Handmade Bird house

Graphic 45 Birdhouse

Hi friends sharing a 3 D birdhouse I made using Crealies dies and gorgeous Graphic 45 papers with a bit of recycling thrown in.

Birdhouse

        This is a fall themed home decor idea with mushrooms, flowers, pearls and flowers galore. A little birdie perching on a tiny branch is peeking out of her home!

Birdhouse

This project has feathers, natural dried pollen,gorgeous berries ,  fabric leaves and a bronze mushroom. Here is how I made the stand and base for the birdhouse:

Cardboard recycling

I recycled a cardboard tube [ the inside of a roll of bandage] by wrapping it with Graphic 45 paper and used it to form a stand for the birdhouse.

CD recycling

Recycled a CD to form a sturdy base for the bird house. Layered discs of foam, cardboard and pattern paper to give extra height and strength to the base .To give some more height also added the cardboard tube leftover from foam tape under the CD

Birdhouse

The little garden on the base of the birdhouse has Sospeso Trasparente flowers, puffy fabric flowers, mushrooms, butterflies and birds! The tiny butterfly and hummingbird are popped up on acetate so they appear to literally fly!!

Sospeso Trasparente flowers

The shining white flowers winding around the stand above and the shimmering orange daisy you see below plus the shiny leaves are all made using the Italian art form Sospeso Trasparente [ you can read about it here : Sospeso Trasparente explained]

Sospeso Trasparente 

I used Crealies dies and scraps of Graphic 45 papers to make the birds . It is so satisfying not to waste even the tiniest bit of your favorite paper! The shimmering white feathers you can see peeking from places were also made using Crealies dies.

Birdhouse

The shiny butterfly disc was  made from a scrap of Graphic 45 paper and a glass cabochon!

Birdhouse

And that is how the birdhouse looks on our terrace garden.I hope you liked this idea.
I used the same Crealies dies to make birdhouse Tealight holders earlier this month [link here : Teacher's Day Gifts] 
Supplies : Papers : Graphic 45 Time to flourish ,Graphic 45 Time to Celebrate ,Graphic 45 Nature Sketchbook

Dies :  Crealies dies : Crealies Create a Box -13 Birdhouse, Crealies Double Fun[34]-Feathers,Crealies Double Fun-33 Birds,
Cheery Lynn  Mini butterflies with Angel wings,Cheery Lynn tiny things with wings,Cheery Lynn Sunflower,Cheery Lynn  Flourish 13,Memory Box Fringe Border,Wild Rose Studio Floral Frame,Provocraft Circles Die,Dienamics [MFT] Stitched Circle Scallop Frame

Bird Shaped Thank you Cards

Bird Shaped Thank you Cards

         Hi friends , here are some cute little birdies chirping by to say hi to my blogger friends and visitors! The birds are perching atop our bonsai orange tree.

Bird Shaped Thank you Cards

       I used a Sizzix BigZ bird die to make the bird shaped cards which are Thank you cards for my daughter's school teachers.

Bird Shaped Thank you Cards

          My daughter had been bogged down with exams but she did contribute by adding the very important googly eyes!! We cant have eyeless monster birdies now can we..?!! And to stand the birds have fun metal feet!!![ ahem binder clip feet]

Bird Shaped Thank you Cards

And yes we made 9 of them as she has 9 teachers this year!
Supplies : Dies :  Sizzix BigZ Beautiful Bird , Poppy Stamps Scribble Thank you
Papers : Papericious

Pop Up Hummingbird Card

Pop Up Hummingbird Card

           Hi friends, sharing a birthday card I made for a crafty friend I "met" on social media . I had missed her actual birthday so this was a rather hurriedly put together card to wish her a belated one!

Pop Up Hummingbird Card

The humming bird and flowers are stamps from Stampendous which I heat embossed and water-colored with  Zig Brush Pens .

Pop Up Card 

               The hummingbird  was put on a Spellbinders heart die cut and pops up in the center of the card by a twist and pop mechanism. I also added tiny golden butterflies, little golden hummingbirds and golden dragon flies!

