Cutest Crew, Simply Said, Friendship Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have one more card to share with you using the "Cutest Crew" bundle. I had the bird sitting on my worktable and I thought I should use it. But what do you do with such a tiny image. Well, I always head to my go-to card for small images. Please read on to see how it was made.

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 Old Olive for the largest layer and taped it to the card base. 

The Basic White layer was cut at 3-1/2" x 4-5/8".

For the top two layers I had to work with both of them at the same time. I cut my Petal Pink card stock at 3" x 4-1/8" and the Designer Series Paper (DSP) from the "Lovely Blossoms" 12" x 12" package was cut at 2-7/8" x 4". I added a tiny bit of tape where I thought the circled would go. I lined up the DSP so the edges were equal on all sides. Then I took a 1-1/4" circle punch and punched out the circle (though both layers). Then I took the piece of DSP and added a piece of scrap copier paper behind it so it wouldn't get pinched or stick in my punch and I punched out a ring using a 1-3/8" circle punch. I taped the two layers together.

I cut a 2" x 2" piece of Basic White card stock and scrubbed on some Old Olive ink. I added Dimensionals around the back of the circle and set the piece on top. I cut a 4-1/2" piece of Old Olive (retired) ribbon and taped the ends to the back of the piece. It's about 7/8" up from the bottom of the circle layered piece. Dimensionals were added to the back of the piece and tape was added to the back of the 2" x 2" square and it was set in place on top of the 3-1/2" x 4-5/8" Basic White layer. Then this was taped to the card base.

Next I colored the bird using both light and dark Petal Pink Blends pens but I didn't think the dark one was dark enough so I used my light Pumpkin Pie pen to add some shadowing highlights.  I colored the grass with both light and dark Old Olive Blends.  I had fussy cut the bird and grass out. Dimensionals were added to the back and it was set in place in the center of the circle.

The "hello" is from the "Simply Said" set and was stamped using black Memento ink and cut with a die from the "Banner Sayings" bundle. I set it in place using Dimensionals and the card was done.

I just love this layout and I have used it a lot of times on my blog. So grab a tiny image and highlight it using this layout.

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