Cutest Crew, Friendship Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a friendship card to share with you. I just can't seem to get enough of these cute little birds from the "Cutest Crew" bundle. Please read on to see how I made today's card.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the right and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4-1/8" x 5-3/8" piece of Melon Mambo card stock for the largest layer.

The Petal Pink layer on top of the Melon Mambo measures 4" x 5-1/4".

A 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of Basic White was taped on top of the Petal Pink. I normally don't put the layers together before I do my stamping but for today I'm making the exception.  Normally I would take the Basic White piece and partially decorate it to the point to where I know the words would be going but I just went ahead and assembled as I went.

The Designer Series Paper (DSP) is from the "Love Notes" 6" x 6" package I had bought around Valentine's Day. I don't normally buy Valentine's Day sets or papers because they are only good for one day. It's not like it's a season or leading up to a season. Kind of like the 4th of July too. I refrain from buying sets in that genre too.  Anyway, I had broke down and bought this stack thinking I'd use a lot of the pieces and I did but there's a lot of pieces in the package to begin with. Anyway, I had cut that piece to measure 2-1/2" x 3-7/8".  I taped it to the bottom of the Basic White piece. 

I cut a 3/8" x 3-7/8" piece of Melon Mambo for the strip. I taped that in place on top of the DSP

I had stamped the birds several days ago (could be weeks by now) using black Memento ink on Basic White card stock. They were cut out using the matching die. I colored them using my light and dark Blends pens. The one on the left is Petal Pink. The one in the middle is Bubble Bath and the one on the end is Melon Mambo. The beaks were colored in using dark Daffodil Delight and I colored the grass in using my Garden Green ink pad and a Blending pen since there is no Garden Green Blends pen. Dimensionals were added and I laid the piece on top but didn't remove the backing from the Dimensionals.

The words were added next. They are from the same "Cutest Crew" bundle and were stamped using black Memento ink.

Then I set the birds in place.

I die cut the little butterflies using a scrap piece of Melon Mambo card stock and glued them in place on the front of the card and the card was done.

This was a super fun, quick and easy card to make. I am just loving those cute little birds.  

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's friendship card,
Wanda