One for the Chaps- Waterfall Greeting Card.

Hello there,

Tonight I have a card to share with you, one that I think would suit most men as it is an interactive card and in my experience men love these sorts of cards!

To show the working of the card I have filmed a short video to show you!

I made up an Easel base for this card then attached the Waterfall workings sideways to make this card a little different!

The waterfall itself was made of circles with a silver boarder that I hoped looked like portholes.

For the cards pull tab, I tied knots into some thick Bakers Twine to keep to the Nautical theme!

Side View of the Easel Style Card. I drew faux stitching around the boarders of the card as well as the circles for the stay!

The stay for the card was made from crafters clay. The shell and Anchor were painted with an acrylic paint then mounted onto card circles and a pearl was added to complete the look.

I hope this gives you some inspiration for a male themed card as I know we crafters sometimes find it difficult to make male cards.

Happy Crafting xx

Chalk Marker Kit "Giveaway"

Hello Everyone,
I have just finished filming a Video on how I created the "White Peacock" over on YouTube and decided I would also run a "Giveaway" of four stamped images of the Peacock (Perfect Peacock by Stampin up), two on black card embossed in white, one black StazOne image ( for use with marker pens) stamped on white card and one black Memento image (for use with alcohol pens) stamped on white card! There is also a Stampin up Chalk Marker and 40 tiny Stampin up pearls!

To win this set please leave me a comment, here or on my Facebook page!
This Giveaway ends on Sunday 27th July at 12:pm. ("GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED")!Rules
No purchase necessary
This Giveaway has been organised by myself and has nothing to do with Stampin up! 
As I am new to all this, I will be drawing a random name off the list of people leaving comments! If you are happy to, please leave your email address with your comment! 
Check back on this site on Monday 28th to see who has won! 
If your name has been drawn please email me at birdcagecraftstudiohotmail.co.uk if you did not leave me your email address so I can get postal details from you to send this giveaway out!
If I don't hear back from the winner within 24 hours I will draw another name out!
The Giveaway will be sent out by Thursday 31st July!
Good Luck.

You can also find Lots more crafts ideas on my Birdcage FaceBook page!

Here is one more Stamped Peacock image Embossed in Gold and Coloured in with Stampin Write Markers in different shades of pink!

Perfect Peacock

Good Evening Crafters!

As we are having such hot weather here in Gloucestershire, I decided to stay in the cool of my craft studio today and have some time playing with the new stamp I purchased from Stampin up!

I really adore Peacocks for their beautiful colours!

To have the time to experimented with a couple of different techniques is great fun!

Here I decided to over stamping the Peacock image with a another stamp set called Work of Art as a way of adding colour!

As you can see I tried using stazOn first but I wasn't very happy with the image so I then tried embossing in black and I was much happier with the look of the image!

After doing these I then went on to stamping the image again and colouring it in with "Peacock" colours using stampin' write markers! The flowers were stamped again on white cardstock coloured and cut out then glued over the ones on the image to give them a 3D look!