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.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks so much to Debby for being our guest!
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Very cute and whimsical!
SO Clever! He is ADORABLE!!!
As always beautiful card from Debby!!!
What a great way to use dies in an unexpected way! I love it!
Cute card! Great idea!
Just adorable. I might have to ‘borrow’ this idea!
Kathleen Mc xx
Cute and clever idea. Great CAS card.
I just love this sweet card! So adorable!!
Such an adorable card, what a great way to use your dies, who would of thought tree die to a bird, very clever!
I love the quirky Christmas robin! Way TOO cute!!
Super cute card.
This made me smile. It’s just so darn cute.
Cute, cute card. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Great way to think out-of-the-box Debby! Your Quirky Robin is adorable. I’m a BIG fan of Debby and her talent!!! and SSS!!!
Thanks so much for sharing with us!
Such a cute critter! I love how you used the tree and leaf to create a bird, Debbie.
So cute! Makes me wonder what other birds are hiding in my thought bubble stamps.
Oh wow such a cute and clever card!!! Love it:)
Oh my goodness, this is sooooooo cute!!!! Love this little birdie. Love, love, love it!
So clever, so cute. Great video too.
I LOVE this sweet little robin! Very cute!
Wonderfully creative! Great card.
I have this stamp set and I can’t wait to pull it out and try this! Thanks :)
I love the scale of this bird. He’s definitely cute and quirky!
What a great way to use the tree dies. The birdy is so cute. Thank you for sharing this!
Such an innovative way to use these dies. Your card is adorable.
So sweet!
This little guy is just too cute! I love the colors!
Oh, now that is just adorable! Love your little “leaf die” robin, Debby! Thanks for the great ideas!
VERY clever! Never would have thought of that.
That’s a cute birdie!
Such a cute card! Very creative!
As a birdie lover, this is just the cutest!
I love that little bird! Thanks for the video and sharing your techniques!
Cute card!Thank you for sharing.
Excellent video! Very creative and clever way to get more use out of dies and I loved the blending tips. Thanks so much. Thumbs up from me.
Very cute idea. Thanks for sharing.
This is a really cute card! I love the shimmer :)
I love seeing how you can use other supplies like these leaf dies and turn them into a really cute bird card.
GOOOOD
So adorable! And what an original use of these dies – just brilliant! Thanks for sharing :)
What a cute card!
Love the birdie
and the sparkle!
Carla from Utah
Great idea, super cute.
Sooo cute. Very cleaver use of the dies. Love those colours together. Thank you.
Wow, what a great idea to use this die as a bird.
what an adorable card
Adorable Card! I like the idea of a clothes pin to hold the twine!!
I just love the quirky little bird with a frosted wing and Google eyes. He is just sweet standing on the snow hill.
Such a cutie:-)
Such an adorable card, I really love the cute bird!
Great inspiration for stretching those supplies! Thanks