LITTLE BIRD HOUSE BOX

HEY BLOGGIES,

Today I have the cutest tall and thin bird house box for you.  Even though it is a box for a gift or goodies, I am going to make a bunch more for my Christmas Tree.  I decorate my tree in "woodlands" decorations with birds, pine cones, and natural elements.  So these little bird houses will fit in so cute!!

I saw this on you tube from a demonstrator from the UK.

 I wanted you to see just how tall and thin it is.  The card stock you start with is  6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.  It ends up being about 1" wide by 6 1/2 " tall.

 I didn't want a hole with the heart framelit for the bird door, so I sponged around a punched out heart to give the "hint" of the opening.  I think that works just fine for me.

A small pearl for her eye and she is all done.

What?  you would like the instructions?  Ok, your wish is my command.  Here you go:

TALL  AND THIN BIRDIE HOUSE BOX

Card Stock  6½ x 7 ½ inches.

Put the card stock long side across the top and score at 1, 3 ½, 4 ½ and 7

Turn it and score at 1, 5, 6

On the long skinny tab down one side, cut the very bottom little tab off.  Then cut slits at the score lines along the rest of this skinny side only up to the crossing score line.

Punch out heart with die, or use a punched out heart and sponge around it to create a halo.

Punch out two holes at top and thread 1/8" ribbon through and tied a knot.

Punch bird out and sponge around the bird and wing with cherry cobbler and around the leaf with green.

Add a small pearl for her eye.

SUPPLIES;

Bird punch, sponges, cherry cobbler ink pad, old olive ink pad, adhesive pearls, 1/8 ribbon, naturals ivory card stock.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  

QUILTED VALENTINE HEART

I wanted to bring out this photo of my beautiful quilted heart I made last year along with my friend, Leila.  We had so much fun figuring out how to do this one and we were very pleased how each of ours came out.

Mine is framed and is out for display in my living room again this year.

I made mine with circles of fabric folded.  I think I will make another one and this time use squares of paper and fold them.

Have you ever made one of these folded paper hearts or pictures?

Here is my post from last year:

QUILTED VALENTINE HEART

It is made from fabrics, but it is NOT sewn.  I started with a 3" circle of fabric, then folded it in half and in half again.  Put a little Tacky glue to hold it folded and started layering it around.  In  the middle are 4 pieces, then around with 8 pieces, then so on all the way out until it is as big as you want it.

I used my BIG SHOT and one of my dies to cut out all the pieces, then folded and glued them into a heart shape.  Then die cut the scalloped heart and the underneath heart shape before I framed it.

I would love to hear from you about my project, and if you have made a project like this before.

Go, get creative Y'all!!