Pop Up Card 

I will be dropping by soon friends...I have some repair work going on at home so a little caught up in that.
Supplies : Dies :  Stampendous Hummingbirds Die,Cheery Lynn  Mini butterflies with Angel wings,Cheery Lynn tiny things with wings,Tonic Studios Birthday Swirl,Memory Box Leafy Branch ,Spellbinders Lace Hearts,Dienamics [MFT] Radial Stitched Circle Stax
Stamps : Stampendous Hummingbirds Stamp

Owl Shaped Thank you Card

Owl Shaped Card

        Hi friends sharing another little Owl shaped card. This time popped up the polka dotted wings on a wing cut out of black glitter foam and bordered each wing with glitter foam leafy birder cut from the Poppystamps Emory Oval Frame die.

        Experimented combining different dies to make a simple flower[ used the Cheery Lynn rose to cut the flower petals from dotted pattern paper and the Poppystamps  large icelenad poppy die to make the glitter central pollen.

Owl Shaped Fancy Fold Card

And here is the inside of the card with a tea cup popped up on foam and a stylish Poppystamps Thank you  on a tag [ again from Poppystamps ]

Supplies : Dies :  Poppystamps Scribble Thank you, Poppystamps Pinpoint Main Street Tags, Poppystamps Large Iceland Poppy, Poppystamps Pine Boughs, Poppystamps Emory Oval Frame,Cheery Lynn  Large Rose, Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup , Sizzix Owl Label Fold A Long

Papers : Debbie Mumm Harvest and Holiday, Echo Park Dots and Stripes

Linking to  

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  Pop Up

Word Art Wednesday 

Fancy Fold Step Card

Fancy Fold Step Card

          Hi friends , are you surprised to see so many posts from me?  I am on a determined spree to use up hoarded craft supplies. Do you have pretty papers that you love too much that you can't bear to use them...? Hehe I am big time guilty of that one and hope some of my friends can relate!!

Fancy Fold Step Card

          I used hoarded fall themed papers not only on the base of my card but to also make the embellishments like the die cut tree, the punched flowers and  the tea cup! I die cut the Memory Box tree twice and layered them offsetting a bit to give extra volume and depth and added some cute resin flower embellishments[ which again I loved too much that I have hung on to them for years!!]

Handmade Paper Flower

        The  Magnolia was made with a Spellbinders die and a subtle shimmer added using a special glitter called Crystal Clear. This beautiful glitter[available in India and also sold by the Heartfelt creations, USA] is made by my talented friend  Rajni Chawla   and she was so kind to send it to me to try out.Thank you so much Rajni!

Fancy Fold Step Card

I added rhinestone swirls above my tea cup and a shiny chocolate disc on the saucer!

Fancy Fold Step Card

Here is the side view showing classic fall elements on each step : acorns, a pumpkin, a lazy cat and fall leaves!

Fancy Fold Step Card

Have a good day!!
Supplies : Dies :  Memory Box Arboscello Tree, Memory Box Rounded Fence,Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup , Cheery Lynn  Flourish 13,Cheery Lynn  grass,  Spellbinders Magnolia,Spellbinders Happy Days,

Punches : Martha Stewart , Jef daisy
Papers : Debbie Mumm Harvest and Holiday

Owl Shaped Fancy Fold Card

Owl Shaped Card

Hi friends, sharing a simple Owl Shaped Gatefold card.  She is a cute little Owl with bright orange glittery wings , lovely brown eyelashes and deep black soulful eyes!!

Owl Shaped Card

Little Owl opens to reveal a nice cuppa coffee to wish someone a Happy Birthday!!

Owl Shaped Card

It is a simple and cute card and I hope you liked it!
Here are more Owl cards from the past :  Gatefold Owl Card , Fancy fold Owl Card , Owl Shaped Card
Supplies : Dies :  Sizzix Owl Label Fold A Long, Cheery Lynn  Flourish 13 , Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup , Heartfelt creations  Sun kissed fleur Die

Stamps : Heartfelt creations  Sun kissed fleur Stamp, Studio G Happy Birthday

Papers :DCWV The Four Seasons Stack

Coffee and Poppy Card

Poppy Coffee Card

        Hi friends have you ever jumped to buy something and then let it sit for months without using it? Well in my case I bought this beautiful Poppy Stamps "Iceland Poppy"flower die set  nearly a year ago and this is the first time I am using it!

