Bluebird House Tutorial and an Invitation

Hello! Today the Gina K Designs Illustrating Team is inviting you to our release party tonight at 7 PM CST on StampTV!  We are all sharing a taste of the new stamps you'll see at tonight's release! I hope you can come. I used my brand new set, Birds and Blossoms, to make this card. Birds and Blossoms, along with all the new sets, can be found here, once they go live in the store.

The other illustrators are all posting peeks of their sets today, too, so hop on over to see what they have to share...

Gina K
Becky Oehlers
Beth Silaika
Carolyn King

Debbie Corbari
Melanie Muenchinger
Tami Mayberry

The bird house was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Pure Luxury White paper, then colored began with a E59 Copic marker.

I added E39.

 Then filled in with E31. I used my blender pen to push some highlights back in.

Then I used E59, E57 and E39 to go back and deepen the shadows.

For the flowers I used G03 on the leaves and Y17 for the flower centers.

Added RV19.

Added RV12.

Then filled in with RV11. After coloring, I cut out the image.

Next I stamped the bluebird and started coloring with B24.

Added B21.

Deepened the shading bit with B26.

Then added E97 to the belly and shoulder.

Filled in the belly with E00 and added W5 to the beak and legs. After coloring I cut out the image.

I used Spellbinders™ Marvelous Squares to cut and emboss Ivory card stock, then sponged with Memento Angel Pink ink while still in the die template.

Used the larger die template and sponged again with Angel Pink.

The sentiment was stamped on Ivory card stock, using Memento Rich Cocoa ink and cut out with Spellbinders Lacy Circles, then sponged with Memento Angel Pink. All layers were adhered with Pop Dots on Pure Luxury Innocent Pink card base (4 ¼ by 4 ¼ inches). 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!