Mini Calendar Gift...

This card was created for the "Anything Goes" or optional twist 
"Create a  Calendar" Challenge at 613 Ave C.

A Day For Daisies graciously provided images for the Design Team to use for inspiration - and I chose "Fairy Bird #1".  I already had "Fairy Bird #2" in my collection and I jumped at the chance to use them together!

You can see all the Design Team's versions of the theme 

and the challenge rules HERE.

A Day For Daisies

I am in love with so many of the A Day For Daisies images - and these "Fairy Birds" are among my favorites!  I am hoping to make several of these Easel Cards to give as gifts.

TECHNIQUE

Base card is 5.5 x 5.25 size with a basic Easel Card construction.  Papers from two different companies were found in my color palette [as always, specific information on supplies will be found below] and all the inside and front DPs were inked along the edges with Distress Inks.  Layered on top are the die cut branches from Tim Holtz - cut from the leftover deep brown paper used for the base card.  The Fairy Bird images were both printed out twice, colored with Copics, fussy cut, both sculpted from the back to round them and finally each layer is mounted on foam tape to maintain their depth and shape.  These were mounted above the branches & off the page.

The inside reveals the 2014 Calendar - each mounted on foam tape to provide the Easel stop.  A space above the stop has been created for a personal message but will not be seen once the Easel is in place.

This card should be eligible for the following

CHALLENGES:

Pile it On #48 – P is for... [pretty, precious, perpetual, paper]
Paper Crafting Journey – It's Christmas Time
Crafting from the Heart – A/G

LEJ Designs #82 – Christmas is Coming
Through the Craft Room Door – A/G

Papertake Weekly – A/G w/ optional CAS card

Sisterhood of Crafters –Handmade [Paper sculpted images]

Divas by Design – Feeling Festive

Delicious Doodles #65 – Christmas/ New Year

Basic Grey #109 – Happy Christmas

Beyond Grey #44 – 3D Gift Challenge [Birds have been sculpted with 3 layers for this calendar gift designed to stand up on a desk]  TOP THREE

ABC Challenge –A for Almost Christmas

Clear it Out – A/G + stash A/G

Paula Holifield Crafts (ALBC) – Christmas Cheer

One Sweet Challenge – A Gift in Itself

SUPPLIES

IMAGES:  The focal image is from A Day for Daisies; Christmas sentiment is a 1994 release by Annette Allen Watkins; 2014 is computer generated.

PAPER:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cover Wt. used for the images; DP is from Basic Grey's "Sweet Threads" & Studio Calico's "Heyday Collection";  base CS is stash.

EMBELLISHMENTS: Tim Holtz' Die Cut bare branches; Judikens "Rustique Patina Azure" EP used to embellish the wings and feelers.

INKS: "Old Paper" & "Tea Dye" Distress Inks were used to ink the edges of all the papers; the image was printed on a Canon PIXMA printer & colored with Copics:

May you color with abandon, create wildly and always make what amuses you!

~ginny