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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How do you think of these things Debby? Love the robin!
I love the googley eye on your tree robin! It is very clever how you repurpose your dies. Thanks for sharing!
A birdie out of a tree die? That’s just brilliant! What a fab card!
I love love love this card!!! Thinking outside of the box and coming up with a bird is BRILLIANT! So cute!!! Thank you for sharing with us.
Love this cute bird you created!
Such a fantastic idea and it turned out super cute! Thanks for sharing!
My goodness…this is adorable! And what an awesome idea! Sure wish that my brain worked like yours!!!
Tweet!How cute! Great tip to stretch your supplies!
This is just completely adorable!
SQUEAL!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the AMAZING Card and the Video!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Thank you for sharing ideas with product we may already have and be able to use differently which is totally awesome, and I hope to see more
Always an adventure, Debby, to see where your imagination takes us. Such a cute robin.
What a great idea! The bird looks adorable!
woooow , beautiful idea and awesome card. thanks for sharing.
I love this card!!! That little birdie is the cutest thing ever!! Debby, you are so awesome when it comes to stretching die cuts, thank you so much!!
Darling robin, such a cute card!
Sweet tweet. I love your robin Debbie. Plus the Merry Christmas in awesome Red. Thanks for sharing.
so very creative and cute
adorable card thank you so much for sharing
your card is adorable. Thank you so much for sharing
That is amazingly creative! Wish I could think like that. Very cute card!
What a cute card.
Adorable!!
Cute little Christmas robin! Thanks for sharing!
This is so clever!!! What a fabulously adorable card!!
Such a cute little robin. Very nice clean and simple card!
Debby, what a wonderful idea for a quirky Christmas card. Very cute.
Cute, clever, creative, inspiring and I like it too!!
cute, cute card!
This is a quirky card! I love the colors and that chunky glitter. It looks like sugar.
Sweet Christmas card.
Very sweet card. Just adorable.
So clever! Love this adorable bird, especially his googly eyes!
Really cute card! Love how you did the wing!
What an adorable bird! I love the idea of using our supplies in different ways…will need to look at my stash differently now!
absolutely genius i luv rethinking stamps or dies for new things and yours came out so adorable
That is so clever!! I love your cute and kwirky robin!! Hugs, H
LOL! This chubby little big-eyed robin is so darn cute! Love this creative design.
Super cute quirky bird, love the ink blending and so clever to use those leaf dies!
Oh my dear, what an adorable card! Debby, I am ALWAYS amazed with your card ideas! TFS!
Lovely card idea Debby! Thank you for sharing!
Dear Debby, your card is so so lovely and your idea (how do you do it?!) of making the Robin bird is just BRILLIANT!!! This is so beautiful and inspiring project! Thank you!
I love this card!
So talented Debby!
what an ingenious use of the leaf dies, I love it. Have a great day. Cheers Donna Z :)
i love the creativity of this, just like when the plushes became totally different things
What a great idea! Thanks for showing how we can stretch our supplies.
This is the cutest robin I have ever seen.
I love your quirky little robin! What a fun little card–it brought a smile to my face! I loved all of your techniques and the video explaining them in detail! Thank you so much for sharing!
What a cutie. Tree in a robin rather than robin in a tree. Fun card and great idea. Hugz