fantastic, makes it look real….have a good week-end.
Morning Kittie….. What a gorgeous card. I’m heading down to the coast next week and altho I won’t see those birds, I hope to see a soothing setting like in this card. Another example of your talent.. Thank you for sharing….
And you need to explain to your boss that you’ve got thousands of people that rely on you and you can’t work so hard… Think that will work? lol
Lovely! This reminds me of vacations on SC beaches.
Kittie, have you ever shared how you store and organize your dies? You have a gazillion and I would just love to know — the organization part especially!
Lovely beach scene with the birds, and love all that beautiful water.
This is BEAUTIFUL KITTIE! I like those shore birds dies too!!! 😉
Beautiful! I love all your ocean themed cards! I’ve been slowly collecting all the IO dies to case them! Thanks for the great how to details to make such realistic ocean scenes!
Love the shore birds Kittie….a good one for me and I do have these birds…since I live at the Ocean.
Have really missed you. Welcome back my friend.
Wonderful work. The colors are great and I LOVE the Liquid Applique addition…this one reminds me of a funny story about the beach and birds. My neighbor went to a cookout and barbecue at Jones Beach,on Long Island, many years ago. The men were doing the cooking and near the end they started getting involved with other people and children. Someone finally turned around toward the pits and many birds were taking off with the meat. Hope you enjoyed. TFS.