Loving Birds

It's Thursday so I have a Softpencil card for you. We got to use this sweet image called Loving Birds and I wanted to show you the full image so you know what it looks like:

And here's my card:


I've wanted to use this piece of swirly chipboard for a while, but couldn't fit it on a card until I saw the Loving Birds image - I saw the swirly branch they were sitting on and immediately thought of this chipboard! I paper pieced both birds and sat them on the chipboard branch with foam tape. To mimic the image, I punched little flowers and added tiny half pearls to the centers.

To meet the Design Element "shining, glittering, shimmering," I applied Stickles to all the dots on the chipboard, used Stardust glitter pen on the bird outlines, wings, little flowers and the sentiment. I also stitched around the circle with a combination of white thread and iridescent tinsel that I bought for Christmas ages ago. You can't see it in the picture, but in real life it definitely shines, glitters and shimmers (please take my word for it)!

Challenges:

• Getting Creative with Ann - Bring on the Glitz
• Cupcake Craft Challenges - Shaped Card
• Double Dutch - Back in Time (pick your favorite of the previous challenges). I picked #9 - make a circle card
• Digital Tuesday Challenge - Hop To It! (creation using something that hops). I know people wouldn't normally think of birds right off the bat, but they definitely do hop!
• ABC Challenge - C is for Circles

I hope you like it and TFL! Don't forget to hop around to all the other DT and Guest DT members (links in the sidebar) to see what they've done with this fabulous image!

Other materials used: patterned paper and chipboard - Fancy Pants; sentiment - The Greeting Farm; circle and scalloped circle Nestabilties; Copic markers (used to shade the sentiment banner); ribbon - May Arts; flower punch - Fiskars; micro half pearls - eBay.