My Other Creations: Card using Altenew's Mid-Century Frame Die and Dina Wakley's Collage Collective

"Early Bird" is this week's theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, so I borrowed some great images from Dina Wakley to make this card celebrating a bird and the hope that comes with the dawning of a new day.

This started out quite differently from the end result, but that's all part of a project's journey, right?  I started by punching out patterned-paper circles from My Mind's Eye's Gingham Gardens collection.  Then I painted a tag with Dina Wakley's Mineral paint and Tumbled Glass Distress paint.

I glued my circles on to form a pattern in the background and then blended them in a bit with white paint.

I am a color addict, so I added in more color with greens and darker blues.  While that dried, I cut out and painted Altenew's Mid-Century Frame, which looked like a sun to me.  I grabbed my Dina Wakley Collage Collective books and cut out a bird image, some scallop borders and that great sentiment.  As I played around with the positioning of all these paper components, I thought my tag looked too long, so I cut the two ends off and turned it into a card instead.

I was left to assemble this, which I did.  I glued everything on and tweaked the paint color around the bird a little so it was a lighter/brighter pink.  I stamped some text around the birdie's head from Inky Antics' Encouraging Words set.  With everything glued together, this project was done!

Here are the supplies I used, which you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Altenew Mid-Century Frame Die	Dina Wakley Collage Collective	Dina Wakley Collage Collective 2, Volume 1	My Mind′s Eye Gingham Gardens 6x8 paper	Inky Antics Encouraging Words stamp set
EK Success 1.25" Circle Punch	Tim Holtz Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection dies	Sizzix Big Shot	Strathmore Mixed Media 6x8 Paper	Dina Wakley Mineral Acrylic Paint
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Ocean Paint	Dina Wakley Carnation Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dylusions Tropical Sangria	Dylusions Vanilla Custard
Tumbled Glass Flip Top Distress Paint	Twisted Citron Flip Top Distress Paint	Peeled Paint Flip Top Distress Paint	Squeezed Lemonade Flip Top Distress Paint	Distress Crayon Black Soot

Will you be celebrating any early-birdness?  Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store!