Quirky Christmas Robin
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I hope you’re having a great weekend so far! I’m delighted to welcome back the fabulous Debby Hughes as a guest to our blog with this delightfully adorable Quirky Christmas Robin card! Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hello it’s Debby here today looking at how to create a quirky Robin from leaf dies to stretch my supplies for the Holiday season. I die cut two of the Nature leaf dies from white card and started with the larger one blending in Apricot and Lipstick Red ink in to the Robin’s breast area and for the rest of the Robin I used Goldenlocks and Khaki inks. For the legs it was Sparrow ink, for the beak Sunshine and finally for the second leaf die cut acting as a wing I used Willow ink. A wiggle eye bought the little guy to life and then to dress things up a bit I added Wink Of Stella to the breast and wing followed by dots of white enamel accent on the breast area.
Wink of Stella adds a lovely shimmer but I felt I needed to take things up a notch so rubbed Ranger Multi Medium Matte over the wing and then dunked it in a tub of Rock Candy distress glitter. I love the sugary look this glitter gives everything. Next I stamped the gorgeous Merry Christmas sentiment from the Christmas Essentials set and die cut around it with a Stitched Slope. On a panel blended with Lake Shores ink I mounted the sentiment snowy slope and Robin with foam adhesive and then decorated the panel with Snow Flurries snowflakes again dunked in Rock Candy distress glitter. I also added a few, appropriately named for this card, Robin’s Egg sequins too.
To finish the card I added loop of twine and bow around the top of the panel and then mounted on a Fog card base. Well that’s it from me today; I hope you take a second look at your supplies to see if you can stretch their use for the coming season.
Watch the video:
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks so much to Debby for being our guest!
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Love this robin card, it is so cute. I like to use my punches and die cuts in other ways too.
Cute! Cute! Cute! Your work always puts a smile on my face!
Super cute birdie))
So adorable :)
Holy Cow, Debby! Way to multi-purpose a stamp set! I LOVE it! Way to think outside the box.
Superb and so creative! Love the way you used the leaf die for this smiley guy as a winter robin!
So clever and adorable!
Like the cute Robin. Especially like the paper used for Robin’s breast. Like the added twine. Like the snowflakes & curved die pieces used for scene.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Such a fun card!! Nice colors!!
Great to see such a card in these fresh and soft tones!
What a clever idea and so cute. I love your snowy hill and sky and the shiny wing, Thanks too for the video
Great card! :)
Love this card! Such a cute bird.
This is so very clever. LOVE the card!
Always love your work Debby
A lovely layout and cute robin – tfs the video!
Wonderfully festive and delightfully whimsical! Smiling brightly in seeing this quirky robin!
~carol
HAH! That is an adorable little bird – he really is quirky!
How absolutely darling! What a sweet Christmas card!
Absolutely cute!!!
Quirky is fun
Very clever and cute
Such a cute and clever idea!
Oh, how darling! What a clever – and adorable – use of those dies! I loved watching you demonstrate all of the techniques you used to create the card. Thanks,
Debby!
Adorable! And very fun.
Such a cute card and love the rock candy distress glitter on the wing!
This is adorable! Awesome use of those dies!
Very, very cute! Debby is so talented!
Loved how he turned out.
What an adorable card!
Sweet card! and thanks for the idea to look at dies differently for other design options.
Love your non-traditional leaf-bird! I am such a literal person that I sometimes struggle to envision alternate uses for dies & stamps. Thanks for the inspiration!
AWESOME card, I love how you made the bird from the tree die!
Fun card! Love the bird!
So Clean & Simple and so adorable!!
What a great way to stretch dies. This gives me lots of inspiration for my own! Such a great post.
Super cute. I love how you stretch your dies.
Love to use my dies for more things
than just their intended idea.
the leaves make a darling robin.
thanks for sharing.
So cute – love the sentiment font:)
Adorable! Love the glitter and the white accents!!
<3 J
jwoolbright at gmail dot com
HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
What a sweet card! Love the delicate shading in the background.
very clever use of your dies. Absolutely adorable.
This card makes me smile and I love Debbie’s ingenuity with the dies. Great idea!
Love Debby’s cards!!! Simply beautiful
This is one of the cutest little birds ever, thanks to your creative imagination. Adorable card and thanks for always inspiring!
I’m one of those people with a million Christmas supplies–it’s not just me, right?!–but I am so amazed at your creativity when you stretch your stamps, Debby! Love this adorable card with the google eye which is cute, not silly! Thanks for the inspiration!
This is so creative. I love what you could see in those dies. The card is one of a kind.
Absolutely darling – thanks for the video too!
So creative, LOVE this card!
What a Tweety! Adorable card!