Thinking of Wetlands

The Paper Players have a challenge this week to have a bird on your CAS (clean and simple) card. Okay, I can do that. I have a few stamps with birds on them; I decided to use the oyster catchers / avocets from the Stampin’ Up! Wetlands set. Actually this is the second card that I made, the first wasn’t as clean and simple. I’ll post it in a day or two.

Stampin' Up! Wetlands and Sheltering Tree

Here’s the banner:

I used the perpetual birthday calendar set and the April image and stamped it in crumb cake on very vanilla card stock. Then I put the birds from the Wetlands set on top in early espresso. I should mention that the first time I stamped them, I was so intent on figuring out where they should go, that I got too close to the card stock and smudged everything. That’s why there are two sides to the paper, right? The sentiment is from one of the new stamp sets from the Occasions 2015 catalog, Sheltering Tree and is also stamped in early espresso. It’s a great set.

I’ve matted the very vanilla in early espresso which is just 1/8 inch bigger than the very vanilla. I really like how the very skinny mat works. The base is crumb cake. This means that I can have a matching envelope – I’ve lined it using the envelope liners framelits to cut out the liner in the backgrounds DSP from the subtle family in crumb cake.

7 thoughts on “Thinking of Wetlands

  1. Jen

    Nice card, Liz! I like the hatched lines of the birds against the texture of the background. I also like your very thin mat. 🙂

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  2. LeAnne

    This is a lovely card, true to CAS! Such a great way to use that background stamp, too! Perfect! Thanks for sharing this with us at the PP this week!

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  3. Joanne James

    What a beautiful CAS card – this is one of my favourite bird stamps! I love your monochromatic colour scheme and innovative use of the background stamp too. Thanks for joining my CAS bird challenge over at The Paper Players this week!

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