This is a birthday card for a friend of mine! Her daughter is living in Australia these days so I always like to make something for her with an Australian connection! I wish I had taken a photo of the gift as you could have seen what inspired my choice of image and colours - a stained glass suncatcher featuring a pair of green and yellow parrots. This is actually a cockatoo die, but I removed his crest so he looked more like the parrots in her gift!
I colored him (and the gum leaves and blossoms frame) with alcohol markers and although I do find it easier to colour die cuts than images, I am by no means proficient at it so please don't look too carefully!
I generated the sentiment on the computer and foiled it in gold (though you can't see because it was impossible to photograph last night no matter how much light I shone on it)!
I was trying to think of what a parrot might say other than "hello". I had a budgie for a few years, and he was a profuse talker (probably took after me lol)! I should have taught him to say "g'day gorgeous" - but my Billy Boy was far too clever to be tricked like that!
I would like to enter the following challenges
As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Animal (birds esp. Australian ones)
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Frame it (this die came with its own frame)
Happy Little Stampers August Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
TGIF What Would You Do Without White Cardstock? Use cream of course 😉!
NBUS Challenge #41 - The parrot die is NBUS
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Kate
