Come On....Cut It Out!

Snappy title isn't it? 

Actually, Cut It Out is the theme over at Less Is More.  Chrissie and Mandi are the wonderful Diva's (they like being called that, I promise) of a weekly challenge that is so popular it now has over 1200 followers.  It's worth the visit.  This week they are looking for some kind of hole or aperture in your card!

Needing a card for a friends birthday today I turned to a couple of challenges to help get me started.  Here's what I came up with.

I ran a piece of white card stock through a crimper, punched out the design using a real estate tag punch and for the flowers I used two different sized flower punches.   Each of the flowers were finished off with a tiny pearl embellishment and stickles to add a bit of sparkle.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts and the ink is Tuxedo Black from Memento.

I'm also entering this card into Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge  where you use snippets of paper to create your cards.  This weekly challenge helps to use up all those little pieces of leftover paper (snippets) that keep piling up and never seem to get used.  Great idea isn't it?

Where ever you are in your day, I hope you're enjoying it.
Wishing you many wonderful creations.

Birds ....

bird

 

noun

1. any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.

2. a fowl or game bird.

3. Sports .

a. clay pigeon.

b. a shuttlecock.

4. Slang . a person, especially one having some peculiarity: He's a queer bird.

5. Informal . an aircraft, spacecraft, or guided missile.

EXPAND

6. Cookery . a thin piece of meat, poultry, or fish rolled around a stuffing and braised: veal birds.

7. Southern U.S. (in hunting) a bobwhite.

8. Chiefly British Slang . a girl or young woman.

9. Archaic . the young of any fowl.

10. the bird, Slang .

a. disapproval, as of a performance, by hissing, booing, etc.: He got the bird when he came out on stage.

b. scoffing or ridicule: He was trying to be serious, but we all gave him the bird.

c. an obscene gesture of contempt made by raising the middle finger.

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Now that we have the dictionary definition of a bird, we need to put it to the challenge.  The Less is More Challenge.  Chrissie and Mandi of LIM are requesting the following,

ONE LAYER CARD

with the subject of

BIRDS

Remember to add NO additional layers and to keep embellishments to a minimum

I used very vintage jumbo wheel from Stampin Up and masked off the bird from Stampin Up's Punch Potpourri.  I then re stamped the bird in the masked off area and added the sentiment thoughtful from Hero Arts.  I used only one colour of ink on my card, frayed burlap from Tim Holtz

I added detail to the card without using embellisments

The folds can be squeezed as tightly together as you like or gently pulled open, which ever
look is preferred.

I used the corner chomper from crop-a-dile

Cloud setting, for the opposite corners

I used the Martha Steward score board to score my corners

I scored eleven lines

For the bottom left corner,
I start to score from the bottom scoring upwards (I find this easier) to the centre fold of the card
scoring eleven lines.

I snip up the centre of the card to the top score line

I fold the score lines in an accoridan fashion.  I like to use my ruler to help
crease the lines

Then I use my bone folder to finish each fold. 

Here is what the corner looks like finished

Here is the card

Well, if you've got this far....thank you! 

Where ever you are in your day, I hope you're enjoying it.

Wishing you many wonderful creations!