Coffee and Poppy Card

 The fun thing about this die is that you can make a dimensional yet flat flower[hehe that is a contradiction of sorts but I think my crafty friends will know what I mean!]! I diecut the petals in thick kraft paper and dotted pattern paper and glued the pattern paper diecuts on the kraft diecuts offsetting a little to get a cool margin.

Coffee and Poppy Card

         I am so glad I hoarded this cute cup with a heart  charm as it goes perfectly with the sentiment I used " warm hearts"!

        The woodgrain background was created using a gorgeous stamp from Winnie and Walter. The copper spoon is another craft item I had been hoarding and waiting to use on the right project!

Coffee and Poppy Card

I hope you are not too bored of seeing all the cute teacups in my recent posts! In this one I used gorgeous coffee colored glitter foam to make the cup !

Supplies : Dies : Poppy Stamps Large Iceland Poppy, Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup ,Small tag from Winnie and Walter  Essentials Audrey Cutaways ,Itsy Bitsy Word Banners
Stamps : Winnie and Walter Mini Scenery Multi Grain, Sentiment from HOTP Polar Bears
Pattern Paper : Little Birdie

Altered Penstand

Altered Penstand

Hi friends sharing one more fall themed project which I made for my craft table. Recycling makes me feel good and it was heartening  to give new life to a broken old nut cutter!

Recycling Craft

My favorite way to use pretty paper is to make 3 d projects for the home and I used gorgeous Graphic 45 papers to line the inside and outside of this multipurpose holder.

Altered Penstand

The  cups  were made using an Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup die set on foam , gold metallic paper and Graphic 45 Papers

Altered Penstand

I couldn't resist adding a smiley flower !

Altered Penstand

All the flowers on this project were made using  punches and dies . The filler flowers are my current favorite and were cut with Elizabeth Craft Designs dies.

Altered Penstand

And here is the altered stand with my water-brushes, scissors and paper-cutter!

Altered Penstand

Hope you liked this project!

Supplies : Dies :  Cheery Lynn  Flourish 13 ,Cheery Lynn Sunflower, Spellbinders Magnolia ,Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup,Elizabeth Craft Designs 728 Bunch of Flowers
Papers : Graphic 45 Time to Flourish , Graphic 45 Time to  Celebrate

Fall Themed Organizer Box

Fall Themed Organizer Box

Hi friends, though we dont officially have a fall season here in India I love fall themed projects. I just love the bright orange !I dressed up an MDF box for my craft room using lovely Graphic 45 papers and cute teacups

Fall Themed Organizer Box

         When I first started paper crafting  cute smiley faced punch craft projects made with Peachy Keen stamps where very popular! I couldn't get the stamps in India but loved them so much that I braved ordering directly from the company only to have the parcel lost .

So you can imagine my delight when a couple of months back I could buy my first Peachy Keen face stamps from a crafter here in India who was de-stashing her supplies.

Happy Sunflowers 

One's crafty first love is indeed unforgettable, sweet and thrilling !! Am I so in love with these adorable faces!! What do you say friends...Did you have a first love in crafting?

Fall Themed Organizer Box

 I made the happy faced flowers using the Peachy Keen stamps on die cut circles and centering them on sunflowers die cut on Graphic 45 papers.

Fall Themed Organizer Box

The cups were made using an Elizabeth Craft designs die set and has 4 layers- foam, craft paper, metallic gold paper and Graphic 45 patterned paper.

Coffee Cups

Fall Themed Organizer Box

This happy flower is maybe not a flower...my daughter calls it a doggy flower as I used a puppy face on it!! Hehe...anything goes in love and crafts isn't it!!

Fall Themed Organizer Box

 Each side of the box has a teacup and a happy flower on gorgeous Graphic 45 paper!

Fall Themed Organizer Box

Since the box is made of wood it is quite sturdy to hold even my Sizzix heavy duty BigZ dies. This particular box resides on my craft table and holds all the dies I am currently working with!

Fall Themed Organizer Box

I hope you enjoyed this project.

Supplies : Dies :  Elizabeth Craft Designs Teacup, Cheery Lynn  Miniature Rose, Cheery Lynn Sunflower,Cheery Lynn Colonial Lamp Post, Fall leaves from Sizix  Floral Wreath 660256,

Papers : Graphics 45 Time to flourish, Graphics 45 Time to celebrate

Edited : This project was featured  in the Top 5 at All Sorts Feels like Autumn Challenge