February 1, 2016 Shaped Cards

This month over at House of Cards Blog we the challenge is SHAPED CARDS and I immediately thought of this card that I had originally made years ago - I'm talking years.  Not only is the pattern old but the stamp set is one of my favorite that I had when I was with TAC which is now out of business but you can use any bird scene on this card.  I paper pieced the blue bird and then stamped an extra piece just below his tail and popped it up just a little to give it some extra dimension.  Colored the flowers and butterfly with copic markers, stickle for the center of the cherry blossoms and some wood grain DP as trim on the bird house.  I also stenciled in some fluffy clouds.  A pertty pink bow and a "think spring" sentiment and this card is in my basket for the first of my springtime cards.  So get your creative ideas going (there are a lot of Pinterest also), and com play along with us at House of Cards Challenge this month.     Challenges:
     MFP Stamps - anything goes
     Crafty Friends - animal or bird
     A Gem of a challenge - use pink
     Brown Sugar Challenge - anything goes
     Crafting with Friends - anything goes
     Creative Fingers - anything goes
     Just add Ink - Nature
     Simon Says Stamps - anything goes